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Don't Eat Camel - Eat Schmeat!

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I'd rather not any meat at all, thank you, but for those meat addicts like my husband, this could help. Earlier this year, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced that it will offer a $1 million X Prize for the creation of affordable, humane, and "commercially viable" test-tube meat by 2012.

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New Book on Animal Rights Activism

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One guy runs Vegan Outreach and the other is a VP at PETA (they have those?). The most constructive part of the book (and possibly the most shocking to those who are only peripherally familiar with the vegetarian movement and who might therefore expect radicalism) is the authors' discussion of tolerance in all activities.

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On Vegan Devastation at PF Chang's

Animal Person

From VegCooking , courtesy of PeTA: The vegan-friendly attitude of P.F. One manager told PETA Eats that most people prefer the vegetarian lettuce wraps over those with chicken. Not only do they have vegan entrees, but they will substitute tofu for any meat in any dish, so you can eat just about anything on the menu!

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

The campaign to moralize meat has largely been a failure. If that means volunteering at a dog rescue or giving money to PETA, all while eating and using animals, at least you’re doing something. But I’m merely making his point. He prefers to take the stance that because moral consistency is impossible (i.e.,

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re “ PETA’s Latest Tactic: $1 Million for Fake Meat ” (news article, April 21): The commercial development of meat from animal tissue won’t result in “fake meat” any more than cloning sheep results in fake sheep. A more accurate name for the end result would therefore be “clean meat.”

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.

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On "EATING ANIMALS" by Jonathan Safran Foer

Animal Person

He always refers to himself and his wife and his child as "vegetarian." But why does he say "vegetarian?" That bothers me, as there's a significant difference in motivation for vegans and vegetarians and he sounds like one, yet calls himself the other. In all fairness, most people's only reference is PETA.