Archive for November, 2008

No after-Thanksgiving rest for the Turkeys

Today’s Telegram & Gazette has an article called No after-Thanksgiving rest for weary turkey farmers, which laments the poor lives of local turkey farmers who barely get any time to rest after Thanksgiving. They spend the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving killing thousands of turkeys, only to have the Christmas rush hanging over their heads. [...]

November 29, 2008  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Animal Rights, News  No Comments

Time Magazine’s Brief History of Veganism

I know I’m a little behind on this, but… For World Vegan Day this year Time Magazine published a Brief History of Veganism. It’s not perfect, they say some weird things like “veganism is an extreme form of vegetarianism”. I certainly don’t think it’s very extreme. But perhaps even more interesting is Time’s article, Should [...]

November 28, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: News  No Comments

Vegan Gravy Recipe

Everyone keeps asking me for my gravy recipe. Well, sorry but I just don’t have it written down yet. I do it from memory and, for the most part, I just guess at the measurements. I’ll document my vegan gravy recipe some day, but if you need to make gravy for your Thanksgiving dinner tonight [...]

November 27, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: Vegetarian Recipes  No Comments

Giving Out “Why Vegan” Booklets at the Eagles Concert

Tonight I spent 20 or 30 minutes outside of the DCU center giving out Why Vegan booklets as people went into the venue. I probably gave out 60 or so. It was cold as heck, but people were nice enough. There were are a lot of scalpers out tonight. It was a little strange. One [...]

November 26, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: Animal Rights, Leafleting, Tabling & Outreach, Veg Advocacy  2 Comments

Artichoke Coop has the Cheapest Tofurky in Town

Thanksgiving is tomorrow! Do you have your Torfurky yet? If not, swing by the Artichoke food coop at 800 Main Street. The Artichoke has a whole Tofurkies for only $11, the cheapest in town. (Trust me, I’ve been shopping around.) They still have plenty left. And what better way to avoid the awkward moments at [...]

November 26, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Artichoke Food Cooperative, Restaurants & Businesses  4 Comments

Vegan Brunch at One Love and Greasy Seminar and Buffet at Grasshopper

Today there are two neat vegan food events going on in our part of world. Aren’t we lucky? In Boston today from 4pm to 5pm there’s a seminar on vegetable oil powered cars followed by an all-you-can-eat vegan Chinese buffet at 5pm. This’ll take place at the Grasshopper restaurant located at 1 North Beacon Street [...]

November 9, 2008  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Events, One Love Cafe, Restaurants & Businesses  No Comments

Quick update: Question 3 passed! Dog racing banned in MA

Question 3, the ballot initiative that bans greyhound racing by Jan 1, 2010 passed last night. This is great news! Check out the Telegram & Gazette article.

November 5, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: Activism, Animal Rights  No Comments

Get a Free Soy Latte Today, After you Vote Yes on Question 3

Today Starbucks has a promotion running for election day where they’ll give you a free coffee if you vote. Since Starbucks has soymilk at all of its locations, I recommend you opt for a soy latte. Or if you’d prefer to get a sweet vegan cookie with your coffee and don’t mind paying for it, [...]

November 4, 2008  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Activism, Animal Rights, Misc  No Comments

This Sunday: Veg Oil Car Seminar + Vegan Buffet at Grasshopper

This Sunday, November 9, from 4pm-5pm at the Grasshopper restaurant in Allston, the Boston Vegetarian Society is hosting a free seminar on vegetable-oil-powered cars led by Worcester locals Colin McCullough and his son Carrick. They’ll be discussing their upcoming cross-country, vegetable-oil powered road trip. The seminar is free and entitled Eco-video Travel Project in a [...]

November 3, 2008  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Events, Misc, Restaurants & Businesses  4 Comments

Soap Company Goes Vegan for a Day

To celebrate World Vegan Day today, all 824 retail staff at Lush stores in North America have agreed to eat vegan for the day. The soap company is already well-known for offering a huge selection of vegan, cruelty-free soaps and cosmetics. They boast that 2/3 of all their products are vegan and not one is [...]

November 2, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: Misc, News, Veg Advocacy  No Comments