The Veg Blog

• Ethics and Animals
  Take two minutes and complete this survey, which aims to get an accurate view of the current animal rights movement as a whole. It's open until July 13.
  (tags: survey)
• AgriTalk Interview with Wayne Pacelle | Bovine Veterinarian – Government
  I don't agree with a lot of HSUS's focus, but I had always kind of felt some sort of respect for Pacelle. I lost a lot of it after this interview. [via Eric P] Some choice quotes:

  "I don’t think in any kind of practical way one can say [the HSUS is] trying to eliminate animal agriculture."

  "You can have an echo chamber within the world of industrial agriculture or confinement agriculture and people will say they are just a bunch of vegans and vegetarians that want to end our way of life. That is not the debate. The debate is about confinement systems, humane transport and humane slaughter."

  "[Q: Are you trying to shut down zoos and circuses from having animals?] Zoos, absolutely not."

  (tags: hsus waynepacelle)

• Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary: Libby and Louie, A Love Story
  This one's been all over the place today, and with good reason. It's a touching story that will certainly surprise those who think of chickens as "dumb" or not sentient.
  (tags: chickens sanctuary)

• SuperVegan – The Doctor—Er, The Vegan Is In
  Every major city should have an "Ask a Vegan" booth.
  (tags: activism woodstock)

• Chihuahuas Confront Cougar in SoCal Garage
  The video report says that the cougar was "eventually taken away," but the print version verifies that "officers with the Department of Fish and Game were forced to shoot and kill the animal. They had hoped to return it to the wild."
  (tags: cougar chihuahuas news)
• Teen charged in Miami's 19 serial cat killings
  Glad they caught the kid. I also appreciate that they actually acknowledged the suffering of the cats:

  "The cruelty of these crimes were horrific for the animal victims, but there were many human victims as well," Mayor Paul Vrooman said.

  "Let's not forget the children and the families who found their pets mutilated. These awful scenes inflicted a human toll."

  (tags: animalcruelty murder news)

• High on the hog: Slaughtered pig traded for crack, Syracuse police say …
  "The half of pig and $10 were used to buy a $50 bag of crack cocaine, police said. … Veliz told police the pig was for a celebration for a relative being released from jail, Cecile said. As police arrested the pair, a crowd gathered around them. When the officers turned from the suspects, the pig was gone, Cecile said." (via Obscure Store)
  (tags: crime pigs drugs)

• Tofutti Brands Inc. Announces Precautionary Recall of 12 Pallets of Vanilla Cuties Due to Possible Trace Level Milk Contamination
  This is for those that are highly allergic to dairy.
  (tags: tofutti recall health)

• High Protein Vegan Diet For Diabetes | Diet, Nutrition, Exercise for a Healthy Life.
  Officially the worst article on veganism ever written. According to this, we "often" do not eat eggs though we do eat dairy products. (via Mary Martin)
  (tags: stupidity)

• Mothers Day Brunch
  Isa serves up waffles for brunch on KATU.
  (tags: isaforkingrules video brunch)
• vegantattoos.com | tattoos for, by, and on vegans
  I am tattoo-less, but can definitely appreciate some nice vegan ink.
  (tags: tattoos blog)

• 14 horses die just before polo match – CNN.com
  (tags: horses death quotesportendquote polo)

• Tofu license plate too foul for Colo. DMV – The Denver Post
  DMV won't issue license plate for ILVTOFU to vegans because it contains the letters "FU." I mean, I guess it could be read that way, as in "I love to …" but still…
  (tags: news tofu)

• Cooking With Dexter – The Grass-Fed Menagerie – The Delicate Matter of Teaching a Child Where Meat Comes From – NYTimes.com
  I'm not one to criticize other people's parenting styles, but this article definitely put a pit in my stomach. For some reason, I don't find anything cute about a kid proudly proclaiming carnivorous ways while his parents snicker in approval. (via Veg Blog reader Kimora)
  (tags: nytimes carnism parenting)

• Dear “Franz,” (a postscript)
  A response to a troll that I'll be hanging onto for the next time someone spits the "You care more about animals than humans" nonsense.
  (tags: trolls animalrights)

• Do animals have rights?
  Of course I'm a bit biased, but to me, it sounds like Gary Francione verbally skewers Jan Narveson in this short radio debate on animal rights. [via Eric Prescott]
  (tags: garyfrancione debate jannarveson)

• Vegan Isn’t a Dirty Word [Vegan Freaks]
  I, too, am tired of the term “vegetarian”; being used when quot;veganquot; is more correct. I do think the tide is turning, though, and a look on the shelves of the “vegetarian cooking” section at the bookstore is a testament to that.
  (tags: vegan linguistics)

• Killing “Without Qualms” Does Not a Feminist Hero Make
  I’ve really enjoyed Stephanie’s blog and here’s an example of why.
  (tags: feminism bullfighting)

• Sparks woman saves 24 dogs from euthanasia in California | www.rgj.com …
  On the surface, this sounds like a nice thing that she did , but I wish they talked more about the three dogs that died during and after the rescue. Pre-existing conditions? Or related to the actual transport in the truck?
  (tags: shelters news dogs)
• Homeskillet, LLC: Cast Iron Seitan
  Isa and Justin's new venture. Looks awesome!
  (tags: isaforkingrules seitan portland)

• Britain's Tongue, Kidney and Brains Boom – TIME
  "At ASDA, Britain's second largest supermarket chain and a subsidiary of Wal-Mart, offal sales were up 20% last month compared to November 2007. Sainsbury's, the country's third largest supermarket chain, is selling 48% more pig livers, 22% more chicken livers and 8% more pig kidney than it was last year." [via Consumerist]
  (tags: organs meat uk)

• Who is the Eater of the Year?
  Vote for the super awesome Hezbollah Tofu, won't you?
  (tags: food blog awards)

• Shaw Baker Finds Her Forte in an All-Natural Niche
  "A funny thing happens when people try two versions of the same cookie made by baker Hareg Messert: They often like the vegan one better." (via vegan.com)
  (tags: baking food veganfoodisbetter)
• Monkey Meat Is Confiscated at Dulles | LoudounExtra.com | The …
  "Customs officials searching the bags of an African man who flew into Dulles International Airport on Friday discovered three charred monkeys in his luggage, as well as deer meat and dried beef, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said yesterday."
  (tags: monkey meat airport dc dulles smuggling)

• Express Night Out | Styles | Tofurkey [sic]: A Vegan's Guide to Thanksgiving
  Isa and Terry talk Tofurky with the Washington Post. [via DC Vegan]
  (tags: isaforkingrules tofurkey thanksgiving)

• Monkey bites Pitt lab technician
  The monkeys fight back.
  (tags: labanimals monkey injury animaltesting)

• Finger Found In Oxtail From Meat Store, Family Says
  Hey, if you're eating something as foul as oxtail to begin with, you probably shouldn't be grossed out by a human digit in there with it.
  (tags: meat gross fingerinfood)
• The Vegan Collection
  Some nice looking men's vegan dress shoes… and get this — they're affordable! Like, shockingly so.
  (tags: vegan shoes)

• Hawaii Firm Recalls 4,535 pounds of Fully Cooked Pork for Listeria – US Recall News Alert
  (tags: pork recall listeria food safety)
• 1.2 Million Pounds of Nebraska Beef Recalled for E. coli Contamination – US Recall News Alert
  (tags: beef recall food safety)
• Whole Foods: Whole Foods Recalls Previously Recalled Meat. What?
  (tags: meat recall wholefoods food safety)

• JS Online: Cow falls on slaughterhouse butcher
  No comment. [via Obscure Store]
  (tags: slaughterhouse safety news)

• Chic Vegan | Its not easy being vegan..and fabulous
  New site for the fashion-conscious vegan (that wouldn’t be me, clearly).
  (tags: fashion vegan blog)
• Kfc: KFC’s “Vegetarian Sandwich” Isn’t, Stop Kidding Yourself That Fast Food Restaurants Have Vegetarian Options
  Big surprise: KFC’s unchicken is cooked in the same oil as chicken. Yay for the KFC “victory.”
  (tags: kfc news food)

• The 20 Healthiest Foods for Under $1
  17 of the top 20 (and 9 of the top 10) are vegan. Show this to the next dummy that says, “Being vegan is too expensive.”
  (tags: food vegan money)

• Chickenready: Entire Chicken Fits Into 50 oz Can
  If there was ever any question about chickens’ status…
  (tags: chicken gross)

• Vegan Metal Bike Dad Punk Blog
  The Honorable Sir Josh Hooten’s new blog.
  (tags: joshhooten blog)

• Missouri Firm Recalls Cattle Heads Containing Prohibited Materials – US Recall News Alert
  Watch out folks: more cattle head recalls!
  (tags: cattlehead recall food safety)
• Contaminated Veggies Are the Meat Industry’s Fault | Environment | AlterNet
  (tags: food safety)
• Thirteen Hurt on First Day of Spanish Bull Run – washingtonpost.com
  Yeah, I think it might be time to give this tradition a rest.
  (tags: spain bullrun)

• Wacky Cake is a blast from the past that’s perfect for today — baltimoresun.com
  Hey, Bahar’s quoted!
  (tags: bahar cake baking news)

• Texas Firm Recalls Cattle Heads That Contain Prohibited Materials – US Recall News Alert
  Hey, vegans, you might want to return that case of “BEEF WHOLE HEAD” you have in the basement.
  (tags: gross recall beef cattle safety)

• Man faces charges in assault with chicken – Jackson Cit Pat – MLive.com
  Meat makes people do stupid things… [via Obscure Store]
  (tags: chicken assault meat idiots)
• YouTube – Claysburg Black Bear vs. Police
  Police shoot a bear cub and the people that witness it are all over them for it. Police really need better training on how to deal with animals (as I’ve seen).
  (tags: police bear video)

• If anyone mentions cheese pizza I may just have to take up violence | dooce ®
  Dooce is following Oprah’s lead and doing the vegan (er, strict veg) cleanse, with one difference: “‘m also thinking that after the 21-day period is over that I may continue to abstain from meat, for many reasons, the main one being that I can no longer j
  (tags: dooce oprah)

• 2 Marines disciplined over puppy-tossing video – CNN.com
  So the video was real, it seems. Pathetic.
  (tags: marines puppy death)

• Post Punk Kitchen Blog: Show Us Your Mitts! » Blog Archive » Potluck Faux Pas And A Quiche
  Isa breaks down potluck etiquette for all you chip-bringers.
  (tags: potlucks isaforkingrules)

• portland imc – 2008.05.27 – Veganism is a consumer activity
  Are you the type that enjoys shaking your monitor and screaming, “WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU?” Yes? Then read this article and the ensuing discussion.
  (tags: argh)

• Old-Time Milk Shake Recipes
  I want to try some of these with a container of MImiccreme I picked up last weekend. Does anyone make a vegan malt powder?
  (tags: milkshakes recipes)
• Vegan malt powder- is there such a thing? – VeggieBoards – Vegetarian Forum
  There is, and it’s supposedly not terribly hard to find. Man, I want a malted milkshake.
  (tags: malt powder vegan)

• Peak-Season Map at Epicurious.com
  A nifty little map that lets you easily see what’s in season at any given time of year for your area of the country.
  (tags: food farming reference)

• Race Illustrates Brutal Side of Sport – New York Times
  Let’s get this straight: there ain’t a humane way to race horses. Hopefully the sad event during the Derby will help highlight this.
  (tags: horseracing horses news)
• VegCooking > Celebrate World Vegetarian Week With a FREE Veggie Burger!
  Coupon here for a free veggie burger at Johnny Rockets, if you have one near you. (Yes, the burger’s vegan. I asked.)
  (tags: coupon veggieburger johnnyrockets free)

• Top 10 Recipes 2008 | Vegan.com
  (tags: food)

• Panda Express: Chinese Food, Wok-Cooked and Served Fast
  “Our entrées are prepared using a chicken base; we do not offer vegetarian meals.” Wow. “Chinese” food with NO veggie options. Awful. [via vb reader GoGMU]
  (tags: pandaexpress restaurants)
• Tainted Raw Milk Sold By Clarion, Crawford County Dairies – US Recall News Alert
  “Consumers who purchased raw milk from Piney Ridge Dairy Farm… Should discard it immediately due to the risk of listeria monocytogenes contamination,”
  (tags: raw dairy recall)
• Allergy Alert on Undeclared Dairy in 11-Ounce Single Serve Silk Soymilk Chocolate Flavor in Plastic Bottles – US Recall News Alert
  It “may contain an undeclared milk protein.” I’m hoping this is in the “processed on the same equipment as” situation and not an actual, intended ingreident.
  (tags: silk soymilk recall)
• Global Voices Online » Japan: Where has all the butter gone?
  “Empty shelves in the dairy section of grocery stores across the country have not seen a shipment of butter for days…” Hey, sounds good to me. [via Consumerist]
  (tags: food shortage japan dairy butter)

• The Associated Press: Union head claims USDA tried to intimidate employees
  Union chief Stan Painter said that following a mad cow disease scare in 2003, he [...] was told to drop the matter, and [...] then placed on disciplinary investigative status.
  (tags: usda slaughterhouses inspection union news)

• McDonald’s USA – USA Core Menu Items by Ingredients
  Wow — not only do McDonald’s French Fries contain beef flavoring, they now contain milk as well. THEY’RE FRENCH FRIES, YOU BIG DUMMIES! [via Speedbump Kitchen]
  (tags: mcdonalds frenchfries ingredients milk)

• The Carrot Some Vegans Deplore – New York Times
  Meant to link this up a while ago, but didn’t. In case you haven’t seen it yet… [thanks to college friend K'ai for sending this along]
  (tags: feminism veganism)
• You Use It Every Day. But Can You Make It Cook? – New York Times
  Any veggie that can be steamed can be microwaved, cooking it both faster and better, according to this NY Times piece. [via Lifehacker]
  (tags: cooking microwave)
• Don’t just do something | Taste Better
  Eric takes a look at activism and reminds us that not all activism is equal.
  (tags: acitivism veganism)

• Ohio Firm Recalls Frozen Chicken Products Due To Mislabeling – US Recall News Alert
  “The frozen, pre-browned, raw products were labeled as “precooked” and therefore do not provide proper preparation instructions. These raw products may appear fully cooked.” Yum!
  (tags: foodrecall chicken news)

• SuperWeed » Blog Archive » Feminist and Antiracist Arguments for Veg*ism
  pattrice jones highlights some blogs looking at the vegan/race issue.
  (tags: veganism race)
• Real Men Eat Tofu
  A Vegetarian Times online piece about male vegans. Mentions Eric from AAFL, Jason from Taste Better, and me (!).
  (tags: vegetariantimes men veganism gender)

• The Best Cheese on Earth: Dr Cow « The Discerning Brute
  Could this raw vegan cheese be “the one?” First Teese and now this? Could 2008 finally be “The Year of Vegan Cheese?” [via SuperVegan]
  (tags: vegan cheese drcow raw)

• Teese Vegan Cheese from Chicago Soy Dairy – Buy Teese Vegan Cheese Online
  Temptation’s Teese vegan cheese is now available to us, the lowly public! Order now, OR DIE.
  (tags: teese temptation vegan cheese)

• An Animal-Friendly Life: Happy meat on cover of this month’s “Good”
  Everything that’s wrong with “happy meat” summed up in one magazine cover. AR groups *must* distance themselves from this nonsense.
  (tags: happymeat welfarism)
• 7-Eleven’s seitan-ic cult | Philadelphia Daily News | 01/31/2008
  Let’s hope this idea spreads. Can you imagine tofu egg salad sandwiches and seitan steak sandwiches in 7-11? Awesome.
  (tags: 7-11 conveniencefoods news philadelphia)
• Taste Test: Cheeseburger In A Can | The A.V. Club
  Perhaps the grossest product in existence? Interesting how it looks about as appetizing as a Big Mac. [via Paul]
  (tags: food humor gross)

• Daily Kos: Vegetables of Mass Destruction – David’s Story
  Sad interview with a former Tyson slaughterhouse worker. Also sad is the quote from the writer at the end: “I would never advocate vegetarianism as a one-size-fits-all solution to this problem…” [via VO]
  (tags: humanrights laborissues slaughterhouse tyson interview iowa)

• AnimalBlawg — The Center for Consumer Freedom and “Your Mommy Kills Animals”
  Some great research done on the history behind the CCF/YMKA beef.
  (tags: ccf yourmommykillsanimals movie lawsuit)

• Vat o’ vegan nacho cheese [Food Fight]
  This cracks me up.
  (tags: nacho cheese foodfight vat lotsofnutritionalyeast)
• Tallahassee Democrat: Man pulls out knife, demands chicken
  The meat will make you do some crazy things.
  (tags: freakingweird chicken news fastfood)

• Animal Writings: A Challenge in Vegan Activism: The Animal-Derived Food is Usually Physically and Conceptually Far Removed From the Source
  Margarine really is the perfect metaphor for most omni-vegan relations.
  (tags: essay garyloewenthal activism)

• Threadless T-Shirts – How Hamburgers Are Made by Kyle Starks
  Cognitive dissonance!
  (tags: tshirt threadless)
• Still Life With… (Food Styling and Photography)
  So you wanna photograph your food…
  (tags: food photography)
• Unitarian Universalists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals: WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE HEIFER PROJECT?
  (tags: religion uu heiferinternational critique)

• Cows flee after seeing McDonald’s – Yahoo! News
  The roundup was called “Operation Hamburger Helper.” Ugh.
  (tags: cows escapinganimals mcdonalds)

• McCormick Fresh Flavor
  Check out how old those spices in your spice rack actually are. While I don’t buy the “discard after six months” mantra, I think those that are 15+ years old should probably go.
  (tags: spices cooking)

• Ten Motherless Lambs Find Loving Refuge in New York
  Woodstock takes in 10 lambs from an abandonment case.
  (tags: woodstock animalsanctuary lambs sheep rescue abandonment)

• Guide to gluten free restaurants
  Nice resource for Celiacs.
  (tags: glutenfree restaurants reference)
• Cruelty: PetSmart Employee Beats Dogs, Keeps Job
  Here’s just one reason we don’t board Amina.
  (tags: cruelty dogs petsmart)

• Device for removing… (US5354231)
  A patent I can bet you don’t want to own.
  (tags: freakingweird patent)

• pumpkin patch massacre! – a photoset on Flickr
  Great food pr0n here.
  (tags: baking)
• what does a pregnant vegan eat? – a photoset on Flickr
  [via the vegan-friendly omni known as aharris]
  (tags: pregnancy vegan food photos)

• vegan chai: three years
  Congrats to girl least likely to on her third Veganversary (and for also reminding me of my own!)
  (tags: veganversary)
• Tofu The Vegan Zombie : News
  Combines my two favorite things: veganism and zombies. Can’t wait to see the final product. [via Sarah Kramer]
  (tags: humor video zombies vegan)

• ReubenMiller : Now Veggies are as Cool as Cheetos
  Package veggies to look more appealing to kids, and they’re more likely eat them. Apparently.
  (tags: food marketing vegetables)
• Went Vegan
  The best modern blues musician has a new vegan-themed blog. Yay for Brownbird Rudy Relic!
  (tags: music blues blog)

• VeganYumYum » Jellied Cranberry Sauce
  I am *so* glad to hear I’m not the only one that loves the unhealthy, slurping-sound, canned cranberry jelly. Here’s a healthier version, thanks to VYY.
  (tags: recipes vegan cranberries)

• For Vegans, It Ain’t Easy Dating Green
  Bob and Jenna EAT SALAD IN NEWSWEEK.
  (tags: veganfreaks newsweek)

• Vegan Milano Cookies « Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World
  Dear Isa, Thank you.
  (tags: cookies recipe milano isaforkingrules)

• Thieves carried off 22 pigs in compact car, say police – Yahoo! Canada News
  The pigs were “worth about $75 each.” Sigh. (via Kelly)
  (tags: pigs news crime)

• Boy Really Really Doesn’t Like Snakes… – Forbes.com
  A boy who “hated snakes” stomped and killed a 10-foot-long python at a Cincinnati petting zoo.
  (tags: snakes news)

• Egg Labels and Certifications: What Do They Mean?
  A very thorough investigation by VRG into what various egg certifications do and don’t mean. Not a single one addresses the killing of male chicks (and no, AWI, more humane euthanasia doesn’t count).
  (tags: eggs vrg certifications)

• How do you make a shark mate? Play it Justin Timberlake – Independent Online Edition > Europe
  [via Nene]
  (tags: sharks mating music news uk)

• Herbivore Magazine : August 2007 : Thoughts on the Taking Action for Animals Conference
  Josh’s thoughts on the TAFA debacle (this is public, not subscribers-only).
  (tags: tafa herbivore joshhooten)
• Be Yourselves, Girls, Order the Rib-Eye – New York Times
  Someone needs to start exvegetarian.org so we can start tracking these twits who equate their having been vegetarian with being “neurotic.”
  (tags: exvegetarian news)

• Threadless T-Shirts – A Birth Day by Jean-sébastien Deheeger
  Cute t-shirt. I’d like to see this in kids size.
  (tags: tshirt)
• Threadless T-Shirts – Skip Dessert by Jennifer V. Raad
  A t-shirt made for Isa?
  (tags: tshirt)
• Cage free eggs: perfect for conscience-free consumers | Taste Better
  A nice take on the “cage free” thing from Taste Better. Make sure you click through to the NY Times image of the “cage free” facility.
  (tags: cagefree freerange eggs)

• Animal Person: NYT Thoroughly Confused About Animal Rights
  Mary Martin does a great job desconstructing a recent NY Times piece.
  (tags: nytimes marymartin news)
• Herbivore Magazine : May 2007 : Chocolate, Chocolate Chip Cookies Stuffed with Peanut Butter
  Note to self: make these when you want to feel really, really full of sugar and calories. [subscribers only]
  (tags: cookies recipe)

• 1,100 cattle die in heat wave
  It’s not the heat and the humidity that killed them, cows do fine when they have room to walk and shade to lay it. It’s the feedlot environment that caused these deaths.
  (tags: cows death news factoryfarming)

• globeandmail.com: Damage Control
  “But my basic feeling is that until children are old enough to know what an unholy pain it is to cook and clean and shop and plan for all a family’s meals under normal circumstances, day in, day out, week after week, they’re too young to have “dietary res
  (tags: vegan parenting)

• WUSA9.com | Tortured Tortoise Recovering
  “Bob was snatched from his owners’ yard last weekend, stabbed, slashed and dumped in brush behind an apartment complex, authorities said.”
  (tags: tortoise animalcruelty news)

• Boing Boing: Whole Foods CEO caught bashing Wild Oats stock on Yahoo forums
  “‘I like Mackey’s haircut,’ Rahodeb [actually Mackey himself] said. ‘I think he looks cute!’” If this is true, wow. Mackey’s a weirdo.
  (tags: wholefoods wildoats johnmackey)

• FDA Warns Consumers Not to Eat Veggie Booty Snack Food
  “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to eat Veggie Booty flavor of snack food, marketed by Robert’s American Gourmet, due to possible contamination with Salmonella Wandsworth, bacteria that cause gastrointestinal illness.”
  (tags: veggiebooty salmonella food safety contamination news)

• YouTube – Dead Prez – “Be Healthy”
  An amusing video shot in a farmer’s market to Dead Prez’s vegan anthem.
  (tags: deadprez music hip-hop video humor)

• The Danger of the One-Sided Debate – New York Times
  “The Times has not presented another view, or anything, on veganism on its op-ed pages for 16 years. There has been scant news coverage in the past five years. There is another side.” The Times owns up. Nice. [via Taste Better]
  (tags: planck nytimes news opinion op-ed)

• Smash and Grab [Food Fight Grocery]
  First Herbivore and now Food Fight. Is there a Portland conspiracy against vegan-owned doors? Go buy some things from Chad and Emiko to help pay for the door.
  (tags: foodfight portland crime)
• Taste Better!
  Somehow I missed this — Vegan Porn becomes Taste Better. Looks good!
  (tags: thrustlabs)
• Bernard Matthews worker caught playing football with turkeys | the Daily Mail
  Big surprise: more footage caught of workers abusing farm animals.
  (tags: animalabuse turkeys uk news video undercover)
• How to keep cookies fresh — megnut.com
  Nifty suggestion.
  (tags: cookies baking tips)

• Survey of Polish vegetarian movement
  From 1991. Looks like this might be an interesting read.
  (tags: poland)
• Polish and Vegan 14 Recipes | Recipezaar
  A few vegan Polish recipes. I’m kind of itching for pierogis tonight (Robin Robertson has a very good recipe for them, incidentally).
  (tags: poland polish food recipes)

• TBR – Inside the List – Books – Review – New York Times
  Vegan cooking finally gets some NYT love.
  (tags: vegan nytimes isaforkingrules dreena)
• Ozzy’s off to Delaware County | Daily News | 06/12/2007
  A German Shepherd who was sentenced to die after attacking a child gets a second chance by being assigned to patrol the grounds of a prison.
  (tags: animalrights dogs)
• Chernobyl Area Becomes Wildlife Haven – washingtonpost.com
  (tags: wildlife chernobyl)

• Five Reasons to Take Your Kids to a Sanctuary – Vegetarian Baby & Child Online Magazine | From Vegbaby to Veganteen…Pregnancy, Breastfeeding, Children, Recipes, Reviews, Products, Information and Support for Vegetarian & Vegan Families Around the World
  (tags: children animalsanctuaries)

• isachandra: Vegan Culinary Activism in 10 Yummy Steps
  (tags: vegan isaforkingrules cooking baking activism)

• Safeway recalls some beef products
  Almost half-a-million points of beef is being recalled for fear of e. coli contamination.
  (tags: food health safety contamination e.coli beef)
• Bakers Edge – Edge Brownie Pan, Brownies, Corner Brownies, Edge Brownies, Brownie Recipes
  Neat idea. [via Paul]
  (tags: baking brownies pan)
• The Flying V Diner – News
  Looks like the veg diner in DC will actually come to fruition this year! Awesome!
  (tags: diner restaurant dc)

• Current TV // The Current Parent // Vegan Parenting
  A nice video on vegan parenting, shot in Brooklyn.
  (tags: parenting video)

• Being Vegan and Eating Soy: Myths, Truths, and Everything in Between
  A thorough debunking of anti-soy nonsense (especially Weston A Price stuff). Keep this link close at hand.
  (tags: soy health)
• Beacon Journal | 05/26/2007 | Porcine odyssey a slab of perils
  Pigs and their rescuers traveling across country to a sanctuary faced all sorts of dangers.
  (tags: pigs sanctuary farmsanctuary)

• New York by New York: Secret Kitchen | New York Magazine
  Damn. Isa, will you and Terry please move to Virginia? And bring Man Man with you? And all of those vegans, too?
  (tags: isaforkingrules)
• Toy
  The most un-vegan toy I’ve seen in a while.
  (tags: notvegan toy photo)

• Tigers & Strawberries » Nina Planck Stirs the Pot; Vegans Get Steamed: Film At Eleven
  An awesome retort to Nina Planck from a non-vegan. You’ll be cheering by the time you get to the end of this one.
  (tags: planck)
• ContraCostaTimes.com – Vegan party eats at co-workers
  Watch out for those pesky vegans who try to serve you their scary food! [via Food Fight]
  (tags: missmanners social)
• Vegan Pumas at Urban Monarch
  Those are some nice looking Pumas.
  (tags: vegan shoes sneakers)

• The Vegans and Their Children (6 Letters) – New York Times
  A few responses to the goofy Planck article from the other day.
  (tags: news anti-veganbias)
• May 23, 2007 Vegan Outreach e-Newsletter
  Vegan Outreach’s response to Planck’s op-ed.
  (tags: planck)

• isachandra: Meat Eating Parents Starve Baby!
  Isa bites back.
  (tags: isaforkingrules anti-veganbias)

• Ani Phyo’s raw food cooking vidoes
  Just got Ani’s cookbook to review. Looks pretty good!
  (tags: aniphyo raw food video)

• The Green Scare – Los Angeles CityBeat
  “Rod Coronado gave a talk in San Diego and the feds called his words ‘terrorism.’ How new laws are equating environmentalists with Al Qaeda”
  (tags: rodcornado greenscare terrorism politics)

For some reason, the regular Daily Links haven’t been posting the last few days. If you’re fiending for your fix, head over here to see them.

• Neatorama » Blog Archive » 3 Animals We Ate To Extinction.
  (tags: food extinction animals)

• Stumptown Vegans
  The Portland take on the Vegan Friendly blog (ie. thorough restaurant reviews of PDX vegan spots with plenty o’ pictures).
  (tags: portland restaurants vegan blog)

• Dog owners ‘fleeced’ in poodle scam | Metro.co.uk
  Rich Japanese are sold shaved sheep thinking they’re poodles. Um… pardon my acronym, but WTF?
  (tags: sheep poodles japan news freakingweird)

• DevilDucky – Colbert: Milk and Hormones
  Outstanding. “Innocent until proven cancerous” should become agribusiness’ new slogan. [via VP]
  (tags: milk humor colbertreport)
• SuperVegan – Hitler Was a Vegetarian like Bush Was a Valedictorian
  Bookmark this letter from Rynn Berry and print it out. Show it to anyone who comes at you with that stupid ass “Hitler was a vegetarian” claim.
  (tags: hitler history)

• Vegetarian Times: Chicago’s Soul Vegetarian – restaurant specializing in African American cuisine – includes recipes
  Vegetarian soul food recipes. Wish the article was formatted better, but it’s from a mid-90s Veg Times. Oh well.
  (tags: recipes soulfood)
• VeggieBoards – View Single Post – Finally, the perfect vegan whipped cream
  Been meaning to try this.
  (tags: recipe whippedcream vegan)
• Mission: Meatless at Gourmet Menus at Epicurious.com
  Gourmet Magazine gives a respectful nod to meatless meals.
  (tags: food foodies gourmet recipes)

• Free-Range Babies: 1946 | Shorpy
  If they’re free-range, we can eat ‘em, right?
  (tags: eatingbabies humor photos)

• FolkStreams » This Is Our Slaughterhouse
  A short documentary about a small-scale chicken farm. A review states, “It’s also pleasant to witness chicken ‘harvesting’ that isn’t filthy, foul or rife with brutality.” How can it not be rife with brutality when there’s death involved?
  (tags: chicken farming video documentary)

• T. rex thigh reveals chicken family ties – CNN.com
  “Tiny bits of protein extracted from a 68-million-year-old dinosaur bone have given scientists the first genetic proof that the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex is a distant cousin to the modern chicken.” We could never factory farm a Tyrannosaurus rex.
  (tags: dinosaurs chickens evolution news research)
• Recordnet.com: Massive poultry farm back on track despite opponents
  A San Jose-based egg producer is trying to build a poultry farm that will house up to 900,000 chickens on unincorporated farmland near an animal sanctuary. There are plenty of opponents, to be sure.
  (tags: sanctuary factoryfarming chickens)

• My donkey has fallen, and she can’t get up! – By Jon Katz – Slate Magazine
  A story of a donkey that fell on the ice. [via Steve]
  (tags: donkey winter)

• Moonpointer : Buddhist Vegan Fellowship
  (tags: buddhism vegan)

• Herbivore Magazine
  Issue 14 is online. Wait, you’re not a subscriber? WHY NOT?
  (tags: herbivore magazine ilovejoshhooten)

• VEGANS: Modern Day Witches (Sermon By Brother Harry Hardwick)
  Hilarious! (And, no, it’s not for real.) [via Joseph]
  (tags: humor vegan witches)

• Trends in Japan – Tokyo Blog » Deep-fry diving for goldfish in Japan
  A goldfish tank… in a deep fryer. “Because oil floats on water, despite the massive heat (163 degrees Celsius) the goldfish simply stay away from the surface and all is well.” [via BoingBoing]
  (tags: goldfish japan fish)

• Norton pet sanctuary saves neglected animals
  A nice piece about Winslow Sanctuary in Norton, MA.
  (tags: winslow sanctuary boston norton massachusetts)
• Satya: A Magazine of Vegetarianism, Environmentalism, Animal Advocacy and Social Justice
  Satya is closing down. All of the great progressive mags (Clamor, Stay Free!, Satya) are falling. I’m seriously bummed.
  (tags: satya publishing)
• Burger King Shifts Policy on Animals – New York Times
  I don’t know. Token welfare changes which may result in more animals killed because people feel better about their meat? Not sure that counts as an “historic advance.” And they quote freaking Temple Grandin. ARGH.
  (tags: quotecompassionateendquote burgerking welfare freakingtemplegrandin)
• Think Progress » Kucinich On Fox News: ‘Maybe The Lion Doesn’t Want To Eat Me Because I’m A Vegan’
  Nice quote, Dennis! (Do yourself a favor and skip the comments.) [via Supervegan]
  (tags: kucinich)

• Temptation NOT in Whole Foods Midwest?
  Whole Foods in the midwest is planning on dropping Temptation ice cream, which would be a serious blow. If you live in the area, support Temptation. Do it. [via Food Fight]
  (tags: temptation icecream food dessert)

• 21st Century Girl » Eat less meat, fish and dairy for the planet
  (tags: environment blog)

• Deep Roots Animal Sanctuary | Home
  A new sanctuary-in-the-making in Indiana.
  (tags: sanctuary)

• Property status vs suffering « Invisible Voices
  “An animal who is considered property will always be exploited.” BINGO. Well said, Deb.
  (tags: abolitionism)

• A girl’s beloved dog, a grisly nightmare
  One of the most disgusting stories I’ve read in a long time. Really makes you wonder about the inhumanity of people.
  (tags: animalabuse murder dog)

• Undercover film shows a farmer punching a duck | News | This is London
  “Undercover filming on one farm, which boasts high welfare standards, shows a duck being punched.”
  (tags: animalcruelty ducks uk)
• Applebee’s Apple Walnut Chicken Salad, Now With Free Insect Leg – Consumerist
  Is the insect leg more stomach-churning than the chicken?
  (tags: food contamination restaurant applebees)

• Bye-Bye to the Aye-Aye?
  An animal on the verge of extinction because it’s ugly.
  (tags: extinction animals ayeaye)
• Organic.org – A Healthy Pillow
  Some more stuff on pillows, following up yesterday’s post. Ignore the non-vegan stuff, of course.
  (tags: pillows)

• Ex-McDonald’s Franchisee Dumps Sensitive Documents On Someone’s Farmland – Consumerist
  Yay for privacy!
  (tags: mcdonalds privacy)

• An Animal-Friendly Life: Animal Breeding
  “Hey! People! Bringing animals into the world only increases the net misery on our planet, despite how nice you might treat your own companions. If you love animals, you’ll save one from death by adopting one, you’ll tell everyone you know to do the same,
  (tags: breeding companionanimals)
• FIRST THINGS: On the Square » Blog Archive » Smith: Animal Rights and Wrongs
  Very interesting, yet flattering, criticism of Gary Francione. “I don’t agree at all with Gary Francione … But at least he promotes his agenda with intellectual honesty… The animal-liberation movement could use a lot more leaders like Gary Francion
  (tags: garyfrancione anti-ar)

• Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach-Blog: Some Thoughts on National Organizations
  Gary Francione weighs in on national AR organizations.
  (tags: garyfrancione abolitionism)
• VegCooking > Best Restaurant Veggie Burger–Yours Free*!
  Free Streamliner (vegan Boca burger) at Johnny Rockets with the purchase of a meal.
  (tags: coupon restaurant)

• Vegetarians are Evil – Official Homepage
  Tee-hee. FUD of the most entertaining kind, the kind based on hate and scientific falsehoods. [via Food Fight]
  (tags: anti-vegetarian)

• Serious Eats
  Today is National Pig Day. Of course, that means it’s time to eat a pig, not actually, you know, celebrate them.
  (tags: pigs)
• Designer Vegan Shoes at Urban Monarch
  Greg at Urban Monarch finds that Nordstrom has quite the selection of vegan footwear. Nice!
  (tags: vegan shoes footwear shopping blogs)
• Food fight!! | MetaFilter
  John Mackey vs. Michael Pollen, on blogs, on the air.
  (tags: johnmackey michaelpollen debate)

• Walmart Brand Chicken: Now With Steel Hex Nut? – Consumerist
  I’m pretty sure I’d rather eat a steel hex nut than a piece of Walmart brand chicken.
  (tags: food safety chicken walmart)
• Howard Stern on Pure Food and Wine
  Stern and his crew talk up the amazing raw restaurant in NY. (Obviously, there are some naughty words, so the easily offended should stay away.)
  (tags: howardstern purefoodandwine raw restaurant radio)

• Plant-Derived Omega-3s May Aid In Bone Health
  “Plant-based omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) may have a protective effect on bone health, according to a team of Penn State researchers who carried out the first controlled diet study of these fatty acids contained in such foods as flaxseed and
  (tags: health omega3s research nutrition)

• VeganYumYum » Mini Donut Test Kitchen
  Oh man. Now I need a mini donut pan.
  (tags: vegan donuts food)
• BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Tiger kills girl at Chinese zoo
  This is a terrible tragedy, but seriously: getting your picture taken with a tiger? OF COURSE something’s going to happen.
  (tags: death zoo china news tiger)

• LawGeek: Craigslist strikes again
  Seven vegans living communally looking for a woman to share her breastmilk. Gee, this won’t make vegans look like weirdos or anything.
  (tags: vegan breastfeeding freakingweird)

• Experts Search for Source of Salmonella-Tainted Peanut Butter – washingtonpost.com
  Well done, ConAgra.
  (tags: contamination food peanutbutter conagra agribusiness)

• Truck spills 40 tons of cow intestines – Yahoo! News
  Your pleasant story of the day.
  (tags: gross)

• : : HERBIVORE MAGAZINE : :
  Sweet, the Herbivore announcement is public now. I think this shift is going to be really exciting and open up a lot of possibilities.
  (tags: herbivore)
• Whole Foods says ‘no tanks’ for lobsters
  Whole Foods goes back on their promise of “no live lobsters” for one of their stores. But of course, they’ll be treated “humanely.” I tell you, the more time that passes, the less patience I have for nonsense like this.
  (tags: wholefoods hypocrisy lobsters quotecompassionateendquote)

• The myth of grass-fed beef | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
  Woman: Hi, do you have any grass-fed beef?
  Butcher: Hmm, grass-fed? I don’t think you can feed grass to cows.

  Oh my.

  (tags: freakingweird butcher dummy)

• Friends of Animals | Letter to Chocolate Company Backing Chimp Haven
  Looks like FoA and I were on the same wavelength with regards to Endangered Species bars and their milk chocolate offerings.
  (tags: food)

• 9NEWS – Article – Sidetracks – N.J. warns: Don’t eat squirrel near dump
  “New Jersey has warned squirrel hunters near a toxic waste dump about consuming the critters because they could be contaminated with lead.” Squirrel hunters? Now there are some manly men for you.
  (tags: newjersey news hunting toxic)
• VeganFreaks: Finding similarities
  Excellent post by Jenna about looking at semiotic systems as a way to find similarities between sentient beings.
  (tags: essay jenna animalrights)

• Can Food From Cloned Animals Be Called Organic? – washingtonpost.com
  The term “organic meat” may become even more meaningless.
  (tags: organic meat cloning news)

• The New Yorker: VEGETABLE LOVE
  On the history of vegetarianism. (Haven’t read it yet, so I’m linking it here as much for me as for you.)
  (tags: vegetarianism history book review)
• SuperVegan – Blog by Category: Trans Fats
  SuperVegan’s series on NYC’s trans fat ban (which, incidentally, seems kind of stupid to me…)
  (tags: supervegan vegan nyc transfat health law)

• Vegan Thru Hikers
  Two vegans and their dog hiking the entire Appalachian Trail. Awesome.
  (tags: hiking project)

• Why Americans love to shoplift meat. – By Brendan I. Koerner – Slate Magazine
  Meat: the most shoplifted item in America. “There’s the one about … the man discovered with a trove of filet mignons in his Jockey shorts.” [via Get Rich Slowly]
  (tags: news meat crime)
• Strict Vegan Ethics, Frosted With Hedonism – New York Times
  In case you’re one of the two people in the world that hasn’t seen: ISA AND TERRY IN THE NEW YORK TIMES! Vegans represent.
  (tags: vegan isaforkingrules nyt)

• YouTube – Black Sheep Trailer
  The greatest movie trailer ever. Seriously, go watch it now (unless horror movies make you queasy). (via Food Fight)
  (tags: movie animalsfightback sheep)

• What Does 200 Calories Look Like?
  Calorie counting bores me, but this visual representation of 200 calories’ worth of different foods is an interesting exercise, if nothing else.
  (tags: food photos)
• Vegetarians and Vegans in America Today — www.greenwood.com
  Hey, they quoted me in chapter three. That’s happened few enough times that it’s still novel to me. Now, where’s my free copy?
  (tags: books quotes)
• PETA Media Center > Recent News Releases : BROOKLYN COOKBOOK AUTHOR GRABS NATIONAL AWARD FOR PERFECTING THE RECIPE FOR COMPASSION
  VWaV wins a Proggy! Rock on, Isa!
  (tags: isaforkingrules vwav peta proggies award)

• 15 Foods You Shouldn’t Live Without
  And only one isn’t vegan (and it’s not fish!).
  (tags: food health nutrition)

• Not a Tiger, but Maybe a Chicken in Your Tank – washingtonpost.com
  Yes, yes, we need a good alternative fuel source, but can we maybe look for one that doesn’t require the death of animals to produce it?
  (tags: fuel energy chickens biofuel news)

• Seventh Generation recommends giving livestock as a holiday gift to relieve hunger
  Eric (at AAFL) looks at the issues surrounding supporting an organization like Heifer International.
  (tags: charity heiferinternational)
• Animal Rights vs. Livestock Donations: What’s the Right Thing To Do? | The Inspired Protagonist
  Heifer responds to Eric’s post.
  (tags: charity heiferinternational)
• My response to Heifer International
  And Eric’s response back to Heifer.
  (tags: charity heiferinternational)

• 40-year-old accused of assault by meat hook
  A worker at “Premium Protein Products” attacked a man with a meat hook. It’s the feel-good story of the holiday season!
  (tags: news violence meat)

• vegan yum: “keep in fridge for better crunchy.”
  A fun, old-school vegan site.
  (tags: vegan site)

• The Cyberactivist
  Virgil Butler was found dead on Friday. This is so sad.
  (tags: activist death rip virgilbutler)
• Animal Writings: In Honor and Memory of Virgil Butler
  Gary’s tribute.
  (tags: tribute death virgilbutler rip)

• TOFU DOG CHALLENGE!
  And here I thought tofu dogs were still pretty gross tasting.
  (tags: soy tofu food)

• Q& A | ISA CHANDRA MOSKOWITZ – washingtonpost.com
  Isa in the Post! Excellent.
  (tags: isaforkingrules news vegan cupcakes)
• `Zombie chickens’ hatch debate over older chickens’ fate
  Despite the amusing headlne, it’s a depressing fate “spent hens” face. Egg-eating vegetarians: remember this next time you think, “Well, eating eggs doesn’t kill the chicken…”
  (tags: chickens industry death news)

• The Perry Bible Fellowship: Bad Apple
  Vegetable on fruit violence… so sad. (And funny.)
  (tags: humor comic pbf)
• Vegetarianism and religion – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  (tags: vegetarianism religion)
• Category:Buddhism – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  (tags: buddhism)
• Shabkar.Org | On Vegetarianism As Buddhist Way Of Life
  (tags: buddhism vegetarianism religion)

• Compassion Over Killing > A New COK Investigation Uncovers Cruelty at a North Carolina Turkey Hatchery that Supplies Butterball
  Absolutely essential (though difficult) viewing. Footage of turkey production from the earliest stages. [via VeganChai]
  (tags: cok video turkeys animalcruelty)

• Thanksgiving With the Turkeys 2006 – a photoset on Flickr
  Some photos from this year’s even at Poplar Spring.
  (tags: poplarspring thanksgiving)

• Dogster Inc. Company Blog » Archive » U.S. Senate & House Pass Atrocious Puppy Mill Defense Bill
  Dogster folk speak out against the AETA, which brands pretty much anyone who opposes cruelty of any sort to animals a terrorist.
  (tags: aeta terrorism law)
• No AETA – Main
  “[T]he bill [with the AETA attached] was introduced and passed before it’s scheduled vote during an afternoon session with only six representatives present.” SIX.
  (tags: aeta law terrorism)
• StopATEA.org
  (tags: law terrorism aeta)

• “Totally Not Vegan” Chris Harback (writing & art) and K Harback (writing)
  New webcomic. Guaranteed you’ve been through at least one of these situations. [via ananimalfriendlylife.com]
  (tags: comic)

• Don’t Have a Cow, Mom – washingtonpost.com
  (tags: teens vegetarian news)
• Endangered Ugly Things
  A friendly reminder that it’s not just the cute, furry animals that need saving…
  (tags: blog preservation)

• Who’s That Pretty Pachyderm? – washingtonpost.com
  “Elephants can recognize themselves in a mirror and use their reflections to explore hidden parts of themselves, a measure of subjective self-awareness that until now has been shown definitively only in humans and apes, researchers reported yesterday.”
  (tags: news animalintelligence)

• Veggie Bite
  Vegan fast food on Chicago’s south side (and soon, north side). [via Gary]
  (tags: chicago restaurant vegan fastfood)

• Odeo: We cannot eat aminals!
  This is so cute.
  (tags: audio children wisdom)

• The Sheboygan Press – Heroic dog saves woman
  If your eyes don’t well up reading this one, you have no heart.
  (tags: dogs companionanimals heroism news fire)

• Vandals kill animals at Roosevelt pet shelter
  I’m a pacifist, but for these guys, I’d make an exception. (thanks to Billy)
  (tags: news animalabuse destruction)
• Leftover Jell-O triggers German security alert | Oddly Enough | Reuters.co.uk
  Would that have happened with agar agar?
  (tags: news funny)

• Pets in America
  Some neat stuff here [via Mefi].
  (tags: companionanimals history)
• Pet store manager charged with willful burning of shop – The Boston Globe
  When I saw the original story about AR activists burning down a pet shop, killing the animals, I called bullshit and said it was obviously a set-up. I was right.
  (tags: setup anti-ar news)

• Food For Thought, Andy Ponders Eating Spinach, Horsemeat And Vegetarianism – CBS News
  “Most of us think of vegetarians as nuts and I’m not a vegetarian but I wouldn’t be surprised if we came to a time in 50 or 100 years when civilized people everywhere refused to eat animals.” Wow. [via An Animal Friendly Life]
  (tags: vegetarian news spinach andyrooney colormesurprised)

• CNN.com – Colleges eat fresh by purchasing from local farmers – Sep 29, 2006
  (tags: college farming local food)

• CNN.com – Too much testosterone kills brain cells – Sep 27, 2006
  I’m sure this can be tied into meat-eating or hunting somehow, right?
  (tags: news health)
• Lee Turkey Farm
  Is there anything more depressing than a happy turkey holding up a sign that says “It’s fun for everyone!” on the front of a web site that sells “oven-ready turkeys”? *sigh* (warning: terrible MIDI ahead)
  (tags: advertising meat turkeys sadirony)

• Scotsman.com News – Latest News – International – Lions dying in Indian zoo after failed experiment
  Proof that humans will always find another way to be stupid and inhumane. [via the Vegan Freaks]
  (tags: lions india breeding crossbreeding experiments zoo)

• Spinach Cleared From Menus and Stores Nationwide – washingtonpost.com
  Mad Leafy Green disease hits.
  (tags: food health danger news)

• FilmBaby: Dark Water Rising: The Truth Behind Katrina Animal Rescues
  Looks like an interesting movie. I suspect it’s incredibly depressing.
  (tags: movie dvd katrina)

• BBC NEWS | Health | Tea ‘healthier’ drink than water
  “Tea not only rehydrates as well as water does, but it can also protect against heart disease and some cancers.” Huh! I drink lots of tea AND water, so I guess I’m in doubly good shape.
  (tags: tea drinks health water)
• LA Weekly – The Caged Lion
  Wait… Rod Coronado’s not a vegan anymore? That’s just weird. [via Food Fight]
  (tags: news)

• Alaskan Bears: To Be Seen, Or Shot?, Protected For 50 Years, Life Is To Change For McNeil River’s Brown Bears – CBS News
  The only type of hunting I endorse is the hunting of trophy hunters. [via crazyj]
  (tags: news bears alaska hunting)

• Man charged with Chihuahua’s death
  Idiot kills a dog for peeing on his rug. Sounds like the guy down the street from me. [via Obscure Store]
  (tags: dog murder news idiots)

• Tiny animals on fingers – a photoset on Flickr
  (tags: tiny animals photos)

• Researcher bows to extremists
  ‘”It’s clearly a climate of intimidation and fear,” Trull said. “It’s inexcusable.”‘ No, Mr. Trull, experimentation on animals is the real inexcusable climate of fear. And isn’t it weird that people who leaflet are “extremists” but people who paralyze a
  (tags: animalexperimentation animalrights)

• ‘Big’ Black Bear Struck By Car On Rt. 9 — Leesburg2Day– The Journal of Loudoun County
  This picture is so sad.
  (tags: bear)

• Animal Intelligence
  The aforementioned Animal Intelligence blog has launched.
  (tags: animalintelligence blog)

• 9,000 turkeys die in the cargo hold of an airplane
  Tragic.
  (tags: turkeys transport news)

• isachandra: Vegan Sammiches
  In NY and want some sammiches from the world’s most awesomest Isa? Now you can get some!
  (tags: isaforkingrules food nyc brooklyn)
• Monorail Modeling Page-Puppy Mover
  Just because it’s hella cute. (via MeFi)
  (tags: cuteness dogs)
• Greyfriars Bobby: The Story
  A monument to a dog who maintained a vigil for 14 years at his human’s gravesite. A neat story (originally spotted in Pleasurable Kingdom).
  (tags: dog loyalty)

• USATODAY.com – The other White meat?
  Sure would be nice if “anxious animal lovers” spoke up more frequently.
  (tags: news pigs movie)
• foldedspace.org: Help Me Name Weblog #7
  JD Roth, who I had lunch with last week, is starting a new blog focused on animal intelligence. Should be worth watching once it launches.
  (tags: blog animalintelligence)

• Chicken sexing – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Jared Spool mentioned chicken sexing during a web conference keynote and everyone acted surprised. I forget most people just don’t know this stuff. Of course, he didn’t mention the male chicks getting ground alive.
  (tags: chickens)

• Seal swims to rescue of drowning dog
  An amazing, amazing story. (via VF forums)
  (tags: news touching animals)

• Ethiopian Restaurant —— The Ultimate Guide
  Really useful. Includes a section for vegetarians.
  (tags: restaurants ethiopian food)

• Vegan Freak for (at least) a Week
  Recruiting people to go vegan for a week. What a great idea!
  (tags: blog project activism)

• Local Muslims aim to educate public – Judy Harrison
  Man throws frozen pig head into a mosque and says, “But it was just a joke”! Two counts of harrassment there: the Muslims and the pig.
  (tags: news)

• VegPortland.com: The Vegetarian Guide to Portland
  This will be very useful in about, um, 10 days.
  (tags: vegan restaurants portland guide oregon)

• Whale shot in front of tourists – Aftenposten.no
  “Kristiansen claimed that he and the other whalers ‘don’t have anything against the whale safari boats… but it’s important to get across that it’s the extreme opponents of whaling that travel out to see whales.’” I call BS.
  (tags: whaling animalrights norway)
• WAS SOMEONE :: VERONICA IBARRA ::
  What a cool art project.
  (tags: vegan art)
• cabel.name: New Product End Times
  This is seriously gross. OK, with that out of the way, who’s going to be the first to make vegan sausage wrapped in a vegan pancake made with non-dairy chocolate chips and this put the whole thing on a stick?
  (tags: freakingweird food)

• Northwest VEG — Portland Oregon Vegetarian Education & Empowerment Group
  (tags: portland food restaurants)

• Ingredients & recipes tagged with vegan | Snacksby
  A new recipe site that takes what you have in the pantry (and lets you store info about it!) and suggests recipes based on the contents. Neat. Linked here are the recipes tagged “vegan.”
  (tags: recipes food)

• Animal Writings: The Fallen Dove
  This is why Gary should be President. Or at least write a book.
  (tags: gary dove animalrescue)

• YouTube – Rise Against – ready to fall
  Incredibly powerful. The image at 1:52 hit me like a ton of bricks.
  (tags: music video animalrights)

• Time Out New York / Into the fire
  Matthew Kenney’s (formerly of Pure Food and Wine) new veggie restaurant Heirloom has shut down. Interesting article covering the roller coaster of Kenney’s career. At least he’s not flashing people on the subway. [via Johanna]
  (tags: news restaurants newyork)

• DC Vegan Diner Project
  As a vegan and a diner geek, I cannot tell you how much this excites me. I’m all tingly.
  (tags: vegan diner restaurant food dc)

• Amazon.com Grocery: vegan
  Vegan items in Amazon’s new grocery store (veg blog affiliate link)
  (tags: amazon food shopping)
• PaperFrog: L.A. Community Farm Bulldozed
  Not quite sure how I missed this developing story, but it’s an important one.
  (tags: farming news theman developers)

• Peaceable Kingdom – A Tribe of Heart Documentary – Google Video
  Looks like this is the first version of the movie. Well worth checking out if you haven’t seen it.
  (tags: video movie)

• Tiger & Piglet, we have so much to learn from you | MetaFilter
  MeFi discusses ALF. A surprisingly good read, but as usual, I stopped as soon as I hit the first “do you know how many animals are killed during the harvesting of vegetables?” post.
  (tags: alf)
• Kucinich Wins Congressional Friend of Farm Animals Award
  Nice!
  (tags: kucinich farmsanctuary)
• Microchips: Fido Once Was Lost, But Now He’s Found – Newsweek Periscope – MSNBC.com
  This will go a long way in helping to make sure that family members aren’t euthanized because of the brand of microchip they had implanted. Bravo. [via Supervegan]
  (tags: companionanimals technology)

• Hillbilly Housewife: $45 Emergency Menu for 4
  Spending only $45 in a week to feed a family of four. While the menu’s not completely meat-free, you’ll notice that the vast majority of the food consists of veggies, fruits, grains, and beans. Being vegan is expensive, my ass!
  (tags: food thriftiness)
• YouTube – Borat – Guide to Hunting
  Wow. They found the nuttiest of the nutty hunters for this. [via Food Fight]
  (tags: hunting humor)
• More Ways to Avoid Eggs and Help Hens
  Haven’t kicked eggs to the curb just yet? Gary breaks it down for you.
  (tags: eggs)

• Foes See Foie Gras as a Fat Target
  “Myself, I believe I’m lucky to find myself on top of the food chain. I think God created rabbits and ducks for me to enjoy.” And God created your face for me to punch. [via Food Fight]
  (tags: foiegras news)

• Veganfriendly.com
  A NYC restaurant review blog. I will read this religiously and drool in jealousy. [via Isa]
  (tags: restaurants blog reviews)

• The Magical Loaf Studio: Create Your Own Adventist-Style Vegan Dinner Loaf!
  Jennifer Shmoo lets you create your own veggie loaf! Yay for vegan cgi scripts! [via SuperVegan]
  (tags: food shmoo loafs)

• CNN.com – The real poop: A dog-friendly B&B – Apr 27, 2006
  Awful, AWFUL headline, but an interesting story.
  (tags: dogs bandb travel vacation companionanimals)
• Sorry Again, this time about SB 861
  Innocent pit bulls apologize for being pit bulls. Breed-specific legislation is fucking insane. (via Meredith)
  (tags: law pitbulls dogs california)

• Sweets: Junk Food, Vegan Style – Newsweek Periscope – MSNBC.com
  Vegan junk food makes Newsweek. [via Food Fight]
  (tags: vegan junkfood news)
• American Chronicle: My Adventure Presenting Animal Rights Philosophy to the FBI
  A really good read. [via Vegan Freaks]
  (tags: fbi alf essay)
• Home on the Range: A Corridor for Wildlife – New York Times
  Plans to make our world a little more animal-friendly. [via BoingBoing]
  (tags: animalrights environment)

• YouTube – Isa Chandra Moskowitz in Portland
  Josh “Herbie” Hooten documents Isa’s trip to Portland.
  (tags: video humor isaforkingrules)

• Vegan diet lowers odds of having twins | Reuters.com
  [via Kristin]
  (tags: vegan diet pregnancy)

• Saddest Photo Ever on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
  This hits some surprisingly accurate points.
  (tags: humor eggs)

• Even vegan purists like their doughnuts
  I’ve gotta try these things. Supposedly Mighty-O is now being distributed by Sun Flour Baking Company, so I may have a shot. (via Obscure Store)
  (tags: vegan donuts seattle)
• Animal Writings: The Veg Blog
  Gary, thank you.
  (tags: site)
• post punk kitchen – Google Video
  All 4 episodes of the PPK on Google Video. Wicked.
  (tags: vegan cooking video ppk isaforkingrules)
• Dolphins, like humans, recognize names | Reuters.com
  Dolphins can call each other by name. [via Meredith]
  (tags: dolphins animalrights)

• China’s happy vegetarian turns 120
  The world’s oldest living person (well, maybe) is vegetarian. Nice! [via VR forums BWO VF forums]
  (tags: vegetarian news health)

• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
  The 2006 “red list” of endangered and threatened species. “Too big to publish as a book.”
  (tags: animals endangered environment)

• Say Bye to Sugary Soda in Schools
  The beverage industry voluntarily removes soda and sugary drinks from schools. I’m rubbing my eyes, trying to figure out what the deal is… did the industry actually do something right?
  (tags: health news soda)
• Little Debbie Nutty Bars, Wafers with Peanut Butter and covered with Chocolate nutrition information – Food Labels – DietFacts.com
  Nutty Bars are not vegan. Just wanted to let you know. Because I’m really hungry and was wondering about that package in the vending machine.
  (tags: notvegan littledebbie)
• USATODAY.com – Piece of finger served to diner after worker accidentally cuts self at restaurant
  J’ever notice that fingers never wind up in peoples’ veggie burgers?
  (tags: fingerinfood)

• Twin Oaks Community Soy Foods
  For this weekend (I’mma git me some!).
  (tags: soy tofu tempeh)

• Sentient Developments: The myth of our exalted human place
  A very interesting piece on animal rights from the transhumanist perspective. “Of course, the argument that humans have value because they’re human is not really an argument at all. Rather, it’s a rhetorical tautology devoid of any substance–except for
  (tags: animalrights philosophy)

• Area girls’ MySpace video shows them kicking cat | IndyStar.com
  … and they’re turned in by PETA reps. Well done!
  (tags: animalcruelty cats peta)
• VeganFreaks: PeTA are really fucking stupid
  And to balance out the pro-PETA article… (a good conversation follows here, too)
  (tags: peta anti-peta animalrights)

• Chicago bans foie gras within city limits
  Outstanding!
  (tags: foiegras animalrights)
• Bea Arthur: Surely vets can agree that foie gras is wrong
  Have I mentioned how much I want to meet Bea Arthur? This only increases my desire.
  (tags: news foiegras animalrights ducks beaarthur)

• Dog sniffs out brain tumor
  (via Obscure Store)
  (tags: news)

• Virtues of Vegan Nutrition
  A February 2006 piece from Today’s Dietitian.
  (tags: nutrition health vegan)

• Woman, 82, drives her car through United Dairy Farmers store
  Yay, old woman! Er, I mean, “oh, what a shame…”
  (tags: news)

• AgWired » Have a Steak Sundae
  “So it looks just like a chocolate sundae, but tastes like an open-face roast beef sandwich.” Oh. God. (via Paul)
  (tags: marketing beef freakingweird disgusting)
• shmivejournal: cadbury egg cake
  “Replace ordinary eggs in cake recipe with Cadbury Creme Eggs and observe results.” Very NOT VEGAN (said in best Vegan Freak voice), but still pretty funny.
  (tags: humor)

• McDonald’s Video game
  McVideogame. SimCity-like political statement. Well done!
  (tags: game activisim mcdonalds)

• The Morning News – Animals, by May Mantell
  “Seeing animals killed accidentally or for sport, can we help but see images of war and cruelty? An interview with photographer May Mantell and a gallery from her new “Animals” series.”
  (tags: photos)

• World’s First Vegan Fried Egg (with Omega 3 DHA and EPA)
  My eyes nearly popped out of their sockets when I read this. Wow. (via GenerationV)
  (tags: vegan eggs food mockmeat)

• Onan the Vegetarian – A Raw-food Guru Turns “Subway Perv” — New York Magazine
  An interesting look at the Breatharian-turned owner of Quintessence-turned subway flasher.
  (tags: news quintessence raw flasher)
• USATODAY.com – Meatpacker sues U.S. for right to do mad cow tests
  “Stewart’s firm, Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, wants to test all its slaughter cattle for mad cow disease.” Huh… mad cow testing as a marketing gimmick. Interesting. (via Crazy Jim)
  (tags: madcow meat marketing)
• Cheezly vegan cheese
  After hearing it mentioned on the Vegan Freaks podcast #32, I got a hankering for some. Any UK readers that might could hook me up?
  (tags: vegan cheese uk)
• Pesticide Residue wallet chart
  Nice for when you’re out shopping. (via Dreena)
  (tags: organic food shopping reference)

• delicious:days
  A beautiful food blog, and–AND–it has a chom chom (rambutan) in the header. Excellent. [via Haughey]
  (tags: blog food)

• Poultrygeist! Night of the Chicken Dead » The Movie
  Zombie chicken horror from the Troma team.
  (tags: movie zombies chickens horror)

• Chicago Tribune | The Fat From These Pigs May End Up Helping Your Heart
  GM Pigs with Omega-3s being marketing for people that won’t eat fish. How pathetic. FLAX, suckas, FLAX! [via Paul]
  (tags: gm news pigs)

• ‘Clive of India’s tortoise’ dies aged 250
  They’re just guessing at the age, but he’s been at the zoo for 130 years, which is still pretty amazing.
  (tags: news tortoise india)

• Colgate to Buy Tom’s of Maine for $100M
  It’s getting nearly impossible to buy from a company that doesn’t have any connections to Big Business. *via Paul, VF forums, and Food Fight)
  (tags: news bigbusiness)

• In Argentina, They’ve Got a Beef
  “Many Argentines were incredulous at Kirchner’s call to curb inflation by cutting back on beef consumption.”
  (tags: beef argentina news)

• Vegetarian lifestyles; some are ‘freegan’ odd – March 2006 Issue – AMonline.com
  It’s punny! *rolls eyes* Not sure why I’m linking since it’s basically just a “Wikipedia says…”-type article.
  (tags: news)

• Study: Tofu, Oatmeal Lower Cholesterol
  No surprises here.
  (tags: health tofu soy cholesterol)
• Vegan Lunch Box: WOW! Thank you, Bloggie Voters!
  The Vegan Lunch Box won the “best food blog” award! Congrats, Jennifer!
  (tags: bloggies blog awards)
• 10,000 cows, horses feared dead in Texas fires
  Predictably focuses on loss only as it applies to humans.
  (tags: news)

• Chicken guts
  The most absurd pro-fur video you’ll ever see. (via Food Fight)
  (tags: video profur suckerism)
• Mad cow disease found in Alabama
  “We feel very confident that our beef supply is completely safe.” At some point, people will stop believing that.
  (tags: madcow news)
• SuperVegan
  Great new site from the folks at Lantern. The blog is entertaining and the NYC restaurant finder’s use of Google Maps is outstanding.
  (tags: vegan site nyc blog)

• Jury convicts animal welfare activists in federal terror case
  SHAC activists are convicted. (via An Animal Friendly Life)
  (tags: shac news)

• Les photographies de Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  Gorgeous photography of animals. Unintentionally (?) makes clear the uncomfortable paradox between the individuality of animals and identifying them solely by numbers.
  (tags: animals art photos)

• FDA Is Urged to Ban Carbon-Monoxide-Treated Meat
  “The meat industry … has quietly begun to spike meat packages with carbon monoxide [to give the meat a bright pink color].” The industry continues to lower the bar. (via VeggieTart)
  (tags: meat industry disgusting news)

• Picking Perfect Steaks
  The only reason I’m linking this is this sentence: “We eat an average of 67 pounds of beef a year and that hasn’t changed for a decade, according to the newest government figures.” Yikes. I’m quite pleased I haven’t eaten my 350 pound share in the last
  (tags: meat news)
• IOL: Dog stands test of time on 10 smokes a day
  (tags: freakingweird dogs)
• Woman sues over bloody Happy Meal
  McDonald’s french fries are even less vegan than originally expected.
  (tags: news mcdonalds contamination fries)
• Toilet water is cleaner than ice at fast-food restaurants
  *shudder* (via Obscure Store)
  (tags: disgusting news sanitation)
• McDonald’s Adds Warning To Its Fries
  No, it’s not about blood and it’s not about beef flavoring… it’s about dairy (!) and wheat for those with allergies.
  (tags: mcdonalds fries)

• It’s open season as comedians line up for pot shots at Cheney
  Cheney shoots a man during a canned hunt. You’ve heard the story, you’ve heard the jokes. I have no need to comment further other than that Cheney must be the world’s worst hunter if he shoots a person during a canned hunt.
  (tags: cheney hunting humor canned news)

• Dennis Kucinich on Animal Rights
  How great would it be if Kucinich won the presidency someday?
  (tags: animalrights kucinich)
• Post Punk Kitchen Forums: Any good alternative for whipped cream?
  A good thread with some interesting ideas (the coconut milk one is pretty inventive).
  (tags: vegan food whippedcream ppk)
• Vegan Wine Guide
  Wow. I had no idea that vegan wines were so prevalent now. I still try to buy from vineyards like Frey that produce only vegan wines.
  (tags: vegan wines)

• ::wikiveg:: an animal free wiki
  (tags: animalrights web wiki)

• MAIL ORDER CHICKENS
  Odd, quirky, and pretty funny.
  (tags: chickens humor parody)

• Cats in Sinks – for all your cat and bathroom needs
  If you feel even the slightest urge to turn on the faucet, you’re hereby banned from visiting. (via Sarah)
  (tags: cats humor sinks photos)

• Hundreds of dead pets found in woods
  One of the saddest stories you’ll read this week.
  (tags: news torture animalcruelty)

• Vegan eating in any restaurants, when eating in any restaurants in US, and you are a vegan, what manu / food you should choose?
  I’ve long loved this page and referred to it a number of times when I’ve been stuck, but I wish there was a “last updated” for each entry. Take, for example, the Burger King entry… it still lists their BK Veggie as vegan, which it hasn’t been for at le
  (tags: vegan restaurants guide)

• ACLU Releases Government Photos
  “For example, more than two dozen government surveillance photographs show 22-year-old Caitlin Childs of Atlanta, a strict vegetarian, and other vegans picketing against meat eating, in December 2003.” This is freaking scary. Being vegan is apparently a
  (tags: news scary civilliberties dissent bush)

• SupersizedMeals.com – In ‘n’ Out 100×100 Burger
  Holy. God.
  (tags: food meat excess freakingweird verynotvegan)
• Open for Discussion
  A “corporate responsibility” blog by McDonald’s. Certainly unexpected. Of course, the over-praising of Temple Grandin didn’t sit well with me, but it should be interesting to see what kind of things show up here.
  (tags: mcdonalds corporateamerica responsibility)
• PostSecret submission
  A really bothersome PostSecret entry. For one, I doubt that anyone associated with AR that’s fighting cancer “forgets” that the drugs were developed through animal tests and secondly, that’s pretty sick the guy takes pleasure in it.
  (tags: postsecret anti-peta)

• Test your tastebuds
  Are you a “supertaster?” I’d never even heard the term until I saw it mentioned over on the Vegan Freak forums…
  (tags: tastebuds supertaster food science)

• Steer could still be roaming the Pines
  Another steer-escapes-slaughterhouse story, this time from New Jersey. Unfortunately, this one sounds like it may not have a happy ending. (via Mom)
  (tags: escapinganimals steer cow slaughterhouse news newjersey)

• Whale Swimming in London Lost, Likely Sick
  (tags: whale london news)

• Three Hopeful Thoughts
  “Proving that vegans do not drop dead when they drop dairy.”
  (tags: vegan food blog)

• Le Plan de repas
  Preparing for dinner parties. Ignore all the stuff about meat, obviously, and this is a good reference.
  (tags: cooking entertaining tips)
• DCist: MLK Day: Vegan Soul Food
  Both King’s son and wife are vegan! Nice. (via Food Fight)
  (tags: mlk vegan food restaurants celebrities)

• Animal Rahat: Improving the Lives of Working Animals in India
  (tags: india animalrights organization)
• Don’t mock sentiments
  An interesting piece by a Hindu recounting a visit to Dubai during Ramadan.
  (tags: eating socialsituations)

• Treehugger: Vegan Clothing Explained
  I’m always happy to see the Treehugger blog take on AR issues. Too often, the green crowd finds ways to overlook animal issues. The discussion that follows, though, is pretty disheartening.
  (tags: vegan clothing wool eggs green)
• The Ground Meat Cookbook [1955] – 204 Intriguing Recipes
  So, so not vegan. Check out how they used pictures of happy pigs doing the cooking.
  (tags: cookbook scan meat creepy)

• Animal Writings: Wegmans Lies As Disgusting As Their Egg Farm
  Well said, Gary. I was equally disgusted by their response.
  (tags: wegmans eggs animalcruelty)
• New COK Investigation Leads to Criminal Charges of Animal Cruelty
  COK continues to do great work exposing cruetly in the egg industry. This time, it’s a Pennsylvania facility.
  (tags: eggs animalcruelty pennsylvania undercover cok)
• Zen Chef – Natural foods, vegetarian cooking recipes
  About the least zen web design I’ve ever seen, but there are some nice Buddha-inspired recipes here.
  (tags: zen buddhism recipes vegetarian vegan)
• Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs
  Holy. Crap. (via Scott)
  (tags: freakingweird pigs news)

• Cat Killer Avoids Jail Term
  “A man convicted of stomping a [14-year-old] cat to death walked free Tuesday morning after the judge ordered him to undergo a mental evaluation and prohibited him from ever owning a pet.” Nice to know someone like this gets off with a “mental evaluation
  (tags: animalcruelty news)
• Sustainable Energy in Motion Bike Tour of the Portland Peace and Justice Center
  Bike tours with organic, locally sourced, vegan meals provided. Nice! (via Vladislav Davidzon)
  (tags: bicycle vegan tours)

• High School Opens Vegetarian Lunch Line
  “I get the vegetarian meals because they have a decent selection you can choose from,” said ninth-grader Jessica Fortney, 15. “Otherwise, I would have to eat the disgusting pizza every day.”
  (tags: vegetarian school lunches health)
• Fiesty cow that escaped slaughterhouse may not be doomed after all
  Well, that’s good. But this line is baffling to me: “I probably won’t become a vegetarian because of it, but it probably deserves to live. When one breaks out of the pack, it’s so touching.” Believe me, Ms. Garde, they all want to break out.
  (tags: animalrights news escapinganimals)
• An Animal-Friendly Life: Writer risks losing her veg credentials; film at 11
  A great post from Eric about vegetarians that may not have developed a total revulsion towards the smell and sight of animal products. He says everything I’ve been thinking recently on the issue.
  (tags: food meat vegetarians blog commentary)
• Dinosaur fish pushed to the brink by deep-sea trawlers
  (via BoingBoing)
  (tags: fish extinction news)

• Chicken Producers to Test Flocks For Bird Flu
  (tags: avianflu news health chicken)
• The Boondocks – Caesar does soy
  First Huey eschews turkey at Thanksgiving and now this… is Aaron McGruder vegan or something?
  (tags: comic humor soy)

• Elephants’ hair tells story
  “GPS tracking technology could help endangered species.”
  (tags: elephants gps technology news)
• Singed and sore, a cat lives up to his new name
  A kitten clings to the bottom of an SUV for 60 miles while driven down the NJ Turnpike. Wow. Story includes requisite “nine lives” reference. (via Mom)
  (tags: news amazing cat kitten)
• Top Vegan Food Recipes – FoodieView Recipe Search Engine
  A new (I think) recipe search engine. I’m not a big fan of the interface and abundance of ads, but at least they have a vegan category.
  (tags: recipes vegan food cooking searchengine)
• Woman marries dolphin
  Um… er… ? (via BoingBoing)
  (tags: news freakingweird)
• No iPod for Christmas, just mystery meat
  Gross. (via BoingBoing)
  (tags: news freakingweird surpriseitsmeat!)

• Vegan Girl Eats Meat – Google Video
  I’d like to know exactly what led up to this.
  (tags: video)
• Vegetarian Debate – Google Video
  A debate on vegetarianism in a bar. This is funny stuff.
  (tags: video humor debate)
• Uuuugh! The Movie – Google Video
  More Google video, this time, the tale of a vegetarian zombie.
  (tags: video zombie vegetarian humor)

• Larry King Live transcript: Dogs and Cats Abused for Their Fur
  Guest host: Ryan Seacrest (?!). Guests include Heather Mills McCartney, Alec Baldwin, Dennis Kucinich, and others.
  (tags: larryking transcript animalcruelty dogs cats news)
• Cranky vegans
  Cranky vegans my ass. And F Burger King and their crap ass veggie burgers. Hm… I guess I am a little cranky.
  (tags: burgerking advertising marketing antivegan)

• Satya Dec 05/Jan 06: Animals in Translation: Book Review by Karen Davis
  UPC’s Karen Davis tears into Temple Grandin’s book and “human slaughter” philosophies. Good stuff.
  (tags: satya templegrandin book review)

• Global Warming. It’s the real thing.
  Greenpeace’s parody of the holiday Coke polar bear commercials, focused on the effects of global warming.
  (tags: environment parody coke greenpeace polarbears extinction video)
• Last hope for abandoned pets
  Noah’s Ark hits Singapore.
  (tags: noahsark companionanimals news singapore)
• Prison for spin wash cat killer
  (via JHoward)
  (tags: news animalcruelty)
• Bees can recognize human faces, study finds
  (tags: bees)

• Vegan Pregnancy: Nutritious recipes to keep mom-to-be healthy on meat-free diet
  A very pro-veg pregnancy article. These things are becoming more and more common, thank goodness.
  (tags: vegan vegetarian pregnancy news)

• At Vegan Feast, Turkeys on Guest List, Not Menu
  A peek at Poplar Spring’s Thanksgiving for the Turkeys.
  (tags: poplarspring animalsanctuary news thanksgiving turkey)

• Court of Appeal Sides With Adidas, Strikes Down Ban on Importation of Kangaroo Products
  Which, unfortunately, means that it’s legal for Adidas to import kangaroo for use in their shoes in the US because the species in question have been removed from the endangered list.
  (tags: viva animalrights kangroo australia adidas)
• Tasty tofu turkeys won’t woo meat gobblers
  “The bottom line on fake turkey is not to compare it to real turkey. It’s like comparing apple and pumpkin pie.”
  (tags: vegan food tofurkey unturkey thanksgiving)
• ‘Ugly dog’ Sam dies at 14
  He always reminded me of that one demon in Evil Dead II. RIP, Sam.
  (tags: sam dog obituary)