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Food

Review: Defy Anti–Alternative Meat Politicians With These Tasty, Pricey Ribs

Juicy Marbles' vegan ribs pull apart in a shockingly realistic way, and they taste great. But they'll also set you back $77.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 6.7.2024 6:30 AM

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Food Freedom

Public Health Researchers Float Idea of Climate-Change Warnings on Menu Items

Warning diners that red meat is bad for the environment is yet another attempt to socially engineer food choices.

Baylen Linnekin | 1.7.2023 8:30 AM

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Food Freedom

Students at Stirling University Vote To Ban Meat and Dairy Sales on Campus

The war on animal food products continues to pick up adherents in Europe.

Baylen Linnekin | 12.3.2022 8:30 AM

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Food Freedom

Lawsuits Keep Rolling Back Unconstitutional Vegan 'Meat' Bans

No one is confused about whether Tofurky is turkey.

Baylen Linnekin | 11.5.2022 8:30 AM

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Reason Roundup

Veggie 'Meat' Maker Tofurky Wins Free Speech Challenge to Food-Labeling Law

Plus: Meta's campaign to smear TikTok, new research on immigrants and welfare, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.31.2022 9:32 AM

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Food Policy

The Fake-Meat Revolution Has Stalled

Consumer trends suggest a meatless near future is increasingly unlikely.

Baylen Linnekin | 3.5.2022 7:55 AM

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Meat

More Non-Meat Choices Are Better Than Meat Taxes or Bans

More choice can decrease meat consumption without coercion of regressive taxation.

Baylen Linnekin | 2.5.2022 8:30 AM

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Fast Food

Did Burger King Tell a Whopper About Its Meatless Burger?

No, but that's not stopping a litigious vegan from making his case.

Baylen Linnekin | 12.7.2019 8:30 AM

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Technology

Can Vegetarianism Stop Climate Change?

Eating meat doesn't have as big of an impact on the environment as you've been told.

Ronald Bailey | 10.7.2019 6:00 AM

I prefer to be before meat myself, but whatever floats your boat. | Adrianadh / Dreamstime.com

Food Labeling

Mississippi Retreats on Stupid Attempts to Censor 'Veggie Burger' Labels

Nobody is being "confused" by vegetarian meat substitutes.

Scott Shackford | 9.6.2019 1:10 PM

BTW, Impossible burgers are tasty too | Lightfieldstudiosprod/Dreamstime

Meat

Why Giving Up Meat Won't Have Much of an Effect on Climate Change

Going vegetarian would reduce a person's greenhouse gas emissions by around 2 percent

Ronald Bailey | 7.29.2019 4:45 PM

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Food Freedom

Mississippi Sued for Awful 'Veggie Burger' Ban

State lawmakers granted special marketing privileges to the animal meat industry

Baylen Linnekin | 7.6.2019 8:30 AM

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Vegetarianism

Vegetarians vs. Omnivores: A Soho Forum Debate

Listen to journalist Nina Teicholz face off against David L. Katz, MD, the founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, at an event in New York City.

Todd Krainin | 5.31.2019 2:10 PM

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Vegetarianism

Are Vegetarians Healthier than Omnivores? A Soho Forum Debate

Watch journalist Nina Teicholz face off against David L. Katz, MD, the founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, at an event in New York City.

Todd Krainin | 5.29.2019 2:29 PM

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Vegetarianism

Arkansas' New Food-Labeling Law Is Veg-on-Veg Crime

As the behest of agricultural lobbies, regulators around the world are making food marketing way more complicated than it needs to be.

Baylen Linnekin | 4.13.2019 8:30 AM

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Los Angeles

L.A. City Councilman Wants to Force Movie Theaters to Sell Tofu Dogs

Creating more food waste to help the environment

Scott Shackford | 12.14.2018 2:35 PM

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Vegetarianism

Debate: Libertarians Should Be Vegetarians

Do animals have rights that humans must respect?

Michael Huemer and Daniel D'Amico | 9.26.2018 6:00 AM

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Vegetarianism

Real Men Can Eat Whatever They Want, Even a Vegetarian Diet

A new study finds vegan and vegetarian men are embarrassed about their meat-free diets. They shouldn't be.

Baylen Linnekin | 9.8.2018 7:25 AM

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Food Freedom

Is a Company's Choice To Go Vegetarian Really 'Every Libertarian's Nightmare'?

WeWork's efforts to influence employee behavior might rate as stupid, but they're not tyranny

Baylen Linnekin | 8.4.2018 8:30 AM

Large image on homepages | Aleyev Yegor/ZUMA Press/Newscom

Food Freedom

Vegetarians and Meat Eaters Are Trying to Stifle Interstate Commerce

Federal legislation may be the only solution to overreaching state laws.

Baylen Linnekin | 5.12.2018 8:30 AM

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Academia

Are Vegan Men Just Reinforcing Their White Masculine Power? A Sociologist Thinks So, But I'm Skeptical

"I find their performances of masculinity often defy the conventional feminization of meatless diets."

Robby Soave | 3.23.2018 11:10 AM

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Food Labeling

The U.S. Cattlemen's Association Has a Beef with Lab-Grown Meat

"Meat is meat, not a science project."

Kayla Stetzel | 3.2.2018 2:15 PM

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Food Labeling

Seeing Through the FDA's Soy Ploy

Why is the agency revoking a claim of soybeans' health benefits?

Baylen Linnekin | 11.4.2017 7:20 AM

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Milk

Government Must Stop Protecting Cow Milk Producers from Competition

Lawmakers try to further restrict who can use the term 'milk.'

Baylen Linnekin | 1.7.2017 8:00 AM

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Reasontv

Whole Foods' John Mackey on Veganism, Gary Johnson, and How Regulation Is Stunting Innovation

"We'll look back on the factory-farm era with the same kind of ethical revulsion that we look back on slavery."

Alexis Garcia and Nick Gillespie | 8.16.2016 3:38 PM

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Politics

Victory for Vegan Mayo

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.1.2016 12:00 PM

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Vegetarianism

Everybody Hates Vegans, More Accurate CRISPR Gene-Editing, and Welcome to the Anthropocene

A scitech research and policy round up for January 8, 2016

Ronald Bailey | 1.8.2016 10:33 AM