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The week in review

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Eating Animals

Many pieces appeared this past week about Eating Animals, the new book by Jonathan Safran Foer. There are some reviews and a few interviews. There was even a live Q and A with readers that appeared on the Washington Post website.

The Huffington Post: My Q and A With Jonathan Safran Foer

The Vegan Dietician: Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer: Some of My Favorite Reviews

On the Eating Animals forums, someone posted that he was inspired by Eating Animals to go vegan, and he chronicling his journey on his new blog: I Quit Eating Meat. Check it out and offer some support!

Striking at the Roots: The Power of Storytelling

Vegan Etsy: Eating Animals: All or Nothing or Something Else – the second chapter of the new book by Jonathan Safran Foer

The Gothamist: Jonathan Safran Foer, Author

VegDaily: Jonathan Safran Foer NYC Book Signing Packs the House…And A Punch

Washington Post: Jonathan Safran Foer on ‘Eating Animals’

Washington Post: Jonathan Safran Foer’s animal farm

Vegan.com: Jonathan Safran Foer on Martha Stewart

Geoff Nicholson in The SF Chronicle: ‘Eating Animals,’ by Jonathan Safran Foer

Pig farm investigation

There was a whole bunch of coverage around Mercy For Animals’ pig farm investigation.

Digging through the Dirt: Pig Video Too ‘Disturbing’ for Fox News

Discerning Brute: Bacon Bumption & The Pork Industry Shocker

Change.org Animal Rights Blog: Undercover at the Pig Farm: This Is Where “Bacon” Comes From

Vegan.com: Pork Industry’s Pathetic Response to MFA Investigation

And in other news…

Change.org Animal Rights Blog: Willful Slow Food Ignorance and the Pain Animals Feel

New York Times: Going Vegetarian for Thanksgiving

Glenn Gaetz in the Georgia Straight blogs: A little bit of veal is in every glass of milk

Digging through the Dirt: Game Gives Kids Distorted Glimpse of Dairy

Forbes: Drop That Burger

Change.org Animal Rights Blog: Compassionate Giving Does Not Involve Cruelty to Goats

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Reading from the past week

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Here, in no particular order (except possibly accidentally chronological) is a highlight of some of the articles I’ve read around the internet this past week. There’s a lot about Eating Animals, which I imagine will be in the news (especially animal rights news) for some time yet to come (right now it’s #49 on Amazon.ca, #51 on Amazon.com, and #14 on the NYT hardcover nonfiction bestseller list).

Enjoy!

Change.org Animal Rights Blog: Jonathan Safran Foer and Eating and Killing Animals

Vegan Soapbox: Where Jonathan Safran Foer Gets It Wrong

Vegan.com: Wall to Wall Eating Animals Coverage

The Discerning Brute: Ginnifer Goodwin stars in PSAs for Farm Sanctuary, produced by Joshua Katcher

V for Vegan: Intersectionality ‘Round the Interwebs, No. 11: Battered, Bruised & Consumed

Change.org Animal Rights Blog: The Underestimated Compassion and Understanding of Children

Huffington Post: Children’s Health And The Meat Industry

LA Times: Healthy Vegetarian Kids

Digging through the Dirt: Pigs to Get Swine-Flu Vaccine

Peta University of Utah Lab Investigation (troubling treatment of research animals, including animals purchased from local shelters.)

Animal Person: On Not Eating Animals

Animal Blawg: The Pig, The CAFO, & The Flu (Links to some great stories about pigs, plus the cutest pig picture you’ve ever seen.)

Peter Fricker: Pharmaceutical cruelty in your ham sandwich

Animal Person: On Peaceable Kingdom, Part Deux

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Tags: children, disease, eating animals, film, links, Meatless Mondays, Peaceable Kingdom, pigs, swine flu

Reading: a bunch of links from the past week

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

Here is a batch of links from the past week or so, for your reading pleasure. Sorry to get to it so late. The biggest story was probably the HSUS veal slaughterhouse investigation, but I’ve only included one link to a story about it below. I’ll try to do a recap post about that story sometime this week.

NPR: For Foer, Meat is Murder …And Worse

New Yorker review of Eating Animals

Wolves, moose and biodiversity: An unexpected connection

Hearts on Noses pig sanctuary fundraiser at Karmavore

HSUS veal slaughterhouse investigation

Poultry giant Tyson sued by the state of Oklahoma

Meat loving cowboy is still vegan

Supervegan: Does it matter that Jonathan Safran Foer isn’t vegan?

Digging through the dirt: ‘Bones’ Features Factory Farm, Slaughterhouse Footage

VegNews interview with Jonathan Safran Foer

Change.org Animal Rights blog: There Is No Such Animal as “Seafood”

Animal Place: Divine Turkey Talk

The Vegan Dietician: No Need for Vegans to Give Up Fat, Gluten, Soy or Cooked Foods

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Tags: agribusiness, chickens, eating animals, factory farming, health, Karmavore, links, nutrition, sanctuaries, vegan, wildlife

Some light reading…

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

I’ve decided I’m going to jump in on the tradition of doing a weekly “roundup” of interesting links. I’ll try to do mine on Friday evening (sorry, this time it’s Saturday), to give everyone a bunch of reading material for the weekend. If you’d like it on a different day, let me know.

Vancouver Courier: Groups call for a boycott of Petcetera

Vancouver Courier: Meatless on Monday

Better LCDs Trump an Animal’s Right to Live and Be Left Alone?

Food miles: meaningful enviro-activism or wacky nonsense? Wacky nonsense.

The Vegan Theory of Relativity

Ag Industry Calls for Prosecutions of Undercover Animal Activists

The methane makers

The Tiniest Rescues and the Building of Compassion

HSUS Investigation Uncovers Veal Calf Abuse, Closes Plant

Cooperatives Working Together to Kill Cows

There have been a whole bunch of articles by and about Jonathan Safran Foer, mostly around the publication of his new book, Eating Animals.

Eating animals is making us sick