Rachel Cernansky, Planet Green. October 21, 2009. A ridiculous question, you might say, yet it's one I get asked all the time. As if we're doing cows a favor by eating them.
Kathy Freston, AlterNet. October 8, 2009. 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.
Mickey Z., Planet Green. October 2, 2009. Consuming dairy products -- milk, cheese, yogurt, sour cream, ice cream, etc. -- is not green and it's not healthy.
Kathy Freston, AlterNet. September 25, 2009. Experts are saying a plant-based diet is not only good for our health, but it's also curative of the very serious diseases we face.
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.
Eliot Coleman, Grist.org. August 13, 2009. Sadly too many have been fooled -- the culprit is not meat eating but rather the excesses of corporate/industrial agriculture.
Kathy Freston, AlterNet. May 5, 2009. A virus like swine flu is a completely predictable outcome of our cruel and appallingly filthy factory farming systems.
Kathy Freston, AlterNet. April 22, 2009. The meat industry contributes to land degradation, climate change, air pollution, water shortage and pollution, and loss of biodiversity.
Kathy Freston, AlterNet. April 2, 2009. Sometimes, solutions to the world's biggest problems are right in front of us. The following statistics are eye-opening, to say the least.
Sunaura Taylor, Alexander Taylor, AlterNet. February 18, 2009. The "new meat movement" is against industrial meat production, but not against eating meat. Their thinking is problematic.
Kathy Freston, AlterNet. July 29, 2008. The Atkins, eat-lots-of-meat diet is about as unhealthy as they come. But you'd never know it from media coverage.
Bruce Friedrich, AlterNet. June 25, 2008. Corn and wheat used to feed chicken, pigs and other farmed animals is food being diverted from the mouths of the global poor.
Kathy Freston, Huffington Post. June 3, 2008. The way Americans obsess about protein, you'd think protein deficiency was the number one health problem in America. Of course it's not.
Jill Filipovic, Feministe AlterNet: PEEK. April 2, 2008. It's not ok to ignore feminist theory or throw women under the bus in order to promote animal welfare.
Terrence McNally, AlterNet. March 14, 2007. The government and the food industry know that Type 2 diabetes is linked to lifestyle and diet; yet profit continues to determine food policy, and nutrition remains a scant part of medial education. Dr. Neal Barnard offers a solution to the crisis.
