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Creative Vigilantes
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 comedy, magic, and haute cuisine: “Creative Vigilantes.” Comedy is not the only creative industry in which scholars are finding evidence that challenges assumptions held on Capitol Hill.…
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Happy Holidays!
Happy holidays, peace on earth, good will toward people (and animals). Lucy and Georgia
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HSUS Biggest Victories in Helping Animals
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 to Save Pets in Disasters (Oct 2006) Hundreds of Pets Rescued from California Wildfires (Oct. 2007) Largest Veal and Pig Producers Abandon Crates (2007) Arizona and Oregon…
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Zurich – Pot au vert
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) online is only available in German, as in most Swiss restaurants English menus are available and the waitstaff speak many languages (German, English, and French most often).…
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Bill Maher talks Turkey at the Huffington Post
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 people should be arrested. They would be if the turkeys were dogs or cats. Too bad our animal protection laws make about as much sense as fighting…
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Thanksliving 2007
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 farm and took some photos and met some animals before dinner began see the photoset at flickr. The menu was, as expected, absolutely fantastic, featuring food…
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Vegan Food Blogs
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: VeganYumTum Fatfree Vegan Kitchen Vegan Lunch Box Congrats to all of them – way to represent food that’s healthy, cruelty-free, and delicious – and looks beautiful as…
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Get Happy
Nice video to get you through the midweek slump: Not one of our girls (Lucy and Georgia) but the same breed. Too funny.
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New York, New Hotel
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 absurdly high rates. Hotels.com turned up this Comfort Inn in what was described as Times Square which seemed ok, and was certainly cheap ($265 or so before…
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Mary Gauthier at Club Passim
(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 back Jo and I caught Mary Gauthier at Club Passim in Harvard Square. Passim is an excellent place to see anyone – a folk club about to…
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Thanksliving
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 party where the Turkeys are the guests of honor rather than the main course: celebrating (and raising money for) compassion. In addition to the food (main dish…
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Zombies Don’t Eat Candy, Only Brains
Great new video, just in time for Halloween, from the folks at CommonCraft – Zombies in Plain English:
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Boston Vegetarian Food Festival Tomorrow
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 of sponsors and exhibitors, and directions are all on the BVS site. Warning – it gets very very crowded by late afternoon – plan for plenty of…
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Killer Cow Emissions
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 newsvine accounts. 😉 Highlights: All told, livestock are responsible for 18% of greenhouse-gas emissions worldwide, according to the U.N. — more than all the planes, trains and…
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Windy City Vegan – Chicago Veggie Diner
Dinner last night was at Chicago’s famous Veggie Diner. The menu’s nicely varied – not too focused on the faux-meats, with a broad variety of dishes, as well as vegan organic wines and beers. We had a fabulous Sweet Potatoe Polenta cake appetizer, and I had a spicy Thai Tofu rice bowl with broccoli. Had…
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Nellie McKay at the Paradise tonight
<Update> – two photos on flickr from the show – sorry for the low quality but I only had the cellphone camera, and the way the stage was setup we were watching Nellie’s back through most of it. Strange to watch someone sing and play piano from behind – but the sound was great. Here…
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Happy World Vegetarian Day!
(Thanks to Maynard Clark of the Boston Vegan Meetup group for some of the links and descriptions) World Vegetarian Day is observed annually on October 1. It is a day of celebration established by the North American Vegetarian Society in 1977 “to promote the joy, compassion and life-enhancing possibilities of vegetarianism” World Vegetarian Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Vegetarian_Day…
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Vegan Open Source: VegGuide.org
I love this post from Dave Rolsky at Compassionate Action for Animals, in which he outlines the philosphy behind VegGuide.org and how it differs from competing national and local guides: The goal of the guide is provide a tool that helps makes it easier to live a more animal-friendly life. Specifically, we want to make…