There's this awful website run by an idiot/swarm of idiots that lists people who used to be vegan and aren't now and is all "look at these ex-vegan sellouts!" in hopes of shaming those people into, uh, becoming vegan again? Because nothing says "we welcome you back with open arms!" like "you're a fucking asshole and we hope …
The June issue of Vogue includes the Features Director's struggle to cook a few outrageously expensive vegan meals for her affably useless husband. It includes the line: "It was all down to me, it seemed, and pretty soon I was having a chickpea-induced nervous breakdown." Oh, honey.
Here's a horrifying (and probably NSFW) ad promoting veganism for dudes as a way to increase their sexual stamina, which works by turning their previously sad, shriveled flesh junk into massive, phallic produce. I mean, that seems to be the real takeaway, no? Hey guys, with a plant-based diet, you will be able to leer …
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Ruby Roth has written a book for children, Vegan Is Love, which was featured on Today this morning. Inside, there are illustrations of animals hugging. There are also drawings of dead animals strung up and bleeding. Roth says, "My goal is not to scare any child." Roth has a stepdaughter, Akira, who declares: "My favorite …
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If you weren't already icked out by Valentine's Day, PETA's V-day ad should do the trick. Because apparently being fucked into a neck brace is what ladies want out of their dudes?
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Whether they're calling shark attacks "payback" or accusing photographers of necrophilia, PETA rarely goes a month without a serious dick move. Here's why they're one of the worst supposedly do-gooder organizations out there.
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This week the Georgia Supreme Court upheld the conviction and life sentence of a couple whose six-week-old baby Crown Shakur died in 2004 from extreme malnourishment or starvation. During the trial, defense attorneys said the first-time parents were trying to follow a vegan lifestyle and didn't realize Crown was sick…
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The vegan parents of a breast-fed 11-month baby who died from vitamin deficiency are on trial for neglect in Northern France.
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Some New York City branches of 7-Eleven are offering $6 vegan items, which are in all likelihood more unappetizing than 7-Eleven's non-vegan fare.
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Thanksgiving is coming up, and with it the inevitable questions about food: how to accommodate the vegan, gluten-free, or otherwise dietarily restricted person on your guest list? And what if you are that person? Read on for some answers.
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Dan and Annie Shannon are offering a "humane alternative" to Julie & Julia — by "veganizing every recipe in The Betty Crocker Cookbook." The results — despite lack of meat, eggs, and dairy — look pretty delicious.
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Did Southwest reject this PETA ad for its in-flight magazine because it perpetuates the stupid idea that women should eat vegan to get thin? Unfortunately, they may have simply been afraid it would piss off their beef connections. [AdRants]
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According to the Boston Globe, men can now be vegans. Except they're called "hegans," and they're extra-manly!
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Vegetarianism has gotten a lot of press lately, but in yesterday's Times, Gary Steiner argued that being truly ethical involves eschewing far more than meat — and this kind of abstemiousness may be falling out of favor.
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In an interview with Salon, veganism advocate Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson explains why meat eaters mock vegans, why Michael Pollan is wrong, and why he thinks things are getting better for animals.
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