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NEWS ABOUT: vegan

vegan stories: 7 news summaries

Now In Child's Old Kitchen, No Meat—or Butter!

Vegetarian occupants hope chef 'is not rolling over in her grave'

Sep 1, 09 1:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - The sacrilege! Not only has the kitchen in Julia Child’s former Cambridge home—familiar to millions of devotees of her show—been renovated to within an inch of its life, the Boston Globe reports, its new owners have hung a picture of a cow with the caption: “... More »

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French cooking • cooking • vegetarianism • vegan • cookbooks • kitchen • Julia Child • Cambridge, Mass. • Lisa Landsverk

FASHION ROUNDUP

 Vegan Shoes Walk Right In 

Plus, white bucks are back and heels are lowered

Jul 9, 09 11:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Veganism isn’t just for food anymore. “Times have never been better for vegan fashion,” a PETA spokesperson says. “Vegan apparel and accessories companies are sprouting up everywhere in the US.” The Wall Street Journal tried out three pairs of vegan shoes and determined that synthetic... More »

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fashion • shoes • vegan • trend • high heels • footwear • Jay-ZTV • white bucks

(Newser) - In a first, the FBI today put an animal-rights crusader on its “Most Wanted Terrorists” list, CNN reports. San Francisco-bred activist Daniel Andreas San Diego is charged with the 2003 bombings of two corporate buildings. Authorities allege he believed the companies were tied to animal testing. The FBI has... More »

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terrorism • FBI • San Francisco • bombing • animal rights • fugitive • vegan • criminal charges • Daniel Andreas San Diego • Most Wanted

(Newser) - Former vegetarians are opening butcher shops and revolutionizing the US meat industry, educating buyers about humanely grown cattle on small farms, Gourmet reports. Their squeamish attitude toward steak—inspired by horror stories of mass-market meat production—is making them the most trustworthy sellers. “When we opened the butcher shop,... More »

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meat • vegetarianism • healthy eating • vegan • meat consumption

 NBC Bans PETA 
 Veggie Porn 
 During Super Bowl 

Ad featuring lingerie model grinding with pumpkin too sexual for network censors

Jan 27, 09 9:58 AM CST
(Newser) - PETA’s latest TV ad reaches a whole new level of extreme—and has been nixed by NBC from Sunday's Super Bowl telecast, the New York Post reports. The ad—taglined “Vegetarians Have Better Sex”—features models in their skivvies getting down with vegetables. According to PETA, reasons... More »

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NBC • Super Bowl • sex • PETA • vegetarianism • vegan • Super Bowl ads • Super Bowl XLIII

 Tasty Morsels on Fried Chicken 

Daily Green presents some lesser-known facts about poultry

Jul 13, 08 11:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - You might be well acquainted with the Colonel and his famous fried chicken, but beneath the crunchy skin lie some lesser-known facts. The Daily Green sides its poultry with a six-pack of trivia.
  1. It's a place: After toying around with the name "Ptarmigan," one town's handful of
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food • fast food • list • Dalai Lama • KFC • vegan • chicken

One Man’s Garbage Is Another's Thanksgiving

Movement fights waste by foraging for food

Sep 11, 07 6:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Folks looking for food in a back alley these days might be “Freegans” - that’s “free” plus “vegan” - who are “opting out of capitalism in any way that we can,” one says. Their New York trash tours have already trained 14,000 people,... More »

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food • New York City • trash • lifestyle • Thanksgiving • vegan • freegan • Madeline Nelson

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