Month: May 2009
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Save Paste Magazine
I’m a great fan of Paste Magazine, and subscribe as a Paste Digital VIP. I’d thought of Paste as one of the success stories of publishing online – as they made the transition to download for samplers rather than the physical CD – and as they started to offer a premium model (VIP) online, sell…
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Two New Vegan Blogs
Two well known folks in the animal rights / vegan community have launched new blogs – check them out and subscribe! First, Erik Marcus, who you likely know as the person behind Vegan.com, as well as the author of Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating, Meat Market: Animals, Ethic, and Money, and The Ultimate Vegan…
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Save that One, Screw the Rest?
It never ceases to amaze me how, when one cow (or goat, or pig, or chicken, or turkey) escapes from the slaughterhouse, the public at large want to save him/her, but then don’t recognize how their own eating habits put said animal in that position in the first place. This week, Molly (so named by…
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Antibiotics usage in Factory Farming
Interesting that this appeared in the Huffington Post just before the H1N1 stories starting popping up: Enemies of the People, by Carl Pope. In it, he describes the efforts of Louise Slaughter (we’ll ignore the irony of her name) to pass legislation in congress to “ban the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in livestock.” The issue?…
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Swine Flu and Factory Farming
As H1N1, aka the flu formerly known as swine flu, aka “The Other White Death,” continues to dominate the public media, it’s important to recognize the contribution factory farming (and animal agriculture in general) makes to these superviruses. Here’s video from CNN with Dr. Michael Greger from the HSUS: Embedded video from CNN Video Related…
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Film Screening: Seeing Through the Fence
(Guess it’s BVS week here at Goatless) This Tuesday, May 12th, the Boston Vegetarian Society is hosting a screening of Seeing Through the Fence, a film by Eleni Vlachos (who blogs at Binge Cafe), including a pre-screening vegan buffet with the the filmmaker herself.
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Save the Date: Boston Vegetarian Food Festival
The Boston Vegetarian Food Festival (truly it’s almost entirely a vegan food festival – though each year it seems at least one vendor manages to push the edge of that definition) is an experience not to be missed: tons of organizations and activists to meet, loads of new companies and products to discover, a wealth…