Word: meatlessness
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...students become more educated about the routine suffering animals face when raised and killed for food, it’s understandable why they are seeking meatless alternatives in droves. For example, chickens on factory farms have their beaks sliced off with hot blades, and many are even scalded alive in feather removal tanks. If these kinds of abuses were inflicted upon cats or dogs, it would result in felony cruelty to animals charges...
...meatless lifestyle never really caught on in the West, although it would sometimes pop up during health crazes and religious revivals. The Ephrata Cloister, a strict religious sect founded in 1732 in Pennsylvania, advocated vegetarianism - as well as celibacy. The 18th century utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham believed that animal suffering was just as serious as human suffering, and likened the idea of human superiority to racism...
First we wanted organic food. Then we demanded free range chicken eggs. And now what we absolutely, hands-down, must have are some mellow, meatless burgers. Harvard herbivores are salivating at the prospect of a Cambridge version of Zen Burger, the latest vegetarian venture by the makers of the Zen Palate chain, which has been around since 1991. The restaurant provides meat-free versions of everyone’s McTasty favorites—but the only thing this place shares with Mickey D’s is a love of prefixes, offering items such as the ZenChicken Tenders...
...time as a starving student in Manhattan and as I re-read the familiar pages, I had an epiphany. This was me: I had no money, I lived in a tiny apartment; in all essentials I was Laurie Colwin. My reading inspired me to forsake my nutritional but meatless diet for one that involved filet mignon and red wine on payday and a strict diet of ramen for the second half of every week. This is the danger and the beauty of food writing. It influences your daily life by changing your own relationship to food?...
...Catholic school as a girl and at 44 still attends Mass at St. Dominic Catholic Church in San Francisco. Confession--telling your sins to a priest and receiving absolution--is one of her faith's seven sacraments, but for Gargiulo it now seems as anachronistic as prayer veils and meatless Fridays. "It lost its efficacy for me," says Gargiulo. "It was too much a perfunctory exercise about church rules instead of Christ's teachings...