food
For the love of all that is good...
If I had a list of wishes, pretty high up would be that people realize that Whole Foods Market... well... sucks.
Here are a few reasons to avoid them and support your local grocer instead (if you're lucky enough to have one, that is):
Whole Foods violates their workers' rights to unionize,... Read more »
Skinny Bitching
Last week I was on a radio program to discuss Skinny Bitch, the vegan/animal rights manifesto wrapped in chick-lit veneer that became a bestseller after Posh Spice was photographed holding it.
Yep, thanks largely to this photo, Skinny Bitch has become one of the only books with an uncompromising... Read more »
Check out our very own Ms. Rasmussen...
Quoted in the New York Times about the hateful Skinny Bitch vegan "health" book phenom. Cheers to reporter Julia Moskin for including Debbie's critical viewpoint—that skinny and healthy are not the same, and vegan junk food is still junk, that these books stop short of the challenge to our... Read more »
Is Mercury in retrograde?
I'd been looking forward to interviewing vegan author Isa Chandra Moskowitz all week. We met up at the Vox café in Brooklyn.
But the technical problems persisted. I'd given up on the mini-disc recorder and borrowed a friend's cassette recorder. I'd also asked Isa to bring a recording mechanism in... Read more »
Beauty and the Feast: The Cosmetic Industry's Female Feeding Frenzy
The first thing you see is food. a breastlike dome of cake towers at the top of the ad, frosted pink with a raspberry on top. "It's like dessert for your legs," declares the text, and just in case this copy wasn't clear, below it a pair of cellulite-free gams balances a bottle of Skintimate After-... Read more »
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