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Good Talks to Jonathan Safran Foer About the Great Food Fight

Image credit: Good There are countless reasons to avoid eating meat and, since the publication of his book Eating Animals , Jonathan Safran Foer has been a popular advocate of a meat-free lifestyle. Good sat down with the author to talk about going vegetarian…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Weekday Vegetarian: A Leftover Lentil Salad

When I was first married, my mother-in-law told me not to bother serving my husband leftovers because he and his sister had always refused to eat what they called “used food”. And, in that way that only new daughters-in-law can be, I replied then he will go hungry. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Weekday Vegetarian: Healthy and Delicious Lentil Patties

Photo: Kelly Rossiter My husband and I were out of town the past weekend. He spent his days at a conference working, and I was lying around a beautiful house on Lake Erie with old friends, essentially spending the weekend overindulging. We were in a big farming community, but he got an unappetizing dinner served cafeteria style, despite the claims that dinner would be “local Ontario cuisine”, while we dined on a fantastic local flank steak,

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Weekday Vegetarian: A Farmers’ Market Spinach Pie

Photo: Kelly Rossiter We were spending the weekend with old friends and although we all enjoy cooking and expected to do a lot of it over the three days we were together, I wanted to take something that was ready to eat when we arrived. . I had lots of spinach from the farmers’ market left over from my spinach eggdrop soup , so I made a spinach pie that we could eat warm or at room temperature. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Samsung’s Newest Eco-Friendly Cell Phone Hits Stores

Samsung has been known to put out some green-minded cell phones, from the Blue Earth solar powered phone that seemed promising to the Reclaim , an inexpensive phone for the masses that carries a lighter footprint. Now, their Restore has just been released, perfect for anyone with an affinity for texting rather than talking. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Buddhist Monk’s Vegetarian Diet to Minimize Chemical Exposure

Image via: Wonderlane /Flickr Weekday vegetarians ready to ramp up their meatless-ness may find inspiration in this recently released study in Environmental Health News . For five days, 25 study participants dwelled in a Buddhist temple and adopted a monk’s lifestyle–including their oftentimes veggie… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Weekday Vegetarian: Grill Your Asparagus, Then Choose A Sauce

Photo: Emma Alter My daughter has never been a big fan of asparagus , but when I cooked it on the grill last week, she changed her mind. So this past weekend, when her best friend Julia joined us at the cottage, I grilled some more asparagus. Julia, who loves it, was surprised by the taste…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Oil Cleanup Workers Feeling Sickly – Is it the Oil, the Dispersant, Or Both?

Sick bed . Image credit: Chuck Connelly Gallery . WDSU, has a story out of Lafitte LA, in which Fishermen Report Illness From BP Chemicals . Here’s the substance of it: “The fishermen are working out in the Gulf — many of them all day, every day — to clean up the spill. They said they blame their ailments on the chemicals that BP is using.” Though the story does not come right out and say so, it seems as though they are referring to chemicals used in the

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Calf Head Stomping Dairy Farmer Exposed, Gets Charged With 12 Counts of Animal Cruelty (Video)

Scroll down for for the actual video. Be aware the ‘disturbing images’ warning at the start of it is no joke. In the midst of the all oil spill all the time coverage out there, you may have missed this truly horrific story of systematic animal cruelty perpetrated at Conklin Dairy Farms in Ohio. Mercy For Animals ran an undercover investigation into what was going on at the dairy and came away with some of the most disturbing footage … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Eve, the World’s Tallest Model

Meet Eve, also known as “Babezilla” (sure), an Australian model who is almost 7 feet tall. There is also a normal-sized model in the video if sizism is your thing. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment