{"id":481,"date":"2009-02-04T19:24:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T23:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=481"},"modified":"2009-02-07T19:32:14","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T23:32:14","slug":"calling-farm-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2009\/02\/calling-farm-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling Farm Animals!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"In the latest issue of the Brooklyn Rail<\/em>, I’ve got an essay<\/a> about this wonderful new organization co-led by my friend Aaron Gross called Farm Forward<\/a>. Though they’ve already done a ton of work on a shoestring budget, just last month they officially launched at the Tribeca penthouse of Alexis Stewart, daughter of Martha.<\/p>\n

What its leading lights envision is something at once quaint, radical, and practical: end the practice of factory farming that makes misery for animals and pollution for the planet on an enormous scale. They want to encourage a gentler, more sustainable kind of animal agriculture, one carried out by family farmers who live on their land and take pride in their animals. And they\u2019ve got help.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the article I explore the sensation of being around do-gooding celebrities, what they can do for animals, what Farm Forward means for the animal welfare movement.<\/p>\n

I’ve been actually quite inspired by Aaron’s work\u2014both his advocacy at Farm Forward and his scholarship in the religious studies department of UC Santa Barbara, where we met. Conversations with him and with Bryan Farrell<\/a>, who joined me at the event, have actually been leaning me toward a very modest inclination to veganism. Well, to be honest, the people really pushing me there are my mother and uncle. Stay tuned (perhaps for a long time) for their fantastic upcoming cookbook. If there’s any desire, maybe I’ll start posting recipes from it on the blog! Let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"In the latest issue of the Brooklyn Rail<\/em>, I’ve got an essay<\/a> about this wonderful new organization co-led by my friend Aaron Gross called Farm Forward<\/a>. Though they’ve already done a ton of work on a shoestring budget, just last month they officially launched at the Tribeca penthouse of Alexis Stewart, daughter of Martha.<\/p>\n

What its leading lights envision is something at once quaint, radical, and practical: end the practice of factory farming that makes misery for animals and pollution for the planet on an enormous scale. They want to encourage a gentler, more sustainable kind of animal agriculture, one carried out by family farmers who live on their land and take pride in their animals. And they\u2019ve got help.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the article I explore the sensation of being around do-gooding celebrities, what they can do for animals, what Farm Forward means for the animal welfare movement.<\/p>\n

I’ve been actually quite inspired by Aaron’s work\u2014both his advocacy at Farm Forward and his scholarship in the religious studies department of UC Santa Barbara, where we met. Conversations with him and with Bryan Farrell<\/a>, who joined me at the event, have actually been leaning me toward a very modest inclination to veganism. Well, to be honest, the people really pushing me there are my mother and uncle. Stay tuned (perhaps for a long time) for their fantastic upcoming cookbook. If there’s any desire, maybe I’ll start posting recipes from it on the blog! Let me know.<\/p>\n

Note: In the online version, currently, I am listed as the photographer. I am not. The photographer should be William Farrington.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,86,67,57,31],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-animals","tag-celebrity","tag-family","tag-health","tag-new-york-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}