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Veg*n Snapshots

By Anonymous on 10/18/09 10:09am
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Veg*n Snapshots works to unite all vegetarians and vegans via slideshow. Add your photo! Plug your website! Show your pride! Free to join!


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Voice4Change / Animal & Environmental Protection

By Anonymous on 10/18/09 10:06am
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Voice4Change works to promote protection, compassion, kindness, love and respect for animals and the earth. You'll find quality information, websites, videos, audio clips, petitions, slideshows & more.


http://www.working4change.blogspot.com/

Vegetarian Being Kept Alive with a Pig's Heart

By sarajean on 9/30/09 3:54am
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You can’t make this stuff up.

Robyn Cairney, a teen from Scotland, is a vegetarian. Like many teens today, she is an avid animal lover, and practices vegetarianism for that very reason.

She also has a pig heart valve keeping her alive.

Cairney, a mobile phone sales consultant of Ruckazie, Glasgow, was diagnosed with aortic stenosis and regurgitation, a rare cardiac condition that resulted in her collapsing at the gym. While unaware of the condition in her body, Cairney suffered from a narrowing aorta, causing her blood to flow back to her heart.

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The Sexiest Vegetarians Over 50 Are...

By sarajean on 9/3/09 4:57pm
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Congratulations to Mimi Kirk and Julian Winter, the winners of PETA’s 2009 Sexiest Vegetarians Over 50 Contest! Mimi, who is 70—and doesn’t look a day over 50!—has been veg for 40 years, and Julian, 55, has been a vegetarian for 33 years.

Do you think vegetarians are sexier than meat eaters? While sexiness is in the eye of the beholder, it’s definitely a question worth considering. I remember when we were out in California and my mother was just astounded by how “young” everyone looked. I attributed it to the fresh air and the non-smoking, but everyone my mother asked either cited being vegetarian, or eating a diet low in meat and high in fresh produce.

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Are Vegetarians just Vegans who can't commit?

By legerdemain on 6/30/09 3:18pm
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I’ve been a vegetarian for seven years, now. It’s never been terribly difficult, except at family gatherings, and then it was more awkward than difficult, a matter of making my own dinner. I was in my early twenties, and there were a few of us that were, or were becoming, vegetarian at the time. I was at college, so I couldn’t afford to buy meat anyway; I just sort of fell into it by default. Since then, however, I’ve moved to San Francisco and become friends with a rare breed of individual; the vegan.

Tomorrow, I take the plunge and join their ranks. For the month of July, there will be no milk, no butter, no eggs, and, worst of all, no cheese. I love cheese; it’s savory, it’s salty, it smells like a farm. It’s one of the crowning achievements of human kind, up there with fire and Barcelona.

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Michael Jackson was a Vegetarian

By sarajean on 6/30/09 6:39am
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Though many people might have known that Michael Jackson was a vegetarian in the 80s, it seems that he was still one when he died. When AEG, his promotion company, was looking into his health before his big tour, they reported that he was in top shape and indeed, a vegetarian.

“I’m a vegetarian now and I’m so much thinner. I’ve been on a strict diet for years. I feel better than I ever have, healthier and more energetic,” Michael said in his book, Moonwalk. LaToya Jackson, as well as Michael’s father Joe, are also said to be vegetarians.

It’s rumored that Michael even followed a vegan diet—though not, of course, a completely vegan lifestyle, as he was fine using animals for entertainment—as well as being accused of keeping exotic pets in unhealthy conditions.

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Vegetarians + bbqs = fun in the sun

By legerdemain on 5/18/09 2:13pm
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With the Memorial Day weekend approaching, thousands of Americans will be heading out to the beach, the countryside or local parks. Amongst their number will be a good amount of vegetarians, and seeing as we don’t just hang out with each other, we’re going to have to find something that we can eat alongside our carnivorous companions. Here’s the thing, too; I don’t know about you, but I don’t find eating faux meat products, like soy burgers or the like, either terribly interesting or satisfying.  So, I’ve come up with a few ideas that you might want to try out. Watch out, though - everyone’s going to want to try these, vegetarian or not!

Green Onions and Aioli

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Lentil Casserole

By legerdemain on 5/6/09 1:08pm
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So, the lentil seems to have become something of a bête noir for those who wish to make out that all vegetarian food is tasteless and hard to eat. To be fair, they probably have something of a point, but I suspect that’s at least partly because they’ve never eaten them properly prepared. I’m a big fan of the puy lentil, these tiny nutty ovals that you can pair with almost anything.

I’ve used them to make a simple lentil casserole, which I hope that you’ll like.

Ingredients (makes enough for 2-4, depending on portion size, and what you serve with it. A salad would be nice)

1 cup puy lentils, well washed
2 Carrots, diced
Handful of mushrooms, your choice of what type, roughly chopped
2 cloves garlic, diced
Half an onion, diced
2 small zucchini, diced
1 potato, diced
1 large potato, finely sliced
Stock cube (or fresh stock, if you have it)
Tomato puree
Fresh Thyme

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Five vegetarian restaurants in San Francisco

By legerdemain on 5/5/09 12:27pm
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San Francisco, as you might expect, is a very vegetarian friendly city. Most every place you go to eat will have more than one decent vegetarian option. There are, of course, some exceptions (I’m looking at you, Blue Plate), but even somewhere like the marvelously meaty Back Porch has a different vegan special each day, which changes according to what looked good at the market that morning. Oh, and their in house hot sauce is insanely good. Of course, on top of this, it’s hard to beat a super vegetarian burrito!

Anyway, I digress. There are some excellent specialist vegetarian restaurants in the city here, and I wanted to share five of my favorites.

1. Cha-ya, Valencia and 19th St

One of the most popular stops on Valencia, its Japanese menu is long and varied. There are soups, hot pots, goiza and a full selection of vegan sushi. It’s cash only, and gets pretty busy, so go early. They also have a great range of sake, as well, so this is a great place to go on a Friday or Saturday evening, before stopping across the road for a beer in the Elbo Rooms.

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