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Never Mind a Slippery Slope: Someone Cut the Brake Lines! As far as exploring issues concerning animal ethics goes these past several weeks, The New York Times has been less of a trail-blazer and more akin to a drunk wandering home down a dark road, occasionally stumbling into the ditch when squinting at approaching headlights. Seriously.
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3 May 2012 at 8:32am
Writer and historian James McWilliams posted this letter on his Eating Plants blog yesterday, written--and signed--in response to a horribly wrongheaded and tacky contest recently initiated by the New York Times' "Ethicist" columnist Ariel Kaminer. It was announced yesterday that Kaminer will be leaving her post as Ethicist columnist and
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27 Apr 2012 at 5:08am
To put a new spin on what's otherwise just a bunch of photos of vegan grub I've ended up making and eating and that I post monthly, I think that moving forward I'll attempt to provide an estimated cost for the dishes in the photos I'll share. Tara Parker-Pope's recent column in the New York Times may have perpetuated the myth that making vegan fare
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24 Apr 2012 at 4:56am
It's been a while since I've thought of Tara Parker-Pope, a health/food writer for the New York Times. She last caught my attention back in the summer of 2009 when her "Wellness" column featured a guest piece by by Mark Bittman, who shared how he had suddenly become protein deficient from only eating animal products after 6 pm. According to advice received
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17 Apr 2012 at 9:48pm
For the past few years, I've been sifting through articles and opinion pieces on the websites of various newspapers and magazines, trying to make sense of how it is that writers have come to so clumsily and conveniently bend--or altogether ignore--the actual definitions of words that have become buzz words. It's as if once a word associated with some
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11 Apr 2012 at 7:01am
A random draw yesterday afternoon left Marri Lynn the winner of a brand new copy of Vincent Guihan's New American Vegan. As part of the entry requirement for the contest, announced just last week, Marri Lynn included a photo for a favourite vegan recipe of her own, one for wholewheat bread (which was significantly adapted from another). She's given
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9 Apr 2012 at 7:20pm
As posted on Monday, I have a copy of New American Vegan to give away. There've been dozens of entries and there's still time for you to throw your name in to win. Here's what you'll need to do: To enter the contest you'll need to email a photo of your favourite vegan dish to m.of.the.maritimes @ gmail.com along with a list of its ingredients.
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7 Apr 2012 at 8:59am
Context, Yes! It's not a secret to anyone who's ever been inside my home that I am a little cookbook-obsessed -- just a little. I will often read them cover to cover and it's not uncommon for me to keep a few of them on my nightstand for bedtime reading. Reading through recipes from a new or trusted cookbook author is a great way
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2 Apr 2012 at 7:24pm
"If one says to these people that their judgment is not their own, they will be offended. It is like this in most cases for most people. almost all of them receive their ideas already made, and follow popular opinion all their lives. They speak in the style of the times, and dress according to fashion, not from any principle, but in order to act
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18 Mar 2012 at 11:26am
I think that it's safe to say that I'll have a fair number of posts about food this month. I have a few other Berkeley/Oakland restaurant reviews which should be popping up over this weekend. I am also in the process of inhaling the recipes in Vincent Guihan's excellent New American Vegan cookbook so that I can post a review with a couple of photos
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8 Mar 2012 at 9:04am
As noted below in my post from last week about my first experience with flight, I recently traveled to the San Francisco Bay area for a rare vacation. My intention had been to track down as many vegan restaurants as I could within reasonable distance and to sample some of their fare. I quickly found out that Berkeley, where I was staying, is overflowing
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3 Mar 2012 at 11:38am
The Piece CNN ran a piece yesterday on how differing diets can affect relationships ("Love is a cattle field: When diets divide relationships"). Part of it involves a couple consisting of a vegan and a nonvegan, and the issues they've found themselves facing over the years. What was disappointing is that no context is provided for how they
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2 Mar 2012 at 5:22am
Up until a little over 15 days ago, I had never flown. I grew up in a small working class family and the few trips we took when I was little were limited to car travel. The thought of flying anywhere for a vacation was simply never a consideration: My mother had a horrible fear of flying and even if she hadn't, we wouldn't have been able to afford
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25 Feb 2012 at 9:29am
"He thought in other heads, and in his own, others besides himself thought."-- Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera Sent from my iPod
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18 Feb 2012 at 8:11pm
I've been eating more than writing. Oh, the shame! Salad w/romaine lettuce, radishes, hot banana peppers. Tangerine. Mini fava bean burger patties (fava beans, rolled oats, wheat germ, grated onions, celery seed, ground chipotle, parsley and a dash of tamari, dredged through whole wheat flour and pan-fried). Chopped purple
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28 Jan 2012 at 8:31am
'Veganism' Is Everywhere!! I remember a few years ago how articles about veganism in online media sources were just occasional finds. They still are, really. I mean, the word 'vegan' gets tossed around a fair bit these days. You'll find it in food and health-related articles in the NY Times or in articles on the ethics of factory farming
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13 Jan 2012 at 6:42am
Thai coconut curry soup with potatoes, carrots, red bell peppers, zucchini, onions, garlic, green curry paste, galangal, coconut milk, organic brown sugar and a dash of Indian chili powder for extra heat. Baked sweet potato, "Garlicky Cheezy Kale" and cranberry sauce Oatmeal raisin-date cookies! Baked potato
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3 Jan 2012 at 3:03pm
The Hype Animal rights activists, welfarists, cookbook authors and bloggers have been sharing a link to a recent Care2 article for the past couple of days with a sort of fervent jubilation. Maybe it lies in the hope so many animal advocates have that a new year will, ultimately, bring about real change. Maybe it's also a reflection
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2 Jan 2012 at 7:16pm
I haven't been posting much in December, since work and new friends have kept me occupied. It feels as if I just shared photos of the various concoctions I've thrown together recently. With almost two weeks' vacation looming, I anticipate having more time to spend updating this thing. In the interim: Grape tomatoes, scallions and roasted
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21 Dec 2011 at 5:54am
HSUS president and CEO Wayne Pacelle has popped up in dozens of mainstream articles over the years to defend HSUS to American farmers. Pieces in which he insists that HSUS is not a pro-vegan organization have shown up anywhere and everywhere to assuage the fears of those who raise animals for human consumption. Now it seems that even those
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13 Dec 2011 at 7:05am
Vegan food is boring! Vegans can't eat anything! Vegans only eat sprouts and potato chips! (Yeah, whatever!) Raw carrot and green pepper strips. Roasted red pepper & paprika hummus. Coleslaw with clementine orange segments. Cream of tomato soup seasoned with dried orange peel, crushed garlic, smoked paprika and topped with
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28 Nov 2011 at 2:09am
Vegan, Feed Thyself As a single vegan who lives alone and who loves to cook, meals are pretty much no-brainers for me most of the time. With several stores just a quick zip away on the bike, the only possible thing constraining my choices at all when it comes to what I eat at home would be laziness or snowstorms; even then, though,
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16 Nov 2011 at 7:22pm
It's not hard to tell what sort of food kick I've been on by eyeballing photos of some of the dishes I make. I've definitely been on a tahini and nutritional yeast kick lately, using it in salads and as a spread and dip for sandwiches, crackers and raw vegetables. (I have a lengthy tahini post in the works that I hope to wrap up sometime this week.
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29 Oct 2011 at 9:42pm
(From Facebook)
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28 Oct 2011 at 8:23am
Watch part of the I'm Vegan documentary project below, as Prof. Gary L. Francione talks about his own journey to veganism and discusses the inherent differences between the animal welfare and animal rights movements:
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27 Oct 2011 at 10:34am
Animal advocates on various social networking site have been getting excited over the news that Paul McCartney (formerly of some band or other) has just released a cookbook. Why the excitement? Some say that it's another step forward for nonhuman animals. Me? I say it's another step backwards, thanks to another well-intentioned celebrity who doesn't
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24 Oct 2011 at 10:08am
(From Facebook)
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21 Oct 2011 at 10:47am
I think it's pretty clear that most of the posts on My Face Is on Fire are written for folks who are either already vegan or who are, on some level, already making the transition. I don't spend a lot of time writing persuasively about the basics of going vegan, though, and it's something that's nagged at me for a while now. I can't help but wonder if
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12 Oct 2011 at 3:56am
The thing about eating is that it provides a never-ending series of opportunities to snap photos of awesome vegan food. I mean, barring coming down with the flu and curling up beneath a blanket for a day or trying a fast, I end up making something or other pretty much at least every other day or so. Some things look (and taste!) less spectacular than
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10 Oct 2011 at 9:18am
I recently spent some time in the Halifax, Nova Scotia area -- old stomping grounds for me from my first few years out of high school. It involved my first year at university followed by another year of spending too much time spinning vinyl at a college radio station and getting sneaked into bars for gigs by the radio station's program director and
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8 Oct 2011 at 5:29am
"[…] misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
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7 Oct 2011 at 10:28am
I've been following the activities of a local chapter of a trap-neuter-return (TNR) group called ca-r-ma. At some point a few years ago, a former coworker had posted about them on Facebook and I had become intrigued, since the work in which they engaged stood out a little from the activities of the two local SPCA shelters. I discovered soon enough,
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6 Oct 2011 at 4:02am
We all start out looking quite the same... (Initially viewed on the Alice Springs Vegan Society page on Facebook.)
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6 Oct 2011 at 3:58am
Last week, The Informed Vegan ran a piece about how Bob's Red Mill is planning to donate $25 million towards nutrition education to the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). According to The Informed Vegan, OHSU is notorious for animal testing and because of its decision to make this donation, Bob's Red Mill's "standing as a conscious
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27 Sep 2011 at 4:01am
I've been in the Halifax, Nova Scotia this past week, enjoying some downtime while on vacation. Part of that, of course, involved indulging in some cooking and some sampling of vegan fare in local restaurants. Here are a few photos of some of the things either my host and I prepared together during my stay or that I whipped up on my lonesome. Expect
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23 Sep 2011 at 8:30pm
“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.” -- Mark Twain
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14 Sep 2011 at 3:23am
A short article on veganism in the Purdue University Calumet Chronicle yesterday ("'Ve-gain' your health") had the misfortune of being piled on a clumsy swipe at those who take the rights and interests of other animals seriously. Its writer begins by attempting to correct what's presented as a misunderstanding of vegans as having "an unnatural passion
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12 Sep 2011 at 3:35am
I'm not keeping track, but I'm sure that if I were the type to count on my fingers and toes that I'd long since have stopped being able to log these articles about nothing which present themselves as somehow having anything to do with going vegan. Tim O'Shea's bit in the Concord Monitor ("My so-called vegan life") is yet another to throw into the pit
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29 Aug 2011 at 3:58am
I've been quite lax about posting recently, thanks to being on vacation and indulging in various distractions. At the very least, I guess that I can share some of the bland and uninteresting fare I've been eating the past while to maintain my unhealthy, sickly vegan self: Romaine lettuce, tomatoes, pickled mild banana peppers, radishes,
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24 Aug 2011 at 3:13pm
Every day that we live, we remake the world. The question is, are we remaking the world in the way that we really want it to be? Would we prefer that animals be nicely treated commodities, still exploited, albeit more gently, or would we prefer that the world be vegan, and recognize the inherent worth of animals as beings with their own subjective
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19 Aug 2011 at 3:27pm
"It's time. You need to come home," my brother-in-law said to me on the phone. My brother-in-law had never called me before. We ironed out that I'd hop on the bus immediately and that he'd pick me up and rush me to the hospital once I arrived. I called a few close friends who'd made themselves so kindly and wonderfully available to me to ensure that
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9 Aug 2011 at 10:13pm
HSUS' Wayne Pacelle has been making the rounds recently to promote his book, The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals; Our Call to Defend Them. The articles I've been reading here and there about his various appearances have not offered up anything surprising; they've mostly reflected his continued commitment to ensuring that Americans feel more comfortable
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8 Aug 2011 at 4:49am
I've written a few times about precisely how not a fan I am of over-hyped short-term so-called "vegan" challenges or cleanses that are usually kick-started with an emphasis on health and weight loss. I occasionally get into the same old tired discussions with non-abolitionist animal advocates over why I'm not, countering their assertions that
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2 Aug 2011 at 10:19am
26 Jul 2011 at 4:43am Someone I know told me recently that he has never wanted to share his home with non-human animals, specifically because of his fear of having to deal with their eventual loss by way of either illness or age. I'd been telling him about my own fears over recent weeks concerning my boy Zeus' latest bout with vertigo. The person with whom I was speaking
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15 Jul 2011 at 3:20am
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed. It was once considered foolish to suppose that black men were really human beings and ought to be treated as such. What was once foolish has now become a recognized truth. Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life
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11 Jul 2011 at 8:27am
In case you weren't 100% sure that the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) offers nothing but a disinterested shrug to the question of whether or not non-human animals are ours to use, its President and CEO has issued yet another reminder: I have been a vegan for 26 years, but the Humane Society is broad-minded when it comes to food. About 95
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20 Jun 2011 at 5:23am
I've been keeping meals really quick and simple these days and haven't been making enough use of the camera. That being said, here are a few "boring", "bland" and positively "unhealthy" dishes I've made over the past little while to keep me protein deficient, anemic, and basically fighting for my very life: Vegetable-lentil soup with mushrooms.
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16 Jun 2011 at 3:42am
I often stumble across articles in the media which are about vegans although written by non-vegans, and which don't appear at first glance to be fodder for any sort of lengthy or detailed post. Often, though, one of these articles will still contain something -- an assumption, a bit of misinformation, a certain tone -- that leaves me thinking about
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15 Jun 2011 at 3:30am
Just last month, The Biggest Loser's weight loss trainer Bob Harper lost an opportunity to promote not using animals. Harper went public in June of 2010 to self-identify as vegan and in doing so, has joined a handful of other celebrities who've spent the past few years sending one confusing message after another out to the public about what veganism
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14 Jun 2011 at 9:22am
Bring up the issue of using meat analogues (or "mock" meats) on any vegan forum and you have my guarantee that the responses you will obtain will be quite varied; a few may even end up being of surprising intensity. Some love them and incorporate them readily into their regular meals, while other vegans feel pretty wigged out by what can sometimes be
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8 Jun 2011 at 8:10am
The Vegan Black Metal Chef just released his second video. Enjoy! (Go "like" his Facebook page, while you're at it.)
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7 Jun 2011 at 8:10pm
My Face Is on Fire's first ever official unofficial Boston correspondent forwarded this photo to me earlier today with the following description: "[T]his signboard is outside of a place in Cambridge called 'The Clear Conscience Café.' Who needs the sacrament of penance when you can just . . . eat breakfast?" So how about the rest
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4 Jun 2011 at 1:40pm
Four Corners For the past few days, animal advocates across the internet have been discussing the recent so-called expose "of the cruelty inflicted on Australian cattle exported to the slaughterhouses of Indonesia". The story broke on May 30 when the ABC (i.e. Australian Broadcasting Corporation) television program "Four Corners" aired a
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1 Jun 2011 at 7:26am
Whenever I come across new or prospective vegans online who express concern over not knowing what to prepare to eat for themselves, or who worry about lacking variety in what they do prepare, I'm glad that I always have dozens of links on hand to share. I had a discussion with someone a few days ago who'd expressed to me what a shame he feels it is
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30 May 2011 at 5:40am
Neither chef, nor photographer, I'm nonetheless sharing a few more photos of things I've slapped together over this past week: Here's an easy-to-tweak favourite: Kitchen sink tofu scramble with organic tofu, red bell peppers, onions, heirloom rainbow carrots, potatoes and kale. I seasoned it with crushed garlic, nutritional yeast, turmeric,
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28 May 2011 at 2:27pm
Why is it that over half of all vegan cookbook or restaurant reviews in the media always start with the writer asserting quite adamantly that (s)he has rejected veganism? The most trivial of reasons are given in a flippant manner and, before the actual review has even begun, the writer often finds a way to disparage or misrepresent veganism or vegan-friendly
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27 May 2011 at 7:00am
Two articles I stumbled across this morning had nothing to do with veganism, but everything to do with our moral confusion when it comes to how we perceive and use non-human animals: About a Donkey The first article ("Iraqi donkey finally in U.S.") is about a donkey, adopted as a mascot and named "Smoke" by retired Col.
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16 May 2011 at 6:33am
I'm guessing that most of you have seen this already. I'm posting it there for those who may not have done so. I dunno how long Vegan Black Metal Chef Brian Manowitz will be able to pull this off, but I'm already really looking forward to Episode 2! Check out his new website, Veganblackmetalchef.com.
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14 May 2011 at 3:01pm
I went on a huge fruit and kale kick this past week. Here are a some photos of a few things I ended up devouring: My fruit basket overflowed a few days ago. Some of what I nabbed and ate (raw or cooked)? Cantaloupe, bananas, tomatoes, sweet potato, tangelos, avocado, mangoes, mandarin oranges, lemon and limes. Kale, tomatoes and
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13 May 2011 at 6:53pm
Recently, in some darkened little corner of the interwebs, I found myself accused of having possibly hurt someone's feelings. The little corner was a spot which concerns itself with the promotion of veganism, and the "someone" had posted that she had recently located a nice Amish family that raised chickens in a comfortable setting, and that she
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10 May 2011 at 5:29am
Some of the things I've been eating this past week: Tofu scramble with green peppers, zucchini, mushrooms and garlic. Seasoned with a wee splash of tamari, a pinch of black salt, a fair amount of nooch, lots of crushed garlic, turmeric, dried parsley and freshly-ground black pepper. Fruit soup: Cantaloupe, blueberries, raspberries,
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7 May 2011 at 11:33pm
The SFGate has a new blog as of today; it's called "Veganize It!" and it's written by Sabrina Modelle who proposes to spend her time veganizing recipes for readers. Modelle describes herself as having recently completed a 28-day vegan cleanse, in which she also omitted alcohol, caffeine and refined sugar. By the beginning of March, I knew my eating
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5 May 2011 at 4:00am
It's exasperating the number of people who exert so much energy to try to justify a lesser degree of animal use as a fair and reasonable alternative to simply not using them at all. The increasingly undiscerning folks at Huffington Post recently let one such person, marketing consultant Val Brown and self-identified friend of Kathy Freston's, have
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2 May 2011 at 9:38am
I'm wandering away from the soup photos this week... Open-faced seitan sandwich with cheddar Daiya on pumpernickel toast, topped w/gravy made from leftover seitan basting liquid. Peas and sauerkraut. Comfort food extraordinaire! Steamed broccoli w/oven-baked Gardein chunks and plum tomatoes. Oven-baked sweet potato
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30 Apr 2011 at 7:06pm
Earlier today, Eric Prescott, Director and Co-founder of the Boston Vegan Association, released this interview with Prof. Gary L. Francione. It was taped as part of the upcoming I'm Vegan project: I'm Vegan: Gary Francione from Eric Prescott on Vimeo.
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28 Apr 2011 at 11:46am
I wonder sometimes how many hours of my life I could give up just addressing some of the more problematic information and opinions Mark Bittman releases into the ether. His Opinionator blog post from late yesterday ("Who Protects the Animals?") is certainly no exception to much of the confusion he spreads about what we do or don't owe non-human animals.
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27 Apr 2011 at 3:24am
A few delicious things I've made and devoured over the past week: Dill tabbouleh on quinoa. It was my first time using dill to make tabbouleh and it ended up being a very interesting twist on an old favourite. This concoction is a tomato-rice soup w/spinach, onions, mixed legumes, turnip, carrots & corn. I seasoned it with
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23 Apr 2011 at 11:05am
Since last week the internet has been buzzing with the news that actress and vegan shoe line owner Natalie Portman has admitted in a recent radio interview that she's resumed consuming animal products. I wrote about it not particularly caring which celebrity goes or stops being vegan this or that week. There's a constant churning, it seems, and
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19 Apr 2011 at 4:47am
I've written it often enough here: I love to make soup. As long as I have some basic herbs and spices stowed away, maybe a handful of dried beans or grains and a few odds and ends in the crisper, I can come up with something tasty and nutritious. The flexibility involved is nuts once you get the hang of figuring out complementary tastes and textures,
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18 Apr 2011 at 4:38am
It's been a while since I've checked out my favourite food blogs to see what folks have been preparing and sharing. I've been busy with work and school (I love that I can say that I'm busy with school again!) so web-gawking time has mostly been spent socializing or volunteering here and there. Plus, to be honest, I've had so little free time and tempting
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15 Apr 2011 at 5:06am
Point of View Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless, Christmas dinner's dark and blue, When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.
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14 Apr 2011 at 11:58am
In completely unsurprising news, another popular PETA-beloved vegan celeb has recently outed herself as having abandoned veganism. In an interview this morning with Atlanta-based Q100's "The Bert Show", actress Natalie Portman admitted that she resumed consuming eggs and dairy at the start of her pregnancy, citing nutritional concerns and convenience
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11 Apr 2011 at 5:52am
Even without using a cookbook or trying to concoct anything elaborate, it's so easy to slap together simple, tasty and nourishing plant-based meals. Here are a few things things I prepared over the past few days using whatever I had on hand. A "whatever's in the fridge stir-fry with celery, green beans, re-hydrated organic TVP chunks, udon
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9 Apr 2011 at 2:39pm
How We Sometimes Question The topic of where to set boundaries when it comes to romantic entanglements is one that cycles in and out of discussion more often than most for vegans. The question which invariably introduces it is something along the lines of "Would you date or otherwise get involved with a non-vegan?" and the responses to it--and
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6 Apr 2011 at 3:47am
I bookmarked an article from the Kansas City Star a few weeks ago. I had been attracted by its title ("The vegan way: Correcting myths about a growing trend"), but wasn't surprised to find myself wincing a few paragraphs in. I'm all for correcting myths about veganism, but it seems to me that whenever non-vegans in mainstream media take it upon themselves
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10 Mar 2011 at 5:59am
I had a conversation with someone a few days ago (let's call him Joe) that slipped into a discussion about hunting. He was a friend of a friend's and as a few of us sat over coffee, someone brought up a story about an uncle's annual obsession with tracking down and killing deer. I noticed a change in his facial expression as he listened: his nose wrinkled
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7 Mar 2011 at 6:04am
This was initially posted almost three years ago. I revisit it from time to time whenever I need to remind myself that there's no shame in loving another when there's no expectation of reciprocity. ------------------------------- I was thinking about someone who passed through my life not too long ago and a conversation we'd
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23 Feb 2011 at 10:44am
18 Feb 2011 at 8:53am I've written a little about Mark Bittman before. He's likely one of the better-known foodies who's carved out a nice niche for himself co-opting the term "vegan" while making it clear that he doesn't take veganism seriously. Bittman is beloved by those who fancy themselves green and conscientious omnivores and is the guy behind the whole "Vegan Before
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9 Feb 2011 at 3:00am
Really? I mean, really? ::sigh::
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3 Feb 2011 at 3:00am
Now that I have a working digital camera again, I hope to get into the habit of taking more and more photos of some of the things I slap together in my kitchen and post them here at the end of each month. I posted about making Noodle Soup on Xmas and about making Oven Roasted Seitan on New Year's Eve. Here are a few other odds and ends I made:
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29 Jan 2011 at 6:09pm
I thought I'd try something different with January's monthly "What Vegans Eat" post. Instead of sifting through some of the recipes my favourite vegan food bloggers' have shared most recently, I thought I'd ask them to chime in to tell me of the recipes they've posted on their blogs are favourites -- either their own, or their readers'. I figured,
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25 Jan 2011 at 3:27am
A reader sent me a link yesterday morning to an article from The Vancouver Sun ("Animal rights group targets humane society's meaty menu") about the Ottawa Animal Rights Defence League and their protest of the Ottawa Humane Society's upcoming $300-a-plate FurBall fundraiser. It seems that the fundraiser, being held at the National Gallery of
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20 Jan 2011 at 2:30am
Canada's National Post featured a rather inappropriately titled article today ("Living by the gun") which caught my eye and managed to turn my stomach a little. The article includes a large photo of a smiling man holding the head of a dead deer up by the deer's antlers and it examines -- glorifies, even -- the recent interest in which city-dwellers
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15 Jan 2011 at 9:36am
Sports Writers Should Stick to Covering Sports The University of New Brunswick's The Brunswickan publication left me shaking my head a little last week. I was sitting in a local coffee shop with my Pennsylvanian friend, who was examining the spoils of our recent trip to the library. Sipping on some organic coconut water and leafing through
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11 Jan 2011 at 5:26am
With a house guest for the holidays, I've been doing a lot more cooking. One of the things I decided to tackle was something I haven't done in many years; I made up my mind to whip up a loaf of seitan. I used an old favourite recipe, Jo Stepaniak's "Roasted Breast of Seitan Turkey" from Vegan Vittles. You can find it on page three of this document
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30 Dec 2010 at 8:33pm
My omni guest is a huge fan of chicken noodle soup, whether his mother's or from a can. While he was squeezing in a nap after our simple veggie burger lunch, I made the following no-fail easy noodle soup, adapted from one in Dorothy R. Bates' TVP Cookbook. This stuff always reminds me of the lazy Sunday lunches when I was a kid, when Mom would pop
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25 Dec 2010 at 10:12am
He's writing a cookbook, it seems, and I very much look forward to seeing what he slaps together. You can find out more (and check out archived videos) at his website: The Sexy Vegan.
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22 Dec 2010 at 9:39pm
I'd thought about devoting a post to some of the holiday treats being shared by vegan food bloggers online, but figured that I'd use December's "what vegans eat" post to nose around for things I'd like to try to make over the next few weeks while I entertain a house guest from Pennsylvania. There'll be no elaborate multi-course meals and no extravagant
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22 Dec 2010 at 3:46am
"If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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9 Dec 2010 at 12:03pm
Social Networking I spend a fair amount of time "talking" to other vegans. In the non-virtual world, at least in my immediate circle of friends, family and acquaintances, I don't get to indulge in this at all. I've met a few vegans, sure, but could I pick up the phone to call one up to head out for a soy latté to maybe bounce a couple of
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3 Dec 2010 at 6:48am
More from Vincent Guihan:
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29 Nov 2010 at 8:00am
I've been so busy with work, school-related red tape and meeting new abolitionists over at the Abolitionist Approach Forum over the past few weeks that I haven't been doing much of my usual nosing around online to check out the projects in which others have been engaging. Sometimes it's good to step back and disengage from things a little. Last night,
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23 Nov 2010 at 4:50am
21 Nov 2010 at 9:18pm 21 Nov 2010 at 1:13pm "Hey, I'm snarky and I'm going to rip the world's vegans a new one in one fell swoop with my cleverness. Um.... Well, how about with my bad logic and shoddy writing skills, then? Dave might like to read this piece dealing with the same tired "there's no such thing as a vegan because whatever you eat requires killing" excuse used by those
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16 Nov 2010 at 12:11pm
During two separate trips to Pennsylvania this past year, I found myself falling in love -- and developing some pretty strong emotional ties to a little place in Reading called Good Eatz Green Cafe. Initially started as a gluten-free bakery, Good Eatz eventually rolled out a cafe to accommodate various food allergies and preferences. I first heard
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15 Nov 2010 at 6:55pm
This past September, I had a house-guest for longer than I've ever had a house-guest. I think that he stayed just a bit shy of a month. I whipped out my cookbooks weeks in advance, I sifted through my favourite vegan food blogs and made notes of some old favourite dishes that I've lapsed in making for some reason or another over the years. Having cooked
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9 Nov 2010 at 8:18am
A little over four years ago, my life changed pretty drastically in one of those ways where you find yourself suddenly unable to breathe. A lot. I had left a steady tech-writing job at the beginning of the year to go back to school full-time to finally finish off the BA in philosophy I'd left dangling for so long, when life did that thing it does
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7 Nov 2010 at 7:39pm
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