Archive for July, 2010
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Mark Shuttleworth on Tribalism
This piece by Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth about tribalism in free software offers points that are equally relevant to the animal advocacy community. I’ve always been amused that I face virtually no anger from anyone connected with the meat industry, but gargantuan amounts from people who share my interest in animal protection. Tribalism at work. [...]
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Trader Joe’s Tycoon Dies
Theo Albrecht, the billionaire behind Trader Joe’s, has died. Seems like a good time to mention the chain’s unprecedented list of vegan foods [PDF], which was updated just this past April. Hoist a glass of Two Buck Chuck merlot in Albrecht’s memory. Link. Spread the word:
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Trader Joe’s Tycoon Dies
Theo Albrecht, the billionaire behind Trader Joe’s, has died. Seems like a good time to mention the chain’s unprecedented list of vegan foods [PDF], which was updated just this past April. Hoist a glass of Two Buck Chuck merlot in Albrecht’s memory. Link. Spread the word:
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Chicken Industry Bickers Over How Far to Pervert the Word “Natural”
Chicken producers and the USDA are debating the terms under which chicken meat can be labeled “natural.” I’d have no problem with this word being used to describe meat from unmedicated birds who pecked the dirt outdoors in, grassy, uncrowded conditions. But neither side of this debate is entertaining any sort of requirement like that. [...]
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Buffalo Baked Potato
Yet another example of the profound sacrifices a vegan diet entails. Recipe here. Uploaded by: Vegan Aide Spread the word:
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Colbert’s Thought for Food
One key ingredient to restoring some sanity to the American diet involves mocking the food industry for its crap offerings. These people need to be publicly shamed for the garbage they sell, and for their deliberate efforts to hook children on a life of junk foods. And nobody’s so cut out for this job as [...]
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Viva Vegan Giveaway
The only certainties in life are death, taxes, and the fact that five Vegan.com readers will win a copy of Terry Hope Romero’s Viva Vegan! this Monday. And of those three certainties, I’d say the free cookbook thing is probably the best off the bunch. Latin-style food has been hugely underrepresented in vegan cookbooks, but [...]
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Viva Vegan Giveaway
The only certainties in life are death, taxes, and the fact that five Vegan.com readers will win a copy of Terry Hope Romero’s Viva Vegan! this Monday. And of those three certainties, I’d say the free cookbook thing is probably the best off the bunch. Latin-style food has been hugely underrepresented in vegan cookbooks, but [...]
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More on the State Fair Cow Shooting
Solid follow-up reporting to this week’s story of the pregnant cow being fatally shot at California’s State Fair. You could understand why cows would be shown at state fairs—it’s tradition, after all; a stupid tradition but tradition nonetheless. But why a pregnant cow? Turns out she was part of a live-birth exhibit, which is apparently [...]
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Vegans Stupidly Aren’t Taking Their B-12
Some strong new evidence has come in that vegans, as a group, are royally fucking up when it comes to taking their B-12—and it’s showing up on their blood tests. Ginny Messina summarizes: The researchers looked at diets and serum levels of B12 in 226 omnivores, 231 vegetarians and 232 vegans. Mean serum B12 levels [...]
