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Why Vegan? Pick a Reason. Any Reason.
Whether you care about human rights, food safety, wild animals, the environment, world hunger, farmed animals, or your own health, just a cursory loo…
6 years ago
The Lethal Gifts of Livestock: Zoonotic Diseases and their Origins
Being animals ourselves, it makes sense that we share many of the same diseases as our non-human cousins. We aren’t – after all – plants. We aren’t …
6 years ago
50 Ways to Live a Meaningful Life
“Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how,” wrote Viktor Frankl, author of Man's Search for Meaning. The question isn't "how can…
6 years ago
Can You Eat Eggs And Still Be Vegan?
In other words, if someone is vegan in every other way, but they eat the eggs of their rescued hens (who live in their backyard or at an animal sanct…
6 years, 1 month ago
Life-Changing Books (Fiction and Nonfiction to Live By)
I love books. My love of reading goes back to my childhood, I have fond memories of the annual Scholastic Book Fair at my grammar school, I worked in…
6 years, 2 months ago
Better is Better: The Emotional and Practical Aspects of Fostering Cats and Dogs
How do you love someone and let them go? How do you make sure the good intentions you have lead to good results? How do we help the scores of rescued…
6 years, 2 months ago
How Zero Waste Changed the Way I Eat (And Why Baby Carrots Are Evil)
Once you decide to make zero-waste, plastic-free, low- or no-packaging a priority in your life, you learn very quickly you have to make some changes …
6 years, 2 months ago
Five Favorite Foods (And The Strange Way I Eat Popcorn)
When is a banana not simply a banana? Which food (on my least-favorite food list) is an animalogy? How many ways can you eat cauliflower? Which olive…
6 years, 3 months ago
Lessons and Gifts: Making Meaningful Holidays (and Lives)
This end-of-year episode is based on my motto that life is made up of a series of lessons and gifts, an appropriate topic as we reflect on the lesson…
6 years, 4 months ago
The Last Thanksgiving Turkey
Every year as Thanksgiving approaches, it seems there isn’t a magazine, newspaper, or website that doesn’t feature recipes for every means and method…
6 years, 4 months ago