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Watch: Gary Yourofsky – One Of The World’s Most Influential Vegan Activists

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Vegan Animal Liberation Activist Gary Yourofsky has given over 2,500 lectures to more than 60,000 people at 180 schools in 30 states and in several Israeli cities/schools. Subscribe to our YouTube channel here: His lecture has been translated into more than 30 languages for over 7 million YouTube hits, and is the most viewed speech in Israeli history. Activists in Israel created the Hebrew website GARY-TV and convinced two major vegan companies…

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National Pancake Day!

National Pancake Day!

It’s National Pancake Day so we just want to take a minute to celebrate all of the amazing vegan pancakes out there in the world! There are so many restaurants out there that offer vegan pancakes on their menus, and you can use the HappyCow app to find them all. Here are just a few totally awesome pancake pics from HappyCow users:   1. Champs Family Bakery in Brooklyn, NY 2. Spiral Diner…

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How To Eat Vegan While Traveling

How To Eat Vegan While Traveling

Spring time is quickly approaching and people will be putting away the hats and gloves to travel with their families, friends, or alone to places such as Disney, a cruise, a tropical island, or the warm sandy beaches in Florida. But there is one challenge that some of us face…where and what can we eat to ensure we are still maintaining a healthy vegan diet while traveling? You can often…

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Animal Companions/ General

Helping Animals This Winter

Helping Animals This Winter

Initially, the winter started somewhat as a joke here in New England but it has proven to be one of the worst winters in years. And I’m sure that mostly everyone is tired of seeing snow, tired of going on Facebook and seeing more pictures of snow. But as bad as this winter has been for me (lost many work days because of it), I can’t even begin to imagine how rough it’s been…

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Valentine’s Day Taza Chocolate Factory Tour

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February 14th, Valentine’s Day. It is said that this romantic holiday is named after Saint Valentine, who was a priest in 3rd century Rome. Marriage was outlawed by Emperor Claudius II, as he believed that men who were single made better soldiers than married men with families. Valentine broke this law and married, eventually being discovered, thrown in jail and sentenced to death. He then fell in love with his…

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Watch: Mayim Bialik Interview- New Vegan Cookbook

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Emmy-nominated actress (and mother of two vegan boys) Mayim Bialik, with pediatrician Dr. Jay Gordon, has created a new vegan cookbook called “Mayim’s Vegan Table, More than 100 Great-Tasting and Healthy Recipes from My Family to Yours”. . We caught up with Mayim in a telephone interview, and she discusses with HappyCow’s Ken Spector her perspective on veganism and her latest book. Mayim’s recipes range from breakfast (everything from a…

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Animal Rights/ General

10 Amazing Animal Love Stories

11 Amazing Animal Love Stories

When you think about love, if you are like most people, you are just thinking about romantic love between two humans. Time to crack that definition wide open to include all living beings and love that crosses species barriers. If we could clearly see how much other species love life and love others, it might change how we view them. This collection of love stories is the tip of the iceberg. The accounts of…

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Pea Soup

Pea Soup Recipe

Have you ever walked into a room and smelled an aroma of something cooking that took you back to your childhood? One that takes you back to your grandmother’s house where she is cooking your favorite treat, apple pie. You are sitting at the kitchen table waiting quite impatiently as she takes the steaming hot apple pie out of the oven and sets it on the cooling rack as it…

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General/ vegan history/ Vegan Parenting/ Veganism/ vegetarian history

Humor – 10+ Years Of Dan Piraro

Vegan Video Dan Piraro from bizarro.com a really awesome video. A talking pig explains why eating meat is bad for you. 900,000+ views to date. Interviewed Q –  Was it difficult going from omnivore to vegan without being a vegetarian first? Dan – It has to do with the kind of person you are, the kinds of experiences you have, and the guidance you get. I gave up eating animal…

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Watch: Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram – Raw Vegan Food Tips

Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram

At Southern California’s ‘Raw Living Expo’ event in Thousand Oaks, CA, the Cows met up with Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram, a vegan raw foodist and founder of the Rawfully Organic food co-op. Based in Houston, Texas, Rawfully Organic http://www.rawfullyorganic.com is the largest non-profit raw fruit and vegetable co-op in the United States. As a long-time raw foodist, Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram advocates a raw plant food diet for optimal health, and shares her tips…

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Vegan ‘Butter’ In 1894 AKA Margarine – With A Big Thank You To Napolean (The Third One)! – Historical Vegan Marketing Campaigns

The Vegan Age In 2014 we have vegan products made by wholly vegan companies. Veg(etari)ans & Food Reformers in the 19th century enjoyed very few manufactured, tongue-enticing ‘convenience’ foods. Some of the items quoted here are close to 120 years old. Here at the Ernest Bell Library we really enjoy seeing really great examples of marketing; especially when they were done for humanitarian / vegetarian / vegan etc. products, publications…

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Kickstarter to Support – Vegetarianism: The Story So Far – A Radio History by Ian McDonald, The Vegan Option

Great public radio – that happens to be vegan! They are running a Kickstarter campaign to help fund a series of programs by Ian McDonald – the first ever radio history of vegetarianism. Please CLICK, READ & HELP them with some $ (or £, or €).. The last day of the campaign Sunday Feb 16 – it ends midnight New York Time. It’s most of the way to the goal, but if it doesn’t…

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Veg(etari)an Directory for the US from 1907 – 107 years ago – HappyCow is listing 922 Vegan businesses today – 5 Feb 2014

..   ’21’ restaurants & ‘3’ sanitariums – were listed in this magazine. These were paid listings – so there WERE quite a few other US veg businesses also open at this time. There are 922 listings for 100% Vegan US Restaurants & Stores today on HappyCow – Feb 5 2014! Total 10934 places with some vegan options / choices!   The Vegetarian Magazine – of – The Vegetarian Company – Chicago…

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