Archive for the ‘Daily Links’ Category
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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.
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Coupon here for a free veggie burger at Johnny Rockets, if you have one near you. (Yes, the burger’s vegan. I asked.)
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“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]
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“Consumers who purchased raw milk from Piney Ridge Dairy Farm… Should discard it immediately due to the risk of listeria monocytogenes contamination,”
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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.
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“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]
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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.
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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]
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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]
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Any veggie that can be steamed can be microwaved, cooking it both faster and better, according to this NY Times piece. [via Lifehacker]
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Eric takes a look at activism and reminds us that not all activism is equal.
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“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!
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pattrice jones highlights some blogs looking at the vegan/race issue.
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A Vegetarian Times online piece about male vegans. Mentions Eric from AAFL, Jason from Taste Better, and me (!).
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Could this raw vegan cheese be “the one?” First Teese and now this? Could 2008 finally be “The Year of Vegan Cheese?” [via SuperVegan]
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Temptation’s Teese vegan cheese is now available to us, the lowly public! Order now, OR DIE.
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Everything that’s wrong with “happy meat” summed up in one magazine cover. AR groups *must* distance themselves from this nonsense.
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Let’s hope this idea spreads. Can you imagine tofu egg salad sandwiches and seitan steak sandwiches in 7-11? Awesome.
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Perhaps the grossest product in existence? Interesting how it looks about as appetizing as a Big Mac. [via Paul]
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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]
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Some great research done on the history behind the CCF/YMKA beef.
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This cracks me up.
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The meat will make you do some crazy things.
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Margarine really is the perfect metaphor for most omni-vegan relations.
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Cognitive dissonance!
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So you wanna photograph your food…
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The roundup was called “Operation Hamburger Helper.” Ugh.
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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.
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Woodstock takes in 10 lambs from an abandonment case.
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Nice resource for Celiacs.
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Here’s just one reason we don’t board Amina.
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A patent I can bet you don’t want to own.
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Great food pr0n here.
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[via the vegan-friendly omni known as aharris]
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Congrats to girl least likely to on her third Veganversary (and for also reminding me of my own!)
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Combines my two favorite things: veganism and zombies. Can’t wait to see the final product. [via Sarah Kramer]
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Package veggies to look more appealing to kids, and they’re more likely eat them. Apparently.
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The best modern blues musician has a new vegan-themed blog. Yay for Brownbird Rudy Relic!
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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.
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Bob and Jenna EAT SALAD IN NEWSWEEK.
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Dear Isa, Thank you.
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The pigs were “worth about $75 each.” Sigh. (via Kelly)
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A boy who “hated snakes” stomped and killed a 10-foot-long python at a Cincinnati petting zoo.
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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).
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[via Nene]
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Josh’s thoughts on the TAFA debacle (this is public, not subscribers-only).
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Someone needs to start exvegetarian.org so we can start tracking these twits who equate their having been vegetarian with being “neurotic.”
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Cute t-shirt. I’d like to see this in kids size.
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A t-shirt made for Isa?
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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.
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Mary Martin does a great job desconstructing a recent NY Times piece.
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Note to self: make these when you want to feel really, really full of sugar and calories. [subscribers only]
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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.
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“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
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“Bob was snatched from his owners’ yard last weekend, stabbed, slashed and dumped in brush behind an apartment complex, authorities said.”
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“‘I like Mackey’s haircut,’ Rahodeb [actually Mackey himself] said. ‘I think he looks cute!’” If this is true, wow. Mackey’s a weirdo.
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“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.”
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An amusing video shot in a farmer’s market to Dead Prez’s vegan anthem.
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“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]
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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.
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Somehow I missed this — Vegan Porn becomes Taste Better. Looks good!
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Big surprise: more footage caught of workers abusing farm animals.
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Nifty suggestion.
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From 1991. Looks like this might be an interesting read.
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A few vegan Polish recipes. I’m kind of itching for pierogis tonight (Robin Robertson has a very good recipe for them, incidentally).
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Vegan cooking finally gets some NYT love.
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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.
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Almost half-a-million points of beef is being recalled for fear of e. coli contamination.
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Neat idea. [via Paul]
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Looks like the veg diner in DC will actually come to fruition this year! Awesome!
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A nice video on vegan parenting, shot in Brooklyn.
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A thorough debunking of anti-soy nonsense (especially Weston A Price stuff). Keep this link close at hand.
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Pigs and their rescuers traveling across country to a sanctuary faced all sorts of dangers.
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Damn. Isa, will you and Terry please move to Virginia? And bring Man Man with you? And all of those vegans, too?
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The most un-vegan toy I’ve seen in a while.
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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.
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Watch out for those pesky vegans who try to serve you their scary food! [via Food Fight]
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Those are some nice looking Pumas.
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A few responses to the goofy Planck article from the other day.
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Vegan Outreach’s response to Planck’s op-ed.
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Isa bites back.
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Just got Ani’s cookbook to review. Looks pretty good!
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“Rod Coronado gave a talk in San Diego and the feds called his words ‘terrorism.’ How new laws are equating environmentalists with Al Qaeda”
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.
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The Portland take on the Vegan Friendly blog (ie. thorough restaurant reviews of PDX vegan spots with plenty o’ pictures).
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Rich Japanese are sold shaved sheep thinking they’re poodles. Um… pardon my acronym, but WTF?
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Outstanding. “Innocent until proven cancerous” should become agribusiness’ new slogan. [via VP]
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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.
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Vegetarian soul food recipes. Wish the article was formatted better, but it’s from a mid-90s Veg Times. Oh well.
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Been meaning to try this.
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Gourmet Magazine gives a respectful nod to meatless meals.
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If they’re free-range, we can eat ‘em, right?
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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?
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“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.
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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.
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A story of a donkey that fell on the ice. [via Steve]
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Issue 14 is online. Wait, you’re not a subscriber? WHY NOT?
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Hilarious! (And, no, it’s not for real.) [via Joseph]
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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]