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You know what sucks about factory farming?* Those poor cows never get dessert. No trick-or-treating, no birthday parties, no office candy dishes. Just corn corn corn, soy soy soy, corn corn corn all year long.
Thankfully for the rights of cows everywhere, the Weather Channel reports** that this summer's drought has shot corn prices sky high, so farmers are actually finding it cheaper to feed their cows "discarded food products" like ice cream sprinkles, gummy worms, and marshmallows. Finally, some justice! Plus, imagine all the jobs this will create for future cow dentists.
See, the reason this makes so much sense is that it's obviously a good use of resources to process the food that cows eat as much as possible, so that when we slaughter them and eat their flesh, each bite will have the carbon footprint of driving a Hummer for six years or so. There's definitely no irony in the fact that the methane from the poor cows contributes to the global warming that's likely causing this and future droughts. Nothing weird about giving grass-eaters pure sugar with gelatin in it. GELATIN.
Guys, I hope you find this as uplifting as I did. Just doing my part to brighten your day. K, I'm off to go slam my hand in the car door a few times, because I just love that tingle.
*Besides EVERYTHING.
**They do news?!
Cow photo by law_kevin/Flickr.com
I read this story this morning and 'bout died. It's so awesome! Over in the U.K., Toby and his 81-year-old owner Derek, pictured above, were on a walk in the woods when Derek slipped on some crazy bridge over a creek and fell into a bunch of mud. He managed to cling to the bridge railing but as he said, "you can't hold your grip for long at my age." Scary!
They were walking with his other dog Bruno who apparently just wandered off when Derek fell. It's OK, Bruno! We all have different stress responses. But Toby knew his owner needed help and he sprang into action!:
He ran a quarter-of-a-mile past bushes and apartments to reach the security office which was manned. Toby barked anxiously and staff knew there was a problem and followed Toby back to the incident scene. The dog led the way and kept stopping for helpers to catch up.
Go Toby! What a hero! To reward him, Derek and his wife are going to take him on holiday (that means vacation in English). You deserve it, little guy. I wonder if Figaro would save me? He's got a lot of anxiety and I feel like sometimes people with a lot of anxiety are great in emergency situations because, like, they've been preparing for it their whole lives while everyone else was busy being normal. Maybe it's true for dogs as well! I'll try to slip on a bridge and see.
Does anybody have a story like this about their dog (or other pet?) I'd love to hear it!
I ❤ My Rescue is a new site from Brooklyn Animal Action that is all about rescued pets. Here's one such pet above! This little girl is Hypatia and she was rescued from a dumpster at six weeks old. As you can see, she's doing great.
Here's a description of the site's mission:
I Heart My Rescue is dedicated to rescued animals and the people who love them. Submit the story and photo of your rescued pal and we'll post it. Our mission is to spread the word about the many joys rescue animals bring, encouraging folks to adopt a rescue and support their local animal rescue organization.
We're a project of the all-volunteer organization Brooklyn Animal Action. We are very grateful for your submissions and your support.
If there's one thing I love, it's rescued pets! With all the doom and gloom we see, it's nice to know there are some happy endings out there. Who's going to submit?!
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These days, in the American-sized vegan cookie arena, there are tons of amazing contenders. ABC, who first stole our large, ethical cookie-loving hearts, recently released a line of gluten-free cookies that taste pretty good, but now lots of other big vegan (and xgfx) cookie options include (but are not limited to!): Liz Lovely, The Inspired Cookie, Nana's, Fabe's, Sun Flower Baking Company, and, of course, Sarah Brown cookies made by Eat Me!
Fabe's recently sent me some samples of their various vegan cookie varieties. The chocolate chip (containing gluten) and the macaroon (gluten-free) were pretty solid, but the gluten-free dark chocolate was so delicious! Sweetened with only non-GMO beet juice syrup and palm sweetener, these tasted fudgy yet were still cake-like, far superior to textures I've experienced in other gluten-free vegan "cookies," which were more like chocolate-coated oily Passover buiscuits. Fabe's aren't quite as large as some of the other large vegan cookies on the market, but they've achieved one of the finest gluten-free vegan textures and mouthfeels I've experienced so far in my plant-based-cookie-tasting journey! Definitely worth a try if naturally sweetened gluten-free cookies are your thing.
This is Vegansaurus raw correspondent Sarah E. Brown's latest post! Read more by Sarah on Vegansaurus, and visit her personal blog, Queer Vegan Food.
A couple weeks ago we told you about new San Francisco vegan business Picnic Bakery, and we're back with word on the deliciousness of their delicious treats! And they ARE delicious. Owner Emily was kind enough to drop off a variety for us to try and we were alllllll over it. And by we, I mean me and Meave because seriously, screw everyone else IT'S CAKE. JK jK, you're all great, but really: CAKE. Also, cupcakes. And pies. And something called PEPPERMINT PANDAS, which are basically as cute and delicious as real-life pandas.
Since I took terrible pictures of everything, I just went ahead and stole some photos from Picnic Bakery's blog. So, first things first, let's run down the goodies that we tried, and I'll go ahead and encourage you to order some stuff ASAP to try for yourself because there was a point at which I was singing "Satellite of Love" to the peanut butter pies. Shine your light on me, you gorgeous chocolate orbs.
First up, the aforementioned PEANUT BUTTER PIE!
Next! Peppermint Pandas!
Gingerbread tiny cakes!
Basically, everything was winner winner fuck dinner we're eating CAKE. If you know anything about anything, you know that I all I want to do is pile into a big bubbly bathtub (a hot tub?) with all of you naked and eat these cakes until we have to get out and take showers and all of a sudden, 18 years later, I'm like, "Remember that night in the big bubbly bathtub with all that cake? Well, here's your son!" I don't know what I'm saying but basically, these cakes were so freaking good. They were totally pure junk food, but decadent and very well done. I'm super excited for the store to open in Upper Haight, and until then, I suggest we all hire Picnic Bakery to cater everything forever.
It's Animal News You Can Use from Paul Shapiro! Yay, Paul! Yay, Animals!
We started last week's email with a good court ruling about California's Prop 2, and now this week, a federal judge told foie gras producers what time it is in ruling that California's ban on force-feeding ducks for foie gras will remain intact. In response to the ruling, the LA Times had a nice smack-down of the chefs fighting for force-feeding.
Speaking of smack-downs, the Wall Street Journal had a pro/con debate in the paper this week entitled, "Would We Be Healthier With a Vegan Diet?" T. Colin Campbell represented the "yes" side.
In case you've not yet read your latest issue of Meat & Poultry…there's a good article about the success of HSUS's gestation crate campaign. The conclusion: "This is no longer a debate about the viability of gestation crates in hog production, but rather a discussion about how producers will respond to meet expectations." (And check out this op-ed on the topic in Pennsylvania's second largest paper.)
Have a nice weekend. If you live near me, I hope to see you at the DC VegFest tomorrow!
P.S. Video of the week: Pig saves goat!.
(Bonus video: HSUS works with Project Empower in teaching kids about Meatless Monday.)
Heads up! Vegansaurus sponsor Vegan Cuts is doing a monthly vegan snack box subscription thing and I'm pretty excited. I loved this idea when Lollihop did it but I understand they folded? I'm pretty confident Vegan Cuts can pull through though—they seem to be super successful (no, I'm totes not jealous they have twice as many FB fans as us!). Septembers box is sold out but you can apparently pre-order for October like I did.
There's also a super-healthy vegan and gluten-free (soy-free too!) snack box subscription, Healthy Surprise. I believe we will have a review of that soon but you can read the site to get an idea about what kind of snacks come in the box.
I love snacks and I love getting things in the mail—it's perfect! Really though, what's better than snacks and getting stuff in the mail? Nothing!
Yay! It's the next giveaway for Vegansaurus Giveaway Week! Check every day this week for more prizes! This is the last one but you still have a chance to win them all!
NBW is a line of natural skincare products with a focus on organic, fair-trade ingredients. Not everything is vegan, but most of the products are, and nothing is tested on animals. Yay!
I tried the Yarrow and Rosemary Light Daily Moisturizer. From the site:
"Yarrow has anti inflammatory, antiseptic and astringent properties to sooth blemishes and remove excess oil. Yarrow contains high levels of azuline which gives its strong anti-inflammatory effect.
Rosemary contains naturally powerful antioxidants which inhibit the activities of free radicals and slow the effects of aging. In addition, it possesses excellent astringent and antiseptic properties that make it especially suitable for oily and acne prone skin."
This stuff is lovely. It absorbs nicely, and kept my oily skin moisturized without making it greasy. That's a difficult combo to find! I'm a fan.
But wait, super-fun news! We are holding a giveaway so you can win your own NBW product!
To enter, leave a comment on this post telling me which of their products you totally want.
OK? OK! Go! Happy giveaway week!
BlackBook's Nell Alk has a feature on John Bartlett's spring 2013 line, which he showed at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, you guys are you in love yet? OK, how about this: The clothes are all linen, vegan, sustainable, and totally gorgeous. Love!
We've talked about him before, but man, you should read this article, Bartlett is a good dude. Joshua Katcher loves him, Jeff Nesmith loves him, Vaute Couture collectively loves him, and (most importantly), Megan Rascal loves him. Why?
As he told BlackBook, "Everything I've learned—about how we use animals for clothing, entertainment, food—I would like not to do." And what about the rest of his animal-product-using industry? "Being in the fashion industry, [avoiding animal-derived materials is] never a big consideration. I think it's going to change. It's changing."
Here's hoping. Get over to BlackBook to read the article and see photos of Bartlett's entire SS13 line, which is pretty delightful. That pink suit! The shorts! The ties! Men's vegan clothing is catching up to women's and I couldn't be happier. You guys in like five years we are all going to look so good.
[Photo by Dan Lecca via BlackBook]
For over a year, controversy has surrounded Oakland's plan to draft a new urban agriculture policy, and specifically whether or not it will encourage raising and slaughtering backyard animals like chickens, rabbits, pigs, and others.
A new poll of 1,158 residents of Oakland's Districts 1 and 3 (where urban animal agriculture is most prevalent) strongly indicates that animals should be left out of the plan.
Sizeable majorities in both districts oppose it: 52 percent opposed to 28 percent supportive in District 1, and 55 percent opposed to 20 percent supportive in District 3, with the remainder undecided in both cases. These are the sort of numbers you want to see if you're mounting a ballot initiative campaign; for a response to a proposed regulatory change, they're basically a community mandate.
Here's hoping that city officials, from the Planning Commission to the City Council itself, take note. Given that it's an election year, there's a good chance they might … but to be sure, if you live in Oakland, consider sending the link to the poll to your elected officials.
"Urban agriculture" shouldn't and doesn't have to mean "urban animal farms foisted on communities that don't want them."
Rick Kelley spends his days at an Oakland workers' rights nonprofit and his evenings probably playing moderately accurate renditions of Propagandhi songs with his awesome partner and their rescued pups, Bandit and Emma. He's currently active in organizing for an Oakland urban agriculture proposal that does not include animal exploitation, and both writes and serves on the advisory board for the Food Empowerment Project. He used to blog, and might do so again someday.
Yay! It's the next giveaway for Vegansaurus Giveaway Week! Check every day this week for more prizes!
You heard right!: we are giving away a Thundershirt! This is an amazing invention that helps dogs with anxiety problems. It can help hyper dogs, dogs who are fearful of traveling, dogs scared of fireworks, lots of stuff! This is Figaro modeling his own Thundershirt. He's much happier than he looks, he was just hella tired. Prob because he was wearing his shirt! I swear, he falls right asleep like a lump when we put it on him.
Figaro is a pretty high-strung dog. He came to the SPCA as a starving stray and when I first adopted him, he was pretty much scared of everything. He's a lot better now but he is still on edge a lot. We got the Thundershirt for Fig on the recommendation of a trainer, she said it can help with anxiety. Turns out, it's totally awesome! He always wears it when he's scared during thunderstorms and he just totally falls asleep once it's on. It's hilarious. He straight passes out.
I hear the Thundershirt has been great for shelters, helping to modify behavioral issues that would keep a dog from getting adopted. The company actually does a lot of work with rescues—they donated 5,000 shirts to rescues in 2011! So cool! If more people got one, maybe a lot of dogs wouldn't end up in the shelter in the first place! That would be nice, wouldn't it?
Here's the description from the site:
With its patent-pending design, Thundershirt's gentle, constant pressure has a dramatic calming effect for most dogs if they are anxious, fearful or over-excited. Based on surveys completed by over two thousand customers, over 80 pecent of dogs show significant improvement in symptoms when using Thundershirt. Thundershirt is already helping tens of thousands of dogs around the world, and is recommended by thousands of veterinarians and dog trainers.
As for WHY Thundershirt's gentle pressure works to calm a dog, experts such as Dr. Temple Grandin believe that pressure has a calming effect on the nervous system. Using pressure to relieve anxiety has been a common practice for years.
So it's just like a pressure thing, no crazy pills or supplements! And now, it looks like they have a Thundershirt for cats too, so cat owners can get in on this! Oooh, I should get one for Mitsy. She's so sweet but she FLIPS OUT at the vet. It takes two people to like restrain her so they can give her a shot or whatever. And they have to wear those giant (shearling, bleh!) protective gloves that go up to the shoulder. I'm like, I swear she's a sweetie!
To win, leave a comment on this post answering this question: Why does your pet need a Thundershirt? I'll pick a winner next Thursday! Go!
Key points:
The dairy industry has long promoted the myth that milk and milk products promote increased bone health—but the opposite is true. The evidence is now abundantly convincing that higher consumption of dairy is associated with higher rates of bone fracture and osteoporosis.
It's also worth noting that the government recommendations for certain population groups to increase their protein and iron consumption come from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, an agency long known to be subservient to the meat and dairy industries.
I've always been a welfare vegan, but it's nice to have science on our side, for the humanists.
[photo by John Hritz via Flickr]
Celine Steen and Tami Noyes have a new, gorgeous cookbook out called Vegan Sandwiches Save the Day!, and because vegan blogging tends to be a mutual admiration society (you're all so great!), they sent me a copy for review.
It has long been established that the sandwich, in all its many, glorious forms, is the perfect food. But if a good sandwich is as easy as taking your favorite main course and slapping it inside some carbohydrate casing, why would you need a cookbook? I advise thinking of this book as more of an inspiration guide, like reading two inventive ladies' food-dream journal.
The photos are nearly obscene, they're so beautiful, and the recipes aren't terribly daunting. I made four, for research purposes.
You can find these recipes, plus 100 more, inside Vegan Sandwiches Save the Day!, available at all fine booksellers. You can also find the recipes I followed by searching inside the book on Amazon. For even more food porn, check out Tami's VSStD photo set on Flickr.
[photos by me; let's be Instagram pals: @meaverly!]
Yay! It's the next giveaway for Vegansaurus Giveaway Week! Check every day this week for more prizes!
FakeMeats.com, the meat substitute mega-mall and more, is offering this crazy prize pack for one lucky Vegansaur! We gave away a similar FakeMeats prize pack a little while back and I think it was our most popular giveaway ever. What do you expect? We're talking Soy Curls!
This package includes one of each of these products. Not everything in their store is vegan, but everything in this prize pack is!:
Primal Strip: Teriyaki
Primal Strip: Texas BBQ
Primal Strips are, juicy, meaty, vegan jerky made of seitan, soy, and shiitake mushrooms.
Lumen Stonewall's Jerquee: Original Mild
Lumen Stonewall's Jerquee: Peppy Pepperoni
Lumen Soy Foods Stonewall's Jerquee is all natural, vegan, and available in a variety of flavors. Most of the flavors are vegan, except BBQ "Beef," which contains honey.
Vegan Dream: Hickory Pepper Vegetarian Jerky
Vegan Dream: Teriyaki Vegetarian Jerky
Vegan Dream jerky is all-vegan and comes in a variety of flavors. This brand has a tough jerky texture and a unique blend of spices! Non-GMO soy, preservative-free, and high in protein.
Cactus Jerky: Hot and Spicy
Cactus Jerky is the leaf of the prickly pear cactus, dehydrated and flavored with organic tamari (a type of soy sauce) and a delicious combination of flavors and spices with a kick!
Seitenbacher Vegetable Broth Seasoning Mix
Seitenbacher Garden Herb Sauce Mix
Finally a quick, easy, and delicious vegan/vegetarian sauce mix! These powdered sauce mixes have no eggs, no dairy, no gelatin, no cholesterol, and no MSG. Just add water and heat.
Seitenbacher Sesame Veggie Burger Mix
Quick, easy, and delicious whole-grain veggie burger mix! Just add water to this vegan, powdered mix, form patties, and pan-fry to perfection. Each packet makes four small patties or two regular-size patties.
Butler Soy Curls
Butler Soy Curls are a vegan, all-natural, whole-soy alternative to meat! Made from non-GMO, whole soy beans. Just soak in water, drain, sauté, and add to any recipe!
FakeMeats.com Reusable Grocery Bag
Declare your love for Fake Meats by using the FakeMeats.com reusable grocery bag with the message "Nothin' but FakeMeats in here!"
How to enter: Same deal as usual! Leave a comment on this post answering this question: What's the best response to those meat eaters who talk trash on fake meat? I will pick a winner next Wednesday. Also note: this is for US residents only! Sorry!
Also, I recommend liking FakeMeats' FB page. They post nice recipes and you can keep up-to-date on the newest veggie products. The owner tells me they will be introducing some brand new stuff soon! I think that's one of the fun things about being vegan, all the novel products that come out. It's exciting to see what they'll come up with next!
I got two separate emails about this from irritated readers, and it appears to be true—you can see they casually add it at the bottom: "We're saying so long to the free soy…" uh, thanks for the unapologetic heads up.
This isn't the end of the world but as you know, I HATE being charged extra for soy. And I understand that many people signed up for this rewards program specifically because of the free soy, so yeah, they can be irritated. It's bullshit.
Oh and the last time we talked about this, someone pointed out that the coffee shops they've worked at charge extra for soy because it takes more labor to make soy drinks. They have to clean out the milk pitcher so there's no dairy milk residue or whatnot and that takes extra work. Can't they just have a designated pitcher for soy? And I'm sure there's a lot of things they make that vary in labor demand but they don't change the cost based on that. People wouldn't like that. But for soy, it's just an accepted practice to charge more and we can't just order something different. Bullshit!
You can go voice your opinion on their "idea zone" and you can sign this petition if you have a sec.
Events! We got 'em! No time to dilly dally, let's dive into the fray and get this party started and mix more metaphors and be grammatically insane forever!
Wednesday, Sept. 19 (that's tomorrow! It might be too late for this one but you should try to get in anyway and then find out if they'll be having more upcoming events and then email me about them and do my job for me thanks!)
A mind-blowing all-vegan three-course dinner prepared by the lovely and talented Ashley of Barefoot and in the Kitchen (the AWESOME new vegan cookbook!) and Fat Bottom Bakery fame. The meal will come from recipes in the cookbook so you can taste for yourself how delicious it is. And then buy several copies and give them as holiday gifts to me and others you care about less than me. It's 6 to 8 p.m. at University Press Books (2430 Bancroft Way, Berkeley) and costs $25. It's RSVP-only, seating is limited. For students and starving artists, there's a discounted rate. Awww. For reservations and questions, email them!
A fundraiser for Farm Sanctuary's Walk for Farm Animals at Saturn Cafe in Berkeley! Starts at 6pm, info and tickets here. Apparently a vegan feast is involved so if you can't get into Ashley's event, this could be a great second choice. Or a first choice. Do what you want, it's your life!!
Saturday, Sept. 22
B12: Bomb Vegan Brunch. We went last time, it was hella good, definitely go eat everything. 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Bissap Baobab (3372 19th St. between Capp and Mission, S.F.) Also on Sunday!
Sunday, Sept. 23
Millennium is having a nightshades and bloody mary cooking class! Girrrrrl, that sounds TASTY. If there are two things I love, it's mushrooms and alcohol. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (with an option to join Eric Tucker at the Ferry Building Farmers' Market on Saturday, Sept. 22, from 10 to 11 a.m.). Normally $150 but it's $125 if you say you're with Vegansaurus! The pink dino's got the HOOK UP, Y'ALL. (Sometimes, mainly he just needs to borrow some cash.) (can I borrow some cash?) Call the lovely Alison at (415) 345-3900, ext. 13 to book. Learn how to cook from a true master and eat an amazing meal and drink bloody marys on Sunday, which was what god intended when he/she/it/them created the universe and everything in it. Also, I am probably going to this so come just to hang out with me because I'm a LAUGH A MINUTE (read: I will glare at you from a darkened corner) (sexily).
Farm Sanctuary's Compassionate Communities campaign is leafletting and needs your help! The day starts with a light lunch (FREE FOOD!) and workshop on effective animal advocacy (very educational! We should all go to this and become better at doing what we do so the animal army doesn't eventually rise up and eat us!) (We'll have deserved it) before hitting the streets to leaflet at Market and Powell. Meet at 1 p.m. at 371 10th St. (the S.F. office of Beyond Eggs/Hampton Creek Foods).
B12: Bomb Vegan Brunch. We went last time, it was hella good, definitely go eat everything. 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Bissap Baobab (3372 19th St. between Capp and Mission, S.F.) Also on Saturday!
Monday, Sept. 24
More Farm Sanctuary veg leafletting, this time at U.C. Berkeley. Meet at Sather Gate (enter campus from Telegraph Avenue and Bancroft Street; walk north through campus along Sather Road, which is a pedestrian walkway, about one block until you reach Sather Gate) from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
And you can leaflet on Market Street (meet on the walkway between the corner of Market and Steuart street and the entrance to the Ferry Building Marketplace) from 4 to 6 p.m. Email firstname.lastname@example.com or call (484) 904-6004 if you have questions about any of the Farm Sanctuary events.
I think that's it on the events front for this week—or maybe I'm missing something!? What am I missing?? Underwear! That's it! You're welcome!
This Sat, Sep 22, thousands of people will gather at Yards Park from 11am-6pm to celebrate compassionate and delicious living at the D.C. VegFest! It's free, it's dog friendly, there are awesome speakers (Jane Velez Mitchell! Rich Roll! Terry Hope Romero!), tasty cooking demos (BEYOND MEAT!), fun stuff for kids to do so they'll leave you alone with the FREE FOOD, a BEER AND WINE GARDEN (my favorite words together ever, with the exception of "pan gravy" and "FREE FOOD"), and perhaps most importantly, A CUPCAKE EATING COMPETITION. If a Vegansaurus reader doesn't win that, I don't want to know this site ever again. And I mean that. This site better not even fucking LOOK at me if one of us doesn't win that damn thing.
Compassion Over Killing and the Vegetarian Society of D.C., it looks to be hella fun, and the only reason to be anywhere near our nation's capital ever. Seriously, D.C. is SO WEIRD! Everyone there dresses in business suits and talks about politics like they can actually do something good. The last time I was there, I saw people carrying BRIEF CASES. It was like, WHERE AM I? The opening scene of Joe Vs. the Volcano?? Someone give me a case of brain cloud and take me away from this misery! JK JK but seriously folks, there's some very good food there, and a few non-profits (like COK!) who are fighting the good fight, and um… weather? There's that. Oh, and the Spy Museum, that place is dope. Alan Turing 4 eva.
Yay! It's the next giveaway for Vegansaurus Giveaway Week! Check every day this week for more prizes!
Think Pretty is a lovely vegan line of "beauty elixirs," which are antioxidant, nutrient-rich facial serums. They make seven different elixirs; I tried You Make Me Feel So Young. The ingredients are definitely exciting!: Olive Squalane, Olive Leaf Extract, Red and White Tea Extract, Açai Berry Extract, Blackerry Seed Oil, Coenzyme Q-10, Immortelle Oil, Orchid Extract. Oh my! That sounds hella healthy!
After trying this, my official word is that I very much like the stuff! The results weren't super-drastic, but the elixir went on nicely, absorbed well, and my skin was soft and dewy. I love dewy skin!
So, my little friends, just for you guys we are holding a giveaway, AND I've got a discount code for you!
Giveaway: To enter to win your own bottle of Think Pretty beauty elixir, leave a comment on this post telling me why natural skincare products are the bomb. I will pick a winner next Tuesday!
Discount: To get 25 percent off all Think Pretty products, enter "AutumnPretty25" (not case specific) when purchasing. This code is active now until Oct. 31!
OK, get your vegan, organic skincare on!
The Lotus and the Artichoke is a vegan food blog inspired by the world travels of Justin P. Moore. Now, Justin wants to take his recipes and make a whole vegan cookbook! He's started a Kickstarter campaign to fund its publication, and now is your chance to donate. The perks look nice!
Here are a few recipes the cookbook promises to have:
Yeah, that sounds pretty yummy. The book also promises 50-plus full-page pictures. I am so down with this! I can't handle cookbooks without pictures. I want to see what the stuff looks like!
If this all sounds good to you, make your way over to Kickstarter and chip in.
Above are last week's chocolate-banana cakeballs. What's this week's flavor, you ask? Well, the first person to donate this week will get to pick the flavor! The first person of the week to donate $10 or more gets to decide the cakeball flavor for everyone. FUN!
Bonus: the sugar will be organic and vegan, the chocolate will be fair-trade, and Mandy's kitchen is gluten-free, so they're celiac safe. Yay!
To donate, check out Mandy's page. There's a pic of a cute baby pig!
It's the first giveaway from Vegansaurus Giveaway Week! This one is just for women-type people who will be in the L.A. area this weekend. But we'll have plenty more prizes this week for everybody!
Hey ladies! Remember when Chef Ayinde Howell's vegan pop-up Wildflower was in S.F.? Now it's coming to L.A.! This Saturday, Sept. 22, Chef Ayinde will be cooking a five-course meal, JUST for ladies. And Vegansaurus is giving away two free tickets! To enter to win, leave a comment on this post explaining why L.A. is a vegan food wonderland.
More details:
Wildflower, the one-of-a-kind crowd-funded vegan pop-up phenomenon that debuted last year to sold-out crowds of New York foodies, will be bringing its artisanal plant-based creations to Los Angeles on Saturday, Sept. 22. Chef Ayinde Howell will be curating the first of the brand's "Good Living" sessions—a festive dinner party, with cocktails and a chef demo. This is a ladies-only event, and guests will receive special gift bags filled with goodies.
Why woman-only? Women are the last minority in America to rise, and their power years are just in their infancy. Managing stress, work, success, family and a healthy diet can be hard to balance. Chef Ayinde is here to show you how it can be done.
Wildfllower Good Living will be a night of good food, fun and education. Just like the short-lived beauty of blossoming annuals in the field, Wildflower is here today and gone tomorrow. But this experience is designed to keep on giving. Complementing the ever-growing trend of food trucks and pop-up restaurants, Wildflower is a culinary experience with a purpose. Tickets can be purchased here.
Amuse: Scalloped Mushrooms with Sea-Sciutto
Mac & Yease
Cesar Howell Salad
Ayinde's Jambalaya
Gran Marnier Bananas Foster
Who's ready? Ladies, let me hear you say "yeah!" I'm SO jealous. I went to the pop-up in NYC and it was SO good. SO SO SO good. For all you L.A. people, now's your chance! I will pick a winner on Thursday morning—leave your comment before then!
You can also skip the contest and buy tickets online. Up to you! Or buy tickets online and then win two more and then have a big party! It's ladies' night! The feeling's right!
Here ye, here ye! Every day this week, we will host a different giveaway for an awesome prize! Rules are the same as usual, just leave a comment on the giveaway post answering whatever genius question we've presented.* We will read the comments, pick winners and then email them when the giveaway closes. You could be a winner! Well, you're all winners to us. But now you could be a winner with some dope free shit!
Spoiler alert: prizes include yummy fake meats, lovely vegan skincare products, and we've lined up something extra special for the rescue pooch in your life! So make sure you come back and enter every day. I'll be posting today's giveaway shortly. I'm so excited! Happy Giveaway Week!
*Update: sorry if this is unclear, this post is not giving anything away, it's announcing there will be giveaways all week! When a giveaway post goes up, it will detail how to enter. But they will all be the same as usual—leave a comment answering the question in that specific post.
It's Animal News You Can Use from Paul Shapiro! Yay, Paul! Yay, Animals!
Huge news this week: Big agribusiness lost another round in its continued assault on Prop 2, the ballot measure we waged four years ago in California to ban various factory farming practices. A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled in HSUS's favor and threw out a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the law.
Also big news is that meat consumption is in significant decline in the US. Here's a new piece from me looking at the trend and the reasons behind it. And here's a nice segment from the ABC San Francisco TV affiliate about HSUS helping a local school district implement Meatless Monday.
Speaking of big, my friend Big Bruce Friedrich has a good new essay about how the pork industry's leadership is both anti-science and anti-animal.
P.S. Video of the week: Man apologizes to cat by building him an amazing gift.
The SF SPCA is ready to help you remedy that forever alone situation this weekend, with two days of adoptathon fun. On Friday, Sept. 14, get down with free booze and free adoptions, plus food from Voodoo Van, which appears to have one vegan option (though you'll be in the Mission, legit snacks won't be far off); adoptions are on from 1 to 8 p.m., reception from 5 to 9 p.m. Then on Saturday, Sept. 15, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., continue wooing the animal companion of your dreams with free adoptions, plus a foster care bake sale, and Q&A with a trainer. You know you have to train your dog if you adopt one, right? An untrained dog is an unhappy dog! Plus you can't take it to the park to play with the other dogs if s/he never learned to socialize. The adoptathon continues on Sunday, Sept. 16, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with more free adoptions and more bake sale.
Are you ready for a furry best friend of your very own? Maybe a dog small enough to put in a large bag, who loves to catch (soft!) frisbees and curl up behind your knees for an afternoon nap? Or someone with big paws and jaws to wrestle with? Someone to call your "four-legged child" because you and your partner aren't into human kids? The SF SPCA wants to make those dreams come true this weekend. So get over there and make yourself and a lonely animal happy.
For more information, visit the SF SPCA online.
*Yes, Vegansaurus is built on relentless, hyperbolic enthusiasm, but we really do love you.
The New York Times' International Herald Tribune did a little feature on Unstitched Utilities, a vegan shoe company that uses Tyvek to make sustainable, theoretically recyclable shoes. And they are kinda hot, you guys.
What I particularly love is that not only are Unstitched Utilities shoes totally vegan and eco-friendly, they are waterproof. This means you can pop out of the house in your cheery yellow slip-ons, get caught in a freak rainstorm, and still have happy, dry feet! Because as much as I love a rainboot, I don't always want to commit to full-on wellingtons. These are casual and charming and just weird-looking enough. And the men's shoes are absolutely great, vegan dudes.
Read more about Unstitched Utilities at their site. Wearing stylish, eco-friendly vegan shoes increases your sexual attractiveness by 20 percent, guaranteed.
Dishcrawl, the eating event for people who mean Serious Business about their food intake, is doing an all-vegan event in Berkeley next week! They're keeping the restaurants secret, but tickets are $39, there are eight left, and do you have a better way to spend a weeknight than with a bunch of hungry East Bay vegans? Don't even act like you're popular; what you want to do is attend this Dishcrawl and make some friends on your side of the bay!
This Berkeley vegan Dishcrawl starts at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 18. Contact the organizer, Sarah, with questions, and get ready to get down. Will it be all Ethiopian and Flacos and spicy legumes? Or maybe it'll be a pizza-and-cinnamon-roll extravaganza! You know we love Berkeley and its many vegan options; the only question is how you will get home after devouring the neighborhood. Is there a special taxi for vegans too full of food to walk? Probably there should be.
[photo by selena hoy via Flickr]
The Guardian, a top newspaper for people with brains, has a gallery of the 100 most endangered species, as listed by the IUCN and Zoological Society of London. It's depressing! Even more depressing, it's part of a series called The Sixth Extinction: How humans are driving animals and plants to extinction, which includes articles on how endangered wildlife is being (illegally) traded on the internet, and on Ecuador's Yasuni Park, "the most biodiverse region on Earth," where people want to drill for oil because what else do you do with all that wildlife?
I had this conversation the other day about how, as a disgruntled, in-it-for-the-ethics vegan, it's hard not to wonder if the world would be better off if whatever apocalyptic event happens and wipes out humanity; you know, end humanity, end humanity's nonstop abuse of animals (among a million other things). Counterpoint: Hoping for the apocalypse is just another way of expressing depression; it's our responsibility to not be jerks—not contributing to the exploitation of people/animals/the environment, being kind to other people, living well and appreciating how good we have it, and trying to help everyone have it better. Read all the books about the post-societal gangs of rapist cannibal murderers, while striving for utopia.
These 100 species are considered the most endangered not only because there are so terribly few of them left, but because "they have no obvious benefits for humans." So cool! What do we even do about this? What does it matter if we cause the death of the greater bamboo lemur, or the Amsterdam albatross? They're not curing our cancer or assembling our shoes or inventing personal electronic devices; fuck 'em. We won the evolutionary race, we get to decide who lives and dies from now on. Right?
[photos, from top: ZSL/IUCN; Baz Scampion/ZSL/IUCN; ZSL/IUCN all via the Guardian]
[link via The Editors' Desk]
Remember back in April when we asked you to vote for some worthy causes to win ad space on BART, via BART Blue Sky? Duh of course you do, you hang on our every word. Well, if you voted for our pals at the Factory Farming Awareness Coalition (formerly the Coalition to Fight Factory Farming), get ready to pat yourself on the back for a couple of clicks well-placed, because they won second place! And good old Earthjustice came in third! Hooray!
Our pal, FFAC President and founder Katie Cantrell, sent us previews of their onboard and station ads. They're pretty friendly, right? Just, hey, it sucks to be an animal on a factory farm; ensure fewer of them suffer by observing Meatless Monday. Money quote from the FFAC press release:
We know BART riders are concerned about the environment, yet many people don't realize that animal agribusiness is responsible for 18 percent of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions, more than the entire transportation sector. … If we really want to spare the air, we should all eat more plant-based meals. We can start by participating in Meatless Monday.
These ads will run throughout September, so maybe look up from reading that thoroughly engrossing novel/Dlisted on your phone (I SEE YOU) (me) and check out the ads you voted for! Your eyeballs deserve to look at something besides that dour girl in a severe haircut and native California plants.
You heard it! Blossom is coming out with a vegan cookbook. As she said last week on her blog:
My next book will be a plant-based (vegan!) family cookbook. Yay! It's meant for vegan and non-vegan alike! I intend to include all of the Jewish recipes I've veganized as well as all of our family's standard beloved recipes.
I'm into this! I like Jewish food and Blossom was my jam. Remember her boyfriend? What was his name, Vinny? He was the hotness. And Six was so great in those Lifetime movies later in her career.
So, is there vegan matzo brei in my future?!
Here's a sweet story. This couple, Melanie and Eddie, had their dream wedding all set to go when they found out their adopted pit bull Koda was sick. He had a liver shunt and needed expensive surgery to save his life. The couple, having been turned down by their pet insurance and with no other money draw from, spent their wedding fund to save Koda's life. Here's the best part:
Upon hearing what Melanie and Eddie did for Koda, the Halifax Humane Society felt they had to help. They approached local vendors and soon had a catering company provide food and a lovely receiption facility for the couple and their guests. Other vendors soon joined in to help, arranging for flowers, music and all of the other necessary arrangements to throw the couple their dream wedding on Saturday, September 8, 2012.
OMG don't cry! How great is that? There's got to be a screenplay in here, right? Or at least a series finale. Also: hello, nurses! I wonder if this couple is into threesomes. And how adorable is Koda? Ridic.
Via Ecorazzi
I don't know what really happened but the awesome animal sanctuary my lover Somerhalder is planning was in danger! Luckily for us, Ecorazzi has been following the story via Twitter. The land Somerhalder wanted for his sanctuary was possibly going to be "turned into a business park and transfer station." Whatever the eff that means. But it looks like my super-hot future husband* was able to reach a deal and can now move forward with his super-awesome sanctuary. This is good news! Let's save the animals and the kiddies!
*JK, marriage is for suckers! Born alone, die alone—that's what I always say.
Hella Vegan pop-up dinner at Dear Mom on 16th and Harrison in San Francisco! Tonight from 4pm to question mark! Because, who can say!
It's Animal News You Can Use from Paul Shapiro! Yay, Paul! Yay, Animals!
The Wall Street Journal had an important article about the progress we're making against the inhumane practice of tail-docking in the dairy industry. And as far as progress is concerned, hot dog giant Wienerschnitzel and Jack in the Box are the latest major pork buyers to announce its plans to phase out gestation crates.
The Toledo Blade had a piece entitled "More black Americans are giving up meat and dairy," and the San Jose Mercury News ran a good story about HSUS's work with the Pleasanton school district to implement Meatless Mondays.
Finally, author James McWilliams has an interesting piece about HSUS today on Slate.
Have a great weekend! Hope to survive mine, as I'm part of the depraved Team HSUS crew taking on the Tough Mudder challenge in Maryland tomorrow…
Video of the week: Can't decide if you like cats or dogs more? This video gives you both. (And bonus photo of the week!)
On Saturday (that's tomorrow!), Nativas Naturals is launching the Back-to-Basics Smoothment—a smoothie movement! From what I gather on social media, a bunch of you hippies are into this kind of "healthy milkshake" thing. You're in luck—Nativas has got your back. Just head on over to the website, and sign on up! It's all free of charge, and you'll gain access to instructional videos, receive free recipes and even get discounts on featured raw, organic products. Just the incentive you needed to plug in that blender, isn't it?
When it comes to smoothies, I like to think of my friend Caroline as the professional between the two of us. I prefer my blended drinks at a tiki bar, but Caroline actually drinks smoothies for breakfast. I thought that's what coffee was for? Silly me, I have so much to learn! For all of our sakes (mine especially), I recruited Caroline as Vegansaurus' own Miss Smoothment! Armed with products and a blessing sent to us from Navitas, Caroline agreed to share a couple of her own recipes with us, to kick off the occasion. Take it away, girlfriend!
"Anyone who follows me on Instagram is well aware that I've been obsessed with smoothies lately (I mean, why eat your food, when you can drink it?), so I wasn't totally surprised when Jenny asked me to help review some of the Navitas superfood products.
I usually start my day with a protein smoothie of some sort (using a vegan protein mix and my kitchen staple, the immersion blender), so I did what any excessive American girl would do — I mixed all the powders together for the mother of all breakfast smoothies. I wanted to see how this stood up to my "rigorous" morning workout (hello, I've got to be at my best when working out beside the retirees in the San Francisco Presidio Y). I also wanted to see how it compared to the more "performance"-oriented mixtures that I've been using. The verdict? I felt totally energized (as much as I can at 8 a.m.), and wasn't hungry afterward. Not to mention, it was super delicious! (Bonus that all their products are organic—I'm not a fan of drinking chemicals and pesticides in my smoothies—raw, and gluten-free.)
Here's what my typical morning smoothie looks like:
Serves 1 (6-foot girl)
2 Tbsp raw Hemp Protein powder
1 Tbsp sprouted Flax Seed powder
1 Tbsp Freeze-Dried Acai powder
1 tsp raw Maca powder
1 Tbsp raw Cacao powder
12 oz almond milk (or a mixture of half-almond, half-rice)
1 banana
Handful of blueberries
Handful of ice
Lunchtime smoothie, serves 2:
3 Tbsp raw Hemp Protein Powder
2 tsp raw Maca Powder
12 oz almond milk
Handful of baby spinach (kale is good, too)
1/2 of an avocado
Handful of raspberries
Handful of strawberries
3 Tbsp organic peanut butter
Handful of ice
Since I'm already armed with so many of Nativas amazing products, I have no choice but to participate in their Smoothment. I also can't stand not joining things (only child syndrome). Perhaps you'll give it a whirl, too (Get it? Bad smoothie puns!)."
As usual, please share your personal recipes with us! Don't forget to follow my girl Caroline on Twitter and Instagram (@wakeupcaroline)—I can't wait to see all the smoothie talk that will ensue, while wondering if rum is also a suitable ingredient in your icy beverages.
I have a sneaking suspicion that he and his 18-pack abs will still be gyrating under unzipped leather coats for the foreseeable future, but a small victory is a small victory. Usher saying he eats vegan has led to speculation that he's getting his main man Justin Bieber to also gravitate to a plant-based diet, so he'll have more energy fighting off 12-year-old girls in international airports. The Biebs going vegan will be huge for P.R. in the pro-vegan community, especially when accounting for the 8-to-14-year-old girl demographic. If I see a flock of Bielibers running toward a chrome Fisker in the parking lot of Native Foods Cafe, you bet your animal-loving ass I'm going to ask for a high five. I just better not have to wait any longer for my reuben.
There is more than handful of famous vegans. It's tough to say who is in it for moral reasons and who just claims it as they get out of a Prius on the red carpet. Natalie Portman for example, isn't all vegan all the time. But we beggars can't be choosers, I guess. If veganism gets a little shine here and there from a celebrity trying to better their lives, who am I to complain? We got Billy Clinton to look as good as ever since his vegan transition. I was contemplating buying women's underwear Wednesday night just so I could throw some at the TV. Lucky for the rest of us dudes, Usher can't get any prettier. Right?
Let's hope that Ursher's selling skills are as good as his sit-up skills and we can mark down more artists in the famous-V column. He reportedly feels great and "loves" eating out at fancy New York city restaurants. Not the best-ringing endorsement to potential or on-the-fence vegans, since people of all diets can eat out in fancy New York restaurants. But we'll take it! Hopefully Usher will make a Billboard chart-topping single where he serenades an unsuspecting woman on where he gets his protein. I'll buy that record.
Andrew E. Irons is a blogger from Long Beach, Calif. He co-created and contributes to Rhode Island-based hip-hop website The Echo Chamber Blog under the pseudonym Verbal Spacey. You can track his daily diatribes by following him on Twitter.
No. 4: The Vegan Bodega
Eric Hopf and his family are in the process of opening an all-vegan store in downtown Manhattan. Although it's not open yet, I'm already in love with the products they're providing and their dedication to the cause. They currently operate as a pop-up until their storefront becomes a reality. If you can, support these awesome people and their endeavors because this store is going to rock.
No. 3: Honey LaBronx
Yes, it's a bit ego-stroking to put my own podcast co-host on this list. Still, she is one bad bitch. This crazy activist is constantly spotted marching through crowds with a bullhorn, and waving her homemade protest signs in Christine Quinn's face, and occasionally getting arrested. This queen fights for the animals, she's exciting, and if it wasn't for her, I never would've ended up in front of a microphone answering questions to new vegans. Check out her cooking show, our podcast, and go see her hot ass live. She is a freaking inspiration, and she looks good doing it. She's also an okay friend, too, I guess.
Laura Yasinitsky is a writer, comic, waitress, and animal-lover based in California. She has appeared on Comedy Central's Open-Mic Fight, and writes for US Weekly's Fashion Police. You can follow her silliness on Twitter @LaraYaz.
[photos: Empire State Pigeon by ZeroOne via Flickr; Quintessence raw pizza by Robyn Lee via Flick; vegan sushi from Soy and Sake; Sweet & Sara peanut butter s'more by Veganbaking.net via Flickr]
This week on Fresh Air, Terri Gross interviewed Thor Hanson, a conservation biologist and author of the newly published Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle. As part of his research, he plucked a dead wren to count its feathers. It had 1,500. A tiny wren, like the Australian white-winged fairy wren in the photo!
In the interview, which you can listen to on NPR, Hanson discusses the biological makeup of feathers, why he thinks birds evolved feathers, and how they adapted them to flight. The first feathered animals might've used them primarily for insulation, and now, every single individual flight feather is an airfoil, while being part of the airfoil that is the bird's wing. Double-airfoil action for maximum flight!
Animals are amazing! So is science!
[white-winged fairy wren photo by David Cook Wildlife Photography, via Flickr]
Our BFF Vaute Couture is going on fall tour! PLUS pre-order just started on new coats and they are 50 percent off for a few more hours! OMG THE EXCITEMENT! I got one last year and everyone says it's smashing. [Ed. note: Everyone loves mine, too! —Meave]
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Shop online now, or shop in person later! You can't get fancier, better-made vegan fashions than Vaute Couture's!
It happened very suddenly and I've been a whirlwind of a hot mess the last month. As I've gotten more settled I feel I have grown a true appreciation for how easy and wonderful it is to be a vegan in New York City. I miss it, and I wanted to tell you all how much I love it. However, in an effort to spare you all from the longest post in the free world, I have managed to narrow it down to a top 10 list. Please enjoy Nos. 10-6 today!
Cue the Letterman drumroll!
No. 10: Westerly Market
I doubt I've ever left this place having spent less than $200 and I have never regretted it. Westerly Market is a magical place filled with all the hard to find vegan goodies as well as an incredible selection of organic produce, bulk dry goods, and frozen meatless wonders—what we all secretly wish Whole Foods actually were. Even while living in Brooklyn I would pack a backpack with Westerly groceries and haul it all the way home. The staff is also incredibly nice and they will order almost any product you are interested in them carrying. I love you, Westerly Market.
No. 7: Vegan Shop-Up
The Vegan Shop-Up rules. It's an awesome pop-up market with only 100 percent vegan goods, from soap to brownies. This bi-monthly event is beyond fun, and a great way to stock up on hard-to-finds. It's also how I discovered some of my favorite vendors, like Rescue Chocolate, Gone Pie, the Vegan Bodega, and Cake Bites. If you're in NYC and you haven't been to this yet, you are MISSING OUT! Get your butt there ASAP.
No. 6: The Vegan Guide to New York City
Come back tomorrow for Laura's top five vegan reasons to be in love with New York City!
Laura Yasinitsky is a writer, comic, waitress, and animal-lover based in California. She has appeared on Comedy Central's Open-Mic Fight, and writes for US Weekly's Fashion Police. You can follow her silliness on Twitter @LaraYaz.
[photos: Empire State Pigeon by ZeroOne via Flickr; Cinnamon Snail by Megan Rascal for Vegansaurus; May Wah vegan meats by Shira Golding via Flickr]


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- The loans extended to Maiden Lane II and III were repaid according to their monthly schedules this week. On the outstanding loan to Maiden Lane II, $220 million was returned to the New York Fed, bringing the total left to be repaid down to $14.089 billion. Maiden Lane III saw a fall of nearly $400 million, dropping the balance remaining to $15.469 billion. The mortgage-backed security (MBS) coupon swap operations announced last week by the New York Fed continued this week, racking up an extra $6 billion. Other assets have continued along their trends. Discount Window lending was cut to a third of its previous size, falling to $111 million left outstanding. Security holdings from the large-scale asset purchase programs seem to have topped out in the range of $1.6 trillion. There was no significant action on the other side of the balance sheet. The third and final scheduled small-scale Term Deposit auction is set for next Monday.

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The Abayudaya, a small Ugandan Jewish community, survived Idi Amin's persecution and then reconnected with the wider Jewish world, as they had done a century before. Part 2 of 2.
For the Abayudaya, even in their rural insignificance, Amin's fascist, erratic brutality meant direct persecution as he tried to root out Zionist influence. Devora, Sizomu's mother, remembers praying in secret, being discovered and then chased by a government official ("Amin's bodyguard," in Devora's words) to a rice field, where she and her husband were told to convert to Islam or die. The details of the story are muddled by myth, but the feeling of injustice is palpable in the telling. Solomon Magoma puts the dark time more starkly: "Some passed away. Others went away because of Idi Amin Dada."
In the summer of 1976, Amin allowed Palestinian hijackers to divert Air France flight 139 from Tel Aviv to Entebbe airport, where 105 of 248 passengers were held hostage with the complicity of Uganda's army. Israel prepared a Sayeret Matkal raid to free the hostages. It was codenamed Operation Thunderbolt and led by Yonatan Netanyahu, the older brother of the current Israeli prime minister, a hero of the Yom Kippur war in the Golan Heights, and the only member of the raid not to come back alive. For the Israelis, despite the heroism and loss of "Yoni," the operation was a daring success. For Amin, it spelled the beginning of his decline. For the Abayudaya, the message was no less clear: When Jews are in danger, a thunderbolt will fall from the sky to crush their enemies and lift them to safety. The Abayudaya believed that it was no accident that Israel had been tested on Ugandan soil, and they saw the Entebbe raid as a call for them to reorganize and persevere.
This was a part of Kakungulu's legacy to his followers: Religious conflict, the shifting alliances of schisms, orthodoxy, and rivalry will test their devotion. But the lesson was also one of connectedness and patriarchal power. The story of these East African Jews had summoned the spirits of a series of strong men: Moses, Herzl, Kakungulu, Yoni Netanyahu, and, yes, Sizomu. In fact, Sizomu once said to me, about his political aspirations, "Jewish sources say, 'Where there's no man, you strive to be a man.' " He was citing Tractate Avot, from the Mishnah—"Hillel used to say: A brutish man cannot fear sin; an ignorant man cannot be pious, nor can the shy man learn, or the impatient man teach. He who engages excessively in business cannot become wise. In a place where there are no men strive to be a man."
On April 11, 1979, the day Amin fled to Libya as Tanzanian-backed rebels closed in on the capital, in Namanyonyi, a boy was born to the Sebagabo family, and he was called Moshe. He grew up among the Abayudaya and studied law. After his conversion ceremony, he and a fellow Jew, a doctor named Samson Wamani, planned a trip to Kibbutz Ketura in the Negev. Despite Amin, the link to Israel had not been cut. Excited at the prospect, Sebagabo and Wamani drove together to Nairobi to ask for visas from the Israeli consulate. They didn't want to emigrate but bring back international experience for the benefit of their community. At the consulate, the answer was no. "Can you imagine what would happen," the consul said to them, "if we said yes to you?"
Once, when Sizomu and I were sitting near the Abayudaya's guesthouse on the hill, I asked him if he ever thought about Kakungulu, and how he had conquered these lands and chosen Judaism and set them all on a path. I said that it was rare to see a foundational myth so old and so thoroughly alive and ingrained in the culture of a group of people as that of Semei Kakungulu seemed to be for the Abayudaya. Did he feel connected to him, and to his greatness? Sizomu, who has a modest streak despite his ambition, laughed at the suggestion, but then narrowed his gaze and said, "I am the new Kakungulu." He talked about being a politician, collaborating with international sources, having an appreciation for Uganda as a nation, and taking up a religious life. Then he said, "I am going to be the new Kakungulu."
The week leading up to the February election is dry and hot, and the layer of dirt and dust is like red baby powder, lifting in tiny clouds with each step and billowing into great plumes behind trucks and jeeps. The roads outside the provincial center of Mbale have risen from the earth, settled, and spilled over vegetation, crops, people, and houses on either side of the gutters such that it seemed Moses himself had parted a red sea of dust. My shirt collar and cuffs are red. The edges of my notebook are red. Today is Friday, Gershom Sizomu's 42nd birthday. On Nabugoye hill, where voting for parliamentary seats in Uganda's national elections has come to a contentious close, the heat has boiled into the first tall thunderheads of the season. I had been told it would not rain. I had also been told the Jewish candidate would win.
Now the ballots are ceremoniously dumped out of their clear Ugandan Electoral Commission tubs onto a plastic tarp on the ground. Behind Ugandan Electoral Commission crime-scene tape, which had been stretched across the yard shaded by acacia trees to delineate the polling station, some 150 voters and parishioners are pressing forward to observe the count. The presiding officer for this parish is still looking vibrant in her gray ankle-length skirt suit and pink Oxford shirt, despite having withstood a full day's pounding sun, and despite wearing a rather undignified neon-and-gray Electoral Commission smock of the kind children don before finger painting. Her skin is so dark it has a white sheen, and her small nose is set against high cheekbones. She is sharply beautiful, and she's taken a pose of agricultural ritual, bending from the hip over straight legs to gather the ballots into organized piles to be counted while a village watches and complains. The task over the day has been to choose who will lead Uganda. Now the task is to see who has been chosen.
Thunder sounds, and then rolls again, louder, like a kettle drum. The crowd inches closer to the pile of ballots. Then the first drops fall. Within a minute the heavens have opened, and all light has gone from the sky. The polling agents scramble to gather up the tarp and race into the nearest shelter, through three sets of doors set under a stepped facade that reads:
Inside, the tarp is laid over the bimah, the ballots spread where the Torah would be if this were an ordinary Friday night. A pair of naked wires in a corner behind the ark are connected to a car battery, bringing the eternal flame and a few fluorescent bars to life. The zinc roof clatters under a biblical deluge. The excitement of the rain has cranked the anticipation up another level. The synagogue feels like a crowded school gym during a fire drill, and the presiding officer has grown some beads of sweat on her nose. When the counting resumes, she has to shout to be heard over the rain.
Gershom! Gershom! Wojje! Gershom! One by one the ballots are read and held up for all to see. Gershom! Wojje! Gershom! Gershom! A number of ballots are kafu, or invalid, with two ticks, or a thumbprint and a tick, or marked on the line, and these are held high for a moment longer while the observing agents and the crowd shout their opinions. Gershom! Gershom is winning his home parish. In the crowd, a boy in a skullcap introduces himself as Asher Watege and tells me he's 17. "I voted," he says. But your age? "I lied—so I could vote for Gershom." Gershom! Gershom! Kafu! A fat policewoman in new blue camouflage says to me, "Gershom gave a lot of money to these people. He has to win here." She was happy to hear that 24-year incumbent Yoweri Museveni had won the presidential count in this contentious district, and she seems a little annoyed at Gershom's showing. She wants "security," she says. Not "chaos," and what she sees looks like chaos to her. Everyone else, though, looks like they've just won a soccer match. With the ballots all checked, the presiding officer begins to count out loud in Luganda. The crowd counts with her, one, two, three. The Muslim incumbent Wojje takes 50 votes, to a smattering of polite applause. Then with every hundred Gershom tallies, the crowd gives a cheer. One hundred, two hundred, 353 votes. The rain has stopped. Gershom takes the parish.
Even as the congregation files out, the long night of counting throughout the district and across the country is only beginning. I ask Asher if there'll be Shabbat services tomorrow. "No, we have lost Shabbat tonight," he says. "And if Gershom was to win, or even not, the people won't come tomorrow, because they will be afraid to gather here," and put too many of Uganda's Jews in one place. "Supporters of the government could come with guns or weapons," he says. Inside Sizomu's house, Sizomu's daughter Daphne has made challah in a Dutch oven. Tzipora, Jane, Judy, Jill, and Ria have lit Shabbat candles before a meal of matoke plantain mash, rice, pulled turkey, and cabbage at the Sizomu's dining room table. In the living room, campaign workers take calls from the observing agents in the rest of the district and keep a tally of results on scrap paper that looks like a rummy score card: "Gershom" on the left, "Ogye" on the right, with, by the look of it, Sizomu polling nearly 3 to 1.
Back in Mbale late that night, I watch the vote counts come in on NTV. The air is finally cleared of dust, but the humidity has given the evening a remote hint of chill. Leftover campaign commercials review the ruling NRM's gains in "poverty reduction," with shots of white people on a boat looking at crocodiles. "The NRM has plans to consolidate the tourism sector through a holistic approach," says the lilting voiceover, that of a parent warning a child. "If this changes, the country risks losing all the progress it has made over the years." On the cathode-ray screen, sandal-wearing bazungu point at hippos, and then something gives between here and the 1954 Owen Falls Power Station damming the Nile and, across Mbale, the lights go out.
On Saturday, Gershom faces a dire situation in the Mbale Town Council house, where an agitated crowd has gathered across the street and riot police have been deployed to keep order. Gershom says that his agents and voters were intimidated. He says three extra ballot boxes stuffed with Wojje ballots were brought in, and reports on national television seem to confirm this. Wojje had told me the day before, when I asked if he would concede a loss, "If they tally and find out that I will be beaten, I will accept it. Yes, because that's democracy, eeeeh." President Museveni is clearly going to win another five-year mandate. Sizomu, though, will soon be reduced to filing a long-shot complaint with the Constitutional Court and promising to run again in 2016.
Up in Nangolo village, sitting on the cement foundation ledge behind the home where Sizomu was born, Devora sang an Abayudaya song. Though the rhythms of verse were familiar to me, the tune was like that played on a thumb piano. Devora sang calmly, and with authority, despite a warbly rasp, and when she finished, she said it was "one of the songs that Moses sang." I asked her which verses she had sung, and she called for her dead husband's Old Testament. The bye-bul-ee, as she pronounced it, was in Luganda, the colonial missionary language, and it was frayed, yellowed, and dog-eared. The song had come from Eykyamateka, Deuteronomy, Chapter 32, which begins "Listen, you heavens, and I will speak;/ hear, you earth, the words of my mouth." It is, I realized, where Moses gives his final instructions to his people.
In the last verses of chapter 32, Moses says to "take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day." The Abayudaya have done just that, as the verse orders, "and thereby command their children." By Devora's account, it was Kakungulu himself who composed the melody for this "Moses Song." "They are not just idle words for you—they are your life," the chapter closes. "By them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess."
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I was too tired to w/o this morning. DH was up playing rock band until 11:30. I could still hear it even with the bedroom door closed! He finally came to bed and then proceeded to snore
I was probably having a hard time sleeping too because Cody was coming home from seeing the baby girls at 1am. I did get up and talk to him when I heard him drive up.
I ended up doing the first 30 minutes of CC press play on the treadmill yesterday. My heart was actually hurting. Probably because I don't run on a treadmill and had a hard time selecting the hill grade and speed and overdid it a bit on the sprints. Oh well, it was nice to get a run in and I finished it up with weighted ab work.
Wendy-the book I recommended is The Non Runners Guide to Marathon running (something like that). Not only is it a very easy read, but it's also a 16 week marathon training guide that has you running 4 days per week. It talks about goal setting etc. The pain you are describing sounds like sciatica-you poor thing.
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I looooved wearing my babies in a sling -- I found the hands-free thing super-convenient and, for me, they were easier to get on and off than other baby carriers. In those early weeks, the physical closeness helps with bonding, too -- a part of the "attachment" idea. I wouldn't say I was officially into attachment parenting or officially not, but here are the basic principles.
And it's definitely one of those phrases you hear a lot -- one of those "parenting philosophies." My philosophy is pretty much just to try hard to do a good job -- but I will say, wearing the kids was pretty cool! There are several groups related to attachment parenting on CafeMom -- as most of you guys already know, you need to join a group before you can join in the discussion. But this is a great way to ask questions and get more info to see if something feels right to you.
So about baby-wearing -- what do you think? Will you use a sling? Or did you?
I believe 100% in babywearing! Thank you for this article! I am a big AP supporter but I didn't realize until I joined CM that I was an AP mama. I didn't wear my son in a sling, but when he was 6 months old my mom got me a Moby wrap which was WONDERFUL. I highly recommend it. I could wear him easily until he was a toddler. I look forward to wearing our next child right from the beginning. It's such a simple way to foster a great attachment and bond between mom and baby.
I wore both of my boys in a front carrier when they were babies. THough it was more b/c it was convenient than b/c I was into attachment parenting. But I loved having them with me all the time, I couldn't stand to put them down! :) I did try a sling with both of them and neither of them liked it. I plan on getting a different sling for the next baby and trying again.
I am a total believer in AP parenting- I wore both my babies, co-slept and BF'd them both and they are great, smart well-balenced loving children!
I had a baby bijorn to carry both of my older boys. Now I am PG with #3 and I'm planning to buy a Moby wrap and maybe a hotsling. Love wearing my babies!
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AP..Attachment Parenting..is parenting from the heart! Many of us were "AP" long before we knew someone (Dr William Sears) coined the term to what we were doing..natural parenting! Breastfeeding, snuggling/babywearing, co-sleeping..just feels so natural and loving!
Thanks for joining in -- so great having all of these voices and perspectives!
I love baby-wearing! I have worn my children from birth through... well-- still! The first-grader, rarely, but the 3.5 year-old is still occasionally worn when I am working. It's great!
Also, I follow the AP philosophies to extend nurse (on-demand, and co-sleep, etc., pretty much the things our anscestors have done because they are naturally the healthiest route. Unfortunately, I think that the "modern Western world" is pretty removed from all that good stuff. Just a little AP takes a kid (and family) a long way. ;-)
Attachment problems occur when regular nurturing doesn't happen.
I adopted my daughter from Russia when she was 18 months old. She was extremely malnourished; and was labeled a "failure to thrive" baby. I experienced what happens when a child has attachment issues.
My daughter punched holes in walls, rocked back and forth constantly, stole money from me and my friends, stole items from stores, and killed small family pets.
This is my simplistic explanation to attachment parenting: nurturing your infant helps his brain develop: the neurons in his brain are connecting, creating what I like to call "super highways" that his emotions travel on. An emotionally healthy child's brain will have an extensive superhighway that your child's emotions will race down, effortlessly, at lightening speed, as if they were in the fastest sports car on the planet.
Kids with attachment issues don't have a superhighway. My daughter's emotions were dumped in a broken down cart, pulled by a donkey down a one lane, gravel road full of pot holes. A very bumpy ride indeed.
Neuro feedback is very helpful in re-training the brain...it repairs the highway, if you will. It saved my daughter. Find a good neuropsychlogist and take action. Every child is worth saving.


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Getting several elementary school kids ready in the morning is always a challenge, but I must say, I am getting better and better at it each year. Aside from backpacks, homework folders and permission slips, I have three -- sometimes four -- lunch boxes to pack every morning. I remember lunch boxes used to be little metal boxes with your favorite cartoon character on the outside and a PB&J and giant yellow Thermos® on the inside. These days, they look more like mini ice chests with enough padding and insulation to keep ice cream frozen for a week. Anyway, I bought some of these nondescript lunch boxes for my two girls, and they ended up being very similar in appearance, both plaid and pinkish purple.
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That morning, Kaitlyn went to get her lunch box out of her backpack. Immediately she recognized that it wasn't the right one, but she walked over to the nurse's office with it anyway (which is what she does every day at lunch time). The nurse also figured that something wasn't quite right. She didn't recognize the lunch box, and then when she opened it, the little book wasn't there. They were about to call me to ask me what had happened, but they guessed that we had probably just mixed up the two. The office manager had to track down Anna, who was with her class in the computer lab, to ask her to bring her lunch box over to make the switch. It all worked out in the end, but there were about six people at school who had to deal with my mix-up. I've learned my lesson though. Next year, I'm buying distinctly different looking lunch boxes and backpacks! Maybe they still have the metal ones…
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my girlfriend like to suck me after I've been inside her she says she finds it kinky tasteing herself on me, does this mean that she want me to lick my come off her boobs? I know its a weird link but its still the tasteing yourself thing.i dnt particually wanna do it but I would for her, should I ask her or just go for it?
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That would be kind of weird to me, because she's into something, it doesn't mean she's expecting you to be in it too. The thing with sucking you off after youve been inside her is that she can taste herself, but it's not like she's drinking a smoothie. The taste is faint AND she's giving you pleasure (2 birds with one stone). If I was with a guy and he licked up his load..I would be taken by surprised, not turned on, not turned off. I would that that was what he's into and leave it at that.
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Dude, don't lick it up. That would be really weird. And definitely a turn off. Her tasting herself on you is a little different...it's like, if we had been having sex and we snuggled up and I could smell myself on your body. You know? It's not really going out of the way for her --- it would be going out of the way for you to lick it up since the sensation of a tongue on her chest is...just...kind of weird. If she's kind of kinky, ask.
I personally think you should just go for it. Have a good time, man! :D
do you like this? would you want a guy to come on your boobs then lick it off. I got to the point of finishing on her but then couldn't go through with licking it off.
I love it when my boyfriend does this makes it easier for round two :D
well, I'm not having sex yet, sooo...but I mean, if she sucks you and tastes herself, then maybe you should TRY to do that for her...atleast one...you never know! you might like it!
LOL don't do it, its a turn off. a guy licking his own cum? are you serious? lol so gay... I'm preety sure she ddnt meant that way..
It is totally different... I like to taste/smell myself on my husband but I would be totally disgusted if he licked his own come ... NOOOO don't do it. Don't even ask. If she wants that she is just gonna have to tell you.
mmmm sounds like a good time to me!
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A lot of people seem to be into this. Personally, I will come on my girls boobs any day, but I don't know if I want to lick it up. She had me try a little bit of my come one time and its not that its bad. Its just that I have a tendency to come a lot. I don't think I want to swallow that much!


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The Wall Street Journal reports today on another distressing effect of this recession — unemployed Americans who took severance packages are running out of funds and can't find replacement jobs.
Many lost their jobs in 2007 and 2008, and thought they'd soon find work, the WSJ reports.
Now, they're getting desperate. Last week, lawmakers passed a bill extending unemployment benefits up to 20 weeks. Unemployment benefits, which typically last about 26 weeks, were expected to run out for 1.3 million people by the end of the year, according to the National Employment Law Project.
All of this is happening as the long-term jobless rate hits its highest point on record. More than a third of those who are out of work have been looking for more than six months, making this category of unemployed the biggest since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking it in 1948, the WSJ reports.
Overall, companies have been eliminating or trimming severance packages. For those who do receive severance, the median pay allotted is 12.5 weeks' salary, down from 21.8 weeks a decade ago, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
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Not to worry about jobs.There is more pressing business for this country.Like passing a health care bill ,and carbon offset credits,and the Olympics.Don't forget the Nobel Peace prize.Have to go get that.We could always use more stimulus spending to create more government jobs.If they promise to vote Democrat and stay off Fox News.
I sometimes sit here and think what the real number of unemployed people really is and it keeps coming up about 20%.Many of these people will never go back to work again.


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Pocket Gophers????
Has anyone heard of these? A buddy and I were looking at a farm we are thinking about leasing in WI and while driving through one of the farmers fields he said "man those pocket gophers are even up here".....both of us kind of looked at eachother like.....what the heck did he just say? I asked him if he meant groundhogs, and he said no but from what he described they sounded like prarie dogs but he said no. Does any one have any ideas or pics? Thanks
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The pocket gophers are burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae. These are the "true" gophers, though several ground squirrels of the family Sciuridae are often called gophers as well. The name "pocket gopher" on its own may be used to refer to any of a number of subspecies of the family. Pocket gophers are a symbol of the U.S. state of Minnesota, sometimes called the "Gopher State".
Wikipedia... gotta love it!
You gotta love it. I learn something new every day. :eek: What's the local season for them? Got any recipes? :D
This is the only picture of what we call a gopher (aka known as picket pins, sage rats, and popups) that I have.
No I have never heard of a pocket gophers? Hmmm
Wyote, What is the farthest distance shot that you have taken to bring one of them down with your pistol? It looks like it is a pretty small target that you need to hit.
With this pistol I can hit PD's out to 200 yards regularly. I have taken gophers at that distance, but I generally limit my shooting to about 150 yards because of there size. There right around 1 1/2 inchs wide when they stand up.
I never heard of pocket gophers.... Hmmm they sound interesting and sound like a lot of fun to hunt.
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Insurance Council saves insurers millions
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The Insurance Council has won a High Court ruling which will save insurers millions of dollars in the Christchurch rebuild.
The High Court has ruled that Christchurch City Council's new earthquake strengthening rules to 67% of new building standard are illegal.
The Building Act 2004 requires just 34%.
The Insurance Council successfully argue 67% would cost insurers several hundred million dollars.
Insurance Council lawyers told the court 67% would not only incur more costs but would hold up the rebuild because there would be disputes about the extent of insurer liability if property owners were required to repair to the higher level.
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Seems reasonable. Not up to insurers to make their clients 'better off' than they were before. Owners should pay for any top-up beyond 34% if required. Cost of running a viable business...
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Credible commitments and constitutional constraints: state debt repudiation and default in nineteenth century America
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