USA Today reports that dozens of Muslim workers were fired at two JBS Swift & Co. meatpacking plants after the workers protested that break schedules at the plants did not permit them to observe their daily prayer rituals. The firings...
The New York Times had a front-page story Sunday about the widening investigation of employment practices at Agriprocessors Inc. of Postville, Iowa, the nation's largest kosher meat processing plant. Immigration agents raided the plant in May, rounding up 389 workers...
In this column for National Catholic Reporter, the Rev. John Dear, Jesuit priest, peace activist and, it turns out, dedicated vegetarian, writes about the moral implications of a diet based on consumption of meat. Every year, he says, 760 million...
Mass arrests at the country's largest kosher slaughterhouse could imperil kosher meat supplies, The Washington Post reports. Here's the story. The AgriProcessors Inc. plant in Postville, Iowa, was raided by immigration officials, who arrested 400 people -- half the plant's...
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is making the offer in hopes of finding "a breakthrough that will mean a far kinder world for animals." Here's the Associated Press story, from USA Today. The meat would be grown in...
This is funny: last night, I had my first dream of eating meat since the fast began. I dreamed I had sneaked into a mansion somewhere, and was hungrily gobbling bacon and sliced roast beef that had been left out...
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