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02/26/2013
I’m late getting this up but better late than etc. You know JP is my main squeeze so I support everything he does with his fine self. I don’t find this video that moving for some reason though. I don’t know why. Maybe just because I know he’s not really drowning or anything. Thoughts?
∞ posted at 09:43 by youtalkfunny 
The Ghosts in Our Machine theatrical trailer came out last week. Give it a look. It’s not terribly graphic, just sad. I think it’s going to be a great movie. Looks like very powerful stuff. Do you think it’ll change anything? I mean we’ve seen movies change people—the response to Forks Over Knives has been incredible. I hope this gets a response like that!
Follow the film’s FB page for updates on the release and all of that.
∞ posted at 05:41 by youtalkfunny
02/25/2013
PETA has a new fur exposé video narrated by Olivia Munn. It gets the Graphic As Fuck rating. I couldn’t watch the whole thing. I can’t make it through any fur video actually since that Earthlings trailer. SHUDDER.
You can go to PETA for more info.
∞ posted at 11:03 by youtalkfunny
02/22/2013
Differently-abled animals strike a cord with the Internet »
I’ve been seeing so many stories lately about animals with various leg or paw injuries getting specially-designed tools to help them get around like they used to. I wonder if differently-abled (is that the term we use? Don’t be mad, I just don’t know the least offensive term) people think this is nice or if they think it’s weird the way the internet is so excited about these animals. There is something sweet about it though. So many animals get put down (or worse) if something is “wrong” with them and people really aren’t culturally obligated to help them, so when they go out of their way to improve the lives of these little animals, it does seem nice. Here are the stories I’ve seen lately:
Piglet on wheels:
Goldfish gets some help floating:
Kitty gets help from High School robotics club:
And of course there’s London, the pup with his own Ducati:
∞ posted at 05:30 by youtalkfunny
02/18/2013
Video: Starlings return to Israel in amazing murmuration »
It’s another awesome starlings video! We can’t get enough of these birds.
[Can’t see the video? Watch it on Vegansaurus.com!]
This formation is called a “murmuration” of starlings, and while we understand why the birds do it—to search for food and defend against predators—per Wired, we don’t understand “what physiological mechanisms allow it to happen almost simultaneously in two birds separated by hundreds of feet and hundreds of other birds.”
Until science figures it out, we can certainly appreciate it as part of the magic of nature, which is pretty incredible.
(Source: reuters.com)
∞ posted at 09:00 by seriousmeaveness 
02/14/2013
Meet Bunlet! Per SaveABunny,
Bunlet is an incredibly sweet, loving and brave little baby bunny. He was found abandoned in a San Francisco park with a badly broken leg. It was recommended that we allow him to get euthanized because “no one wants white rabbits—especially one with a broken leg.”That statement broke my heart and was a deciding factor in rescuing him. Bunlet deserves to be loved and to have the chance to live a long, happy life doing binkies and dances like any other rabbit.
Won’t you be Bunlet’s Valentine this year, and throw a few dollars to SaveABunny to help this poor little guy? We love you, Bunlet! Get well soon!
∞ posted at 12:00 by seriousmeaveness
02/13/2013
ALDF’s new series “30 Second Animal Law” is interesting and useful! »
Animal Legal Defense Fund has a great new series on YouTube! “30 Second Animal Law” explains legal issues for and surrounding animals in tiny clips for your attention-deficit-addled brain. Check out the first installment, Legal Problems for Animals:
[Can’t see the video? Watch it on Vegansaurus.com!]
So far ALDF has got three videos in this series up, which you can either watch on YouTube, or watch in the coming weeks on Vegansaurus.
Have a pressing legal animal question for ALDF? Ask the experts via Twitter or Facebook. The staff will pick “the best—or most frequently asked—questions to answer on YouTube.” So useful.
∞ posted at 14:00 by seriousmeaveness
Lily the therapy puppy gets a prosthetic paw! »
From our Laura at Jezebel comes this sweet story of little Lily the therapy puppy and her brand-new paw (maybe!):
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Per Laura:
She’s an adorable pup who’s missing a paw due to complications at birth. However, that doesn’t hold Lily back! She’s currently training to be a therapy dog to humans who use prosthetic limbs. To relate better to her friends, she’s being fitted for her own prosthetic paw. If she likes it, she’ll be an inspiration to people using prosthetics. If she doesn’t like it, she has an awesome new chew toy. Win/win.
Lily rules without her paw, and she’ll rule with it, should she choose to use a prosthetic. Either way, therapy dogs are the best and we love them, the humans they help, and the humans who put them together. Oh, how our hearts are warmed.
∞ posted at 09:00 by seriousmeaveness
Maggie Q poses for PETA, talks serious veg business »
Quoth Ms. Maggie Q in the Huffington Post:
There’s no way to look at the meat industry today and say, “There’s no environmental impact.” Animals grown for food pollute our air, our soil, our water, our streams, our oceans. And these are United Nations statistics; these are not statistics from PETA or animal rights groups. The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet—not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what’s No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation, and goes out and buys a hybrid car. Screw the hybrid cars. Don’t eat hamburgers. If you don’t eat a hamburger, your carbon footprint is so much less than driving a hybrid car, I can’t even tell you.
She doesn’t call herself vegan, but she doesn’t talk like she consumes any animal products, and she loves VegNews (all the good people love VegNews, duh), and this interview she gave to HuffPo following her new PETA ad is pretty great. Vegansaurus doesn’t have a lot of love for PETA [Except Megan! -Megan], but we do appreciate a smart, ridiculously beautiful woman advocating a veg diet using feelings and dispassionate facts. You win this round, Maggie Q and your international torso.
[Can’t see the video? Watch it on Vegansaurus.com!]
∞ posted at 06:30 by seriousmeaveness
02/12/2013
VIDEO: vegan raspberry rice crispy treats with clara’s cakes! »
heyo! today’s episode of quarrygirl presents is a recipe video with one of our favorite people, local teenage baking sensation clara polito of clara’s cakes!
people may not realize it, but due to ingredients like butter and gelatin, traditional rice crispy treats aren’t vegan…or even vegetarian! in this video clara shows us how to make cruelty-free raspberry rice crispy treats that taste even better than the original using vegan substitutes like earth balance and dandies.
watch and learn, and be sure to hit up clara’s cakes for treats next time you’re in LA.
Raspberry rice crispy treats! They’re the perfect color to serve to your sweetheart for Valentine’s Day, especially if your sweetheart is an entire elementary school class. Or someone with the tastes of a grade-schooler. Our long-distance Valentine is quarrygirl and we looooove her and her video series.
∞ posted at 09:13 by seriousmeaveness
