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By Vihar Sheth on June 19, 2009
Writer Kathy Freston, a frequent contributor to AlterNet on the topic of the human diet, has posted a new article on this great alternative media site about the evolutionary arguments against carnivorous diets. If you don’t believe in evolution you should stop reading here. For the rest of you, please check out the article. A [...]
Posted in Food & Health | Tagged Diet, Evolution, Vegetarianism |
By Vihar Sheth on May 7, 2009
I suppose a person has to hear about something a very large number of times before he is willing to change his habits, especially if these habits (religion, diet, biases, etc . . .) were ingrained in him from birth. Hopefully Jane Brody’s piece, Paying a price for loving red meat, has added fuel to [...]
Posted in Food & Health | Tagged Cancer, General, Heart Disease, Sustainability, Vegetarianism |
By Vihar Sheth on March 27, 2009
Very hard to be inside today. The weather is gorgeous and I really want to be done working. Unfortunately this is not going to happen for a bit so I thought I’d write a quick post before diving back into what I have to finish this afternoon. While perusing the “Internets” a while ago I [...]
Posted in Food & Health | Tagged Animal Cruelty, Crabs, Vegetarianism |
By Vihar Sheth on March 24, 2009
In shocking news, a recent study proved yet again that all kinds of red meat are bad, and in so many ways. The study gained quite a bit of attention on the Internet and is summarized nicely in one fabulously named article, titled, “Red meat raises risk of all kinds of death – study“. All [...]
Posted in Food & Health | Tagged Cancer, General, Vegetarianism |
By Vihar Sheth on May 7, 2008
I received an email from Sierra Club today with a link to a website called 50 Ways to Help the Planet. The crazy thing is, on the site, “they” give you 50 actual ways to help the planet. Unbelievable! This isn’t the first published set of green action items, and it won’t be the last, [...]
Posted in Food & Health | Tagged Activism, General, Society, Vegetarianism |
By Vihar Sheth on April 15, 2008
Mark Bittman does a yeoman’s job of summarizing the meat industry’s impact on the globe in this article. The facts are astonishing, mind-blowing, and will create real shock and awe in your mind if you synthesize them. And in light of the current global food crisis, the idea of reducing our collective meat intake makes [...]
Posted in Food & Health | Tagged Agriculture, Feature, General, Globalization, Responsibility, Vegetarianism |
By Vihar Sheth on September 18, 2007
Let it be known, I’m on PETA’s side in regards to the statement “you just cannot be a meat-eating environmentalist.” Well, I guess you could be a meat-eating environmentalist, but you’d be a less effective one. Further, while PETA is known to sensationalize instances of animal abuse to make a point, a dramatic touch is often [...]
Posted in Climate & Energy, Food & Health | Tagged Vegetarianism |
By Vihar Sheth on September 4, 2007
As I’ve repeatedly pointed out on this site, raising and killing animals for food does more harm to the environment than automobiles, yet society continues to attack other major, but not leading causes of climate change. Now, PETA, with the help of a few major studies released in the last few months, is actively trying [...]
Posted in Climate & Energy, Food & Health | Tagged Vegetarianism |
By Vihar Sheth on March 5, 2007
Our friends across the Atlantic bring us this very interesting and action-oriented article about reducing one’s carbon footprint. The author, Justin Rowlatt, and his family went “green” for an entire year and the results are going to be discussed on BBC’s One’s Panorama. The ten tips are: 1. Give Up Your Car 2. Insulate Your [...]
Posted in Climate & Energy, Development & Transportation | Tagged General, Vegetarianism |
By Vihar Sheth on February 9, 2007
Kelly Freston published a phenomenal piece on HuffingtonPost.com a few weeks back but I just got a hold of it the other day from my friends over at Alternet.org. The article is called, Vegetarian is the New Prius, and makes the environmental case for vegetarianism. Some people just don’t get a damn if animals are killed [...]
Posted in Food & Health | Tagged General, Vegetarianism |
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