I’m like many of you, and enjoy hitting up the food options at IKEA. Price is great (50 cent hot dogs, organic whole wheat pasta with organic sauce $1.99!!!) Hard to go wrong. From the ikea.ca website: "IKEA also cares about...

exercise regularly, don’t smoke, don’t eat junk food, etc. My solution to being asked “the question” is to have a pat answer at hand. I always say something like "well, over the years, the reasons have...

they are concerned about the welfare of animals, it doesn’t seem so crazy to eat a soy product that is meant to look like meat. One also has to keep in mind that just because an individual chooses to become vegetarian...

there was a little more respect/understanding for people who take other approaches. I think it’s still better overall for the environment and animal welfare to reduce one’s meat consumption by 99 or even 50%, it...

in Brooklyn), I’m doing mostly what I can. Can you explain what labels I should be looking for when it comes to meat in the US so that I don’t feel like I’m doing a terrible job of keeping both sustainability and...

that people look at the River Cafe Green book if they can find it. It’s got gorgeous recipes for using seasonal vegetables, organized by month. We do eat meat, but a lot less of it since I became more aware of the animal...

Well said Dana. I keep seeing discussions here about meat suppliers that fail to address sustainability and animal welfare. I don’t think most people realize that the amount of fossil fuels required to produce a lot of...

Blood Farm in Groton MA (no website) raises and butchers their own hogs, also beef and occasionally lamb and goats. We’ve been buying directly from farmers as much as possible for various reasons – mainly health,...

a deal, especially when concerns about sustainability and animal and human welfare are factored in. I recently found great whole Australian grass-fed tenderloins for about $6 per pound at Shop Rite in NJ. I liked them but they...

for the individual animals but, rather, the ecosystem of the oceans in which the sharks live and the survival of the entire sets of species of sharks. It isn’t so much a question of animal welfare as it is environmental...

) chickens are of obviously superior quality, but make no “natural” or “organic” claims. “Natural” and “organic” labeling is very hazy to me. Cumbrae’s makes no...

Their website is pretty transparent "the Niman Ranch family has grown to include over 500 independent American family farmers" I’m baffled as to why anyone would be so hostile towards an improvement in nationwide animal...

ah – the old “authenticity” argument. i suppose some believe God created the heavens, the earth, the animals, and 5 authentic dishes with no origin or prior evolution. NY style pizza was invented in New York. May...

, was an animal rights thing. Your “deduction” gives Washington trade bureaucrats far more devious power than they have time or juice for. Domestic foie gras is easily available from Hudson Valley, D’Artagnan and...

have been hoping to have on social and animal welfare (over and above the environmental, energy conservation issues) ~TDQ