I’ve written about Baltimore adopting Meatless Mondays in the public schools. Happily, other institutions are taking notice. Five colleges now have some sort of program to promote meatless Mondays. They all implement the program in different ways. The University of California, Santa Barbara is removing all meat from one cafeteria and beef from all three [...]
Yesterday I watched the first two episodes of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can watch it on Hulu for free. Although I obviously don’t agree with Jamie’s meat eating ways, he is passionate about the health of children and shows the reality of what much of this country eats. [...]
Help PCRM stop the Tulane University School of Medicine from using anesthetized live pigs as objects for their training. Once the training session is complete, the pigs are killed. Only 5% of schools are using this method of teaching in this type of course. PCRM is asking everyone to call/email and ask the Tulane University [...]
They are totally destructive and only good for one use. I stopped using disposable water bottles years ago. In fact, I won’t buy any drink that’s kept in a plastic bottle. I use my reusable BPA free new Sigg bottle. If I forget my Sigg, I will by a beverage in a glass bottle because [...]
As I mentioned last week, Fridays are now a day when I will post a take action. This weeks issue is about nine chimps. This group of Chimps have been used in the past for cognitive research. The study involving them has ended. They are being held at University of Louisiana-Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Center [...]
I am certainly not a fan of hunting. However, not all kinds of hunting are the same. Internet hunts and canned hunts are in a class all their own. What do those terms mean? The practice of killing animals remotely via the Internet and the abhorrent practice of shooting confined, tame, exotic animals in an [...]
The Japanese restaurant Uo in NYC serves a traditional Japanese dish, live sashimi. And when I say live, that’s exactly what I mean. Every Tuesday night – yes, today is Tuesday – chef David Bouhadana stuns the fish, slices them open and serves them to diners while the animal’s heart is still beating. Let me [...]
Mercy for Animals just released footage of their latest investigation. What’s the topic? Dairy farms. ABC gave them great coverage showing the inhumane treatment of dairy cows. I normally avoid the video…it’s too hard to watch but this, because it was on primetime gets the point across without spiraling a person into a state of [...]
Plastic serves many purposes. It keeps our food fresh. It’s convenient. It’s light weight and strong. We all know that plastic has changed the way we live our lives but I don’t think enough attention is given to the fact that we have also changed the lives of animals in devastating ways. The problem is [...]
There is a big conference on climate change coming up in Copenhagen. Lots of world leaders are attending, including I believe, ours. Cap and trade is talked about as the solution for our climate issues. However, a new video by the same people who made “The Story of Stuff” (a fab resource) shows us that [...]
