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The Martha Stewart show featuring Jonathan Safran Foer is now online. While talking with Jonathan, Martha says she won’t eat turkey this Thanksgiving. She also says: “you will agree with pretty much everything Jonathan writes about.

You always want to see an article by a vegan about veganism appearing in the New York Times. Unless it’s this one, published this past weekend. This godawful piece by Gary Steiner is a disaster:

Just about every school cafeteria or univeristy dining hall serves up some form of mystery meat, but did you know that sushi restaurants are often similarly guilty when it comes to fish? DNA testing has shown that items that are purportedly made of tuna commonly have very different origins.

Jonathan Safran Foer and I have been exchanging emails, and the one hesent me yesterday was too good to keep just to myself. So, with hispermission, here’s what he’s been up to this week:

Forbes just published a must-read article: one of the world’s leading biotech scientists is taking the next eighteen months away from his regular work in order to find ways to shrink the global meat industry. ...

Eating Animals looks like it’s going to be the veggie advocacy book of the decade; required reading for even halfway-serious activists.

We know within the industry that almost without exception livestock producers take good care of their animals, often placing the welfare of their cattle, hogs or sheep above their own.

Food writer Rachel Chaddock’s latest column is headlined, “Don’t avoid pork because of swine flu scare.” I couldn’t agree more. You should not avoid pork because of the swine flu ...

Once again, Mercy For Animals has converted a nightmare for animals into a nightmare for factory farmers. They got an undercover investigator hired as an employee of Country View Family Farms, which despite its homey name is owned by one of Pennsylvania’s largest pork producers.

Booyah! Deluxe! It’s the Vegan.com karma-is-a-bitch moment of the year. Sholom Rubashkin, former manager of Agriprocesors, has been found guilty of 86 of 91 counts of financial fraud. And that’s not all: next month Rubashkin faces the music on 72 immigration charges.

It’s shaping up to be a great month on Vegan.com for Robin Robertson fans. First, she created the recipes for our 2009 Thanksgiving Feast. And now, Vegan.com is giving away five—count ‘em five—copies of her latest cookbook, 1,000 Vegan Recipes.

Just as the runaway success of Eating Animals is finally pushing vegan eating into the mainstream, let me offer a big thank you to PETA for once again making vegetarians everywhere look like a bunch of fucking idiots. ...

Six weeks ago, I posted a link to a video of Rocco the cowboy appearing on Dr. Oz’ show. At the time, Rocco had one foot in the grave thanks to a lifetime of heavy meat eating.