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People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants?

You might remember the vegan screed in The New York Times around Thanksgiving that accused meat-eating Americans of being uncaring in their dining preferences. And before that, you might recall Jonathan Safran Foer’s …
PostedDecember 23, 2009 at12:00 am

Clifford the Big Red Climate Changer?

Following on the heels of the climate change summit in Copenhagen, the Agence France-Presse newswire reports that two New Zealand researchers have identified a major source of carbon emissions –…
PostedDecember 21, 2009 at12:00 am

Is HSUS Going Buckeye Hunting?

The Ohio Farm Bureau (OFB) met last week to discuss, among other things, its victory in November’s “Issue 2” vote. As one OFB vice president told members, the fight…
PostedDecember 8, 2009 at12:00 am

Animal Rights Activists Get Preachy

With the tel-evangelical activist Wayne Pacelle in charge of the so-called “Humane Society” of the United States, and the radical People for the Ethical Treatment of…
PostedDecember 3, 2009 at12:00 am

In Defense of (Chicken) “Wings”

Paul McCartney has big plans next week. As the BBC reports, the vegetarian former Beatle will travel to the Copenhagen climate change summit to call for the world to…
PostedDecember 1, 2009 at12:00 am

Don’t Have a Cow, Vegans

Bucknell University philosophy professor Gary Steiner, a self-described vegan, penned an essay published in the Sunday New York Times to lecture meat-eaters (that is, 97 percent of Americans)…
PostedNovember 24, 2009 at12:00 am

Sucker, Can You Spare a Dime (for HSUS)?

Wayne Pacelle, president of the animal-rights advocating Humane Society for the United States (HSUS), sent out an urgent appeal yesterday: HSUS needs to raise $25,000 in order to…
PostedNovember 17, 2009 at12:00 am

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…
PostedNovember 13, 2009 at12:00 am

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…
PostedNovember 12, 2009 at12:00 am

Vegetarian Book Makes Meatless Arguments

When even a vegetarian calls your anti-meat book a “screed,” you know you’re in trouble. But that’s just what happened in today’s Washington Times review of Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book, Eating Animals.
PostedNovember 5, 2009 at12:00 am