Archive for October, 2008

2008 Boston Veg Fest Speaker Schedule

The Boston Vegetarian Food Festival is coming up this Saturday. Here’s a full list of speakers and their bios: 10:45 AM — Vegan Travel Tips and Q & A with Sarah Kramer Cookbook author Sarah Kramer Sarah Kramer combined her love of cooking and her love of animals to become a world-class vegan cookbook author [...]

October 28, 2008  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Events  2 Comments

Boston Veg Fest 2008 this Saturday

There’s a lot going on this weekend. There’s the Annual Boston Veg Food Fest on Saturday (facebook event) and the Maple Farm Open House on Sunday (facebook event) which is also where the Worcester Vegan Meetup is having their November lunch. Exciting, huh? The Boston Food Fest is going to rock. It happens every year [...]

October 27, 2008  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Events  2 Comments

Top 5 Vegan-Friendly Restaurants from RealWorcester.com

RealWorcester.com now has a list of their Top 5 Vegan-Friendly Restaurants in Worcester. Check it out.

October 26, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: Buddha Hut, Nancy Chang, One Love Cafe, Restaurants & Businesses, Tortilla Sam's  One Comment

Kudos to WoMag for Spotlighting Vegetarian Dining in Worcester

This week’s issue of Worcester Magazine (Oct 23-29, 2008) has a number of pleasant surprises. Mike Benedetti from PieandCoffee.org (and occasional VegWorcester.com blogger) criticized this week’s issue of being ignorant of internet culture, but I think he might agree with me that the WoMag staff may have redeemed themselves by doing such a great job [...]

October 25, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: News, One Love Cafe, Shiraz, The Q Cafe  2 Comments

Voting Now Open on 2008′s Most Veg-Friendly Colleges

The voting is now open for this year’s most veg friendly college competition. The bad news is that not one school in Worcester made it into the finals this year. The closest colleges that did make it, geographically speaking, are Wesleyan in Middletown, Connecticut and University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI. Yale and Brandeis [...]

October 23, 2008  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Misc, News  No Comments

A Compelling Case to Vote Yes on Question 3

Steve Baer published a rather persuasive article in the InCity, urging people to vote Yes on Question 3, the ballot initiative that would ban greyhound racing in the entire state of Massachusetts. Greyhound racing truly is a cruel industry. From Steve Baer’s article: … Between January 1, 2002 and June 30, 2008 there have been [...]

October 21, 2008   Posted in: Activism, Animal Rights, News  4 Comments

Dr. Dean Ornish’s TED Talk

Ever seen a TED talk? They’re pretty rad. They pull together people from all across the spectrum to talk about technology, entertainment and design. T.E.D., get it? So the TED folks just posted a 17 minute talk given by Dr. Dean Ornish entitled, “Healing and Other Natural Wonders.” Dr. Ornish emphasizes the need to promote [...]

October 20, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: Misc, Veg Advocacy  No Comments

November’s Vegan Meetup at Maple Farm Open House

Sweet! Next month’s vegan meetup is coinciding with Maple Farm Animal Sanctuary’s 3rd Annual Open House. This open house is sounding more and more like it’ll be a rocking good time. Remember, it’s on November 2, from 1pm to 5pm.

October 19, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Animal Rights, Events  No Comments

Being Black and Vegan

Vegetarians are a pretty diverse group. Some people are vegetarian for animals, some for the environment, some for their health and some for religious or cultural reasons. It’s a diet and lifestyle with a long secular history, as well as a religious history and a number of ethnic groups have vegetarian traditions. There are Christian [...]

October 18, 2008   Posted in: Misc, News  No Comments

Maple Farm Animal Sanctuary 3rd Annual Open House is Coming Up

Maple Farm Animal Sanctuary is having their 3rd annual open house pretty soon. It’s on November 2 at the farm in Mendon. That’s about a 20 minute drive from Worcester.   From MapleFarmSanctuary.org: 3rd Annual Open House Sunday, November 2, 2008 1:00 – 5:00 pm at Maple Farm Sanctuary, 101 North Ave Mendon, MA Please [...]

October 17, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: Animal Rights, Events  3 Comments