Massive fires at factory farms and other facilities happen with disturbing regularity, often producing staggering death tolls. Our spreadsheet is the systematic first attempt to total up these numbers worldwide. While it documents nearly 5 million farm animals killed by fires since the year 2000, the true number is doubtless much higher, for three main […]
Julia Child was one of the 20th Century's most influential people on food. Plenty of smart people took her seriously
Ellen DeGeneres just brought her personal chef onto her show for a cooking demo for a vegan chicken pot pie. It’s a terrific demo. and you can tell they had a lot of fun doing it. Pie baking has always intimidated me, but after watching this, I have total confidence I could throw together one […]
There’s usually nothing I could care less about than celebrity weddings, but this one is different. Now that California allows gay marriages, Ellen DeGeneres was able to wed Portia de Rossi in Los Angeles over this past weekend. The wedding featured a vegan meal for guests, as well as a vegan wedding cake. I had […]
What Michael Jordan was to basketball, egg producers are to despicably villainous behavior. They simply've astonishing gifts in this respect
Chapter 16 Veggie Restaurants Now that we’ve looked at non-vegetarian restaurants, it’s time to consider veggie restaurants. While I don’t have much to say in this chapter, I think that what little advice I can provide here will be extremely useful. Thanks to the Internet, it’s easy to find veggie restaurants in your vicinity. There […]
Kieron B. emails me: Last night on the Biggest Loser TV show, Bob Harper, one of the show’s trainers, invited struggling contestants to his house for a meal. When they arrived he explained that the meal was vegan and this is how he eats all the time. They had four or five vegan dishes to […]
Here’s a silly but widely-read news piece blaming deforestation on—of all people—people who avoid meat.
Colin Kaepernick named the face of Nike's 30th Anniversary "Just Do It" campaign—why this decision puts Nike on the right side of history.
Absolutely shameful, and a great embarrassment to the hospitals and to McDonald’s alike. Seven of these hospitals are specifically for children, because I suppose there’s nothing like serving a Happy Meal to a four-year-old suffering from leukemia. This is the sort of list that, if adequately publicized, will force McDonald’s to withdraw from this market. […]
