Meat
Viewfinder: Beyond Meat's Stock Price Surges 475 Percent Since IPO
The company's plant-based burger is now served at a number of fast food chains.
Are Meat Substitutes Meat? Several States Say No.
North Dakota is the latest state to restrict the use of the term in food labeling to protect its livestock industry.
Burger King Introduces the Meatless 'Impossible Whopper'
Burger King is testing the vegetarian addition to its menu in response to rising consumer demand for meat alternatives.
Can Food Choices Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
A new study finds that substantial reductions in spending on red meat resulted in lower greenhouse gas emissions.
How to Feed the World Without Breaking the Paris Agreement
The world's population is expected to balloon to nearly 10 billion by midcentury.
You Don't Really Want that Burger—You Want Higher Social Status
An evolutionary leftover makes it hard to convince people to shift to a vegetarian diet.
Does Male Social Anxiety Deter Vegetarianism?
A growing body of research suggests our food choices are guided by hidden biases.
Peer Pressure Can Make Americans Eat Less Meat
Harnessing the brain's desire to conform to societal norms could be key to cutting meat consumption, researchers say.
This Absolute Lust for Meat
What chimpanzees on the hunt can tell us about human behavior.
Combat Climate Change While Boosting Your Health
It's simple: Eat less meat.
Saving the Planet, One Meal at a Time
Few people grasp the connection between meat consumption and climate change.
A Ban on Unnecessary Antibiotics on Farms
A look at some of the numbers behind a ban that consumer groups have long lobbied for.
A Look at Americans’ Reluctance to Accept Cancer Warnings
People often take too long to believe common habits can pose danger.
Can an Animal Have Rights and Still Be Dinner?
The answer is a very qualified yes.
These 'Local' Piggies Went to Market
Unfortunately, the market wasn’t very local at all. Everyone interested in the Food Movement and locally sourced meat should remember that small farmers plugged into local economics aren’t somehow ipso facto honest farmers.
Herd Mentality
Raising cattle won't wreck the environment—if we do it right.
Humanely Raised Pork? The Problem With Factory Farming
Buying a pig born to a humanely raised mama is harder than you’d think.
A Roadkill Revolution: Eating Animals to Liberate Them
A philosopher argues that if there are viable ways to reduce intentional harm to animals by eating them—and there are—then all vegetarians who subscribe to the “do-the-least-harm” principle should be obligated to make roadkill a part of their diet.
Saturated Fads: Butter Is Back Only Because Our Biases Remain
Was a critically flawed meta-analysis claiming no link between saturated fat and heart disease so quickly lauded by foodies and food writers everywhere because they’re desperate to promote an “eating like grandma” agenda?
Chemists Endorse Marinating Meat With Beer
It decreases the formation of carcinogenic material.
Support Industrial Slaughterhouses
Local meat is a booming business, but the mobile slaughterhouse units used to process it are polluting our backyards with plasma-flecked wastewater, blood, and offal—dangerous byproducts that they're ill-equipped to handle properly.
In Defense of SPAM
For something that's often never been consumed by its detractors, why does the canned meat inspire so much disgust?
Why Do We Sexualize Chicken?
Carol J. Adams argues that dressing up food distracts us from ethical issues.