Browsing Tag
Meat
28 posts
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.
Meat: Bad for You, Good for Your Species
Seems like barely a week goes by without some new study telling us yet again that eating lots…
Settling a Beef With American Cattle Productions
Taking a page out of cattle-raising's past, an old breed from Britain is invigorating American herds with healthier meat that's more sustainably produced.
We Gotta Eat ’em to Save ’em
Farm biodiversity is disappearing. If we would just eat endangered crops and livestock now, restoring their role in the food supply, we could save them from extinction.
Red Meat: A Healthy Choice?
An award-winning journalist says not red meat but refined carbohydrates are responsible for heart disease, diabetes, cancer and many other maladies of civilization. He and other experts weigh in.