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Last week, the White House declared that the economic stimulus plan has already created 150,000 jobs around the country. This week, the White House was looking to put some anecdotal meat on that figure. The Pace University event brought the Vice President together with a number of business owners and executives who said they had made hundreds of hires in the past few months that they probably would not have made if the stimulus plan had not passed. In fact, a number of executives said they had even been planning layoffs coming into the year, but were able...
...half their day chewing their food, energy not spent in more constructive activities, said Daniel E. Lieberman, a fellow anthropology professor and chair of department’s biological anthropology wing. The book counters earlier hypotheses about human evolution, such as the theory that human evolution stemmed from eating meat, either raw or cooked. The transition to cooking may have had social implications as well. Wrangham argues that the control of the flame gave rise to traditional gender roles, as cooked food became a valuable commodity. “The possibility of [food] theft prompted a primitive protection racket...
...these reasons, says Tobias Leenaert, co-director of Ethical Vegetarian Alternative, a nonprofit funded by the regional Flemish government, "it's almost impossible to be against meat reduction. You can argue against vegetarianism, but not against cutting back on meat." That's a view that is gaining traction among those who hope to reshape meat consumption from an animal rights issue into an environmental and public health one. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, for example, recently spearheaded a "meatless Mondays" campaign in which it and 28 other public health schools run local outreach programs that...
...even among the city's enlightened vegetarians. "I already follow a vegetarian diet for health reasons," insists Mareije Vanneck, 29, as she sucks on a cigarette. Lees Molenschot, a 64-year-old pensioner sitting in a local pub, says he eats only one meal a day, and always without meat, before adding, "I start out with a coffee in the morning, then five or six beers during the day, maybe some Jägermeister, and then at 6 I make a healthy meal of vegetables in olive...
...Leenaert of Ethical Vegetarian Alternative says Ghent's public education program is still young. The city council has yet to mail out the 90,000 leaflets it has printed for residents explaining the global benefits of reducing meat consumption, and Veggie Day has yet to roll out in local schools, which will happen when they reconvene in September. He points out that there are historical antecedents for meat-free days, and that it is only recently that people have come to expect meat to be a daily ritual. For centuries in Catholic Europe, for example, citizens forsook meat on Fridays...