Cargill Says it has Found the Holy Grail of Vegan Cheese

Vegan news doesn’t get any huger than this. Cargill, a company hip-deep in factory farming, says its R&D team has made milk obsolete as a cheese ingredient. From its press release: Cargill has launched a unique breakthrough innovation that enables the cost-effective production of a 100 percent non-dairy cheese analogue for pizza and other prepared […]

Egg Producer Attempts to Subvert Prop 2

What Michael Jordan was to basketball, egg producers are to despicably villainous behavior. They simply have astonishing gifts in this respect that nobody can match. Case in point: one California egg company’s response to Prop 2. Nearly a year ago, California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 2. Among other things, the measure’s language clearly banned battery […]

Asshole of the Month

Emily Weinstein, writing in the Times’ fallaciously named “Mark Bittman on Food” column: I, on the other hand, had never put a live lobster in a pot of boiling water before. I love the moment when a whole boiled lobster is put before me at the table, the red of shell and the craft of […]