November 2009
14 posts
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“I’m a big fan of Evan Williams bourbon, which I regard as the cheapest high...”
– Vegan.com
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What Are Vegans Eating? (World Veg Fest, San...
Before food was divided into six quadrants of a pyramid, there were Four Food Groups:
ONE. “Meats, poultry, fish, dry beans, peas, eggs and nuts.” If your beans weren’t dry, you’d better have been eating meats, poultry, fish, peas, eggs and nuts to compensate. TWO. Dairy. THREE. Grains. FOUR. Fruits and vegetables.
Ideally, you would have four meals a day, one for each of...
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“One of the things that I’ve just noticed, with my own eyeballs, is that a...”
– Interview With Essene Minister Nazariah
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Vegan Barf House →
“Barf House is a new Vegetarian & Vegan B&B. Drying facilities available for coats & boots.”
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Post Punk Tooth Rot
I’d had a couple of cavities as a kid, but I stopped getting them for a while, until I had been vegan for three years. Suddenly I had eight cavities at once. This was especially vexing because I brushed and flossed regularly and had been avoiding soda and desserts since even before I was vegan. “It’s genetic,” I claimed when I described the rotting state of my teeth to...
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“Time to ring in the Thanksgiving-themed blog posts, recipes, links, and other...”
– Vegan Soapbox
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Interview With an Ex-Vegan: Billy Thogersen
In 2000, when I moved into one of the two vegetarian co-op houses in Austin, Billy Thogersen lived in the other vegetarian house. We saw each other at parties, and I imagine we bonded to some extent over our mutual veganism, but at first we weren’t as close as actual housemates might be.
Then in 2001, I co-wrote and co-directed a musical with my friend Joe. Since Joe and I were more familiar with...
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Brain Fog Descends Upon Post-Punk Vegans
ilikeapplejuice: WHOOPS! My liver just ran out of B12. Seven and a half years of veganism. Hooray! Brain fog! Brain fog! Paleness! Shortness of breath! Brain fog! What were we talking about? … I’m mostly in the theoretical phase, but i’m looking into blood work. I’m also going to start taking one of them sunnilingual B12 thingies of some kind. Another thing… thing...
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Interview With A Vegan: Invidia Tempestarii
A while back, a vegan emailed me to say that she didn’t hate my blog. In fact, given that she had a big problem with what she called the 90 percent of vegans who make veganism look bad, she kind of liked it. She seemed almost as annoyed with vegan foibles as some omnivores can be, but the source of her angst was different; she thinks veganism is too important to be besmirched by the type of...
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“Your assumption that vegans must be generally more sympathetic towards ALL...”
– Jessica
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“I can’t wait to start telling people I was drinking Yellow Tail’s...”
– bap
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Vegans Like Vegan Ellen (Not So Much Non-Vegan...
VegNews readers awarded Ellen DeGeneres “Favorite Celebrity” in the VegNews 2009 Veggie Awards, and the VegNews editors agreed, naming her Veg Media Maven of the Year:
2009 marked the second coming out for Ellen DeGeneres — this time, as a crusader for compassion — with the official announcement of her veganism. From TV to Twitter, DeGeneres commands a major media...
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Vegetarian Rudeness in a Multicultural Awareness...
My first year out of high school was also my first vegetarian year (and only, since I became a vegan after a year of vegetarianism). I hated high school, and I thought college would be more of the same, so I didn’t apply for any. I changed my mind after my mom threatened to charge me rent, but all the application deadlines for major universities had passed, so off to a local community...
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Vegan Quote of the Day: Does Dairy Help You Lose...
Nick: As far as the dairy part goes… even if it does help people to lose weight it’s a genetic mutation that has even allowed for them to consume it in the first place. We are not supposed to be able to tolerate lactose past infancy. They are freaks…plain and simple.
pdx-nummbers: And even if the dairy/weight-loss thing weren’t hooey (which I think it is) the research on...