Incoherence and contradiction is the norm with our attitudes toward nonhuman animals. We are, as Rutgers University law professor Gary Francione puts it, guilty of… Read More »Hyde Park: Curing our moral schizophrenia
As un-scientific as it is, I started out reading The World in Six Songs with a bias. I had taken the author’s – Daniel Levitin… Read More »McGill Prof Levitin writes book, toots own horn
Digesting Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman
There are many theories as to why beer goes so well with barbeque. They range from the scientific (I’ve actually read that beer can absorb… Read More »All hopped up: A match made in heaven
Making the most of the meat you eat
In “Quebec dismisses fired TAs’ grievances” (News, Oct. 23), The Daily reported that some teaching assistants (TAs) were unionized in their secondary positions; in fact,… Read More »Errata
On Saturday, October 18, McGill hosted the remarkable environmentalist James Speth, Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University, as guest… Read More »Hyde Park: Improving campus sustainability
Provocative pet shop questions the relationship between man and meat
Arrivals, departures, and the transience of airport terminals
An examination of what we talk about when we talk about sex(y)
The challenges of Montreal food banks
“O death, where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory?” – 1 Corinthians 15:55 There was an article in The New York Times… Read More »Piñata diplomacy: Death is not a failure
You know that thing they tell us about “needing” to go to class? That spiel about how “actually being present” tends to make a difference?… Read More »Life lines: Running to class for a reason
Brooks, Alberta is a slaughterhouse town. The town’s largest employer, Lakeside Packers – a meat processing plant acquired by American multinational Tyson Foods in 2001… Read More »Immigrants drawn to rural meat-packing
Fed up with drawn-out negotiations, about 150 of McGill’s non-academic workers picketed outside the Roddick Gates Thursday, shouting, “solidarity” and “What do we want? A… Read More »Campus eye