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Can a Skinny Bitch Make a Prince Go All The Way — Vegan?

April 2nd, 2008 · 5 Comments

Milwaukee Brewers first baseman, Prince Fielder, is the latest celebrity to jump on the veg*n bandwagon.
“I tell people I don’t eat meat, and they’re like, ‘Oh!’ ” Fielder said, raising his hands and making a sour face. “They forget there’s so much other food out there. Beans, rice, tofu. You’ve got a lot of good [...]

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Honey Used For The Treatment of Wounds

March 25th, 2008 · 6 Comments

As I mentioned in my post on Agave Nectar the other day, Jane and I allow the use of honey in our definition of what it means to be vegan.
Many vegans, however, are not opposed to using insect products, because they do not believe insects are conscious of pain. Moreover, even if insects were conscious [...]

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Agave Nectar - A Vegan Sweetener Panacea?

March 22nd, 2008 · 18 Comments

Jane and I are trying to be good vegans. We carefully read labels at the grocery store and avoid all known animal products. We surf the net, read other vegan blogs, and often visit the sites we’ve chosen to link to as our Vegan Resources. Occasionally, we find something is vegan that we [...]

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Rheumatoid Arthritis May Be Improved With A Vegan Diet

March 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment

It looks like a gluten-free vegan diet can help sufferers of Rheumatoid Arthritis. A study was conducted by Johan Frostegard of the Rheumatology Unit at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, in which it was found that
…a gluten-free vegan diet was shown to lower cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and oxidizedLDL (OxLDL), as well [...]

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