November 11th, 2009 by Savvy Veg
Excerpt from article published 11.11.09 by Huffington Post …I wonder if more of the difficulty doesn’t come from the ways that we talk and think about change. When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not. It’s a strange formulation, and it’s distracting. [...]
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May 19th, 2009 by Savvy Veg
EU: City of Ghent Goes Veg One Day A Week To Lose Weight and Save The Planet Day of the Lentil Burgers: Ian Traynor, Guardian, UK, May 14 2009 On the eve of what is being touted as an unprecedented exercise, the biggest queue in the Flemish university town of 200,000 yesterday was for signatures [...]
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April 2nd, 2009 by Savvy Veg
If you or someone you know is still on the fence about eating meat, here’s something I found on International Vegetarian Union (IVU) News to help tip them over on the veggie side. Dr R.K. Pachauri is head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He is also [...]
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January 5th, 2009 by Savvy Veg
Comments on articles about global warming & sustainable eco-ag in CommonDreams.org by Bill McKibbon, Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson Bill McKibben is the author of ‘Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future’, scholar in residence at Middlebury College, and cofounder of 350.org. He shoots down a half dozen common delusions about global warming [...]
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Tags: animal welfare, biodiversity, change, environmentalist, global warming, Jonathon Safran Foer, meat, quitting meat, vegetarian
