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Happy Cows Have Flat-Screen TVs

Uh, why don't they just put the cows on pasture instead of installing waterbeds and TVs? I don't get it. It's nice and all, but seems like a publicity stunt more than an effort to give your animals a good life.

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Anything at Rosewater in Park Slope

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Is Cheese Vegetarian?

As a cheese-eating vegetarian, this is something I definitely think about. My real issue with cheese, though, is the treatment of dairy cows throughout their lives. I have a bigger problem with industrial dairy operations than with small farmers who leave their cows on pasture and slaughter bull calves/adult steer to sell as beef and veal after they've led happy, healthy lives outdoors.

Cows are intelligent, complicated animals, and at most dairies they are kept chained by the neck in a barn 365 days a year, miserable and covered in manure. If you are a vegetarian because of animal rights/ethical issues, you should be eating as much pastured, (100%) grass-fed cheese as possible, in my opinion.

I suppose I've somewhat dodged your question here, but I strongly agree that, unless you are vegetarian simply for health reasons or something, people who are trying to eat ethically need to consider all the implications of their food choices.

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eggs benedict. or huevos rancheros. or an h&h bagel with cream cheese, eaten while walking through central park.

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A Bobolink Dairy raw milk original - Jean Louis. Tangy, crumbly, moist, delish.

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Cook the Book: 'Think Like a Chef'

Roasting, most definitely.

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Is Cheese Vegetarian?

fungi are spiritual??

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Taim, 22 Waverly, the best falafels in NY. The fries with aoili/safron dip is killer too. The young Israeli couple that own the place work all day & night with a great care for freshness & thus the steady flow of business. Only a few seats, but the flow is constant.

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authentic Thai @ Sripraphai in Jackson Heights is the BEST !!

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Great question! I actually third yemen cafe

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If we count New York as a stte, I'm going for Grillpoint, an excellent schwarma place in New Rochelle.

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Jaya Malaysian on Bayard St.

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Malaysian Beef Jerky on Elizabeth near Broome

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Pongsri Thai, behind the Tombs, at the corner of Baxter & Bayard.