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Homer on the Range

From Sophocles to Danielle Smith

The Silver Scream

On heebie-jeebies past and present

Lenore Lauri Newman

Lenore Lauri Newman directs the Food and Agriculture Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley.

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I Can’t Believe It’s Not Abattoir!

Having your steak and eating it too November 2025
In Happy Meat, four Canadian sociologists attempt to unravel the mystery of what they call the meat paradox: “the simultaneous existence of deep concern for animal welfare and the environmental harms of industrial meat production, alongside the persistent consumption of animals.” Although the authors do not oppose meat consumption, noting that they eat meat…