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Guest post: the Hodo Soy Beanery tour!
There are three main reasons I was pumped when I found out that Hodo Soy Beanery in Oakland offers tours of their factory: 1. I eat a lot of tofu, and I like to know how stuff I eat is made; 2. I’ve been playing with the idea of making my own tofu and goma dofu (sesame seed tofu) at home and wanted to see a larger version of the process in action; and 3. My favorite part of Mister Rogers’...
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Guest post: A vegan in Africa!
If you’re like me, (and since you’re here I’ll assume you’re at least a little like me), you like animals. You’re even more like me if you hate stupid zoos and much prefer viewing creatures in their natural habitat, running free, wind in their fur or reptilian skin or whatever. Where best to do this? Africa! It’s been my dream forEVER to go on safari in Africa,...
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How to party like a coffeehouse: punish a pony! →
Four Barrel Coffee celebrates its second birthday today with a lovely gesture of customer appreciation: free coffee until 4 p.m.! Also, inexplicably, two hours of free pony rides “for the kiddies.” How happy the child and the pony appear!
We’ve never had a problem with Four Barrel—yes they sell bacon donuts, but that’s their choice, and they’ve got soy...
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Cats in clothes! Don't be upset!
Clothing company United Bamboo is making their second annual cat calendar! The calender features cat-sized versions of the company’s fall, winter and spring lines. Say hello to the cuteness!
Every time we post about cats in clothes, some people get upset. But really, I don’t see the big deal. Well, if your cat hates it, I don’t think you should dress fluffers up; but if your...
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Thanks to our sponsors, two sad dogs and cake in a...
A long-tailed macaque living in Bali adopted a lost kitten! He just found the kitten wandering around his home in Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary in Bali, and brought the kitten back to his troop (“a troop of macaques”), and now they are pals. Please excuse your Vegansaurus, whose eyes have begun leaking. [photo by Anne Young]
Events! Events events events! We already told you about...
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Dusker at Hayes Valley Farm tonight!
Usually this would go in the links, but it’s happening early and the links are not an “early afternoon” kind of post, so we’re giving you plenty of warning so you can be there!
What is Dusker? It’s “an end-of-summer celebration,” dummies! There’ll be music, a whole bunch of food for sale—produce, booze, and edibles—Hayes Valley Farm...
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Guest post: Ride to the Light--participate or...
Hi y’all! I know there must be at least a couple people here who like animals and bikes, right? (I mean, this IS commie liberal West Coast vegan cupcake heaven awesome San Francisco, CA.) But anyway, I’m hoping that if you do, you will support Ride to the Light, which is right around the corner! The Ride to the Light is an annual 100-mile bike ride (a “century” in cycling...
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Catalonia bans bullfighting! Viva España!
Bullfighting is so nasty and I fucking* hate it! So I was very glad when Meave reported that an amendment to the animal protection laws in Catalonia, Spain passed! Bullfighting is so over, jack!
I was totally happy about this animal victory but on Facebook today, one of my Spanish friends criticized the motives behind the ban, claiming it’s a matter of politics and not concern for animals....
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The Vegansaurus guide to the Eat Real Festival!
Eat Real Festival starts TODAY in Oakland’s Jack London Square. It goes through Sunday, when I’ll be participating in the Porchlight Storytelling Slam from 3 to 5 p.m.! Should be terrifying and humiliating, stop by!
We’ve compiled a list of all the vegan deliciousness there is to eat. Unfortunately, they’re having all sorts of nasty-ass shit going on like butchering...
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Vegansaurus on SFist! Again! →
You are all remembering to check out our Laura’s regular (-ish) feature on SFist, right? Maybe you’ll learn something new! Maybe you want to read SFist anyway—sometimes our spheres of coverage overlap and they will have more information about things than we do. Sometimes.
This time, though, it is only Pro Tips for the inexperienced vegan diner. But they’re gems!
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Late-breaking news: SF Vegan Drinks is TONIGHT!
Because by “late-breaking” we actually mean “late.” But everything is always more exciting when it’s “breaking” so let’s go with it. BREAKING! You’re canceling your plans (read: Netflix Roulette), hiring the dogsitter, and going to SF Vegan Drinks. Happy summer everyone! It’s over. So let’s drown our fogged-over sorrows after a...
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WTF, Curbed SF??? →
This Philip Ferrato is a real jackass. What the fuck is the point of this post? Did a bunny violate his mom or something? So, he posted bunny adoptions on a site about real estate just so he could be all HAHAHA FUNNY TO EAT RABBITS LOLZ. It seriously makes no sense. Were there no new Pac Heights homes for sale today? No uber-mod living rooms to ham-handedly criticize?
Ferrato, I know you want...
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Vegan watch round-up: the omnivore favs!
You know how the omnivores are always like, “OMG, it must be so hard being vegan!” When really, I’m like, “dude, those greasy potato chips you are enjoying are totally vegan.” Yeah, the omnivores are always doing vegan stuff and they don’t even know it! Like yesterday, I’m sitting around with some omnis when I notice they are all wearing vegan watches! Of...
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A vegan in Paris, part two! (the...
Voy Alimento 23 rue des Vinaigriers Open weekdays from noon to 2 p.m., weekend brunch from noon to 6 p.m. Every once in a while, you step into an establishment and you just put your hand on your heart and swoon and feel good about the world. Voy Alimento is one such place, nestled in the 10ème arrondissement of Paris. It’s a shop that sells supplements and specialty food products native to...
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Help get a vegan panel at SXSW! VEGANS UNITE! →
A panel all about vegan blogging at the biggest internet party in the world?? WE HAVE ARRIVED! Well, almost! It needs your votes to get picked so make it happen, cap’n! It would be so awesome to have a vegan panel in there, just hanging out with the other panels, showing ‘em how it’s done.
Oh, and I totally want to be on it. PLEASE, Stephanie Bogdanich (aka Lazy Smurf!)!...
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Egg prices are rising due to recall! FUCK YEAH! →
Woohoo! Make those suckers like a hundred dollars each! They’re someone’s baby, after all. Actually, If I were to ever have a baby (IUD, don’t fail me now!), I’d probably sell it for less so maybe I should stop making that argument. You might say, “LAURA! BABIES ARE OUR MOST PRECIOUS RESOURCE!” And to that I say, “Also our stinkiest! Think about...
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Plastic made pretty
The Isabel Toledo for Payless collection is VEGAN and it’s OUT OF CONTROL.
Naturally, Payless shoes are not made in America and most likely not environmentally friendly. Then again, these are fucking gorgeous, and as of yet no one’s discovered Payless giving an obscene amount of money to anyone particularly egregious—unless you count being the top contributor to Sen. Sam...
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The flood in Pakistan and how you can help
The Guardian is reporting that 20 million people have been affected by the flood in Pakistan. As the water recedes, people are returning home to find nothing left. Many people had mud houses that were completely destroyed. As always, when a disaster affects people, animals are suffering too. The information about the effects of the flood on the animals is limited but many farm animals are in...
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No Worries (vegan Filipino food! Act like ya...
No Worries is finna open and beforehand, they’re doing it up with tons of food and cooking demos! Hell yeah! For a suggested donation of ten bucks, you get a plate of vegan Filipino food AND a cooking demo with head chef Jay-Ar Isagani Pugao at their restaurant (1442 Franklin St. in Oakland).
There are four events this week: two on Wednesday, Aug. 25 (that’s tomorrow!) from noon to 2...
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BREAKING: Ike's not closing today after all!
Our Steve, who is on the scene to cover the closing of Ike’s Place/eat many of their sandwiches, reports that Ike’s Place is not closing as previously believed. Steve says:
I’m standing at Ike’s Place for my final order, and Ike just came out and announced triumphantly, “we’re not closing!” So here we go. The landlord evicted the wrong entity: Ike and his mom, instead of the...
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Farm Sanctuary's Walk for Farm Animals NEEDS YOU!
The Berkeley chapter of Farm Sanctuary’s Walk for Farm Animals needs walkers to raise money and awareness by busting out their walking/running/dancing (hey! why not!) shoes! It’s a great way to meet other (crazy? non-crazy? it’s a crap shoot!) vegans, get some exercise (WHAT’S THAT! WHO’S HE!?), and raise money for an awesome cause.
I know, you wish it was a...
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SFACC and SFSPCA swamped with cats and kittens!
If you’ve been contemplating a kitty companion, now is the time! Head to SFACC or SFSPCA (or both! They’re right next to each other!) and get your new feline best friend! The shelters are over flowing with cuddly cuteness because of the down economy. Stupid people. Stupid economy. Depression 2.0, it just got personal. Actually, it was personal about a year and a half ago, but...
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Vegansaurus NYC: Cocoa V!
Hey people, one quick thing: you have to go to Cocoa V before you die! It’s an all-vegan, all-organic, all-fair trade chocolate and wine bar. CHOCOLATE and WINE! What else do you need? That’s pretty much it.
Really it’s not all chocolate and wine, they also have baked goods and a savory menu so I went to Cocoa V for brunch this weekend. I ordered the “daily whimsical...
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A vegan in Paris, part one!
I am excited to announce that my broke college ass ended up in Paris for a whopping two weeks before my semester in the even less-vegan-friendly Prague [Ed.: For more advice on visiting vegan Prague, check out Melisser’s chronicles.] And to every asshole in my life that told me I would have to give up veganism to enjoy Paris: t’es un putain de merde. It’s helpful that I have a...
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Guest post: Vegan vacation in Honolulu!
When on vacation, I find it hard to find something I can eat - on my trip to Honolulu last week, I scheduled these vegan restaurants into my trip! There are a number of different veg restaurant guides online that can help you find places to eat when you’re on the road (or the beach)! The Peace Cafe has a beautifully simple dining room where they present delicious vegan food, and it just...
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Moya: the new Ethiopian hotnesss--go there...
Moya is a new Ethiopian restaurant at 1044 Folsom St. (between 6th and 7th Streets), at the bottom of a residential hotel (y’ know how we do.) Get in there if you know what’s good for you.
The first thing you need to know is, it is fucking delicious. It’s handmade by a mom (and some other ladies), and the hip, adorable daughter (dig their Twitter! The bio is amazing!) waits on...
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Issue 2 of Soy Fucker is available! Plus, SF Zine...
Hard copies begin shipping out on Tuesday, Aug. 23! Can’t wait? Can’t blame ya. Soft copies are also for sale, and you can read them, like, now.* Only two bones, and it goes to Deep Roots Sanctuary. What are you waiting for?
*depending on your internet speed.
(via soyfucker)
In other zine and comic news, SF Zine Fest is coming up (Labor Day weekend, Sept. 4 and 5!) and lots of awesome veg...
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We may be crazy, but at least we're not racist...
Better Know a Lobby - American Meat Institute
Stephen Colbert better knows a meat lobbyist, just for us! [can’t see the video? watch in on Vegansaurus.com!]
Your vegany events! The very first Peninsula Vegan Bakesale happens tomorrow, Saturday Aug. 21 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.! It’s at the EVO store, at 159 South B St. in San Mateo, and will benefit the Coalition on Homelessness San...
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380 million egg recall now underway. Great!
Yep, 380 MILLION EGGS are being recalled. Jesus fucking christ. The Humane Society warns of a huge public safety risk (UH NO DOY) and calls on the egg industry to phase out battery cages. According to HSUS, scrambling eggs doesn’t kill Salmonella so it’s not even just uncooked eggs you gotta watch out for and that is SO GROSS. Further, eggs from confined hens have 7.77 times greater...
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Secret to Vegan Feast's nut kreme revealed!
Your Vegansaurus LOVES Vegan Feast’s blog. She posts the most gorgeous photos of the most delicious-sounding recipes that make us hungry basically all the time. That is to say, when we are actively eating something, looking at close-up of a vegan caesar salad or some kind of insane roulade makes whatever we’re eating seem like it was made by a dog and a spiteful child.
Lucky for us,...
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Vegansaurus double, no TRIPLE, feature!
This is a very special edition of Vegansaurus double features because there are not two but THREE movies! Yes, folks, we here at Vegansaurus are not afraid to totally mess up our ideas for regular columns after only one previous installment! That’s ‘cause, as you know, we have balls. Or vaginas. I mean, we don’t want to be all patriarchal, right?
Which brings me to this...
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WatchFrom the Daily Show (as reported by my future husband Wyatt Cenac), this nice woman’s application to be a foster parent was rejected because she, as a Muslim, stated that she would not serve pork in her home. Ridiculous, obviously. Have any vegetarians or vegans had trouble with the foster system because of their diets? Anyone have any information?
I can’t imagine serving animal...
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A Fire Inside, aspiring East Bay vegan bakery,... →
If you all had the pleasure of trying the Weekend Ruiner cinnamon rolls at the last SF Vegan Bakesale, you know what a talent Davey Surcamp is. Those massive balls of sugary dough topped with an orangey cream cheese concoction were one of the absolute best things I’ve ever eaten. And I’ve eaten, folks. I’ve eaten.
Well, Davey has some ambitious new plans. He wants to open a...
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Vaute Couture visiting San Francisco for discount...
Hello, everyone with good taste, style and money; this announcement is for you!
Vaute Couture will be in town on Friday, Aug. 27 and Sunday, Aug. 29 to show us the new fall/winter ‘10 collection, the remaining stock from the fall/winter ‘09 collection, and current late-summer/early fall pieces. You’ll be able to pre-order FW10 items at a discount, and buy the current/older...
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Puny and Decadent American-Bred Panda Is Being... →
Such is the fate of Butterstick, the panda taken from his “home” in the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. on February 5 of this year by the government of China, as he was only on loan. Consider him a warm-up for all those U.S. dollars, I guess.
Tom Scocca reports today that Butterstick—now known by his official birth name, Tai Shen (邰赦嗯, y/n?)—was put on a strict regime to...
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Watch out! True Blood will make you vegan!
If you read Steve’s post a little while back about animal rights in True Blood, then you are already aware of the show’s hidden vegan agenda—but wait! There’s more! Andrea Chalupa wrote at the Huffington Post yesterday that True Blood is making her want to be vegan. Turns out the flesh-ripping violence makes meat dinners kind of unappetizing:
Eating meat and watching...
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Vegan upgrade: St. Francis Fountain!
I know not all of you have the love for St. Francis Fountain. Maybe it’s the hipster staff (and seriously, if that’s such a serious problem for you, you probably need to move elsewhere), or the fact that they’ve always acknowledged vegans without doing much cater to them beyond the obligatory veggie sandwich and tofu scramble (to be fair, a GOOD veggie sandwich and tofu...
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SPCA kitty portraits!
Kira Stackhouse is an SF-based photographer who does super-great pet portraits! Yay pet portraits! She also volunteers her camera abilities to give weekly photo updates of the kitties available at the SF SPCA. If there’s one thing I love more than cute animal pictures, it’s cute adoptable-animal pictures!
How tough is Joseph? Hint: SO TOUGH. He’s like, “Oh, look at...
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Scandals, stupidity, and some really clever sheep...
Pilot whales in the Straits of Gibraltar! This was the only calf in the small pod, don’t you want to give it a hug? YES OF COURSE YOU CAN’T HUG A WHALE. But in my Lisa-Frank-colored childhood dreams, this whale and I would be pals and it would love hugs, so there. [picture by Rory Moore via the Telegraph]
Things for a vegan to do! Tomorrow, Saturday Aug. 14, Harvest Home Sanctuary...
