November 2012
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WatchReminder: Cory Booker is a hero and a national treasure. Impertinently, he is also very handsome.
Stay safe, East Coast Vegansaurs.
October 2012
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The Supreme Master Ching Hai musical! How did we...
Catherine Wagley went to see Loving Silent Tears, the musical based on Supreme Master Ching Hai’s poetry collection, Silent Tears, and reviewed it for LA Weekly. Here is a taste for you:
The whole cast comes onstage. “Let’s take each other’s/Take each other’s hand,” they sing. Audience members had been given star-shaped light up wands to wave, too, though...
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Whole Foods debuts their own brand of vegan meats!
And we’ve been eating them up and they’re TASTY. Chicken patties, burgers, meatballs, nuggets, THE WORKS.
I believe they’re at all Whole Foods but Whole Foods doesn’t tell us shit so you might want to call a store near you and get the 411 on meatless meatballs and chickenless nuggets and WHAAAT. This stuff is GOOD. $4/package. I think that’s everything
LET’S...
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Pig factory farms are really bad for the mostly...
Some really depressing news from EHP about how pig factory farms are and how they impacting the lives of the people who live near them. SPOILER ALERT: it’s not giving them magic powers or helping them live really long happy lives!
Wired breaks it down:
… in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, which finds an association between air pollution and odor in the near vicinity...
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Baby echidna puggle is weird and adorbs.
Can’t see the video? Watch it on Vegansaurus.com!
Check out this super-weird, super-cute video about a little echidna puggle who was recently rescued at just a few days old. Dudes, I totally want my own echidna puggle now. Wait—maybe I should be one of these for Halloween?!
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In Hurricane Sandy's path? Here's what to do if...
HSUS has a great post with everything to do, check it out.
Things you can do right now:
Put a collar with visible identification on your pets, including indoor-only pets
Keep pictures of your pets on hand for identification purposes. Ideally, you should also be in the photo
Create a pet emergency kit (see below) and refresh the items every few months
Talk to your neighbors about how they...
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Paul Shapiro's Animal News You Can Use!
Paul Shapiro is back for his weekly dose of all the animal news that’s fit to print! Take it away, Paul!
You already know that US meat consumption is declining significantly, but did you know about the positive global trends on this front? See what this meat industry site has to say about it. That’s of course not to suggest that all is well by any means, since some countries, like China,...
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The Vegansaurus Top 15 vegan celebrities!
LA Weekly just posted their top 10 vegan celebrities, which got me wondering why they should have all the fun. As many of you pointed out, a few of those celebs aren’t even vegan anymore (Alec and Olivia, I’m looking at you.) So … drum roll, please … we at Vegansaurus have put together our own top 10 list, only it contains 15 of our favorite vegan celebs! What do you think?...
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WatchIt’s six days till Halloween! Get in the spirit by turning down the lights and watching this surprisingly suspenseful video about zombie snails (spoiler: PARASITES)! It is much scarier than I anticipated!
Further your education with Radiolab’s excellent “Parasites” episode. Science: somehow more terrifying than any ridiculous legends (which are all turning out to be totally true, anyway).
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Label me delicious: Bites of Bliss superfood...
As a high raw queer vegan, I think about labels a lot, how they’re helpful and also kind of complicated. Labeling a product vegan is a bold visibility move, and I like that. I’ve seen entire Facebook photo albums devoted to highlighting explicitly vegan products. It’s actually really validating, like, WE BUILT THAT, but less offensive because we’re talking about the vegan movement and not...
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FakeMeats.com Pumpkin-Carving Contest!
Hello, pals! How are Halloween preparations going? Have you carved a pumpkin yet?! if you do, you should enter it in the FakeMeats.com pumpkin-carving contest!
Here are the details:
Pumpkin carving contest! Winner gets a free FakeMeats.com 8-Item Snack Pack with a mix of vegan/vegetarian jerky and desserts! To Enter the Contest: 1) Carve a pumpkin 2) Share a photo of your carved pumpkin on...
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Recipe: Pumpkin butter is so easy, why aren't you...
It’s the simplest thing in the world; you barely need a recipe. Let me walk you through it.
Take a sugar pie pumpkin. Halve it, gut it. Line a baking dish (NOT A COOKIE SHEET) with parchment paper and put your twin pumpkin halves in it.
Bake at 350 for an hour or so, until your pumpkin looks like this: I poked mine with a knife a few times to check for doneness. It’s like baking...
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WatchYOU GUYS. The Cute Show went to the Montreal Wiener Dog Races! In these three minutes and 13 seconds you will see racing dachshunds! Dachshunds in costume! Dachshunds jumping through hoops! A 14-week-old dachshund puppy named Arthur who was born without eyes!
The Montreal Wiener Dog races were organized to raise awareness and funds for dachshund rescue organizations; this year’s races...
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Belugas talking like people! Or at least one!
So this is what can happen when a beluga lives in San Diego for seven years.
We do not claim that our whale was a good mimic compared to such well-known mimics as parrots or mynah birds. However, the sonic behavior we observed is an example of vocal learning by the white whale. It seems likely that NOC’s close association with humans played a role in how often he employed his human voice, as...
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Green Mountain College to make oxen burgers out of...
This is what happens when “working animals” retire: they get slaughtered. Lou and Bill have worked the fields of Green Mountain College’s “sustainable” farm for ten years. Now, at eleven, the college wants to get rid of Lou and Bill. Apparently, at Green Mountain College, that means slaughtering them and eating them in hamburger form.
Needless to say, many are not...
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Weather Puppy: Get the weather and help animals!
Weather Puppy is a new app that tells you the weather…with cute puppies! It’s basically a picture of a puppy that more or less matches the weather BUT it has all the vital weather forecast info you need. Above was NY’s weather as of this morning (yes, I woke up at 4am and couldn’t get back to sleep. Now I’m at work. Shoot me in the face). Below is SF’s...
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Live Superfoods Are Luxury In Your Blender
I love raw vegan smoothies so much! I tend to drink them at least once a day, for breakfast and/or after my weight lifting class (I’m trying to get super jacked on plants! Wish me luck!) Since I tend to drink the same few smoothie ingredient combinations on the reg, it’s important for me to stop—hold up—and try new flavors and ingredients. Live Superfoods sent me samples...
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Moses, baby orphaned elephant, is the cutest
This is Moses. He has a blog. Because he needs one. You would need one too if you were the cutest lil’ ele ever!*
A very sickly baby Moses was discovered by a river in Malawi. When his mama couldn’t be found (possibly killed by poachers), he was taken in by Jenny Webb of the Jumbo Foundation. Webb is acting as the little guy’s mother until he’s old enough to head out...
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Hella Vegan Eats is having a Halloween pop-up on...
BOO! It’s a VERY SPOOKY Halloween Pop-up tomorrow (Mon., Oct 22) from Hella Vegan Eats at Dear Mom in San Francisco! What’s gonna be spooky is the amount of chow we are going to grub at this event, okay!? All the details on the flyers, let’s eat!
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Paul Shapiro's Animal News You Can Use!
It’s time for Paul Shapiro’s Animal News You Can Use! With the ever charming, brilliant, and hard-working Mr. Paul Shapiro! Take it away, Paul…
A nice article this week points out that in the US, sales of meat-free meals are increasing as sales of meat continue declining.
In less nice news, a report this week paints a harrowing picture: The headline says it all: “China Now...
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Check out Sōw, a new pop-up juice bar in San...
Hey everyone! What are you doing on Monday? Let’s hit up Sōw together for some delicious, healthy juice!
I went a couple weeks ago and HOT DANG, was I super pleased with everything! The juice is awesome and so are the juicers themselves, Luisa and Derek. Luisa told me they met as baristas at Blue Bottle, and look how their friendship has grown—now they’re business owners. So cute, and so...
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Product Review: Belmondo Vegan Pore Cleansing Clay...
Here I am, back with more vegan skincare news! I recently became aware of this skincare company Belmondo:
This natural skin care line uses organic ingredients, sourced fair trade whenever possible, that are brimming with the earth-grown goodness your body recognizes and uses to heal and beautify itself.
The line is based all around organic olive oil. They never test on animals and most...
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Vegan MoFo: Caponata, for all your...
Vegan hero Kittee posted her family’s caponata recipe last month and I have been dying to make it since. Unfortunately it’s been too hot for serious cooking since June, and only in the last couple weeks has it cooled down enough at night to even open the windows. And this week? Another heat wave.
Last weekend, though, I had plenty of time and cooler evenings to do some serious stove...
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Fresh 'N Lean: Yummy organic vegan meals delivered...
First, a big whopping disclaimer: I am affiliated with Fresh ‘N Lean. It didn’t start out that way—I was just an unsuspecting lover of their maple-sweet homemade granola, gluten-free vegan lasagna, hearty chickpea Asian salads and savory lentil soup.
Then they asked me to write for their blog in exchange for an ongoing weekly supply of their incredibly delicious plant-source...
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Massive peanut recall! Check your foods!
Right now might be the only time ever that folks with peanut allergies are looking at the rest of us thinking, “Haha, suckers!” If you haven’t heard, there’s a massive peanut recall afoot, and it affects a lot of fancy vegan peanut products.
A whole bunch of products made in by Sunland, Inc between March 2010 and Sept. 24, 2012, might be infected with salmonella! So far...
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Gary Francione on Philosophy Bites: Animal...
Gary Francione means business.
Humane treatment is a fantasy, it’s on an epistemological par with Santa Claus, bunny rabbits, Easter rabbits and things of that nature—silly. Humane treatment is impossible.
Philosophy Bites is a podcast series of short discussions of philosophical topics (duh). On Saturday, they had Gary Francione come discuss animal abilitionism.
If we take...
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Vegan MoFo: It's fall, drink yourself some...
Yes, Oktoberfest is a September celebration, but here in Northern California we’re still getting warm days with our rapidly cooling nights. This, I feel, is the perfect time to drink beer. Something bright and crisp, like the fall air, but with enough body (ugh) to make you feel full. Friends, Hefeweizen is that beer. It’s German! It’s fruity! It’s unfiltered and...
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Product review: Sacha Vida's nutty-tasting,...
Sacha Vida sacha inchi oil, made from sacha inchi seeds grown in peru and bottled in the Napa Valley, tastes like a cross between hemp, flax, and peanut oil. Like hemp and flax, this oil cannot withstand heat and therefore must be used exclusively in raw dishes. Obviously that’s fine with me, because I just love raw food!
The health benefits linked to sacha inchi seeds are impressive: ideal...
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2012 election: What's up with California's...
Vegansaurus loves voting. It is our right to have it, and our privilege to exercise it. Voting is tops!
That said, actually voting can be terribly confusing, especially here in California, land of the endless ballot propositions! There are always so many, and they are not all as straightforward as 2008’s beloved Prop. 2. This year we’ve got 11, some directly contradicting others ON...
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There's a new website to help us be vegan! →
The nonprofit Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM) (see what they did there?) has a new website that’s chock-full of design elements circa 2006 but useful info that’s so 2012 on the whole vegan thing.
There are sections on getting started, what to eat, why to go vegan, how to stay healthy, and perhaps best of all: handling social situations. We’re all total misfits, just admit...
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Interview: Meet Nicole Marquis, owner of...
Healthful vegan fast food maven Nicole Marquis dreamed of serving fast food to Philadelphians and visitors to the City of Brotherly/Sisterly/Gender-is-a-construct Love. And when she built HipCityVeg, we did come, in arugula taco salad-chomping droves. Now it’s silly to even think of eating anywhere else in Rittenhouse Square! I mean, I guess you could think about it, but it’d be...
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Product review: Yummi Bears vitamins are perfect...
UPDATE!!!: Turns out, these are NOT vegan. They contain lanolin. However the company says that Yummi Bears Organics Immunity and Yummi Bears Organics Brain Health are both vegan.
When you’re a queer vegan like me, you learn to improvise in situations where inequality is at play. No same-sex marriage in your state? Road trip with your pleather biker fiancé to Northhampton! No vegan gummy...
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S.F. Bay Area: VEGAN AND WINE CHEESE PARTY!
Chef Miyoko Schinner, the madwoman behind the genius new Artisan Vegan Cheese cook book, is throwing a delicious party to celebrate her own awesomeness! If I were her, I’d be doing the same damn thing because SHE IS AWESOME. She’s revolutionized vegan cheese, teaching us how to make mozzarella and a million other ridiculously tasty vegan cheeses. OH HOLY MOTHER! We’re all about...
