Revenge of the Cows: Meat Gives You Cancer
The World Health Organization has given vegetarians all of the ammo we need to win every argument from now on about nasty meat—which gives you cancer.
Delicious, Meaty Dogs Available in San Diego
The San Diego Humane Society is now offering to the public 29 fresh, juicy dogs, specially raised for their succulence.
There's Never Been a Better Time to Stop Eating Meat
Meat prices are at an all time high. Beef is expensive. Fish is expensive. Nasty swine meat is expensive. Wow, what are you going to eat this summer for protein??? Have no fear!
Sorry, It Looks Like Lobsters and Crabs Feel Pain
David Foster Wallace's famous essay "Consider The Lobster" explores unsettling questions about how much pain lobsters feel when we cook them. By law, that introductory sentence must be on this blog post, which is about new research into whether lobsters and crabs feel pain.
Peter Singer Is Here to Talk About Right and Wrong
Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton University and one of the world's most prominent—and controversial—moral philosophers. He's written influential works on poverty, charity, and euthanasia, and is considered a founder of the modern animal rights movement. He's here to speak to you.
Baby Vegetarian Floors Mom with Precocious Opposition to Eating Animals
Luiz Antonio only recently entered this world, but he's already made up his mind about eating the planet's animals: He wants nothing to do with it.
New York Public School First in the Nation to Go All-Vegetarian
A public school in Flushing, Queens, has officially been recognized by New York City officials as being the first public school in the nation to offer its students an all-vegetarian menu.
Eating Meat Is Why You Can't Have a Baby
This headline, like many good things in this world, is perhaps an exaggerated simplification of a scientific topic, yes, but an exaggerated simplification rooted in the latest research. A new NIH study found that PCBs—"mostly banned" chemicals with industrial uses—are linked to fertility problems, causing women to…
People Eating Less of that Nasty Meat
Pig evisceration company Tyson Foods saw its profits fall by 61% in the most recent quarter. Why? Humans, humbled by the realization of our own role as merely another in a long line of millions of animal species to briefly stand atop the food chain on this crazy spinning rock over which we ultimately have little…
A Simple Guide to Fake Meat
Americans are eating less meat—12% less than five years ago. That's good news. Not only for sweet Bessie The Cow, whose mama will not be killed (quite so soon) by a bolt gun shot to the skull, but also for you, the intrepid herbivoracious culinary explorer.
Vegetarians Tricked Into Dating Meat Eaters
British website Veggiedates makes it clear right in its tagline: "Find your veggie dates." Sounds hot! Until you find out that the site was actually full of grease-hungry meat-scarfing savages. Sounds not!
Cow's Run for Freedom Amusing to Everyone Except Cow
Look at this cow making a break for it! This cow ran away from a slaughterhouse in Queens on Wednesday! This cow is running down a street called "Liberty Avenue," no joke! Run, cow, run!
L.A. Fitness Members Want the Body of an Old Lady
Chocolate workout! Smaller gyms! Drummer warrior! Fast pushups! Helen Mirren! Tween athletes! Vegetarian benefits! Heart exercise! And Americans are still fat, all of us! It's your Wednesday Health Watch, where we watch your health—plyometrixplosively!
This Pig Abuse Video Will Ruin Your Fourth of July Cookout
Good morning, you bacon-egg-and-cheese biscuit-eating motherfuckers. Here's a brand new video from the group Mercy For Animals, showing exactly where that bacon you love so much comes from.
Cows' Lives Become Disney Movie For One Fleeting Moment
A truck headed to a slaughterhouse overturned yesterday, and a dozen cows broke free and made a run for it! Of course they'll all be caught and euthanized soon, so leave that part out when you tell the kids. [AP]
PETA: Speaking Of Cannibal Bus Murders...
PETA is an enigma. Is that the right word? What I'm trying to say is, they behave like crackheads. While their primary cause (animal rights) is good, they suffer from a weird celebrity fascination, knee-jerk political stridency, and a love for nasty fake meat. They also try to pass off nudity as philosophy. And yes,…
Mmmm, Test Tube Meat
PETA, the animal rights group skilled at making potential supporters forget about its cause because of all the nude women writhing around at the anti-fur PR stunts, is putting up a million-dollar prize for the first researcher who comes up with a good way to make meat in test tubes. Ahhhhhh! Throwupthrowupthrowup.…
