Protein Picks for Vegetarians.
Many people today choose a vegetarian diet. Vegetarians are less likely to develop heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity, and some cancers. But it's important to plan your diet carefully so as not to cause vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Meat-free diets come in several varieties. Vegetarians eat...

News from the Fourth International Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition.
In August 2002, The Fourth International Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition was held in Loma Linda, CA. More than 400 people from over 40 different countries attended this congress to learn about recent research on vegetarianism. The proceedings of this congress were published in a 170-page supplement to the American...

Well Done: Meat and its challengers.
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, a roughage curtain has descended across Europe. In Italy, the number of vegetarians has grown from 1.5 million to 2.5 million in just the past year. Demand for beef has been in free fall across the Continent-down 75 percent...

From readers.
Where the Culture of Violence Is In his essay "Lessons of Afghanistan: Understanding the Conditions That Give Rise to Extremism" (March/April), Michael Renner lists the dangers of "social humiliation and hopelessness created by a severe lack of education and job opportunities"; "a culture of violence (that) makes...

Fast food: abstaining from chicken nuggets and burgers during Lent can teach us about caring for animals, our neighbors, and the Earth as much as it does about self-control.
I ONCE THOUGHT THAT TO BE CATHOLIC MEANT TO EAT meat. It wasn't a holiday without Mass, Polish sausage, and turkey or ham. Even my family Christmas cookie recipe's secret ingredient is lard. God gave us dominion of animals. Meat on our plate is God's delicious gift to us....

Good Carbs : good protein : good fats: which is better for your heart?
What foods belong in your fridge if you want to protect your heart (and cut your risk of diabetes and cancer at the same time)? As long as you start with a healthy core diet--heavy on the fruits and vegetables and light on the bad fats, salt,...

Against cruelty to animals.
[Review Essay: Peter Singer (ed.), In Defense of Animals. The Second Wave (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006), x + 248 pp; and Cass R. Sunstein and Martha C. Nussbaum (eds.), Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), xi + 338 pp.] Would you...

Where's the Beef?
Fake Meats Bring You the Taste--Not the Health Risk--of the Real Thing Ground round, bacon, pepperoni, deli ham ... not since the Bradys' daily roast have Americans embraced meat with such careless abandon. But flip over a package of Yves Breakfast Links or Lightlife's Smartdogs and you'll...

Effect of beef growth type on cooking loss, tenderness, and chemical composition of pasture- or feedlot-developed steers.
ABSTRACT: Steers (n = 335) of known genetic background from four fundamentally different growth types were subjected to two production systems to study differences in cooking loss (CL), tenderness, and chemical composition. Growth types were animals with genetic potential for large mature weight-late maturing (LL), intermediate mature weight-late maturing...

Buddha Hut will have you rubbing your belly with joy.
Byline: Bob Datz Many Chinese menu staples are available at Buddha Hut, yet as familiar as the entrees sound, no beast, fish or fowl is served. Without a doubt it's a cleaner Chinese meal than you're likely to lap up at the neighborhood buffet, and the flavorful...