- I know Mark Bittman’s “vegan until six” plan can help convince a lot of people who otherwise wouldn’t to skip animal products for at least two meals a day. So then why does he follow up Food Matters with yet more recipes—for breakfast!—that are chockful of meat and dairy? Adding insult to injury, he now says, “It’s beyond being a vegan; it’s being a vegan-plus.” WTF?
- Farm Sanctuary is encouraging people to hold screenings of Our Daily Bread, a narrative-free succession of images illuminating the horrors of factory farming and agribusiness. (If you’re nearby, there will be a screening at the Indianapolis Museum of Art on March 20.) Sounds like a good idea; I still haven’t been able to bring myself to watch my DVD of Earthlings on my own.
- Also on March 20 but within subway distance, there will be a screening of Blinders, about the abuses of the horse-drawn carriage industry. The 7pm showing at Village East Cinemas will be followed by a Q&A with director Donny Moss. Buy advance tickets here.
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chrisjs
on #Yes Mark Bittman is full of it. He came up with some plan that worked for him, found a bunch of info to back it up, then arbitrarily drew conclusions from that data.
I saw him talk in Philly a few weeks ago. He said unless you have some “deep personal reasons” for being vegetarian there’s absolutely no reason to do it. Apparently all his arguments about health, animal welfare, global warming, etc that he uses to justify what he’s doing goes out the window at 6pm because it’s convenient.