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Meatless Mondays: Colorful Indian Spiced Curry

Here’s another Meatless Monday recipe to tantalize your taste buds and get you cooking this cruelty-free meal in your kitchen. This week’s Meatless Monday recipe is contributed by our friend, Leigh-Chantelle from Viva la Vegan! a website with a large range of vegan recipes that focuses on positive information, education and vegan outreach. Ingredients: 1 carrot, diced 1 red bell pepper (capsicum), diced 1 zucchini (courgette), diced 1/4 pumpkin, diced…

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Health/ Juicing/ Recipes/ Veganism

Raw Pluck

Being a Vegan doesn’t mean you’re some kind of extremist freak the way it did say 20 years ago.  In fact, the number of Vegans in the U.S. has been increasing every year and is slowly but surely becoming main stream, even hip thanks to some celebrity endorsements and a growing concern for disease prevention.  So now that Veganism has found a more acceptable place in society what has taken…

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Meatless Mondays: Vegetable with Tortilla Corn Chips and Guacamole

Here’s another Meatless Monday recipe to tantalize your taste buds and get you cooking this cruelty-free meal in your kitchen. This week’s Meatless Monday recipe is contributed by our friend, Leigh-Chantelle from Viva la Vegan! a website with a large range of vegan recipes that focuses on positive information, education and vegan outreach.   Ingredients: 2 zucchinis (courgettes), diced 2 carrots, diced 2 stalks of celery, sliced ¼ pumpkin, diced…

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General/ Veganism

Yay, I’m vegan! …now what do I do?

Congratulations! You’ve taken a huge step towards living a more compassionate, cruelty-free life, and countless animals around the world are thanking you personally. Feeling a bit lost now? Overwhelmed? There’s no need to be. You’re going to do just fine, and there’s a wealth of resources and support networks online to help you out. If you’re not yet familiar with vegsource.com or the PETA.org site (People for the Ethical Treatment…

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Meatless Mondays: Pizzas! Mediterranean, Satay, Spinach and Pine Nuts

Here’s another Meatless Monday recipe to tantalize your taste buds and get you cooking this cruelty-free meal in your kitchen. This week’s Meatless Monday recipe is contributed by our friend, Leigh-Chantelle from Viva la Vegan! a website with a large range of vegan recipes that focuses on positive information, education and vegan outreach. Here’s three easy to prepare pizza topping ideas from Leigh-Chantelle & Viva la Vegan! There’s also a…

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Meatless Mondays: Fried Wild Rice

Hi! Here’s another Meatless Monday recipe to tantalize your taste buds and get you cooking this cruelty-free meal in your kitchen. This week’s Meatless Monday recipe is contributed by our friend, Leigh-Chantelle from Viva la Vegan! a website with a large range of vegan recipes that focuses on positive information, education and vegan outreach. Ingredients: 2 cups wild rice 4 cups filtered water 2 carrots, grated 1 zucchini, grated 1…

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Health/ Nutrition/ Travel/ Veganism

HappyCow Community: How to Eat Healthy While Traveling

I travel a lot so I follow these tips to make sure I eat healthy while on the road. We asked our Facebook community for their advice and tips for how to eat healthy while traveling and they gave us so many great suggestions! Research and Plan Before I leave for my trip I get on HappyCow to see what vegan-friendly restaurant options I have available in each destination. I…

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Health/ Nutrition/ Veganism

Vegans Have Cleaner Basements

Vegans Have Cleaner Basements As Vegans, you’ve all been grilled on how you get your protein. Perhaps you’re sick of being asked, but I actually think it’s still a good question. Most people don’t know what to do and even feel paralyzed by the idea of changing their food habits to reflect less reliance on animals.  For their entire lives they’ve decided their dinner menu based first on what meat…

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Meatless Mondays: Kale Salad

Hi! Here’s another Meatless Monday recipe to tantalize your taste buds and get you cooking this cruelty-free meal in your kitchen. This week’s Meatless Monday recipe is contributed by our friend, Leigh-Chantelle from Viva la Vegan! a website with a large range of vegan recipes that focuses on positive information, education and vegan outreach. Ingredients: 2 kale leaves, torn apart ½ mango, diced (use juice as well) ½ avocado, diced…

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Health/ Veganism

Celebrities and Veganism : The Weight Issue

As you may know, vegan actress Jessica Chastain has been nominated for an Oscar for her supporting role in the movie “The Help”. By the way, “The Help” is terrific movie that you must see! I love how some people stick to their values! Chastain is proof of that by having the “fried chicken” on the film be made out of tofu! Furthermore, she is notorious for having to add…

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Animal Rights/ Veganism

Human Nature

painting by Benedict Olorunnisomo   Human nature. It is the foundation of humanity.  How we know the difference between right and wrong, and how we can care about something are not traits that we learn.  They are instincts that have been written into our DNA.  Whether you choose to embrace your nature or to ignore it, it is still there non the less. I believe, regardless of our reasoning, our…

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