Photo: Cheese Promotion website by the U.S. Government’s Dairy Management, Inc. In the United States, the dairy industry is intertwined with the federal government in a peculiar relationship. Milk producers and processors pay a portion of their sales revenues into a fund. The Secretary of Agriculture appoints the thirty-six-member Diary Board and the twenty-member Fluid [...]
The propaganda from the animal abusers is enormous. I mean, when was the last time you turned on tv and saw a commercial for shiitake mushrooms? People singin’ and dancin’ down the streets havin’ a good time eatin’ mushrooms? How about alfalfa spouts? Radishes? Raspberries?…You don’t see that stuff advertised on tv. What you see [...]
The vegan is acutely aware that when most people stop eating meat, they increase their egg and cheese consumption markedly. I was personally a prime example of this: it was after becoming a vegetarian, not as a meat-eater, that I could go into ecstasy over a cheddar omelette. I probably know every eatery in Chicago [...]
As many workers take this holiday Monday to relax, spend time with family, and enjoy the final days of summer, most spare no thought for those enslaved to human masters on farms around this country — those who get no holiday. Historically, animals have made up the foundation of a nation’s work force. They pulled [...]
The following essay first appeared in The Huffington Post. I’m a proud feminist, as anyone who cares about the plight of women on our planet should be. In many parts of the world, women are still treated as property. They have few, if any, rights and are subject to exploitation, indignities, and violence on a [...]
“…the production of milk and eggs involves as much cruelty and killing as meat production does: surplus cockerels and calves, as well as spent hens and cows, have been slaughtered and otherwise brutally destroyed through the ages. Historically, there have been two main solutions to the problem of unwanted bull calves: club them to death [...]
The drug Premarin is made from the urine of pregnant horses. Mares are cruelly confined and subjected to invasive procedures throughout their pregnancy only to have their colts taken away from them after birth. This perversion of the reproductive cycles of female horses produces a harmful drug that is marketed to women by convincing them [...]