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Sometimes we have slow weeks; for those weeks,...
The “cutest plague ever” of teeny tiny frogs, which carpeted a highway in Northern Greece on Wednesday for two hours. [link from Princess Sparkle Pony]
Sunday, May 30 is a National Day of Mourning for Animals in Laboratories. In San Francisco, the vigil will be held from noon to 2 p.m. at UCSF.
Presidio Habitats opened last week and they look so neat! You should go check them out...
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WatchBABY BEAVERS!!!!!!!!! Even better, they’re TWINS!!!!!!!!
They are TWO WEEKS OLD and they are the first beavers born in England in 350 years! They’re part of a program meant to reintroduce beavers to the country after awful jerkface humans hunted them to extinction in the 17th century. Charming! They were born at the Wildwood Discovery Park, where you can actually go see them, because...
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Jeremy Fox brings it in L.A., comes home to the... →
Check out these photos from one of our beloved chef’s “vegetable dinners” at Animal in Los Angeles last week. Look good, yeah?
Better news: we won’t have to ogle such feasts from afar for long, as Jeremy Fox is returning to the Bay Area! He’ll be working at Plum, Daniel Patterson’s new “casual” restaurant in Oakland, which is set to open in July....
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SF Vegan Drinks is tomorrow night!
Steamed about missing Millennium’s Southern Comfort Dinner tonight? Well eff that noise anyway, because (a) you’re probably broke and (b) this month’s Vegan Drinks will be featuring vegan Root Beer Floats (alcoholic, obviously (and also: !!!!!)) and a reprise of hangover-preventing Turtle Island vegan hot dogs (I say again: !!!!!). Vegansaurus is an official sponsor...
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Beijing Zoo: the ultimate "petting zoo" →
The internet found itself in a tizzy today over China eating the animals at the zoo in Beijing:
[T]he zoo’s restaurant serves things like the webbed toes of hippopotamus, dishes made with crocodiles, scorpions, kangaroo tail, deer penis, ant soup, shark fin soup, peacock, etc. Until recently, signs on the animals’ cages even contained information about which parts were tastiest and...
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Awesome people doing awesome things for animals:...
Vegansaurus loves food! And yelling about injustice! And telling you how you can help fight injustice, especially through food! We also love—no to the DUH—animals, and the people who love to help them! That’s why today we’re bringing you an interview with one such volunteer, Brooke Byrd!
Vegansaurus: What are the Apawstrophes? Brooke Byrd: The Apawstrophes is my team for...
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NYC discovery: Finnish ryes!
Just call me Christopher Columbus because I’ve made an amazing discovery! Just kidding, really I “discovered” America even though a bunch of people already “lived there.” I’m just kidding go back to the first sentence because I made an amazing discovery!: Finnish ryes by Northern Rye!
On Sunday, I went to the Park Slope farmers market on Third Street and...
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Food porn: Vegan feast!
When you’re a poor college student and it’s your mom’s birthday, offer to cater her a vegan meal for her and her friends. But remember it may take all day. And remember to tackle those recipes you’ve been eyeing for all that time. These are some of the things I cooked for my mom’s birthday; and it was fucking nice to make her something worthwhile.
Moroccan Phyllo...
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The amazing vegan sandal round-up!
It’s summertime bitches! Well, almost. It’s time to get some vegan sandals! Lucky for you, Megan Rascal is here to give you some superfly sandal choices after exhaustive internet research (that’s what I call shopping: “research”). Sorry there are no men’s sandals included, but that’s just because men shouldn’t wear sandals. Now, in the words of...
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The edible protest →
French farmers turned the Champs-Elysées in Paris into a patchwork of tiny farms! It’s a protest by the CNJA, a 50,000-strong union of farmers under 35 (founded in 1949!), who are highly concerned about “falling prices for agricultural produce.”
Of course some of these farmers raise animals, but this expo-protest on the actual Champs-Elysées—which they covered with their...
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Ike's neighbors want $1 million from him to stay...
You read that right. According to the New York Times’ Bay Area blog, Ike’s neighbors have laid out their demands, and they’re ridiculous, bordering on extortion. Doubting that any demands could be that ridiculous, I went down to Ike’s Place and talked to him in more detail. So here are the facts, according to Ike.
Ike’s neighbor dispute is between Ike and the two...
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Weird Fish brings back Buffalo Girls and other... →
Looks like Weird Fish was missing the vegan love, and decided to court us back. Their new menu brings back the old favorites: deep fried dill pickles, tacos with mango salsa and classic fish & chips (sub seitan for both), their internet-famous buffalo girls, and more. Brunch is still gone, for vegans and meat eaters alike.
Anyone been by lately? Let us know how their new/old vegan options...
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Meat fights, meat deaths, milk pants, murder and...
It’s funny when gross people things affect animals! Especially when the animals behave in a manner that reminds people of themselves! HA HA HA. [Image from the Daily Telegraph]
Fun-times vegan-related events! Anyone going to the Maker Faire this weekend? It runs Saturday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the San Mateo County Event Center, and it looks intense. Tickets cost...
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Live video feed of BP oil spill now available →
Do you love science, ecological disasters, and rubbernecking at car crashes? Well do I have a special treat for you. BP had been refusing to release video footage of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill/leak/-ocalypse, making it nearly impossible for scientists to evaluate the extent of the ongoing damage. So Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said, “This is a whole heap of bullshit,”* and...
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Nic Cage Is Crazy!
I know! Shocking! Who would have thought that the guy who recently bought himself a burial pyramid would also have wacky ideas about food?
Anyway, so Nicholas Cage (my absolute favorite Hollywood actor right now. Have you SEEN Knowing? The Wicker Man remake? GENIUS) has apparently announced that he only eats animals that have “dignified sex.” Which animals are the most dignified...
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WatchVEGANS TO THE RESCUE: There was a fire last night at the Berkeley East Bay Humane Society that killed several cats & is displacing all of their animals. This is incredibly sad but there is something we can do to help! Can you step in and foster a dog or a catl? If so, email them RIGHT NOW.
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Four Twinkies walk into a bar
Was that title lame? That title was totally lame wasn’t it. Or does it sound like gay porn? Shut up don’t tell me I hate you. What I’m trying to get at: Homemade Twinkie Challenge!
Instructables.com, the superfantastic SF-based how-to site, set out to discover which was the best homemade Twinkie recipe. They tried a straight-up copycat, an organic version, a gluten-free...
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OBEY: ADOPT!
Check out my righteous (literally!) new bag! My friend Hillary picked this up for me at Cary Lane in Hayes Valley. Cary Lane has lots of designer sample sales and recently had an Obey trunk show. OMG I can’t believe I missed it! But Hillz went and when she saw this, she knew I needed it. What a sweetheart! JK, she’s trying to get in my pants. Sigh, that’s just the burden of being...
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On hypocrites: Graham Hill of Treehugger talks...
As a vegan, there are few things more nails-on-chalkboard grating than hearing yet another word or phrase invented by green-minded omnivores to feel better about themselves for eating meat. If you call yourself a “pescatarian” or “flexitarian,” unless you can point me to the pesctable and flexifruit aisles of the produce section (and no, Monsanto gene-splicing...
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WatchThis is a trailer for Dirt! the Movie, which you can go see this very evening. Yes it’s last-minute, but it’s also Tuesday, what else do you have planned? Tonight at 7:30 Hayes Valley Farm is hosting a screening of Dirt! the Movie, a documentary about soil. No, that does not sound totally dull, it sounds totally fascinating. Then again, I love a documentary, of course I’d...
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My kind of politics!: Dachshund U.N.
It’s art! It’s adorable! It’s my dream come true! Aussie artist Bennett Miller created Dachshund U.N. for Melbourne’s 2010 Next Wave Festival. There’s some sort of symbolism in this performance piece but really, OMG dachshunds pretending to be the U.N.! Adorbs.
This is from the Next Wave site:
Dachshund U.N. is both a joyful and chaotic experiment, and a ...
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WatchThe scary thing is that I’ve been singing nearly this exact song to Mika for the last month (with the “meow meow meow-meow-meow” chorus and everything) before San Francisco SPCA released theirs. Anyway, go watch Cat Romance now because it’s cute as hell. And adopt some cats!
[via Mission Mission]
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Nestle to stop destroying the rainforest! →
Some actual good news! Greenpeace is announcing today that Nestle will end the use of everything in its supply chain linked to rainforest destruction. Nice!! And yes, that includes palm oil, which unfortunately is an ingredient in Earth Balance. (Though they claim their palm oil is “sustainably harvested” so let’s hope they either find a replacement, or open up their supplier...
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Fascist jerky landlords can suck it! (and no, this...
Just saw this good news from the LA Times!:
State legislation that would make it illegal for landlords in California to require animal declawing or devocalization as a condition of tenancy passed in the Assembly on a 63-7 vote Thursday…
AB 2743 also would forbid landlords from giving preferential treatment to tenants with declawed or devocalized animals and from advertising in a way...
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It's spring, let's make a pie!
Start with two pounds of cherries that were fresh last week. Realize you have to do something with them, and look up recipes until you find the right one for you. Realize you don’t have enough cherries, and add fresh strawberries until ideal weight is achieved. Wash, stem, and pit cherries. This will take longer than you think, but it won’t be nearly as irritating as you expect, I...
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Los Jarritos!
In San Diego there is this phenomenon known as the “Potato Rolled Taco” [Ed. Generally, a “rolled taco” is a taquito if it’s made from a corn tortilla, and a flauta if it’s made from a wheat tortilla]. Jonas is from SD and practically never shuts up about the magicallity of the PRT at Pokez. Having never been to Pokez I can neither confirm nor deny that they are...
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Los Angeles Road Trip: NiceCream's dreamy vegan...
Sorry my northern compadres, but NiceCream is based in LA. While not totally 100 percent vegan (some of their ice cream has honey in it, but these flavors are clearly marked, and they wrote about their use of honey on their website; decide for yourself), this raw ice creamerie is one of the only (or the only?) dedicated nondairy ice creameries in Los Angeles. Located conveniently off of the 101 at...
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Debating organics, praising McDonald's (?!!??),...
This chinchilla is wearing a boy! This boy is wearing a chinchilla! Who’s the boss? With animals who have not been domesticated for very long, like chinchillas, you never can say. Just stay very still and marvel at how light they are compared to how dense they look. [photo credit: I have no idea, sorry. Let us know!]
Exciting vegan-style events! Hey L.A.! This weekend Keep is having a...
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What The Fuck Should I Make For Dinner DOT com!
Ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to my new favorite cooking website: whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com!!!
You go to the site and it’s like:
And of course you’re like, I DON’T FUCKING EAT MEAT so it’s all,
And you’re like, JEEZ LOUISE I LOVE YOU SO MUCH FOR SHOWING ME THIS SITE, MEGAN RASCAL!
Mon pleasure, pals! More deets: It appears that all the main page...
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What the shit: Ike's Place is facing eviction?? →
This news hit me deep in the gut. I’d been hearing some rumblings that Ike was having trouble with one of the neighbors, but I didn’t know it was this bad. How bad is it? Real effing bad.
On Monday, [Ike] Shehadeh went to court to see if he could the eviction from landlord Denman Drobisch thrown out. The plea was denied. Shehadeh has a few more days to answer the complaint, which,...
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Animals don't understand death so it's fine to... →
There’s been a good debate this week over whether people who don’t believe in any god lose anything by not believing; in particular, “How do you feel about death with no prospect of an afterlife?” For me and Kevin Drum of Mother Jones (linked), we believe nothing happens: you fade to black, that’s the end, and yes, it can be an unpleasant thought. The Christians and...
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Urban farming gets WACKY with Triumph's...
I think we’re all supposed to say “oh those WACKY JAPANESE” because nothing says “I’m not actually racist” better than writing about an entire population as a singular entity perpetually obsessed with family honor and tentacle/schoolgirl fantasies. But really, what else will CRAZY JAPAN think up next? Triumph’s rice-growing bra is the perfect gift for...
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Recipes: Megan Rascal's after-school special!
I know lots of people like to get all fancy with their daiya creations but I like to kick it after-school-snack-style! Whole-wheat English muffin + tomato sauce + Daiya mozzarella = Childhood, veganized!
I suggest you make yourself little English muffin pizzas right now. Then grab your chocolate soymilk and enjoy this very special anti-drug episode of Punky Brewster:
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