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.
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. 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 16, 2009. Cutting out red meat while still eating chicken doesn't address the fact that the industrial model for raising both is very bad for the environment.
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.
George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. April 18, 2008. It's better for the planet to avoid eating meat, but the reality is we have to make it more sustainable for people who don't want to be vegetarians.
Vegetarian TimesOctober 25, 2007. Live longer, lower your weight, slash pollution and twelve other good reasons to start cutting meat out of your diet.
Kathy Freston, AlterNet. March 14, 2007. Eating a plant-based diet is an easy, cheap way to end animal cruelty and clean up the environment. Why, then, are so many progressives still clinging to their chicken nuggets?
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, AlterNet. November 23, 2006. One vegetarian shares the bond she developed with turkeys after finding alternatives to this traditional Thanksgiving comfort food.
