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An old friend emailed me the following quotation, which I found pretty fascinating:
“A vegan driving a Hummer produces less greenhouse gases than an omnivore riding a bicycle.” –Howard Lyman
This is especially interesting to me, because my reasons for being vegan mostly have to do with personal choice, not some sort of political imperative, but I […]

New scientific review shows vegetarian diets cause major weight loss
(thanks BoingBoing). Kind of obvious to me, but it’s good to see it backed up with data. When I first went vegan, I lost about 15 lbs. After about 9 months, I went back up maybe 10 lbs, but the huge thing […]

I have no idea how I feel about this victimless leather jacket prototype from Tissue Culture. Technically, it’s meat. It’s made from a combination of mouse and human tissues, then grown in a test tube (not stitched, actually grown to shape). Is it vegan? I’d say no, because of the mouse […]