GREEN LIVING, GREEN TRAVELING
Posted in Food, Health, Veggie Revolution (co-authored with Sadie Kneidel) on Nov 26th, 2009
Tis the season to eat pecan pies, Christmas cookies, cheese sticks, and other festive goodies. Right? Just for a month or so. Then we’ll all go on diets! Diet books’ highest sales are right after the holidays. I’ve already gained a couple of pounds and it’s not even Thanksgiving yet! But after reading this study [...]
Posted in Classroom Critters and The Scientific Method, Food, Health, Sustainable Living, Sustainable choices for your home, Veggie Revolution (co-authored with Sadie Kneidel), Wildlife on Nov 25th, 2009
Readers, I like to publish this riveting article by animal-rights activist Jim Mason every Thanksgiving. It’s in honor of the millions of turkeys that will be consumed during the coming week. After reading it, you may decide to eat something else! Many thanks to my friend Jim, co-author of the landmark book Animal Factories for [...]
Posted in Animal welfare / animal rights, Book review, Classroom Critters and The Scientific Method, Environmental footprint, Food, Health, Livestock, Sustainable Living, Sustainable choices for your home, Veggie Revolution (co-authored with Sadie Kneidel), Wildlife on Nov 23rd, 2009
A book review by Sally Kneidel, PhD http://sallykneidel.com As a biologist and co-author of two books about the meat industry, I was asked by Jonathan Safran Foer’s publicist to review Foer’s new non-fiction book Eating Animals. I confess I didn’t want to read it, because the topic can be distressing. But I’m glad I did. [...]
Posted in Environmental footprint, Food, Going Green (co-authored with Sadie Kneidel), Health, Sustainable Living, Veggie Revolution (co-authored with Sadie Kneidel), Wildlife, Wildlife habitat, Wildlife survival on Nov 2nd, 2009
All photos and text by Sally Kneidel, PhD, of sallykneidel.com and veggierevolution.blogspot.com Photo by Sally Kneidel, PhD I read an article today that blew my socks off – it may be the most significant article I’ve ever read. It’s online and in the Nov/Dec 2009 print issue of Worldwatch, a publication of Worldwatch Institute – [...]
Posted in Food, Sustainable Living, Sustainable choices for your home, Veggie Revolution (co-authored with Sadie Kneidel) on Oct 17th, 2009
Story by Sally Kneidel, PhD, of sallykneidel.com The New York Times reported on October 11 that eating ground beef is still risky. Well, yes, but what’s new about that? Of course it’s still risky. Every now and then the media decide to write up something about the hazards of beef as though it were new, [...]
Posted in Food, Going Green (co-authored with Sadie Kneidel), Sustainable Living, Veggie Revolution (co-authored with Sadie Kneidel), Wildlife on Aug 24th, 2009
Text and all photos by Sally Kneidel, PhD I like Obama. Just like me, he’s tired of Smithfield and Tyson and ConAgra and all those mega food corporations running the show and fouling our food. I heard on NPR last week that, starting in 2010, the Justice and Agriculture departments will hold town meetings in [...]
