Archive for the ‘vegan news’ Category

Vegan health expert Dr. Brian Clement to speak on May 4

Dr. Brian Clement, director of the Hippocrates Health Institute, will talk in Kalispell on Tuesday, May 4, at the National Guard Armory at the Wellness Education Center’s event called “Change Your Lifestyle, Save Your Life.”

Alicia Silverstone – A Vegan in Word and Deed

FORTY-FIVE minutes after a curtain call for her most recent Broadway play, Alicia Silverstone was searching a restaurant menu for comfort food. She settled on nachos and onion rings to start, and mulled beer selections with two girlfriends who had seen her show that night.

Vegans rare, but tofu abounds

General Tso’s chicken is Alex Allouche’s ’13 favorite Chinese food entrée. But when Yale’s dining halls replace the dish’s chicken with tofu, General Tso’s loses its appeal for Allouche.

Kellogg product wins vegan youth award

Online readers of peta2.com, representing the world’s largest youth animal rights organization, voted Morningstar Farms’ Grillers Chik’n Veggie Patties the best fake chicken during its fourth annual Libby Awards.

The rise of the non-veggie vegetarian

Vegetarianism used to be simple – its protagonists foreswore the flesh of any dead animal. Today there are “veggies” who eat fish, and people who eat no meat but don’t call themselves vegetarians. What happened?

Meat off the menu as Windsor Castle goes vegan

Royal banquets, surely, are all about meat. From those four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie to a portly King Henry tearing at whole chickens via roast swan and apple-stuffed suckling pigs, our Hollywood-fuelled vision of princely dining is of a flesh fest.

PETA Wants the North Carolina State Health Plan to Lower Rates for Vegans

Incentives to Go Vegan Will Reduce Disease, Lower Health-Care Costs, Says Group

Vegan options plentiful

Vegetarianism is no longer a fringe movement as more than 3 percent of adult Americans call themselves vegetarian, according to a 2009 Harris Interactive poll.

Vegan prisoners win right to ‘cruelty free’ products in jail

Vegan prisoners have won the right to order ethically-sourced food, toiletries and cosmetics in jail. They will be allowed to buy in products including nuts, seeds, dried fruits, vegan chocolate bars, soap, shampoo, deodorant, sunscreen, lipstick and facial scrubs after prison chiefs agreed to allow them to place mail order requests to two “eco-outlets”.

Vegan diet reduces carbon footprint

Car dealers are breathing a sigh of relief now that the popular “cash for clunkers” program has been extended by $2 billion. With the new funding, as many as a half-million more Americans will be able to junk their gas guzzlers and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles.