Why Are We Eating Less Meat?

Posted on January 13, 2012 by zoeweil

Mark Bittman, opinion columnist at the New York Times who writes about food, begins 2012 with a piece titled, “We’re Eating Less Meat. Why?” According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, meat consumption is declining and is predicted to continue its decline. While the livestock industry blames, among other things, the federal government’s supposed “war [...]

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Ode to My Garden

Posted on November 28, 2011 by zoeweil

Flying home to Maine from New York on Halloween was surreal. A few minutes after the plane ascended over Westchester County, the fall foliage was interspersed with huge swaths of snow. The snow was thick all through New England, until the descent into Bangor where, on one side of the plane the snow covered the [...]

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The Ethical Dilemma Inherent in the Weekday Vegetarian Plan

Posted on September 26, 2011 by zoeweil

Image courtesy of Christina Hoheisel via Creative Commons. For my blog post today, I’m sharing a recent post I wrote for Care2.com, an online community for people passionate about creating a better world. Here’s an excerpt from The Ethical Dilemma Inherent in the Weekday Vegetarian Plan: “At the recent TEDxDirigo conference, we watched a 4-minute [...]

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Making MOGO (most good) Choices: The True Price of a Cheeseburger

Posted on August 29, 2011 by zoeweil

For my blog post today, I’m sharing a recent post I wrote for One Green Planet, a blog dedicated to ethical choices. Here’s an excerpt from “Making MOGO (most good) choices: The True Price of a Cheeseburger”: “We eat many times each day, and there is no other daily choice that has a bigger impact [...]

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Take the TEDx Manhattan Challenge

Posted on July 6, 2011 by zoeweil

For my blog post today, I wanted to share the TEDxManhattan Challenge. What’s the challenge? To work with a group of people in your community anywhere in the United States on a project related to sustainable food and farming. Start a garden at a senior center; start a farmers market; develop a cooking class at [...]

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Let’s Save a Trillion Dollars: Reducing the Deficit By Improving Our Diet

Posted on April 22, 2011 by zoeweil

Mark Bittman, food columnist for The New York Times, wrote an opinion piece, “How to Save a Trillion Dollars,” that I believe we should all read and heed. Many humane educators have been urging what Bittman suggests for a couple of decades now, and finally these ideas have become a “most emailed” piece in The [...]

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Educating About Eating Animals

Posted on March 14, 2011 by zoeweil

Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have chosen Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals as the summer reading book for their incoming freshman for 2011. Rarely would summer reading for a college’s new students be newsworthy, but this one is. For a book that so carefully and comprehensively uncovers animal agriculture [...]

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Fantastic New Book: Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism

Posted on December 1, 2010 by zoeweil

I’ve just finished Dr. Melanie Joy’s fantastic new book, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism. Carnism is a word Melanie coined in 2001 when she was completing her Ph.D. in social psychology, but the underlying philosophy that it describes – a belief system that considers it ethical to [...]

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The Miracle of Milk?

Posted on November 5, 2010 by zoeweil

I’m a big fan of Ode Magazine, which provides great food for thought and ideas for creating a better world, but in the September 2010 issue I was dismayed to read what seemed to me to be a simplistic and inaccurate ode to modern food, entitled “The Miracle of Milk.” I agree with the author, [...]

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Getting Behind the Meat of the Matter with Gristle

Posted on October 18, 2010 by zoeweil

I had the opportunity to meet Moby – an awesome musician – when he was playing a benefit concert at the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary following a MOGO workshop that I had facilitated earlier that day. It was such a treat to meet one of my favorite artists and fellow activists, and we exchanged books. [...]

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