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Posts Tagged ‘vegetarianism’
Climate Change, Pollution, Videos & Documentaries, May 17th, 2011,
Back in the 80s Morrissey wrote the lyrics to the Smiths song “Meat is Murder”, while KRS-1 called meat eating suicide or “self-murder” in the BDP track “My Philosophy”. These thoughtful musicians were talking about cruelty and spirituality. They were coming from emotional and philosophical standpoints, but today their words ring true in ever more complex ways. Doctors, dieticians, climate and environmental scientists, and researchers from across the gamut of the physical, natural and engineering sciences are discovering more and more how the human diet affects the health of not only our bodies, but that of our planet. Factory farming,…
Tags: climate, dairy, documentary, film, meat, meat is murder, planeat, trailer, vegetarianism
Climate Change, Health, Videos & Documentaries, Jan 27th, 2011,
The Ecologist recently published an interview with Jonathan Safran Froer, author of Eating Animals, entitled “Environmentalists who eat meat have a blind spot”. But Froer isn’t that cut and dry when it comes to meat eating and being an environmentalist. He avoids purist, all-or-nothing approaches to the argument and I agree. Ideals are goals, not things that should be either lived up to or cast aside: Oh I can’t be bothered to be a vegan, so f-it, let’s go to Micky D’s… besides George Monbiot says it’s OK now. Froer just thinks adopting a vegetarian diet is the simplest way…
Tags: Climate change, eating animals, Jonathan Safran Froer, meat, Ted Nugent, vegetarianism
Climate Change, Health, Politics, Jul 20th, 2010,
During the last few days the British press has run some relatively prominent articles once again highlighting the correlation between meat eating and climate change, also resulting in a few additional commentary pieces and the usual backlash. Perhaps biggest of all is the Observer Food Monthly magazine’s OFM vegetarian recipe special edited by none other than the McCartney family (Sir Paul, Mary and Stella). Far from simply a collection of recipes – including several from Gwyneth Paltrow and other veggie celebs – the OFM special contains interviews with each of the three McCartneys, plus one piece that specifically connects environmentalism…
Tags: change, climate, Dominic, footsoldier, Kenya, Lady, Lawson, Lettuce, Lord, McCartney, meat, Observer, Paul, PETA, skeptic, vegetarian, vegetarianism, veggie
Climate Change, Nov 14th, 2009,
Is eating your greens going to save the earth? This could have been a ridiculous question about a decade ago. But now, it’s even got a serious answer! It is estimated that if more people switched to eating more vegetables, than it can probably reduce our carbon emission by up to 18%. Of course this isn’t going to cut it with die-hard carnivores, who will probably say you can take away their hamburgers when you pry it from their cold, dead hands. We need to back it with hard proof, kind of like defending the label “smoking is injurious to…
Tags: eco-friendly eating, vegetarian, vegetarianism
Climate Change, Green living, Politics, Nov 2nd, 2009,
Vegetarianism has made significant inroads into mainstream British culture. Issues relating to animal welfare have long played a part in the social and political fabric of the United Kingdom. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or RSPCA, dates back as far as 1824. English Romantics Percy and Mary Shelley were vegetarians and naturalists during the early 19th century, demonstrating a link between the Pythagorean diet – as it was known for centuries throughout Europe – and early environmentalism. Even further back – in 1516 – Sir Thomas More wrote and published Utopia, an early novel describing…
Tags: Climate change, Lord Stern, meat, UK, vegetarian, vegetarianism
