October 2012
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The News You Need: Dog steals golfball, is...
What a rascal! A funny dog totally stole golfer Paul Casey’s golfball, mid-game.
The Englishman was 20 feet from the cup on his third hole Friday at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship when a dog ran onto the green and ran off with his ball.
OMG that is too hilarious. I love how he’s totally like, “Yoink! Got my ball! Later dudes!” and he’s out of there....
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Vegan MoFo: Lundberg Tuscan Risotto!
To continue your international MoFo journey, let’s get Tuscan! I used to eat Lundberg risottos all the time in college—I didn’t know they made vegan ones! Nice. I like that big “VEGAN” on the bottom. Nice.
The Tuscan flavor is tasty. I give it 80 thumbs up! It’s just good and warm and creamy. Ain’t nothing wrong with that.
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Guest Post: Meatless Monday Murderers? Chico State...
A few weeks back, someone in the USDA sent out a newsletter that seemed to favor the latest push to wean Americans off of their meat addiction, Meatless Mondays. But as soon as the proverbial ink dried on this newsletter, the clowns in the meat industry cried louder than the millions of livestock they brutally slaughter everyday, claiming this new fangled Meatless Monday was a detriment to the...
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Top 5 Reasons to do Walk for Farm Animals with...
Hi everybody! Gene Baur (!) sent us this handy list about Farm Sanctuary’s Walk for Farm Animals. The SF Walk for Farm Animals is October 13th, who’s going to be there? Gene is! You can be there too, there is still time to sign up. I also want you to know that the cow in the picture above is named Meg. Twinsies!
Top 5 Reasons to Walk for Farm Animals
1. Meet other people who care...
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Vegan MoFo: Moroccan Sandcastle cookies!
Here’s my entry for International Mofo: Moroccan sand cookies from Black and Blanco! These are actually made in NYC but they are totes a Moroccan thing. Though I don’t know if they are traditionally made with chocolate. But survey says: these rule! They aren’t that sweet at all and they are a bit salty but still chocolately so…they are perfect!
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It's Paul Shapiro's Animal News You Can Use!
It’s Animal News You Can Use from Paul Shapiro! Yay, Paul! Yay, animals!
Pork magazine started a column this week off by lamenting, “Sadly, the list of companies announcing they will force their pork suppliers to move away from sow gestation stalls continues to grow longer.” Since last week’s email, both Brinker and Bruegger’s Bagels added themselves to that list. How sad, indeed…
Huffington Post...
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Sunbiotics Probiotics Are Chewable Candy For Your...
One of my life missions is to bring supplementation to the vegan masses through any means necessary (see: the B-12 patch and Omega-Zen). Something I’ve been wondering about lately is how to make vegan supplements taste like candy, because I feel strongly that taste matters a great deal when it comes to ensuring our population is adequately supplemented. If it tastes like acidopholous,...
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The SF Ice Cream and Hot Sauce Takedown is Sunday!...
This SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY! There’s going to be an “Ice Cream and Hot Sauce Takedown” in SF! That doesn’t mean you have to eat them together. It means that there is an ice cream recipe contest and a hot sauce recipe contest! It’s for everyone, but how cool would it be if a veeg (that’s my new abbreviation for vegan! Imma make it happen. Laura is already on the...
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Factory Farming Awareness Coalition says, pink...
Our pal Katie Cantrell of the Factory Farming Awareness Coalition (formerly known as the Coalition to Fight Factory Farming) would like to remind you that pink slime isn’t the only nasty slime in our lives:
[N]ow there’s a new alarming factory farmed byproduct: green slime. Blue-green algae is infesting lakes and rivers, making people and companion animals ill and costing billions of...
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Product review: Korean radish kimchi by Sinto...
This is the second combination product review and International Vegan MoFo entry starring local vegan kimchi!
As I said yesterday, Sinto Gourmet makes three kinds of kimchi, which I sampled at the Eat Real Fest in Oakland last month. Because they are all amazing and I am not insane, I bought giant jars of the spicy napa cabbage and the spicy radish varieties on the spot.
This is a bowl of spicy...
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Dashing and daring Animals Asia rescues two moon...
Wonderful news from Animals Asia: They’ve saved two moon bear cubs!
Two small moon bear cubs, confiscated from smugglers in North Vietnam, were rescued by our Vietnam team and successfully transported home to our Moon Bear Rescue Centre at Tam Dao National Park.
Negotiating flood-damaged roads extended the journey home to 12 hours, with stops every two hours to feed and check on the...
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Australia's National Food Plan may include vegan...
That’s the way to do it, Vegan Australia.
The magical island of Australia (or as we think of it, Evil New Zealand), is right now creating a national food plan. The government wants “to foster a sustainable, globally competitive, resilient food supply that supports access to nutritious and affordable food.” Which is admirable!
The leader of NFP project, Senator the Hon. Joe...
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Mayim Bialik is a young vegan mom doing her thing!
Above is a new PETA ad starring fabulous vegan Mayim Bialik. It’s pretty cute. Here’s a little interview to go along with it:
[Can’t see the video? Watch it on Vegansaurus.com!]
Go Blossom! Do the damn thing, girl. As you know, she’s coming out with a vegan cookbook soon. It’s said to be very family-oriented. I like this whole vegan-family schtick she’s got...
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It's Paul Shapiro's Animal News You Can Use!
It’s Animal News You Can Use from Paul Shapiro! Yay, Paul! Yay, animals!
The latest beef in the battle between the pork industry’s leadership and HSUS is a newly filed lawsuit. HSUS charges that the National Pork Board struck an unlawful “ham scam” backroom deal with the National Pork Producers Council to purchase the “Pork: The Other White Meat” slogan. The purchase is bankrolling a third of...
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Product review: Korean napa cabbage kimchi by...
This is a combination product review and International Vegan MoFo entry: local vegan kimchi! And it is tremendous!
Kimchi, my friends, is a delicious, traditional Korean dish made with spicy red pepper and vegetables, and fermented until perfection.
Sinto Gourmet makes three kinds of kimchi, which they were all sampling at last month’s Eat Real Fest in Oakland. When I saw it, I flipped,...
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California climate change could put the pika on...
Pikas are related to rabbits. They’re about the size of hamsters, with no tails and round Mickey Mouse ears. They live in rock piles at high elevations, and are adapted to cold temperatures. When it gets too hot, they hide out under the rocks. So [ecologist Joseph] Stewart is trying to figure out if pikas don’t do well in the heat, what will happen to them as the climate continues to...
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Vegan MoFo: England's Knickerbocker Glory!
We’re back for the second day of INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE VEGAN MOFO! It’s back to Jolly Old England for this installment, straight to Pogo Cafe, a vegan anarchist collective that also happens to serve bomb vegan food!
Whilst there, I consumed many tasty treats there but the standout was for sure the Knickerbocker Glory, a hodgepodge (SO BRITISH) of every sweet deliciousness on earth,...
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Cri de Coeur and 7 For All Mankind together? Vegan...
Look what I just saw on Cri de Coeur’s FB page! This bag:
With this announcement:
CRI DE COEUR for 7 For All Mankind sustainable vegan cross body bag launches this month!!!! The bag is ethically sourced and produced using high quality Italian vegan leather, will be sold exclusively at the 7 For all Mankind flagship stores starting mid October. Since both parties wanted to create an...
