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| 11/5/09 |
Vegetarian Book Makes Meatless Arguments
When even a vegetarian calls your anti-meat book a “screed,” you know you’re in trouble. But that’s just what happened in today’s Washington Times review of Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book, Eating Animals. As reviewer A.G. Gancarski puts it, Foer’s book...
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| 11/3/09 |
Marley and Meat
If you follow the animal-rights movement, you might have caught wind of novelist Jonathan Safran Foer’s first attempt at polemic in his new book, Eating Animals. In the tradition of Michael Pollan and Food Inc.,...
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| 9/17/09 |
Come on Down to the Farmers Market (Bring Your Wallet and Your Food Orthodoxy)
In the mood for a bacon-gouda scone? A $5 pint of raspberries? Some $11-per-pound pork chops? How about the $4 bunch of parsnips? Well, you’re in luck: First Lady Michelle Obama has just cut the...
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| 9/15/09 |
HSUS’s Best Friend?
A columnist at the Baltimore Sun offers an ironic take on the relationship between disgraced felon Michael Vick and the animal rights radicals at the so-called Humane Society of the United States, identifying it as...
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| 7/9/09 |
How Much Fish For Health? We’ll Tell You.
This week we launched HowMuchFish.com, the only online seafood calculator that quantifies both the health risks and benefits of a diet rich in seafood. Fed up with fishy activists like Greenpeace (a group more concerned...
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| 5/26/09 |
MeMe Roth's Food-Hating Stunt of the Week
It’s almost hard to believe that anti-obesity zealot MeMe Roth consented to this profile in the Sunday Guardian. After all, this isn’t the first time Roth came across to her interviewer as a joyless food nut...
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| 5/21/09 |
Quote of the Week: Celebrity Chef Edition
“I think people are concerned with what they’re eating,” declared activist chef Alice Waters at a recent Connecticut Forum. “And a lot has to do with celebrity chefs who have brought attention to food.” She’s...
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| 3/25/09 |
PETA Killed a Record Number of Pets in 2008
On "The Fifth Down," the New York Times football blog, a guest contributor posed a provocative question today: If you had to give up your beloved pet, would you be better off giving it to...
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| 3/10/09 |
Ten Food Rules For Michael Pollan
Yesterday on the New York Times health blog, food writer Michael Pollan asked readers for a few new food rules that everyone should try to live by. For too long, he declared, people have “deferred...
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| 2/6/09 |
Gourmet Activists Say They Want A 'Revolution'?
On the day after Barack Obama’s inauguration, we remarked that the President has done a service to American consumers by hesitating to base his food policies on the personal preferences of a few foodie ideologues....
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| 11/17/08 |
Quote of the Week
We usually don't weigh in on the animal-rights war over fur and fashion -- and it's only Monday -- but this is too good not to make our Quote of the Week. Following a Paris...
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| 11/7/08 |
British Food Clown Serves Rubbish
Try as they might, American food cops have thus far failed to compete with their counterparts across the pond. (You’re welcome.) Take Jamie Oliver, Britain’s most notorious celebrity chef, who has launched an ambitious campaign...
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| 8/26/08 |
PETA’s Newest Finger Lickin’ Phony
Here’s a thinker: You’re Sophie Monk, an Australian starlet who posed naked in a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals “vegetarian” ad 10 months ago, telling the world that eating fried chicken from fast-food...
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| 4/2/08 |
Let Them Eat (Overpriced) Cake
Fanatical food author Michael Pollan and many of his nutrition activist peers often blame obesity on the (low) price of food. But it’s easy to issue lofty prescriptions from their ivory tower perspective, sneering at...
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| 1/18/08 |
And The Winners Are …
Last weekend, Golden Globes organizers canceled the popular awards ceremony, bowing to threats from the Writers Guild to picket the red carpet. Now, it looks as if the Grammys will befall the same fate. But...
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| 11/20/07 |
The PETA Infomercial
If you opted for Monday Night Football over last night’s HBO broadcast of I Am An Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA, we don’t blame you. A pandering infomercial for animal-rights lunacy isn’t...
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| 11/7/07 |
Catching The Fat For Your Health
Popular television shows often tap into current affairs for storylines. Last night’s episode of Boston Legal was no exception. This summer, a study claimed that people could “catch” obesity in the same way they can...
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| 11/6/07 |
Fat Camp For Saint Nick?
Yesterday, anti-fat fanatic Meme Roth told Fox News that she wants America to “second guess its time-honored traditions.” And the patron saint of Christmas is at the top of her “naughty” list. Roth’s ideas, though...
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| 10/8/07 |
Pam Anderson: Wedded To PETA, Divorced From Reality
We’re willing to grant that “actress” Pamela Anderson isn’t famous because of her penetrating intellect or stunning powers of observation. But Pammy's latest public defiance of the basic rules of logic indicates that the former...
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| 6/11/07 |
The Physicians Committee's 'Heimlich Problem'
Thanks to his eponymous "maneuver," Dr. Henry Heimlich's name is among the most iconic in the medical world. He sits on the advisory board of the animal-rights Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), which named...
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