Support Your Local Vegan

Information to assist in living the vegan lifestyle - nutrition, recipies, cruelty-free products, and more.

Recent Features/News

• Vegetarians - still here, still healthy

Local resources

• "Fat of the Land", by Alan Durning, Worldwatch Institute/ The environmental consequences of the meat-centered diet.
• The Leather Substitutes Resource Guide, by Tom Swiss. (Formerly the "Leather Alternatives FAQ".)
• 1988 version of the Position of the American Dietetic Association on vegetarianism.
• 1992 version of the Position of the American Dietetic Association on vegetarianism.
• Some interesting information about vitamin B12 and deficiency thereof2, from an old rec.food.veg thread.
• PCRM's controvertial 1992 press release on the health effects of cow's milk.
• Beef - Words to Kris Parker's rap song.
• Information about diet and osteoporosis, from an old rec.food.veg thread.
• China.study - study of Chinese diet patterns and relation to health.
• The Beyond Beef Campaign:
  • Background
  • "The Beef Diet - Prescription for Disaster", Neal Barnard.
  • "Cows Eat Better Than People Do", Walden Bello.
  • Environmental costs of beef production.
  • Beyond Beef Farm Policy, by Howard Lyman and Mark Ritchie.
  • The health effects of meat.
  • "Farm Animals: Commodities or Creatures?", by John Hoyt.
  • Beyond Beef Quotable Quotes.
  • "Cattle and the Global Environmental Crisis", Jeremy Rifkin.
• An excerpt from "Taking Stock: Animal Farming and the Environment" by Alan Durning and Holly Brough, published by the Worldwatch Institute - farming, meat-centered diets, and self sufficiency.

Links

• Veggiedate - vegetarian personals ads
• Animal Rights Resource Site
• Dilip's Vegetarian Resources
• Vegetarian Pages
• Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG)