Insights and updates about living longer
Omg you guys! These no-bake chocolate cookies from Blue Ridge Babe are JUST like this funny recipe my first grade teacher made with us! I loved those dang cookies! But they had butter and these do not. Happy times are here, my friends!
Also, heads up: I’m going to post something upsetting later but I wanted to start the day off nice. BUT THE WORLD ISN’T ALWAYS NICE. As we’ll see later. But for now: COOKIES!!!
Hey hey hey! Vegan Drinks is back! This time, benefiting Community Solidarity.
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Community Solidarity, Inc. is America’s largest all-vegetarian hunger relief food program. Each week we assist thousands of families by providing nutritious vegetarian groceries and hot gourmet vegan meals. These plant based foods aren’t just healthier than anything offered by mainstream food banks, they’re also more compassionate.
Support Community Solidarity: make donations, and buy many raffle tickets for vegan gift baskets to be announced.
Food will also be by Community Solidarity!
Music by DJ Grand Format and special guests!
Yay who’s going?! PARTY!
Who’s excited?! THIS GAL! The Seed Experience is THIS coming weekend and I can’t wait! There’s going to be a cruelty free fashion panel with Vegansaurus favorite Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart of Vaute, and Jay Astafa will show us how to make Mac n’ Cheese with Homemade Cashew Milk Cheddar! Plus, there will be a ton of exhibitors including Treeline vegan cheese, DF Mavens, and Gardein. Oh also! There’s going to be an exclusive pre-premiere screening of PlantPure Nation by Dr. T. Colin Campbell, author of The China Study. I’ve never read that book but it seems to be v popular.
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June 20th and 21st, 10am to 6pm
Brooklyn Expo Center
72 Noble St. Brooklyn, NY 11222
The Expo Center is supposed to be nice a big so I’m hoping crowds won’t be intense. Ticket prices are $30 per day and $50 for the weekend pass. BUT! For 50{ae720e0b436026f867bfa0c31185c2252a138f27e85f5f152ec5acc1c10a8cc9} off a general admission ticket, enter VEGANSAURUS at checkout. YAY!
A new HSUS exposé into a major Costco egg supplier led to national news coverage for laying hens this week, including an ABC Nightline feature, as well as coverage in the Wall Street Journal, TIME, Reuters, The Mirror, and much more. As well, Senator Blumenthal—the ranking member of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection—publicly called on Costco to eliminate cage eggs from its shelves.
On that note: Do you have a second to call Costco and ask the company to do what it indicated it was going to do eight years ago and stop selling eggs from caged hens?
But promising news from Latin America: Brazil’s major meat producer JBS announced this week that it’s ending its gestation crate use by next year.
And back to the US: You know of course that if someone starved five dogs, he’d likely get arrested. But what happens when someone starves 50,000 chickens? I offer some thoughts in a new Modesto Bee op-ed.
Finally, animals lost a great friend yesterday. Here are some thoughts of mine about Lisa Shapiro, may she rest in peace.
Paul Shapiro
Vice President, Farm Animal Protection
The Humane Society of the United States
Follow at http://twitter.com/pshapiro
P.S. Video the week: A rescued battery hen gets a birthday cake!
Another day, another disturbing undercover video, another reason not to eat dairy. This Mercy for Animals video is highly disturbing, I only made it through like 15 seconds. But if you eat dairy, the least you can do is watch the whole thing.
If you do watch, here’s some of what you will see:
As we’ve seen, it’s not an isolated incident. Seems like you can’t spit (your dairy induced mucus) without hitting an abusive farm. If you’re vegetarian and on the fence, it’s time to go vegan. If you eat meat and just cannot give up your precious bacon, guess what, you could still give up dairy and keep eating meat. It’s better than doing nothing.