A smart aleck by the name of Foster Kamer wrote a post for Gawker.com on some alternative ways to spend you time instead of reading Jonathan Safran Foer‘s latest book, Eating Animals.
Here are just a few things Kamer says you can do besides read Jonathan’s book:
6. Eat some tacos. Pork tacos.
7. Eat some bacon (but don’t be obnoxious about it).
8. Eat a bacon cheeseburger.
Number 11 on Kamer’s list is the taker–“STFU” (Shut The (Expletive) Up).
How nice.
Eating meat must hamper your creativity skills because “burger” is way overused on the list. C’mon. Kamer could have at least branched out and said something like, “Build a model White Castle restaurant from old newspaper, then recycle it.”
At least that would have made the part time, greenie vegetarians a little happier.
Seriously, if the only way to respond to an opinion that’s different than yours is with cutesy, junior high school retorts, you had better not use that “humans can eat meat because we’re superior to animals” argument.
The number one thing to do instead of writing a nasty column on why people shouldn’t read Foer’s book?
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The recent episode of Bones that highlighted animal rights issues, The Tough Man In The Tender Chicken, contained both serious discussion and humor.
The story centered around the murder of a farmer set to inherit a factory farm.
During the episode, activities that take place in a poultry plant were shown, including the crowding of the animals and debeaking (ouch) that occurs in newborn chicks.
Written by Vegetarian Star on November 8th, 2009 in Fashion.
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Stella McCartney has been named Harper’s Bazaar Best Dressed Woman of 2009.
Stella was chosen by a panel of fashion experts that included designers Roland Mouret, Christopher Kane and Christian Louboutin, and The Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman and Lucy Yeomans, editor of Harper’s Bazaar.
“Stella articulates the values of her mother Linda, and creates sexy clothes that women want to wear. She dresses for herself and her husband – I really like that,” said Mouret.
Speaking of values, Stella’s make her the best dressed on our list too, as the vegetarian fashion designer not only refuses to wear leather and fur, but keeps these materials out of her fashion collections.
Ingrid Newkirk Photo Credit: David Shankbone on Wikimedia Commons
Al Gore recently agreed he should have spoken more about the effects of meat eating and the environment.
But that hasn’t stopped PETA Queen Ingrid Newkirk from rubbing in his lack of outspokenness and humiliation during the recent debate where he admitted his faults.
From an article at Huffingtonpost.com titled “Come On Al, Steak or the Earth?”:
“That’s why he has only himself to blame for the blows dealt him this week from the BBC’s Mr. Paxman, ABC’s Ms. Sawyer and other commentators. Yes, he’s the son of a Black Angus rancher. My father climbed mountains and went out in to the ocean in small boats during storms, but I’m not following suit. He protests that eating meat is a “personal choice” and tries to excuse his penchant for a daily steak (sometimes two, we hear from a reliable source) because he finds it “too hard” to “give up” meat? Driving a Hummer for the hell of it is a personal choice, and how hard can it be to go vegetarian when this week’s New York Times list of best-selling hardback advice books shows chef Tal Ronnen’s The Conscious Cook sitting pretty at number three and Alicia Silverstone’s The Kind Diet at number five? Both are vegan — not just vegetarian — cookbooks that I dare anyone to open without drooling. Last week, Chipotle at Dupont Circle in Washington test-marketed a Gardein vegan “chicken” burrito. It sold out almost instantly, and an emergency supply of these delicious little medallions of soy protein had to be dispatched to meet demand.”
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Jonathan Safran Foer "Eating Animals" Interview
“I spent the first 26 years of my life disliking animals. I thought of them as bothersome, dirty, unapproachably foreign, frighteningly unpredictable, and plain old unnecessary. I had a particular lack of enthusiasm for dogs—inspired, in large part, by a related fear that I inherited from my mother, which she inherited from my grandmother. As a child I would agree to go over to friends’ houses only if they confined their dogs in some other room. If a dog approached in the park, I’d become hysterical until my father hoisted me onto his shoulders. I didn’t like watching television shows that featured dogs. I didn’t understand—I disliked—people who got excited about dogs. It’s possible that I even developed a subtle prejudice against the blind. And then one day I became a person who loved dogs. I became a dog person.”
“The first full chapter of my book explores our divergent attitudes toward dogs and fish—fish being at the far end of the spectrum of our regard. I write about a simple trick that backyard astronomers use: If you are having trouble seeing something, look slightly away from it. The most light-sensitive parts of our eyes (those we need to see dim objects) are on the edges of the region we normally use for focusing. Eating animals has an invisible quality. Thinking about dogs and their relationship to the animals we eat is one way of looking askance and making something invisible visible.”
Months ago, we learned Rob would love to do a commercial for Hormel vegetarian beans and weenies.
Angelica Kitchen serves vegan food that’s a little more fancy than beans and weenies like Miso Soup, the Tempeh Reuben Sandwich, and Marinated Tofu Sandwich.
If you absolutely can’t do without your beans, there’s also a 3 bean chili.
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One Republic front man Ryan Tedder would like to teach you a little bit about birth control.
Don’t worry, this talk shouldn’t be as embarrassing as the one mom and dad had with you because it only involves your four legged children.
“I was shocked to find out that 6-8 million animals are dumped in overcrowded shelters each year,” Tedder says. “And half of them are euthanized because there aren’t enough good homes.”
Take Ryan’s advice and get your next pet from a shelter before it’s too late to apologize to the 3-4 million animals that never find homes.
