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Here is a New York Times story about the cloning of animals for meat MORE
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. We're trying to expand on the market that's here." Maybe they can start trading them for bear gall bladders and tiger parts. MORE
chimpanzees UK bush meat primates endangered speciesDisgusting. Sometimes it's hard to read these stories. It makes one feel so helpless. MORE
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. Second , and most importantly, refuse to support the meat industry’s unsafe practice of adding antibiotics to animal feed by refusing to purchase their products. MORE
Many diners are huge fans of its taste, describing the mammal's meat as somewhere between duck and veal. Tags: canada meat seals restaurants Definitely a niche market ,but demand has been increasing. And this is despite the bad press received by the annual seal hunts. For time immemorial seal has been eaten -- raw -- as a traditional food by indigenous people such as the Inuit. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
It was nauseating and I don't even eat meat. If you eat meat, read this article from the Huffington Post. meat agriculture agribusinessWe actually watched a report about this on Stephen Colbert's show of all places. Blech. MORE
These dogs were rescued by Chinese activists before they could be slaughtered for meat. exotic meats animal rescue Slaughterhouse dogs chinaAccording to this article from the NPR site , such rescues are occuring more regularly as dogs are increasingly becoming pets. A good story from China for once. MORE
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. According to a paper published in the September 1 online edition of the journal Conservation Genetics, DNA bar codes can be used to quickly and clearly distinguish the source species of meat or leather goods for many rare and threatened species. MORE
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 From an opinion piece in the Times of India. MORE
I went to a restaurant for a work lunch and everyone ate meat but me, even the animal lovers. meat farm animal welfare factory farm farm sanctuaryGene 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. MORE
All of them are meat eaters, two because their "doctors" told them they had to eat meat. Tags: meat Sounds pretty powerful. 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. But now we have "Eating Animals,"by Jonathan Safran Foer. MORE
Some will reduce their consumption of meat for the sake of the animals. I foresee a day, perhaps not far in the future, in which it is illegal to raise cows, pigs, and other animals for food. The ground for this will not be animal welfare, as you might expect, but environmentalism. Lawmakers, perhaps as a result of an international treaty, will prohibit the intensive rearing of at least large hoofed animals for food, on the ground that it is damaging to the natural environment. MORE
meat marine animals whales amazon exotic meat JapanEwwwww. And it is, of course, on Amazon's Japan website. MORE
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 Ewwww.I don't know how I come across these weird stories. That's new to me! MORE
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Bob Smith sent a link to this. My first reaction was revulsion. But is it any more revolting than factory farming MORE
meat protests spain activismIt's a pretty powerful image. MORE
meat mercy for animals turkeys North Carolina farm animal welfareOnce again, the wonderful Mercy for Animals provides footage of possible abuse of turkeys at a Butterball farm in North Carolina. The full story is at CNN. MORE
Here is a New York Times op-ed column by philosopher Gary Steiner MORE
Here is a New York Times story about mixed couples, and no, I'm not talking about race, religion, or politics MORE
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. Alistair Darling, the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, is in Canada for a G-7 meeting. Good for him! Real emotional blackmail on the part of the Canadians. MORE
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. canada animal abuse meat quebec horse slaughterExcerpted from CTV.CA. MORE
Here is a New York Times op-ed column about "sustainable meat MORE
Dr Scott Roberton, head of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), said that hunting wild animals for meat and trafficking had been happening in many countries, especially developing ones. Among them, stag and wild boar accounted for around 70 per cent of the consumed meat, followed by turtle, snake, fox and porcupine. Tags: vietnam exotic meats wildlife trafficking bush meat endangered species Sounds just awful. But the problem is the high demand for these products. MORE
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 Very interesting opinion piece about how factory farms facilitate the rapid spread of viruses into the food supply. MORE
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. The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Many say you can’t eat meat and be an environmentalist. MORE
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. Do you? Addendum: Here is a New York Times story about the reward MORE
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. The industry sued California, arguing that Section 599f is preempted by the Federal Meat Inspection Act. Tags: meat california farm animal welfare factory farm animal law meatpacking MORE
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. Furthermore, I would suggest not only that it is permissible for those who care about animals to eat meat; they have a duty to do so. If meat-eating should ever become confined to those who do not care about animal suffering then compassionate farming would cease. MORE
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? Weigh in. What do you think? MORE
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! MORE
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. Well, it looks like we’re getting closer and closer to being able to produce “meat with no feet&#. “The Washington D.C. MORE
Here is proof (in case you needed it) that human beings will eat almost anything MORE
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. See whether your desire for meat doesn't wane in the absence of larger-than-life images of animal products flashing across the screen. MORE
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. McWilliams’s column reminds us of the scientific findings documented out in Livestock’s Long Shadow , the Food and Agricultural Organization’s 390 page report on the environmental impact of meat production. MORE
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. A Parti Québécois legislator said Wednesday that slaughter for halal meat is an affront to animal rights and runs counter to the values cherished by Quebecers. MORE
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 I know some people won't read this piece simply because Ezra Klein is not vegan or even vegetarian, but I think he makes some excellent points. MORE
If you might wish to thank Utne for helping inform about the land-grant-university (LGU) meat problem and ask them to do more on it, send a brief note to editor@utne.com or Editors, Utne Reader, 12 North 12th Street, Suite 400, Minneapolis, MN 55403 -- or ring them up at 612-338-5040 (editors actually answer the phone, but don't take advantage!). Instead, our LGUs teach the false ancient beliefs that maintain meat -- including dairy, fish, eggs, and feed crops -- as an institution. . MORE
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is just about ready to chalk up a win against a California seafood dealer who imported endangered whale meat from Tokyo and sold it to Califorian restaurants. Today, according to Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Ginichi Y Ohira was charged in Los Angeles federal court with selling whale meat in violation of the Federal Marine Mammal Protection Act. From examiner.com. MORE
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APRIL 16, 2012
It was nauseating and I don't even eat meat. If you eat meat, read this article from the Huffington Post. meat agriculture agribusinessWe actually watched a report about this on Stephen Colbert's show of all places. Blech.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 2, 2012
Here is an interesting story about the evolutionary value of a meat-based diet
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 Ewwww.I don't know how I come across these weird stories. That's new to me!
Critter News
MARCH 22, 2010
Dr Scott Roberton, head of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), said that hunting wild animals for meat and trafficking had been happening in many countries, especially developing ones. Among them, stag and wild boar accounted for around 70 per cent of the consumed meat, followed by turtle, snake, fox and porcupine. Tags: vietnam exotic meats wildlife trafficking bush meat endangered species Sounds just awful. But the problem is the high demand for these products.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 27, 2011
chimpanzees UK bush meat primates endangered speciesDisgusting. Sometimes it's hard to read these stories. It makes one feel so helpless.
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 I know some people won't read this piece simply because Ezra Klein is not vegan or even vegetarian, but I think he makes some excellent points.
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. canada animal abuse meat quebec horse slaughterExcerpted from CTV.CA.
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 Definitely a niche market ,but demand has been increasing. And this is despite the bad press received by the annual seal hunts. For time immemorial seal has been eaten -- raw -- as a traditional food by indigenous people such as the Inuit.
Critter News
OCTOBER 31, 2009
All of them are meat eaters, two because their "doctors" told them they had to eat meat. Tags: meat Sounds pretty powerful. 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. But now we have "Eating Animals,"by Jonathan Safran Foer.
Critter News
MARCH 30, 2011
I went to a restaurant for a work lunch and everyone ate meat but me, even the animal lovers. meat farm animal welfare factory farm farm sanctuaryGene 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.
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.
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. The industry sued California, arguing that Section 599f is preempted by the Federal Meat Inspection Act. Tags: meat california farm animal welfare factory farm animal law meatpacking
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 14, 2009
Some will reduce their consumption of meat for the sake of the animals. I foresee a day, perhaps not far in the future, in which it is illegal to raise cows, pigs, and other animals for food. The ground for this will not be animal welfare, as you might expect, but environmentalism. Lawmakers, perhaps as a result of an international treaty, will prohibit the intensive rearing of at least large hoofed animals for food, on the ground that it is damaging to the natural environment.
Critter News
MAY 25, 2011
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is just about ready to chalk up a win against a California seafood dealer who imported endangered whale meat from Tokyo and sold it to Califorian restaurants. Today, according to Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Ginichi Y Ohira was charged in Los Angeles federal court with selling whale meat in violation of the Federal Marine Mammal Protection Act. From examiner.com.
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 Very interesting opinion piece about how factory farms facilitate the rapid spread of viruses into the food supply.
Critter News
APRIL 12, 2009
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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.
Animal Ethics
APRIL 13, 2012
Here is a New York Times op-ed column about "sustainable meat
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. Well, it looks like we’re getting closer and closer to being able to produce “meat with no feet&#. “The Washington D.C.
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. According to a paper published in the September 1 online edition of the journal Conservation Genetics, DNA bar codes can be used to quickly and clearly distinguish the source species of meat or leather goods for many rare and threatened species.
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. Alistair Darling, the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, is in Canada for a G-7 meeting. Good for him! Real emotional blackmail on the part of the Canadians.
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!
Animal Person
AUGUST 26, 2009
If you might wish to thank Utne for helping inform about the land-grant-university (LGU) meat problem and ask them to do more on it, send a brief note to editor@utne.com or Editors, Utne Reader, 12 North 12th Street, Suite 400, Minneapolis, MN 55403 -- or ring them up at 612-338-5040 (editors actually answer the phone, but don't take advantage!). Instead, our LGUs teach the false ancient beliefs that maintain meat -- including dairy, fish, eggs, and feed crops -- as an institution. .
Critter News
FEBRUARY 22, 2012
meat marine animals whales amazon exotic meat JapanEwwwww. And it is, of course, on Amazon's Japan website.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 16, 2008
Here is a New York Times story about the cloning of animals for meat
Critter News
MARCH 20, 2012
meat protests spain activismIt's a pretty powerful image.
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. We're trying to expand on the market that's here." Maybe they can start trading them for bear gall bladders and tiger parts.
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. The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Many say you can’t eat meat and be an environmentalist.
Animal Ethics
JUNE 4, 2009
Here is proof (in case you needed it) that human beings will eat almost anything
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. Furthermore, I would suggest not only that it is permissible for those who care about animals to eat meat; they have a duty to do so. If meat-eating should ever become confined to those who do not care about animal suffering then compassionate farming would cease.
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. Do you? Addendum: Here is a New York Times story about the reward
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 8, 2007
Bob Smith sent a link to this. My first reaction was revulsion. But is it any more revolting than factory farming
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 22, 2009
Here is a New York Times op-ed column by philosopher Gary Steiner
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? Weigh in. What do you think?
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. See whether your desire for meat doesn't wane in the absence of larger-than-life images of animal products flashing across the screen.
Critter News
APRIL 2, 2012
These dogs were rescued by Chinese activists before they could be slaughtered for meat. exotic meats animal rescue Slaughterhouse dogs chinaAccording to this article from the NPR site , such rescues are occuring more regularly as dogs are increasingly becoming pets. A good story from China for once.
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. A Parti Québécois legislator said Wednesday that slaughter for halal meat is an affront to animal rights and runs counter to the values cherished by Quebecers.
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. McWilliams’s column reminds us of the scientific findings documented out in Livestock’s Long Shadow , the Food and Agricultural Organization’s 390 page report on the environmental impact of meat production.
Critter News
JANUARY 10, 2012
meat mercy for animals turkeys North Carolina farm animal welfareOnce again, the wonderful Mercy for Animals provides footage of possible abuse of turkeys at a Butterball farm in North Carolina. The full story is at CNN.
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. Second , and most importantly, refuse to support the meat industry’s unsafe practice of adding antibiotics to animal feed by refusing to purchase their products.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 13, 2008
Here is a New York Times story about mixed couples, and no, I'm not talking about race, religion, or politics
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