Tag: vegan
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Vegans – Join Blog Action Day
The folks at Change.org will be hosting Blog Action Day again this year, with a focus on Climate Change. It’s a great opportunity to remind people of the link between animal-based agriculture and climate change. Related links: Livestock’s Long Shadow – the UN report from the Food and Agriculture Organization which concluded that “livestock are…
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Purity versus Intent
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…
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Two New Vegan Blogs
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…
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Save that One, Screw the Rest?
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…
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Film Screening: Seeing Through the Fence
(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.
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Bittman (sort of) gets it
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…
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New Blog from Farm Sanctuary: Making Hay
New blog from the folks at Farm Sanctuary, focused on activism: Check it out and subscribe to their feed for ongoing updates!
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All the more reason to love DrupalCon
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!
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Audubon Magazine on Diet and Global Warming
(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…
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Hold the Mayo, Thank the Clinic
(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…
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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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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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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…
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Boston Vegetarian Food Festival
This Saturday, Nov 1st, is World Vegan Day, and is also the annual Boston Vegetarian Food Festival, at Reggie Lewis Athletic Center in Boston (map). This year’s speakers include: Blogger and cookbook author Sarah Kramer talking about her new book Vegan a Go-Go, “a cookbook and advice book for veg travellers.” Danielle Nierenberg from the Worldwatch Institute…
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Harvest Vegan Dinner at UpStairs on the Square
Earlier this week Jo and I went to one of the Harvest Vegan Dinners at UpStairs on the Square. They’ve been doing a four course, gourmet vegan tasting menu (with optional wine pairings) monthly. The next is scheduled for Tuesday, November 25th, and if you haven’t been you should absolutely check it out whether you’re…
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More Vegan London
I’ve spent a couple of weeks in London over the last month for work. It’s frankly a great city to be a vegan in, with lots of ethnic cuisine which is easily veganized (Thai, Indian, Ethiopian) as well as a number of health all-vegetarian or all-vegan spots. Perhaps the best central resource is the aptly-named…
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More than Salad
A new entry in the “global vegan restaurant directory” category came to my attention late last week: More than Salad. While I appreciate the humor in the Terms of Service: I’m not sure I’d spend a ton of time entering reviews here over my favorite VegGuide, which clearly licenses its content for others to use…
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Vegan Pizza comes to Jamaica Plain
(via Maynard, the MARC mailing list, and originally the Jamaica Plain Gazzette) Steve Carian from T.J. Scallywaggle’s, one of (so far as I can tell) two all-vegan pizzarias in the US (the other is Pizza Pi in Seattle) is opening another place in JP, on the site of the former Felix Pizzaria. It will be…