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I’ve noticed lately that while reading my set of RSS feeds I’m getting lots of ads that I don’t consider well targeted at me as a vegan: I’m…
Just a quick pointer to two new recently updated web resources useful for vegans and people who’d like to be vegan. The first is brought to you by…
Loved this, from a discussion on Making Hay of Dr. Melanie Joy’s new book Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: What we eat – what…
The folks at Change.org will be hosting Blog Action Day again this year, with a focus on Climate Change. It’s a great opportunity to remind people of the…
Lots of (well-intentioned I’m sure) vegan and omnivore friends over the last month have sent me links to Quarrygirl’s investigative report on animal product ingredients in food purchased…
I’m a great fan of Paste Magazine, and subscribe as a Paste Digital VIP. I’d thought of Paste as one of the success stories of publishing online –…
Two well known folks in the animal rights / vegan community have launched new blogs – check them out and subscribe! First, Erik Marcus, who you likely know…
It never ceases to amaze me how, when one cow (or goat, or pig, or chicken, or turkey) escapes from the slaughterhouse, the public at large want to…
Interesting that this appeared in the Huffington Post just before the H1N1 stories starting popping up: Enemies of the People, by Carl Pope. In it, he describes the…
As H1N1, aka the flu formerly known as swine flu, aka “The Other White Death,” continues to dominate the public media, it’s important to recognize the contribution factory…
(Guess it’s BVS week here at Goatless) This Tuesday, May 12th, the Boston Vegetarian Society is hosting a screening of Seeing Through the Fence, a film by Eleni…
The Boston Vegetarian Food Festival (truly it’s almost entirely a vegan food festival – though each year it seems at least one vendor manages to push the edge…
This is all I’m going to say about Bo Obama, the first family’s new non-rescue, non-shelter dog: see more dog and puppy pictures (And yes, I have purebred…
Via Erik Marcus I came to an excellent blog post by Mark Hawthorne, who takes on a question I’ve often wondered about: Is One-Click Activism Effective? You’ve almost…
Mark Bittman’s a columnist for the NY times, and is getting lots of attention recently for his new book Food Matters. He’s essentially urging a plant-based diet, though…
New blog from the folks at Farm Sanctuary, focused on activism: Check it out and subscribe to their feed for ongoing updates!
Doesn’t anyone at Fox News know how to use the Urban Dictionary?
Jo forwarded this to me a while back but I never got around to blogging it: Health Versus Pork: Congress Debates the Food Bill. It originally appeared in…
DrupalCon, the semi-annual (twice a year) conference of Drupal developers, is coming up next week in Washington DC. Filling out my profile, I was delighted to see these…
Got this today via email: Greetings. advantage “true toys” consequently not protected Sincerely, Cameron Bunch. If you reformat it ever so slightly it’s a near-haiku (5-10-6, or 5-10-7…