January 2013
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Cookin' Crunk!: Veganizing the Dirty South
I don’t know exactly when it happened, but sometime in 2012 I found myself in the biggest creative slump. Even the once exciting outlet of cooking for myself had become a drag, and I knew I needed some inspiration, but from where? Fortunately for me, inspiration came in the mail, in the form of Bianca Phillips’ recently published cookbook, Cookin’ Crunk: Eatin’ Vegan in...
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NPR considers the lobster
An animal behavior professor, reports NPR, has concluded that crustaceans do, in fact, feel pain.
As for what this might mean for those of us who occasionally dispatch a crustacean or two, the best way to minimize potential pain is likely electrocution or driving a knife through the creature’s brain, Elwood says. But as most of us lack specialized machinery and knowledge of crustacean...
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What happens to "retired" research chimps?
NPR had a nice report on Friday about the lives of chimps after they have been “retired” from scientific study, specifically those at the National Institutes of Health. Yes, “retired” is a bullshit term and life for lab animals is horrific, but obfuscatory vocabulary shouldn’t detract from the actual greatness of taking chimpanzees out of those labs; we made their...
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Baddass mouse is totally baddass
This is the grasshopper mouse, a carnivorous rodent found in Southwestern U.S. deserts. These wacky mofos are totally hardcore! They eat scorpions and howl at the moon. For real. And forget about digging their own burrows—they run up in other rodents’ homes and kick them out. And if times are tough, cannibalism is not beyond them. Damn, mouse, that’s some cold shit. This video...
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Buzzfeed kills it with "The 19 Most Annoying...
God bless Buzzfeed, amiright? Buzzfeed staffer Jack Shepherd hits the nail on the head with this list of annoying things. You have to read it and tell me if you think it’s as dead-on as I do. Did he miss any? Here are my favorites:
I hate wraps so so much. Bread is why I eat sandwiches.
So true. :(
And of course #19 is the truest annoyance of all: “The comment section for every...
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Paul Shapiro's Animal News You Can Use!
It’s Paul Shapiro’s Animal News You Can Use! Yay, Paul! Yay, Animals!
How many factory farmers does it take to screw in a light bulb? It doesn’t matter since they want to keep us in the dark anyway! How? Read on.
Rather than trying to prevent animal abuse on factory farms and in slaughter plants, the industry is trying to prevent the public from finding out about that abuse in the first...
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Two rescued calves meet, become BFF
I mentioned cute rescue calf Stanley from Animal Place recently. At that time, he was sickly and couldn’t hang out with any other cows. BUT he just met his new BFF Theo and it’s the cutest! The two will be roomies until they are big enough to join the grown up cows. An illustrated diary of their meeting:
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Animal Place is having a Cinnaholic giveaway!
“Cinnamon Toast Crunch” Roll
I pretty much covered it in the headline but yes, Animal Place is giving away TWO Cinnaholic gift certificates! As it says, you don’t have to be in the Bay Area but it’s just for US residents. A couple years ago I ordered a bunch of their rolls to Philadelphia and I can confirm they travel well and are ridiculously good!
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Julie Gueraseva dishes on new vegan style mag...
I recently told you about Laika, the new vegan lifestyle magazine, and now I have a special treat! Laika’s creator, Julie Gueraseva, was kind enough to answer some questions for us! I don’t know about you guys but I find these answers pretty awesome and inspiring. Enjoy!
Why did you start Laika Magazine? Julie Gueraseva: I want to see animal liberation happen in my lifetime. And if...
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Product Review: Emmy's Organics Superfood Trail...
Emmy’s Organics is a pretty amazing company. The owners met at a music festival, and the good vibes seem to permeate their raw macaroons, granolas, trail mixes, and other tasty all-gluten-free raw vegan products. sent me a complimentary batch of their new Superfood Trail Mix featuring cacao, goji berries, raisins, and cashews. I used the superfood trail mix and Emmy’s outrageously...
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“There are some folks in animal agriculture who caricature HSUS, charging that we...”
– Chuck Jolley, a longtime food industry PR king, read HumaneWatch’s latest eye-rollingly nonsensical “exposé” of HSUS, shockingly took HumaneWatch’s side, and then got to interview HSUS’s own Wayne Pacelle.
When asked what he would like to say to the readers of...
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Sad news: Billy the puppymill survivor passed...
Can’t see the video? Watch it on Vegansaurus.com!
We were immediately taken with Billy the minute we saw him. That face is just too much and the conditions he came from are so terrible, it’s hard not to melt when you see him happy. We are very sad to hear that he passed away. But like the video says, we are consoled a little by the fact that he had such a good home in the end....
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The Guardian obnoxiously asks, "Can vegans stomach...
“Protein-packed” Apple Cinnamon Quinoa Muffins from Chocolate and Chou Fleur.
The title of Joanna Blythman’s Guardian post—“Can vegans stomach the unpalatable truth about quinoa?”—just struck me as bizarre antagonism hailing from left field. The post is in response to the complicated issues that the rising popularity of quinoa has spawned. As the subhead...
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