September 2009
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PhotoshopDisasters: Peta: No Fur, Bad Feather →
You know how Peta’s “I’d rather go naked than wear fur” ads are basically The Worst? What with the models wearing leather shoes in the photos, and the series being all gross and exploitative, and it all just embarrassing the hell out of us vegans and everyone else who opposes the fur trade? You know how terrible that is?
It is about 10 million times worse when the ad...
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“I’d never really had a chance to be near a fox before, and since I despise...”
– Civic Center blog visits Sharp Municipal Golf Course and meets a fox!
The photos are incredible, you guys; this fox has lived its entire adorable life around Sharp Golf Course, as evidenced by how totally at home it looks chilling with the golfers on a gorgeous sunny day.
Humans and animals,...
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Rocket Dog fundraiser!, cupcakes go boom, more...
Rocket Dog Rescue Happy Hour fundraiser at Doc’s Clock! Be there tomorrow, Sept. 5th, from 4 to 8 p.m. at 2575 Mission St. (between 21st and 22nd): 50 percent of the bar and 100 percent of the proceeds from the silent auction (with fantastic prizes!) will benefit Rocket Dog Rescue. Doc’s Clock will also take donations for VetSOS.
Slate says, Watch out, cupcake-bakers, your business...
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Replacing Eggs With Flax →
Mark Bittman’s “Bitten” blog on NYTimes.com offers an experience of using flax seeds as an egg replacer, with positive results. The included chocolate chip recipe isn’t vegan, but it’s easy enough to take it all the way there: just replace butter with Earth Balance, you know the drill.
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Summer Gardening Edition: Very Revealing Hot and...
Vegansaurus is mostly a San Francisco joint, but everywhere else in the Northern hemisphere, it’s hot. The dudes are stripping off their t-shirts and the ladies are adjusting their bikini straps, many of them baking to the golden color of sweet potato fries. At least in Jersey and Europe, where white people still haven’t discovered sunscreen.
To help you make it through the heat and California’s...
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Mission Minis promises vegan cupcakes!
They’re supposedly opening sometime soon (whatever the fuck that means! Oct. 1st, permit gods allowing, so let’s say sometime in October MAYBE) at 3168 22nd St. (between Capp and Mission). They’ll have a few vegan flavors (banana cake with maple frosting LAY IT ON ME) and will set you back a buck each. More details from these scooping motherfuckers and Mission Minis adorable website.
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Thursday Giveaway, Sluts: Matt and Nat Bag! It's...
It’s a back-to-school giveaway, bitches! This brand-new, large-and-in-charge (it’s 14” by 14” with a 6.5” shoulder strap!), fancy-ass Matt and Nat “Big Drop” Bag is perfect for lugging books to class, or putting all your shit in for overnights (slut!). This bag is marketed toward women, but we’re not about boxes here at Vegansaurus so go on, girl....
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Behold: Mission Burger!
No seriously, look at it. This is the vegan Mission Burger and it is your most delicious new best friend. This blog previously speculated this might be the case, but I am here to confirm it for you. IRL I am known as someone with a tendency to say “OMFG THIS IS THE BEST EVER” but ignore all that. What I am telling you is, this is the best burger I have ever had, of any kind. SRSLY.
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Brassica Giveaway WINNER!!!
Congratulations, commenter helene0307! Please contact us ASAP so we can get you your prize!
All the rest of you super-awesome amazing contestants, thanks for playing! Come back soon for our next contest—it’ll be great!
Actually, come back all the time; Vegansaurus is always great.
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Vegetarian Option Leads to Downfall on This Week's...
Someone get Jeremy Fox or the entire crew of Millennium up in this piece because this week’s veg options on Top Chef were SAD. Okay, not entirely, but the losing dish happened to be vegan and was created solely for the possibility of herbivores, which is nice, but at least make it interesting. We all know it is possible. We all know veg options can do so much better than (wait for...
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Daiya vegan cheese at Rainbow Grocery starting...
Word on the street is that the magical Daiya cheese will be at Rainbow Grocery starting as early as next Wednesday (Sept. 9)!??!?! It will be available in 16 ounce packages and we’ll all go apeshit for it. Basically, it will be a-fucking-mazing. Since Daiya has only previously been available in SF by doing a rain dance and then sacrificing a virgin (read: OVERNIGHT shipping from WISCONSIN),...
So Delicious Coupons what-what! →
(Thanks, Jenna!)
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Californians: Call your senator TODAY and say NO...
Born Free has the details, but basically AB 979 has the potential to invalidate numerous city and county ordinances that protect consumers and wildlife by giving the state Fish and Game Commission total control over them. For example, AB 979 could repeal ordinances that ban the use of Conibear traps after dogs or cats were maimed or killed; limit the use of bows and arrows in developed areas; and...
WatchThis crazy fucker teaching the wolf cub to howl is both adorable and terrifying.
(thanks, ben!)
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What's the difference between a pigeon and an art...
Answer: not much! According to Keio University psychologist Shigeru Watanabe, pigeons can differentiate between “good” and “bad” art after having been taught to recognize the “concept of a stimulus class that humans name ‘good’ pictures.” What?
At this university in Tokyo, Watanabe showed the pigeons a set of children’s paintings, which had...
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It's Animal Week on NPR's Fresh Air! →
Hey so I’m not sure if it’s gonna all be about how cats and dogs rule and fuck all other animals and Temple Grandin talking about how she’s autistic and so she has a DEEP SPIRITUAL CONNECTION with animals that’s why she helped devise a better way to kill them but YOU KNOW. Let’s listen and find out. Until we get too angry and have to air-strangle Terry Gross’...
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Rocket Dog fundraiser at Doc's Clock!
Are you doing anything important on Saturday? No, certainly nothing can be nearly so important as attending the Doggie Happy Hour at Doc’s Clock, which this month benefits Vegansaurus’ favorite dog rescue organization, Rocket Dog Rescue!
Doc’s Clock hosts a Doggie Happy Hour on the first Saturday of every month, because it is a caring bar full of animal-lovers, all of whom...
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WatchThe White House hasn’t had a garden since Eleanor “superwoman” Roosevelt’s Victory Garden in the 1940s. This video is about as soothing as a Martha Stewart Living rerun at 3 a.m. (I was a sleepless teenager, OK), all soft jangly guitars and closeups of the seeds they got from Monticello. Thomas Jefferson: a man who loved the soil.
It’s just there’s one small,...
