vegansaurus!
11/06/2009
Paul Shapiro of HSUS appeared on CNN discussing the atrocities taking place at a Maine veal plant. Love to see this kind of stuff in the mainstream media!
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Vegan grilled cheese a possibility!
The American is a new grilled cheese restaurant opening in South Park (January-ish, we gather?), and we have heard through the grapevine that some vegan options may be included in the final menu. Currently, vegan grilled cheese is only available in SF at Ike’s Place.
Follow them on Twitter to stay apprised for now!
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JSF mania, regal vegan dining, tons of recipes, horrible tragedy and more in this week's (bipolar) link-o-rama!
TODAY! That’s Friday, Nov. 6: Jonathan Safran Foer is having a book signing at UC Berkeley at 7 p.m. in the Multicultural Center! Woo!!
On Sunday, Nov. 8 at noon King of Ughs David Chang and Ubuntu’s vegetarian betrayer Jeremy Fox will appear in conversation with each other at Omnivore Books (3885 Cesar Chavez St. at Church Street). New York Times columnist (and co-author of His Majesty of Shut Up, David Chang’s new book) Peter Meehan will moderate.
JSF makes a modern Modest Proposal to omnivores: how about some delicious dog? One of your Vegansaurs’ first solid foods was dog soup. This was not a major factor in his/her decision to go vegan (GUESS WHOSE), as it only happened once, during toddlerhood; the point is, duh, all meat is equally reprehensible.
This one time, in August, Emperor David Chang of Saying Idiotic Things made a vegetarian meal, at the behest of the James Beard Foundation. Color Vegansaurus unimpressed; we’ve had at least as fancy at Brassica.
Miss Vegan Drinks? Of course you do! Thank goodness for the East Bay, who’ve been doing their thing on non-holiday Tuesdays and want to see you at their next meeting! Mix and mingle on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 6:30 p.m. at the Kona Club, at 4401 Piedmont Ave. at Pleasant Valley Avenue in Oakland! Details here.
Hey, Science: “Because such monkey torture will not lead to improved human health, you don’t need to be an animal rights advocate to wonder if an ethical cost-benefit analysis might conclude that the ends don’t justify the means.”
Nicolette Hahn Niman doesn’t want you to blame her ranch for the environmental problems caused by raising animals for food; after all, she says, “Singling out meat is misleading and unhelpful, especially since few people are likely to entirely abandon animal-based foods.” And anyway, ”avoiding soy from deforested croplands may be more difficult…. Brazilian soy is common (and unlabeled) in tofu and soymilk sold in American supermarkets,” so shut up and eat your Bill-Niman-de-and-renounced “happy” beef, already. JESUS LADY.
Adult Dungeness crabs are few and far between for the second consecutive year, but that won’t stop most fishermen from going out to catch as many as they (legally) can. Fishing in a “down” season makes perfect sense, hooray people.
CHOW honors local hero Bryant Terry and Queen of Vegetables Deborah Madison in its first annual awards, the CHOW 13. Too bad they have to tell us how much they looooove Ryan “literally all of the pig” Farr as well, boo.
Congratulations to friend-of-Vegansaurus Celine of Have Cake, Will Travel: her very first cookbook is out today!
For reasons as yet unknown, all the female spectacled bears in the Leipzig (Germany) Zoo have lost nearly all of their hair. They look incredibly pathetic without their usual “fluffy dark brown” fur coats.
Oh delicious, sumptuous, vegan cuisine literally good enough for the Queen: a luncheon at Windsor Castle, part of a “Celebration of Faiths and the Environment,” satisfied all the participants’ dietary requirements by eliminating all animal products from the menu! An “autumnal roasted pear salad” with “deeply savory…toasted [Kentish] cobnuts”? Yes, please!
Yobie Benjamin analyzes the most recent reviews of and data on San Francisco’s public school lunches, and determines that, duh, it can be done better, for cheaper. The notable part here is that he includes veg options in his price breakdowns. It’s not more expensive to eat vegan! OK?!!
How revolting: a guy in Cleveland had very poorly hidden the bodies of six women—who had been raped and murdered—“in and around” his house, which is next door to a sausage factory, which some people blamed for the stench. Rotting carcasses stink, be they human or other animal.
In fucked-up and depressing animal news, there’s still one organization associated with the veal calf slaughterhouse exposé that apparently supports the obscene treatment of those baby cows. Unregulated free markets always arrive at the best solutions, right?
The SF Bay Guardian makes a giant effort and reviews Greens. Revelation: it still makes good food. Your omnivorous friends will not complain (too much) about being denied their meat for one meal. Like we were saying, a new restaurant critic with some imagination re: veg food, please.
Our pals at CSA Delivery blog have been killing it with their vegan recipes lately: dolmas with caramelized leek hummus; chard and chickpea burgers with quick pickled veggies; vegetable curry; soft chili tofu. UGH SO HUNGRY.
On Saturday, Nov. 21, friends-of-Vegansaurus Farm Sanctuary are hosting a Celebration for the Turkeys dinner, “designed” by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau! Tickets cost $75 for adults and $35 for children, and are on sale now. Unless you are also a famous vegan cookbook author, this is guaranteed to be a lot tastier than your Thanksgiving dinner, so you might as well go. Plus it supports farm animals, instead of crazy relatives who drink too much/not enough; a pig will never ask you when you’re going to give it grandchildren or if you’ve put on weight.
Oh look! It’s a dog adopt-a-thon in the plaza at the foot of Market Street! SO AWESOME!
Oh wait…it’s um, Petco? You know, the place where pets go (to die!). And wait, those aren’t actually homeless pets, they are actually OTHER PEOPLE’S DOGS. One of the guys in shirts told us they were just borrowing the dogs for the demo and that they’d have “real” adoptable dogs at some other undisclosed time and location. Weirdly but I guess unsurprisingly, Petco isn’t authy enough to invite real rescue groups with ACTUAL homeless dogs to help shill their crappy wares.
We have it on good authority too (sekrit sources from the animal insider community! you are jealous!) that they recently lost some lawsuit where they were ordered to pay out monies to rescue groups and instead of giving them cash, they gave them fucking Petco giftcards! In $20 increments! So that when people go in, they have to spend cash because what can you buy for 20 fucking dollars? Well, I’ll tell you what I HEARD someone NOT ME did: bought one and a half toys and they just took the other half. WE DON’T CONDONE THEFT BUT YOU KNOW, wasn’t us never saw it don’t know what you’re talking about GOD STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT.
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11/05/2009
We need an Animal Protection Liaison
A what? An Animal Protection Liaison, as proposed by the Humane Society of the United States, would “work with the executive agencies and Congress to advance animal protection policies.” Simple, right? Yes!
HSUS has already written a Change Agenda for Animals, a set of 100
guidelines for improving the lives of our nation’s animals, both domesticated and wild; the APL would help ensure those guidelines are followed.
Look, this puppy gets the best care ever, I mean, he has damn hell ass Secret Service agents to protect him. And he is ONE SMALLISH DOG. What about dogs born in puppy mills? What about cows on feedlots? What about endangered animals? They need someone to protect them. All you have to do is sign this itsy bitsy little petition—it is one brief form—and HSUS will forward it to the president or whomever in his administration is in charge of receiving such things. Easy-peasy.
