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This blog offers critical commentary on current news stories and relevant topics pertaining to various aspects of the ethics of consumerism. These topics include, but are not limited to: vegetarianism, veganism, animal rights, animal welfare, enviro
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Veganism and Moral Confusion in Mainstream Media This Week
In an interview in Springfield, Missouri's News-Leader.com today, Registered Dietician Adam Pruett, describes veganism as a class of vegetarianism and when asked how children fare on vegetarian or vegan diets, he states that[t]ypically, children fol...
The Vegan News
A vegan I know, Adam Kochanowicz, has recently launched a site called Vegan FM which is devoted to showing video and audio podcasts produced by vegans (albeit not necessarily dealing with vegan or animal rights issues). One of the features of the sit...
Random Veganism Bits in the News
Chrissie Hynde's VegiTerranean restaurant, along with Standing Rock Cultural Arts and Kent State Dining Services hosted the first annual Vegan Iron Chef competition at Kent State to kick off a weeklong celebration of Earth Day. Two Kent State Teams ...
Quite Possibly One of the Most Stupid Things I've Read Today
Taken from Princeton's newspaper, The Daily Princetonian:“The dining hall is the reason why I’m not vegan anymore,” said Jones, who is now independent, adding that she subsisted mostly on peanut butter, soy milk and fruit when she had a meal pl...
B12 and More Scaremongering About Veganism in the News
There are articles spreading across the internet this week about a recent study in Ireland linking neural tube birth defects to vitamin B12 deficiency. The study pointed out that a) women who consume little or no animal products, as well as b) women...
Veganism and Animal-Related Bits in the News
If you need another reason to not eat eggs, consider that according to the Windsor Star:[a] study just published in the journal Diabetes Care (2008) has found that eating seven or more eggs per week -- that's just an egg a day, a number probably quit...
Veganism in the News
In a guest article for the Globe and Mail, "Vegan diet has surprising stick-to-it-iveness", dietitian Leslie Beck discusses the recently published results of a PCRM study on losing weight and reducing bad cholesterol levels by following a strictly p...
Without Soy, Are We Really Just Left with Fritos?
I read over at the Vegan Freaks forum that The Atlantic's Megan McArdle, previously a mainstream media advocate of veganism, has officially thrown in the towel. Seems that after a year of veganism, she has a bum thyroid and that since her endocrinolo...
