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.… More »
James McWilliams is an associate professor of history at Texas State University, San Marcos, and author of Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly.
The power that industrial agriculture has allows it to manipulate the rhetoric of alternative animal-based systems to its advantage.… More »
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.… More »
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… More »
When Congress lifted a ban on slaughtering horses in the U.S. last week even PETA kept quiet. Here's one possible explanation.… More »
Expanding the Constitution to include animals that are non-human could lead us to reconsider how we treat the sentient mammals we farm… More »
The Humane Society has filed a complaint alleging that Smithfield Foods, McDonald's pork supplier, stuffs its pigs in tiny gestation crates… More »
An unfettered demand provides technological, political, and scientific incentives to produce all varieties of meat as efficiently as possible… More »
In Oakland, where officials are now overseeing a zoning update for urban agriculture, interest groups are preparing for a bloody battle… More »
Inexpertly killed animals suffer immensely. Better to keep this ugly process confined to slaughterhouses kept at a "graceful distance."… More »
A look at the mindset that enables farmers to kill thousands of animals and still consider themselves happy… More »
Supporting small farms without addressing the pain of the slaughter perpetuates desensitization—just as factory farms do… More »
Factory-farmed pork is hardly an ideal food—but pigs from small farms might be more likely to make you sick… More »
Savoring animals used to be acceptable—but then came evolution, genetics, and the study of non-human thought… More »
A case for why free-range animal agriculture resembles nature only as much as pornography resembles real sex… More »
The problem with the sustainable food movement? It's impossible to both fetishize taste and truly save the planet.… More »
It turns out that the doomsday scenario du jour—in which all organic alfalfa is contaminated—is highly unlikely… More »
Unless you're stranded with a pig on a desert island, an animal's capacity for suffering should trump desire for a BLT… More »
A writer rethinks his views on free-range animals—and concludes that even if field trumps factory, we shouldn't eat them at all… More »
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.… More »
"Our tax dollars at work promoting Domino's"? Not quite. How the Times and Michael Pollan misinterpreted the marketing.… More »
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