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Guest book review: Veganist by Kathy Freston!
Veganist: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Change the World came out last year and spurred several notable Kathy Freston appearances on major talk shows, including Oprah, Martha, and Ellen (my fave, duh. I LOVE YOU ELLEN!!). Surprisingly, it didn’t make the VegNews list of 2010’s most influential non-cookbook books and frankly, that’s a mistake. However, its message is not abolitionist,...
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German fox cub on a slide!
Ever wonder what a four-month-old fox cub gets up to when Mom’s not looking? Taken in Bursfelde, Germany by Duncan Usher, the photo above captures our foxy friend mid-ride as he and a pal made use of an old conveyor belt situated in an abandoned gravel mine.
The fox thinks it’s people! It’s the cutest thing in the world, right? Right.
[image by Duncan Usher via the Daily...
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Does a body REALLY FREAKING BAD, GUYS
A team of Spanish and Moroccan scientists analyzed 20 samples of cow’s milk using the most highly sensitive test of its kind, and discovered they contained 20 different painkillers, antibiotics and growth hormones. WTF?! You heard right: The results, which were published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, showed that cow’s milk contained traces of anti-inflammatory...
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Men's Vegan Dress Shoe Round-up: Step Up Your...
Hello friends! I’ve been meaning to do a men’s dress shoe round-up for like ever but I totally forgot because HELLO I DO HAVE A LIFE. Just kidding, I was busy watching hulu. But then twitterer @Midnighthaircut reminded me, so here we go!
From Alternative Outfitters, we have the men’s Frey loafer in brown!:
Sorry, Cally is unavailable for comment so you will just have to go...
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Vegan deviled eggs? Don't mind if I do!
My roommate Crystal Paul and I, as the charming and charismatic hostesses/brilliant chefs we are, can usually be found throwing parties at our apartment. She’s great at finding amazing vegan recipes online, then making them a delicious reality. The last party was a Mad Men-inspired cocktail/vegan hors d’œuvres rager; elegant debauchery at its finest.
Crystal’s deviled eggs!...
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WatchBaby elephants playing soccer?! Hold the mother-loving phone. I can’t believe people kill elephants! Save the elephants!
(Sorry if this plays a commercial before the video but this was too cute not to share. If it didn’t play a commercial, I’m not sorry. JK, I wasn’t really sorry before. OK OK I was, you know I love you.)
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Prince Charles and Camilla adopt a dog!
Say what you will about Camilla*, but girlfriend is a pal to animals! According to CNN,
Last fall, Camilla opened [Battersea Dogs and Cats Home]’s new cattery, and mentioned to staff that she’d love another Jack Russell since her beloved Freddy had died. (Freddy was such a part of the family that Camilla’s son Tom named his own child after the dog!)
When a Jack Russell was left at the...
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Hello, friends! It's WTF Wednesday! (on Thursday!)
You guys, Allen pulled some kind of back muscle this week and it has been hell here at our house. Allen is always in the living room rubbing himself with some strange green thing called a Thera-cane, or rolling around on an oddly textured orange thing, or engaging in what he says is stretching but looks suspiciously like pony play, hooked up to some rubber band contraption to the door that leads...
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Police academy hangs dog from flagpole, Mexico...
These pictures surfaced on Twitter last night along with a gagillion tweets with the hashtag #cachorroneza (Neza puppy) denouncing the abuse of the poor pup. Who would do that to a puppy? Mexico is pissed! The location of the flagpole has been identified as Colegio de la Agencia de Seguridad Estatal in the city of Neza, Mexico. What I can gather from google translate (my Spanish is rusty!),...
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Happy Veggie Kids: Natalia!
This is four-year-old Natalia with her neighbor’s dog—cute couple! Natalia is mostly vegan save for her one vice: About twice a month, she succumbs to the call of string cheese. Her mom and I discussed interviewing her as a vegan or vegetarian but it seems our input was unnecessary: “I asked her the questions as vegetarian, and she said, ‘I’m vegan!’” I...
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Help save moon bears, get tasty Loving Hut noms in...
Do me a favor: Recall the plight of the moon bear. Then HURRY and write a $20 check to the San Francisco Vegetarian Society, and attend dinner at the Loving Hut at 524 Irving Street from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on Monday, August 29. After dinner, you’ll be treated to a talk from Jill Robinson, founder and CEO of Animals Asia, and she might be accompanied by the organization’s Vietnam Director...
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Humans polluting the oceans makes fish dumber
I think some guy in a thick, very old book once said that it’s better to be a fisher of men than to give a man a fish and multiply it to feed thousands. Right?
Anyway, fishing sucks, but destroying the habitats of the fish who still remain is worse. And that’s exactly what is happening today: man-made increases in seawater carbon dioxide levels cause fish to lose their...
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Hey, SF! Vegan Drinks is upon us!
My favorite thing in the world is picking popcorn out of my teeth. Why? Because it gives me something to do AND it means I just ate a shit-ton of popcorn, which is one of many reasons to go to August’s SF Vegan Drinks tomorrow, Aug. 25, from 6 to 8 p.m at Martuni’s.
Why else would you go? Besides all-you-can-eat vegan popcorn, you can get hammered meet other local vegans and network...
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Souley Vegan canceling brunch, starting 6 a.m....
So, bummer news! Souley Vegan has a sign in their window that reads:
Souley Vegan will no longer be open for brunch on Sundays starting August 28, 2011. We will be offering Breakfast from 6 to 9 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays… BEGIN date to be announced soon. Thank you!
And that’s almost 100 percent verbatim because the fantastic Rick went to check it out for us. So—6 a.m....
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Happy Veggie Kids: Leeluu!
This is Leeluu! Cute name, right? Cute kid too! From her mom: “Leeluu has been a vegan all of her almost 3 years on earth. She loves cookies and can growl like a monster. We live in Nova Scotia, Canada.” Everybody now, growl like a monster!
What is your favorite food? Peanut butter sandwiches. What is your favorite kind of birthday cake? Pumpkin pie. Why are you vegan? Cause I...
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LYFE Kitchen to open very soon, and here's the...
LYFE Kitchen (Meave wrote about them earlier this year) is set to open “later this month” (it’s already August 23! When, dammit! When!) at 167 Hamilton Ave in Palo Alto. As a refresher, LYFE kitchen is an experimental healthy fast food restaurant from some former McDonald’s head honchos, Oprah’s chef Art Smith (WHAT’S UP, O!), and vegan chef extraordinaire,...
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“People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals also signed up. However, instead of...”
– In “NO DOY” news of the day, PETA is launching a porn site! Because why not draw attention to the exploitation of animals by exploiting ladies? Of course, I’m sure they’ll have a few dudes with carrots (or eggplants?) covering their dongs but I’m mainly expecting naked...
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Win tickets to Vida Vegan Con! Today only!
At noon PST TODAY, the lovely ladies at the Cosmopolitan Hour are starting a contest to give away one ticket to Vida Vegan Con, this weekend’s vegan blogging conference in Portland that’s been sold out since before you were born!
The contest will only run until midnight PST TODAY so get on their Facebook page their website and MAKE IT HAPPEN! Because if you do, you could be making...
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WatchInmates take care of homeless kitties! I’m a big believer in rehabilitation—which is totally not how our jails are designed—and I think programs like this could help. Puppies Behind Bars and other programs have proven very successful in terms of therapeutic qualities. I saw a TV show about a dog training program in a juvenile detention center and it was just awesome. The warden...
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WatchNo Worries is closing their doors in Oakland and transitioning to a mobile food truck. I’m bummed they’re closing but stoked that they’ll be zooming around the bay area, offering vegan Filipino food to all who desire it! If you want to keep updated as to where they’ll be and when, follow them on Twitter and Facebook!
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Ask a Vegansaur, vol. 03
It’s that time again: I’ve accumulated enough questions/found enough time in my busy schedule of unemployment (now accepting paying-job leads!) to write another round of Ask a Vegansaur! This one only consists of two questions because they are long. Deal with it.
Tim asks: We know that the traditional vegan rejects honey as part of the general “exploitation and abuse of living...
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It's not all bad: Otters return to English rivers!
English river otters are back! The Guardian reports that the animals are now living in every county in the country, which is amazing, considering that they nearly went extinct in the 1970s.
The resurgence in England’s otter population is due to the otter-hunting ban of 1978, and the significantly improved health of English rivers. Wonderful, all around. Although let’s not forget that...
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Top 10 links of the week: a joyful skip through...
[Downer that the whale is in captivity but we can still appreciate its beauty. PS: Can’t see the video? Watch it on Vegansaurus.com!]
Sorry dudes, I haven’t done links in a few weeks, so this list spans the last month or so. Were you guys sad without links? Which kinds of links do you like the best? I want to know so I can do the best possible job!
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Vote for us? We'll bake you cookies*!
The VegNews Veggie Awards are ON! And Vegansaurus is nominated for Best Blog! And my column, “Ask Laura” is nominated for Best Column! Well, all the columns are nominated for best columns but still: WOOHOO! So please vote for us! And for me! Or you don’t have to vote for us, no bigs, we’ll still love you through our tears. However, you should still vote because there are...
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Peninsula vegans have a couple new options!
Where do vegans in the San Francisco Peninsula eat? I’m always spending time there with my family, getting dragged to Cheesecake Factory, as I know of no where I can take my omnivorous family that we will all be happy. I hear there’s a Patxi’s down there, which I believe the family could get into (I’d totally get my own personal vegan pizza! I love not having to share...
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Your government hates you: meat recalls forever
What is going on with meat inspection? In the past month, there’ve been seven recalls due to listeria contamination, three because of E. coli, and three for salmonella, nearly 36,723,700 pounds of food, almost of it meat. The number’s sort of enormous thanks to Cargill’s recall of 36 million pounds of “ground turkey products” on Aug. 3 because of salmonella...
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Dear will.i.am: supporting animal abuse is tacky
Dear will.i.am,
It has recently come to my attention that in Elle magazine you call women who have condoms at their house “tacky.” As a woman, I am horrifically offended. Perhaps you did not realize that we are living in a time in which STDs run rampant? Perhaps you did not realize that pregnancy comes from unprotected sex? I have to take care of myself, and yes, that means I have...
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Your government hates you: the feds spent taxpayer...
So, you know that OUR GOVERNMENT with OUR MONEY bought $40 MILLION worth of chicken that nobody wanted? Because the chicken industry is killing more birds than ever, even though demand for dead birds is slightly waning. UGH YOU CANNOT WIN AGAINST PURE EVIL AND STUPIDITY.
Paul Shapiro of the Humane Society of the United States (we love him!) wrote up a piece about this over at VegNews. He...
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Now we know: Chipotle puts bacon in the pinto...
I love Chipotle! Good thing every time I go there, I order the black beans—I had no idea they cooked their pinto beans with bacon! Or maybe I had heard that, which is why I always order the black beans. Point is, bacon in the pinto beans is not clearly marked anywhere! Thanks to Seth Porges, Chipotle is going to change their in-store menus to state that they cook pork with the pinto beans.
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WatchGood news, everyone: beloved author, activist, podcaster, compassionate cook, and amazing person Colleen Patrick-Goudreau has a new book! It’s called The 30-Day Vegan Challenge: The Ultimate Guide to Eating Cleaner, Getting Leaner, and Living Compassionately, and it will be published on Tuesday, Aug. 23! This is a preview video in which CP-G discusses her veganism, and look how excited she...
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Awesometown: Snooze button donates to charity!
With the Snooze app, you can donate a quarter to a worthy organization every time you hit the snooze button. Um, AWESOME! Genius idea. The money goes through Let Give and you get to choose which charity to donate to from a list of non-profits. They only have a handful of orgs you can donate to but one is Nature Conservancy, which protects stuff like, you know, nature and that sort of thing. No...
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Interview with Vegan Author/Model David Raphael...
David is a vegan model and author from Philadelphia living in Brooklyn! Just like me! Except the model and author part! AND GUESS WHAT: We have the same birthday (February 25th and I love Edible Arrangements)! So we are both Pisces by popular understanding. It is hard being a Pisces so we are naturally bonded and new best friends.
David was kind enough to do an interview for us! We love to...
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Yvonne the renegade is the coolest cow in Europe
NPR has collected the amazing story of a six-year-old German cow called Yvonne, who three months ago got past an electric barrier and escaped to the forest, where she’s been living ever since. Why did she run? Perhaps a sense of impending doom, as her owners had intended her for the slaughterhouse. Her nominal owners have offered 10,000 euro for her safe return, but in the time as a...
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Fancy dress: Brave Gentleman's vegan ties!
Ecouterre brings us wonderful news: Brave Gentleman has a line of vegan ties! They are made of “a blend of organic cotton and recycled hemp, then stiffened with interfacing derived from recycled plastic bottles—a manufacturing first for ties. All eight designs are crafted in New York City’s historic Garment District under fair-labor conditions.”
I’ve heard it’s difficult...
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Guest post: Ignoring PETA is hard to do
I try my best to ignore PETA in my day-to-day existence. It’s bad enough to hear about them from every omnivore with contemptuous questions and stupid jokes on an oh-so-clever t-shirt (we’ve all heard “people eating tasty animals.” A thousand times). But sometimes I can’t ignore the fact that PETA goes out of their way to represent the veg communities as awkwardly or offensively as possible—the...
