Posts Tagged ‘vegans’

New York Times to Vegans: Plants Don’t Want to Be Eaten, Either!

Y&H will try to ignore the Times' annoying habit of making every story they publish sound like the first word on the subject. After all, as revealing as Natalie Angier's report is, it still follows the more groundbreaking work of writers like Michael Pollan and Jeffrey Steingarten (whose somewhat tongue-in-cheek essay, "Salad the Silent Killer," [...]

PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk Wants to Be Barbecued Upon Death

Ingrid Newkirk is the founder of PETA, the animal rights organization known for exposing skin to save animal hides. Newkirk's latest attention-grabbing gimmick is to turn her will into a final statement about animal cruelty and meat-eating. Among the "suggested directions" of her will: That the “meat” of my body, or a portion thereof, be [...]