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Thanksgiving Turkey Substitutes: The Least Appetizing Choices (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Veganism, Tofurkey, Thanksgiving Turkey, Vegetarian, Turkey, Vegetarian Turkey, Thanksgiving, Vegan, Slidepoll, Food, Turkey Substitutes, Vegetarianism, Green News

Here at HuffPost Green, we appreciate the positive effect that vegetarians are having on the environment, especially come Thanksgiving time when milli...

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My Q and A With Jonathan Safran Foer

Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Factory Farms, Veganism, Meat, Vegetarianism, Jonathan Safran Foer, Green News
Kerry Trueman

These words "carnivore" and "vegetarian" do a real disservice to the conversation, because they imply an on/off switch rather than a spectrum. We no longer ask someone "Are you an environmentalist?"

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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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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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Woody Harrelson's Veganism Gives Rise To The Vegan Twinkie

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 10.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Veganism, Vegan Twinkies, Food, Woody Harrelson, Twinkies, Zombieland, Vegan Food, Green News

Woody Harrelson is a vegan but the character he plays in his latest film, Zombieland, loves Twinkies. Problem? Not so much. "My character is searching...

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Woody Harrelson's Vegan Acne Cure

Posted 11.23.2009 | 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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Raw Vegan Woodstock Breakfast Menu

Angie Cordeiro | Posted 09.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Raw Food, Breakfast Menu, Woodstock Anniversary, Vegan, Veganism, Raw Food Diet, Breakfast, Raw Foods, Vegan Diet, Vegan Recipe, Vegan Living, Woodstock 40th Anniversary, Living News
Angie Cordeiro

Ok, so I'm not a card-carying, raw vegan hippy, yet sometimes I wonder what life would have been like if for the last forty years I had been.

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Semitarians: Like Flexitarians, But More Dedicated

The Atlantic Food Channel | Max Fisher | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, Veganism, Vegetarian, Personal Health, Health, Semitarian, Vegan, Environment, Food, Eating, Diet, Vegetarianism, Wellness, Flexitarianism, Living News

I'm embarrassed to admit it, but my first thought after reading Aglaia Kremezi's vivid account of slaughtering a pig was, Gross. Dedicated vegetarian ...

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NATIONAL DONUT DAY: Celebrate By Making Your Own Vegan Donuts

veganverve.wordpress.com | Posted 07.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Veganism, National Donut Day, Food, Vegan Donuts, Vegan Recipe, Green News

A couple weeks ago I posted a Yummy Baked Vegan Donuts recipe. Well since then I have been trying to revamp it so that the donuts would come out a tad...

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Why I'm Almost Vegetarian, But Not Yet

Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Veganism, Vegetarian, Food Inc., McDonald's, Causecast, Vegetarianism, Meat, Participant Productions, Living News
Jonathan Daniel Harris

I wish I could live completely off the land, consuming food from my own garden perhaps! However, it's just not in the cards.

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Abraham Lincoln's Vegetarian Address

Dave Astor | Posted 07.05.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Supreme Court, Gop, Whole Foods, Veggie Burgers, Vegetarian, Vegan, Healthy Diet, Tofu, Factory Farms, People Magazine, Civil War, Animals, Chowhound, Vegetarianism, Tempeh, Star Trek, Cats, Dennis Kucinich, Salad, Mr. Spock, Abraham Lincoln, Catsup, Faux Meat, Coretta Scott King, Meat-Free, Hormone-Laden Meat, Red Meat, Gettysburg Address, Veganism, Anniversary of Lincoln's Birth, Frank Perdue, Zucchini, Carnivores, Whole Paycheck, Caged Animals, Organic Food, Sonia Sotomayor, Vulcan, Pasta Primavera, Cruelty to Animals, Republicans, Meat, Dogs, Comedy News
Dave Astor

"Four score and seven meals ago my conscience brought forth to the anti-rebel north a new diet conceived in kindness and dedicated to the proposition that all animals are created equal.

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Avoiding an Environmental Apocalypse

Kathy Freston | Posted 06.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Veganism, Environment, Environmental Apocalypse, New Scientist, Vegan Diet, Vegetarianism, Vegan, Green News
Kathy Freston

It seems to me that Al Gore may have been too soft in choosing his movie title: "inconvenient" might better be replaced with "staggering" or "alarming' or perhaps even something stronger.

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The Essential Vegetarian Reading List

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 06.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Dean Ornish, Skinny Bitch, Veganism, Neal Barnard, Caldwell Esselstyn, Quantum Wellness, Skinny Bastard, RIp Esslestyn, Kathy Freston, The Engine-2 Diet, Vegetarianism, The China Study, T. Colin Campbell, Pcrm, Media News
Bruce Friedrich

I (strongly) suggest that all vegetarians read (and own) all these books, so that you can recommend them articulately and loan them to friends and relatives.

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The Swine Flu And Worldwide Economic Recession: Humanity's Salvation?

Kathy Freston | Posted 06.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Veganism, Conscious Eating, Organic Food, Vegan, Swine Flu, Living News
Kathy Freston

No one is glad for the swine flu or the economic meltdown, but maybe these great calamities are the push we needed to re-boot and start afresh.

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Black Hebrew Polygamists Begin To Gain Acceptance In Israel

GlobalPost | Stephanie Rice | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Veganism, Polygamy, Black Hebrew Polygamists, Black Hebrews, Israelis, Vegans, Foreign Affairs, Vegan, Israel, Polygamists, Advocacy, World News

By Stephanie Rice DIMONA, Israel -- As a young African-American man in late 1970s Chicago, Atur Yirmeyahu was contemplating the fairly standard dile...

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Under the Microscope

Tess Ghilaga | Posted 05.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Veganism, Unbleached Orgainc Fiber, Organic Juice, Hamburger, Animals Rights, Raw-Food-Diet, Raw Food, Organic Avenue, Raw Essentials, Vegetarianism, Meat, Smoothies, Adbrite, Living News
Tess Ghilaga

It's clear I know what the right food choices are, but I'll have to buckle for a Reese's Peanut Cup and the prime rib at the Post House every once in a while.

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Reversing Diabetes Naturally. Watch it happen...

Kim Evans | Posted 05.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Processed Food, Diabetes Study, Type 2 Diabetes, Enzymes, Raw Food, Childhood Nutrition, Diabetes, Processed Foods, Veganism, Vegan, Living News
Kim Evans

Many people aren't familiar with raw foods or why they are important. Raw foods are simply foods from the earth that haven't been processed or heated above 118 degrees.

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John Salley: The Best Damn PETA Celebrity Period

Dave Hollander | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Veganism, Nba Playoffs, Peta, Vegan, John Salley, Green News
Dave Hollander

I mean, people eat the spoiled milk of a cow that a calf won't even eat. I mean a cow won't even drink that and I'm feeding it to my kids? That's crazy.

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An Earth Day Reflection On The Breathtaking Effects Of Cutting Back On Meat

Kathy Freston | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Veganism, Environmental Effects of Meat, Earth Day, Vegan, Green News
Kathy Freston

In honor of Earth Day, I thought I'd give you some more information about how our natural resources (such as air, water, and soil) are depleted and devastated by animal agriculture.

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Sea Shepherd's, Whalers' Boat Collide In Antarctic

AP | KRISTEN GELINEAU | Posted 03.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Veganism, Sea Shepherd, Australia, Sea Shepherd Collision, Whales, Whaling, Animals, Japan, Paul Watson, Green News

SYDNEY — A group of radical anti-whaling activists said they were pelted with bloody chunks of whale meat and blubber after their boat collided ...

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I'm Not Sorry, I'm Vegan

Cheri Shankar | Posted 02.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Factory Farms, Veganism, Animals, Diet, Vegetarianism, Vegan, Healthy Eating, Benefits, Healthy Living, Dairy, Butter, Healthy Eating Habits, Eating Habits, Health, Food, Vegetarians, Living News
Cheri Shankar

There must be a reason that, generally speaking, meat is served headless. I think all of us feel squeamish when confronted with the whole of an animal that looks much the same dead and cooked as it did alive and well.

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Heather Mills Gives $1 Million Of Vegan Food To Bronx Kids: VIDEO

Huffington Post | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Veganism, Food Matters, Animal Rights, Charity, Bronx, Vegan, Paul McCartney, Paul McCartney Heather Mills, Sir Paul McCartney, Vegetarianism, Heather Mills, Philanthropy, Eating Matters, Environment, Green News

Former model and former wife of Sir Paul McCartney, Heather Mills doled out $1 million worth of vegan food to underprivileged children in the Bronx. T...

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Vegan Living: How Not to Market a Vegetarian Restaurant

Katie Molinaro | Posted 04.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Veganism, Food, Vegetarian, Vegetarianism, Amanda Cohen, Vegan, Vegan Living, Dirt Candy, Living News
Katie Molinaro

In two recent interviews, Amanda Cohen seems to think she's going to boost business at her East Village restaurant Dirt Candy by calling vegans unimaginative weirdos with terrible taste in food.

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Meet Shmeat: Test-Tube Meat

Grist | Lou Bendrick | Posted 01.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Veganism, Test-Tube Meat, Eating Matters, Green News, X Prize, Green Living, Peta, Gmos, Vegetarianism, Meat, Schmeat, In Vitro Meat, Shmeat, Meat Shmeat, Green News

Earlier this year, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced that it will offer a $1 million X Prize for the creation of affordable, human...

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