It’s Time to Ban Factory Farm Ghost Ships
60,000 chickens were found dead this week at a North Carolina factory farm, a result of a failed generator powering the facility’s ventilation system. This sort of tragedy is totally preventable, and, as we’ll see, the owners of this farm ought to be criminally prosecuted. It’s also far from the first time an equipment failure […]
Washington Post: Future Generations Will Condemn Us for Tolerating Factory Farming
Important piece in the Washington Post by Kwame Anthony Appiah, titled “What will future generations condemn us for?” Appiah introduces a three-point system for distinguishing which of society’s practices will ultimately be outlawed, and based on this criteria he identifies four things for which we will be condemned by future Americans: the American prison system […]
Bill Clinton Discusses his Plant-Based Diet
Forget about the Yahoo/Huffington Post video I blogged last week that featured Bill Clinton talking about his near-vegan diet. I’m now wishing it was never released, because it sort of stole the thunder from this new video with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that is a hundred times better. I hope you’ll do everything possible to share […]
Blaming Deforestation on Vegetarians
Here’s a silly but widely-read news piece blaming deforestation on—of all people—people who avoid meat. The piece was published today in a free newspaper handed out to thousands of Vancouver, BC commuters. It claims: More and more people are choosing to consume less meat, a decision that has led to an increase in demand for […]
When Jeff McMahan Says He Wants a Vegan World, He Really Means it
A new opinion piece by Rutgers philosopher Jeff McMahan in the New York Times is already provoking a vehement response. McMahan suggests that we should embrace a vegan world, and do this to an extreme that few vegans have contemplated. That is: he argues it would be morally desirable to drive carnivorous species toward extinction, […]
Ellen DeGeneres on Lady Gaga’s Meat Outfit
Ellen DeGeneres never ceases to impress me. In today’s segment with Lady Gaga, she stays poised and positive despite Gaga’s ridiculous meat costume. Watch how Ellen skillfully and diplomatically turns the situation around, and how she refuses to lecture or to betray even a hint of anger. In staying true to her best self, Ellen […]
Hal Herzog on Animal Use and Abuse
Salon.com has a solid interview with Hal Herzog, author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight About Animals. Over the course of the interview, Herzog addresses deliberate animal cruelty, meat eating, and the keeping of animals as pets. He has read deeply on these topics […]