Month: November 2007
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Bill Maher talks Turkey at the Huffington Post
Via the MARC list I came across Bill Maher’s excellent and well-timed pre-thanksgiving rant about turkeys. He links to a few slaughterhouse videos to emphasize the point: These people should be arrested. They would be if the turkeys were dogs or cats. Too bad our animal protection laws make about as much sense as fighting…
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Thanksliving 2007
Yesterday was Thanksliving 2007 at the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. It was a fantastic event, which started with meeting three baby lambs recently arrived: We also toured around the farm and took some photos and met some animals before dinner began see the photoset at flickr. The menu was, as expected, absolutely fantastic, featuring food…
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Vegan Food Blogs
The 2007 Blogger’s Choice Award winners are out. In the “Best Food Blog” category (on page 3 of the results), three out of four winners are vegan blogs: VeganYumTum Fatfree Vegan Kitchen Vegan Lunch Box Congrats to all of them – way to represent food that’s healthy, cruelty-free, and delicious – and looks beautiful as…
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Get Happy
Nice video to get you through the midweek slump: Not one of our girls (Lucy and Georgia) but the same breed. Too funny.
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New York, New Hotel
Last week I was in New York City for a couple of days on business. Unfortunately, all the hotels I normally stay in were either booked or askign absurdly high rates. Hotels.com turned up this Comfort Inn in what was described as Times Square which seemed ok, and was certainly cheap ($265 or so before…
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Mary Gauthier at Club Passim
(Sorry the photos are so dark – I find flash photography at shows like this annoying so I try to stay away from the Flash). A few weeks back Jo and I caught Mary Gauthier at Club Passim in Harvard Square. Passim is an excellent place to see anyone – a folk club about to…
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Thanksliving
The good folks at Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary hold a major event the weekend before the observance of Thanksgiving in the US. The basic idea is a major party where the Turkeys are the guests of honor rather than the main course: celebrating (and raising money for) compassion. In addition to the food (main dish…