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• 5 Reasons Why to switch to vegetarianism

  Published: February 15, 2007, 6:21 am

  Tags: Vegetarian Cooking, Vegetarian Lifestyle, Better Living, Health, Switch To Vegetarianism, Vegetarian

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• Vegetarian Diet

  Published: December 8, 2006, 5:01 pm

  Tags: Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarian Lifestyle, Vegetarian, Vegetarianism, Vegetarians

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• What is Vegetarianism?

  Published: December 8, 2006, 3:56 pm

  Tags: Vegetarian Lifestyle, Vegetarian, Vegetarianism, Vegetarians

  Vegetarianism is the practice of not consuming meat, with or without the use of other animal derivatives, such as dairy products or eggs. Some vegetarians choose to also refrain from wearing clothing involving the death of animals, such as leather, silk and fur. Veganism, sometimes called “strict vegetarianism”, excludes all animal

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• August reading notes

  Published: September 7, 2007, 5:44 pm

  Tags: Animal Rights Issues, Andrew Linzey, Keith Ward, Social Ethical Issues, Theology Amp Amp Faith, Environment, Vegetarianism Veganism, Books

  Some highlights from the past month: I blogged a bit about Keith Ward’s latest, Re-Thinking Christianity here, here and here. Ward continues his streak of intelligent, accessible theology that straddles the popular and the academic. The takeaway lesson from RC is that there isn’t exactly an unchanging core of doctrine, but that

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• PETA Presents: Celeb Skin!

  Published: September 22, 2007, 4:45 am

  Tags: Ads, Naked, Peta, Vegetarianism

  Filed under: Life Style, Hot BodiesTMZ.com: Animal rights group PETA has gone and done the coolest thing since ... well, forever. Their latest spokeshottie for vegetarianism features a hot and totally naked Alicia Silverstone. But the "Clueless" star isn't the first sexbomb to bare it all for... Read more

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• Animal Crackers

  Published: September 29, 2007, 11:26 am

  Tags: Activism, Animal Rights, Animals, Vegetarianism

  Animal Crackers I recently posted an entry on my personal blog about some animal rights clowns stealing a pet bunny rabbit from a local school in the US. The poor children were told by their teacher that some people don't believe animals should be in cages.

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• Cooking Light picks 5 healthy food trends

  Published: October 2, 2007, 10:34 am

  Tags: Flexitarianism, Healthy Diet, Healthy Eating, Healthy Food, Healthyeating, Locally Grown Food, Locallygrownfood, Organic Food, Organicfood, Slow Food, Vegetarianism

  Locally Grown Foods, and Vegetarianism represent, but are you familiar with Slow Food? I first heard this term a few years ago (and there have been books written about it and it's a growing movement). It's choosing locally grown food, cooking it in traditional ways and then eating it with family, something that a lot of families don't do

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• October reading notes

  Published: October 29, 2007, 4:31 pm

  Tags: Animal Rights And Issues, Bill Mckibbon, Books, Economy, Environment, Keith Ward, Philosophy, Science Fiction, Science And Religion, Simplicity, Social And Ethical Issues, Theology Amp Amp Faith, Vegetarianism Veganism, Wine

  A smattering of theology, philosophy, and even some fiction this month: The Environment and Christian Ethics by Michael Northcott. This is part of Cambridge University Press’s “New Studies in Christian Ethics” series. Northcott is (at least at the time of this book’s publication) a lecturer in theology at the University of

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• Is Meat Methane?

  Published: December 7, 2007, 2:06 am

  Tags: Ode, Vegetarianism, Environment, Social Change, Global Warming

  One of the main problems of the media is that they have become too corporatized. It has come to the point where we simply can't believe everything that the media tells us anymore. From Judith Miller to Jayson Blair to other such articles, the med

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• Crunchy cons, Pollan, Scully and meat-eating

  Published: January 30, 2008, 10:13 am

  Tags: Animal Rights And Issues, Conservatism, Consumerism, Economy, Environment, Food, Vegetarianism Veganism

  Rod Dreher of Crunchy Cons fame reflects on the morality of meat-eating, prompted by a discussion with a Christian friend about The Omnivore’s Dilemma (permalinks don’t seem to be working - scroll down to “Re-thinking the meat guzzler”). He also refers to Matthew Scully’s Dominion, an indictment of the factory farming

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• A vegan critique of Pollan

  Published: January 29, 2008, 5:36 pm

  Tags: Animal Rights And Issues, Economy, Environment, Ethics, Food, Vegetarianism Veganism

  Erik Marcus, vegan and animal rights activist, has a review of The Omnivore’s Dilemma that is appreciative, but critical in key places. Key quote: Pollan’s book convincingly shows that animal agriculture can, in fact, operate in a way that respects the environment. For a reader who’s acquainted with the staggering wastefulness

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• More on Pollan and vegetarianism: vegetarianism as vocation

  Published: January 28, 2008, 8:56 pm

  Tags: Animal Rights And Issues, Economy, Environment, Food, Vegetarianism Veganism

  andanimals. The issue of vegetarianism breaks down into at least two components: the question of suffering and the question of killing. Almost everyone will admit, at least theoretically, that it’s wrong to inflict unnecessary suffering on animals. So, in theory, you could get most people to concede, I think, that the conditions of

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• Pollan on the ethics of meat eating

  Published: January 28, 2008, 1:33 pm

  Tags: Animal Rights And Issues, Economy, Environment, Ethics, Vegetarianism Veganism

  In general I find Michael Pollan’s indictment of our current industrial food system, which floats on a sea of subsidized corn, fossil fuels, and chemical fertilizers, entirely persuasive. And his account of a week spent at self-described “libertarian Christian environmentalist” Joel Salatin’s Polyface Farm, where the

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• Food Is Love

  Published: February 14, 2008, 8:06 am

  Tags: Vegetarianism, Food

  The worst kind of mixed-marriage: Sharing meals has always been an important courtship ritual and a metaphor for love. But in an age when many people define themselves by what they will eat and what they won't, dietary differences can put a strain on a romantic relationship. The culinary camps have become so balkanized that some factions consider

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• The quest for the happy meal

  Published: February 15, 2008, 4:06 pm

  Tags: Animal Rights And Issues, Ethics, Food, Vegetarianism Veganism

  Here’s a look at the lengths people are going to to get humanely-raised meat. Mostly I want to applaud this, but at the same time I continue to have this nagging feeling that there’s something incongruous about going to such lengths to treat animals well in order to kill and eat them.

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