July 2010
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Make yourself useful, San Francisco!
What do we love? Animals! What do we want? To keep them from being sold in pet stores in San Francisco! How can we do this? By attending today’s Animal Welfare Commission meeting at 5:30 p.m. in room 408 at City Hall!
The city already prevents selling cats and dogs in stores, but animals like birds have it hard. Last year, Mickaboo took in over 400 birds, “most of which originally...
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Recipe: Summertime Corn Pilaf!
If you are anything like me, people are always inviting you to parties. Oy! But in the summer, getting invited to a party suddenly means you’re supposed to cook something. What the hey?! Outside of Thanksgiving, you don’t have to cook jackshit for parties in the other seasons! Bring some booze and you’re golden. Then summer comes along and POW! Everyone’s a commie! Ever...
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Your weekly paranoia
Just in case anyone was feeling complacent, the ACLU is here to remind us that our civil liberties are still (even increasingly) under attack. It’s old news that intelligence and security agencies gather assloads of information about people from the internet, and these agencies are usually interested in racial and religious minorities, political activists (cough cough *green scare* cough),...
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Like unicorns, if we stop believing in the oil... →
Great news! Already tired of looking at depressing photos from the oil spill? Thanks to new regulations from the Coast Guard, you won’t have to for much longer. Soon, getting close enough to photograph the oil spill will be a felony, punishable by a $40,000 fine. Zoe Strauss, you’re on notice.
According to CNN’s Anderson Cooper, the Times-Picayune, and several other news sources, the...
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Calling vegan designers, models, and...
I think that about says it all! Well, here’s a bit more info if you’re the curious type. If you think you fit the bill, contact event organizer, Karine Brighten. The event will take place at World Veg Festival in Golden Gate Park on October 2 and is emceed by a Skinny Bitch. Fun! Get on it, folks!
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Frog dissection? There's, yes, an app for that
Of all the psyche-scarring high school experiences, from Saturday detention to prom, perhaps the only one that John Hughes failed to prepare me for was the yearly rite of animal dissection. Not to say that I opted out on some principled moral ground; I did, in fact, cut my frog (and earthworm, and rat) [Ed.: and fetal pig] open, with help from a typically unwilling lab partner.
What was the...
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Review: Gardein Trios!
Hello, on-the-go, modern-living human! You desire sustenance, but have only a brief amount of time in which to prepare and devour it! What is the solution to your problem?
WELL. One of those solutions is a Gardein Trio, a new product in the Gardein vegan-meat line that includes vegetables and rice, and is microwavable in three minutes. Here is the one I tried, the Sicilian Trio. I chose this one,...
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Adopt-a-Rabbit update!
Good news, everyone! Anne reports that the Adopt-a-Rabbit event on Saturday was a great success! All of 14 rabbits found loving homes, including Misses Bijou and Clementine. Isn’t that lovely? And there’ll be another, even bigger bunny adoption event in a few weeks in Richmond, in case you missed this one and need a bun in your life (hint: you do)—we’ll keep you posted...
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Well I say! It's time for the adorability and...
BUNNIES BUNNIES BUNNIES! Adopt yourself a bunny from the East Bay SPCA—4651 Gleason Dr. in Dublin—at tomorrow’s Adopt-a-Rabbit Day, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.! Five different rescue groups will have rabbits there for you to fall in love with, because rabbits are like cats for a dog-person: they’re super-cute and loving, but also neat and tidy, and they like to have time for...
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Rock on, Magnum: a vegan loves the feedlot
I was recently pointed toward an article by my buddy, Miles; an article by a vegan nutritionist who visits a cattle feedlot—and gives it kind of a rave review. Ulp.
The author is one Ryan Andrews, a vegan nutritionist and former bodybuilder. He claims to have wanted to get a firsthand feedlot experience for a while, having set up his tour only after months of emails and phone calls. Now,...
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In which the New York Times Magazine demonstrates...
The New York Times Magazine printed a 4,000 word advertisement for article about Humphrey Slocombe that included some rather negative/poorly researched Vegansaurus mentions. I know standards for the NYT mag aren’t too high—look at the kind of folks they work with; But still, disappointing. Anyway, I wrote a letter to the editor as a response and am going to publish it in full here...
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Guest post: a vegan guide to Boston!
So you find yourself in Boston, wandering past the vaguely Irish pubs and seafood restaurants, weaving through Red Sox fans and college students as your stomach cries out in hunger. What is a vegan to do? Fear not—Boston is full of wicked ah-some vegan noms. Let’s start off with a kick-ass brunch option. The Otherside Café isn’t all-vegan (too busy being all-hipster), but it can convert...
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Recipe: Supermashedbanana!
(Gustatory) Things to do with an overripe banana: make banana nut bread; make banana split cupcakes from VCTOTW; and now, make a vegan banana-almond smoothie that will blow your socks off in a way that only bananas can.
Supermashedbanana makes two servings
2 mashed bananas
1/2 to 1 cup almond milk
2 Tbsp almond butter
2 Tbsp maple syrup
2 to 3 Tbsp coconut milk
1/2 tsp cinnamon (or more...
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June 2010
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Looking good, San Franciscans
Hey sexy people, Stylist.com gave a shout out to San Francisco’s “beauty trends!” Let the excitement begin! I’ll summarize for you because you are lazy and I’m a genius summarizer: 1. Smokey eyes are so totally in. 2. You’re crunchy bastards.
They say vegan makeup is all the rage and that Pin Up Cosmetics is totally the way to go. I had never heard of this Pin...
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Why vegans are DOMINATING
With the news of Jessica Simpson becoming vegan [Ed.: lolz!], I want to remind all the vegans out there why we still win in this crazy competition called life.
To begin: Cesar mother-fucking Chavez. BOOYAH! It makes a million dollars worth of sense to me that Chavez, activist for immigrant labor rights, was vegan, as the meat industry is notorious for abusing immigrant labor.
Chavez strikes a...
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More baby sloths!
Does everyone remember that superfantasticamazing sloth video we posted? Well guess what: there’s more to come! Lucy Cooke, a frog-activist and filmmaker, has gone back to the sloth orphanage in Costa Rica to supply us with more sloth “cute-crack” as she calls it (as “cute imagery really does work like crack by stimulating the reward centre of the brain”). She plans...
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