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Book Review: Nourishment by Fred Provenza
The shortest line to draw between humankind and nature is what we eat. Read this book and you'll surely be convinced of that.
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This Is Why Politicians Need to Start Writing More Plant-Based Policy
According to the comprehensive, 52-source study published in Climate Policy, we have reached peak livestock. Politicians can recognize this by writing it into their climate mitigation plans for 2020.
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Book Review: Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism edited by Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey
Only then can we change human and animal lives for the better. The morality of our civilization depends on it.
Policy•5 min read
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Thanksgiving Is for Vegans, Too
Thanksgiving presents an opportunity for vegans to share their passion for food with friends and family. Vegans are turkey lovers in their own way, but they might have reservations about…
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Clean Meat: The Logical Solution to End Factory Farming
Clean meat is a relatively new idea and one that will likely be called numerous things as it grows. Some people and organizations are calling it "cultured meat," "cruelty-free meat,"…
Breakthroughs•16 min read
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YES! Prop 12 Is Now the Strongest Animal Protection Legislation in the World
Californians turned out. They voted, and they made Prop 12 happen. As they say, how goes California, so goes the nation.
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Book Review: The End of Animal Farming by Jacy Reese
There's a certain excitement that comes from measuring the moral progress of a generation: new directions, hard work, little victories. This book is a battle cry.
Food•5 min read
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Robots Won’t Fix Animal Agriculture’s Welfare Problem
Cargill's latest investments in robotics is a three-wheeled corralling robot that cost $40,000, which the company says reduces the stress of cattle. The company, very strangely, calls the robot an…
Science•5 min read
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Read This Book: Unsavory Truth
Yet another gem of food science from Marion Nestle—author of Food Politics and What to Eat—Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat (Basic 2018) explores…
Research•1 min read
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Read This Book: The Tangled Tree
All history books should start like The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life (Simon & Schuster 2019). David Quammen’s groundbreaking work sweeps across reams of real, scientific data…
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Read This Book: Pulphead
The story of "La·hwi·ne·ski: Career of an Eccentric Naturalist" from John Jeremiah Sullivan's Pulphead: Essays (FSG 2011) gives voice to the more romantic side of humankind's quest for knowledge and…
Policy•2 min read
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Read This Book: Poached
Wildlife Alliance/Flickr Journalist Rachel Love Nuwer reports from the front lines of the cruel trade of the world’s most exotic creatures in Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking…
Climate•1 min read
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Read This Book: The Ravenmaster
Tell me about the last raven you saw. How close did you get? How much did you really see? In The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens in the Tower…
Climate•1 min read
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Read This Book: How to Be a Good Creature
Do you ever think about how to be a good citizen of the world? It’s a big question, and not always a fun one to answer. Sometimes it’s easier to…
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The Meat Lobby’s Version of Dietary Recommendations
Matt Brown/Flickr A draft of the latest Dietary Recommendations for Americans said that it's healthier to eat less red and processed meat. But when the meat lobby got the word,…
Food•1 min read
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Read This Book: Genius Foods
Push Doctor/Flickr This one’s for the health nuts. In Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Harper Wave 2018), Max Lugavere approaches each…
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Read This Book: The Revolutionary Genius of Plants
Plants are good for us. Of the species we’ve discovered so far, 31,000 can be used for something other than photosynthesis and 18,000 of those have practical, medical applications. Stefano…
Climate•1 min read
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Read This Book: The Truth About Animals
Let’s talk about sloths. Lucy Cooke founded the Sloth Appreciation Society with one thought in mind: Being fast is overrated. Her book The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos,…
Climate•1 min read
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North Carolina: Petri Dish for Industry-Favoring Agricultural Laws
North Carolina has been and still is a hub for some of the most restrictive and controversial laws in the country, including those favoring the animal ag industry.
Law & Justice•8 min read
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Read This Book: The Secret Life of Cows
Did you know that cows can express social preferences? For some people, that’s as easy as saying cows have spots. But most of us have to think twice. Rosamund Young…
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Read This Book: American Wolf by Nate Blakeslee
During Wyoming's first legal wolf hunting season in 50 years, it cost just $12 to tag a wolf. Today, the wolf roams wild and (not-so) free in Nate Blakeslee’s American…
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Read This Book: Eye of the Shoal by Helen Scales
The average seafloor is about 12,000 feet below the surface. That’s 90 to 99% of Earth’s livable space, underwater. Diving even deep into the biosphere, Helen Scales’ Eye of the Shoal:…
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Read This Book: Buzz by Thor Hanson
Many of us are afraid of bees, but they help to shape our natural world.
Climate•1 min read
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Read This Book: Skeptical Vegan
Skeptical Vegan is a salt-of-the-earth story about on how it felt to grow up and one night go vegan.
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