by Jason on September 27, 2004
It is with great hopes of snagging a review copy that I shamelessly forward Johnathan‘s news that Steer Madness, the vegetarian video game, now has a trailer online. Johnathan will also be a guest on next Tuesday’s Animal Voices radio show here in Toronto (CIUT 89.5FM). All kidding aside, the trailer looks pretty fun – it looks like you get to drive a tofu delivery truck! Ok, maybe that’s just my childhood dream. There are other vehicles, and bikes, and construction equipment. I guarantee you’ve never seen anything like it.
by Jason on September 21, 2004
Ok, I completely missed Talk Like a Pirate Day this year. I am more sorry than you’ll ever know. I was alerted to this fact when Magic Stones sent a link to Pirates of the Carob Bean, which I just found buried way deep in my submissions folder from when aspifox sent it in a month and a half ago. I’m taking steps to prevent this kind of tragedy from happening in the future, but there’s still no reason that we can’t enjoy a good pirate link or two… Apologies once again, I be walkin’ the plank now.
by Jason on September 18, 2004
by Jason on July 30, 2004
The fine folks from Animal Voices sent news that there’s a guy in Wales somewhere who’s vegan, and he’s a landlord, and he’s only accepting vegan and vegetarian tenants. We reported on a similar situation in South Bombay a year or so ago, but that link’s long gone. Wanna know who I think would make a great vegan roommate? Smaak, that’s who. Especially today, what with it being his birthday and all. I bet the place would be covered in balloons and those pointy party hats, and there wouldn’t be any complaints from neighbours about the noise from the party, because they’d all be there dancing to Vanilla Ice, and everyone would look at Smaak, but he would just blame his VP roommate, at least if he or she was one of the seven people who like Vanilla Ice. That would be one fine party.
by Jason on July 28, 2004
Here’s a sweet trick for vegan Scrabble players, at least if you’re using the Merriam Webster dictionary: rain notes that they’ve added pleather to the dictionary. Now when your meat-eating opponent plays “leather,” you can lay down the “p” and scoop up some points while veganizing the game board.
by Jason on July 22, 2004
I would have used “The Power of Tofu Compels You!” for the slogan, but anyway, Shawn reports that the LA Tofu Festival takes place on July 24th and 25th. This would be in the events section, but there’s a tofu eating contest, and that deserves some notice. I’m guessing that the contest is vegan, but please note that the event as a whole isn’t vegetarian. Still, they’ve got a mascot called Tofu Ninja, and that’s a-ok in my book. Do we have any LA readers who can get some photos?
by Jason on July 22, 2004
Rosemary sent this in awhile ago, and I must have lost it somewhere, because I don’t think I posted it, but Barathy reminded me: there’s a group of Canadians working to form a political party with an animal rights focus. They’ve got a Yahoo Group which can be found here.
Argh, I totally forgot about this. Apologies in advance if I’ve delayed someone from getting their dream volunteer job. Remember when I was talking about Shameless Magazine? They’re looking for a food politics writer. Read on for details… [click to continue…]
Shameless Magazine is “a progressive magazine for teenage girls who are underrepresented in the mainstream media” that officially launches today (Saturday). While it’s not a vegan magazine, it’s an important one, and it does win a few soy points – there’s an article by Sarah Kramer of How It All Vegan fame, and while I can’t say more without breaking some confusing anonymity rules, suffice it to say that there’s more than one connection between the VP user community and the Shameless team. If you know anyone who could use a magazine like this, subscriptions start at 12 Canadian dollars per year.
by Jason on April 16, 2004
I can’t believe we’ve gone all this time without an official VP food. From this day forward, I hereby endorse corn smut to fill the gap. Corn smut is “a black, bulbous fungus which causes corn kernels to swell to many times their size. Most U.S. farmers consider it a disease, and destroy infected plants. However, the Aztecs considered it a delicacy, and it is still prized in Mexican cuisine. Also known as Mexican truffle, huitlacoche, cuitlacoche, and maize mushroom. It can be found in gourmet markets fresh, canned and frozen. It has a sweet, smoky flavor,” and I look forward to confusing produce workers everywhere from now on. (via memepool) In other news, we’re rounding out the week with some quickies, click the link to get ‘em… [click to continue…]
