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PETA's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad History of Killing Animals Reuters

PETA's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad History of Killing Animals

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.

Meat: What Big Agriculture and the Ethical Butcher Have in Common Shutterstock

Meat: What Big Agriculture and the Ethical Butcher Have in Common

The power that industrial agriculture has allows it to manipulate the rhetoric of alternative animal-based systems to its advantage.

The Evidence for a Vegan Diet Shutterstock

The Evidence for a Vegan Diet

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.

Hunting for Euphemisms: How We Trick Ourselves to Excuse Killing Shutterstock

Hunting for Euphemisms: How We Trick Ourselves to Excuse Killing

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

The Empathy Test: Why Nobody Cares About Horse Slaughter Creative Commons

The Empathy Test: Why Nobody Cares About Horse Slaughter

When Congress lifted a ban on slaughtering horses in the U.S. last week even PETA kept quiet. Here's one possible explanation.

McFib? The Conditions at McDonald's McRib Pork Supplier Wikimedia Commons

McFib? The Conditions at McDonald's McRib Pork Supplier

The Humane Society has filed a complaint alleging that Smithfield Foods, McDonald's pork supplier, stuffs its pigs in tiny gestation crates

Only When Meat Is Stigmatized Will Factory Farms Stop Thriving Shutterstock

Only When Meat Is Stigmatized Will Factory Farms Stop Thriving

An unfettered demand provides technological, political, and scientific incentives to produce all varieties of meat as efficiently as possible

Should Urban Farmers Be Allowed to Slaughter Backyard Animals? redjar/Flickr

Should Urban Farmers Be Allowed to Slaughter Backyard Animals?

In Oakland, where officials are now overseeing a zoning update for urban agriculture, interest groups are preparing for a bloody battle

The Locavore Movement's Mistake: Deregulating Animal Slaughter REUTERS

The Locavore Movement's Mistake: Deregulating Animal Slaughter

Inexpertly killed animals suffer immensely. Better to keep this ugly process confined to slaughterhouses kept at a "graceful distance."

The Dangerous Psychology of Factory Farming jon smith 'una nos lucror'/flickr

The Dangerous Psychology of Factory Farming

A look at the mindset that enables farmers to kill thousands of animals and still consider themselves happy

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