Critter News

MAY 4, 2010

A lot of the meat-based meals in restaurants are due to chefs schooled in the French tradition. And, as one chef put it, cooks use meat to "express themselves." It's not about cooking "vegetarian," but cooking food you like that doesn't have meat. Tags: meat meat alternatives restaurants vegetarian meatless.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

In Malaysia, 12 tonnes of exotic animal meat was seized from smugglers. It consisted of bear, iguana and owl meat. Any kind of meat is gross to me, but owl? Tags: exotic meats smuggling malaysia. don't know how I come across these weird stories. That's new to me!

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Critter News

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Scientists at Eindhoven University in the Netherlands have grown in-vitro meat, using cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish. Why is that my husband won't eat bones with fat on them because they are "gross," but will eat burgers and processed meat? Tags: meat meat alternatives vegetarian meatless.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Animal rights groups are calling for a ban on the sale of horse meat after disturbing video at a slaughterhouse in west Quebec was sent to the Canadian Horse Defence Coalition. For the coalition, it was added evidence there needs to be a ban on horse meat for more than just health reasons. Excerpted from CTV.CA.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 31, 2009

All of them are meat eaters, two because their "doctors" told them they had to eat meat. Tags: meat. I'm trying to come up with a book for my book club about animal rights. What do I choose? One is a huge supporter of animal research. I don't want anything too radical and was thinking about Dominion by Matthew Scully.

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Critter News

MARCH 30, 2011

I went to a restaurant for a work lunch and everyone ate meat but me, even the animal lovers. Gene Bauer from Farm Sanctuary appears in this article. Pretty intense, but I hope people read it. There is a disturbing hedonism to eating. We just don't think about where that flesh came from.and most of us don't care.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently heard arguments in National Meat Association v. Brown, a case in which the meat industry is attempting to invalidate a California law designed to reduce animal suffering and protect public safety. Did anyone know this was going on?

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Critter News

APRIL 11, 2009

Here it is.the US Meat Animal Research Center. Tags: meat USDA cattle. Good site to visit to see what they're up to. Obviously, all the pictures will probably be nice and clean.

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Critter News

MAY 26, 2009

Will our desire to mass-produce cheap meat end in a health disaster? How much harm will we do to ourselves in the name of cheap meat? But once you factor in the cost of all these diseases and pandemics, cheap meat suddenly looks like an illusion. Tags: meat Swine Flu factory farm agribusiness. From the Independent.

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Critter News

APRIL 21, 2009

Many diners are huge fans of its taste, describing the mammal's meat as somewhere between duck and veal. Tags: canada meat seals restaurants.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

One of the major challenges in combating the bushmeat trade is identifying the source species for the meat and products. Once an animal has been carved up, meat looks like meat and leather looks like leather. This is an interesting piece from the Scientific American blog. A technique called DNA bar coding could be the answer.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 26, 2009

Instead, our LGUs teach the false ancient beliefs that maintain meat -- including dairy, fish, eggs, and feed crops -- as an institution. . Utne has a circulation of about 100,000 -- a senior editor I spoke to assures me it is not exaggerated as with some publications.

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Critter News

AUGUST 23, 2008

Looks like the ban on dog meat during the Olympics was a farce. Tags: dog meat china. Big surprise. I'm sure it will be more out in the open along with their choking pollution problem once the games end.

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Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

On March 11th, RPA sent the governors of all 50 states a letter and two factsheets urging them to help get their land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. Take a moment to tell your governor you agree we must get our LGUs out of the meat industry. Many say you can’t eat meat and be an environmentalist.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

He refused to eat the seal meat that the local Inuit community offered to the meeting participants, instead eating Arctic char. They're basically making participants choose between eating seal meat or pissing off the Inuits and risk being called racists. Good for him! Real emotional blackmail on the part of the Canadians.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Here is an interesting story about the evolutionary value of a meat-based diet.

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Critter News

APRIL 12, 2009

Tags: subsidies meat USDA pork agribusiness dairy.

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Reddit Animals

JULY 6, 2023

eats fresh meat or wet cat food like crazy. I found this nice animal trapped in my basement.It Now i dont know what is best place to release him? submitted by /u/Itchy-Brick-1247 [link] [comments]

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 13, 2012

Here is a New York Times op-ed column about "sustainable meat."

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Creature Talk

JANUARY 29, 2009

A while back PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) offered $1 million to any company or person who could come up with a cost effective way to produce cloned meat on a large scale, the goal being that people could still satisfy their meat cravings, but that animals wouldn’t have to be slaughtered for that purpose.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Some will reduce their consumption of meat for the sake of the animals. Force, coercion, and manipulation, by comparison, are inferior on each score. I believe that as time passes, humans will, for various reasons, change their diets. Others will do so for the sake of the environment. Others will do so for health reasons.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2011

We should not abandon our meat-eating habits, but remoralize them, by incorporating them into affectionate human relations, and using them in the true Homeric manner, as instruments of hospitality, conviviality and peace. I believe, however, that there is another remedy, and one more in keeping with the Judaeo-Christian tradition.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 21, 2008

PETA is offering a $1,000,000 reward to anyone who creates commercially viable in vitro meat. I don't see any ethical problem with producing or consuming such meat. Addendum: Here is a New York Times story about the reward.

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Reddit Animals

JULY 8, 2022

submitted by /u/Historical-Object374 [link] [comments].

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

McWilliams highlights the true environmental costs of eating meat: The livestock industry as a result of its reliance on corn and soy-based feed accounts for over half the synthetic fertilizer used in the United States, contributing more than any other sector to marine dead zones. The Bottom Line: One cannot be a meat-eating environmentalist.

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Critter News

MARCH 15, 2012

I think the issue stems from this being an Islamic practice and the fear of contaminated meat, not concern for the animals. The opposition Parti Québécois and the Coalition For Quebec's Future declared their concerns about halal meat, which comes from animals that are slaughtered according to Islamic law.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Here’s another self-interested reason to not eat meat: Drug-resistant bacteria are routinely found in beef, chicken, and pork sold in supermarkets. To find out more of what the meat industry and pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know, read this Associated Press column by Margie Mason and Martha Mendoza.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 17, 2008

Should we legalize dog meat for human consumption? Saletan discusses some reader reactions to his first post on legalizing dog meat here. Should we be eating dog meat? For a discussion of the issue, see William Saletan’s recent post at the Human Nature Blog. What's next? Soylent green? What do you think?

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Reddit Animals

AUGUST 21, 2022

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 11, 2008

In today's Dot Earth post " Can People Have Meat and a Planet, Too? ," Andrew Revkin explores the brave new world of growing meat cultures in vitro as a more humane and possibly more environmentally friendly way of producing meat. Every day, some people switch from meat-based diets to vegetarian diets.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Disgusting. Sometimes it's hard to read these stories. It makes one feel so helpless.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 18, 2016

The Shop With Your Heart initiative gives consumers the resources to recognize, locate and demand meaningfully welfare-certified meat, eggs and dairy products as well … Continue reading → The post Shop With Your Heart appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Reddit Animals

MARCH 1, 2021

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Critter News

JANUARY 14, 2010

Now there is a marriage made in heaven, two countries with atrocious records on animal issues have come together. The EU was a small market for Canada. Of course, we're disappointed in their actions," Ms. Shea said by telephone from China today. That being said, there are many other markets out there. That's what we're doing in China.

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Critter News

AUGUST 18, 2009

He's doing it to show his opposition to the EU's ban on seal products. Canada plans on appealing to the WTO. Stay classy Harper!

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Critter News

DECEMBER 6, 2011

for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up and running in as little as a month. It did not, however, allocate any new money to pay for horse meat inspections, which opponents claim could cost taxpayers $3 million to $5 million a year.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2008

Here is a New York Times story about the cloning of animals for meat.

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