Forget about unbalanced budgets. It's unbalanced diets we really need to worry about. The soundest economy won't save a nation of ballooning bellies and mushy muscles.
Eating vegan, or veganish, is about choosing to disengage from an industry that makes us sick, abuses animals, pollutes the planet, and squanders precious resources.
The author of 'Gristle' discusses his biggest food influences, why we should stop subsidizing support factory farms and agribusiness, and why he's optimistic about the future.
Don't get caught in the all-or-nothing trap. Try it out and you'll find yourself moving, at your own rate, towards a diet that includes more and more uncooked meals.
"Wearing fur may be more viscerally offensive, but I don't think it's any worse than strapping yourself into a leather belt. In fact, it's possibly better."
Most dairy enthusiasts would be horrified to know the conditions cows endure and how closely dairies are tied to veal operations and the rest of the meat industry.
Martha Stewart promotes a vegetarian Thanksgiving? Recently, much attention has been lavished on the horrors of factory farming and the advantages of a meatless diet.
More Doctors and nutritional scientists are saying that a diet high meat is disastrous to our health, while a plant-based (vegan) diet prevents disease and is restorative to it.
Sandor Ellix Katz, Chelsea Green Publishing. September 16, 2009.
"Everything I see, hear, or read about standard commercial factory farming and slaughtering fills me with disgust," writes Katz, who explores why people choose vegetarianism.
