… your microwave oven has been converted into a sprout and herb garden.
… you can’t remember the last time you visited the “other side” of the grocery store.
… you measure the time since your last illness in decades.
… you spend more time thinking about digestion than sex.
… you consume your own body weight in less [...]

So I’ve been looking into the Raw food movement recently and doing some research into the validity of their claims that eating raw makes you feel more energised, healthy etc.

Along the way I found out about the Raw Kitchen, a Raw and Vegan cafe in Fremantle. Since I didn’t have much experience in the way [...]

We all know how awful it is to have soppy wet feet in winter – in Australia it’s inevitable because we get used to dry weather and flimsy shoes (see rubi shoes). Then when the rain starts to pour (like tonight or March 22nd) we start going over our options. Wellies? They look ghastly no [...]

Presented by Animal Rights Advocates, Inc. and Andrew Knight
1-3pm, Sunday 5 July
Citiplace Community Centre, Perth Train Station (Upstairs)
Until recently, critical evaluations of the accuracy of claims that animal experimentation is essential for the advancement of biomedical knowledge have been rare. Several large-scale systematic reviews of the value of the animal experiments have now been published [...]

Whether you’re new to the Perth Veg*n Social Scene or just agoraphobic (the only two examples I could come up with in my head) and haven’t yet heard about PAWS or their food distribution program, here’s the skinny:
The People & Animal Welfare Society’s new HQ is located at 110 Beaufort Street in Northbridge, a mere [...]

Apparently this ad by PETA was rejected from being aired during the Super Bowl on account of being too risque. I’m not sure if I approve of PETA spending heaps of donations to air an ad during the Super Bowl, but a nice advertisement none the less. Vegans taste better

Hi everyone
This is my very first post. Woo! There is so much to talk about so picking what to write about first was a dilemma!
One night, when I was on my computer looking for something unnecessary to buy on ebay and eating chocolate bullets, I came across this brand of vegan and environmentally friendly designer [...]

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The side of Paws recently got a makeover as some cool guys came and did an awesome mural type thing. Graffiti at its best.
Paws is a not-for-profit animal rights group that is really cool. Lots of vegan food like icecream and chocolate for sale, organic [...]

I haven’t done one of these in a while, but I thought a little snippet in the latest peta2 E-mailout tied in quite nicely with charmedquark’s last post:
Win Signed Black Kids Stuff!
[peta2] catch up with Owen from Black Kids to chat about music and why he went vegan. Check out the video, and enter to [...]

Following the deviation from music in the ICBTDEM post about Oprah, I thought I would express my shock in finding out about Terence Stamp being vegan.
If the picture (from “Haunted Mansion”) on the left isn’t immediately recognisable, think “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” – in the film version, Stamp plays the drag queen turned transsexual, [...]

For three weeks, everybody*s favourite day-time talkshow host, Oprah Winfrey is on what appears to be a caffeine-, gluten-, sugar- and alcohol-free vegan diet, as part of a 21-day spiritual cleanse:

“[T]aking your time, making healthy choices and chewing slowly—being conscious of every bite and not scarfing down a meal and then thinking about the next [...]

By “weekly”, I didn’t actually mean “spontaneously, or on a schedule of whenever the fuck I can be bothered” – but internet access in my house has been non-existent (I came home and someone had buttraeped my router). Plus I’ve been having trouble with file hosting websites so you can just find and download the [...]

If you think the fundamental principles of the Socialist and Animal Rights (edit: blanket labels I know) movements are inextricably linked, you are wrong.
Hey guys. I’m amazing. And I shouldn’t be posting for the first time on this blog right now because I have an intensely large assignment to complete. I AM NOT PROCRASTINATING.
Alright, [...]

David Jones has THE best.vegan.chocolate.range.ever.
Do you know why? Because good dark chocolate is ALWAYS vegan. Cheap dark chocolate has butter or milk in it, but by definition dark chocolate is not supposed to have milk or butter or animal products in it.
I will give you an example of fine vegan chocolate that david jones [...]

Anthony Bourdain
Timeline of important events in this man’s life:
2000 – Jackass chef above compares vegans to the Hezbollah in his book, says he believes a life without veal, stinky cheese and pork isn’t worth living and veg*ns are an affront to the enjoyment of food. Some vegans take offense, everyone else roll eyes and ignore [...]

Skip reading this article and go straight to FoodFirst’s brief and petition to hold a Moratorium on agrofuels

‘Sif we don’t have enough problem feeding the world’s people, now they want to feed food to our cars as well. Ethanol-laced petrol is a growing sector of the fuel market, and is made industrially by fermenting the [...]

Check it!
An awesome vid about vegan parents.
When you think about it, children raised vegan are probably going to be more healthy than non vegan children who are exposed to fast food, white flour and generally processed foods high in sugar/salt, calories and low in phytonutrients.

I was uh, gonna start off this entry with an apology for being serious and vegan and preachy but I won’t – because I think this is important.
Livestock’s long shadow is a report released by the Food and Agriculture dept. of the UN. It “aims to assess the full impact of the livestock sector on [...]

We all know the story concerning the eventual rise of all things underground into the mainstream – it gets annoying when all of a sudden the band that you heard about ages ago suddenly gets airplay on the commercial stations. Pfft. And if it can happen with cons, I’d dare say it can happen with [...]

Now we all know wine is classy, no matter what subculture you subscribe to. Unfortunately not all wine is vegan. However a few wineries do stick to traditional methods (rejecting the use of animal products to clarify their wines). Brown Brothers is one of these, and in my opinion the best.
My favourite Brown Brothers’ wine [...]