The Belgian city of Ghent is about to become the first in the world to go vegetarian at least once a week. Starting this week there will be a regular weekly meatless day, in which civil servants and elected councillors … Continue reading
Health officials have found no connection between the pig farms, owned and operated by Virginia-based Smithfield Foods, and the flu virus that paralyzed Mexico for much of the past two weeks. But the crisis, which appears to be abating, has … Continue reading
A huge round of applause to The HSUS and its lawsuit against Hallmark/Westland Meat Company in Chino, California, after an HSUS undercover investigator documented systemic cruel practices. The undercover investigation led to the largest recall of beef in the nation’s … Continue reading
News articles abound about the probable source of the swine fever, sorry, influenza A (H1N1), (the Grumpy Vegan likes “Mad Swine Disease),” including Huffington Post and today’s Graun, which can’t help itself to call the op ed, “The Pig’s Revenge.” … Continue reading
Now a new study of more than 500,000 Americans has provided the best evidence yet that our affinity for red meat has exacted a hefty price on our health and limited our longevity. The study found that, other things being … Continue reading
Where’s the Beef? Beef: How Milk, Meat and Muscle Shaped the World by Andrew Rimas and Evan D.G. Fraser. Mainstream Publishing. 250 pp. £12.99. “I am a great eater of beef,” pleads Sir Andrew Aguecheek in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, … Continue reading
