The Collateral Damage of Vegan Foods

Here we go again. I can’t begin to tell you how much I detest having to drag myself out of bed to write stuff like this.1 A trollish and poorly thought out article by Ward Clark argues that: Ethical vegans, as a class, fail utterly to put any of their professed ethics into action. They […]

Al Sharpton on Plant-Based Eating

He tells Wendy Williams: I don’t eat any meat. I only eat fish twice a week and I eat only vegetables and fruit and I’ve lost total…I was at my height about 305, now I’m down to 180, 185. For people unreceptive to veganism, the message to cut your animal product consumption by 80 percent […]

At Long Last, an All-Vegan Cooking Show

An new all-vegan cooking show, “The Jazzy Vegetarian” will be televised in a dozen states on public broadcasting this autumn. Thirteen episodes have so far been produced. Its host, Laura Theodore, says: There needs to be a show that takes classic American meals and makes them vegan. A show where anybody can look at it […]

Graham Cracker Cake

  With vegan marshmallows. Recipe from Hearty Vegan Meals for Monster Appetites. Photo from the “My Zoetrope” blog. Uploaded by: My Zoetrope

Anything Goes at Factory Farms in Georgia

A great piece by Chris Joyner in the Atlanta Journal Constitution about how factory farms flout environmental regulations in Georgia, knowing that there’s almost zero statewide enforcement: Acting on a tip, state environmental inspectors in February paid a surprise visit to a dairy farm in Eatonton. They found the owner pumping gallon upon gallon of […]

Singer Reviews Pinker’s “Better Angels”

Peter Singer ends his lengthy New York Times review of Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by calling it, “a supremely important book.” This is precisely the sort of book that, had it appeared a decade ago, would have been unlikely to even mention the tens of billions of farmed […]