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• Article regarding that new KFC “doubledown” sandwich: “That is to say, a VP for McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Burger King or their ilk, someone who sits around all day trying to discover new ways to manipulate, coerce, poison, and otherwise flagrantly kill millions of humans worldwide by convincing them to eat mass-produced, industrial feedlot, chemical-blasted garbage you should not feed to your dog unless you totally hate him and want him to get heart disease and die.” 4/10/10 — This dude is sensationalist, but he’s hilarious and mostly right IMO. Read the comments for some very interesting perspectives and a lot of people calling out the writer.
• “Consumers are moving beyond the terms ‘organic’ and ‘natural’ toward broader expectations of minimal processing and general healthfulness, according to a new report from The Hartman Group.” 4/8/10
• “Federal inspections of food manufacturing facilities have declined over time, as have regulatory actions triggered by inspections, a government auditor reported on Wednesday.” 4/8/10
• Can you “be” vegan and eat oysters? This writer thinks so! “There are dozens of reasons to become a vegan, but just two should suffice: Raising animals for food 1) destroys the planet and 2) causes those animals to suffer. Factory farms are the worst offenders, but even the best-run animal operations can’t get around the fact that livestock are the largest contributors to global warming worldwide and that the same amount of land used to feed one beef-eater can feed 15 to 20 vegans. Animals are terribly inefficient machines for turning plants into food, and an inefficiency of this scale is disastrous. The animal welfare argument is even simpler: While there are limitless ways in which humans are different from nonhuman animals, one thing we share with most is the ability to feel pain. Since I consider it unethical to cause you, dear reader, undue pain, there’s no reason—other than simple preference for my own species—to have a separate standard for mammals, fish, and birds.” 4/6/10
• Ghent, Belgium isn’t alone! San Francisco now encouraging a “meat-free” day per week, too! “…the [San Franciso's] Board of Supervisors passed a nonbinding resolution declaring every Monday as “meat-free.” The resolution, sponsored by Supervisor Sophie Maxell, a vegetarian, urges restaurants, stores and schools to offer “plant-based options” every Monday to improve the general civic health.” 4/6/10
• On a green economy — “If you listen to climate scientists — and despite the relentless campaign to discredit their work, you should — it is long past time to do something about emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. If we continue with business as usual, they say, we are facing a rise in global temperatures that will be little short of apocalyptic. And to avoid that apocalypse, we have to wean our economy from the use of fossil fuels, coal above all.” 4/5/10
• On animal rights and meat sale — “A federal appeals court revived a California law Wednesday that bans the sale of pork products made from pigs that were too feeble to walk before they were slaughtered.” 4/1/10
• On doing our part — “Help fight childhood hunger at the Bread Art Project. For each upload we’ll donate $1 to Share Our Strength, the leading national organization working to end childhood hunger in America.”

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