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Meat and Dairy, Quite Contrary Cutting meat and milk consumption cuts CO2 emissions, study says		01 Oct 2008	News
Posted at 6:41 AM on 01 Oct 2008 Happy World Vegetarian Day! Just in time for the festivities, a new study from the Food Climate Research Network finds that cutting down on meat and milk consumption can help cut greenhouse-gas emissions. The four-year study focused mainly on the U.K., concluding that dramatically cutting the average Briton's weekly meat and milk intake could help reduce emissions sin ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, food, green living, news, scientific research, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Plate Tectonics On shifting to vegetarianism	Umbra Fisk	29 Sep 2008	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I recently became a vegetarian for environmental reasons. Everyone says I should start eating soy products and tofu. But doesn't soy come from evil industrial farms in Iowa? I thought the idea was to increase biodiversity, not just eat the same thing 20 different ways. Also, can I keep eating eggs and milk? Ben T. New Hampshire Dearest Ben, Why are people so dang bossy about food? There's a vein of "food as ...
Topics: advice, agriculture, Ask Umbra, food, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

From Vegan to Hog Butcher Getting to the meat of the matter with Boston chef Jamie Bissonnette	Roz Cummins	31 Jul 2008	'Tis the Season
Jamie Bissonnette. In my most recent article, I described my experience attending a hog-butchering workshop led by Boston chef Jamie Bissonnette. He mentioned during the workshop that he had been a vegan when he was younger. I wanted to find out more about what would make someone change his eating habits so dramatically, so I set up an interview with Jamie to talk about the i ...
Topics: food, green living, recipes, Tis the Season, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Food tip of the day Don Lee Farms veggie patties are the shizzle	David Roberts	22 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I'm probably going to get in trouble for this, since it's not organic and it comes from some anonymous frozen-food manufacturer, but the discovery of a veggie pattie that doesn't suck is good news that must be shared with the world. As you're probably aware, most "veggie burgers" taste like cardboard. Most real veg-heads I know stay away from them because a) who wants a hamburger when you're a veg-head? and b) the cardboard thing. But get thee to Costco and ...
Topics: vegetarianism and veganism, Food (all these topics)

Notable quotable Vegan food ain't Badu	Sarah van Schagen	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
'Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.' -- Erykah Badu, in the recentest issue of VegNews
Topics: celebrity, food, music, quotables, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Oprah off the meat-free wagon The all-powerful talk-show host ends her vegan cleanse	Sarah van Schagen	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Well, Oprah is no longer a caffeine-free, sugar-free, gluten-free vegan. She says her '21-day cleanse' has been 'enlightening.' I will forever be a more cautious and conscious eater. That's my commitment for now. To stay awakened. Hopefully along the way she's also enlightened some of her million-bajillion faithful followers.
Topics: celebrity, food, green living, health, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Minimizing meat The great Mark Bittman on how to push meat off the center of the plate	Tom Philpott	13 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I'm no vegan. I believe that the only truly sustainable agriculture involves raising crops along with animals. I also adore the globe's cooking traditions, most of which involve integrating meat and/or dairy products with vegetables, grains, and spices.And yet, I'm appalled by this fact, from the USDA: In 2005, total meat consumption (red meat, poultry, and fish) amounted to 200 pounds per person, 22 pounds above the level in 1970. Two hundred pounds per year work ...
Topics: ecological footprint, health, food, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Feeding climate change Still more reasons to eat local and lay off the beef	Clark Williams-Derry	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Photo: Elizabeth Thomsen via Flickr. Increasingly, consumers are trying to reduce the environmental impacts of the foods they eat. But it's not so easy to know what to do, in part because of the bewildering array of food choices the market offers, but also because it's hard to know what food choices carry the biggest impact. This nifty study tries to clear away some of the murk by tackling a fairly straightforward question: If you care about the climat ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, food, local food, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Duck! Chicago overturns 2-year old ordinance banning foie gras	Kurt Michael Friese	15 May 2008	Gristmill
In The New York Times Dining section yesterday, I read this:Chicagoans can feast on foie gras once more. The Chicago City Council just repealed the ban on its sale that it put in place two years ago.Now I know that many of my vegan friends will go ballistic on me when I say that this is a good thing, but this is a good thing. The animal rights groups who supported this measure did so because they saw it as a layup -- an easy target. Who would oppose a ban on some ...
Topics: Chicago, food, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

A vegetarian plea for peace	David Roberts	09 May 2008	Gristmill
Via Ezra, a vegetarian proclaims his normality.
Topics: food, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

The mirror, not Malthus The rhetoric of population in the hunger crisis	Sharon Astyk	01 May 2008	Gristmill
Perhaps you saw the recent UNESCO report on the future of agriculture. It calls for a major paradigm shift in agriculture away from fossil fuels toward organic agriculture and greater equity of distribution. Wow, I wonder why no one ever thought of that before? Seriously, this is the largest single report ever to tell us what we already knew: the status quo is not an option. That is, we cannot go into the future as we are. We all know this on some level.But until ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, environmental justice, food, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

There is no food shortage A gap between rich and poor makes free markets fail	Michael Tobis	28 Apr 2008	Gristmill
It's really an absurd travesty when starvation gets blamed on 'global warming do-gooders,' and we haven't seen the last of that. The problem is miscast, though. There isn't a food shortage, at least not yet. There is a food price crisis, which is a very different beast.Are its roots in the huge resource gap between the relatively rich and the very poor? If that's true, it has broad implications. Here's one way of looking at it, from the Omaha World-Herald:The list ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, environmental justice, food, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Meat Wagon: How now, mad cow? 'Downergate' reveals gaps in mad-cow testing and trouble in school-lunch sourcing	Tom Philpott	14 Mar 2008	Gristmill
In Meat Wagon, we round up the latest outrages from the meat and livestock industries. Remember those 'downer' cows that got forced through the kill line and into the food supply in California's Westland/Hallmark beef-packing plant -- the ones caught on tape by the Humane Society of the United States? Rest assured, friends -- that was an isolated incident. Thus USDA assures us in a recent interview. Only ... not so much. For those who want to believe that downers ...
Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, Big Ag, fashion, food, Food and Drug Administration, industrial ag, TV, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Feeling peckish? Moby's new video pokes at KFC	Sarah van Schagen	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Bald techno-greenie Moby sends a chicken pimp after the Colonel in his "Disco Lies" video: 'Disco lies' from Moby on Vimeo.
Topics: celebrity, food, green living, music, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Admit it: fish is meat Would Jesus eat fish during Lent?	Erik Hoffner	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Jennifer Jacquet of the Sea Around Us Project just published a solid and timely essay with Science & Spirit magazine. The piece begins by asking: If Jesus can turn two fish into enough to feed five thousand people, now would be a good time to intervene. According to researchers, each American ate nearly a half-pound more seafood last year than the year before. As we reach the end of the Christian season of Lent -- the period in which seafood consumption is at its ...
Topics: food, green living, religion and spirituality, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

On the Ball: Steroids side effects Roger Clemens doesn't know what a vegan is	Sarah K. Burkhalter	26 Feb 2008	Gristmill
This is a couple of weeks old, but it is still awesome:
Topics: food, sports, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Love me, love my food habits Veganism as relationship deal breaker	Sarah van Schagen	13 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Love is in the air, and according to the New York Times, it's also served up at the dinner table. But when it comes to dueling food preferences -- he loves meat, she doesn't -- sometimes dinner leaves couples, well, hungry for more. No-holds-barred carnivores, for example, may share the view of Anthony Bourdain, who wrote in his book Kitchen Confidential that "vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everythi ...
Topics: food, green living, sex, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Lenten up already! A Christian quest to cut carbon	Ashley Braun	07 Feb 2008	Gristmill
With the start of Lent, Christians the world-over are praying, fasting, and giving alms in preparation for Easter. This often means also making some kind of sacrifice in the name of solidarity with the poor and the Church ... you know, getting guilted into giving up your most savory sins: gorging yourself on Moose Tracks ice cream or ogling Al Gore. Going without. For forty days. In a row. It's often perceived as a chore akin to New Year's Resolutions -- and adhered to ...
Topics: food, green living, religion and spirituality, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Bittman on meat In case you'd forgotten, industrial meat is a friggin' nightmare	David Roberts	29 Jan 2008	Gristmill
It's a little weird that no one on Gristmill has yet pointed to Mark Bittman's stellar NYT piece on the environmental ravages of industrial meat. Philpott, where you at? Anyway, it's amazing. Go read it. Here's a taste (ha ha): Growing meat (it's hard to use the word "raising" when applied to animals in factory farms) uses so many resources that it's a challenge to enumerate them all. But consider: an estimated 30 percent of the earth's ice-free land i ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, energy, food, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Full-time athlete and full-time vegan Is it possible for an NFL star to go meatless?	Sarah van Schagen	27 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Grist recently published my interview with Rory Freedman, one of the authors of vegan diet book Skinny Bitch. The finished piece is just a selection of the topics from our conversation (we had quite a long lunch), and one of the questions that didn't make the cut was about responding to critics who say veganism is unhealthy. Freedman said it's a "non-argument" and referenced the work of a number of scientific organizations (the American Dietetic Assoc ...
Topics: food, health, sports, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

The Bitch Is Back An interview with Rory Freedman, coauthor of vegan manifesto Skinny Bitch	Sarah van Schagen	25 Jan 2008	Grist Feature
It would be impossible to make it through an entire lunch with Rory Freedman without realizing this simple truth: The bitch loves food. Excuse my language -- or actually, don't. Freedman wouldn't say it any other way. Rory Freedman (left), with coauthor Kim Barnouin. Photo: Tim VanOrden After all, she and former model Kim Barnouin are coauthors of the New York Times bes ...
Topics: books, food, green living, interview, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

What's the skinny? What would you ask a 'Skinny Bitch'?	Sarah van Schagen	14 Jan 2008	Gristmill
As our resident foodie Tom Philpott noted a few weeks ago, the bitches behind Skinny Bitch -- "a no-nonsense, tough-love guide for savvy girls who want to stop eating crap and start looking fabulous" -- are back. Tomorrow afternoon I'll be lunching with one of them, and I'm curious what y'all would ask her -- besides, of course, 'Are you gonna eat that?' Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin, the self-described "pigs" behind Skinny Bitch, sh ...
Topics: food, vegetarianism and veganism, books (all these topics)

Edible Media: Angry vegans with knives and pots A full-flavored attack on industrial food	Tom Philpott	02 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Edible Media takes an occasional look at interesting or deplorable food journalism on the web and off. I have to admit, when I think of vegan fare, I first picture little lumps of soy curd, swimming in a brown pool of Bragg's Liquid Amino Acids -- perhaps with a spear or two of oversteamed broccoli on the side. Then, when I think a little harder, I picture all the fantastic food that emerges without direct involvement of animals (though nearly all well-raised pro ...
Topics: books, food, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Me Huckabee, you Jane GOP (and Dem) candidates: red-meat-lovin', veggie-hatin'	Trina Stout	28 Dec 2007	Gristmill
From a compilation of responses given to AP reporters throughout the year: FAVORITE FOOD TO COOK DEMOCRATS: Clinton: "I'm a lousy cook, but I make pretty good soft scrambled eggs." Edwards: Hamburgers. Obama: Chili. Richardson: Diet milkshake. REPUBLICANS: Giuliani: Hamburgers or steak on the grill. Huckabee: Ribeye steak on the grill. McCain: Baby-back ribs. Romney: Hot dog. SHUNNED FOOD ITEMS DEMOCRATS: Clinton: "I like nearly everythin ...
Topics: food, funnies, politics, presidential race 08, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

A plate for vegetarians	Roz Cummins	30 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Judge it for yourself.
Topics: food, green living, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

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