One of the only ways out of the climate crisis is to stop eating red meat, which is tremendously damaging to the environment in any number of ways. Cows produce enormous amounts of methane, they use up tons of land, they require a lot of...
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For the latest LGM podcast, I interview J.L. Anderson of Mount Royal University about his recent book Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America. This is a great overview.
I find is absolutely astounding that for the utterly insane number of chickens this country raises for meat, to the point that the conditions for them are an utter atrocity,.
The current culture war is over Democrats' desire to put you in prison for eating beef or something, whatever Tucker is talking about. This is of course idiotic, but when did that stop the Republican talking points machine. After all, no one likes their policies...
This is a pretty interesting article about Utah's new cage-free law for chickens, which Jan Dutkiewicz writes in The New Republic might in fact be counterproductive. That's because the law.
I love/hate this so much. James Blunt developed scurvy after adopting an all-meat diet to assert his masculinity https://t.co/n6m9dNwSqc pic.twitter.com/zarV44uH9v — Jezebel (@Jezebel) August 20, 2020 Men have issues. Serious.
Since we are talking a lot about meat right now, Jonathan Safran Foer argues that eating meat is terrible. I don't really want to reference Foer because I dislike his writing so much. But at the very least, it allows me to muse a bit...
One thing COVID-19 has done is make it a good time to discuss America's ridiculous obsession with meat. The terrible conditions of the meatpacking plants that long predate the pandemic,.
Chicago stockyards, 1909 It's not just that our meatpacking system is a crime against both animal and humanity long before COVID-19. It's that the idea of going a day without.
Rick Perry is not the brightest bulb in the world. As Texas proves over and over again, a lack of intelligence is no barrier to being elected to statewide office. Perry went to school at Texas A&M. He took a course with the simple title...
I am soon returning to East Coast Exile, reality, and regular blogging. Until then, this. 1980's Soviet Estonian TV ad for minced chicken meat by filmmaker Harry Egipt. A vegetarian's.
Hmmm.... Since the popularization of beef tartare in the 1950s and sushi in the 1980s, raw animal products have been a widely accepted luxury item in the US. But historically,.