A former co-worker of mine recently started teaching a vegan cooking class in Fairfax, Virginia.  Finding vegan-only cooking classes outside of a major city can be kind of tough, so something like this is really welcome in this area.  She comes from a background of French cooking, so I’m willing to bet her classes are [...]

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)

This post deserves a lot more attention than I’m going to give it right now, but I did want to get the thought out there while it’s still fresh in my mind.
My friend Paul, who runs the fat acceptance web site Big Fat Blog, recently posted about the lack of men and people of color [...]

In case you need more proof that meat doesn’t make a real man, look no further than Popeye.
Popeye was strong. He ate spinach.
Who was the one that ate all the hamburgers?
Wimpy.
My point has been made, no?

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)

I try not to talk too much about religion here, but in the last couple of days, I got two pretty dissimilar comments that I wanted to highlight.  The first one (well, three) came from a young (I assume) girl named Jessica who is a recent vegetarian.  This section is what caught my eye (emphasis [...]

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)

Periodically on PostSecret, postcards are sent in either defaming vegetarianism, confessing “cheating” on a veg diet, or proclaiming a love for meat.  This week, there were two decidedly non-vegan postcards were posted:

Here’s an idea: stop using prayers (also seen amongst some as “respecting the animal”) as an excuse to just stop buying leather handbags.  Is [...]

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 [...]