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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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Pain and Suffering — The Lobster Revisted

March 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments

We had a comment by one of our readers, Amy, in regard to our post Lobsters Feel Pain Too. Amy points out that she believes the article we referenced at the beginning of our post, “Crustaceans Feel Pain” published in the Guardian (a United Kingdom newspaper) uses “bad science” to support a good cause. [...]

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