April 2010
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Winning hearts, minds, and stomachs: Adventures in...
A year ago, I couldn’t do anything in the kitchen beyond stir frying vegetables and pouring cereal. My family looked upon my Thanksgiving Tofurkey with pity. I was the lone vegan in my circle of family and friends.
But a lot’s changed in a year. Before, it was like I was vegan by default. I would never think of not being vegan, because I knew that veganism was the best thing I could...
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Vegansaurus wins award; world does not spin off...
Check it out, we won a thing! What is it? Why, it is an SF Weekly Web Award! Specifically, SF’s Best Blog Post, for Other Avenues! Also, FAT PEOPLE RULE! written by our own founder, Laura Beck! Hooray! Congratulations, Laura, you have always been the best, but now it is acknowledged online by a city alt-weekly! We are proud of you!!
To celebrate, SF Weekly will hold a party tonight at 111...
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It's OK to eat fish 'cause they don't have any... →
Or at least oysters, according to Christopher Cox, writing in Slate today about how he keeps a completely vegan diet except for oysters, because they don’t have a central nervous system. He gets his information from Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation, which is basically like God Himself giving you a gentle punch on the shoulder and saying, “Go for it, bro,” I mean, right?
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National nightmare continues: Zooey Deschanel no...
In another crushing blow to the already-weak vegan heterosexual male community, your object of Tumblr obsession Zooey Deschanel is apparently no longer a vegan!
In this interview with Health.com, she fesses up to giving up the lifestyle because she had way too many food insensitivities and it was “impossible” to get enough calories. Those of us who watched Top Chef Masters last summer...
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Every Monday is "Vegetarian Day" in San Francisco!
A resolution declaring every Monday as “Vegetarian Day” to urge all restaurants, grocery stores, and schools to offer a variety of plant-based options to improve the health of San Francisco residents PASSED TODAY! First city in the nation to have a regular vegetarian day! GO SF!!!!
The resolution was introduced by Supervisor Sophie Maxwell and passed unanimously by the San Francisco Board of...
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It's Vegan Happy Hour again: FRIDAY!
We already told you a bit about San Francisco’s new Vegan Happy Hour, but we thought we’d give you some more details this time around. Vegan Happy Hour SF is the brainchild of Mike Desert, long-time vegan, boozehound, DJ, and TOTALLY COINCIDENTALLY, my husband. No conflict of interest here, folks! I pried a few words out of him about the event while he was trying to ignore me and play...
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Stamps for tramps!
You know, like Lady and the Tramp: Stamps to the Rescue, along with Ellen and the United States Postal Service, is releasing lovely little stamps highlighting the beautiful little tramps you can find in animals shelters. There are 10 different stamps, all dogs or cats, and they each have a little story behind them about how that pet ended up in a shelter. Here’s what happen to Teddy...
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Post-Punk Extravaganza!
Portland-based publishing juggernaut and zine clearinghouse extraordinaire, Microcosm Publishing, launched their Post Punk Extravaganza tour on April 1, and YOU should be excited! Why? Because vegan chef/travelin’ man, Josh Ploeg, will be coming along, presenting a vegan cooking show based on his book, In Search of Lost Taste.
It promises to be a fun time for all, and it’s going...
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KFC to unleash the Double Down sandwich, we...
Over at The Consumerist, they’ve been following KFC’s new (and revolting) Double Down sandwich. In case you’re new to the story, the Double Down is a bacon and cheese sandwich, with two slabs of fried chicken replacing the bread, and a mystery yellow substance they’re calling “The Colonel’s Sauce” (a name that implies more intimacy with the Colonel than,...
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Vegansaurus NYC: The V Spot
Sometimes I’m weird and I don’t get wordplay right off the bat. What I’m getting at is I went to this restaurant before I got the G-spot pun, FYI. But I’m glad I went because it was muy delish!
You see, I moved to Brooklyn from San Francisco on Saturday, and boy are my arms tired! But seriously folks, I now have to totally reorient myself in a new vegan-friendly city....
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Feral cat controversy, jerks in Missouri, junk in...
[image from Lucia Oberste of Zoomie’s Pet Care]
Fun-times vegan-style events! OK there’s only one this week, and it’s not even 100 percent vegan, but one is better than zero, right? Right! So: Tomorrow, Saturday, Apr. 3 from 5 to 11 p.m. in the Laskie Street parking lot (off Mission Street, between 8th and 9th Streets) in San Francisco you can attend the first Underground...
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Vegan food for prisoners: vegan food for thought
Is veganism a religion? Maybe not, but this article by attorney Sherry Colb makes a good case for veganism being taken as seriously as religious faith—at least in the prison system.
In the article, Ms. Colb examines the case of Paul Cortez, a prison inmate convicted of killing his girlfriend in February 2007. Mr. Cortez went vegan about two years ago, citing the cruelty and aggression in...
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He-gan woman-haters club!
Megan Rascal here, on the lexical beat. Last week, the Boston Globe presented us with a new word: Hegan. Yeah, it’s what it sounds like, “he + vegan = hegan.” They define it as “men in their 40s and 50s embracing a restrictive lifestyle to look better, rectify a gluttonous past, or cheat death.” This sounds like hegans are vain middle-aged men who don’t care...
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Homosexual animals are not gay, OK!
The biologists profiled in this week’s New York Times big Sunday Magazine article, “Can Animals Be Gay?” would like you, general public, to please stop associating the terms “gay” and “lesbian” with non-human animals. This is extrapolation that they, the disinterested scientists, do NOT do, and that we the general public should not do, as it muddles the...
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“Hi,
My name is Martha and I’m an employee of the Government of Canada...”
– Hey Martha! Thanks for stopping by! We love getting the other side around here, especially when it’s full of doublespeak from a government eager to wipe the blood off its public face. So let’s get a few things straight.
1. A “harvest” is when you pick fruit off trees or...
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