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The organization, which claims to be dedicated to the cause of animal rights, can't explain why its adoption rate is only 2.5 percent for dogs.
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The power that industrial agriculture has allows it to manipulate the rhetoric of alternative animal-based systems to its advantage.
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There's plenty of science to justify a plant-based diet, but the stories of personal transformation—curing diabetes, losing 100 pounds, living an active lifestyle—make the biggest impression.
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It's that time of the year again: In late autumn, a bunch of pieces on how hunting connects us to meat always appear -- but they're all wrong
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When Congress lifted a ban on slaughtering horses in the U.S. last week even PETA kept quiet. Here's one possible explanation.
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The Humane Society has filed a complaint alleging that Smithfield Foods, McDonald's pork supplier, stuffs its pigs in tiny gestation crates
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An unfettered demand provides technological, political, and scientific incentives to produce all varieties of meat as efficiently as possible
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In Oakland, where officials are now overseeing a zoning update for urban agriculture, interest groups are preparing for a bloody battle
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Inexpertly killed animals suffer immensely. Better to keep this ugly process confined to slaughterhouses kept at a "graceful distance."
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A look at the mindset that enables farmers to kill thousands of animals and still consider themselves happy
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Supporting small farms without addressing the pain of the slaughter perpetuates desensitization—just as factory farms do
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Factory-farmed pork is hardly an ideal food—but pigs from small farms might be more likely to make you sick
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Savoring animals used to be acceptable—but then came evolution, genetics, and the study of non-human thought
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A case for why free-range animal agriculture resembles nature only as much as pornography resembles real sex
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The problem with the sustainable food movement? It's impossible to both fetishize taste and truly save the planet.
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It turns out that the doomsday scenario du jour—in which all organic alfalfa is contaminated—is highly unlikely
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Unless you're stranded with a pig on a desert island, an animal's capacity for suffering should trump desire for a BLT
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A writer rethinks his views on free-range animals—and concludes that even if field trumps factory, we shouldn't eat them at all
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The idea of the turkey as a dimwit capable of drowning in a rainstorm is a myth. If you learn where that white meat comes from, you might find a smart and social companion.
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"Our tax dollars at work promoting Domino's"? Not quite. How the Times and Michael Pollan misinterpreted the marketing.
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