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Chicks Being Ground Up Alive Video

(AP) WASHINGTON — An undercover video shot by an animal rights group at an Iowa egg hatchery shows workers discarding unwanted chicks by sending them alive into a grinder, and other chicks falling through a sorting machine to die on the factory floor.

The 10 most important nutrition stories of the last two decades

America's relationship to food and health has certainly changed in the 20 years since Cooking Light debuted.

Vegan 101: Where do vegans get their protein?

Protein is the first thing that new vegans are concerned about and the last thing they should be concerned about. All plant foods—except for fruits and fats—supply protein. Beans are the richest sources, but vegans get protein from nuts, grains and vegetables, too.

Are MDs diagnosing us into the poorhouse?

There's no question about it: When you go to a doctor nowadays, you're more likely to be diagnosed with something, and sent home with a prescription, than you were a generation ago.

Stimulus has yet to really boost GDP

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The nation's economy is starting to rebound, but the Obama administration's massive stimulus package had little to do with it.

Vegetarians Have Slightly Lower Risk of Cancer

Vegetarians and fish-eaters may be at slightly lower risk of cancer than meat-eaters, according to a new study.

How Eating Steak, Cake and Butter Can Make You Live Longer

Jenny Matthau stands in front of hundreds of students at the Natural Gourmet School and speaks heresy.

PETA Wants WellPoint to Lower Rates for Vegetarians, Raise Them for Meat-Eaters

Indianapolis -- Today, PETA dispatched a letter to Angela F. Braly, head of WellPoint, Inc., explaining how the insurance company could save millions of dollars in claims by providing its policyholders with incentives to adopt a healthy vegetarian diet.

6 (More) Reasons a Vegetarian Diet Can Help You Lose Weight, Save Money, and Save the Planet

Regular readers of Planet Green are undoubtedly aware that we're frequently recommending adopting a vegetarian diet as one of the most important steps you can take to reduce your ecological footprint.

Futuristic London Bridge Sprouts Solar Powered Vertical Farm

Recently Chetwood Architects unveiled a stunning proposal for a futuristic London Bridge that sprouts a towering vertical farm in the midst of the Thames river.

Horne wants nutrition, exercise taught

advertisement PHOENIX — State school Superintendent Tom Horne is convinced that most teens don't know why fruit is better for you than french fries, and why vigorous exercise is healthier than video games. So he wants schools to teach them.

Vegetarian diet linked to weaker bones

Vegetarians have been found to have slightly weaker bones than meat-eaters, Australian researchers announced Thursday. ..."But the magnitude of the association is clinically insignificant," he added.

35 responses we've all heard when we mention we're vegetarian.

Our grandparents, parents, siblings and friends may roll their eyes when we tell them we can't eat what's in front of us. We stick hard to our principles, but many people don't understand that.

An Appetizing Reason to Take a Flexible Stance on Vegetarianism

A Five Guys cheeseburger. That's about all that stands between me and a vegetarian diet.

Raw Creamy Zucchini Pasta

This raw, creamy pasta dish uses thinly-shredded squash and zucchini instead of grain-based pasta. It is amazingly delicious – and as a pasta-lover, I was happily surprised by how much I loved it!

Against Intellectual Monopoly

At a taped video interview in my office, before the crew would start the camera, a man had to remove my Picasso prints from the wall. The prints are probably under copyright, they said. But the guy who drew them died 30 years ago. Besides, they are mine.

Kids and Food II: When Junior Is a Vegetarian

When I was 11, the day after Thanksgiving, I decided to become a vegetarian. I was (and still am) a big animal lover and in a youthful stroke, I decided to quit meat, well, cold turkey. For more than two decades, including through pregnancy, I've happily remained a vegetarian.

Does "Depression Economics" Change the Rules?

Daily Article by Robert P. Murphy | Posted on 1/12/2009 12:00:00 AM

Windows 7 Reviews Mixed On Pirate Bay

An early version of Windows 7, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s successor to the widely maligned Vista operating system, is drawing mixed reviews from users of a popular, though legally questionable, file-sharing site.

Evil Christmas cards, Gay Christmas cards, Atheist Christmas cards

After Andrew Shaffer graduated from the University of Iowa with a master of business administration degree, he said he was looking for a business concept that was "something people didn't already do." Advertisement

Atheists' lunacy can't be blamed on the governor

O'Reilly's outrage was focused on a plaque mounted in the state Capitol Building and sponsored by the self-styled Freedom From Religion Foundation, a national group for atheists and agnostics.

FDIC lays out broad home loan modification plan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The federal agency that insures most U.S. bank deposits unveiled a plan to prevent about 1.5 million home mortgage foreclosures by promising to share any losses with mortgage companies that agree to refinance certain home loans.

The new vegetarianism: introducing the flexitarian

I've been a vegetarian ever since I was about 11 years old, when I went to a farm and saw where all the meat came from," says 27-year-old mother-of-two Polly Eason. "Nowadays, I just eat organic, free-range meat once or twice a week."

Investor Bank Regulation

I am pleased to have this opportunity to address the question of regulation and its role in the current financial crisis. There are cases where regulation is necessary, and cases where it is harmful.

Bank Loans Have Not 'Dried Up'

On CNBC Monday, Democrat majority leader Steny Hoyer said the objective of the rescue package is to "unlock the credit" for consumers and business. And a Wall Street Journal editorial writer told CNBC, "Until we get the banks lending again, the economy will continue to contract."

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