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Going Vegetarian: Plain, Simple And Sane

Marissa Lippert | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Eating Animals, Vegetarian, Vegan, Food, Vegetarian Diet, Plant-Based Diet, How to Go Vegetarian, Wellness, Jonathan Safran Foer, Marissa Lippert, How to Become a Vegetarian, Living News
Marissa Lippert

Whether you're already a vegetarian or a newcomer to the plant-based diet, you've likely contemplated how to get your daily essential nutrients and what exactly those fundamentals are.

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Avoiding Factory Farm Foods: An Eater's Guide

Nicolette Hahn Niman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Vegetarian, Eating Animals, Farmers Markets, Vegan, Factory Farms, Nicolette Hahn Niman, Food, Meat, Free Range, Jonathan Safran Foer, Living News
Nicolette Hahn Niman

Eventually, I mostly gave up on supermarkets and began exploring new ways to get at the good food I was seeking. My goal was simple: I wanted all my food to come from places I would enjoy visiting.

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Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

Laurie David | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Factory Farms, Laurie David, Sustainable Food, Jonathan Safran Foer, Vegan, Eating Animals, Green News
Laurie David

This book is a game changer. Eating Animals offers an impassioned argument against animal cruelty and for a more informed, responsible relationship with our food.

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Dispatches From the Whole Foods Produce Aisle

Chris Holt | Posted 11.10.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Vegetarian, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Whole Foods, Joyce Carol Oates, Organic Food, Dating Advice, Vegan, David Sedaris, Comedy News
Chris Holt

Girls who make their own clothes, speak five languages, and are into communist poetry can be found sprinkled throughout the store. Hipster chicks aisle ten. Feigned bisexual sensibilities aisle five.

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Eating Animals: Foer Gets The Facts On Factory Farms

Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Vegetarian, Factory Farming, Climate Change, Swine Flu, Vegan, Meat, Industrial Agriculture, Jonathan Safran Foer, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Eating Animals, the searing indictment of factory farming by Jonathan Safran Foer, has got the champions of cheap chuck denouncing the celebrated novelist's latest work as just another piece of fiction.

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Michael Pollan's 'Hummer-Driving Vegan' Claim Debunked

Kyle Cassidy | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Enviro, Wend, Debunk, Prius, Michael Pollan, Vegan, Green, Media, Huffington Post, Meat, Hummer, News, Kyle Cassidy, Green News
Kyle Cassidy

Michael Pollan stated that "A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef-eater in a Prius" at the Pop-Tech conference last Saturday. The only problem is, the statement isn't true.

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The Moral Ferocity of Eating Animals

Dr. Andrew Weil | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books

Read More: Veganism, Farming, Animal Cruelty, Vegetarian, Factory Farming, Why Our Health Matters, Books, Dr. Andrew Weil, Agriculture, Vegan, Factory Farms, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Omnivore's Dilemma, New Books, Vegetarianism, Michael Pollan, Books News, Farms, Food Politics, Eating Animals, Food, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News
Dr. Andrew Weil

If you eat meat from factories you have not absorbed the reality of factory farms. If you truly understood what happens inside these windowless animal jails and abattoirs, you simply would not eat this meat.

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Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals Turned Me Vegan

Natalie Portman | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books

Read More: Veganism, Natalie Portman, Farming, Everything Is Illuminated, Animal Cruelty, Vegetarian, Factory Farming, Books, Agriculture, Vegan, Factory Farms, Omnivore's Dilemma, New Books, Vegetarianism, Michael Pollan, Farms, Food Politics, Eating Animals, Food, Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Foer, Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals, Natalie Portman Vegan, Natalie Portman Vegetarian, Portman, Jonathan Foer, Thanksgiving, Books News
Natalie Portman

Jonathan Safran Foer's book Eating Animals changed me from a twenty-year vegetarian to a vegan activist.

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Days 3 and 4 - My Week of Environmentally Responsible Living

Shravya Reddy | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Transport, Sustainability, Carbonfootprint, Bicycling, Emissions, Organicfarming, Climatechange, Vegetarianism, Water, Vegan, Green News
Shravya Reddy

For all those looking for a way to lessen their carbon footprint, the bottom-line remains that a dietary shift is the single most effective way to do so.

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Alicia Silverstone On Living Your Best Life

Huffington Post | Priyanka Boghani | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Food, Veganism, Losing Weight, Kind Diet, Vegetarian, And Saving the Planet, The Balanced Life, Vegan, Alicia Silverstone, Plant-Based Diet, Vegetarianism, Dr. Dean Ornish, Plant-Based, Nutrition, The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Living News

If you really want to make a change on this planet, a plant-based diet is the easiest, fastest way to get there.

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Help! My Daughter's a Vegan

Donna Fish | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Food Production, Food, Vegetarians, Parenting and Food, Vegan, Living News
Donna Fish

Am I supposed to be happy about this?  For the first time as a parent, I find myself almost getting into fights about food. I know it pushes my b...

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The Conscious Cook: Hit the Spot with Healthy and Humane Foods

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books

Read More: Factory Farms, Humane Society of the United States, Vegetarian, Tal Ronnen, Cooking, Vegan, Cookbooks, Books News
Wayne Pacelle

Whether you are a vegan, vegetarian, or committed meat eater, Tal Ronnen's book can help you down the path of higher-quality, good tasting, humane eating.

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Eco Etiquette: Can You Be An Environmentalist Without Being Vegetarian?

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Meat Consumption, Vegetarian, Green Advice, Vegan, Green Living, Environmentalist, Meatless Mondays, Flexitarian Diet, Carbon Footprint, Green News
Jennifer Grayson

A funny thing happens when you don't berate your friends for not subscribing to your particular eco-philosophy and instead encourage them to make small changes: Those smaller changes lead to larger ones.

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HLN's Jane Velez Publishes New Book

Dr. Belisa Vranich | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Addiction, Recovery, Jane Velez-Mitchell, Books, Vegan, Hln, iWant by Jane Velez, Overconsumption, Jane Velez, Jane Velez-Mitchell Book, Memoir, Media News
Dr. Belisa Vranich

Part memoir, part how-to book, peppered with behind-the-scenes of TV journalism, Velez courageously chronicles her quest from "insanity to clarity, from egocentricity to altruism, from alcoholism to activism."

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A Solution For Diabetes: A Plant-Based Diet

Kathy Freston | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Vegetarian, Type 2 Diabetes, Health, Vegan, Plant-Based Diet, Diabetes, Kathy Freston, Wellness, Benefits-of-Vegetarian-Diet, Living News
Kathy Freston

The doctors and scientists I've talked with seem to be saying the same thing: a diet high in animal protein is disastrous to our health, while a plant-based diet prevents disease and is restorative to our health.

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The Feminist's Dilemma

Ari Solomon | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Land O'Lakes, Animal Cruelty, Animal Rights, Peta, Cows, Dairy, Health, Vegan, Green News, Feminism, Green News
Ari Solomon

I'm a proud feminist, as anyone who cares about the plight of women on our planet should be. In many parts of the world, women are still treated as pr...

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Boycotts, Brides, and 50,000+ Reasons Leonard Cohen Played in Israel

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 10.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Boycott, Entertainment, Leonard Cohen, Vegan, Israel, Canada, Spain, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Entertainment News
Karin Kloosterman

It's a big commitment for artists to come to Israel. I can't think of one big act that has come to Israel without pro-Palestinian organizations boycotting against them. With all the bad press, who wants to be bothered?

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Woody Harrelson's Vegan Acne Cure

Posted 09.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Woody Harrelson Vegan, Woody Harrelson, Meat, Veganism, Dairy, Vegan, Entertainment News

Actor and hemp advocate Woody Harrelson has been a vegan for almost 25 years, but it was vanity that got him started down the path, not animal rights....

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Meet Quorn: This Fungus Ain't No Portobello

Michael F. Jacobson | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, Quorn, Vegetarian, Fake Meat, Fungi, Vegan, Fungus, Portobello, Food, Diet, Vegetarianism, Wellness, Living News
Michael F. Jacobson

Meet Quorn-brand foods. In the 1960s, scientists and others became alarmed by the prospect of a global shortage of edible protein. In 1967, some British scientists thought they found the answer: A fungus growing in the dirt near Buckinghamshire, England.

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Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner: The Green Movement's Dirty Little Secret

Michael Parrish DuDell | Posted 09.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Green-Industry, Recycling, Vegetarian, Green Themed Party, Party, Moby, Recycled Materials, Vegan, Green, Cfl, An Inconvenient Truth, Green Living, Al Gore, Green News
Michael Parrish DuDell

Not very long ago I found myself at a fancy green-themed party. At first glance one might think that Mother Nature herself had blessed this sustainable soiree. And then the hors d'oeuvres were passed.

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Who You Callin' Vegangelical?

Ari Solomon | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Vegan Candles, Green Business, Vegan, Green News
Ari Solomon

When a vegan is talking to a meat-eater about slaughterhouses, he or she is not "preaching", "trying to convert", or any such thing. We're not telling you what to eat. We're telling you what you're eating.

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The Magic of Immigrant Charm

Venkat Srinivasan | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York

Read More: Washington Square, Columbia University, Sri Lanka, New York City, Vegan, Food, Food Carts, Immigrants, Dosas, New York News
Venkat Srinivasan

Serving a long line of hungry customers from his vegan dosa cart at a busy square in Manhattan, Thirukumar Kandasamy, it would seem, knows his constituency. Nobody knows him by that name though.

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Interview: The Inspiring Story of 9/11 Survivor Michelle Rosado

2morrowknight | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Empowerment, Motivational Speaker, Pursuing Your Destiny, Michelle, Vegan, 9/11, Living, Love, Twin Towers, Michelle Rosado, Gratitude, Peace Activist, Ground Zero, New York City, September 11th, Living News
2morrowknight

Although the experiences through the years have ultimately shaped my destiny, I wasn't fully aware that my true "destiny" ever existed until September 11th.

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Was Jesus a Vegetarian?

Kamran Pasha | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Kosher, Religion, Islam, Vegetarian, Halal, Jesus, Christ, Vegan, Christianity, Judaism, Living News
Kamran Pasha

After lengthy research, I have become convinced that Jesus Christ himself was in all likelihood a vegetarian, and that vegetarianism was probably a central tenet of the early Christian community.

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A Julia Child for the 21st Century: Meet Lorna Sass

Kerry Trueman | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Julia Child, Vegetarian, Lorna Sass, Pressure Cooker, Vegan, Meryl Streep, Nora Ephron, Julie and Julia, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Meet Lorna Sass, one of America's foremost experts on pressure cookers and whole grains. Think of her as the Ed Begley Jr. of the cookbook world -- a pioneer in the art of low-carbon cooking.

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