Vegan Victuals: The Blog |
Vegetarianism lowers your risk of heart disease, cancer and stroke {or the leading causes of death in the U.S.} as well as lowering the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney disease, osteoporosis and obesity
A new study that followed 120,000+ people for 20-26 years concluded that animal-based protein diets make you die sooner; this is not a groundbreaking study as research has been concluding this for years. Yay, more evidence but also more of the same ridiculous reporting: “Plant-based diets – fruits, vegetables, whole grains, a little fish, soy [...]
A Low Carbon Diet
As a young doe who read E Magazine and poured over Co-op America‘s Green Pages some 17 years ago, I can’t help but be partially frustrated by the speed in which the rest of the world has caught on to the green movement, can’t help but shudder at the greenwashing of the world’s major corporate [...]
Food… Kind of a Big Deal
As a lover of food, I need to know it deeply. I want to. I’m reading Stuffed & Starved, The Hidden Battle for the World’s Food System. It’s moving me in many ways. Firstly, it has been awhile since I have had the opportunity to read at my leisure, to read and not have to dissect [...]
Dear World,
Dear Birds, I know it’s been awhile since you’ve all seen each other and all but can you please use your inside chirps in the morning. You’d think my apartment building was constructed in those seeds they make bells out of the way you guys flock to my window. Dear Columbia University academic regalia, The [...]
Force Fed
I’ve seen this set of graphs all over the internet (i.e. numerous times in the What’s Hot section of my Google reader). And I am happy about this. It makes me feel more normal. Not that “normal” is an aspiration of mine or anything. But feeling normal is a different story. The good people at [...]
Another Inconvenient Truth
I had to write a film review for An Inconvenient Truth for my Topics in Environmental Health course. It was easy to write because I had a lot to say about the film, mostly about the huge hole it has in it which was recently brought to light again by Moby. I cannot abstain from [...]
I Don’t Wanna Be An Entomophagist: Candies with Bug Derivatives
A friend of mine recently asked me if I ate Good n’ Plenty, the pink and white coated licorice candy. I had to tell her no and why and, in doing so, managed to help push her finger down on the “w” key, as in “Ewwww…”, long enough to maybe instill a pink and white [...]
Your infection, please
My online environmental health course functions as a journal article discussion group. And given the relationship between the health of the environment and our food system, I am always dropping V bombs. So as not to lose this all in the closed circuitry of Columbia’s ClassWeb, I’ll post them here too. The Morens (et. al.) [...]
A Tofu Omelet Grows in Brooklyn
Before you even see these gorgeous little beasts, let me say a word about this fine piece of rock in my palm: black salt or, in its native Hindi, kala namak. No, black salt isn’t street code for heroin. It’s a special smokey salt. In Vegan Brunch Isa gives this specialty salt time to shine, [...]
Food, Inc.
I went to see Food, Inc.‘s opening last night. The documentary from filmmaker Robert Kenner plays as a kind of supermarket expose while touching upon the many important food issues hidden behind the bright aisles and familiar labels: genetic engineering, foodbourne illnesses, factory farming and its environmental impacts and the political superpowers who control food [...]
Vegan Meats Made From Beef: LightLife and ConAgra
This posting has been brewing for years. (Alternate name: Smart Patty My Ass.) You probably know of LightLife‘s packaged veggie meats, maybe picked some up at some point given their widespread availability. They’re everywhere! Of course they’re everywhere. They get delivered with the Chef Boyardee, the Eggos, Orville Redenbacher’s, the Slim-Jims and the Redi-Whips. Lightlife, [...]
Earth Day Is Why Vegan Day
I haven’t had to do this in awhile (not since November 2008) but it’s time again… I have to get on the soapbox… As a vegan of many, many years, I am the backboard to occasional commentary and inquisition from omnivores, many well-intentioned but backed in myth and misinformation, many defensive to the implicit righteousness [...]
