10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Ship-to-table: A spice-laced medieval feast from the Grandes Chroniques de France of Charles V. Because of their great expense, spices in the Middle Ages were often reserved for feasts celebrating harvests, slaughters, and holy days as the old year waned, particularly around Christmas.

Sparrows 143

Sparrows France Asia Europe 143

Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2007

Horses slaughtered in America today go not to feed the poor and the hungry but to satisfy the esoteric palates of wealthy diners in Europe and Japan. The issue is not whether slaughtering horses is un-American, but that it is inhumane and wholly unnecessary. Horse slaughter for meat export is just plain wrong.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Horse Slaughter Horses 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Given the people in the world who are hungry or even starving, we should not eat meat, since in eating meat we are, as it were, wasting grain that could be used to feed the hungry people of the world. Nobody wants existing animals to be slaughtered. It assumes that not eating meat is one way to conserve grain.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Meat Cattle 40