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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.
Are consumers pushing for organic coffee inadvertently harming the environment? More »
Wanting to see how meat is killed and processed on the industrial scale, Timothy Pachirat posed as a plant worker. Here's what he saw. More »
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. More »
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 »
