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| 11/13/09 |
Exposing the Animal Rights Agenda
Millions have already downloaded and read our primers on animal rights groups. Called “7 Things You Didn’t Know,” these easy-to-read sheets expose the wholesale deception and backward philosophies of groups like People for the Ethical...
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| 11/12/09 |
The Bacon Beckoning
A new blog features the interesting conversion story of a self-identified former “militant vegan” who changed his ways and became a full-fledged meat eater, starting a website called “The Ethical Butcher.” On his site, the...
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| 11/11/09 |
No Cranberries in Texas? No Lobster in Colorado? Blame the ‘Locavores.’
Researchers at MIT and Columbia University believe the answer to the so-called obesity “epidemic” lies in getting Americans to eat more regional food. So they’re outlining different “foodsheds” that we should all be relying on...
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| 11/4/09 |
All Hail the Supreme Master! (Of Anti-Meat Propaganda)
What do you get when you combine two obnoxious animal rights groups (the ridiculously misnamed Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and the phony-baloney Humane Society of the United States) with a self-anointed “Supreme Master” cult...
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| 11/2/09 |
Lawyer Math: 1 + 1 = Prop. 65
Today the Los Angeles Times published a point-counterpoint smackdown between two lawyers on opposing sides of California’s notorious Proposition 65 law, the source of the Golden State’s warning label hysteria. For the past 23 years,...
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| 10/30/09 |
Quote of the Week
Last night in Los Angeles, Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) president Wayne Pacelle showed why he’s been able to turn a group that sounds as if it’s all about protecting puppies and kittens...
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| 9/29/09 |
The Locavore’s New Clothes?
Author James McWilliams has stirred the pot with his new book Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly. In it, he takes on some of the fundamentalist foodies’...
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| 9/24/09 |
Feeding the Future World
In case you missed it, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) announced important news yesterday. According to FAO, by 2050 the world will need 70 percent more food (compared to what we produce today)...
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| 9/17/09 |
Come on Down to the Farmers Market (Bring Your Wallet and Your Food Orthodoxy)
In the mood for a bacon-gouda scone? A $5 pint of raspberries? Some $11-per-pound pork chops? How about the $4 bunch of parsnips? Well, you’re in luck: First Lady Michelle Obama has just cut the...
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| 9/14/09 |
Norman Borlaug, R.I.P.
We read with sadness that Norman Borlaug, leader of the Green Revolution, passed away yesterday. Borlaug, called “the man who fed the world,” helped develop genetically modified organisms and spread the technology in impoverished Third...
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| 9/10/09 |
One Step Closer to a PETA White House
Yesterday, the Senate voted 63-35 to invoke cloture on the nomination of animal rights activist Cass Sunstein to be the nation’s new “regulatory czar,” which means the Senate can proceed with a vote to confirm...
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| 9/10/09 |
Michael Pollan’s Fuzzy Math
Food writer Michael Pollan’s culinary dogma holds that the science is sketchy when it comes to food and nutrition. He typically counsels readers to make their food decisions based on politics—not on what their bodies...
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| 9/3/09 |
“Nudging” America to Give Up Meat
The number of animals and plants protected by the federal Endangered Species Act is about to increase dramatically. For Cass Sunstein, radical animal-rights activist and nominee for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA)...
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| 8/24/09 |
TIME Out of Bounds on Agriculture Reporting
TIME reporter Bryan Walsh took a cue from his friends behind Food, Inc. and hyped an impending food crisis in this week’s magazine cover story. But if you’re looking for the real story about agriculture,...
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| 7/9/09 |
How Much Fish For Health? We’ll Tell You.
This week we launched HowMuchFish.com, the only online seafood calculator that quantifies both the health risks and benefits of a diet rich in seafood. Fed up with fishy activists like Greenpeace (a group more concerned...
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| 6/17/09 |
Quote of the Week
Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman writes today about a critical scourge facing vegetarians: other vegetarians.
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| 6/9/09 |
Greenpeace Called Out On Amazonian Hype
Today, online magazine Spiked is taking a scalpel to Greenpeace’s claim that British retailers of meat and leather are responsible for Amazonian deforestation. In a recent interview with the Guardian, a Greenpeace activist declared that...
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| 6/4/09 |
Save the Lab Rats! (Kill the Humans?)
According to the FBI, terrorism in the name of animal rights is on the rise. Whether it’s the firebombing of a UC Santa Cruz researcher’s home or sending suspicious packages to a laboratory in Britain,...
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| 5/4/09 |
USGS Mercury Study Lacks Seafood Standing
On Friday the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) published a study on mercury in the Pacific Ocean, and seafood alarmists at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seem thrilled with the findings. The problem is, neither the...
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| 4/28/09 |
Quote of the Week
Smoking, nonsmoking, or meat eating? If firefighter and vegetarian activist Rip Esselstyn has his way, restaurants will soon begin segregating omnivores from anti-meat fanatics. What a way to sell vegetarian diet books.
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