Recent surveys about why people have stopped eating meat seem to document a dramatic shift in popular opinion toward animal foods. But upon closer examination … no, they really don’t.
With the apparent entry of one of the nation’s largest meat and poultry marketers to the alt-meat category, products once considered marginal are going mainstream.
Animal rights activists, veganistas and eco-warriors have coalesced on the message that raising livestock and eating meat is unhealthy and unethical. Guess what? So’s the alternative.
Partisan views once considered too crazy to be seriously debated now occupy the mainstream in public discourse — especially mistaken ideas about who benefits from government programs.
While media lavishes praise on the high-tech supporting alt-meat R&D, the cheerleaders hungry for vegan alternatives are ignoring the real threat its emergence presents.
It’s a popular conceit to depict Stone Age people as little more than tribes of ignorant brutes. But a closer look at how they lived reveals that in some ways, their ‘lifestyles’ were superior to ours.
Newsflash: According to a brand-new study, ‘high cheese’ isn’t just for fastballs anymore. Now it’s the latest recommendation to protect against the ill effects of diets too high in sodium.
