Lots of (well-intentioned I’m sure) vegan and omnivore friends over the last month have sent me links to Quarrygirl’s investigative report on animal product ingredients in food purchased from self-declared vegan restaurants around LA (Operation Pancake). While I certainly share a desire to get what I order, and to have both menu descriptions and waitstaff knowledge accurate as to what [...]
Two well known folks in the animal rights / vegan community have launched new blogs – check them out and subscribe! First, Erik Marcus, who you likely know as the person behind Vegan.com, as well as the author of Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating, Meat Market: Animals, Ethic, and Money, and The Ultimate Vegan Guide: Compassionate Living Without Sacrifice. [...]
It never ceases to amaze me how, when one cow (or goat, or pig, or chicken, or turkey) escapes from the slaughterhouse, the public at large want to save him/her, but then don’t recognize how their own eating habits put said animal in that position in the first place. This week, Molly (so named by the workers at the Brooklyn [...]
(Guess it’s BVS week here at Goatless) This Tuesday, May 12th, the Boston Vegetarian Society is hosting a screening of Seeing Through the Fence, a film by Eleni Vlachos (who blogs at Binge Cafe), including a pre-screening vegan buffet with the the filmmaker herself.
Mark Bittman’s a columnist for the NY times, and is getting lots of attention recently for his new book Food Matters. He’s essentially urging a plant-based diet, though he consistently stops short of encouraging people to go fully vegan as that would be “difficult” and/or “unpopular.” I’ve also never seen him really acknowledge – perhaps he does so in the [...]
New blog from the folks at Farm Sanctuary, focused on activism: Check it out and subscribe to their feed for ongoing updates!
DrupalCon, the semi-annual (twice a year) conference of Drupal developers, is coming up next week in Washington DC. Filling out my profile, I was delighted to see these options: Happy to see conference organizers recognize the need for and provide better food options!
(Via Vegan.com) Excellent piece by Mike Tidwell in Audubon Magazine: The Low Carbon Diet. I was a bit concerned when Tidwell opened with the usual “confession” that so many apologias for meat eating use, a trope I’m tired of reading: Full disclosure: I love to eat meat. I was born in Memphis, the barbecue capital of the Milky Way Galaxy. [...]
(Via Veggie Going Vegan via Veggie Chic) Very happy to see this great set of resources from the Mayo Clinic – Vegetarian Diet: How to Get the Best Nutrition – which begins: Adopting a healthy vegetarian diet isn’t as simple as scraping meat off your plate and eating what’s left. You need to take extra steps to ensure you’re meeting [...]
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 campaign, which features images of [...]
