January 2013
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Product Review: Williams Sonoma and Navitas...
I rarely make it to big-chain malls these days (I mean, who has the time!) but I do remember visiting the Williams Sonoma at the mall as a tweenager—and that it didn’t have too many veg options. When I heard the exciting news that Vedge Restaurant co-owners Kate Jacoby and Rich Landau are doing a deal with them for all-vegan sauces and they’ve now teamed up with beloved raw vegan...
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“Trying to recapture something and find an exact substitute is really hard,”...”
– Nice post in NYT: How to Go Vegan. Do you agree with the points? I think it’s pretty good. I mean, it’s not 11 Tips for New Vegans, but that’s a high bar.
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It's Paul Shapiro's Animal News You Can Use!
Paul’s back with all the animal news and you and your crewz* can use!
You may be interested in this article about a high school working with HSUS to implement a Meatless Monday program. And here’s a new piece of mine about why anyone concerned about climate change should be concerned about reducing meat consumption.
A meat industry consulting firm just released a short video showing that...
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WatchIn Boulder, Colo., on Sunday night, a hundreds of people held a candlelight vigil for a bull elk killed by a police officer and a sheriff’s deputy on Jan. 1. Mourners were angered and saddened, telling the Boulder Daily Camera that “It was a beautiful, beautiful elk” who they felt was a “guardian” and “ part of the neighborhood,” who had returned to the...
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U.S. military must stop medical animal tests!
In its medical training courses, the United States military uses (read: kills) over 7,500 animals every year. This is unnecessary and pretty gross. Of course, the military industrial complex is terrifying (hi, FISA extension!), the official and covert wars conducted in our name are horrific (hey Afghanistan! what’s up, CIA drones?), and the way we treat our veterans is shameful (sorry,...
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Is veganism your religion?
First, a customer service rep at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center was fired in 2010 for refusing to have an mandatory flu shot, because flu shots are “derived from eggs” (ugh) and she’s vegan. CCHMC didn’t want this lady, Sakile Chenzira, getting sick and passing on that illness to the patients. Ms. Chenzira sued, asserting that her veganism was essentially...
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Mojave Desert Animal Rescue robbed twice over the...
Mojave Desert Animal Rescue is a wonderful and necessary nonprofit that helps out homeless people with pets. They register people’s animals (collecting spay/neuter and vaccination information), and provide food for them. They also provide emergency supplies for homeless people who can’t stay at shelters because they have pets. And over the weekend, some horrible, heartless jerks...
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Glorious Day: Center City Soft Pretzel Co. makes...
Yesterday I proclaimed my love for Philly pretzels and lamented the fact they aren’t vegan. Guess what! I was wrong! For the first time in history! Lovely reader Flocka Veli emailed me to let me know that Center City Soft Pretzel Co. does make entirely vegan pretzels—in fact the whole bakery is dairy-free! I swear to goodness like a million years ago when I was vegan and living in...
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Get some vegan snacks from Green Line Cafe in W....
Now you know your friend Megan is a Philly girl. So of course I had to grace that town with my presence over the holidays. One thing I’m always sad about though is Philly pretzels. They ain’t vegan (UPDATE: or are they?!). I’m totally obsessed with Philly pretzels and pretty much ate one every day for lunch in high school. And don’t even get me started on late night...
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Hipster Dust is a real thing and you're supposed...
I spotted this on Gothamist and I’m not really sure what to think. It’s a spice mixture from Williamsburg called Hipster Dust and it says it’s vegan. From their site:
Hipster Dust is a vegan spice mixture that took flight in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It is used in the kitchen to flavor vegetables, soups, noodles and everything else. Hipster Dust’s cult following has...
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Jan. 11th: Vegan Happy Hour comes back to SF!
That’s right, kids! Vegan Happy Hour will rear its drunken head at Hemlock Tavern once again! Details:
New year, new Vegan Happy Hour! See you this Friday, January 11th, at the Hemlock Tavern from 6 to 9. Bring a vegan dish to share—homemade or store bought—and join new hosts Erin Rea and Josh Heiskell for food and spirits! DJ Devin Peralta will be providing the musical...
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Veg Month with Grubwithus!
Grubwithus kicks off their Veg Month next week! All kinds of fancy vegans will be hosting veggie meals around the country. I’ve already got my ticket to dine with Leanne of Vaute Couture here in NYC. There’s only a few tickets left, so if you want to hang with me (spoiler alert: you totally do), get your ticket now!
Victoria Moran is hosting a dinner in NYC on Jan. 16th and Jesse...
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Cooks Illustrated crowns the best supermarket...
It’s a good thing Thomas Jefferson didn’t include hummus in the Declaration of Independence, because all hummus sure as hell isn’t created equal.
Cooks Illustrated, a magazine for OCD people (to which I would 100 percent subscribe if it had a vegetarian edition), recently did us the favor of running a taste test on supermarket hummus. Let the results be service to vegans...
