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- Ask Joanne: Are Humans Meant to Eat Meat? - A short article that answers that vexing question, asserting that evidence of meat-eating by human ancestors is "no rational defense" for continuing the practice.
- Howard Lyman: Mad Cowboy - A US cattle rancher who won't eat meat speaks out about the ill effects of meat products on the environment and human health. Introduction by Ralph Nader, book excerpt, reviews and online purchase.
- Meat: The Recipe for Prostate Cancer - Information about the link between eating meat and prostate cancer.
- Meredith's Veggie Page - Graphic site on reasons not to eat meat and other animal rights issues.
- Beyond Beef - Long briefing kit of facts about rainforest destruction, resource depletion, global warming, world hunger, human disease, animal suffering, and the connection of those topics to meat-eating.
- Animals Suffering and Environment - Features articles on the harmful effects of meat eating and how it ultimately affects the environment cycle.
- Meat.org - Attacks the meat industry and mass production of livestock, where humane treatment is sacrificed for profit. Features a video showing how various types of livestock are treated.
- Tax Meat! - Argues that America's meat-based diet costs the country billions of dollars in health care costs and environmental destruction, so it's time for an excise tax on meat.
- The Comparative Anatomy of Eating - A comparison of carnivores, omnivores and vegetarians' from a physiological standpoint, by Milton R. Mills, M.D.
- Eating Without Killing - Examines three main reasons for becoming a vegetarian, from perspectives of health, environmental considerations and avoiding cruelty to animals.
Wikipedia Articles
- Ethics of eating meat - While some people have no ethical objections to eating certain types of animal meat, others object to the act of killing and eating an animal and/or the agricultural practices surrounding the production of meat. Reasons for objecting to the practice of killing animals for consumption may include animal rights, environmental ethics, certain religions, or an aversion to inflicting pain or ...
- Largest meat-eating dinosaur - The largest meat-eating dinosaur is Spinosaurus. Some people say its
- Meat Sweats - The Meat Sweats is a term of art in the world of competitive eating used to describe a condition that strikes certain eaters in meat-centric competitions. First identified by writer David Kreizman, the meat sweats overwhelm some gurgitators with profuse perspiration.
- Economic vegetarianism - An economic vegetarian is a person who practices vegetarianism from either the philosophical viewpoint that the consumption of meat is expensive, part of a conscious simple living strategy or just because of necessity. In the developing world, where large numbers of poor people might not be averse to eating meat, they are regularly forced to make do with vegetarian food, since meat can often be a luxury.
- Kibroth Hattaavah - ... Hebrew: קִבְרוֹת הַתַּאֲוָה) is one of the locations at which, according to the Book of Numbers, the Israelites passed through during their Exodus journey. It was at this place, according to the biblical narrative, that the Israelites loudly complained about constantly eating only manna, and that they had had a much more varied diet, of fish, vegetables, fruit, and meat, in Egypt; the text states that this lead Moses, in despair, to cry out to Yahweh, who then promised them so much meat that they would vomit it through their nostrils.