Mercy for Animals just released footage of their latest investigation. What’s the topic? Dairy farms. ABC gave them great coverage showing the inhumane treatment of dairy cows. I normally avoid the video…it’s too hard to watch but this, because it was on primetime gets the point across without spiraling a person into a state of [...]
Last week my Whole Foods finally started carrying Daiya cheese. For those of you interested, it’s in the prepared food section near the pizza dough, pizza cheese and sauce. It’s labeled “vegan cheese” and says Daiya. The first thing I made with it – because I missed them so so much – were nachos. Yep, [...]
I went veg when I was eleven. I had the support of my parents and a best friend who went veg two years prior. That was all the support I needed at that age to keep me on track even when I had the rest of the 7th graders and some extended family making fun [...]
In Vegan Outreach’s weekly newsletter, I received some fantastic news. Here it is: “The total number of land animals killed for food in the U.S. in 2008 was down 0.6% from 2007, at 10,279 billion, despite a 1% increase in U.S. population, according to data extrapolated from the USDA.” The population went up but the [...]
When animal testing comes up in conversation, many people bring up the usual, “But animal testing saves lives and helps develop cures to diseases.” This may be true in part, but the vast majority of animal testing has nothing to do with human diseases. Most are done for students to learn, for products to be [...]
I like things. I’m a thrift store addict. I love clothes, jewelry, furniture etc. I try to counter these resource wasting urges by buying used items but I recognize that it’s not the most eco friendly thing in the world to have so much stuff. The more stuff you have, the bigger the home you [...]
The borders that separate countries mean nothing to a herd of bison. That is, until we decide to build a wall along that border because of an immigration issue. In 2005 the Department of Homeland Security waived 36 environmental laws so they could build their 2,000 mile wall along the Rio Grande without any consideration [...]
I’ve talked about Vegan Yum Yum’s cookbook before, but now that I’ve had it for a while I’ve had time to make quite a few of the recipes inside. So far, I have not been disappointed. Everything from the corn fritters to the pineapple baked tofu with seared pineapple rings and nutty greens to the [...]
Good news. Moo Shoes is having one heck of a sale on everything from Beyond Skin to Olsen Haus to Novacas and many many more. I don’t think I saw a single pair of shoes on their sale page over one hundred dollars. Including this exquisite pair of heels for ninety nine dollars. It’s the [...]
When I first saw this article, I thought it was going to be about health. But hospitals in England are taking meat off the menu in order to reduce their carbon footprints. They are fighting global warming through vegetarian foods. Meat, as I understand it, will not totally be gone, but it will be greatly [...]
