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...impact on the environment is minimized--as it is with well-run Maine salmon farms--rows of large fish corrals in natural waterways can be eyesores. Fish farming is best done in indoor, onshore facilities. The fish rarely escape, and the wastewater can be treated before being released. Growing vegetarian species such as tilapia is ideal, since they don't have to be fed wild fish...
...ancestors of modern birds, while others believe they predated today's cold-blooded reptiles. This heart, explains Golden, could lend indisputable weight to the theory that most or all dinosaurs had warm blood coursing through their veins, because it was found in an animal known to be a vegetarian - which were once thought to be exclusively cold-blooded...
...life in a high-tech world, cartoonist Scott Adams has decided to capitalize on his fame by creating the Dilberito. It's an all-in-one microwaveable meal-in-a-pocket aimed at the laptop-and-modem crowd. Bland but basically edible, the Dilberito comes in four flavors, all vegetarian and all stuffed with vitamins and protein. Is the Dilberito for everyone? "Some people care about efficiency," Adams says. "Some people don't. We'll get them last...
...least being vegetarian avoids the whole ritual of denial. People don't seem to have the urge to pulverize vegetables beyond the point of recognition--I can pretty much tell what vegetables are in any salad. But if you are a carnivorous human, don't give me any jive about something being wrong to eat because it reminds you of what the animal was. Better the regret than the denial; nothing like the bittersweet recognition that something had to give for you to have your meal. It's good for your psyche. No meal should...
Attention, corporate America: do your research. Executives at the Gap offered the Pretenders' CHRISSIE HYNDE $100,000 to use her song Stop Your Sobbing in an "Everybody in Leather" ad campaign, only to learn that Hynde--a vegetarian since 1969--is an activist for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Faster than you can say publicity nightmare, Hynde and PETA went on the offensive, staging protests outside Gap stores in Chicago, Washington and New York City, where Hynde was arrested last Thursday for criminal mischief. Specifically, PETA objects to the Gap's use of leather from India and China...