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May 30: for Memorial Day barbeque
Added link to Curied Tempeh Burger recipe
May 13
Saw the Seattle showing of Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home, which portrays "the awakening conscience of several people who grew up in traditional farming culture and who have now come to question the basic premises of their inherited way of life." I hope they are able to release it on DVD soon.
April 29
I've never eaten beef jerky, and don't like things that taste like meat, but I'm hooked on these vegan jerkies!
February 16
Wrote a blog entry about Mardi Gras.
Added this visual to the Conscious Eating Page:
February 10, 2010
Added Spinach Tofu with Peanut Sauce recipe.
December 23
Added delicious, vegan, non-alcoholic eggnog recipe.
December 18
Got a red 3 horsepower Blendtec blender and made a very smoothe green smoothie, as well as tofu pudding, and hummus. Looking forward to making juice, frozen desserts, soups, rice milk, etc.
November 15
The amount of thyroid medication I need has dropped again, to about half of what I was taking before I started changing my diet.
Added recipe for Grawnola, which is fantastic!
Added to Books section: Refresh: Contemporary vegan recipes from award-winning Fresh restaurants, by Ruth Tal
November 9
I learn something new almost every day. And much of it haunts me:
Today’s domesticated turkeys have been anatomically manipulated to be large breasted and heavy to meet consumer demand – especially for white breast meat. They have been so profoundly altered that the birds are incapable of breeding naturally.… According to USDA Agricultural Research Service poultry physiologist Ann M. Donoghue, “Essentially 100 percent of the nearly 300 million turkeys produced annually in the United States for consumption are the result of artificial insemination.” (from a report on the Farm Sanctuary website)
You can watch how this is done, and then decide what to have for Thanksgiving.
November 5
Added link to interviews with Jonathan Foer, author of the just released book Eating Animals.
Interview on The Ellen Show.
Interview on The Larry King Show.
Added other links:
Farm Forward implements innovative strategies to promote conscientious food choices, reduce farm animal suffering, and advance sustainable agriculture.
Happy Cow: Global Directory of Vegetarian Restaurants & Health Food Stores
Someday Farm Vegan Bed and Breakfast
November 4
Added link to the Meatless Mondays site
October 26
Created separate ingredients and specialty foods page, expanding upon one of my favorites—coconut!
October 19
Added link to PCC Sound Consumer article on Acid-Alkaline Balance on the Toxins, Acid, and pH page
This wonderful article sums up what sometimes keeps me up at night: "Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat." (from Against Meat: The Fruits of Family Trees)
September 9
Added Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World, by Bob Torres and Jenna Torres to Books page.
August 24
Added link to Humane Myth.org
August 23
Added link to Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food, from Time magazine
Added Corn Ceviche recipe.
You can now follow healthnik on Twitter.
August 1
Updated link to green smoothie recipes.
July 24
Updates on the links page:
The GFCF (Gluten-Free, Casein-Free) Diet for Autism and PDD
Is Diet a Factor in ADHD and ADD?
July 22
Updates in the Ingredients & Specialty Foods section
July 14
Trailer for Food, Inc.
June 30
New links:
The glycemic index: A tool for healthy diets from PCC Consumer
Raw food vitality from PCC Consumer
June 16
New links:
My Raw Journey (not mine; someone else's)
June 1
Mock Tuna recipe
Flax and Veganaise in the ingredients section
May 26
New links added
Find a Farmers Market in your area.
Farm Sanctuary, where I took a tour while back east.
New books added:
Diet for a New America, by John Robbins
Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust, by Charles Patterson
Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating, by Jane Goodall
May 13
New recipes added
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