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6 Reasons NOT To Give Up Your Vegan Diet

6 Reasons NOT To Give Up Your Vegan Diet

There are so many great reasons to become vegan. Among them can be: 1. For the earth/environment 2. For the animals 3. For your health 4. For healthy weight loss 5. For humanitarian reasons 6. For spiritual or religious reasons However, often folks don’t stay vegan. So let’s look at some reasons why people aren’t staying vegan: 1. “I gained weight” 2. “I don’t feel well… (a.k.a. I need meat)”…

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Mother’s Day Weekend Events With The Farm Animals!

Mother's Day Weekend Events With The Farm Animals!

What better way to celebrate Be Kind to Animals Week and Mother’s Day, then to spend it with our animal friends? In Northern California, two exciting events are happening on Mother’s Day weekend (May 10th and 11th). The first event is Farm Sanctuary’s California Hoe Down, held at their Orland, California shelter. The event starts on Saturday morning (May 10th) and runs through Sunday afternoon (May 11th). The event features…

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Brazilian Prank: Sausages Made From Live Piglets!

 People who cannot deal with the reality of ‘meat’. One of our favorite videos. We are posting it here because it is not so widely known. Enjoy & please share! Please link & like & Tweet & G+ & copy & paste & share this very widely with friends! More pig related & other vegan humor – here! ——— The Ernest Bell Library is actively preserving & sharing: – items related…

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DIY Energy Bars

DIY Energy Bars

There were about 900 runners who came out to run on this cold, blustery 30 degree March morning here in Rhode Island. My husband and I came prepared with our hats, gloves and Underarmor gear, and waited in a heated tent for the race to start. When the gun went off we began our journey, running past the open ocean where we were greeted with a steady cold wind hitting us in the…

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

Gary Yourofsky

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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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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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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Animal Rights/ Veganism

Top 10 Suggestions For Being An Effective Animal Rights Activist

Top 10 Suggestions For Being An Effective Animal Rights Activist

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank If you’re an animal rights activist, chances are you want to do everything you can to help animals. Maybe you’re a college student, you don’t have a car and you’re constantly broke. Maybe you’re a parent, maybe you work long hours, but where there is a will there is a…

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General/ Products/ Veganism

TCBY Rolls Out Second Vegan Frozen Yogurt Flavor

TCBY Silk Vanilla Almond

Back in the fall of 2013, the first and largest frozen yogurt brand, TCBY™, partnered with Silk® Almondmilk and created the first ever national dairy-free, almondmilk-based frozen yogurt option. This was a huge step for the Fro-Yo giant, who after 32 years of serving frozen yogurt, was finally able to accommodate customers with dietary restrictions! The flavor that TCBY™ released was Silk® Chocolate Almond, made with Silk®‘s Dark Chocolate Almondmilk, and it had dairy-free citizens…

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5 Reasons Why Butter Is Bad

5 Reasons Why Butter Is Bad

New evidence suggests that Americans are trying to cut calories and improve their diets, but a recent news report about butter consumption seems to indicate otherwise. Apparently, butter consumption has hit a 40-year high. Yeah, go figure. Here are five reasons why we shouldn’t eat butter: 1. Butter is a block of fat and cholesterol. I know, it may come as a shock to some butter buyers, but butter is no health…

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