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20 Top Vegan Blog Post by Veg Blogs – Dec. 28, 2009

Creamy Creole Eggplant Casserole
posted on 28 December 2009, 8:56 am
There are certain recipes that fall into a category I call “Louisiana Church Potluck Dishes.” These are dishes that I grew up eating regularly because they were staples at the monthly “Family Night Suppers” at the church of my youth. I remember…

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“ONE PLANET” update.
posted on 27 December 2009, 8:24 am
The acclaimed documentary maker Victor Schonfeld asks whether the hopes of the animal rights lobby can ever be realised. In the first programme he looks at the use of animals for food and turns to experts in fields such as psychology, history, language and neurology to find…

read the full post at On Human-Nonhuman Relations

Resolution #2 for 2010: Stop Vegan Bashing
posted on 26 December 2009, 9:34 pm
Dear Colleagues: Speciesism occurs when we accord a different weight to a similar interest on the basis of species. An example of speciesism is vegan bashing. We all agree that human slavery—however “humane”—is morally unjustifiable. But animal slavery—if “humane…

read the full post at Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach

Resolution #1 for 2010: Promote Veganism as the Moral Baseline
posted on 26 December 2009, 9:05 pm
Dear Colleagues: Let’s start out 2010 the right way-promoting veganism as a moral baseline. Veganism is not, as some welfarists suggest, the “most” that we can do; it’s the least that we can do if we take animal interests seriously. If we regard nonhumans as moral pe…

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Dairy-Free Remedy for My Bad Pepper Burn. StoryTime !
posted on 26 December 2009, 5:55 pm
Last night I slept with my hand in a big bowl of iced soy milk. Not the most enjoyable of Christmas night slumbers, let me assure you. But it was necessary. Why? Was I trying out some new-fangled beauty regimen? Was I softening my cuticles? Dry skin remedy? Anti-aging hoopla…

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BPA exposure in womb linked to childhood behavioral changes
posted on 26 December 2009, 10:27 am
I came across two articles recently (1.and 2. below) about an environmental contaminant, bisphenol-A, that can cause subtle behavioral changes in offspring when ingested during pregnancy. The articles reported on the same study, but chose somewhat different remarks to repor…

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what do parahumans have to do with gender ?
posted on 26 December 2009, 2:32 am
Crossposted at Gender Agenda I. Parahumans only vaguely exist at this point. They remain embryo’s grown, destroyed, and harvested for stem cells. Some how a scientist mixing human dna with animal dna is not the ethical conundrum that growing a 100% homo sapiens embryo for…

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Happy Holidays to Everyone !
posted on 25 December 2009, 5:50 pm
I’m happy to say that it has become a family tradition to have a vegan Christmas Eve at my house every year, and another tradition- graham cracker gingerbread houses. For anyone who has kids, this is a great craft project to keep the little ones busy for a while- especially…

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‘Twas The Night Before Christmas… And Then Christmas Morning Came
posted on 25 December 2009, 10:39 am
**Here is a photo essay recap of my Christmas Eve and Christmas morning celebrations. Please enjoy at your own leisure and convenience**Christmas Eve – spent with the same exact crowd from Thanksgiving, at my homeThe stockings, hanging over the roaring fireplace/mantel.The C…

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Merry Christmas to You !
posted on 25 December 2009, 9:19 am
Dear HHL Readers,I hope you have a healthy, happy, joyful and peaceful holiday. Merry Christmas to you and your family! Thanks so much for reading Healthy. Happy. Life.~Kathy”Christmas. It’s not the giving. It’s not the getting. It’s the loving.” – Garfield the Cat. …

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Pet turkey
posted on 25 December 2009, 8:09 am
Merry Christmas! Here’s a video of a girl with her pet turkey years ago.There is a saying in Chinese: 见其生不忍见其死; 闻其声不忍食其肉Seeing it alive, we can’t bear to see it die; hearing its sound, we can’t bear to eat its flesh. Before I became a vegetari…

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Happy Holidays !
posted on 24 December 2009, 4:24 pm
a very happy and compassionate holiday to everyone from my dog and me…see you in 2010!!…

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Finally, a Successful [Gluten-Free] Baking Adventure
posted on 24 December 2009, 9:23 am
I finally [successfully] baked something gluten-free. And right before the holiday. I am feeling pretty proud of myself, let me tell you. I had to return Isa’s Cookie Book to the library yesterday, so I felt a bit pressured to make some final cookies from it. I had not…

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H1N1 shot made my son vomit, but GO GET THAT SHOT
posted on 23 December 2009, 11:47 pm
This post now a Google News Link and posted on www.basilandspice.com Swine on a Smithfield factory farm, one of which is thought to have spawned the H1N1 virus.Photo by Sally Kneidel, PhDPoor lad Yesterday, my son and I went to get H1N1 shots at our local health department….

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Intersectionality
posted on 23 December 2009, 11:28 pm
Imagine that your community has been devastated by an un/natural disaster, like Hurricane Katrina. Imagine that where you live is at great risk for being devastated again. Imagine that you know wealthier, whiter parts of town are better protected from future disasters. Imag…

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The SuperVegan Round-Up, December 23: Lab monkeys in space, companion animals cause global warming, and Natalie Angier goes DOWN
posted on 23 December 2009, 10:19 pm
Companion animals are a more significant cause of global warming than SUVs, claim two New Zealand scientists (slash critical thinkers!) in their book, Time to Eat the Dog?: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living. According to the ABC article on the book, authors Robert and …

read the full post at SuperVegan: Vegan Blog and New York City Restaurant Guide

where’s the line? the body ?
posted on 23 December 2009, 5:28 pm
What if special lines aren’t definite? If legally only humans get recognized as persons at what point do we decide who gets counted as human? It seems so self evident, but a lot of things seem self-evident at first. I don’t think that the body is a reliable site for plac…

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Don’t Use Classism and Anti-Sex Worker Rhetoric to Protest Fur
posted on 23 December 2009, 2:05 pm
Fur is for beautiful animals & scary hookers, claims an incredibly fucked-up post at the Vegan Shoe Lady. She cites a Guardian article where Ingrid Newkirk is quoted as saying, “Fur has lost all its cachet. It’s yesterday. I see prostitutes in Atlantic City wearing f…

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One Planet: Animals and Us.
posted on 23 December 2009, 11:45 am
The imminent global broadcasts of ANIMALS AND US on the BBC World Service will reach 165 million people – the single biggest audience ever for concerns about animal suffering at human hands. Join 165 million people across the world… For a dose of energizing program…

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Thank you, readers, for voting me a winner in Wellsphere’s Top Blogger Awards
posted on 23 December 2009, 8:38 am
Readers, I want to thank everyone who voted for me for as the Top Blogger in the Green Living Category, in Wellsphere’s “People’s HealthBlogger Awards.” I work hard to bring the latest environmental, health, and behavioral news to this blog and to my website at…

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