Hemp or Cannabis Sativa is a tall, vigorous annual that has been grown and used throughout history. Its closest relative is the hops plant. Hemp has many benefits to us all and is kind to the planet. Used as a strong, yet soft fabric, a substitute to virgin tree pulp in paper, an alternative to petrochemicals in plastics, an option as a fuel source, a moisturizing cosmetic, a healing drug…
By Ann Gentry, Real Food Daily: Is it elitist to want to eat well? It’s a question that often comes up, because food choices are so personal and people like to take sides. People are influenced by their personal and cultural history, as well as taste buds and impulses when it comes to making food choices. And for many people, it is their financial status that plays the biggest factor.…
Last month at the annual ExpoWest Natural Products Convention not many products stood out for me. However one cool new snack item for us vegans is EatPastry vegan cookie dough. I arranged to interview the CEO Jessie Williams and I’m sharing that below. HC) Hi Jessie, will you share a little about the history and founding of EatPastry. Also, where did the name “EatPastry” come from and what does it…
Food Can Heal the World by Ann Gentry That’s a pretty big statement! Remember the song, “We can heal the world?” How could anyone in the last 20 years forget? Love: heal the world, food: heal the world. Love and food are interconnected, but lately food seems to be getting a lot of people in a lot of trouble. In these same twenty years, statistically, the world over, people are…
THE BEST IN THE WORLD: Vegan wrestler makes it to the top against all the odds Professional wrestling. A battleground for larger than life personalities, superhuman feats of athleticism, and pageantry, circumstance and theatre amped up beyond belief. Say what you will about the performance art of professional wrestling, you cannot deny that there is simply nothing like it. From the boys’ club that dominated the genre in its infancy,…
Welcome to The Veggie Blog, everyone. Hope your New Year is off on a good start! We just surpassed 25,000 members and 14,000 restaurant & store listings! – It’s already a great year here on HappyCow!!! . Seeking Bloggers: For those of you who are interested in promoting your creative endeavors on HappyCow, please drop us a line. We are accepting new blog entries for The Veggie Blog. This is a great place to share your…
“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.” – Calvin Coolidge The night of the slaughter is neither holy nor silent. In the United States, 22 million turkeys die at Christmas alone. Their deaths are not plenteous in mercy, peace, or goodwill. These animals writhe at the…
A Takeover of Healthcare Reform By Alan Roettinger The cost of treating diseases has been a scandal lately. Truthfully speaking, the debate is all about medical insurance, not healthcare. The real issue driving the national argument remains largely unacknowledged. Healthcare is our own responsibility, and to the extent that we’ve failed to take care of our health, we’ve opted to place that responsibility solely on the medical profession, like careless…
Mitsuru Kakimoto of the Japanese Vegetarian Society writes: “A survey that I conducted of 80 Westerners, including Americans, Englishmen and Canadians, revealed that approximately half of them believed that vegetarianism originated in India. Some respondents assumed that vegetarianism had its origin in China or Japan. It seems to me that the reason Westerners associate vegetarianism with China or Japan is Buddhism. It is no wonder, and in fact we could…
Typically it's thought that vegan's take stock of our personal choices - that we want to contribute to a more sustainable future, that we don't want to avoid the cruel treatment of animals, that we want to improve our health, to eat better. But to look at it realistically - we're influenced more by our friends, family, celebrities and society than we are by our own thoughts. It's human nature to…
Yet another re-post (with permission) of the cool new comic strip by MC Miller and Jen Hernandez, “Plant Life”: For the latest from Plant Life, see: www.veganmainstream.com/category/plantlife…
What are worm castings and why are they important? Let’s start with a definition. Worm castings are simply undigested material, soil and bacteria deposited by a worm. There’s even a word for it: vermicompost. Vericompost means organic material that has been composted by worms. In other words, worm manure. Why are worm castings important for the home gardener? For one, they are biologically safe, contain no pathogens and are an…
Being a family of four and a mother to two mini vegans, I am often asked, “What do you feed your children?” Nutrition is important when it comes to feeding children, you want to make sure they are getting the nutrients they need to grow up strong and healthy. As a parent to two vegan boys, ages 3 and 1. We have at times had our hurdles, but never gave…