Brainy Vegetarians
According to the Washington Post, kids with high IQs are more likely to become vegetarian than those with lower IQs. The article says: “Vegetarians were more likely to be female, of higher social class and better educated, but IQ was…
SaveToby.com — the Final Chapter
You may recall that I’ve blogged several times about SaveToby, the site that threatened to kill and eat Toby the cute rabbit if people didn’t donate a total of $50,000. People went bonkers about the threat to a bunny (as…
Beef with a Frank–Gershengorin v. Vienna Beef
Some observant Jews are suing Vienna Beef Hot Dog for extensively marketing that they are 100% beef (and, thus, acceptable for some Jews to eat, even if the hot dogs aren’t otherwise strictly kosher), even though allegedly the wholesale ingredients…
Eathufu.com — Was it a Scam?
You may recall that last year I blogged on a website called Eathufu.com, which offered tofu designed to taste like human flesh. At the time, I wondered if this was just a big joke. Now, a year and a half…
Dead Deep Fried Fish = Threat Level Orange?
Vermillion County, Indiana, population 17,000, is located in the country’s heartland along the Illinois border. It seems like an unlikely place to worry about homeland security. However, the county has a chemical depot that could be a terrorist target, so…
“Extortionate Destruction” and SaveToby
An article in the Yale Law & Policy Review, Saving Toby: Extortion, Blackmail, and the Right to Destroy, discusses SaveToby.com, a perennial topic on this blog. The author argues that the law doesn’t adequately inhibit threats on a bunny’s life….
Whole Foods vs. the Outpost
I maintain a page on being a vegetarian in Milwaukee. On that page, I discuss a local natural foods grocery chain, the Outpost, and the eagerly-anticipated arrival of Whole Foods. I wrote: “When Whole Foods gets here, I don’t know…
Real Firefighters Eat Tofu
A fire engine squad in Austin, TX has gone vegan. I think it’s amazing that this news item makes the NY Times. It shows just how deeply meat is ingrained in many American subcultures (including firefighters). Kudos to the crew…
Sunstein on Animal Cruelty
Cass Sunstein and Jeffrey Leslie weigh in on animal cruelty and the market for meat in the new article Animal Rights without Controversy. Predictably, they favor a disclosure-based scheme as a regulatory control, but they punt on the optimal types…
Atlanta High School Cafeteria Has Separate Vegetarian Lunch Line
Atlanta is one of my least-favorite big cities to visit because of the paucity of vegetarian options. Even food that ought to be vegetarian is usually spiked with meat. Not infrequently, I’ll hear from restaurant servers comments like “Yes, [X]…