Tag: vegetarian/vegan
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Moby Discusses New Book Critical of Factory Farming
AlterNet recently interviewed musician Moby on the publication of his new book, Gristle: From Factory Farms to Food Safety (Thinking Twice About the Meat We Eat), edited with food policy activist Miyun Park. According to the March 31, 2010, interview, the vegan manifesto is “a medley of anti-industrial meat memes written by an eclectic mix of…
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Fast Food Chain Sued for Alleged Failure to Disclose Presence of Chicken Stock in Vegetarian Offerings
A Jewish California resident who follows kosher practices has filed a putative class action on behalf of Hari Krishnas, Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, Taoists, Sikhs, Muslims and Jews against Panda Express, Inc., claiming that the restaurant chain fails to disclose that its vegetable menu items are actually made with significant amounts of chicken stock. Adelpour v.…
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Elizabeth Kolbert, “Flesh Of Your Flesh: Should You Eat Meat?,” The New Yorker, November 9, 2009
“How is it that Americans, so solicitous of the animals they keep as pets, are so indifferent toward the ones they cook for dinner?,” asks Elizabeth Kolbert in this review of Jonathan Safran Foer’s latest nonfiction work, Eating Animals. According to Kolbert, Foer attempts to tackle this inconsistency through a series of vignettes exploring the…
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PCRM Looks at “Addictive Qualities” in Cheese; Examines Caloric Content of Fast-Food Salads
According to the president for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a nonprofit vegan group founded in 1985, recent, unpublicized studies have suggested that “cheese, chocolate, sugar, and meat all spark the release of opiate-like substances that trigger the brain’s pleasure center and seduce us into eating them again and again.” Neal Bernard also…