Why do people hate vegans? As I wrote this week to mark World Vegan Day, the strict, meat-free lifestyle has many admirable qualities—it spares the lives of countless animals, it can be good for one’s health and it’s especially good for the planet’s health. Still, as the controversy over William Sitwell’s resignation from the UK’s […]
By Melissa Kravitz “You are what you eat” may be one of the oldest sayings ever to be repeated around the dinner table, but can you also eat what you are? The idea of eating to suit your identity dates back millennia, particularly with religious dietary restrictions seen as shaping an eater’s personality and identity. […]
By Matthew Ponsford Human, monkey, pig. Wrapped inside the giant magnetic coil of an magnetic imaging resonance (MRI) scanner, three silent animal videos flash up and then disappear in front of a test subject’s eyes. Each animal moves their mouth, contorting into shapes, which could be speaking, or not. Five years ago, in the spring […]
One Meal a Day for the Planet and the Center for Biological Diversity Tuesday hosted events at Applebee’s locations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Clearwater, Florida to ask the restaurant to add at least one plant-based entrée to all of its menus nationwide. “Applebee’s has an opportunity to show real leadership and […]
By Uzo You may already know how delicious vegan seafood is. Word on the street is that fishless fare is making a huge appearance in stores nationwide. According to Forbes, vegan seafood will soon become “big business.” Yummy fish-free products from companies like Sophie’s Kitchen, Gardein and Ocean Hugger Foods—whose Ahimi (aka “tomato sushi”) can […]
By Reynard Loki Whole Foods bills itself as “America’s healthiest grocery store,” but what it’s doing to the environment is anything but healthy. According to a new report, the chain is helping to drive one of the nation’s worst human-made environmental disasters: the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. By not requiring environmental safeguards […]
Update, Sept 4: The bottom of this article has been updated with the Missouri Department of Agriculture’s new guidelines and a statement from Beyond Meat. Missouri is the first state in the country to enact a law that criminalizes certain uses of the word “meat.” The mandate, which came into effect on Tuesday, prohibits companies […]
By Lisa Archer Friends of the Earth recently released a brief that raised important questions about laboratory-created animal replacement products (in vitro meat and genetically engineered proteins) that are in development or on the market ahead of robust health and environmental assessment, oversight and labeling. Some of the coverage and responses to our report created […]
By Stacy Malkan For anyone who wonders why consumers aren’t inspired to trust the GMO industry, consider this bizarre statement from Impossible Foods Chief Communications Officer Rachel Konrad in defense of the Impossible Burger, a veggie burger made more meat-like via genetically engineered yeast. Konrad was upset by a June 27 Bloomberg article Is it […]
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