1) I do not like Julia Roberts.

It's not "Athenacus," it's "Athenaeus."

A burqa is totally fair game to take up as an object of discussion, which is what she is doing. I'm not a Lady Gaga fan, but anyone has the right to weigh in, artistically or critically, on something a lot of people are talking about all around the world, especially one which has just as many unwilling users as happy…

First, there really is no such thing as humanely raised animals. On chicken farms, male chicks are killed at birth, or raised for meat in battery cages at other facilities. Hens' laying productivity declines dramatically when they are only at about a third of their lifespan, and then even the most "humane" producers…

"But our ability to not understand allows this world to exist. Because if we understood it and lived it, we would have changed it by now."

This doesn't surprise me at all. The only way for a kid to have a good relationship with food is to live with adults who model a good relationship with food. I never told my kid what to eat or what not to eat or that he had to try stuff. Instead, he sees me and my husband wolfing down fruit and vegetables, and we…

I don't know about Lululemon, and I don't buy their stuff, but I started just going ahead and shelling out that $70 for shirts from responsible manufacturers when I realized that it was people like me shopping at Target and Old Navy that meant Bangladeshis dying in craphole factories. Don't just pay more to pay more,…

Bagged salads are an atrocity- the producers destroy wildlife habitat to try and grow them away from possibly contaminants, they waste water with extra washing, and the results still aren't safer than non-bagged greens. Just buy and wash your own greens.

I really did not think there was anyone out there who still believed the ridiculous and utterly unfounded myth that chickens or turkeys could drown in rain. Congratulations; you are both stupider than chickens, and by a wide margin.

The movie isn't advocating that no animals be kept in appropriate zoos or aquariums; it's saying that the shows are cruel and wrong. There are plenty of people who think zoos are wrong too, but the wrongness of the shows is equivalent to the wrongness of circuses; it's horrible maltreatment of animals.

In Britain there is also much more awareness of how badly alcohol consumption contributes to the likelihood of developing breast cancer. Sure, a glass here or there is good for your heart, but there are a lot of other things, like exercise and cutting out meat, that are good for your heart and don't up your chances…

B12 is in everything these days, and that kid is only vegetarian. Only vegans have to worry about b12...except that they don't because it is ridiculously easy to supplement, and tons of foods are fortified with it. I have been vegetarian for 25 years, and vegan for half a decade, and my B12 is tested regularly and…

I'm vegan and my husband demanded, before we had a kid that I promise not to raise him vegetarian. I agreed to this, but I was SO relieved when my kid went vegetarian on his own account when he was three. Now he's a teenager, working on going vegan, and my husband is dead of a cancer strongly linked to heavy meat…

I love it! He's adorable. I mean, she's adorable.

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That's what pedophiles say about child porn. If you can look at that beautiful little creature and think it would be ok for you to use its flesh to give yourself a fleeting moment of pleasure, then you are really no different than a child molester or a rapist.

Seems kind of wrong to me. It's like a man looking at a woman and thinking he'd like to use her body without her consent.

Anyone who gets a backyard chicken because they think it is a kinder way to still eat eggs has never bothered to educate themselves about where those hen-chicks come from: they come from hideous industrialized hatcheries where the laying hens suffer horribly and the male chicks are thrown alive into grinders second…

All cheese is disgusting. All cheese is bad for you. All cheese is unspeakably cruel to the newborn calves who are dragged away from their mothers and crated up to become veal. If you eat cheese, you are inflicting suffering on innocent animals, and future ill-health upon yourself.

The technology is just a technology, and it unquestionably can offer us great things, but when American corporations do it, they are not doing it to save people from blindness or increase the nutritional content of foods, they are doing it to allow them to cover the food in pesticide, or to have it grow much faster,…