Well, it was a vegan night at the Pops for Jo and I anyway - maybe some day they will have an official night.
Started out with dinner at Betty’s Wok and Noodle, followed by Natalie Merchant with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall.

So Oprah Winfrey’s joined the list of celebs taking the vegan challenge.
From the PETA files:
Inspired by the book Quantum Wellness, by Kathy Freston, Oprah’s going to be cutting all the meat, dairy, and eggs out of her diet in an effort to live a healthy, cruelty-free lifestyle.
According to Peta (the original quote’s now gone from [...]

I’m in San Diego (Mission Bay) for a conference this week. Based on the sad state of the menu at lunch (stumped at the notion of someone not eating chicken, they struggled to find an alternative and ended up serving the spaghetti from the kids menu, I think), I ventured down to Ocean Beach and [...]

(Via Organic Consumers Association) A new study published in Environmental Science & Technology discusses the contribution that food makes to global warming:
Van Wing, who coined the term locavore with a friend 3 years ago, says curbing global warming is one of many social and environmental reasons for eating locally. And for many people, “food miles”, [...]

I’ve blogged a fair amount (too much, some might say) on the connections between global warming and animal agriculture - it’s the true inconvenient truth that many meat-eating environmentalists have no interest in hearing, and many mainstream media outlets have little interest in reporting. (Gee, I assume that has no connection with whom the major [...]