Posted on July 10, 2009 by zoeweil
“Full disclosure: I love to eat meat. I was born in Memphis, the barbecue capital of the Milky Way Galaxy. I worship slow-cooked, hickory-smoked pig meat served on a bun with extra sauce and coleslaw spooned on top.
“My carnivore’s lust goes beyond the DNA level. It’s in my soul. Even the cruelty of factory [...]
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Posted on July 6, 2009 by zoeweil
In an interview in this month’s issue of Ode Magazine, Lester Brown, founder of the WorldWatch Institute refers to Oystein Dahle, a former vice-president of Exxon in Norway, to whom he attributes this quote:
“Socialism collapsed because it did not allow the market to tell the economic truth and capitalism may collapse because it does not [...]
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Posted on June 11, 2009 by zoeweil
In his editorial, “State of Shame,” Bob Herbert of the New York Times writes about the plight of workers at a foie gras factory farm in upstate New York. He states:
“Animal-rights advocates have made a big deal about the way the ducks are force-fed to produce the enormously swollen livers from which thefoie gras is [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2009 by zoeweil
With the Swine Flu (H1N1) scaring people away from eating pigs, articles like “Paying a Price for Loving Red Meat” in the New York Times, and environmentalists’ success at drawing connections between beef and global warming, more and more people are eschewing red meat. Unfortunately, many are replacing red meat with “white” — that is, [...]
Filed under: Environmental Preservation, MOGO (Most Good), animal protection, food and diet | Tagged: animal protection, food and diet, pigs, MOGO choices, factory farming, veganism, environmental protection, cows, chickens, white meat, red meat, animal welfare, fishes, plant-based diet | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 4, 2009 by zoeweil
Swine flu has been renamed. Why? Largely because pork producers are worried that people won’t eat pig flesh from fear that they will get swine flu from bacon. And this could negatively impact the industry, which, during a recession, nobody but animal and environmental protection advocates seem to want. It’s true that you can’t get [...]
Filed under: Environmental Preservation, animal protection, food and diet, language, politics, systemic change | Tagged: animal protection, language, industrial agriculture, factory farming, framing, health issues, swine flu, H1N1, disease, epidemics, pandemics, environmental protection, CAFOs | Leave a Comment »
Posted on April 1, 2009 by zoeweil
A friend of a friend, active on our food co-op board and an organic gardener and chef, admitted that she didn’t buy organic almonds because the shell protected the nuts from the pesticides; so, she wasn’t willing to pay the extra cost when there was an insignificant health benefit. I was surprised that she made [...]
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Posted on September 22, 2008 by zoeweil
One of our M.Ed. graduates at the Institute for Humane Education, Christopher Greenslate, and his partner, Kerri, have embarked on a new project. For a month, they are eating on less than $1 per day each. You can read about their journey on their blog.
As I read their first week of blog entries, I found [...]
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Posted on September 15, 2008 by zoeweil
In last week’s Time Magazine, there’s a great article on the connection between meat consumption and global warming. When articles such as these come out, I’m always so happy that the mainstream press is reporting on such critically important information. I’m grateful that such news –- unpalatable though it may be to many –- is [...]
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Posted on September 1, 2008 by zoeweil
Food is in the news, and many people are considering what’s MOGO (Most Good) when they make their food choices. But making MOGO food choices can be complicated. Taking into consideration what’s best for people, animals, the environment, and oneself in a system that is extremely complex isn’t easy.
Periodically, a food movement will emerge that [...]
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Posted on August 18, 2008 by zoeweil
The anti-immigration sentiment that’s growing in the U.S. is fomenting not only inhumane actions but also a shameful waste of taxpayer dollars. In an opinion piece in the Miami Herald, author Mary Sanchez describes a government raid on an Iowa meatpacking plant in which almost 400 Mayan Guatemalans “were scooped up and shuffled in shackles [...]
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