Written by Guest Contributor on Nov 19, 2011 09:31 am
I started my website and blog because I knew that the only way I would lose weight and recapture control of my health was if I humiliated myself into it. My incredible wife is a life-long vegetarian and knew my becoming plant strong was the way to keep me around. After she forced “Forks Over ...
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Written by Alex Jaakola on Nov 18, 2011 06:00 am
If you’re a vegan business owner you likely have an arsenal of promotional tools that you use to get the word out about your business. But is an electronic press kit one of the tools you are using? In today’s digital world, newspapers, information packets, media kits and many other forms of traditional media and ...
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Written by Guest Contributor on Nov 17, 2011 11:00 am
Maria Giurcan is a Software QA Engineer who is also an avid world traveler and a longtime vegan. She blogs about vegan dining and sightseeing during her domestic and international travels at http://www.veganworldtrekker.com/. When she is not traveling, she shares helpful travel tips for her vegan blog readers. Maria recently self-published her book “How To ...
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Written by Zoe Eisenberg on Nov 17, 2011 06:00 am
A subculture is a group that differentiates—in actions, values and/or beliefs—from the larger culture to which they belong. It can be argued that veganism is a vegetarian subculture, but I believe veganism is a subculture to society as a whole. By abstaining from the consumption of animal products or refusing to support factory farms on ...
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Written by Guest Contributor on Nov 16, 2011 11:00 am
Ellen Jaffe Jones is an author, personal trainer, coach and teacher of vegan cooking classes. For 11 days she is working with Vegan Mainstream to help people go vegan and STAY vegan! From November 11 to November 22 she is available at 11 am and 11 pm on the Vegan Mainstream facebook page to answer ...
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Written by Lani Muelrath on Nov 16, 2011 06:00 am
If you are anywhere within a stone’s throw of Orland, California or Watkins Glen, New York on the weekend before Thanksgiving, then get your happy compassionate holiday hiney to the Farm Sanctuary Festival of the Turkeys. This annual event fires on so many fun cylinders it’s hard to know where to start. The video below ...
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Written by Zoe Eisenberg on Nov 15, 2011 06:00 am
Dear VM Readers, This week on Vegan Mainstream we are talking about subcultures, so I wanted to ask you, what vegan camp(s) do you consider yourself a member of? I am including a handful of vegan subcultures below. The following are, of course, lump subcultures. Vegans are people too, and many of us could fit ...
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Written by Emma (VM Blog Manager) on Nov 14, 2011 11:47 am
Veganism is known, in the non-vegan world, as a subculture of vegetarianism – “extreme vegetarianism” – people who don’t even eat dairy or eggs, or people who won’t eat anything to do with animals. At one time few people knew what veganism was – and even today a lot of people are unclear. Although it’s ...
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Written by AshleyThomas on Nov 14, 2011 06:00 am
Though we are working to make vegan mainstream, at this point in time veganism can still fairly be categorized as a subculture of mainstream society. This week on the Vegan Mainstream blog we are talking about both veganism as a subculture AND some of the ways people define themselves within the vegan group – sub-subculutres – ...
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