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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.
- Wok the Dog - What's wrong with eating man's best friend? - Essay by William Saletan. Addresses primarily the eating of dog in South Korea.
- Dog Meat - Eating French - Brief historical accounts of dog eating in Europe, mainly during times of famine or war.
- The Yale Herald - Eating dogs a matter of culture, tolerance - Essay in response to World Cup soccer news that Koreans eat dog.
- Dog Brutality - Protests the legalization of dog meat in South Korea. Online petition, articles, and ways to help end this practice.
- Animalfreedom.org - Eating dogs: animal abuse or cultural gap? - A Korean comments on the action 'Stop the dog-meat trade in Korea.'
- VegFam Feeding the World - A factsheet on food production arguing that grain should be used to feed people instead of livestock.
- Anti-Dog Meat Movement Headquarters - Provides information and links about dog meat in Asia, petitions, ways to help, gallery of photos, and a mailing list.
- Bird in Hand - Device and instructions for training birds to eat from a human hand. For a variety of species, including hummingbirds.
- Vegetarianism Against World Hunger - Paraphrased quote from Peter Singer's Animal Liberation which argues that meat production is inefficient use of grain.
Wikipedia Articles
- Cannibal (disambiguation) - Cannibal usually refers to cannibalism, the act or practice of eating members of one's own species and usually refers to humans eating other humans. Cannibalism is very gross and invovles eating other humans while their alive.
- Food groups - The food groups are part of a method of classification for the various foods that humans consume in their everyday lives, based on the nutritional properties of these types of foods and their location in a hierarchy of nutrition. Eating certain amounts and proportions of foods from the different categories is recommended by most guides to healthy eating as one of the most important ways to achieve a healthy lifestyle through diet.
- Exocannibalism - Exocannibalism (from Greek Exo-, "from outside" and Cannibalism, 'to eat humans'), as opposed to endocannibalism is the practice of eating human corpses, most notably their flesh and some organs such as the heart, from people outside one's own community, tribe or social group. Generally it takes the form of ceremonial sacrifices or the ritual consumption of the rival's flesh in order to absorb their vitality ...
- Natural transfer hypothesis - The natural transfer hypothesis, in reference to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, states that humans first received HIV by contact with or the eating of or sexual contact with primates and becoming contaminated with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV). The contrasting hypothesis is the oral polio vaccine (OPV) AIDS hypothesis.
- Ship of Fools (painting) - Ship of Fools (painted c. 1490–1500) is a painting by Hieronymus Bosch, which shows prodigal humans wasting their lives by playing cards, drinking, flirting, eating, etc.