June 2012
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It's Paul Shapiro's Animal News You Can Use!
It’s Paul Shapiro’s Animal News You Can Use! Yay!
Ag industry trade journal Feedstuffs had a nice look at our campaign that’s getting big food retailers to call for an end to gestation crates for pigs, noting: “As HSUS and other activist groups gain momentum and credibility with food distributors and retailers, the pork industry seems to be stuck in a rut.”
I was...
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How Was Your Week at the Howlabaloo: See Ted Leo...
You guys, I can’t. This is Ted Leo and Rudy the basset hound at the Howlabaloo, “Long Island’s premiere event for basset hounds and their owners.” He went as part of Julie Klausner’s How Was Your Week team. Do you guys listen to HWYW? It’s great! Ted Leo sings the theme song, and Julie Klausner is a delight. A DELIGHT.
Last month the Tri-State Basset Hound...
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SF vegan drinks is tonight!
It’s the last Thursday of the month, and you know what that means? SF Vegan Drinks!
Our peeps from Mission Mission went last time and the strawberry basil caipirinha looked super refreshing! Plus, Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem has a back deck — that’s always fun in warm weather! Go get your vegan network on, with sweet potato tots and sliders.
SF Vegan Drinks is tonight,...
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ONE DAY Left to Get in on Awesome Vegan Comics...
You guys. I am legitimately pretty excited about this book.
The original idea behind this anthology was going to be half vegan cartoonists, half omnis. But it got bigger and started including vegetarians and otherwise. So now it’s just a big, huge, food-themed anthology full of awesome.
The vegans contributing include:
Berkeley Breathed
Neil Brideau
J.T. Dockery
Nicole J. Georges
Adam...
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Product Review: Nutty Cow Nut Cheese
Hey guys! There’s a new nut cheese on the market! Nutty Cow sent me samples of their nut cheeses and now I will tell you about them. My verdict: pretty good. It’s not Punk Rawk Labs but what is? Just Punk Rawk Labs. But this is more of a shmear than a cheese-cheese.
OK, I tried the garlic and herb on some wheat-thin-like crackers, it was very good. But I think it’s more of a...
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Hello, Friends! it's WTF Wednesday!
You guys, Allen and I bought a tv! This means we are together forever! Allen tried to inform me that the washer and dryer we’d purchased two years ago was a bigger deal but fuck clean clothes, I can finally use the Playstation 3 I bought him like 15 thousand years ago (for him! Not for me!) and play all of the awesome games I’ve been missing out on while Allen has been waffling on what...
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Which coffee shops don't charge extra for soy...
Beautiful coconut milk latte made for me by my dear brother. He’s fancy, right? It’s beautiful.
Reader Toshio emailed me the other day:
I was wondering if you’d consider posting a list of the cafes in SF that don’t charge extra for soymilk. The only one I know of is Peace Cafe on Haight Street, but there must be more. I would walk extra blocks just to avoid the charge....
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“The problem with foie gras is that it’s not important. It’s the tyranny of a...”
– The California foie gras ban finally takes effect (after eight years of fruitless searching for a “humane alternative” to gavage) in less than a week! Dana Goodyear wrote a brief post for the New Yorker about a protest of one of those creepy last chance foie gras dinners chefs are...
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Three days left to help fund the first vegan...
Can’t see the video? Watch it on Vegansaurus.com!
Guys! Time is running out to help Seasoned Vegan become the first full-service vegan restaurant in Harlem, New York! Go to Kickstarter right now and put some money down—the gifts for the pledges are pretty awesome. All you non-New Yorkers should pledge enough to get the entrees and then when you come visit the big city, you can have...
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Guest Product Review: KeVita!
Did you know that we have a second “brain” in our guts? Apparently that whole gut feeling thing isn’t just a bunch of poppycock. Science tells us we actually have a delicate balance of bacteria in our guts that balance out our digestion, appetite, and even may affect our moods and feelings. There’s long been a group of folks advocating for eating yogurt, a commonly...
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Guest Review: Viana meat substitutes and more!
After living in Austria and Germany, I recognised a vegan German brand, Viana (also known as Tofutown.com GmbH) at Whole Foods in Portland, Oregon (as well as Boston) which came out this year. Viana products use “wheat, soybeans and fresh organic vegetables into delicious meat alternatives, tofu products, soy and rice drinks and fine soy creams” (Viana Biography). These products are...
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Paul Shapiro's Animal News You Can Use!
It’s that time: WE LOVE PAUL!!!
Big news: We banned gestation crates for pigs, veal crates for calves, and tail-docking for cattle in Rhode Island. The governor just signed the bills! This makes RI the ninth state to ban gestation crates, seventh on veal crates, and third on tail-docking.
Today’s Washington Post has an interesting story about a battery egg producer who started a fake new...
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Beyond meat is beyond delicious!
Ahahahaha! You are gonna have to forgive me for that title, it’s late! I want to be watching 30 Rock on Netflix, but I can’t rest until I deliver the news about Beyond Meat!
I’m super into it. Here’s the deal: it’s very chicken-y, so if you aren’t into faux meats, you probably won’t be into it. I on the other hand, love faux meats, as I didn’t go...
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Help this pit bull and chihuahua dream team,...
Reader Lis lives in the Pittsburgh area, and she has a friend who needs to home two dogs, a chihuahua and a pit bull! They are a bonded pair, so if you adopted them, you could get like an AWESOME family with NO work. It’s like you adopted a kid the day they before they left for Harvard on a full scholarship. Seriously, LIVING THE DREAM.
If you’re interested, or know anyone who might...
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Restaurant review: the Handlebar in Chicago!
I’m going to Chicago next week and I couldn’t be more excited! I’m exhausted and the daily grind is killing me. It’s time for a break in lovely, humid Chicago! Instead of Muni, there will be CTA! Instead of AT&T Park, there will be Wrigley Field! Instead of Bottom of the Hill, there will be The Hideout! Instead of freezing Ocean Beach, there will be the Michigan...
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Guest Recipe: Sliced Potatoes from Vegan Miam!
Back in Rome, Italy, I instantly fell in love with potato pizza, where pizzas do not necessarily need cheese or meat. And I’m also a massive fan of potatoes and much more potatoes [Ed. note: Who isn’t?! Loonies!]. So instead, we’ve decided to make our own potato pizza from scratch.
Directions:
You will need a mandoline slicer to slice these potatoes paper thin (be careful not...
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It's summer, let's preserve some produce!
You guys know how I’m all enamored of DIY and bartering with your neighbors and making your neighborhood your actual community? I know, I’m so on trend right now! The latest cookbook to cater to our 21st century homesteading obsessions is Marisa McClellan’s Food in Jars: Preserving in Small Batches Year-Round, and I want it SO BAD.
Bay Area Bites has an interview with McClellan...
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Beards for Bears: Get hairy, help bears!
Beards for Bears wants you to grow a beard and save bile-farm bears. It’s kind of like Movember but by Animals Asia for the poor bears being tortured on bile farms. I can’t believe I am only just hearing about this! It ends June 30th! We have to get going!
The site is pretty awesome. I’m loving the design, very nice. And chicks can get involved too! Be a bear ambassador and...
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WatchAdorable kids sells vegan food in Denver! Makes you wish you lived here with me, huh?
This cutie got all dressed up in suspenders and sold lemon-and-mint sun tea and vegan banana bran muffins on the corner at a “goodies stand”! I love child labor, especially in costume!
[Can’t see the video? Click here to watch it on the local news]
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Product Review: Hush Hush Essentials skincare
Let’s get this out of the way first: OMG the Hush Hush Essentials packaging is so cute! If you didn’t already know, your friend Megan Rascal loves retro pin-up stuff, so I love Hush Hush’s design aesthetic. Now, for the actual products; Hush Hush sent me Starlet renewal crème and the Wink Wink eye crème to try for free. All their products are vegan and never tested on animals....
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CLOSED!!! Vegansaurus Giveaway: Fake Meats giant...
FakeMeats.com, meat substitute mega-mall and one of our advertisers, is offering this crazy prize pack for one lucky Vegansaur! It’s a very exciting grab bag. It includes Soy Curls! Which I believe our Rachel is obsessed with? It also has like 80 kinds of jerky but we’ll get to that later.
About them:
FakeMeats.com started as a collection of our favorite “fake meat” products...
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NYC: The Flea Theater brings back These Seven...
My pop the theater nerd has informed me that the Flea Theater is running These Seven Sicknesses again until July 1, and once again, they’ll be serving vegan dinner at each performance!
My dad enjoyed the play very much, so he highly recommends it. Read his review on the last post!
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It's Paul Shapiro's Animal News You Can Use!
It’s Paul Shapiro’s Animal News You Can Use! Yay, we love him, he’s the best, let’s GO:
Another week; more progress against gestation crates. Cracker Barrel announced yesterday with HSUS that it’s the latest food retail giant that’s moving to get rid of gestation crates in its supply chain. Boom.
In response to all of the food retailers HSUS has worked with to move away...
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Meet the love of your life on Saturday at the Walk...
Are you lonely? Are you single? Do you enjoy doing stuff during the daylight hours? Guess what! There’s a vegan singles scavenger hunt in San Francisco on Saturday! You have to go and then tell me everything, because I will be at work, swimming in pools of vegan buttercream, trying not to die of a diabetic coma (frosting is soooo good).
The Walk of Love Scavenger Hunt is presented by...
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Take a summer produce cooking class with...
You know what’s awesome? Millennium, duh. What else? Learning to cook like the super-talents at Millennium. So how about taking the next Millennium cooking class?
On Sunday, June 24, Millennium hosts “Porcinis, Cherries, and Early Summer Produce.” Plus, Chef Eric Tucker will take you on a Ferry Building Farmers’ Market tour on Saturday, June 23, so you can...
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Hello, friends! It's WTF Wednesday, with Mark!
You guys, video games get me really stressed out. So much so that sometimes I can’t sleep after playing. That’s when I have to start looking at beautiful things to calm me down, like this flooded meadow in Austria. Okay, stop reading here for a second, watch the video, and then let’s talk about it!
[Can’t see the video? Watch it on Vegansaurus.com!
Did you watch the...
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Book review: Scott Jurek's "Eat & Run" Plus, run...
This dude running with his dog is Scott Jurek. Scott Jurek could basically kick your ass any day of the week, including days where he hasn’t slept the night before, has a broken ankle, and already ran 75 miles. See, Scott is an ultramarathoner, which means he’ll run a marathon as a warmup, then run another one, then figure that the race is just getting started. He’ll run over...
