Tag: Vegan
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Why Vegan?
At the end of June this year, Joe happened to bring home a kid’s cookbook from the library that unknowingly was vegan. Enzo and I started going through it, making things in the cookbook and reading the facts and information that were spread throughout the book. Prior to this, we’ve been eating a mostly Paleo…
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How Our Food Choices Affect Climate Change
I have not researched climate change much. I read articles here and there and am generally aware of it but it never really was something I was passionate about. Since becoming vegan, it has been on my radar more. Learning about how the animal agriculture greatly affects climate change and other negative environmental impacts (such…
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What You Eat Matters
I’ve seen a handful of vegan documentaries including What the Health, Forks Over Knives and Vegucated. I recently watched H.O.P.E. What You Eat Matters and it is easily the best one I’ve seen. It is very thought out and well done. It’s not in your face or judgmental or scary like some documentaries might be.…
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Why I Don’t Eat Eggs or Poultry
This is the first real post since starting our new blog in which I address a specific product within the animal agriculture industry. When I first started learning about veganism, one of the saddest facts that I came across was the treatment of baby chicks (males in general) within the egg and poultry industry. When…
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Vegan Food Choices and Nutrition – Protein
What does veganism mean? According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a vegan is “a strict vegetarian who consumes no food (such as meat, eggs, or dairy products) that comes from animals; also : one who abstains from using animal products (such as leather).” There are a myriad of reasons why someone may choose to become vegan. (Check out my reasoning here.)…
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Why Vegan?
At the end of June this year, Joe happened to bring home a kid’s cookbook from the library that unknowingly was vegan. Enzo and I started going through it, making things in the cookbook and reading the facts and information that were spread throughout the book. Prior to this, we’ve been eating a mostly Paleo…