vegetarian

By Frank M. Mitloehner As the scale and impacts of climate change become increasingly alarming, meat is a popular target for action. Advocates urge the public to eat less meat to save the environment. Some activists have called for taxing meat to reduce consumption of it. A key claim underlying these arguments holds that globally, […]

By Joe Leech While there are many health benefits to being vegetarian, some of us don’t want to completely cut out meat. This is the idea behind the flexitarian diet, which reduces meat intake instead of avoiding it altogether. This article discusses the potential benefits and risks of following a flexitarian diet to help you […]

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 […]