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Via MARC comes an article in the Boston Herald’s Edge section on Grezzo, the new raw vegan restaurant: “Raw Energy: High priestess of ‘living food’ movement brings new…
As previously reported here, last year’s report from the UN International Panel on Climate Change was pretty clear, if subtle, about the idea that livestock production was a…
Upgraded the blog to 2.3.2 today, and I’m testing some new plugins – apologies in advance if this post appears in the feed more than once. (I did…
Brian Ibbott of Coverville allows encourages people each year to send in brief “intros” to each of the top 40 songs in the Coverville Countdown. This year I…
The folks at Bostonist have launched a regular vegan column: In part due to the all the wonderful feedback we received from our two vegan-themed holiday posts, we’ve…
Great article in the Boston Globe from Christmas Eve Eve (aka lille juleaften) about the way intellectual property and copyright issues play out in other fields like standup…
Happy holidays, peace on earth, good will toward people (and animals). Lucy and Georgia
Check out this video of the Humane Society’s biggest victories in helping animals: Closing of Seal Markets (2007) Animal Fighting Prohibition Act Passed (May 2007) PETS Act Passed…
Last night I had dinner at Pot au vert, a vegetarian restaurant near the main train station (hauptbanhoff) in Zurich. Although the “menu card” (linked to the image)…
Via the MARC list I came across Bill Maher’s excellent and well-timed pre-thanksgiving rant about turkeys. He links to a few slaughterhouse videos to emphasize the point: These…
Yesterday was Thanksliving 2007 at the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. It was a fantastic event, which started with meeting three baby lambs recently arrived: We also toured around…
The 2007 Blogger’s Choice Award winners are out. In the “Best Food Blog” category (on page 3 of the results), three out of four winners are vegan blogs:…
Nice video to get you through the midweek slump: Not one of our girls (Lucy and Georgia) but the same breed. Too funny.
Last week I was in New York City for a couple of days on business. Unfortunately, all the hotels I normally stay in were either booked or askign…
(Sorry the photos are so dark – I find flash photography at shows like this annoying so I try to stay away from the Flash). A few weeks…
The good folks at Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary hold a major event the weekend before the observance of Thanksgiving in the US. The basic idea is a major…
Great new video, just in time for Halloween, from the folks at CommonCraft – Zombies in Plain English:
Tomorrow is the 12th Annual Boston Vegetarian Society Food Festival, at Reggie Lewis Athletic Center. If you’ve never been, you should check out the speaker schedule, the list…
Nice to see the LA Times taking up the links between vegetarianism and the environment: “Killer Cow Emissions” Now I actually have reason to use my digg and…
Second Pass at Avatar Plugin (MBLA plus)
A little while ago Alper ÇuÄŸun released an hAvatar plugin, which parses the url left by a comment author, and if it finds an hCard there, looks for…