Global Warming? It’s What’s for Dinner

Staff / Truthdig Sep 10, 2008 Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, suggested Monday that a decrease in individual meat consumption could provide the most immediate and feasible strategy for reducing the effects of global warming. In fact, only 13 percent of global greenhouse emissions come from transportation (planes, trains and automobiles), while a whopping 18 percent of the emissions come from the planet's livestock industry. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Chicken or the Egg?

Staff / Truthdig May 2, 2008 Tyson Foods was ordered by a judge Thursday to cease a false multimillion-dollar ad campaign promoting its claim that its chickens are "raised without antibiotics." The key question centers on the word raised and whether the egg stage can be considered to be outside the process of raising chickens. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Study Links Higher IQ to Vegetarianism

Staff / Truthdig Dec 15, 2006 A study emerging from Britain claims the IQs of kids who grew up to become vegetarians were an average of five points higher. There was no difference measured between full-blown vegetarians and those who ate chicken or fish (does that even count as vegetarianism?). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )