I used to work with an evangelical vegan. He was radically concerned about farm animals. But he couldn’t see past the end of a chicken run in terms of the implications of anything he said.
His first line of argument I called “The Frances Moore Lappe”: we should plough up the pasture land in order to [...]
I was in Safeway last Sunday, buying rhubarb. The stems were meaty and a little bit limp, and they were the colour of flesh. One stalk had five little shoots emerging from its end, which had been snipped off, so that it they looked like five fingers on a tiny hand. A tiny hand [...]
The most well-known and celebrated harvest festival, Thanksgiving, is such a great holiday: families and friends coming together to give thanks for a bountiful feast. To my understanding, Thanksgiving originated from Native Americans helping the pilgrims through their first winters, by teaching them grow their own food.
Some of the first crops they learned to [...]
Eco-Veganism is has taken off all around the world like an eco-hurricane tugging at the foundations of established grassroots activism.
With the publication of the United Nation’s report on livestock farming there’s no denying it any more – livestock farming causes more damage to the environment than the entire world’s transport.
It’s clear you can benefit the [...]
Tom’s of Maine is a role model for other large companies who sell personal care products like toothpaste and soap. They run their business on the Stewardship Model which states: “We believe our company can be profitable and successful while acting in a socially and environmentally responsible manner.”
To measure up to this model, they do [...]
Hotlips is a local pizza joint here in Portland that seems at first glance like just any other, but a friend of mine pointed out that they use electric cars to deliver pizza. So I decided to look further into it.
I discovered that this is a business to admire, using almost all local and mostly [...]
October 2nd is World Farm Animal Day, honoring the birth date of Mahatma Ghandi, who once proclaimed that “the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated.” Our nation is not great by this standard, if one looks inside the well-hidden factory farms, [...]
I freely admit it, I’m a carnivore – actually, I prefer the term omnivore – but after reading a great deal on the terrible impact of meat production on our environment, I’ve been slowly making changes to my diet. I’ve found a lot of meat substitutes to be..umm.. lacking; but TVP; textured vegetable protein, is [...]
First it was the smokers, now it seems the meat-eaters are coming under the spotlight when it comes to insurance. If you live in the UK and don’t eat red meat, you can save approximately 10% on your life insurance premiums according to the company driving a vegan-friendly initiative.
A vegetarian diet is known to confer [...]
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