Honey Is Not Vegan: 2016

Friday, April 29, 2016

Vegan Leathers

Besides the classic pleather and vinyl, here are other vegan leathers.
http://www.lifegate.com/people/lifestyle/pinatex-eco-leather-pineapple
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/144185625550127283/
https://www.plantbasednews.org/post/amazing-brand-making-vegan-wallets-banana-leather
http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/vegan-friendly-leather-made-kombucha
http://veganenthusiasts.com/2016/06/21/muskin-a-vegan-leather-made-entirely-from-mushrooms/
http://eluxemagazine.com/fashion/5-truly-eco-friendly-vegan-leathers/
http://www.vegansouls.com/alternatives-for-leather
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/sascha-camilli/the-innovative-crueltyfre_b_16932302.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_leather
http://www.alcantara.com/en/materiale/5/index.do
http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=9382&catId=1
https://www.facebook.com/georgetakeipresents/videos/149738838974583/
https://www.beyond-skin.com/
https://mattandnat.com/
https://www.votch.co.uk/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcieZYwyEiA

Sunday, April 24, 2016

Petitions

https://www.change.org/p/vegans-we-want-the-food-network-to-start-a-vegan-show
https://www.change.org/p/please-label-all-products-as-either-vegan-or-not-vegan-for-religious-and-ethical-reasons-not-limited-to-only-food-products-all-products-sold-in-the-united-states-of-america-from-medicines-to-clothing-from-glues-oils-solvents-to-vehicles
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/303/931/161/demand-companies-to-label-whether-their-sugar-is-refined-with-bone-char-or-not/
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/630/930/075/tell-ellen-degeneres-to-remove-leather-from-her-clothing-line/
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/549/038/537/lisa-simpson-to-go-vegan/
https://www.change.org/p/mcdonald-s-it-s-time-for-a-healthy-meatless-option
https://www.change.org/p/msnbc-petition-to-air-cowspiracy-and-earthlings-on-msnbc
https://www.change.org/p/add-vegan-ready-meal-and-sandwich-options-sainsbury-s-and-tesco
https://www.change.org/p/bernie-sanders-introduce-legislation-to-end-government-subsidies-for-animal-agriculture
https://www.change.org/p/vegan-society-make-vegan-baby-formula-available

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Summary of Speciesism: The Movie

 I mainly wanted to catch the good philosophical quotes, so that’s why those read as more of a transcript and the rest reads as more of a summary.

So the host is a meat eater looking to find the answers of why people care about animals after coming across protesters. He went to PETA headquarters and talks to the presidents, and one of them talks about how there are basically intelligent people leading good lives etc. and they have absolutely no idea what's happening on our factory farms or in vivisection etc. which is why they do their campaigns. He then goes to Compassion Over Killing (this is one of the groups that does undercover videos) to get more of a sense of what factory farms are like, and they talk about things such as that because birds are so confined, they start pecking at each other, so they chop off their beaks, and injuries and diseases etc. (you can watch the various undercover videos to get more of a sense). So then he's all "how can I prove you're not lying" and she tells him to go to these farms himself

So he goes to several of them, and even makes it know that he is on their side, but they won't let him in. He talks to James Serpell, PHD, from the Department of Veterinary Science who says "The ability to feel pain is probably something that emerged early in the evolution of animals..." the host says "So being able to experience pain is not even close to being uniquely human" and he says "OH far from it! No, it's probably almost universal in anything that has a nervous system." Then Dr. Mark Beckoff, a well-known expert on animal emotions talks about how animals of course feel joy and grieve etc. and the neurobiology and ethology support this, and all mammals have a structurally same part of the brain that processes emotions and the same neurochemicals. 

So then the hosts asks "So animals seem to be capable of experiencing physical sensations and emotions...it can't possibly be as intense as humans?" and James Serpell says "It may be more intense because for example I can rationalize my fears..." and then back to Dr. Mark Beckoff "Animal emotions could be even more intense than human emotions, because we like to say that they are unfiltered" and back to the host "Human emotions are what drive our entire lives and intense emotions...that's what life is practically, so if you're saying that other members of other species can feel and experience emotions maybe even more intensely than humans...what does that mean?" and back to James Serpell, "Well it means that we grossly underestimate the extent to which animals may be suffering...from an ethical standpoint we need to give them the benefit of the doubt, just as we would if we came across a human being with whom we had no means of verbal communication. Most of the animals that you eat are living in non-descript, very large sheds that look a bit like warehouses. They're windowless so you can't see into them and they contain thousands upon thousands of animals."

Then an undercover investigator shows up talking about how it's hard to udnerstand what animals go through unless you see it, and then they tell and show a bit more of the horrible conditions (I'm realizing how ling this is now, haha, so I'll skip over that but I hope that you look it up so that you can understand. Here's a good starting point https://www.youtube.com/playlist... ) The host goes to farm animal rescues to meet the animals who had these horrid pasts, and the lady there talks about how they all have their own personalities and have friends and mourn them when they die, and there's a chicken that was raised to be eaten who couldn't walk because of the bad conditions etc. 

There's also a part where he goes to pig farm areas and talks to locals about the environmental impact, because the demand is so high for meat that so many animals are in farms that there's soooo much waste that they don't know what to do with, so it drains off into the rivers and lakes and whatnot, causing pollution, or they spray it all around and it gets into the neighbors area and makes them sick. School children have higher rates of asthma because it's drifting into their schools. These big conservative guys are speaking out against it because of all the damage it does. One of them is dying of cancer and talks about how you can't breathe and he never wants to see a pig farm again. The host flies over the farms and sees huge pools of animal waste.

Back to James Serpell "As far as anyone can establish, pigs are easily as intelligent as dogs. They have complex social lives in the wild, they form permanent matriarchal groups..." he also talks about how in a wild state they would never chew on each others tails, but they do this in confinement which is why farmers cut off their tails, and how piglets scream when they are castrated because there's no anesthetic etc. and how gestation crates (they can't even move) for mother pigs gives them very very severe depression and certainly might be as strong or intense as it would be for humans. 

There’s more talk of the horrid conditions with someone from the Department of Animal Science, and then back to James Serpell, “Obviously the bond between mothers and their infants is very strong, not just in humans but in all mammals. In order to maintain their milk production, we have to let them have a calf from time to time. We don’t want them nursing the calves because we want the milk so the calf is taken away very soon after it is born. And this causes the cow a great deal of distress and it obviously causes the calf a great deal of distress. Sometimes the calf is put in a little kind of kennel, within ear shot of the mother, so the mother can hear the calf calling, and the cows will call to the calves...and it’s quite distressing to listen to actually.” Host: “Have you heard it” James: “Oh yes, yes.” The host also visits people with depression or who have constant pain from walking etc. to help him connect the dots to how these animals feel, and a visit to the next generation of farmers to see how people get into it.

Then there’s a section with the humane society and lawyers talking about some of the progresses they’ve made and how the animal farming industry tries to stop them. Then Bruce (from PETA) said “So when you take this idea of might makes right/I can do this to you and so I’m going to do this to you, the pinnacle of that form of bigotry, the pinnacle of that form of racism, is speciesism” and then the host realizes that there’s a deeper philosophical issue at hand. He then talks to some philosophers about the issue, such as Dr. Tom Regan, who wrote The Case For Animal Rights, Dr. Dale Jamieson, director for the center of environmental studies at New York University, David Degrazia, chair of the department of philosophy at George Washington University, Sherry Colb, a professor at Cornell Law School, Gary Francione, a professor at Rutgers School of Law, and Peter Singer, who wrote the book Animal Liberation and is a professor of Bioethics at Princeton University.

David: “If we think about what is most clear and certain in ethics, what basic ideas are accepted by all moral systems regardless of their major differences, it’s that we shouldn’t cause harm without very good reason.
Dale: “The Harm Principle basically says everything else being equal, it’s wrong to cause harm.”
Gary: “Speciesism is the use of species to exclude certain beings from the moral community who are relevantly similar from members of the moral community and you base that exclusion on species alone. It’s like racism or sexism where you have relevantly similar individuals, some of whom are in the moral community, some of whom are excluded on the basis of race or sex.”
David: “Speciesism as I understand it is excluding members of different species from ours from the realm of moral concern just because those individuals are members of other species.”
Dale: “The core idea of speciesism is really the same, or at least analogous, to the core idea of sexism and racism, namely that it’s a prejudice in favor of ones own kind against others. There aren’t many philosophy books that have been more significant [than Animal Liberation] in terms of changing the world and changing the people. It’s almost impossible to overstate its significance.”
Peter: “I entitled the first chapter of Animal Liberation, “All animals are equal”, and what I meant by that was that we ought to give them all equal consideration of their interests, whatever their interests might be. That doesn’t mean that you give them equal treatment because they have different interests. As long as they have interests, for example, interest in not feeling pain, it should be irrelevant whether they are members of the species Homo Sapien or (insert other species), I mean what’s that got to do with how bad it is for them to feel pain?’

So the host tries to make objections to their arguments...

Host: “Isn’t it just natural for us to use other animals?”
Dale: “Well the problem with the concept of the natural is that it means many many different things...”
Peter: “Maybe war is natural, there’s a good argument for saying that war is natural to human beings, that we’ve always done it, as long as far back as you can go. But that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t try and stop it, that we see the cost of war, we see the suffering involved, and we do our best to prevent wars.”
David: “Rape may be natural. Rape by powerful males may be natural in some sense and biologically adaptive, but it’s about the last thing in the world that could be morally justified.”
The only person he could find to agree with him that we should follow laws of nature is a nazi.

Host: “Well...humans are smarter?”
Tom: “Babies aren’t, the mentally disadvantaged of all ages aren’t. If you’re going to say that intelligence is a basis for inclusion in the moral community and you’re going to say that non-human primates are more intelligent than some human beings but they don’t belong as members of the moral community, but those human beings do, that looks like a contradiction to me.”
Host: “Animals have no conception of morality so why should they be included in it?”
Dale: “Well infants have no conception of morality.”
Tom: “We don’t say of them, that is the babies and those who are seriously mentally disadvantaged, we don’t say “Well, we’re at liberty to do anything we want to to them. They must exist for us then.””
Host: “They look completely different from us...”
David: “They look different from us, that doesn’t matter at all. I don’t think looks could matter, just as the elephant man’s looking very very different from other human beings add no relevance to his moral status.”
Sherry: “If we’re trying to say that humans have some particular quality that distinguishes them as superior and as worthy of moral consideration compared to some other group like pigs, then I think we need to think about the fact that there are members of our human community who we think are entitled to full moral consideration, but who don’t have the quality that we think is so important, or who have it to a lesser degree than an average member of another species like pigs. Pigs are very intelligent.”

The host visits a center for those with disabilities and realizes “No matter what characteristic we think is unique to humans, a certain level of intelligence, language, the ability to form a social contract, to engage in consensual agreements, to think and act on ethical principles...no matter what criterion we use for believing that our suffering is more important, there will always be some humans who do not have that characteristic. And it’s not as if these people are included in ethics under the wire, sort of sneaking in along with the people who actually count. We believe they actually count ethically, for their own sake. I wanted to say, “But they’re human”, but that would just leave me to justify trying to drawing the line around species membership again, and the more I really thought about it, the more obvious it seemed that ethics really isn’t about any of those other characteristics in the first place. That’s why disabled humans are included in ethics. What matters would have to be the characteristics that we share.” He goes on the street to ask passersby why they eat animals and gives answers to their reasons with what he has learned, and stumps them.
 
Host: “I can’t find a logical reason for speciesism. Why is it then that I just feel like speciesism is justified?”
Sherry: “Well we’re trained from very young to think about things in that way.”
Host: “I refuse to believe that speciesism is wrong. I refuse.”
Peter: “Well, what are you saying ya know? You just...haven’t got a counter argument?”
Host: “It just can’t be. That would make the world so different. That would make what we’re doing to other animals so significant. It’s impossible that that is the case, that what you conclude is the case. There must be something wrong.”
Peter: “Put yourself in the position of a slave owner in Virginia in let’s say 1800. Such a person in that society could have said something the same about someone who produced arguments that slavery is wrong.”
Tom: “Some people, for example, just knew, without needing reasons, that white people were superior to black people. Some people just knew without needing reasons, as a matter of immediate intuition, immediate knowledge that men are superior to women.”
Peter: “In all these cases you have a dominant group. You have a group that holds power and that defines itself as superior and that develops an ideology to justify that and to exclude the others.”
Bruce: “If we had been having a discussion of slavery in the 1820s, there would be a consensus of opinion that slavery had always existed, that slavery was the natural order of things, that slavery is justified in the Bible, and that slavery is consequently moral. And now, we’re 190 years later, and society has diametrically the opposite view about slavery, in what is relatively historically a finger snap. It’s a really brief period of time, 200 years, in all of history. We now have diametrically the opposite view. What we need to do with animal liberation is get our ethics into line with our science, because we know scientifically, as Dawkins says, that other species are our cousins. We know they feel pain in the same way and to the same degree, and what we’re doing to them is a moral atrocity that is justified in the same way, and is similar to, past atrocities like slavery.

The host stops by a party for Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday being thrown by his college biology department.
Professor: “And you can’t look at biology without understanding it from a Darwinian perspective, so as a biologist it has tremendous significance...with the publication of the Origin of Species and the recognition that there is an evolutionary link of all living things and that basically man was just another animal in that series, it had to have an influence on ethics and thinking about other organisms as well as the relationship of humans to other organisms. It had to have an impact.”
Host: “We might extend our basic ethical principles, our opposition to causing harm for unnecessary reasons to other species, and they might argue doing things like using animals for clothing or for food in ways that cause them suffering, is no longer justified. Have you thought of that?”
Professor: “I haven’t thought of that actually, no.”

He then goes to a lecture with Richard Dawkins to get more of an answer.
Host: “The extraordinary similarities between ourselves and other species that evolutionary biology helps us understand, do you think it has an ethical implication in term of our treatment of non-human animals? I mean in my understanding you are not a speciesist.”
Dawkins: “I think it does have ethical implications. If you think about the way in which we give special treatment to humans, for example in the case of abortion, human fetuses are treated as babies, and a lot of people think that it’s murder to abort a human fetus whereas they quite happily go and eat a cow, which of course has much more capacity to suffer than any human fetus. Chimpanzees which are pretty close to us, are not given anything like the same ethical, moral, or legal protection as humans are. Suppose there were discovered relict populations in the forests of Africa between humans and chimpanzees, what would we do, what would those speciesists do, if a live specimen of Lucy (Australopithecus Afarensis) were to be discovered? It’s a pure accident that they’re extinct. We ought to be able to do something about our morals and our ethics, taking account of the fact that they might not have been extinct. It shouldn’t, this major ethical distinction should not depend upon the mere accident of extinction.”
Sherry: “When we’re very emotionally invested in using other animals, we then sort of decide to have a moral principle that will support that behavior, rather than it going the other direction. If we were coming into the world on a clean slate, I don’t think the reasons that so-called “justify” speciesism would persuade us.”

He talks to astronomers about how huge the universe is and how it’s bigger than even scientists a few generations ago thought, and comes to the conclusion, “What if it really is just a prejudice? What if we’re all just here on this planet after a billion years of evolution? Could we be just one species, more powerful by luck, tyrannizing over all of the others and not stepping back to notice what we’ve been doing all this time? After all, we’re capable of it, we’ve seen it, we are genetically no different from the people who engaged in human slave trades for thousands of years, and the civilized societies that took part in genocides.”
Holocaust survivor: “As a holocaust survivor, I spent my childhood years in the Warsaw ghetto until late 1942 when we escaped to the other side. After the war, I visited some of the death camps where my family was exterminated. I was struck by the piles of hair and glasses and boots. Years later I happened to be visiting a slaughterhouse in the United States, and there again I saw piles of hearts and hooves and other body parts neatly stacked, and then I got to thinking about the highly efficient and dispassionate process that was used in both cases...that the perpetrators felt no guilt about what they were doing, that my fellow Jews were transported in cattle cars. It made me realize that the slogan we’d been using, “Never Again”, was not really about what others shouldn’t do to us...”

He talks to a vegan who talks about how hard it is to have the realization that  you are confronted with a holocaust and everyone you know is participating in it etc. and a doctor who animal tests...
Dale: “Then we ask the question,  “Would we be willing to do the same experiment on a human being who is at the same level of consciousness”, and if the answer is yes we would do it in the case of the non-human but no we wouldn’t do it in the case of the human, then that seems to expose a bias in favor of our own species.”
Doctor: “Would I put tumors into people to test? No! What do you mean why not?”
Host: “Do you put animals below human beings?”
Doctor: “That’s right I do...because they don’t make moral choices.”

Then there’s talk of groups like the Animal Liberation Front who free animals, and comparisons to how slavery used to be legal but the law isn’t always right, so freeing those slaves (even though that action was illegal) was the right thing to do.

Gary: “What is the difference between sitting around and watching dogs fight as he was apparently doing or allegedly doing (referring to Michael Vick) and the rest of us are sitting around our barbecue pits, charbroiling animals that had been tortured every bit as much as the animals that Michael Vick fights.”
*Cuts to an animal parade with blessings for animals.
Host: “What can I do?”
Peter: “The first thing you should do if you’re opposed to the treatment of animals in factory farms, is to stop supporting it, and as long as you buy the products of factory farms, as long as you consume them, or therefore get other people to buy them for you, that’s all the support it needs from you.”
Host: “So if I’m not going to buy from factory farms, what about all those humane farms I hear about.” and this is where he goes to a “free range” farm who is a supplier at Whole Foods, and I took a video of that here so I’ll just add that link and long story short, it’s not nearly as good as we think it is, with tons of birds crammed into the same room, saying that they get 3 square feet per bird (and of course the bird takes up a lot of that room) etc. etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvGGW2xNWVQ 

Gary: “If animals are to be in the moral community, then we have to give their interests equal consideration. If animals are property, it becomes impossible to give their interests equal consideration. Think about it for a second. When you are weighing the interests of a piece of property against those of a property owner, you’re always going to way the interests of property as less than the interests of the property owner. So just as in the case of human slavery, there were all sorts of laws that protected, supposedly protected human slaves, but they didn’t work, and they didn’t work because you were trying to balance the interests of slaves against the interests of slave owners.”
Host: “Somehow I had just never thought about that contradiction between considering the well-being of other animals comparably important to our own well being, and then using them as economic commodities.”
Bruce: “It’s also true that if you’re eating meat, you’re entering into a contract relationship whereby you are paying other people to mutilate animals without pain relief, even on the best farms, to slice animals’ throats open without pain relief, you’re paying people to abuse animals if you’re eating meat. So you can’t reconcile those. You can’t say “I’m somebody who opposes cruelty to animals, and yet I consider it to be acceptable to pay other people, in this mercenary relationship, to go out and slit animals’ throats for something so inconsequential as a palate preference.” It’s the ultimate subjugation. You’re literally eating the corpse of another being. It’s hard to imagine something more speciesist.”
Host: “I can’t believe I never thought of this before either. But there is something bizarre about eating an animal...eating a corpse. I wonder if people who stop being speciesists start to see eating animals the way all of us see human cannibalism.”

*cuts to a butcher shop, and then Bruce starts talking about the cruelties of the fishing industry, and Gary talks about how there’s more suffering in a glass of milk than in a steak and how vegetarianism is like saying you don’t eat small cows but you’ll eat larger cows. Shelly talks about how it’s the most horrible pain that any mother can suffer to have her child taken away from her but it’s a routine part of the dairy industry and if you don’t absolutely have to do that in order to survive, it’s hard to see how anyone can live with themselves and support that.

Host: “Other animals eat other animals...”
Peter: “Suddenly after putting down animals, they want to say “Oh well look, if the lion is going to eat the antelope then it’s fine for me to eat the cow.” but I never said that animals are a kind of moral example for us to follow. They’re just doing what they have no choice about.”
Host: “Animals are at least accidentally harmed in the making of everything probably.”
Bruce: “Well yeah, I mean that’s absolutely true. Human beings are accidentally harmed in driving every single day, but nobody is going to say “Well human beings are accidentally harmed so we should all take our cars and crash into as many people as we can. We’re not as a society going to get into a place in which we take those harms seriously if we’re still intentionally and gratuitously and for no good reason, causing animals to suffer.”
 Host: “What about plants?”
Jonathan Balcombe PHD, chair of animal studies HSU: “Plants are not sentient because there was never any need for them to evolve a nervous system. That’s because unlike animals, they’re not able to move away from harmful things. Now you may have seen a time-lapse photography of flowers tracking the sun across the horizon, but that’s just mechanics, changes in pressure in cells. If plants were sentient, it would give us even more reason to eat plants directly, to have a plant based diet, for the simple reason that it takes a lot more plants to feed animals to make meat, than it does to eat the plants directly.” He then asks another stranger on the street about meet and they say they need to for protein, so then the vegan bodybuilder Robert Cheeke is telling his story and how it’s a misconception that vegans are weaker, and how everything we need is in plant based whole foods. 

Milton Mills M.D.: “I was trained as an internal medicine physician, and I’ve spent the last 18 years working extensively in critical care. The justification that we use for our abuse and mistreatment and exploitation of non-human animals is that we deem them the “other”, as something less than we are, and being viewed as an other is something that I personally am very sensitive to because, as an African American, for a long time, this country viewed us as “other.” After I became vegetarian and became convinced that in fact a plant based diet was the healthiest diet for human beings, I definitely wanted to spend my life trying to educate people on the fact that they could live healthier, more disease-free and longer lives.” another stranger says that vegetarian food is boring and the same thing over and over again, so he cuts to a vegan restaurant with various options of classic meals made vegan. He takes some of the food and gives it to people on the street and they are surprised that it is vegetarian. Paul from the humane society makes him some vegan meats, and talks about how easy it is to get these things, and how if people were raised eating vegan meats they would be criticizing animal meats, and that we eat meat just because of habit and how it’s become normal for us, but just because something has been habituated doesn’t mean that we have to keep on doing it for the rest of our lives.

He then asks people on the street if they had lived during the time of human slavery if they would be abolitionists or just go with the majority, and they say they would be abolitionists, and then he talks to someone from Vegan Outreach, and takes about how activism has been effective. He goes to a Jewish human rights organization who use the lessons of the holocaust to educate people against the dangers of bigotry. 
The documentary ends with him expressing how different he views the world now through all of this.

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Veganic/Veganiculture

https://plantbasedtreaty.org/the-veganic-way/

https://learnveganic.com/

https://certifiedveganic.org/

This was seen at Pigs Peace Sanctuary in Stanwood, Washington, USA.

Friday, February 19, 2016

I have this sectioned off into ones that are all vegan first and then ones that are mostly vegan or have a good amount of vegan options second. They don't test on animals. Click on the name to get to their website. (I will finish filling this out more and also add more products when I have more time, but I want to publish this now so people can have the info I have here now)

*Method --- (hand soap, body wash, hand sanitizer, around-the-house cleaners, soy candles, air freshener, laundry detergent, fabric softener, baby laundry detergent, dish soap, dishwasher detergent)
*South of France --- (hand soap, bar soap)
*Arbonne --- (basically everything, haha)
*Nature's Gate --- (shampoo, conditioner, hand soap, body wash, deodorant, lotion, toothpaste, facial cleansers/moisturizers/serum, sunscreen, sun tan lotion)
*Shikai --- (lotion, shampoo, conditioner, hand soap, body wash, facial cleansers/moisturizer/scrub/eye cream, hair spray, hair gel, mousse, other hair products)
*Olivella (seems to have two websites here and here) --- (body wash, hand soap, bar soap, shampoo, conditioner, lotions, beauty oils, face creams, lip roll-on)
*Clearly Natural --- (glycerine bar soap, liquid hand soap, melt and pour block soap, hot flash relief spray)
*Kirk's Natural--- (castile bar soap, liquid soap, shampoo, body wash)
*Pureology --- (shampoo, conditioner, other hair stuff)
*Ellovi --- (lip balm/butter, body butter)
*Hugo Naturals ---
*Pacifica ---
*Sukin ---
*Acure ---
*Derm Organics ---
*Mrs. Meyers ---
*Ecos (Earth Friendly Products) ---
*Planet ---
*Seventh Generation ---
*Biokleen ---
*Charlie's Soap ---
*GrabGreen ---

*One With Nature ---
*Alba Botanica --- (They sent me back a message saying..."All our products are vegan except for: - All lip items which contain beeswax. - Our Hawaiian Smoothing Sugar Cane Body Polish which contains honey.")
*Aura Cacia --- (Animal-friendly policies. Aura Cacia products are not tested on animals and contain no animal by-products with the exception of beeswax.)
*Tom's of Maine --- (bar soap, body wash, baby shampoo and other such things, deodorant, lotion, toothpaste, mouth wash, toothbrushes, (they use beeswax in their dental floss and lip balms/gloss/shimmer, and propolis in some of their toothpastes)
*Honest --- (hand soap, hand sanitizer, lotion, shampoo, body wash, conditioner, bubble bath, sunscreen, dish soap, dishwasher detergent, laundry detergent, stain remover, dryer cloths/fabric softener, baby stuff) (I got this email saying this back from them, "Many of our products are vegan, but not all of them. " so check labels. The hand soap I saw in the store said something along the lines of "free of animal ingredients" on the side, so look for things like that.)
*Ecover --- (laundry detergent, fabric softener, stain remover, bleach, around-the-house cleaners, dish soap, dishwasher detergent, (Are Ecover products suitable for vegans and vegetarians? Yes. All of our products sold in North America—except Ecover Dishwashing Liquid in Chamomile and Marigold, which contains milk whey—are suitable for vegans and vegetarians. Plus, we never test on animals, and we have a Leaping Bunny on our bottle to prove it.)
*Kiss My Face ---
*Yes to... (carrots, cucumbers etc.) ---
*Dr. Bronner's --- (All of Dr. Bronner’s products sold in the U.S. and Canada are Certified Vegan, except for our Organic Lip Balms and Organic Body Balms, which contain organic beeswax. All of our products carry the “Leaping Bunny” seal, which indicates that they are cruelty-free and that there is no animal testing done with them.)
*Dessert Essence --- (Are all your products Vegan? While all our products are 100% vegetarian, not all are vegan. The Organics line, excluding the new Mineral Sunscreen which contains beeswax, is 100% vegan. Although several of our products have small amounts of beeswax and honey in their formulas, no animals are ever harmed to get these ingredients. Refer to the Essentials tab at the bottom of each product page for information to find out if a product is vegan or not.)
*Avalon Organics --- (vegan and cruelty-free Humbled by a profound respect for all living beings, Avalon Organics products are vegan* and cruelty-free. The Avalon Organics brand never tests products on animals, and will only source ingredients that the supplier can document are not tested on animals. This commitment to kindness is represented by the leaping bunny logo that appears on product labels. The Leaping Bunny Program logo is an internationally recognized symbol for cruelty-free cosmetics, personal care, and household products. Learn more about the Leaping Bunny Program. *Avalon Organics 100% vegetarian lip balms are made with organic beeswax and are not vegan.) (cruelty-free philosophy The Avalon Organics brand has a profound respect for all forms of life. Devoted to cruelty-free, vegetarian products, the Avalon Organics brand philosophy is to never test products or product ingredients on animals.)
*100% Pure --- (WHY VEGAN? We love animals and refuse to support anything that hurts animals which is why none of our formulas are ever tested on animals (everything we use is food grade and does not require testing, whereas chemical ingredients must be tested). All our makeup brushes are from synthetic fibers. No animals were hurt for their fur and no animals were hurt for any of our ingredients (the only animal ingredient we use is cruelty free honey).)
*Aubrey Organics ---
*Aveda --- (Are Aveda products vegan/vegetarian? Although Aveda products are not certified Vegetarian or Vegan, many of our products contain no animal derived ingredients. However, we have a small assortment of products that are made with beeswax or honey since we have not found substitutes for these particular ingredients in those formulae at this time...)
*Andalou Naturals --- (ARE YOUR PRODUCTS VEGAN? We offer a unique collection of quality personal care products for caring consumers seeking natural, organic, and cruelty-free ingredients within the Vegetarian Ethic. We currently have over 70 vegan products and 100% of our products are vegetarian. If a product is vegan, it will be noted on the product page with the following badge:)
*Giovanni --- (Are your products vegan? All our products are vegan except our Magnetic shampoo, conditioner, power treatment, styling gel and styling wax which contains lactoferrin, and our Hot Chocolate Sugar Scrub which contains honey.)
*Jason --- (Are your products vegan? JASÖN® products use 100% vegetarian ingredients. There is only one animal derived ingredient that we use in our products...Check the specific product label for the following ingredient to determine if the product is suitable for your lifestyle: Beeswax (found in our Cooling Minerals & Tea Tree Muscle Pain Therapy).)
*The Body Shop (has two websites here and here) --- (Why does The Body Shop claim to be 100% Vegetarian but not Vegan? We do use some animal derived products, such as beeswax and honey, that cause no harm to animals, but are not strictly vegan.)
*EO --- Q. Are your products vegan? A. Almost all of our products are vegan. The ones that are not vegan are easy to identify by the ingredient listed in the name of the product (for example, Chamomile and Honey shampoo). Below is a list of our products that are NOT vegan: EO Chamomile and Honey Shampoo and Conditioner, EO Sulfate Free Keratin Shampoo, EO Oatmeal and Honey bar soap. All other EO and Everyone products are completely vegan and none of our products are ever tested on animals. All testing, research, development and manufacturing is done in a humans-only lab at our facility in Marin County, CA.)
*Shea Moisture ---
*Everyday Shea (and all Alaffia products) ---
*Organix ---
*Lush ---
*White Rain ---
*Simple Truth Organic ---

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Big companies that have/are working on vegan options

*Chipotle (sofritas, plus their veggies, both their rices, both their beans, all their salsas, their corn, lettuce, guacamole, and tortillas are vegan so you can have a fully loaded meal)
*Cheesecake Factory (has a Vegan Cobb Salad)
*White Castle (veggie sliders)
*Subway (is testing 2 vegan sandwiches)
*Wendy's (is testing a vegan burger patty on vegan bun (ask to leave off cheese and sauce))
*Denny's (has Amy's vegan burger (just make sure you get it on vegan bun, without it grilled in meat juices, no cheese, and if you get caramelized onions, that they aren't grilled in animal products or meat juices. Also their fries may be fried in the same oil as meat products, but they have fruit you could get on the side)
*Starbucks (is coming out with vegan baked goods)
*Blue Bunny (is testing vegan ice creams)
*Ben and Jerry's (has 4 vegan ice creams)
*TCBY (The Country's Best Yogurt) (partnered with silk to make vegan frozen yogurt)
*Tutti Frutti frozen yogurt (has soy based frozen yogurt)
*East coast frozen yogurt chain 16 Handles (has vegan frozen yogurt)
*Pink Berry (added some sorbets)
*Taco bell (technically they don't have anything already put together that is vegan but I'm putting them on this list because they have a vegetarian certified menu with various vegan ingredients and it's easy to modify.)
*Guinness (removing the fish bladder used in making their beer)
*Hellman's/Best Foods (coming out with vegan mayo.)

Monday, February 15, 2016

Black Vegans

http://blavity.com/blackvegansrock-celebrating-diversity-in-the-black-vegan-community/
http://strivingwithsystems.com/2015/06/11/blackvegansrock-100-black-vegans-to-check-out/
http://blavity.com/7-vegans-follow-instagram/
https://www.facebook.com/Black-Vegans-Rock-835697926527739/
https://twitter.com/blackvegansrock
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1483702658626846/

Vegan cooking and nutrition schools and courses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUP6f4vwB6Q (How to make vegan food taste good (and wow your family with recipes!))
http://rouxbe.com/plant-based/?partner=d526dd4a2f84367 (Plant-Based Professional Certification Course)
http://vimeo.com/79334406 (Plant-Based Foundations Pro Certification)
http://vimeo.com/84153305 (Plant-Based Course Tour Video)
http://www.culinaryschools.org/cooking-school-types/vegan/
http://veganfusion.com/
http://www.sporkfoods.com/
http://www.laweekly.com/restaurants/matthew-kenneys-new-culinary-school-in-santa-monica-stirs-the-local-gourmandise-pot-2375185
http://nutritionstudies.org/courses/plant-based-nutrition/
https://www.facebook.com/nutritionstudies

Vegans with Disabilities/allergies/disorders

Disabled Vegans
http://www.disabledveganreader.com/
http://disabledveganchick.tumblr.com/
http://veganfeministnetwork.com/category/disability/

Vegans with autoimmune disorders
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987700913185
http://www.examiner.com/article/tennis-ace-venus-williams-became-a-raw-vegan-after-autoimmune-disease-diagnosis
http://thealmostvegan.com/why-i-chose-vegan-ibs/
http://thehealthfreak.com/autoimmune-disease-and-veganism/
http://www.sharonpalmer.com/post.php?s=2013-11-17-managing-ibs-while-adhering-to-a-vegan-diet
http://www.drmcdougall.com/health/education/health-science/featured-articles/articles/diet-only-hope-for-arthritis/
https://suite.io/priya-chauhan/3cdv23v

Vegans recovering from eating disorders
http://vegan-ed-recovery.tumblr.com/
http://www.thefullhelping.com/green-recovery-veganism-is-opening-the-doors-anorexia-shut/
http://www.thefullhelping.com/green-recovery-the-plant-based-road-to-healing-from-disordered-eating/
http://www.ourhenhouse.org/2013/10/from-my-eating-disorder-to-my-lifes-purpose-how-veganism-changed-things-forever/

Vegans allergic to soy or gluten
http://soycrates.tumblr.com/tagged/soy
http://thesethingsilove.com/
http://gluten-free-vegan-girl.com/
http://ohsheglows.com/categories/recipes-2/food-allergies/gluten-free/
http://www.soyfreevegan.com/
http://ohsheglows.com/categories/recipes-2/food-allergies/allergies-soy-free/
http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?catId=2&pageId=4865 (4 Delectable Soy-Free Vegan Faux Meat Dishes)

Vegan on a Budget

Eating healthy on a budget...

A common concern about eating a plant-based diet is that it is expensive. I beg to differ. There are ways to purchase food on any type of meal plan that range widely from simple to extravagant, regardless of whether there are animal foods in the mix or not. In fact, you will likely save thousands of dollars (or more) in healthcare expenses by eating a wholesome plant-centered diet and, further, you can easily live frugally (and still very deliciously) on plants.

Here are 7 ways to save money on a plant-based diet:

1. Buy foods that have a longer shelf life in bulk. Shop warehouses for large packages of whole grains (oats, brown rice, quinoa), dried or canned beans and lentils, dried spices and herbs, frozen veggies and fruits, plant milks, tea, coffee, jarred or canned goods (tomatoes, tomato sauce, marinara sauce, olives), dried fruits, sun-dried tomatoes, dehydrated mushrooms, whole grain pasta, nuts, and seeds. Or buy from the bulk section at your local health food store.

2. Shop local farmer's markets for fresh, local, seasonal fruits and vegetables. Try to show up towards the end of the day, when farmer's will typically discount their remaining items. You can opt to buy from farms that may not yet be certified organic (it takes years and costs money to be certified), but do not spray their crops with pesticides. This is the next best thing to organic.

3. Minimize or avoid processed and convenience foods at the grocery store. Packaged food costs more because of the convenience factor, the marketing and production costs, etc. You are better off health-wise and wallet-wise to eat the most whole form of foods, found as close to nature as possible.

4. Cook more often. Simple skills - such as cooking grains and legumes, whipping up soups and stews, blending smoothies, dressings, and sauces - are easy to learn and will save you tons of money. These are the healthiest meals to create, keep in your fridge and freezer, and enjoy as regular staples. Batch cook foods so you can freeze some, and have plenty left for your week's worth of dishes.

5. Prepare. Decide what you will make for the week ahead, check your kitchen to see which ingredients need to be purchased, and shop with grocery lists to avoid impulse purchases, and avoid overspending.

6. Never shop hungry. This is a recipe for purchasing less healthful, more expensive, and unnecessary items, racking up your bill.

7. Try growing your own food. Planting a garden - if you can - is a great way to save money on fruits, vegetables, and fresh herbs. There are multiple ways to do this in small spaces, indoors, using hydroponics, aquaponics, and small or large pots outdoors if you are limited in space or land.

*Graphic by Vegan Sidekick

*Resources:

--->Bureau of Labor Statistics Average Retail Food & Energy Prices: http://1.usa.gov/XjzggI

--->Eating Healthy on a Budget on PerezHilton.com: http://bit.ly/1wsRStE

--->My interview with John McDougall MD about eating well on a budget on Veria's What Would Julieanna Do?: http://bit.ly/1s1ZPoM

--->Learn how to cook plant-based online from home at the Rouxbe Plant-Based Professional Certification Course: http://bit.ly/1a8FEg9

--->Eating On a Budget on Fox 13 Seattle: http://bit.ly/1D7iJxf

--->Richard A Oppenlander, DDS, PLC's The Cost of Eating Animals: http://bit.ly/1nlQepc

--->My Veria Do's and Don'ts for Food Shopping: http://bit.ly/1ojZ3LI

--->Plant-Based On A Budget: http://bit.ly/1s481in

--->Eco-Vegan Gal's video series on eating healthy, organic, and vegan on a budget: http://bit.ly/1qzVaJn

--->How Important Is It To Buy Organic: http://bit.ly/1wtH8v8

--->Ellen Jaffe Jones-Author & Personal Trainer's Eat Vegan on $4.00 a Day: http://amzn.to/1qBcvBG

--->Robin Robertson's Vegan on the Cheap: http://amzn.to/1q4Mm81

--->Original article: http://bit.ly/X3aIIg

Homeless vegans:

http://www.30bananasaday.com/profiles/blogs/homeless-and-vegan?xg_source=activity

http://happyherbivore.com/2012/01/homeless-vegan/

Vegan Feminism

http://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Politics-Meat-Feminist-Vegetarian-Revelations/dp/1501312839
http://www.amazon.com/Ecofeminism-Feminist-Intersections-Other-Animals/dp/1628928034
http://veganfeministnetwork.com/
https://www.facebook.com/VeganFeministNetwork
https://www.facebook.com/groups/veganfeminists/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/693637400725570/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/987016298053523/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1079152988812529
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1671280429801721/
http://everydayfeminism.com/2014/12/animal-rights-feminist-issue/
http://gentleworld.org/to-be-a-feminist-is-to-be-a-vegan/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erica-meier/farm-likeagirl-real-girls_b_6681934.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063
http://www.barefootvegan.com/barefootvegan-online/why-milk-is-a-feminist-issue
http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=7476&catId=1 (First Vegan Feminist Horror Film Debuts)
http://theodysseyonline.com/lewis-clark/feminists-support-animal-rights/216233
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPRiawCcHFM (Real Feminists Are Vegan)
http://www.intersectionalvegan.com/

Vegan parenting/vegan kids/raised as a vegan/vegan kids books/vegan pregnancy

https://www.facebook.com/groups/whatveganchildreneat/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/WhatVeganChildrenEat.Private/
https://www.facebook.com/WhatVeganKidsEat?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/168346079916067/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/122306944518138/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/249777695055100/?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/SuperHealthyVeganChildrenSuperSaniBambiniVegani?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/organicvegankids?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/VeganBabies/info
https://www.facebook.com/groups/285641653233/?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/VeganCookingForKids?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/stayathomeveganmommies?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vegan-Gentle-Parenting/311921482253714?fref=ts
https://www.facebook.com/groups/veganchildrenandparents/?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/124523990909863/?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/vegankid/?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1425337321118797/?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/veganparents?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/theveganparent?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/vegankidslunchbox/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/768499079884478/?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/256435957791671/?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1387934511527383/?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1610732529168929/?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/486126121447046/?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/vegparenting/?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vegan-Parenting-in-Seattle/120288684764889?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/270959229775655/?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1374443486128960/?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Adelaide-Vegan-Parents-Children/126643677427540?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/139080249459728/?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/311577008947020/?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/129008807141751/?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/GoldCoastVeganParents/?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/VeganParentsOfSA/?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/214915625340438/?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKvegparents/?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/309137652608773/
http://yourveganfallacyis.com/en/vegan-parenting-is-brainwashing/resources
http://munchies.vice.com/articles/an-italian-court-just-ruled-that-babies-can-be-vegan-and-healthy
http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=6920&catId=1 (New Study: Vegan Diets Safe for Pregnancy)
http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/08/24/434230024/is-it-safe-to-follow-a-vegan-diet-during-pregnancy
http://www.generationveggie.org/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11424546
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19562864
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2015/11/09/eating-bacon-can-kill-you-heres-how-my-kid-eats-a-plant-based-diet/
http://freefromharm.org/animal-products-and-culture/how-we-teach-children-a-separate-morality-for-food-animals/
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/lifestyle/packing-your-kids-vegan-lunch-without-getting-him-roughed-up/
http://www.wedonteatanimals.com/blog/how-handle-parties-vegan-kids
http://www.wedonteatanimals.com/blog/how-help-kids-relate-ethics-veganism
http://www.wedonteatanimals.com/blog/how-keep-your-kids-veg-even-when-youre-not-there
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/vegan-food/how-to-teach-your-kids-to-answer-questions-about-eating-vegan/
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/lifestyle/how-to-throw-a-vegan-and-eco-friendly-birthday-party-for-your-kids/
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/lifestyle/so-your-kids-want-to-eat-vegan-heres-how-you-can-guide-them/
http://holdtheeggplant.com/2015/04/24/raising-a-vegan-child/
http://metro.co.uk/2016/01/25/british-mum-on-why-she-is-bringing-up-her-child-a-vegan-5636479/#mv-b
http://www.amazon.com/Thats-Why-Dont-Eat-Animals/dp/1556437854/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403761652&sr=8-1&keywords=why+we+don%27t+eat+animals
http://www.amazon.com/V-Vegan-ABCs-Being-Kind-ebook/dp/B00BE24WD4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1403761652&sr=8-2&keywords=why+we+don%27t+eat+animals
http://www.amazon.com/Steven-Vegan-Dan-Bodenstein-ebook/dp/B008YKFPGW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403856329&sr=8-1&keywords=steven+the+vegan
http://www.amazon.com/Lena-Vegitopia-Mystery-Missing-Animals/dp/1940184002/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0
http://veganpublishers.com/multimedia-archive/dave-loves-chickens/
http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Gentle-Barn/dp/0615804756/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1423390972&sr=8-1&keywords=journey+to+gentle+barn
https://www.facebook.com/veganchildrenbooks?fref=ts
http://www.amazon.com/Were-Vegan-Anna-Bean/dp/1494310112/
http://www.amazon.com/Veronica-Vegan-Childrens-Book-ebook/dp/B00TBF1GOE
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=vegan+children&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Avegan+children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4s7RRfZNA0 (How to Raise a Child Vegan)

Soy

https://www.facebook.com/BarnardMedical/videos/851550658320242/
http://johnrobbins.info/blog/what-about-soy/
http://freefromharm.org/health-nutrition/vegan-doctor-addresses-soy-myths-and-misinformation/
http://happyherbivore.com/2013/01/herbie-101-series-soy-gmo/
http://zenhabits.net/soy/
https://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2005nl/april/050400pusoy.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yQFYONMcTg (Soy is healthy so eat it. Or eat other beans instead. Or eat both. Whatever.)
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jul/01/anti-soya-brigade-ignore-scaremongering
http://www.pcrm.org/nbBlog/index.php/jazz-tofu
https://www.drfuhrman.com/library/debunking-anti-soy-myth.aspx
http://www.pcrm.org/nbBlog/no-debate-soy-is-beneficial-to-health
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_UdM0RedwI
http://www.veganhealth.org/articles/soy_wth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCFxoUKOJYU (BRCA Breast Cancer Genes and Soy)
http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/soy/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neal-barnard-md/settling-the-soy-controve_b_453966.html
https://www.facebook.com/veganoutreach/videos/10154598298866508/

Vegan Pets

https://www.facebook.com/groups/vegandognutrition/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/126322004672/
https://www.facebook.com/Vdogfood
http://www.vegancats.com/can.php
http://www.vegan.com/dog-food/
http://v-dog.com/
http://www.petco.com/shop/en/petcostore/natural-balance-vegetarian-formula-dog-food
http://www.evolutiondietstore.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDpksTlEAyI (Can Pets Be Vegan? | What's REALLY in Pet Food)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMQ0Ls-G78M (Dr. Armaiti May, vegan veterinarian: Eco-Vegan Gal interview)
http://vegetariandogs.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBQgdw9BfqHrLatM84wg0pw
http://www.vegepets.info/resources/Publications/Veg-cats-Wakefield-et-al-JAVMA-2006.pdf
https://www.facebook.com/groups/669599113104942
https://www.facebook.com/groups/vegancatsanddogs
https://www.facebook.com/groups/138238569638651

Vegan Bodybuilders/weightlifters/athletes/fitness/strongmen/muscle/strength/strong

http://www.veganbodybuilding.com/
https://www.facebook.com/VeganBodybuildingAndFitness
https://www.facebook.com/groups/VeganBodybuildingAndFitness/
http://www.nomeatathlete.com/
https://www.facebook.com/NoMeatAthlete
https://www.facebook.com/Vegan.Bodybuilding
http://www.veganmuscleandfitness.com/
https://www.facebook.com/veganmuscle
https://www.facebook.com/groups/23353662623/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/veganrawveganathletes
https://www.facebook.com/VeganBodybuildingBook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/516686945053457
https://www.facebook.com/VeganLight
https://www.facebook.com/ThaVeganDread
https://www.facebook.com/mindyvegan
https://www.facebook.com/JanaTalavaskova
https://www.facebook.com/natashaseetoveganbikini
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vegan-Athletes/161783687195336
https://www.facebook.com/groups/VeganWomenBodybuildingAndFitness/
https://www.facebook.com/RawVeganPowerFitness
https://www.facebook.com/pages/VeganFitness-model-Michelle-Ibiza/208645119325359
https://www.facebook.com/FitnessSilvie
https://www.facebook.com/VeganFitCoach
https://www.facebook.com/FitVeganChickYolandaPresswood
https://www.facebook.com/veganpowershop
https://www.facebook.com/VeganHealthFitness
https://www.facebook.com/VeganBodybuildingFitness
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vegan-Muscles/282550858576467
https://www.facebook.com/groups/160705370702729/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/484620944901364/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vegan-Strength-Germany/141234422640227
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/natural-health/how-to-optimize-your-body-to-be-a-plant-powered-athlete/
http://engine2diet.com/
https://www.facebook.com/VeganOlympia
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/natural-health/5-plant-based-athletes-that-blow-the-protein-myth-out-of-the-water/
http://www.greatveganathletes.com/
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/natural-health/vegan-athletes-that-prove-you-dont-need-meat-to-compete/
http://www.greatveganathletes.com/content/vegan-athletes-and-their-success-year
http://www.mythrivemag.com/
http://www.greatveganathletes.com/bodybuilders
https://www.facebook.com/MeatFreeAthlete
http://www.richroll.com/bio/
https://www.facebook.com/richrollfans/timeline
https://www.facebook.com/vegrunchat
http://scottjurek.com/bio/
http://www.greatveganathletes.com/vegan_athlete_fiona-oakes-vegan-marathon-runner
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/10545857/Vegans-powered-by-raw-food-complete-year-of-daily-marathons.html
http://www.veganhealthandfitnessmag.com/veganglobalrun/
http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=6799&catId=1 (Vegan Athlete Breaks Appalachian Trail Record)
http://www.bonappetit.com/people/article/scott-jurek-ultrarunner-diet
http://www.gq.com/story/the-real-life-diet-of-the-ultramarathoner-who-gave-up-meat-and-became-vegan
http://metro.co.uk/2015/08/20/15-vegan-bodybuilders-proving-that-you-can-be-meat-free-and-strong-5349931/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3206401/The-rise-plant-powered-body-builders.html
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/16/go-veggie-to-save-the-planet-says-world-champion-freerunner-tim-shieff

On Ancient humans not eating meat/ we weren't designed to eat meat

http://www.adaptt.org/Mills%20The%20Comparative%20Anatomy%20of%20Eating1.pdf
http://www.vegfriend.com/forum/topics/why-you-are-not-a-carnivore
http://www.vegfriend.com/forum/topics/humans-weren-t-designed-to-eat-meat-1
http://www.care2.com/causes/our-ancestors-were-mostly-vegetarian-not-meat-eaters.html
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/07/23/human-ancestors-were-nearly-all-vegetarians/
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/the-real-paleo-diet.html
http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=6968&catId=1 (Paleo Diet is a Myth, Says New Study)
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28139-stone-age-people-were-making-porridge-32000-years-ago/
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/are-we-all-born-meat-eaters.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH-hs2v-UjI (Are Humans Designed To Eat Meat?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05zhL1YUd8Q (Vegan Video)
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/study-reveals-ancient-egyptians-were-vegetarians/
http://www.insidescience.org/content/what-did-ancient-egyptians-really-eat/1630
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-freston/shattering-the-meat-myth_b_214390.html
http://michaelbluejay.com/veg/natural.html
http://www.itsacowsworld.com/2015/02/07/what-vegans-can-do-when-non-vegans-argue-about-the-benefits-of-meat-2/
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Hunted-Primates-Predators-Evolution/dp/0813339367
http://bitesizevegan.com/vegan-lifestyle-2/vegans-in-ancient-times-the-history-of-veganism-part-one/
http://bitesizevegan.com/vegan-lifestyle-2/vegans-in-the-middle-ages-the-history-of-veganism-part-two/
http://bitesizevegan.com/vegan-lifestyle-2/vegans-in-the-renaissance-the-history-of-veganism-part-three/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqVOUJjvtUw (Are Humans Carnivores? Are We Meant to Eat Meat? (Graphic))
http://michaelbluejay.com/veg/natural.html
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/human-ancestors-were-nearly-all-vegetarians/
http://freefromharm.org/photo-galleries/9-reasons-your-canine-teeth-dont-make-you-a-meat-eater/

Ingredients lists (what is and isn't vegan)

http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/faqingredients.htm
http://www.vrg.org/ingredients/
http://www.veganwolf.com/animal_ingredients.htm#A:
http://www.angelfire.com/ar/vegan1/ingredients.html/
http://www.peta.org/living/vegetarian-living/animal-ingredients-list.aspx
http://www.vegansociety.com/lifestyle/food/hidden-ingredients.aspx
http://www.veggieglobal.com/nutrition/non-vegetarian-food-additives-no-e.htm
http://www.peta2.com/lifestyle/animal-ingredients/
http://www.vegetarianvitamins.com/vegetarian.php

Vegan Cruises/vegan hotels/vegan traveling

http://www.vegancruiseplanners.com/
http://www.vegancruiseplanners.com/rw/view/3488
https://www.facebook.com/vegancruiseplanners
http://www.atasteofhealth.org/
https://www.facebook.com/holisticholidayatsea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcV-h18pv1M (A VEGAN IN THE OCEAN)
http://www.argophilia.com/news/vegan-hotels-launches-exclusive-veggie-destination-site/215415/
http://www.veganhotels.com/
http://veganlogy.com/2011/05/17/worlds-first-loving-hut-vegan-hotel/
http://www.buzzfeed.com/hilarywardle/veganburgh?utm_term=.kbK692VNr#.nwp2BMb2L
http://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/escapes/go-list/Vegan-Friendly-Airports.html
http://hungryvegantraveler.blogspot.com/
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/lifestyle/vegan-travel-on-a-students-budget/
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/lifestyle/6-tips-for-eating-raw-while-traveling/
http://www.happycow.net/
http://vegdining.com/Home.cfm
http://www.vegguide.org/
http://www.vrg.org/restaurant/index.php
http://vegtravelguide.com/#veg-travel-guide
http://wtfveganfood.com/
http://veganmiam.com/
http://theveganword.com/
https://www.facebook.com/vegouttv/timeline
http://www.buzzfeed.com/christinebyrne/vegan-wanderlust?utm_term=.dxQqMpXL7#.lb71wBV1Z (Here Is A Blog With Photos Of Vegan Food From Literally Every Single Country In The World)
http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=6929&catId=1 (Worldwide Tour Showcases Vegan Food in 193 Countries)
http://www.tripstodiscover.com/17-of-the-best-destinations-for-vegan-travelers/

Farmers becoming vegan or turning their farms into animal rescue sanctuaries or plant farms or vegan dairy companies/seaworld employees telling it like it is

http://freefromharm.org/animal-products-and-ethics/former-meat-dairy-farmers-became-vegan-activists/
http://www.peaceablekingdomfilm.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceable_Kingdom_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceable_Kingdom:_The_Journey_Home
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435715/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
http://www.tribeofheart.org/sr/home_english.htm
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/dairy-farmers-are-converting-land-to-almond-groves/
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*Jan Gerdes and Karin Muck, former dairy farmers, Germany, farm animal rescue sanctuary called Hof Butenland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siQY39Om_l8
http://www.stiftung-fuer-tierschutz.de/
http://www.letlivefilm.com/en/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqdvBazZquHJI-OzGj2gWw

*Michelle, former dairy farmer, Israel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dltLYOahAVg

*Chris Mills, Former Dairy Farmer, Canada, farm animal rescue sanctuary The Grass is Greener:
http://greenerfarmsanctuary.blogspot.com/

*Harold Brown, former beef and dairy farmer, U.S.:
http://www.farmkind.org/
http://www.farmkind.org/AR.htm
http://www.humanemyth.org/haroldbrown.htm

*Carol and Julian Pearce, former dairy goat farmers, U.S., farm animal rescue sanctuary and vegan cheese makers Sanctuary at Soledad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZzGI_b9o4M
https://www.sanctuaryatsoledad.org/
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/goat-cheese-farmers-ditched-dairy-to-start-a-sanctuary-and-make-vegan-cheese/
http://www.care2.com/causes/goat-cheese-farmers-give-it-all-up-to-make-vegan-cheese-instead.html
http://www.hngn.com/articles/124259/20150829/vegan-goat-cheese-removing-dairy-felt-right.htm

*Cheri Ezell and Jim Vandersluis , former goat milk and dairy farmers, U.S., farm animal rescue sanctuary Maple Farm Sanctuary:
http://www.maplefarmsanctuary.org/item/Our_Story/225/c33
http://www.humanemyth.org/cheriezell.htm

*Howard Lyman, former beef and dairy farmer, U.S., converted ranch into wildlife sanctuary:
http://www.madcowboy.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Mad-Cowboy-The-Movie-2015-194399707270394/

*Susana Romatz, former “humane” goat dairy farmer, now vegan cheese maker who started Avellana Creamery, U.S.
http://humanefacts.org/from-humane-dairy-farmer-to-vegan-cheese-maker/

*Bob Comis, former pig and sheep farmer, U.S., converted his farm into a veganic vegetable farm:
http://www.thelastpig.com/
https://www.facebook.com/TheLastPig
https://www.thedodo.com/the-last-pig-459704635.html
https://www.thedodo.com/upending-my-life-and-shaking-i-441461971.html
http://theirturn.net/2015/08/04/the-last-pig/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-last-pig_563918e4e4b0b24aee47d55b
http://www.salon.com/2015/11/28/the_pigs_and_the_space_around_them_were_glowing_deep_gold_the_mind_blowing_experience_that_ended_my_life_as_a_pig_farmer/
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/ig-farmer-who-decided-to-stop-killing-animals/

*Edith Barabash and Mike Lanigan, rescue sanctuary Farmhouse Garden Animal Home, former cattle ranch, also turned to farming organic vegetables, Canada
http://www.farmhousegardenanimalhome.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMU4e8gPB7I
http://www.durhamregion.com/community-story/6872962-uxbridge-cattle-farmer-mike-lanigan-has-a-change-of-heart-decides-to-start-animal-sanctuary/#.V-W1lBIhUGA.facebook

*Dr. Michael Klaper, grew up on dairy farms in Wisconsin, U.S., now a plant nutrition educator:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toZ7Mr-ClCE

*Renée King-Sonnen and Tommy Sonnen, former beef farmers, now farm animal rescue sanctuary Rowdy Girl Sanctuary, Texas, U.S.:
https://rowdygirlsanctuary.org/
https://www.facebook.com/rowdygirlsanctuary/
https://www.facebook.com/VeganJournalOfARanchersWife
http://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-couple-giving-cattle-farming-vegans/story?id=31208132
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2015/07/30/woman-turns-cattle-ranch-into-vegan-animal-sanctuary/
http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=8794&catId=5 (How I Got My Rancher Husband to Go Vegan)
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cattle-ranchers-vegan-wife-turns-ranch-into-animal-sanctuary/
https://www.facebook.com/livekindlyco/videos/631406470541264/

*Marloes Boere, grew up on a dairy farm in the Netherlands:
“I grew up on a dairy farm. It’s the reason I’m vegan today. Just the other day, my father told me that one of the cows died because she refused to eat after her baby was taken away from her. This broke my heart.
For cows to produce milk at profitable levels, they need to have a baby every year. After birth, their calf is taken away from them within a couple of hours. The calf is put into a pen, where he is all alone, fed only twice a day. This practice causes a lot of emotional pain both for the mother and her calf.
As a child, I have witnessed the cruel separation of mother and calf over and over again, and was told that it was normal and necessary. This couldn’t be further from the truth. I am horrified that we live in a world that teaches children it is acceptable to invade and exploit motherhood in such a violent way. No one should support this. Mother’s milk is baby food and cow’s milk is for baby cows.”

*Christine Mariani Egidio, former sheep farmer, U.S.:
https://strivingwithsystems.com/2014/02/11/making-the-connection-a-personal-story/

*T. Colin Campbell, grew up on dairy farms, U.S., now a plant nutrition educator who conducted the most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted:
http://www.benbellavegan.com/book/the-china-study/

*Helen Peppe, small family farm, U.S.
http://veganpublishers.com/through-the-magnifying-glass-helen-peppe/

*Vegetarian Jay Wilde turns father's cattle farm into organic produce farm without harming animals and gives the remaining 63 cows to the Hillside Animal Sanctuary:
http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=9642&catId=1 (Farmer Sends Cows to Sanctuary; Grows Vegetables Instead
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-40253429
http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=9724&catId=1 (BBC Profiles Former Beef Farmer Setting Cows Free)

*Gustaf Soderfeldt, pig farmer, Sweden, turned vegetable farmer
https://www.plantbasednews.org/post/ex-pig-farmer-veganism-future-farming

*Declan Bowens, farmer's son, Ireland, rescue sanctuary Back Into Dayight:
http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/animals-feel-pain-why-a-farmer-s-son-turned-vegan-1.1953889?page=1
https://backintodaylight.com/

*Pamela Vitch, Lorene Eriksen, and other local residents banded together to save the remaining animals at the Lewis Oliver Farm and turn it into a sanctuary and vegan ice cream company
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/dairy-farm-becomes-sanctuary-and-serves-vegan-ice-cream/

*Andrea Davis, goat farm, USA, sanctuary Broken Shovels Farm:
http://brokenshovels.com/
https://www.plantbasednews.org/post/vegan-plantbased-farmer-dairy-farm-vegan-sanctuary

*Jess Strathdee and her partner Andrew, dairy farmers, New Zealand:
https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/health/diet-nutrition/farming-made-me-a-vegan-33880

*Josh Agland, slaughterhouse worker, Australia, now employed as an advisor for Australia’s first elected animal rights politician, Mark Pearson of the Animal Justice Party:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anna-pippus/meet-the-former-slaughter_b_10199262.html

*Faith, slaughterhouse worker:
http://www.veganaustralia.org.au/my_first_day_at_work_at_the_slaughterhouse

*Rachel, dairy farmer:
https://www.facebook.com/garytvcom/videos/vb.169905213064735/1161220633933183/?type=2&theater

*Henry Schwartz, Elmhurst Dairy CEO and son of founder, now a vegan milk company:
http://www.riseofthevegan.com/blog/dairy-company-ditches-cow-milk-and-switches-to-plant-milk
http://www.elmhurst1925.com/

http://www.respectandconnect.org/2015/08/25/former-farmer-turning-vegan-changed-my-world/
http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/03/23/former-seaworld-trainer-john-hargrove-alleges-abuse-killer-whales?cmpid=tp-fb
https://www.thedodo.com/seaworld-orcas-peel-skin-off-each-other-1498617162.html?utm_source=BfishFB2
http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=7378&catId=1 (Canadians Refuse to Work at Slaughterhouses)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DigpD8R3Oeo&list=PLvVEtm0D0OKJ9nn3rLJONCFCJa5FUzMyM