Breeding Killers?
Photo: Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times A Pitt bull seized in a raid in Yonkers, NY. A few days before Christmas, a Houston woman placed her 3-month old girl in a baby swing and momentarily left the...
View ArticleTaking Lab Rats Seriously: The Case Against (Most) Animal Testing
(Hemera) Billions upon billions of animals are used every year for the purposes of scientific experimentation. It’s actually hard to think of another practice that’s as commonplace as it is...
View ArticleGreenwashing the Groceries
(iStockphoto) The news that In.Gredients, a “package free, zero-waste” grocery store, will debut in Austin, Texas, is certainly cause for optimism. The store, which will be located on the rapidly...
View ArticleBackyard Hens: A Trend Coming Home to Roost?
Photo: Steven-L-Johnson The infamous egg recall of 2010–which identified over 500,000 eggs infected with salmonella–inspired not only widespread condemnation of industrial egg production, but a...
View ArticleThe Case for Biofortification
Photo: Acradenia Modern consumers enjoy something that humans throughout history never have: we can walk into a grocery store and, if we choose wisely, leave with food that maximizes our health. Much...
View ArticleKilling What You Eat: The Dark Side of Compassionate Carnivorism
There’s a relatively new category of conscientious consumer on the rise known as the “compassionate carnivore.” These are meat eaters who have chosen, with good reason, to remove themselves from the...
View ArticleAgnostic Carnivores and Global Warming: Why Enviros Go After Coal and Not Cows
Photo: Climate Watch There’s not a single person who’s done more to fight climate change than Bill McKibben. Through thoughtful books, ubiquitous magazine contributions, and, most notably, the founding...
View ArticleThe Prius Driver’s Conundrum
For a singularly grim, if fiercely literary, assessment of the earth’s environmental fate, the grizzled wisdom of Cormac McCarthy is always there to deliver the dark pronouncement that we’re flat-out...
View ArticleThe Cost of a Happier Chicken: Who Pays?
(Photo: SMcGarnigle) Animal rights activists often oppose animal welfare reforms on the grounds that they make animal production more efficient. Rutgers professor Gary Francione argues this case...
View ArticleTrojan Horse Slaughter
As Americans watch Europeans condemn the discovery of horsemeat in their Ikea meatballs, we can take some solace in the fact that, for once, we’ve sidestepped an industrial food-related travesty. Our...
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