December 2009
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“But I am not perfect. One of my boys was born with heart and kidney problems and...”
– anonymous vegan
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New York Times Not on the Vegans of Color Shitlist
The blog Vegans of Color has been inching slightly away from the standard vegan line. Yesterday Royce posted Absolutely Vegan, Absolutely Anthrocentric, arguing against veganism in a post-factory farming world. He wrote that without factory farms, animals and humans could potentially benefit each other, and vegans who think otherwise are the speciesist ones.
And today he posted What if Plants Had...
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The Vegan Shitlist: The New York Times
In the past month, The New York Times has published two negative reviews of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals (1, 2), an editorial by a vegan that vegans hated because it made veganism sound hard, and now an article arguing that if animals are worthy of moral consideration, maybe plants are too. Vegans haven’t forgotten The NYT’s infamous Death By Veganism piece either.
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“By standing up for animals we must go it alone, we can’t expect cows and...”
– veganwise
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Do Vegans Remember The Taste Of Animal Products?
I tested the waters of non-veganism with little bits of salmon, but it wasn’t until Thanksgiving of 2007 — after 10 years of meat abstinence — that I had my first real taste of meat again. Even though I didn’t think I remembered what meat tasted like, as soon as I tasted the turkey, it felt entirely familiar, as if I had never stopped. But what about current vegans? Do any...
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An Insulted Vegan Writes Rachael Ray
Hello Producers of the Rachael Ray Show,
10/20/09 Episode:
SPECIFIC INCIDENT • The recipe was a “Meat-Free Veg. Soup” directly following an interview with VEGAN Alicia Silverstone (who announced the release of her new VEGAN cookbook, “The Kind Diet”). During the cooking segment, however, Rachael prepares a recipe that is not “kind” at all and instructs the...
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Food Fight! Vegan Grocery relishes fatal hunting... →
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“I remember having been veggie for a couple of years (so I’d be about 8)...”
– IKnowHowToWhistle
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The Vegan Shitlist: Self-Proclaimed Veg*ans Who...
Labels are very important to vegans. Nutritional labels, certainly, but even more important is the label “Vegan” itself.
Though plenty of vegans are not over-anxious to disclose their animal-product-eschewing lifestyle to strangers, it’s a fact they cannot hide for long, especially if food is present. “Is that vegan?” is the first question any vegan must ask about...
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How Do You Get Vegans to Salivate Over Meaty Fast...
Tell them to pretend it was magically vegan!
ilikeapplejuice: If all fast food/chains magically became vegan for one day (and all ethics, morality, etc. etc. etc. etc. didn’t matter at all, and your guts wouldn’t explode or anything), I’d eat: Big Country Breakfast at IHOP - chicken fried steak, stack of pancakes, bacon, hashbrowns, scrambled eggs. Long John Silver’s fish,...
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“I do wish it was possible to veganise my mind all the way through my...”
– treaclemine
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Interview With An Ex-Vegan: Tommy Tepper
Tommy Tepper and I were housemates at a vegetarian and eventually vegan co-op house in Austin, Texas together. If I remember right, he was there for the transition, helping to increase the vegan vs. vegetarian ratio in the house so we could finally get that organic milk and those free range eggs out of there.
Tommy is easily one of the nicest guys I have ever met, but he was ruthless when it came...
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Who Are Vegans Following? (San Francisco World Veg...
One reason veganism isn’t a cult is that it has too many leaders. Any self-respecting mind control venture should have one agreed-upon figure to worship, but in veganism, a surging crowd of authors, doctors and activists all promote disparate ways to live the cruelty-free life. Even Donald Watson, the inventor of the term “vegan,” never claimed to be the leader of veganism....