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05/17/2012
Paul Shapiro presents: Is pork the new veal? »
It’s Paul Shapiro’s Animal News You Can Use! Yay!
Denny’s became the latest national food retailer to send shockwaves through the pork sector by jointly announcing with HSUS that it’s going to phase out pork from gestation crate confinement operations. Amazingly, the pork industry’s leaders still defend this archaic practice, leading to the question: Is pork becoming the new veal?
The latest HSUS gestation crate undercover investigation made headlines across the nation. While there are too many pieces to enumerate here, this Forbes story on it was particularly interesting. (And about a quarter million people have watched the video online in the first week since release.)
The NY Times’ Mark Bittman has a potent piece asserting that if you care about climate change, you really ought to be eating fewer animals. Check it out.
Video of the week: I’ve never wanted an iPad as much as now.
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Bonus article of interest: Did you know cockroaches “form closely bonded, egalitarian societies, based on social structures and rules”? I didn’t either.
∞ posted at 09:47 by seriousmeaveness 
09/02/2010
» Costco "bans" crated veal
Hooray?
I mean, every step is a good step. Unless it’s towards eating a BABY ANIMAL. It’s great that Costco at least acknowledges that the way 99 percent of veal is raised in this country is Slit Your Wrists City, Population: Me, but I find it hard to cheer when people are still butchering BABY ANIMALS so that they can have one mediocre meal. I mean, who the fuck buys veal at Costco anyway?? Who needs value packs of DEAD BABY ANIMAL? This kinda reminds me of when Denny’s in Japan started serving Foie Gras. Move over, Scrooge McDuck. The proletariat want their fancified dead animal too!
Oh well, at least Denny’s is serving a vegan burger now.
∞ posted at 11:31 by laurahooperb 
12/17/2009
Foie gras at Denny’s in Japan. I’m so confused, didn’t Denny’s recently try to update their image to emulate that of a ’50s American diner?? It’s no surprise that Japan would be all over that insanity, but the real question is, WTF would foie gras be doing on the menu of an American diner in the 1950s!?
It’s the inconsistency that kills me, friends.
Further, puke.
∞ posted at 08:49 by laurahooperb
