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Oprah, veganism, and the real inconvenient truth

It’s been a happy birthday so far. I admit I really appreciate Facebook, which I didn’t have for my last birthday — all the kind notes showing up on my “wall” make me very happy. The vegan world has...

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Cruelty-free means humans too: some thoughts on a more holistic veganism

On some feminist blogs, there’s been good discussion about veganism and larger issues of race and class. Here’s Elle, BFP, and BFP again. The last of these posts deals with the much-ballyhooed...

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Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, 1949-2008

I’m in Europe still, but breaking hiatus to express my great shock and sadness at the death yesterday of Ohio Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs-Jones. Tubbs-Jones died suddenly following a brain...

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“Vegan slips”

My friend Bill sends me an interesting email: Have you ever had a ‘vegan slip’? Eaten meat or animal products only because you couldn’t resist them? Do you think it might be interesting to see if...

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Obeisance to Big Ag dressed up as personal liberation from body fascism: how...

I’ll admit that it isn’t easy to be a vegan and an animal rights activist on one hand, and an advocate against eating disorders on the other. Obviously, these commitments should be compatible, as the...

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Oprah, weight, hubris, humility: on addictions we overcome, and the...

Oprah Winfrey announced this week that she’s deeply “embarrassed” at having put on more than forty pounds in the past two years. Our nation’s most public and beloved yo-yo dieter, Oprah has been...

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Of food and sex, and how Mary Eberstadt gets both history and ethics quite wrong

Lots of folks in the right-wing blogosphere are excited about this lengthy piece by Mary Eberstadt: Is Food the New Sex? It appears on the Hoover Institution’s website as part of their “Policy Review”...

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Apples and appetite: on anorexia and western faith

For the first time since Spring 2008, I’m teaching my “Beauty and the Body in the Euro-American Tradition” course. For the past decade or so, I’ve had a fairly predictable schedule. Each semester, I...

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Five thoughts on food

Jill at Feministe had a fascinating post about food, cruelty, and justice yesterday, responding to this welcome Mark Bittman op-ed in the New York Times. Read both, and if you’ve got time, read the...

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Food, faith, and fashion: an article in the Fuller Semi

A few weeks ago, I wrote a short piece for Relevant, a Christian magazine, on Beauty and Sexuality. The same day it went up, the editor of Fuller Theological Seminary’s student magazine asked me for a...

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