August 2009
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Vegan Message Board Quote of the Day
MrsKey: I don’t think I’d try and turn my 4 year-old into an activist/poster child. I’d save that ‘til at least 7.
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Have Fear of Animal Products, Will Travel
I discovered a blog called World Travel as a Vegetarian/Vegan. It hasn’t been updated in a year, but the core issue of the blog - traveling as a vegan - doesn’t change.
A semi-famous example of the trouble of vegan traveling is the story of Mark Boyle, a British vegan who planned a walk from the UK to the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi. He began his journey without any money, intending...
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Vegan Message Board Quote of the Day
Ambs: “I’ve been vegan for about two years now, and I’m starting to think of re-introducing eggs back into my diet, which would obviously make me not vegan anymore. I need opinions from people who understand where I’m coming from.”
Tiger Lily: “I had thoughts like that too. It started with those eggs and eventually it became crazy stuff like yogurts and completely...
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Vegan Message Board Quote of the Day
Korn: “Imagine going to a restaurant and ordering a vegan meal, and receiving something with milk/cheese/cream/eggs/honey because the chef didn’t know that you were actually a ‘true’ vegan, and assumed that you were a ‘chill vegan.’ He could even back up his use of animal products in vegan meals by saying that ‘most of our vegan visitors are chill vegans,...
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Vegan Message Board Quote of the Day
VegeTexan: “I really hate Andrew Zimmern and his show on the Travel Channel, Bizarre Foods. Sometimes in my channel surfing, I stop for a minute to watch his show, but surf on as soon as the simple-minded, fat-fuck host with a literal shit-eating grin on his puffy face is about to chow down on something repulsive. A couple of nights ago as I briefly landed on his show, he was with some...
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Throwing Out Non-Vegan Food
After I posted my SoyJoy entry, Cyrena told me that she had recently been at the apartment of one of her vegan friends as the friend received a free box of SoyJoy in the mail (as part of a promotion going on at the time). The vegan friend, and another vegan who was over, excitedly opened the box of SoyJoy and perused the ingredients. Vegans can never be too safe, and of course their vigilance was...
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Vegan Message Board Quote of the Day
Susiblu: “Hi, I’ve been vegetarian for about 35 years. Yesterday my daughter, who is 17 and vegetarian from birth, told me she’s ‘taking a year out’ and eating meat — as if it’s some kind of conscience sabbatical. I feel utterly distraught that she is going against everything she was brought up to believe in, and feel the only way I can atone for her terrible...
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Interview With An Ex-Vegan: Nicholas Stevens
Nick Stevens and I both grew up in Richardson, Texas. We went to elementary, junior high, and high school together, and were friends for most of that time. We hung out the most in high school, but less so after that, as Nick went to The University of North Texas in Denton, and I moved to Austin to go to UT.
After graduating, Nick moved with his girlfriend (now wife) Kristine to Sweden, where they...
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Vegan Message Board Quote of the Day
Sluggie: “Cigarettes aren’t vegan. Most brands contain beeswax and milk derivatives.”
Healthy: “If this is true, does that make smoking fattening? (sucking in beeswax and milk derivatives). I HOPE SO! This will be a fabulous argument with people who smoke!”
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Vegan Message Board Quote of the Day
theunwantedthings: “The first endo[crinologist] I ever saw told me to go on the Atkins diet when I was 14. I told him I was a vegetarian, and he told me it was amazingly unhealthy to be a vegetarian at the age of 14. I quickly found a new doctor, and when I told her what the other dude said, she laughed and laughed and laughed, as she was a vegetarian herself. She was the best doctor ever, and...
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The Vegan Shitlist: SoyJoy
A snack bar called “SoyJoy” just sounds vegan, doesn’t it? But the ingredients of these bars include: “Butter (from milk),” “Egg,” “Milk Chocolate Chips,” “butter oil,” “fermented milk powder” and “Parmesan Cheese.” That makes SoyJoy a non-vegan pretender, putting it high atop the vegan shitlist.
The...
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Vegan Message Board Quote of The Day
Barley: “I went vegan at the same time as a close friend I had at the time - for years I thought she and her husband were committed vegans like me. I found out that her husband had only been vegan for a short time then had gone back to vegetarian and she had struggled between vegan and vegetarian almost all the time we had known each other and had eventually returned to vegetarianism -...
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Vegans to Meat Eaters: Get Your Own Health Care
Vegans typically identify as progressives, but there’s one issue that often divides them from other left-wingers: health care.
Most vegans don’t want a strictly single-payer system, because they think their diet spares them from the worst chronic diseases. Vegans are skeptical of health professionals anyway, since most doctors refuse to acknowledge the supremacy of a diet free of...
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Interview With An Ex-Vegan: Cyrena
The heart of this blog will always be photos of sickly vegans. But since vegans don’t publicly congregate in large groups every day, and I’d like to update this blog more than a few times a month, I have no choice but to introduce other segments. One of these will be interviews with ex-vegans.
The first one will be with my friend Cyrena.
Let Them Eat Meat: When I met you, you were a vegan....
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A Sickly Looking Vegan: Me
I was vegan for nine years, and vegetarian for a year before that. For the last couple of years of my veganism, I was consciously aware of feeling horrible. My thinking wasn’t as sharp as it had been before, I was weak, I got sick a lot, my muscles atrophied, and I felt groggy just about every day. On the rare day when I didn’t feel like I was wandering in a dense, numbing fog, I was...