Month: November 2008
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Just in time for the Holidays
Just in time for the holidays – I was very happy to see this in the Mercy For Animals e-newsletter: MFA’s “How Much Cruelty Can You Swallow?” Ad Campaign Hits Boston Millions of bus riders in Boston are getting a new outlook on dinner, thanks to the launch of over 600 pro-vegetarian MFA ads. The…
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Obama, Pollan on “Food” Policy
While I’ve not doubt that a vegan president-elect Kucinich would be closer to my views on the animals-we-call-food, it’s enheartening truly to see Obama talking about food policy with a true intellectual approach, trying to understand how environmental issues are mixed up with how “food” is produced. First, to backtrack. Via ecorazzi ( Barack Obama…
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Vej Naturals Night of Thanks
When it opened this summer, Vej Naturals quickly became one of the highest rated restaurants on the Boston Vegan Association database, getting an overall rating of 4.4 out of 5. (There are more photos in this review from Wicked Local Malden). Despite the glowing reviews, however, Jo and I haven’t been able to make it…
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No They Can’t
I just wanted to quickly share two recent videos cover my disgust over California’s prop 8 and related legislation better than I could myself. The first is Lindsay Campbell, from MobLogic.tv: The second, from Countdown with Keith Olberman on MSNBC: I’m simultaneously very proud we managed to elect Obama; equally sad we chose to remove…
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Boston Vegan Association, Pamphlet
The Boston Vegan Association monthly meeting was this weekend at MyThai, in Brookline. Although I don’t get to as many of these meetings as I’d like (after commuting in to Boston all week the last thing I want to do most weekends is commute), I was happy to see lots of familiar faces and a…