October 2010
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Buy a Sparrow Project shirt for Farm Sanctuary!
It’s called style and substance, you should cultivate both. The Sparrow Project can help, by kitting you out in one of their adorable shirts! They’ve got something like seven different designs, and the proceeds benefit organizations like Clean Ocean Action and Farm Sanctuary. Specifically, sales of the “Vegan” design go to Farm Sanctuary. Cute, right? It’s printed on...
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Canadian rabbit insanity part II: EXODUS OF THE...
Remember four months ago, when the internet went a little nuts for the story of the “feral” rabbits living on basically every grassy space on the University of Victoria campus in British Columbia, Canada? Your Vegansaurus was skeptical about applying that “feral” adjective because of the the rabbits’ behavior in the videos—they were so calm around people! Which...
September 2010
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Drown your end-of-coupon-days sorrows TONIGHT at...
Yes, it’s the last coupon day at Rainbow, ever. You were already planning to camp out in line from dawn till dusk to save 20 percent off a barrel of flax seed oil, so why not follow it up by drinking the pain away at SF Vegan Drinks? Or show up early, and drunk-shop for the final two hours of crazy. And speaking of drink specials, I hear we have those? Here are the details, from Lyndsay (who...
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Gimme gimme gimme Onigilly's onigiri!
Oh my goodness gracious you guys, am I dreaming? Possibly, possibly I am dreaming. Just look at this photo from SFoodie and tell me it doesn’t look like a meal heaven would serve (if there were a heaven, etc. etc.) [photo by John Birdsall for SFoodie]
Do you know onigiri? It is only the most delicious and perfect savory snack in the entire world, is what it is. I learned of it lo these...
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The Food Network says some vegetarian food is, uh,...
“Now, Lisa’s going through this phase where she doesn’t eat any meat, so I usually sneak a little meat juice into her vegetables.” —Marge Simpson
SuperVegan brings us some unsettling news today: according to a survey conducted by Food magazine, about 15 percent of chefs report that ” their vegetarian dishes might not be completely vegetarian.” Further,...
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Our beloved Elizabeth Kucinich wants you! to...
The Improving Nutrition for America’s Children Act—gosh that sounds wholesome—otherwise known as H.R. 5504, has finally been placed on the House order of business. Unfortunately, the House is taking its “autumn recess” before voting on it, even though the previous legislation—a one-year extension of an even earlier bill—expires, oh, today. Good call,...
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Top Chef: Just Desserts, episode three airs...
The third episode of Top Chef: Just Desserts airs on Bravo tonight (10 Eastern/Pacific), which means that we’re ready to unveil our third guest chef (see the first two here!) who will veganize the episode’s winning dessert! Have you been able to bear the suspense? We have, but just barely! Ohhhh, puns, can you take it?!
This week’s guest chef is the TOTALLY RAD Celine Steen of the hugely popular...
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Dead bear found discarded outside strip mall, or...
SFist reported that a dead bear was found abandoned outside a strip mall taqueria in San Leandro late Sunday evening. Apparently, the 300-pound bear had been shot somewhere else and then transported to the strip mall, where it was left. It is black bear hunting season right now (which in and of itself deserves a resounding What the Fuck), but authorities don’t seem to think a licensed...
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What's wrong with organic eggs?
As new photos reveal, PLENTY. I’m sure I’m not the only one who finds that eggs are one of the most difficult foods to talk people out of. We’ve all had that conversation with that person who insists that they are totally down with your veganism but you see, they eat organic eggs, so there’s no, uh, foul. Try as I might to talk about the essential meaninglessness of...
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Hello friends, it's WTF Wednesday!
Well, hello there! Aren’t you looking attractive today! Almost as attractive as these dogs in a photo booth: [Photo from vi.sualize.us]
These dogs are not only looking awesome (SUNDAY BEST, MOTHERFUCKERS!) but are also emulating exactly what each one of us does in a photo booth: one regular photo and then three photos of insane making out. Even if you’re taking the photo alone....
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Cinnaholic needs our help!
Vegans! And friends of vegans! And lovers of all things delicious! AN ANNOUNCEMENT: Our most favorites, Cinnaholic, is in a tight spot with cash and needs a little extra to pull through this month. You can help, and here’s how: buy a gift certificate for deeeeeeeelicious cinnamon rolls now, and you redeem it, plus 15 percent of its original value, in December. You’re giving them a...
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Animal-welfare news sways meat consumers
Some good news! Meat eaters don’t like hearing about shitty conditions animals live and die in, so let’s keep reminding them! Every chance we get! In a non-preachy, non-offensive way, of course. I know, our job is never easy, but we’re not the ones crowded into CAFO’s breathing in the shit of our friends and family while we wait to die, right? GOOD MORNING! I AM A BUNDLE OF...
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Our visit to the Donut Farm! Oakland gets better...
Laura writes:
Donuts from Oakland’s new Donut Farm! Well, not totally new, it’s Pepples Donuts but in a funky fresh (best words to describe this place, trust) new location with lots of excellent new flavors we haven’t seen before. In the box are Fresh Strawberry, Salted Caramel, Old Fashioned, and Philz Coffee! HOT DAMN! all-vegan, all-organic, all-tasty as shit. Or, a lot tastier than shit,...
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Peta's 30th Anniversary Gala: Celebrities winning...
We dig much of the actual work that Peta does, but as vegans, it’s disappointing to see an animal-rights group give Humanitarian Awards to celebrities who eat meat, dairy, and eggs, and who wear silk, wool, and leather. It’s like, YAY! You’re a little bit famous! And you don’t wear fur! For now! Here are awards and acclaim and goodie bags for Taking a Stand in the...
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Advertising beat: McDonald's is for Old...
[can’t see the video? watch it on vegansaurus.com!]
Since our sneakers correspondent is also our crack advertising reporter, and that Megan Rascal is still gallivanting about Europe, we’re on the advertising beat today! This 30-second spot hasn’t aired on U.S. television yet, but presumably it will, considering how hard commercial media want us to admire/be/get wet for dudes...
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Operation Second Chance: Dogs behind bars!
Is that not an awesome mental image? Just some rad female pit bulls in a Caged Heat 3000-type movie? No? OK, well here’s something even better!
In Kwame Anthony Appiah’s excellent Washington Post piece, “What will future generations condemn us for?” he said that our children’s children would be ashamed not only of factory farming, but also of our current prison...
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Project Just Desserts: Veganizing Top Chef! Week...
Last week, Laura made an incredible-sounding vegan double-chocolate mousse torte to inaugurate Vegansaurus’ Project Just Desserts: Veganizing Top Chef! For the second week, we are honored to welcome the proprietor of Vegan Feast Catering, a.k.a Wasabi Peas, a.k.a Janet Hudson to veganize the winner’s dessert, a “Margarita Bombe with a Lime Cookie, Tequila Mousse, and Grand...
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Donut Farm—where's the review?
Imagine our shock when this little item popped up on our reader this morning: John Birdsall visits Donut Farm and, uh, kind of likes it? Hard to say, really. That an omnivorous food writer didn’t say 100 percent terrible things about vegan donuts didn’t shock us, though; your Vegansaurus knows that vegan food is appealing to people of many tastes, and expects food writers not to be...
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Keep reveals the first Animal Collective...
Our regular sneaker correspondent is traveling the continent in search of vegan treasures (read: food, liquor, and hot dudes), but if she were here she’d be all over this news from Keep Company, announcing the first design in their Keep + Animal Collective collection: the Avey Tare-designed Tobin! What do you think, sneaker-loving youth? Would you buy this shoe? Keep makes it from...
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Free arepa at Pica Pica!
Okay, if that title made any sense to you, you deserve an award. Also, did it sound like I was possibly serving up free rape? Too much? Anyway, I’ve positively reviewed the delicious arepas at Pica Pica, and now here’s your chance to eat one FOR FREE! And by “free,” we mean, “for the price of a beer or sangria,” but really, what’s a meal without booze? No...
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The same charmingly misanthropic news, one day...
This gorgeous rhinoceros is a screen print by artist Millie Marotta.
Take some action from your computer this weekend! The Humane Society asks that you send an email to Dr. Barbara Alving of the National Center for Research Resources to politely ask her to retire 26 “elderly, wild-caught chimpanzees” at the New Iberia Research Center, some of whom have been research subject for over...
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Weekend events spectacular!
You guys! There are so many events this weekend, we can’t even take it! If we included them with this week’s link-o-rama, the post would be about a mile long, which we cannot inflict on you, so here’s an extra-special events-only post. Have fun, everyone!
Friday, Sept. 24 Farm Film Night at Hayes Valley Farm! Jordan already gave you the details yesterday, but here are the quick...
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Happy Hug a Vegetarian OR MORE IMPORTANTLY A VEGAN...
According to PETA, it’s Hug a Vegetarian Day! I hope you’ll all use this as an excuse to cop a feel on the closest vegan hottie (or nottie! we don’t know what you’re into!).
We’d also like to take this time to suggest a possible, “Copulate with an Omnivore Day!” This would happen annually (or daily, we can discuss specifics later) when we would take to...
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Opinionator vs. opinionated: swing and a miss,...
The New York Times Opinionator blog asks: Why should we have carnivorous animals? Your Vegansaurus considered the question, and, of course, had something to say about it. Certainly we shouldn’t have carnivorous people; our big evolved brains learned ethics, and we’re past thinking of animals of commodity or property. We want to do as little harm to animals as possible, including...
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Product review: Gardein Crispy Tenders!
We’ve reviewed the buffalo wings and the Sicilian trio, but my heart is with the Gardein crispy tenders. They are no joke! I used the toaster oven method of cooking, and cooked them like twice as long as suggested. They are my jam. And for our recently vocal health enthusiasts, you’ll be happy to hear that a serving has 1.5 grams of fat (zero saturated fat) and 9 grams of protein....
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Movie Night at Hayes Valley Farm: FRIDAY!
The very, very cool Hayes Valley Farm has started screening movies! That’s right: movies at the farm! You can learn all about it here (and maybe get inspired to get involved and volunteer). The film starts at sundown, but the gates open at 6 p.m., PLUS, it’s by donation (they suggest $5), so if you’re seriously down on your luck, you can name your price (but don’t be a...
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Thursday: A good day for marble bundt cake (and...
Knowing how to bake vegan is awesome. Sure, in larger cities, we’re pretty spoiled, and we can find vegan baked goods in cafes and grocery stores and sometimes even in vegan bakeries. However, even in the larger cities, there are still a lot more non-vegan baked goods than vegan ones, and there’s nothing worse than spying a lovely vision of a pastry or cake and then realizing...
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Party at Cinnaholic tonight SAY HEEEEEY!
Head down to Cinnaholic tonight from 3 to 7 for some free music, good mind-blowing eats, and perhaps one of their adorable, limited-edition t-shirts, featuring a snail loving on a cinnamon roll. Because what’s cuter than a snail who can throw down when it comes to food? NOTHING. Okay, maybe baby sloths! BUT THAT’S IT. And maybe this baby hippo.
More party details here. Save us a...
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Lady Gaga, your meat clothes make me sick!
God, if that horrible Lady Gaga monstrosity wasn’t enough, now designers are sending meat dresses down the runway at Fashion Week. Jeremy Scott (who is this person? I just looked up his designs and they are HORRIBLE. I’m not going to link, though, because I don’t want to give him more publicity than I already am by writing this) got a standing ovation after he showed a...
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Top Chef: Just Desserts, episode two airs tonight,...
The second episode of Top Chef: Just Desserts airs on Bravo tonight (10 Eastern/Pacific), which means that we’re ready to unveil our second guest chef (uh, the first guest chef was me even though I’m neither a guest or a chef! but check it out, I veganized a pretty rad dessert!) who will veganize the episode’s winning dessert! Have you been able to bear the suspense? We have, but...
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Simple answers to simple questions: Bill Clinton...
Gawker headline: “Bill Clinton Is a Vegan?”
Answer: No.
Here’s the Big Dog in his own words on Wolf Blitzer: “I did all this research, and I saw that 82 percent of the people since 1986 who have gone on a plant-base, no dairy, no meat of any kind, no chicken, no turkey—I eat very little fish, once in a while I’ll have a little fish—If you can do it, 82 percent of...
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Product review: Tofutti Flowers!
As I’ve said before, I’m in this for the attention and the free stuff. Recently we got free stuff: Tofutti sent us a box of the new popsicle/ice cream bars they’re making, called Flowers, because they contain real flower and nectar flavors. Popsicles in general are genius, and I love them, but this popsicle was not the best one I’ve ever had. The chocolate coating was all...
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Wait what? Ike's Place is already back in SF?
It seems like only just yesterday that I was walking down 16th, wondering what THE HELL I was going to get for lunch today now that the local sandwich-hating Brownshirts have run Ike’s out of town. And if it seems like it was yesterday, it’s because it was. Literally yesterday.
So this morning (and by morning I mean noon, and waking up at noon doesn’t mean you’re lazy, it...
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Hello friends, it's WTF Wednesday!
Hello and welcome to “WTF Wednesdays,” an exciting new Vegansaurus feature. Notice that I did not spell out the F word because I want this post to be classy and family-friendly. Kind of like Hooters, but without the chicken wings. Or the girls in tight-fitting uniforms. Or the deep-fried pickles, which are, admittedly, the best part of the Hooters experience. Here is how you can...
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WatchHere’s a newish video about moths by Lucy Cooke, creator of that awesome and adorable baby sloth video. It can’t compare to baby sloths, but what can?! It’s still cool though. So many kinds of moths! I like the ones that look like leaves—who’s with me?! Those guys are totally cool. They’re all, “I’m a moth! I’m a leaf! I’m a moth!...
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Chipotle, I am skeptical of your "revolución!"
So, Chipotle is calling for an end to the mistreatment of pigs, and now I feel conflicted.
My attention was alerted to this call to arms by the very excellent Suicide Food Blog, which has written up the Mexican food chain in its Monday, Sept. 20 post. Chipotle has a new ad campaign, and it’s all about feeling good about what we eat. The ad in question is actually printed on Chipotle’s...
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Gorilla does something lovable once again, briefly...
There is nothing cuter than an animal being adorable with a tech gadget. When I was still running a menagerie out of my room I was always trying to get my hamsters and guinea pigs to take interest in the newest Game Boy advance offerings or to help me with the buttons of the first-generation DS Lite. Unfortunately, they were not into it, and preferred to urinate all over my lap instead of...
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Colorado Bureau of Animal Protection's chief...
Nope, not even kidding a little bit. Check out Scot Dutcher’s Twitter, which as of this post is still up and functioning, despite the state’s Dept. of Agriculture Deputy Director Jim Miller’s admission that Dutcher’s Twitter was “unauthorized,” and moreover, that “[I]t was something that we spoke with [Dutcher] about. He understood that he wasn’t...
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Spekuloos Spread is COMING TO AMERICA ALL RIGHT!
Actually, it’s already here! If you haven’t previously indulged, it’s basically a concoction of crushed-up cookies and magic. You spread it on everything and it makes it better! Including OTHER COOKIES. Melisser is obsessed with the stuff and turned us onto it, and we’ve been nuts about it since. Before, it was only available in Europe but now you can eat this shit on...
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Fast & Furious Giveaway: Tickets to see Jonathan...
YOU GUYS! We have some free tickets (at least two, maybe more!) to the City Arts & Lectures talk with Jonathan Safran Foer at the Herbst Theater TOMORROW (Wednesday, Sept. 21) NIGHT! Tickets are $20 but we’re giving ‘em away to a few lucky Vegansaurus readers!
For a chance to win, let us know your favorite animal in the comments, or make some sort of mega-plea. Preferential...
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Caboodle Ranch: cutest cat village in the world!
Craig Grant is the totally awesome man who created Caboodle Ranch in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., where over 600 cats reside. There was a time when he didn’t even like cats! But when his son went off to college, he left his cat with Craig. Craig soon learned the cat was preggers and ended up with five kittens. He wanted to give the kittens away but his son told him they had to stay with the...
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Annals of animal cruelty: Maria, murdered in a...
You see a lot of horrible things when you spend a lot of time on the internet. There’s that girl throwing puppies into a river a couple of weeks ago, factory workers torturing chickens, and this one video of Stella McCartney talking about foxes going mad at a fur farm (which I co-opted and used as my signature catchphrase during the summer of 2005. It was “This fox has gone mad!”...
