November 2011
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Recipe: Seasonal Affective Risotto (butternut...
The yearly end of Daylight Savings Time puts me into a funk. I’m on the brink of another major depressive episode, and the only things keeping me going are Sadie (my cat companion), wine, and glitter. Risotto takes a while to cook, it’s a good dish to make when you want to be brooding and pensive and listen to Bright Eyes’ Fevers and Mirrors. I made it with butternut squash and...
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Paul Shapiro Presents: Animal News You Can Use!
It’s time for the next installment of Paul Shapiro’s Animal News You Can Use! Take it away, Paul!
I’ve got an op-ed in Capital Press (an ag trade publication) about why it might be a good idea to let farm animals turn around. Yep, this is still a debate.
AP has a good article about our work in California. Take-away line: “’Of all the animal organizations, HSUS has the...
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Find your vegan shit here, folks!
Sometimes Google doesn’t have all the answers. I know, I know; I can hardly believe it, but it’s true. I learned this when I Googled “vegan turkey Thanksgiving” and got a bunch of stupid HuffPo articles about how veg turkeys were not as good for eating as real ones.
Luckily, VegListings, a new business with a cute little site, might be able to help me out with that — and...
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Harvest Home Sanctuary's Toast to the Turkeys was...
Last weekend’s Harvest Home Sanctuary’s Toast to the Turkeys event was pretty much the greatest and if you missed it, that’s just inexcusable. Oh well, there’s hope for you, yet! You can go to another Thanksgiving with the animals event, they’re still happening all over! so GET ON IT because you haven’t lived until you’ve seen a turkey eat a cranberry....
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Check out the SF SPCA's holiday windows at Macy's...
MERRY CHRISTMAS LITTLE DOG!
I know, it is basically the SF SPCA blog over here lately, but we are on Krista’s mailing list and she has a lot to say right now! Hi, Krista!
Every year the SF SPCA and Macy’s Union Square get together to promote local animal adoption, by designing fancy winter-holiday (Christmas) windows to show off all the cutie-pie puppies and kittens you could adopt...
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My Life as a Turkey! Anyone seen it??
Has anyone seen My Life as a Turkey? It’s a documentary about this guy, Joe, who raises wild turkeys from hatchlings to adulthood. My friend Staci sent me an email about it last night and was all, “OMG AMAZING!!” but then also, “I didn’t see the whole thing.” STACI! Anyway, the full thing is on PBS’s Nature site, so uh, anyone want to watch it and tell me...
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Pamper your pets at animal-only resorts and spas
I have long been an animal-lover who also enjoys traveling. As a result, I have often hired a petsitter or boarded my pets in kennels before heading out of town. Times have changed since I bid temporary farewell to my first pet, however; nowadays, pet resorts and spas are popping up all over, giving pet owners the chance to treat their companions to a little luxury while their humans are at play....
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Hello, friends! It's WTF Wednesday!
You guys, next week is Thanksgiving, which means that I get a week off! Technically, it’s only three days, but Allen and I are getting the hell out of dodge and the hell into Modesto (no, for real) late Monday or early Tuesday. I actually really like Modesto for several reasons. First, there is sporadic internet access at Allen’s parents’ house now, so I can enjoy all of...
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Paul Shapiro presents: Animal News You Can Use!
This is from the mighty and awesome Paul Shapiro, the senior director of the Farm Animal Protection wing of the Humane Society of the United States. Paul is not only the raddest and very hilarious and kind and good and a fucking force to be reckoned with, but he’s always a wealth of animal news. We’re gonna publish his updates so that you’re as blessed with new information as we...
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SF SPCA says, please don't bring your dogs to...
At least, not in the Bay Area. The SF SPCA has confirmed three cases of parvovirus in dogs that were part of the OccupySF camp, all of whom are now being treated.
Parvo doesn’t fuck around! It is highly contagious and when left untreated will almost definitely kill your dog. Not everyone has vaccinated their animal pal, and if your dog hasn’t finished the series of shots that...
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Cookbooks vs. apps: a question for the readers
Image by neoprolog on Flickr
Lizzie Stark over at the Today Show has a pretty interesting post up about the relative merits of cookbooks vs apps. I only know this because Terry Hope Romero, author of many of my favorite cookbooks, tweeted about it:
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Cooksbooks & apps are like apples and tofu: need both in my life #vegancookbooks
You have no idea how much you’re missing on...
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Everyday is Earth Day when you are vegan, so...
Karine Brighten is looking for vegans to represent at her second annual Berkeley Vegan Earth Day event. Got a film you want to show? Something to say? She is now taking submissions! You should participate, because you are smart and sexy, which means peeps wants to hear what you have to say. I know I do!
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