Word: vegetarians
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...attention in another direction - industrialized agriculture. A Humane Society-backed proposition to require more humane treatment of farm animals is before California voters on Election Day. TIME talked to Wayne Pacelle, the group's president, about his differences with PETA, why everyone doesn't have to go vegetarian (at least not yet), and the trauma of being an undercover slaughter house investigator...
...There are people in the animal rights movement worried that if Prop 2 passes, it will condone the practice of factory farming. How do you react? Social change occurs on an incremental pathway. For those who want to see more people adopt a vegetarian diet and not have animals slaughtered for food at all - I do believe that this discussion about Prop 2 builds important awareness about our responsibilities to animals...
...witty and charming, but absurd and disturbing: “You’d roll around in the first effluent you came across [too] if I ripped out your sweat glands and you had no other means of cooling down.” The mockery of his vegetarian wife, Susana, is also largely devoid of the playfulness he needs to pull it off.There is something instinctively appealing about Barlow’s determination to eat the whole pig. It speaks to the primal desire to triumph over the plate: “There comes a point...when the pleasure...
...community is lacking. If the University of Tokyo were really intent on building a community at school, they would do better to focus their efforts on building dorms or restructuring their classes. In terms of food, something as simple as adding more chairs to the dining hall or adding vegetarian options to the menu would do infinitely more than a sustainable food fair. According to Yoshi Oi, a third-year student at the university, “There are not enough seats in the dining halls so a lot of students cannot have [a meal] there.” Harvard?...
Vegans can be as strict or lax as they want to be in their food choices: the International Vegetarian Union's website includes vegan-friendly reminders about baking pans greased with animal fat, grain cereals that include animal-based glycerin, and sugar refined with bone charcoal. Then there's raw veganism, which is an offshoot of veganism in which none of the food can be cooked. Take that a step further and you get "mono meals," the idea that the stomach should only digest one type of food at a time. Basically, if you eat it, there is probably someone...