A few weeks ago, in The Ethicist, Ariel Kaminer asked readers of this papers Magazine to explainwhy its ethical to eat meat. The contest generated around 3,000 submissions, and as a judge I read about 30 of them. (Here arethe responses from the winner and the finalists.)

Tuesday night Richmond city leaders voted to put a special tax proposal on sodas on the November ballot.

We can slow global warming by eating fewer animal products.

When it comes to troubling aspects of his own life story, Mitt Romney has shown a tendency to dodge, weave, parse or deny in such a way that it outweighs the original offense.

[High Definition] Seinfeld- Puddy Paints His Face for The Rangers-Devils Game

Last week I was lucky enough to get to speak at the International Mole Festival in Puebla, Mexico. Why Mexico? My interview with Mexico City food writer Lesley Tllez (copied below and originally postedhere) explains a bit about my relationship with Mexico and its food. Also, be sure not to miss Lesley'srecapof the first day of the festival (look at the pictures and you'll see why I had to go)

By Ken Cook, president, Environmental Working group Here’s a simple proposition to test whether the food movement can stand up to Big Ag. We’re

Ernest Callenbachdied a few weeks ago, and I felt a tinge of sadness. I first read his semi-utopian novel Ecotopia just after it appeared in 1975, when I was living in Somerville, Mass., and working as a cab driver and editor of an erratically appearing newspaper. The early- to mid- 70s, as frivolous and lush as they might appear in hindsight what with free love, cool drugs, cheap living and all were in some ways not much different from now

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Beef Products Inc., which manufactures lean finely textured beef -- the product decried in recent months as 'pink slime' -- has announced it will shut down three of its four plants on May 25.The move comes a month and a half after the company temporarily s uspended operations at the three plants on March 25, citing a need to repair its damaged public image and regain lost business