Articles by Kiera Butler
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Are Auto Makers Still Killing the Electric Car? The Electric Car Strikes Back?
Kiera Butler – Mother Jones,
2 May 2011
The director of Who Killed the Electric Car? on his new film, his personal fleet, and why he thinks EVs are ready to rise from the dead.
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Kiera Butler – Mother Jones,
26 Jul 2010
A lifelong vegetarian eats her first hamburger—to find out the truth.
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Kiera Butler – Mother Jones,
28 Jun 2010
Whether you’re a burger lover or a strict vegetarian (I’m somewhere in the middle—more on this in the July/August 2010 issue of Mother Jones), you’ve probably heard that too much meat is definitely not a good thing. Most recently, researchers have linked overconsumption of red meat with early puberty in girls: A University of Brighton study found this month that about half of UK girls who ate 12 or more servings of meat each week at age seven had started their periods by age twelve and a half, compared to about a third of those who ate fewer than four servings. Worrisome, since some research suggests that girls who go through puberty early are at greater risk for breast cancer.
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