Remember how great it felt when Prop 2 passed in California? Now there is a chance New York can feel just as good. Farm Sanctuary sent me a take action the other day to help protect farm animals. They said: A08163, introduced by Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal, would require that calves raised for veal, breeding [...]
Hats off to all of this years graduates. Happily, that includes myself. Next week I will graduate with my MFA. And to celebrate I’m having a vegan BBQ. So I’m asking for advice, and doling out some of my own. The advice I seek is this: Please tell me your favorite brands of vegan burgers [...]
Vegan Yum Yum is one of my favorite veg websites around. Fantastic recipes, beautiful pictures, and a step by step process on how to do it all. Lauren’s most recent recipe is for Cinnamon Buns – like Cinnabun buns – remember those nasty delicious things from the days before you were vegan. Oozing sugar and [...]
In my opinion, there are three kinds of vegetarians/vegans: those who eat only healthy foods, those who eat the junky veg diet and those who can balance a nice combination of the two. Going veg is often talked about in the same sentence as losing weight. And that can be true. Veggies on the whole [...]
I haven’t shopped at Payless since I was a gawky teenager. At the time, they had cheap, faux leather shoes and boots that I could get away with looking mildly fashionable. But eco was never their thing and the PVC plastic was probably hell for the environment even though it was vegan. Now, they have [...]
Yesterday morning, I received an email from HSUS (if you aren’t on that email list, you should be) about a HUGE victory for seals. Ready for it? The European Union has officially banned seal products, making the cruel and archaic annual slaughter even less economically viable than it was before. What does all this mean? [...]
Using your old yoga mat, you can create your own flip flops for summer! Be eco. Be vegan. Be awesome. Personally, I love “do it yourself projects.” Nothing is as fun as seeing something you want, figuring out how to make it, and then spending a few hours on a rainy Saturday creating the object [...]
Cow Jones Industrial, one of my favorite vegan stores, is having a sale on purses. 20% off all gorgeous matt and nat, sparrow handbags, vamp handbags and more. Summer is the season to carry around everything you own. Books, water (in your reusable sigg), snacks, sun screen, and pretty much anything else you’ll need for [...]
Yesterday I wrote about how Egypt was in the midst of killing 300,000 pigs because of the “swine flu” even though the flu isn’t traveling from pig to person, but rather from person to person. In order to fix this misleading term, the World Health Organization is now calling the flu by it’s true name: H1N1 [...]
