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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Vegan Chicago – Karyn’s Cooked

While in Chicago for a conference, I had dinner at a new (to me) place in the North River neighborhood, not far from the Hilton Garden Inn: Karyn’s…

Starbucks, Soy, and Wifi (Rewards)

I have something of a love-hate relationship with mega-chain Starbucks. On the one hand, they consistently offer soy milk in (almost) every store, which I appreciated as a…

Vegan Night at the Pops (Betty’s, Natalie Merchant)

Well, it was a vegan night at the Pops for Jo and I anyway – maybe some day they will have an official night. Started out with dinner…

Rancho Foods, San Diego

I’m in San Diego (Mission Bay) for a conference this week. Based on the sad state of the menu at lunch (stumped at the notion of someone not…

Carbon Footprint: Local vs. Vegan

(Via Organic Consumers Association) A new study published in Environmental Science & Technology discusses the contribution that food makes to global warming: Van Wing, who coined the term…

NPR Gets the Point – Minimizing Greenhouse Gases Through Diet

I’ve blogged a fair amount (too much, some might say) on the connections between global warming and animal agriculture – it’s the true inconvenient truth that many meat-eating…

VegSXSW, Retweeter

I’m at the airport getting ready to board for SXSW. If you’re going to be at SXSW (interactive), or in Austin March 6th-12th, check out VegSXSW on Twitter…

The Cheeseburger Footprint

Just came across an excellent post from Jamais Cascio on the Carbon Footprint of the Cheeseburger In summary, he concludes: To make it clear, then: the greenhouse gas…

Grezzo, Boston’s New Raw Vegan Restaurant

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…

IPCC Chief Links Vegetarianism to Climate Change

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…