Christopher X J. Jensen
Associate Professor, Pratt Institute

Vegans and the Quest for Sanity

Posted 14 Aug 2010 / 3

In a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article entitled “Vegans and the Quest for Purity”, Harold Fromm attempts to paint veganism as an inconsistent, unnecessary, and downright annoying movement. As a long-time vegan and trained ecologist, I feel the need to respond to some of his strange claims. I became a vegetarian in 1989 and Read More

Ecology, Sustainability, Vegetarianism

Changing and not changing the way we use our agricultural land

Posted 03 Jun 2009 / 0

A few years ago when I was still a graduate student in Stony Brook University’s Department of Ecology and Evolution, a group of us formed a reading group with the ambitious moniker “Social Policy and Global Progress”. Our ambitions in forming the group were clear: we wanted to ground our understanding of ecology and evolution Read More

A Major Post, Climate Change, Ecology, Food, Hunger, Public Policy, Sustainability, Vegetarianism
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