Category: veganism
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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 Cooked. It’s part of the broader Karyn’s set of restaurants, cafes, and spa, run by Karyn Calabrese. (Photo by PJ Chmiel, from his fantastic Vegan in Chicago…
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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. On the other hand, they are a mega chain, and I prefer to patronize local independent coffeehouses when possible, and they charge $0.40 extra for drinks…
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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 at Betty’s Wok and Noodle, followed by Natalie Merchant with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall.
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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 eating chicken, they struggled to find an alternative and ended up serving the spaghetti from the kids menu, I think), I ventured down to Ocean Beach and…
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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 locavore with a friend 3 years ago, says curbing global warming is one of many social and environmental reasons for eating locally. And for many people, “food…
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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 environmentalists have no interest in hearing, and many mainstream media outlets have little interest in reporting. (Gee, I assume that has no connection with whom the major…
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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 or at VegSXSW.org. I’ve set up VegSXSW on twitter so that it scans the tweets for those it follows and retweets anything containing #vegsxsw hashtag. I’ve also…
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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 emissions arising every year from the production and consumption of cheeseburgers is roughly the amount emitted by 6.5 million to 19.6 million SUVs. There are now approximately…
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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 eatery to North End” Grezzo Zucchini Canneloni (photo from Boston Herald article) From the article: Depending on the season, Grezzo patrons may enjoy dishes like coconut curried…
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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 major factor in production of greenhouse gasses, and that reducing or eliminating your consumption of such products was one of the best ways you can contribute to…
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Veggieist Bostonist Introducedist
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 decided to have the vegan column be a regular feature. Every Thursday Bostonist will offer some vegan love; not limited to recipes, veg/vegan restaurant reviews, compassionate living…
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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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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…