You Call This Targeted?

I’ve noticed lately that while reading my set of RSS feeds I’m getting lots of ads that I don’t consider well targeted at me as a vegan: Ads by Google, in Google Reader I’m reading feeds in a site-specific browser using Fluid, which means in essence I’m reading them in a browser using Google Reader. The ads [...]

New Web Resources

Just a quick pointer to two new recently updated web resources useful for vegans and people who’d like to be vegan. The first is brought to you by the good doctors at Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine (PMRC). It’s a 21 day “kickstart” program starting January 1st, 2010. The new 21-day kickstart program from PMRC The [...]

Carnism as an ideology

Loved this, from a discussion on Making Hay of Dr. Melanie Joy’s new book Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: What we eat – what we choose to consider food – is the product of ideology when we aren’t forced by necessity to eat whatever we can get. And this: Our goal isn’t to [...]

Vegans – Join Blog Action Day

The folks at Change.org will be hosting Blog Action Day again this year, with a focus on Climate Change. It’s a great opportunity to remind people of the link between animal-based agriculture and climate change. Related links: Livestock’s Long Shadow – the UN report from the Food and Agriculture Organization which concluded that “livestock are responsible [...]

Purity versus Intent

99.44% pure. Photo by Stewf, cc-by-nc-sa license, click through for details. (And yes, it is ironic that Ivory soap is not vegan - contains animal fats) Lots of (well-intentioned I’m sure) vegan and omnivore friends over the last month have sent me links to Quarrygirl’s investigative report on animal product ingredients in food purchased from self-declared [...]