Well well well, what do we have here. The nail polish is so cute, by Joshik Polish (sounds like Jackson Pollack! haha). I heart vegan nail polish! And the bright pink is adorbs. Another winner is the lip balm from Eco Lips. I gave it to my work partner Mario because he always have dry lips and he’s in love (usually he uses Burts Beeswax, gross!).
The Goddess Garden sunscreen came at the perfect time for me! I just started using retinol face stuff and my sis says you need to be super diligent about wearing sunscreen when you use retinol. How did Vegan Cuts know I needed sunscreen?! Oh speaking of my sis, she uses the Marrakesh argon hair oil and says it’s the best. SCORE!
One of our fave animal sanctuaries is also VEGAN PARTY CENTRAL! On May 29th, Woodstock Farm Sanctuary is hosting Vegan Vitality: A Celebration of Vegan Wellness and Community! Word on the street is tickets are going fast, so get yours asap! The pre-sale price is only 15 buckaroonies.
Shiz is gonna be LIT!:
Join us for a celebration of vegan wellness and community! With vegan food and treats, books, beauty products and kombucha from over one dozen vendors including:
There will be vegan demos and presentations all day, including a demo by our fave vegan cheese maven Rachel Klein of Miss Rachel’s Pantry! Remember when we went there?? She had that killer vegan muenster! Well now you can learn some of her vegan cheese making methods. (And then invite me over for a cheese party!)
There will also be drop-in yoga classes throughout the day. BYOM (bring your own yoga mat). AND there is public transportation available: “a free shuttle will run hourly starting at 11:45am from Prospect Street next to the New Paltz Trailways bus station.” BOOOOM!
Check out all the event details on FB and buy tickets here!
SPAM, makers of everyone’s favorite abomination in a can, are just so darn proud of their product that they are touring the country (except the pacific northwest apparently, sorry guys) to “thank everyone who makes SPAM® Brand what it is today.” You mean a disgusting food-like product born from cruelty? THANKS!
Well Compassion Over Killing is not having it. As Hormel continues on its SPAMERICAN tour, COK has launched its own “Unauthorized SPAM Tour” video. A parody of the SPAMERICAN tour, COK shows what REALLY happens at an exclusive Hormel supplier [warning: graphic! You can read a description after the vid if you don’t wanna watch]:
Viewers are taken on the tour by Earl, an animated guide who visits Quality Pork Processors (QPP), a pig slaughterhouse located on Hormel Century Parkway in Austin, Minn. A surprised Earl strays from his pro-industry script, muttering under his breath, as he goes through the slaughterhouse, seeing for the first time the reality of life – and death – for these animals.
Earl encounters pigs who are unable to walk being kicked, shocked, and dragged, workers beating pigs to move them out of holding pens, a supervisor sleeping on the job, and pigs improperly stunned who may end up in the scalding tank while still alive. At the end of the tour, a queasy Earl remarks, “No wonder so many people are going vegetarian.”
The eye-opening footage is from COK’s recent undercover investigation inside QPP, one of five US pig slaughterhouses operating under HIMP, a controversial high-speed, reduced inspection USDA pilot program. The Washington Post broke the story, and our investigation footage quickly went viral, sparking international headlines.
“Consumers want to know the truth about where their food is coming from. So as Hormel travels the US to showcase its SPAM product, our ‘Unauthorized SPAM Tour’ is taking Americans behind the closed doors of a Hormel slaughterhouse,” says Erica Meier, Executive Director of Compassion Over Killing.
You can get involved in the convo by tagging #NotSoFastHormel. Visit the site and share this vid far and wide, because as much of a punchline as SPAM is, the cruelty that goes into it is not funny at all.
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt declared this week that the #1 tech trend right now is “a revolution coming in using plants to replace meat.” Perhaps it’s not surprising then that Fox News headlined this week, “Is Vegan the Next Fast Food Trend?”
Need more sign of our movement’s march of progress?
More than 200 chimps who’ve endured experimentation in US labs for years are now being retired to an HSUS-funded sanctuary. At the same time, this week saw the final performance of Ringling Bros.’ elephants, marking the historic end of an era…and error.
Of course, social reforms rarely unfold without resistance, as seen by the response this week of the meat and egg industries to repeated exposés of their corrupt checkoff funding programs. Rather than cleaning up their acts, they’re simply now trying to exempt themselves from Freedom of Information Act requests altogether. It’s certainly a case of interesting bedfellows, with the late Justice Scalia, tea party US Senator Mike Lee, Hampton Creek, and HSUS all on the same side of the issue.
Paul Shapiro Vice President, Farm Animal Protection The Humane Society of the United States Follow at twitter.com/pshapiro
Guys, isn’t it nice when you find a super nice present for someone that is also vegan?? I KNOW RIGHT! Well then you will appreciate Vegan Divas’ Mother’s Day efforts. Our favorite NYC health conscious/delicious bakery has created this special cake just for the diva in your life–i.e. your mama! This special Mother’s Day cake is gluten-free, soy-free, and nut-free. It’s made with one layer of flourless chocolate cake, one layer of coconut cream, and pure dark chocolate. Vegan Divas has THE BEST chocolate! And hello your mom didn’t go through 26 million hours of labor just so you could buy her crappy chocolate.
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