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...also thought it would make a great cover for TIME. Is being a vegetarian really good for you, and does it, as some of its adherents claim, help save the planet? How did this trend go from odd to mainstream? It all tied in, too, with animal rights, which could be the next big social movement in American life. The anti-fur campaign, organic dairies, free-range chickens--they strike me as harbingers of something big to come, maybe not in a decade but during this century. Although I admire the commitment of the animal-rights folks--except for their...
...taste of the cowboy's ancient pride, and current defensiveness, just click on South Dakota cattleman Jody Brown's website, www.ranchers.net and read the new meat mantras: "Vegetarians don't live longer, they just look older"; and "If animals weren't meant to be eaten, then why are they made out of meat?" (One might ask the same of humans.) For Brown and his generation of unquestioning meat eaters, dinner is something the parents put on the table and the kids put in their bodies. Of his own kids, he says, "We expect them to eat a little of everything...
...rancher who makes his living with meat or the vegetarian whose diet could someday drive all those breeder-slaughterers to bankruptcy, nothing is simple any more. Gone is the age of American innocence, or naivete, when such items as haircuts and handshakes, family names and school uniforms, farms and zoos, cowboys and ranchers, had no particular political meaning. Now everything is up for rancorous debate. And no aspect of our daily lives--our lives as food consumers--gets more heat than meat...
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...LATEST COVER STORY Should You Be a Vegetarian? July 8, 2002 Past Issues Understanding Anxiety Jul. 8, 2002 ----------------- Being Tom Cruise Jul. 1, 2002 ----------------- Asia's World Cup Jun. 24, 2002 ----------------- China's Labor Lost Jun. 17, 2002 ----------------- Asian Medicine...