Livestock’s Shrinking (U.S.) Shadow (Friday, 10/10/2008)
No question about it: The 2006 United Nations report Livestock’s Long Shadow put a new jolt into animal-rights and other anti-meat campaigns. (Examples? Click here, here, here, and here.) The report’s claim that 18 percent of global greenhouse gases are caused by animal agriculture has become a rallying cry for activists whose fondest wish is to weld the animal rights and environmental movements into one giant behemoth to remake the way we eat. But something has always smelled a little funny about that “18 percent,” and this week a New Zealand meat company helped us put our finger on it. read more here »

Quote of the Week (Thursday, 10/9/2008)
It’s still more than three weeks until Halloween, and headlines are already telling us “Don’t feed the fat kids.” Nutrition activists with the British National Obesity Forum are wondering -- seriously -- whether chubby children should be taken away from their parents. And a new “study” from Temple University in Philadelphia warns that parents shouldn’t be encouraging children to finish their meals. What is wrong with this picture? Plenty. read more here »

Hot Dog! Let's Be Frank About Animal-Rights Deception (Wednesday, 10/8/2008)
Over the past few months we’ve been following the anti-hot dog smear campaign led by the Cancer Project, a pseudo-medical organization designed to further the extreme animal rights agenda of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). Last night UPI reported that the animal rights group will petition the government tomorrow to “stop handing out hot dogs and other processed meats to the nation's children” enrolled in the National School Lunch Program. For months now, PCRM's merry band of PETA worshipers have desperately wanted us all to believe that colon cancer starts with your first wiener. But science had other plans. read more here »