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The Butcher
While this piece from Dwight Gray can be seen as a love poem (of a sort), it’s so much more than that. It’s a meditation on uncertainty and aging, perseverance and emptiness, the ill-defined “edges”...
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If Men are What They Eat, This Video Might Impress You
A ballet of Chickens, Cows and Pigs in a stunning documentary which explores the many wonders of the world. Featured in the documentary movie Samsara (2011), directed by Ron Fricke and produced by...
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Slice of Life: One Young Man’s Exploits As Lifeguard By Day, Butcher By Night
Soaking in the sun poolside to splitting chickens with a bandsaw–whatever it takes to study abroad. ______ Between my twentieth and twenty-first year, the age when young men are fully-switched on to...
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Why I Might Give Up Eating Meat…Forever
“I do not like to feel trapped by a box of one size fits all manliness, and a template for stepping outside of it, even in a realm as simple as that of cuisine, feels like a liberating idea,” writes...
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Meat Means Emissions – So Which Countries are Doing the Most Damage?
Emissions are often attributed to producing countries but consuming countries also bear some of the responsibility. ––– By Dario Caro, University of California, Davis Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions...
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Can Eating Less Meat Really Tackle Climate Change?
View image | gettyimages.com Can your diet effect the environment? ––– By Mike Berners-Lee With the food system accounting for up to a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, anything that reduces...
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Meat-Lovers vs. Vegetarians: A War of Cultures
Embed from Getty Images Nutrition is cultural. And so is meat. — You might have heard: The Obama administration released its new Dietary Guidelines for Americans in January to an outcry. While the new...
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6 Months of No Meat for This Guy
Embed from Getty Images Jonathan Levy reflects on six months as a vegan. — Right about the time I became vegan, I remember having a conversation with a hardcore PETA vegan about the possibility of...
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A Few Things Every Man Should Know About: Meat
No matter what you think you know – Steve Nazarian says these three tips will make you love meat even more. — Welcome to the latest episode of A Few Things Every Man Should Know About: Every week this...
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Inclusion, Democracy, and the Plant-Based Diet
Embed from Getty Images In an era of resource depletion, climate change and political instability, now more than ever is the time for us to rethink our relationship with animals. ____ Bobby Flay is on...
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Is a Vegetarian Diet Really More Environmentally Friendly Than Eating Meat?
Embed from Getty Images By Wayne Martindale Beef from Brazil, avocados from Mexico, lamb from New Zealand, wines from South Africa and green beans from Kenya – food shopping lists have a distinctly...
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Grocery Run
Time Machine Series: Exploring Past, Present, and Future PAST Around seven or eight-years-old, I figured out hamburger was made from a cow, and so began an inadvertent period of vegetarianism. For a...
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Ten Things I’ve Learned – Things You Can Do Every Day To Be Kinder To Our Planet
Our lifestyle is slowly destroying the planet and the environment we live in. In the future, the planet is going to become inhabitable if we don’t make a change now. Oceans are already overflowing...
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Dinner with My Daughter Revealed the Difference Between Us
— I am a horrible eater. Of course, if you looked at me, you’d say, “Al, you seem to have this eating thing down pat.” By being a horrible eater, I mean that I never eat the right things. Vegetables...
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Spoiler Alert: Santa Claus
A red-haired boy sits down for his drum lesson and I can tell he’s upset. His faced tear streaked and his breathing is shallow and sniffly. “What’s wrong, Jerry?” I ask him. “I just found out there’s...
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Meat: To Eat or Not
I once watched a video of a newly born calf being taken away from its mother. The terror of the tiny infant, the heart-rending cries of the mother… how can we as a society condone this? Yet it...
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How to Transform Diets? Lower the Price of Protein and Listen to the Kids
By Gabrielle Lipton As a South African and a father, Bruce Campbell, who heads the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food security, is well acquainted with the question of...
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Should You Avoid Meat for Good Health? How to Slice off the Facts From the...
— By Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University More than half of Americans who make New Year’s resolutions resolve to “eat healthier.” If you’re one, you might be confused about the role meat should play...
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COVID-19 Disruption Reveals Challenges in Our Meat Supply
— While supply chains struggle to keep up, COVID-19 is revealing how the erosion of local slaughterhouses in recent years has jeopardized the quality and reliability of our meat supply. First it was...
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Edible Insects: Replacing Meat With…Bugs?
— By Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss Dear EarthTalk: Is switching out meat for edible bugs to satisfy our protein needs a viable way to ratchet down our carbon emissions and overall environmental impact?...
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