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Carol J. Adams "The Sexual Politics of Meat"

“That night I bit into a hamburger. Suddenly, I stopped. I thought, ‘I am eating a dead cow.’ I saw the same thing differently.”

—Carol J. Adams, feminist and author of The Sexual Politics of Meat, a book that links a meat-eating culture to the sexualization, discrimination and inapproriate treatment of women. Adams had this moment that made her rethink eating animal flesh shortly after her pet pony was shot to death.

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Heather Mills has written a vegan cookbook that’s set for release on December 5th,  2010 titled “LoveBites.”

LoveBites, which features many recipes using vegan meats from her line of Redwood Food products, will be available on Amazon and all proceeds will benefit charities.

On the day of the launch, Heather will offer complementary food samples and personal signings of the book at her V Bites restaurant in Hove Lagoon in the UK.

“In this book I hope to show that it’s really easy to change to an environmentally friendly diet and recreate meat-free versions of traditional family favorites without giving up on great tasting, satisfying food,” Mills was quoted as saying.

“I hope this recipe book will inspire people to cook the great variety of dishes on offer and create exciting, friendly menus filled with the most important ingredient of all, love.”

More to come when the book is released!

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Vegan comedian and writer Carol Leifer will be attending Compassion Over Killing’s (COK) 15th anniversary celebration this Saturday, December 4th, 2010 at the Silver Spring Regional Center in Silver Springs, Maryland. Will you?

The event includes an all you can eat cruelty-free vegan food and drink experience, a silent auction, plus the opportunity to be in the presence of other activists like Maryland Senator Jamie Raskin, NBC4 anchor Wendy Rieger and Paul Shapiro, COK founder and senior director of Humane Society of the United States’ factory farming campaign.

The suggested donation is $50, which can be made online or the night of the event. For more information and to make a donation, visit Compassion Over Killing

Photo: PR Photos

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Food Rules. An Eater's Manual.

Michael Pollan is laying down some new rules and he’d like your input.

The author of Food Rules, a book containing advice for more sensible, sustainable and healthier eating, is asking readers to submit their best rules that may be incorporated into the next edition of Food Rules, which will be published next fall.

As a vegetarian, vegan or flexitarian, what food rule would you like Pollan to include in next year’s book?

We’ve already submitted two our of rules.

1. If you can chase it, don’t eat it.
2. If it can chase you, don’t eat it.

Sure hope we make the next edition!

Submit your rules to pollan.foodrules@gmail.com.

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Caldwell Esselstyn

Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn‘s name is synonomous with several things, depending on who you’re speaking with. He was a successful Olympic rower who helped his team take home a gold medal in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. He’s the author of Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease where he wrote about how he helped his own patients reverse atherosclerosis by following a vegan diet. Bill Clinton‘s medical advisor, father of a Texas firefighter who turned his house vegan on the job and now, Esselstyn can be officially known as lover of all unsweetened almond milk and rolled oats.

In a Q & A with Philadelphia Magazine’s Be Well Philly, Esselstyn told readers whether he prefers tofu or tempeh, kale or collards and all things a vegetarian foodie loves to read about.

Although he’d choose tofu over tempeh, he has a problem with the fat content of many soy products.

“The problem with tofu and all those soy products is that they are about 40% fat. If anything, I prefer a very, very light silken tofu occasionally.”

So Esselstyn definitely has a clear preference for vegan protein, but some of his answers sound as if he’s playing food politician and rooting for both sides.

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Mark Bittman coined the phrase “vegan until 6,” because he didn’t want to give up eating meat completely, but knew given the impact animal products have on the planet and his body, he had to do something.

Although he doesn’t give hints as to whether he’ll pass on the turkey this Thanksgiving, as part of the New York Times Well blog series featuring vegetarian recipes every day from now until Thanksgiving, Bittman has offered his recipes for Black Kale and Black Olive Salad, Apple Slaw, Raw Butternut Squash Salad with Cranberry Dressing, Couscous Salad with Dried Cranberries and Pecans.

Whether you’re a vegan, vegetarian or flexitarian planning the Thanksgiving menu, there’s room for at least one of these dishes on the table.

“If at any stage of the day, at any meal you eat, you ask yourself if you can substitute a minimally processed plant food, then you’ve made the right decision,’’ Bittman said. “There’s rarely an instance where eating a fruit or vegetable or legume is a bad idea.”

Get the recipes for the good ideas at the New York Times.

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John Robbins, best selling author and vegan activist who turned down the opportunity to run the family’s Baskin-Robbins ice cream business to campaign against consuming animal products, will host the San Francisco premier of Bold Native, a fiction film about animal rights group Animal Liberation Front.

The premier will take place this Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Red Vic Movie House in San Francisco. The San Francisco Examiner caught up with Robbins to get a few words on the film and his vegan beliefs.

SF Examiner: Why do you want to spread the film’s message?
John Robbins: Ninety-nine percent of the meat that’s eaten in this country comes from inhumane production. Good people who love their dogs or cats and who care about the world are unknowingly eating meat from systems that really are profoundly incompatible with their caring. It’s painful to confront that disconnect but unless we confront it, we can’t do anything about it

More at San Francisco Examiner.

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Curry Tofu Egg-Less Salad

The staples of a vegan egg salad are easy to get down. Tofu, some vegan mayonnaise and a spice for that yellow coloring eggs give, like turmeric or curry.

Kim Barnouin, who prefers Nasoya vegan mayonnaise, chose to put curry in this vegan egg salad recipe she created that’s found in her new cookbook, “Skinny Bitch: Ultimate Everyday Cookbook.” Curry, she notes on her blog, is known for its anti-inflammatory properties. This has been shown in both research and anecdotally. One doctored recalled that when his patients vacationed in India and ate the curry-rich dishes popular in the region, their arthritic pain decreased.

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