The young man looked sad as he posed for the newspaper’s photo shoot of him holding his bucket of deep fried chicken parts, AKA KFC. Apparently his appetite was spoiled when his greasy fingers grasped a sinister-looking deep fried chicken kidney. What is the world coming to? Just when I [...]

The world’s largest meat company says it has withdrawn a lawsuit against environmental activist group Greenpeace and renewed a promise not to purchase cattle from restricted areas in Brazil. According to Reuters, Greenpeace is in fresh discussions with food processing company JBS SA. The Brazilian firm recently published an independent [...]

Bill and Lou, the now internationally famous oxen team who have worked the fields at Green Mountain College (GMC) for the last 10 years, will soon be available as hamburgers on the college’s cafeteria menu. Despite more than 30,000 signatures delivered to the school asking for mercy for these life-long [...]

There was a bit of a commotion in front of Trader Joe’s Union Square store in New York City this week. The Consumers Union held a press conference there for its Meat Without Drugs campaign. The group called on the national grocer to stop selling meat and poultry raised on [...]

Thank goodness for global warming. Without it, President Obama might not have had a carrot to string along the good folks in Iowa as the worst drought in 50 years is hitting the nation’s top producer of corn, soybeans, ethanol, hogs and other agricultural products particularly hard. To hell with [...]

The meat and dairy industry is once more showing the power it has over American politics. On July 23rd, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its monthly newsletter. The letter contained a brief and moderate suggestion: to take part in Meatless Monday. One simple way to reduce your environmental [...]

When people think about moderating meat consumption, they typically think of the health benefits and costs. Eating less meat is said to be a healthy practice since it reduces the risks of heart disease, cancer, and other illnesses. But according to a new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists, meat consumption [...]

It’s bikini season once again! For many, ‘tis the season to trim down, and a trick that a lot of people seem to be adopting nowadays to do so is to cut down on their meat consumption. (To which I say, lettuce all eat little to no meat! For whatever [...]

I can’t count how many straight out laughs I got in response to “soy vegetariana” when trying to order a meal in Spain. This is a country where the majority of bars decorate their ceilings with hanging dried whole legs of their famous black pigs and baby Babes are regularly [...]

Looks like PETA was right when it sued the California Milk Board for its advertising campaign asserting that “Happy cows come from California.” The USDA has now confirmed that mad cows come from California, well, a mad cow. Authorities conducting random testing for mad cow disease at a Central California [...]