Not average
and proud of it!
The purpose of my Vegetarian Awareness Month posts have been in part to bring up issues the non-veg readers may not have considered, and to provide resources to learn more about vegetarians and vegans.
Today I bring you something a little different. It’s a series of short audio shows (most are 10-15 minutes) which followed Oprah’s [...]
Focusing on the awareness in Vegetarian Awareness Month (day 20 now), here’s something that may surprise you. Not only can humans survive on a plant based diet, but we can grow muscle to near obscene size too.
Check out Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness. See with your own eyes there the award winning Robert Cheeke, the 2005 [...]
We’ll round up the talk of vegetarian for the animals with some recent news.
Oprah’s back in the animal activist’s eyesight with her recent show on “factory farms”. I have it recorded but not having much TV time lately, haven’t watched it yet. Here’s a good reflection on the episode at the Huffington Post.
I learned a [...]
Just some links today for more reading on what’s involved in getting meat and eggs to you.
from Why Vegan
on egg production
Cruelty to Animals: Mechanized Madness
from About.com
The Meatrix (series of animated short films - parodies of The Matrix films)
Spare 13 minutes right now to look at some of this material. Choose to live your life as [...]
From all the vegetarians and vegans I’ve met over the years, I’ve found something interesting. Many start out exploring this way of life looking to improve their health. I’ve even met a few (very few) whose primary reason for going veg was for our environment. That was actually a big point for me at one [...]
This is day 15 of the Vegetarian Awareness Month Blog-a-Thon. Yesterday we looked at one reason people choose vegetarian - personal health. Now let’s look at another.
Our Environment
Everyone knows that cars are the leading producers of greenhouse gasses, but what does…. Wait a minute. This just in - the United Nations reports that livestock [...]
A perfectly valid question many people have about vegetarianism is “why?” With seemingly everyone around doing fine on the “standard” diet, why bother with something different?
One reason is for your own health. It seems the world is on a health craze right now, but maybe that’s just how it’s always been. I find it curious [...]
I thought I’d follow yesterday’s post with an example from my life. This weekend happen to contain a lot of “outside” food for me.
Saturday a friend and I picked up pizza from a place that has a new vegan cheese. Our pizza had roasted garlic, spinach, artichoke, this vegan cheese, and sauce on a whole [...]
One concern of some people - those who have no experience with it - is eating out while vegetarian. Where do you go? What can you get? Is it even possible?
You probably haven’t noticed many of the vegetarian options at the places you frequent. Or perhaps haven’t recognized them as being vegetarian. Similarly, I don’t [...]
Some people like to throw out that Hitler was vegetarian. Perhaps they wish to disprove vegetarianism, or show that it isn’t “pure”, or even link it to mental disorders. Of course, none of this makes any sense. Connections between animal abuse and violence against humans have been shown, but fruits and vegetables? I think not.
To [...]