Posted on May 26, 2010 by zoeweil
Earlier today, I put a link on my Facebook page to the undercover video, posted by Mercy for Animals, of brutality on a dairy farm in Ohio. My post elicited many comments and questions, and it felt important to immediately address them, which I’m doing here so that everyone can read these thoughts. You can [...]
Filed under: animal protection, compassion, critical thinking, food and diet, speciesism, systemic change, videos | Tagged: animal cruelty, animal welfare, brutality, dairy cows, factory farming, farmed animals, industrial agriculture, institutionalized cruelty, Mercy for Animals, suffering, undercover investigations, video, violence | 3 Comments »
Posted on April 30, 2010 by zoeweil
I’m going to start a new theme in my blog posts – MOGO Hero. Periodically, I’ll highlight a modern-day, ordinary hero whose efforts do the most good (MOGO). Today, I’m beginning with Lynn Henning, a Michigan woman who just won the 2010 Goldman Environmental Prize for North America for her work to fight CAFOs in [...]
Filed under: Environmental Preservation, changemakers, citizen activism, courage, food and diet, heroes, systemic change | Tagged: changemakers, food and diet, industrial agriculture, MOGO principle, factory farming, heroes, environmental protection, CAFOs | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 29, 2010 by zoeweil
It’s bizarrely warm in Maine. The ice on our pond broke up a month early, and we haven’t had a snowstorm since January. The only remnants of snow and ice are deep in the woods. So on a 60-degree March day, I decided to work in the garden and prepare it for spring (I know [...]
Filed under: MOGO (Most Good), food and diet, gratitude | Tagged: MOGO choices, gratitude, Maine, farm workers, gardening, food, spring, growing food | 2 Comments »
Posted on November 9, 2009 by zoeweil
I’ve been vegan for twenty years. As I learned about the plight of animals in modern agriculture from Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation, John Robbins’ Diet for a New America and numerous undercover films that showed the conditions under which the great majority of animals are raised for food, I knew I didn’t want to participate [...]
Filed under: MOGO (Most Good), animal protection, food and diet, news media | Tagged: animal agriculture, critical thinking, environmental protection, factory farming, food and diet, media literacy, MOGO choices, news media, veganism | Leave a Comment »
Posted on November 4, 2009 by zoeweil
A recent New York Times article, “The Human Body is Built for Distance,” (which follows several recent deaths of marathoners), has this to say about running: “Most mammals can sprint faster than humans — having four legs gives them the advantage. But when it comes to long distances, humans can outrun almost any animal. Because [...]
Filed under: critical thinking, food and diet, news media | Tagged: anthropology, critical thinking, early humans, evolution, evolutionary biology, food and diet, long distance runners, news media, running | 1 Comment »
Posted on July 15, 2009 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 [...]
Filed under: MOGO (Most Good), food and diet | Tagged: animal protection, Environmental Preservation, fair trade, food and diet, genetically modified, healthy, human rights, local, MOGO, Most Good Least Harm, organic, vegan, whole foods | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: Environmental Preservation, food and diet, global warming | Tagged: carbon footprint, climate change, environmental protection, food and diet, global warming, livestock production, low-carbon diet | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: economy, education, food and diet, humane education, systemic change | Tagged: capitalism, changemakers, citizen activism, economics, education, environmental protection, food and diet, honesty, socialism, systemic change, truth | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: animal protection, food and diet, human rights, oppression | Tagged: agribusiness, agricultural workers, Bob Herbert, cruelty, ducks, exploitation, factory farming, farm workers, foie gras, human rights, industrial agriculture, New York, oppression | Leave a Comment »
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, animal welfare, chickens, cows, environmental protection, factory farming, fishes, food and diet, MOGO choices, pigs, plant-based diet, red meat, veganism, white meat | 2 Comments »
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