Category: veganism
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Does One-Click Activism Work?
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 certainly seen one-click activism: you get an email, click on a link, and send a pre-written message to a pre-selected legislator or other politician. It’s activism made…
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Bittman (sort of) gets it
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 he consistently stops short of encouraging people to go fully vegan as that would be “difficult” and/or “unpopular.” I’ve also never seen him really acknowledge – perhaps…
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New Blog from Farm Sanctuary: Making Hay
New blog from the folks at Farm Sanctuary, focused on activism: Check it out and subscribe to their feed for ongoing updates!
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PCRM on Food Subsidies
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 the Autumn 2007 Good Medicine magazine from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, but the primary point it makes is still valid today: government food subsidies are…
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All the more reason to love DrupalCon
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 options: Happy to see conference organizers recognize the need for and provide better food options!
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Audubon Magazine on Diet and Global Warming
(Via Vegan.com) Excellent piece by Mike Tidwell in Audubon Magazine: The Low Carbon Diet. I was a bit concerned when Tidwell opened with the usual “confession” that so many apologias for meat eating use, a trope I’m tired of reading: Full disclosure: I love to eat meat. I was born in Memphis, the barbecue capital…
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Hold the Mayo, Thank the Clinic
(Via Veggie Going Vegan via Veggie Chic) Very happy to see this great set of resources from the Mayo Clinic – Vegetarian Diet: How to Get the Best Nutrition – which begins: Adopting a healthy vegetarian diet isn’t as simple as scraping meat off your plate and eating what’s left. You need to take extra…
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Mercy Now
Some days it’s really difficult to understand the depths of human cruelty and hatred. Today just became one of those days for me, as I read about the recent attack on Mercy For Animals founder Nathan Runkle. From the press release issued by MFA: Nathan Runkle, the 24-year old openly gay founder and Executive Director…
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Just in time for the Holidays
Just in time for the holidays – I was very happy to see this in the Mercy For Animals e-newsletter: MFA’s “How Much Cruelty Can You Swallow?” Ad Campaign Hits Boston Millions of bus riders in Boston are getting a new outlook on dinner, thanks to the launch of over 600 pro-vegetarian MFA ads. The…
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Obama, Pollan on “Food” Policy
While I’ve not doubt that a vegan president-elect Kucinich would be closer to my views on the animals-we-call-food, it’s enheartening truly to see Obama talking about food policy with a true intellectual approach, trying to understand how environmental issues are mixed up with how “food” is produced. First, to backtrack. Via ecorazzi ( Barack Obama…
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Boston Vegetarian Food Festival
This Saturday, Nov 1st, is World Vegan Day, and is also the annual Boston Vegetarian Food Festival, at Reggie Lewis Athletic Center in Boston (map). This year’s speakers include: Blogger and cookbook author Sarah Kramer talking about her new book Vegan a Go-Go, “a cookbook and advice book for veg travellers.” Danielle Nierenberg from the Worldwatch Institute…
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Harvest Vegan Dinner at UpStairs on the Square
Earlier this week Jo and I went to one of the Harvest Vegan Dinners at UpStairs on the Square. They’ve been doing a four course, gourmet vegan tasting menu (with optional wine pairings) monthly. The next is scheduled for Tuesday, November 25th, and if you haven’t been you should absolutely check it out whether you’re…
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Obama Family Dog petition
I don’t normally push online petitions, the theory being that the ease with which a petition is generated, circulated, and signed is inversely proportional to the influence it has on those addressed (online petitions are too easy to do and therefore less meaningful). But this one I think has a chance: If Sen. Barack Obama…
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More than Salad
A new entry in the “global vegan restaurant directory” category came to my attention late last week: More than Salad. While I appreciate the humor in the Terms of Service: I’m not sure I’d spend a ton of time entering reviews here over my favorite VegGuide, which clearly licenses its content for others to use…
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Vegan Pizza comes to Jamaica Plain
(via Maynard, the MARC mailing list, and originally the Jamaica Plain Gazzette) Steve Carian from T.J. Scallywaggle’s, one of (so far as I can tell) two all-vegan pizzarias in the US (the other is Pizza Pi in Seattle) is opening another place in JP, on the site of the former Felix Pizzaria. It will be…
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Facebook Activism
(via Beth Kanter) I found this guide to using Facebook for Activism, from DigiActive: Given the incredible numbers of people logging on every day, it makes sense to try to use facebook for activism – but, as the authors point out, you have to be careful about your expectations. I like this description, of one…
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Overstock Drops Fur
Happy to see (via HSUS) that Overstock.com just became the first major online retailer to drop fur from its offerings. In an interview with HSUS, Patrick Byrne, the CEO of Overstock.com, talked about how they made the decision: I already understood that animals are not just objects. Someone could sit in a business meeting and…
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What’s Wrong With What We Eat & The Humane Myth
Two recent finds online worth sharing. First, a video which came through the TED Talks video feed in Miro. It’s not actually from TED but from EG, which is a similar conference in Monterey focused on innovative ideas and wealthy audiences. It’s Mark Bittman, a food critic for the New York Times (and author of…