We boil crabs and lobsters alive because it tastes better, and also because we assume they can’t feel pain. But a new study …
vegetarianism
EcocentricWaste
How Meat and Dairy are Hiking Your Carbon Footprint
It’s tough enough dealing with all the hectoring we get about eating less salt, using bigger forks, and making sure that this or that food group makes up only this or that percentage of our diet. All that, however, is only when it’s the nutritionists talking. Things get even harder when the environmentalists enter the picture, with …
EcocentricFood
5 Questions With Farm Sanctuary President Gene Baur
A guest post from TIME’s Feifei Sun:
In 1986, Gene Baur started selling veggie dogs out of his aqua blue Volkswagen van to raise money for Farm Sanctuary, an animal rights organization he co-founded with his then-wife. This May, Baur hopped back into his van to embark on a road trip across America, called the Just Eats Tour (which
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EcocentricLiving Green
How To Feed The World By Going Veggie
I don’t eat bacon cheeseburgers. About three years ago I gave up red meat and pork. I am American, and brother do I love bacon cheeseburgers. But I decided that as part of the imperfect project of trying to live a decent, moral life, I could no longer chow down on bacon cheeseburgers. I could not put my preference for the taste of a …