unreasonable.org

This is an old collection of files pertaining to vegetarianism. Most of it dates to the early 1990s. In some cases the politics, or even the science, may have changed, however we're preserving the information for your browsing pleasure.

• "Fat of the Land", by Alan Durning, Worldwatch Institute. The environmental consequences of the meat-centered diet.
• 1988 version of the Position of the American Dietetic Association on vegetarianism.
• 1992 version of the Position of the American Dietetic Association on vegetarianism.
• Some interesting information about vitamin B12 and deficiency thereof2, from an old rec.food.veg thread.
• PCRM's controvertial 1992 press release on the health effects of cow's milk.
• Beef - Words to Kris Parker's rap song.
• Information about diet and osteoporosis, from an old rec.food.veg thread.
• China.study - study of Chinese diet patterns and relation to health.
• The Beyond Beef Campaign:
  • Background
  • "The Beef Diet - Prescription for Disaster", Neal Barnard.
  • "Cows Eat Better Than People Do", Walden Bello.
  • Environmental costs of beef production.
  • Beyond Beef Farm Policy, by Howard Lyman and Mark Ritchie.
  • The health effects of meat.
  • "Farm Animals: Commodities or Creatures?", by John Hoyt.
  • Beyond Beef Quotable Quotes.
  • "Cattle and the Global Environmental Crisis", Jeremy Rifkin.
• An excerpt from "Taking Stock: Animal Farming and the Environment" by Alan Durning and Holly Brough, published by the Worldwatch Institute - farming, meat-centered diets, and self sufficiency.