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Recently I ate out with a large group of coworkers, most of whom I had just met. Unfortunately, the restaurant chosen was one of those big chain sports and burger type places. I scoured the menu and found one item that just might work if it weren't for the cheese splattered on top. Undaunted by the social ramifications, I dared to question
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17 Nov 2011 at 11:26am
Vegan cookbook author Claire Gosse and fitness "expert" Brock Picken have a new book called Vegan Flush (press release here). Scare quotes on 'expert' there because what kind of fitness expert doesn't understand how the human body actually flushes out toxins? (Hint for "experts" out there--your liver and kidneys take care of things).
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6 Nov 2011 at 9:18am
Yesterday I ran across a link from Animal Legal Defense Fund declaring that Occupy Wall Street Takes on Corporate Animal Abuse. The linked "official declaration" contains this statement: "They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless nonhuman animals, and actively hide these practices." Okay, so I'm not sure
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9 Oct 2011 at 11:55am
Reading VegNews is always an adventure. There's usually some good recipes, factual articles, and items that can genuinely be called news, mixed in with welfarism, woo, and other assorted wackiness. It's just the right mix that fascinates me. I'm often appalled but can't stop reading it. Today I'm going to examine a part of the magazine that is a good
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21 Sep 2011 at 8:50pm
Examples of Appeals to Tradition in Regards to Veganism "Raising animals and eating meat is what made us human. The human race hasn't come this far eating lettuce." "The Inuit culture has always depended on eating meat. You can't ask them to change." "We're meat eaters. End of story." Simple Example to Demonstrate
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28 Aug 2011 at 12:37pm
There's a Wayne Gretzky quote I've always liked: "You miss 100% of the shots you never take." Applied to the world of activism, you will never change anything if you never make the attempt. Last post I lampooned the notion of "vegan-ish" and how foolish it looks when applied to things like racism and sexism. Another aspect of "vegan-ish-ism" is that
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21 Aug 2011 at 9:06am
I've been thinking a lot about this post about how all birthday cake is vegan, and I definitely think they're actually on to something here. It's an indisputable FACT that committing 100% to something causes people to become just the opposite. Three lefts make, what? That's right. A right. The opposite. Keep going one way all the time and
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15 Aug 2011 at 8:48am
I already linked to this article on "humane meat" on my Facebook page, but I want to respond to several points in it. The whole thing is chock-full of facepalm-worthy statements and demonstrates exactly how welfarists get things wrong. I can always count on Picard to feel my pain. #1: “I have ‘vegan' tattooed
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17 Jul 2011 at 8:39am
If a tree were to fall on an island where there were no human beings would there be any sound? The question is probably so familiar to some that it has become trite. To cut to the chase, the answer was meant to lie in the definition of "sound". Sound is defined as a perception. The tree falling creates vibrations in the air, but no sound because no
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26 Jun 2011 at 2:34pm
As a follow-up to the previous post on lab-grown meat, here is a link to a Science story on MRSA. Once again, I am going to step away from ethics here so please bear with me for this short post. MRSA stands for meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, meaning that it is a drug resistant bacteria. It has been found in human, and now
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5 Jun 2011 at 11:58am
Lab-grown (cultured/in vitro) meat is back in the news again with this story by ABC News (Warning: meat pictures). It seems not much has progressed on the development of cultured meat in the last 10 years. It is still prohibitively expensive, but researchers claim that they just need more capital investment to produce a commercially viable
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24 May 2011 at 1:30pm
I try to not pay much attention to how animal eaters prepare their carcasses for consumption, but I can't help but notice a strange phenomenon--animal products dressed up as though they were plant-based foods. I did a bit of research (not recommended--the descriptions and images are horrifying), and found that the practice is rather widespread. It's
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22 May 2011 at 9:38am
What a pregnant woman may look like. (Stock image--I have no idea if she's vegan or not. Sorry.)I don't have too much to add on this story by Alison Waters for The Scavenger: Should you give up being vegan when pregnant? My short answer: No. Long answer: No, vegan pregnancies produce healthy babies. If the nutrition is great for the mom,
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15 May 2011 at 3:53pm
Ginnifer, you have a very serious disease. My prescription? Eggs.No, I'm not in the habit of following celebrity gossip, but I do pay attention to vegan related shenanigans in news aggregators. The headline this time is Ginnifer Goodwin Quits Veganism. I remember reading the original story on her becoming vegan here and wondering if she may just
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13 May 2011 at 1:41pm
Mock-vegan spokesperson Natalie Portman Before I get too carried away throwing around the term "mock-vegan", I'd better explain what I mean by it. It's not just my code word for attention seeking celebrities. First, let's review Donald Watson's definition of veganism: Veganism is a way of living which excludes all forms of exploitation
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13 May 2011 at 1:01pm
Celebrity mock-vegan Alicia Silverstone's website The Kind Life is now featuring a product called Kaeng Raeng. It's a supposed "detox" product. From their website: How does it work? Your body can consume all natural ingredients easily, healthfully separating fiber and nutrients, and passing waste through your colon cleanly.
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10 May 2011 at 2:51pm
Yesterday I wrote on the new interconnectedness made possible by Facebook. Some of it applies to other social media, but I feel Facebook is a unique tool right now in how quickly it can bridge people and ideas. Case in point--this morning, a link from My Face Is on Fire's news feed brought me to a notable quote on the NZ Vegan Podcast blog.
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9 May 2011 at 11:22am
It seems to me that there are a lot more vegans around than there used to be. I don't mean dieting celebrities, or the mock-vegans circling the wagons on welfarist websites. I mean honest-to-goodness vegans that I'm noticing all over the place. And by all over the place, I mean on Facebook. I've gotten into the habit recently of liking
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8 May 2011 at 12:26pm
How does one arrive at the notion that harming non-human animals is wrong? Some people just like animals and abhor the thought of hurting, much less eating them. For many it starts with an emotional reaction to witnessing animal cruelty. I have read of people so affected as children by the Disney movie Bambi that it started them on the path to veganism
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7 May 2011 at 9:36am
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