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  • What’s Wrong with Wool?

    What's Wrong with Wool?

    Wool often tends to be overlooked by animal advocates because its cultivation does not necessitate the death of the animal. However, the cultivation of wool is far from the pastoral idyll one might imagine.

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  • Waking Up: Vegetarian to Vegan

    Waking Up: Vegetarian to Vegan

    As I look back over the last 26 years of my life, I wonder how it took me so long to live my life the way I’ve always wanted to: with love, kindness and honesty.

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  • Burying the Past

    Burying the Past

    Let us bury the past in recognition that we will not and cannot own, sell or give away another animal’s body parts, which were never ours to use in the first place.

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  • Legal Slavery in the 21st Century

    Legal Slavery in the 21st Century

    Widespread veganism is the only way to achieve animal rights, and to end the legal slavery that is the foundation of industrial animal exploitation.

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  • Freedom’s New Frontier: A Guide to Animal Rights

    Freedom’s New Frontier: A Guide to Animal Rights

    Shifting away from the common belief that other animals are renewable resources will lead to a new perception that recognizes animals as the conscious, feeling, innocent individuals they are.

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  • Bruno: A New Perspective on Happy Cows

    Bruno: A New Perspective on Happy Cows

    This is not the story of a factory farm; it is the story of a beautiful farm with free range animals who seemed to be happy.

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  • Seven Delicious Vegan Cookie Recipes

    Seven Delicious Vegan Cookie Recipes

    Although our diet is based around organic whole foods, anyone who knows us will attest to the fact that we are somewhat obsessed with sweet treats and baked goods.

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  • Beginner’s Guide to Veganic Gardening

    Beginner's Guide to Veganic Gardening

    Just as vegans avoid animal products in the rest of our lives, we also avoid them in the garden, as many fertilizers come from industries of exploitation.

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  • Good Nutrition for Healthy Vegan Dogs

    Good Nutrition for Healthy Vegan Dogs

    Many people are surprised to learn that not only can vegan dogs enjoy vibrant health, but their physical condition can actually improve as a result of eliminating animal foods.

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  • Another Chance

    Another Chance

    When we advocate for the widespread adoption of vegan values, we speak for the entire population of humanity’s victims, including once-glorious landscapes that have been preyed upon rather than protected.

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  • The Power of Ahimsa

    The Power of Ahimsa

    Prescribed by sages throughout history as the most effective way to temper the bestial nature in man, taking the vow of Ahimsa means resolving to refrain from causing any harm to any living creature.

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  • A Beginner’s Guide to Vegan Advocacy

    A Beginner’s Guide to Vegan Advocacy

    Given the burgeoning opportunities, advocates can pick and choose what methods and media suit their talents, personalities, preferences, and geographic locations.

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  • Keeping Animal Bones Out of Sugar

    Keeping Animal Bones Out of Sugar

    Sugar seems vegan at a glance; it comes from a plant after all. But when the natural sugars from the plant are refined in a factory, they are often filtered through bone char.

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  • The Magic of Frozen Bananas

    The Magic of Frozen Bananas

    For an instant energy boost that is long lasting, yet light on the digestion, frozen bananas are fantastic for smoothies, snacks and even raw vegan desserts.

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  • The Importance of Being Vegan

    The Importance of Being Vegan

    Veganism is not a fringe philosophy – it is a moral baseline that is consistent with beliefs that most of us already hold.

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    Is Your Alcohol Vegan?

    Many people, vegan or not, are surprised to discover that there is a plethora of animal-based products that can be found in alcoholic beverages.

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  • Rewarded for Being Vegan

    Rewarded for Being Vegan

    From eliminating asthma and hayfever to curing chronic conditions and diseases, a vegan diet offers benefits to anyone and everyone.

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  • An Irrefutable Truth

    An Irrefutable Truth

    "What a boost to my self-esteem to discover that I knew something that was absolutely right; something that no one, no matter their station in life, could convince me was wrong."

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  • A Beginner’s Guide to Traveling as a Vegan

    A Beginner’s Guide to Traveling as a Vegan

    As you travel to new places as a vegan, a bit of planning and forethought can help you overcome the small inconveniences you may encounter.

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  • A Newer Age

    A Newer Age

    The vegan evolution will inspire a heightened spiritual awareness, purify the body, and make possible personal and planetary healing unprecedented in human history.

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  • 10 Things Everyone Should Know About Free-Range Turkeys

    10 Things Everyone Should Know About Free-Range Turkeys

    Many people don’t realize that animals raised as 'free-range' suffer much of the same torment as those in standard operations.

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  • The Vegan Evolution

    The Vegan Evolution

    The vegan ideal represents nothing less than the next evolutionary step for humankind. This quantum leap may seem far-fetched from the position we are in today, but it is within this very change that we will ultimately find our hope for the world of tomorrow.

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  • What’s Wrong with Backyard Eggs?

    What's Wrong with Backyard Eggs?

    As we look more closely at the reality of the backyard chicken trend, it becomes increasingly clear that it is the same commodification of animals, packaged in niche marketing to appeal to the modern “conscious consumer”.

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  • 10 Protein-Packed Plants

    10 Protein-Packed Plants

    When most people think of protein, images of cheese, eggs and a leg of lamb pop into their head. Did you know though that every single whole food contains protein?

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  • Occupy Humanity

    Occupy Humanity

    As we, the people, occupy cities and institutions all over the world to protest injustice, it may be a good time to ask ourselves if we are in any way perpetrating the very injustices we are opposing.

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  • Natural Flavors & Castoreum

    Natural Flavors & Castoreum

    Natural Flavors… The name sounds innocent enough, but these mild-sounding words are an umbrella term for some pretty horrible stuff, including certain ingredients that come from extreme animal abuse.

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  • 3 Reasons Not to Eat Honey

    3 Reasons Not to Eat Honey

    To make one pound of honey, a colony must visit over two million flowers, flying over 55,000 miles, at up to 15 miles per hour to do so.

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Support Vegan Businesses for Valentine’s Day!

February 1, 2013 food & recipes
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With Valentine’s Day around the corner, what could be a better excuse for indulging in a little chocolate therapy with a beloved friend? (Or alone, for that matter – there’s less chocolate competition that way.) Nowadays, the range of vegan chocolate treats is so extensive it’s enough to make a person wish she could just [...]

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The Shangri-La Experience

February 1, 2013 Gentle World
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  Thank you so much for welcoming me so kindly to Shangri-La. As soon as I found out about Gentle World on the internet I knew I had to visit. Sometimes things immediately resonate with us, and this was one of those moments. All of 2012 I saved for my airfare. To visit with you and [...]

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What’s Wrong with Leather?

February 1, 2013 ethics
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Unlike some animal ingredients, leather can usually be spotted quickly, but since it’s also so ubiquitous it can just as easily be overlooked.  You’ll find leather in clothing and personal accessory items, like shoes, belts, gloves, and handbags.  It can show up unexpectedly on some of these items, such as in the case of leather [...]

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5 Vegan Alternatives to Milk

February 1, 2013 food & recipes
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While some vegan milks (such as soy) have a flavor similar to cow’s milk, others (like coconut and hazelnut) offer a new perspective on how tasty plant-based milks can be. Whether added to cereals or smoothies or enjoyed on their own, non-dairy plant based milks can be bought unfortified, or fortified with important minerals and vitamins such as [...]

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Great Reasons to Shop Secondhand

February 1, 2013 the environment
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I grew up shopping in thrift stores. I remember my mother searching for me as I hid in between clothing racks, her cart piled high with colorful finds and the happy expression on her face when she found both my hiding spot and the perfect outfit for me. I learned during these excursions about the [...]

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Is Your Champagne Vegan?

January 30, 2013 food & recipes
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Is your Champagne flute ready for Valentine’s Day? If, like many others, you plan to celebrate with this bubbly celebratory drink, you should know that it may not be vegan. Bon Appetit explains that the base for Champagne is typically a dry wine made from Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier, or a blend. Many wines, including [...]

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The Conscience: Our Guide to a Truly New Year

December 31, 2012 ethics
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Living in a world of endless information, we are too often distracted from the steady stream of guidance coming to us from within. Even when faced with life-altering or affirming decisions, the voice of our most trustworthy advisor in our struggle for safety and sanity is many times drowned out by the constant demands of a multitude of louder voices. The result is [...]

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Spotlight: Allison’s Gourmet

December 1, 2012 food & recipes
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“Conscious Decadence: Exquisite Treats for Grown-Up Palates” Need a special holiday gift for family or friends? Look no further! Allison’s Gourmet is a consciously vegan company, offering organic, vegan and fair-trade sweets of every kind. Baked goods, artisan chocolate truffles, fudge, caramels, toffee, brittle, peanut butter cups, peppermint crème patties, and more; available on their own, [...]

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Why Vegans Don’t Use Silk

December 1, 2012 ethics
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From blouses to sarongs, suits to ties, and lingerie to pajamas, silk is still widely used by the textile industry, finding its way into sheets and pillowcases as well as handkerchiefs and headscarves. What some people may not be aware of, however, are the less-obvious places silk shows up, including parachutes, bicycle tire casing, cigar [...]

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Humane Animal Traps

November 30, 2012 ethics
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Once upon a time, the idea of live-catch traps would have been considered a joke. Until fairly recently, nobody thought twice about killing rodents or other “animal intruders,” nor did many people particularly care that these trapping devices often cause extreme suffering. But even vegans need a way to keep their homes free from “those [...]

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