November 2012
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Paul Shapiro's Animal News You Can Use!
It’s Paul Shapiro’s Animal News You Can Use! Yay, Paul! Yay, Animals!
Food industry consulting firm Techonomic just released its 2013 trends for the restaurant industry, listing vegetarian eating as a top trend in the restaurant industry. Perhaps people are increasingly concerned about farm animals, and maybe their health, too…
Consumers Union (publishers of Consumer Reports)...
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Is the world scared of veganism?
Can’t see the video? Watch it on Vegansaurus.com!
Came upon this video from the Vegan Society recently and I got to say, I’m into it. I know lots of people get touchy when you compare animal suffering to human suffering, but it’s not really comparing the suffering, it’s juxtaposing radical ideas and societal movements people said were improbable or downright impossible....
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13-year-old boy comes to the rescue for neglected...
OK guys, I have a tearjerker for you! Like, I’m tearing up as I write. But first, do we have any readers in or near Atlanta? Or even readers who just know people in that area? Help find a home for this dog! I can’t believe her story hasn’t been picked up by the media (unless I missed it), it’s got TV news written all over it. And I’ve seen Broadcast News 11 times, so...
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Pet CPR: Learn how, with vet tech David Watts!
This is David Watts, an Antioch, Calif., vet tech, demonstrating how to perform CPR on Caspar, a “resusci-dog” used as a veterinary teaching aide.
Did you know that there are animal-specific CPR techniques? The Contra Costa Times ran a neat little article about Watts, who owns a pet-ambulance company and teaches people how to perform life-saving techniques on their pets, specifically...
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War is unbearable: Canine PTSD is real
The LA Times has a detailed, depressing article about the diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder in dogs deployed in combat patrols. What do you know: “Dogs experience combat just like humans,” and they experience PTSD like people, too.
The article focuses on a Belgian Malinois named Cora, who returned two years ago from several tours of duty in Iraq, suffering...
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NPR calls for end to Omni-Veg holiday food wars
Remember a couple months ago, when NPR went veg-trolling with that “Do Vegetarians and Vegans Think They Are Better Than Everyone Else?” story? And it turned the answer was, “Some of them do, but you wouldn’t want to hang out with anyone with a superiority complex, so let’s just chill,” and all we meat-abstainers went “Fucking DUH, NPR,” and turned...
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Best present practices: Vegan food gifts, from...
This is what you need to know:
1. Joni Marie Newman’s recipes are perfect, basically foolproof instructions for making incredibly delicious food everyone will love.
2. Food gifts are very excellent gifts.
3. Joni’s written a new book, Vegan Food Gifts, perfect to use to make your own gifts, or to give as a meta-present!
4. She’s giving away a copy of Vegan Food Gifts right...
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Pro or con: L'Oréal buys Urban Decay
Vegansaurus loves makeup, though we of course only support vegan makeup companies, because duh. Urban Decay makes vegan makeup that is high quality and totally gorgeous; wearing it makes you look and feel fantastic, for reasons both superficial and profound.
Today, however, devilish old L’Oréal announced that it has acquired Urban Decay. Now, Urban Decay has been owned by luxury brands...
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What's up NYC? November Vegan Drinks is happening...
Get your butts over to Fontana’s Bar at 105 Eldridge from 7 to 10 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 29, to party with the coolest vegans in the metro area, including (but not limited to) your own Megan Rascal on the ones and twos! Plus “Southern-style breakfast foods” (be still my heart) from Heirloom Vegan Eatery, and raffle prizes with proceeds benefitting Friends of Animals. You...
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NYC: Brave GentleMan sale!
Hey people, Friday is your chance to hang with Joshua of Brave GentleMan and get a discount on his superfly shoes! Deets:
This Friday Nov. 30th, Get 15% off all Brave GentleMan x Novacas shoes, in-store only at MooShoes NYC from 5-9pm. More styles are back in stock for this one-day event, and I’ll be there to help you pick out a pair and hang out.
MooShoes 5pm – 8pm 78 Orchard Street New...
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OMG: Ellen Degeneres Admits She's An Egg Eater
As I wrote on my personal blog today five minutes after I found out, Ellen Degeneres casually revealed during a recent segment on The Ellen Show that she’s no longer vegan. In an interview with Grey’s Anatomy actress-come-backyard chicken wrangler Ellen Pompeo, Ellen Degeneres said:
We have neighbors who have chickens, and we get our eggs from those chickens because they’re happy.
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Play with shelter kitties via the power of the...
Feel like you don’t get to play with shelter kitties enough? iPet Companion is here to remedy that sad situation! Using their site, you can remotely operate toys for the kitties to play with and watch a live stream of them playing. I think you can get it for your house too, wouldn’t kitty like that?! But they also have iPet Companion set up in many animal shelters across the...
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Animal News You Can Use!
Paul Shapiro weekly dose of all things animals! Yes!
Especially the week after Thanksgiving, it’s good to remind ourselves of the undeniable fact: demand for meat continues to fall in the US. Check out my friend Harish’s latest post on the topic.
In that vein, here’s a cool piece about the Hunts Point Alliance for Children (in NYC) working with HSUS to implement Meatless Mondays.
In last...
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More Reader Thanksgivings! They are very tasty,...
This Thanksgiving we had the delicious Field Roast brand Hazelnut Cranberry Roast En Croute, garlic mashed potatoes with gravy, dinner rolls, steamed veggies, whole wheat stuffing with celery and onions and green bean casserole (cooked with veggie broth, mushrooms and carrots)! :)
Ed.: Yum, yum, and also: GIVE ME SOME!
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Straight-Up-Thanksgiving Burgers & Hunan-Style...
For Thanksgiving we made Straight-Up-Thanksgiving Burgers (AMAZING!), topped with Hickory Smoked Tofurky slices and gravy and served on toasted onion rolls. On the side: extra garlic & chive mashed potatoes and stuffing, as well as Hunan-Style Baked Sweet Potato French Fries with Chili Sauce (recipe via the upcoming The Chinese Vegan Kitchen, which I’m in the process of reviewing).
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Thanksgiving at the Fearrington Inn, North...
Our dear Sarah E. Brown’s Thanksgiving meal at the Fearrington Inn. Looks yummy!
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A Very Rascal Thanksgiving
Since I am in charge of posting Thanksgiving pics today, of course I will post my own! As everyone knows, the Rascal household, while predominantly omni, is super vegan friendly. So as per usual, I had just as many options as the omnis, if not more. Above is my favorite, the root vegetable cobbler. It’s so good! A new classic.
My omni friend Kevin Still came to my house for Thanksgiving...
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Delicious Reader Submission: First Vegan...
I’m the only vegan in my family and this is my first vegan Thanksgiving. I had brown rice & frozen veggies (somehow all our veggies had been used up), mashed potatoes made with Earth Balance and So Delicious coconut milk, and Gardein’s Savory Stuffed Turkey.
Yay, congrats!! Love it!
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San Diego Vegan Feast!
In the pic the is the Tofurky roast (made in the crock pot with cola & bourbon), brussel sprouts with maple glaze, cauliflower gratin, sweet potatoes with Sweet & Sara marshmallows, garlicky collard greens, stuffing, & ginger cranberry sauce. Mashed potatoes & pale ale grave off to the side. Plus the Amy’s chocolate cake and a cherry pie for dessert. All for 2 people! :)
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More Reader Thanksgivings! They are so very...
From Alex: My first vegan thanksgiving! Fresh cranberry sauce, yams, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower bechamel, and whole grain stuffing with pecans and currants! And No Bake Cranberry Pear Tart for dessert!
Um, that is amazing. That is all.
Don’t forget to submit photos of your tasty vegan Thanksgiving feast! Woo!
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Veggie Angie's Thanksgiving Meal [Ed.: HOLY CRAP...
This year my husband and I made roasted vegetables with a peanut sriracha sauce, rice with veggie sausage, toasted garlic potato bread rolls, and a Gardein Holiday Roast.
Read more on her blog! Thanks Angie!!
