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  Testing cross-posting with 3.0 As some of you may know, I developed and maintain a WordPress plugin called WPBook. I'm trying a clean install of that plugin on a blog upgraded to WordPress 3.0 (which came out Friday) to make sure it works.

  2 months on
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  The New Four Food Groups (via Veggie Going Vegan) I was happy to find “The New Four Food Groups” from the PCRM: Four Food Groups from the PCRM It’s also available on their site as a full color handout and poster.

  8 months on
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  You Call This Targeted? I’ve noticed lately that while reading my set of RSS feeds I’m getting lots of ads that I don’t consider well targeted at me as a vegan: Ads by Google, in Google Reader I’m reading feeds in a site-specific browser using Fluid, which means in essence I’m reading them in a browser using Google Reader. The ads [...]

  8 months on
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  New Web Resources Just a quick pointer to two new recently updated web resources useful for vegans and people who’d like to be vegan. The first is brought to you by the good doctors at Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine (PMRC). It’s a 21 day “kickstart” program starting January 1st, 2010. The new 21-day kickstart program from PMRC The [...]

  8 months on
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  Carnism as an ideology Loved this, from a discussion on Making Hay of Dr. Melanie Joy’s new book Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: What we eat – what we choose to consider food – is the product of ideology when we aren’t forced by necessity to eat whatever we can get. And this: Our goal isn’t to [...]

  10 months on
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  Vegans – Join Blog Action Day The folks at Change.org will be hosting Blog Action Day again this year, with a focus on Climate Change. It’s a great opportunity to remind people of the link between animal-based agriculture and climate change. Related links: Livestock’s Long Shadow – the UN report from the Food and Agriculture Organization which concluded that “livestock are responsible [...]

  11 months on
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  Testing – Sorry Just testing some new goodness related to version 2.0 of Alex King’s Twitter Tools and Identi.ca – hopefully this will post to Identi.ca and not to Twitter (because it will then be auto-cross posted from Identi.ca)

  12 months on
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  Purity versus Intent 99.44% pure. Photo by Stewf, cc-by-nc-sa license, click through for details. (And yes, it is ironic that Ivory soap is not vegan - contains animal fats) Lots of (well-intentioned I’m sure) vegan and omnivore friends over the last month have sent me links to Quarrygirl’s investigative report on animal product ingredients in food purchased from self-declared [...]

  ~1 year on
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  Save Paste Magazine I’m a great fan of Paste Magazine, and subscribe as a Paste Digital VIP. I’d thought of Paste as one of the success stories of publishing online - as they made the transition to download for samplers rather than the physical CD - and as they started to offer a premium model (VIP) online, sell [...]

  ~1 year on
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  Two New Vegan Blogs Two well known folks in the animal rights / vegan community have launched new blogs - check them out and subscribe! First, Erik Marcus, who you likely know as the person behind Vegan.com, as well as the author of Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating, Meat Market: Animals, Ethic, and Money, and The Ultimate Vegan Guide: [...]

  ~1 year on
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  Save that One, Screw the Rest? Molly (Photo from NY Times - click through for original) It never ceases to amaze me how, when one cow (or goat, or pig, or chicken, or turkey) escapes from the slaughterhouse, the public at large want to save him/her, but then don’t recognize how their own eating habits put said animal in that position in [...]

  ~1 year on
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