Animal Rights Extremism (page 108)

The loonies at United Poultry Concerns (UPC) are always complaining about something, but they usually confine their nannying to living creatures. Not so this time. UPC's latest target: the rubber chicken. We're not making this up. We're keeping an eye on these folks, and if they start attacking the slinky or the whoopee cushion, we'll let you know.

The Washington Post prints “Local Extra” sections every Thursday, and today’s Montgomery County (Maryland) Extra features letters from local eighth graders. The closing letter touts the benefits of vegetarianism,…

On the morning of the laughable "Great American Meatout," Dallas Morning News columnist Jacquielynn Floyd observed that "boiled lentils and unflavored seltzer water" are the only two foods that nobody claims will kill you…. Yet. "If you're never going to have barbecue," she reasons, "you might as well be in prison." Amen to that, and pass the spareribs.

Why is the New York Times (via the Reuters news wire) referring to a flock of Vermont sheep seized today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as “Suspected ‘Mad Cow’…

Last night the District of Columbia Bar Association sponsored a panel discussion on factory farming, food safety, and mad cow disease. The panel included a representative from the USDA (Richard…

Judging by CBS’ coverage on 60 Minutes II, the American mad cow scare campaign shows no signs of letting up. The report featured Michael Hansen of Consumers Union, and…

Today is the first day of Spring! Unfortunately, it also coincides with the Farm Animal Reform Movement’s “Great American Meatout.” Be on the lookout for restaurant and grocery store protests,…

The Washington Post took a look this weekend at the growth of the steakhouse industry, following recent articles in the Wall Street Journal and U.S. News &…

The Los Angeles Times ran an anti-meat two-fer on their coveted Sunday opinion page yesterday. Two op-eds by noted anti-meat activists ran on the same page with nary a word disclosing the writers' political bias. Among the groups represented in this fear-mongering exercise: the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, an animal-rights group which gets its primary funding from the foundation that funds the shrill activists at PETA; and the Worldwatch Institute, which has been on an anti-beef kick for years.

A news flash for those pale, gaunt vegan nannies who try to force a meat-free diet on the rest of us: new research on our fossilized ancestors shows that meat…