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Massive fires at factory farms and other facilities happen with disturbing regularity, often producing staggering death tolls. Our spreadsheet is the systematic first attempt to

After a long struggle with heart disease, and enduring multiple surgeries including a quadruple bypass, former U.S. president Bill Clinton decided to swap his Big

Climate activist and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore shocked vegans and environmentalists alike when he conveniently left any mention of diet out of his

Do a Google search for famous vegans and you’re likely to find all sorts of lists naming historical figures like Plato, Pythagoras, Da Vinci, the

A former actress and stand up comedian, Ellen Degeneres is currently the host of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. She eats a mostly vegan diet apart

There are few celebrities as passionately dedicated to the vegan lifestyle as American actress Alicia Silverstone. Alicia rose to fame after starring in the classic

I went walking with my mother yesterday, and the subject of Paula Deen’s sudden career implosion came up. My mom doesn’t follow food politics nearly

David Sztybel writes possibly the best critique of Gary Francione’s work I’ve yet seen. It’s a thoughtful and well-crafted argument that doesn’t lend itself well

Last week’s James McWilliams article for the New York Times has prompted Michael Pollan’s farmer hero, Joel Salatin, to weigh in. Until now, I’ve never

The Michael Pollans and Joel Salatins of the food movement are gonna freak when they see James McWilliams’ new op-ed. Its conclusion is gold—these are

Absolutely shameful, and a great embarrassment to the hospitals and to McDonald’s alike. Seven of these hospitals are specifically for children, because I suppose there’s

The other day I clicked a Facebook ad for John Robbins’ new book: No Happy Cows: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Food Revolution. I

Lance Armstrong is the latest person to give the all-vegan Engine 2 Diet a shot. Armstrong’s basically combining this approach with Bittman’s “Vegan Until 6”

One of my very favorite cookbook authors, Bryanna Clark Grogan, and I have been working together this month to publish her latest recipe. It’s an

A photo from Mexico United for the Respect of Animals, with the Spanish caption translated by Google: Chickens killed Foam The new invention of the

Bryanna has devoted over 40 years to the study of cooking and nutrition, the last 23 to vegan cooking. She is the author of nine vegan cookbooks.

Nonprofit organizations are filled with passionate and well-meaning people who dedicate their lives, often for less-than-average pay, to improving the world we live in. In

Here we go again. I can’t begin to tell you how much I detest having to drag myself out of bed to write stuff like

He tells Wendy Williams: I don’t eat any meat. I only eat fish twice a week and I eat only vegetables and fruit and I’ve

An new all-vegan cooking show, “The Jazzy Vegetarian” will be televised in a dozen states on public broadcasting this autumn. Thirteen episodes have so far

  With vegan marshmallows. Recipe from Hearty Vegan Meals for Monster Appetites. Photo from the “My Zoetrope” blog. Uploaded by: My Zoetrope

A great piece by Chris Joyner in the Atlanta Journal Constitution about how factory farms flout environmental regulations in Georgia, knowing that there’s almost zero

Peter Singer ends his lengthy New York Times review of Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by calling it, “a

Amazing. Hard to believe that this actually works, and that this technique isn’t already common knowledge. (Via Boing Boing.) Link. How to Peel a Head

The most inane anti-vegetarian piece I’ve seen in months, from someone showing exaggerated concern about the suffering of carrots yet evincing zero distress over animal

Eating Animals author Jonathan Safran Foer will be appearing at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, and the Sydney Morning Herald has an article profiling Foer

Harvard just released the sort of dietary advice the USDA would have, if the agency wasn’t so thoroughly corrupted by agribusiness interests. Compare the USDA’s

A few times a year, I’ll quote an anti-vegan at length, and offer responses to the points that are being raised. Today’s the day for

An extraordinarily effective video. Don Draper would be proud. Chipotle’s video perfectly demonstrates that food politics alliances are both vital and disagreeable. As vegans, we

Another sign that Ellen DeGeneres is passionate about promoting veganism: she just put up a new web page and blog devoted to the subject. The

Could you produce milk and eggs without killing the animals involved? In chapter 3 of Meat Market, I offered an extended analysis of why slaughter-free

Newly-minted Registered Dietitian Andy Bellatti wrote the following guest blog entry. I love Andy’s work, and I follow him on Twitter and subscribe to his

I’ve been writing about factory farming for more than fifteen years, and in all likelihood today marks the single biggest step forward for farmed animal

Important Psychology Today piece exploring why vegetarians and vegans go back to eating meat. There’s a tribal tendency within the vegan world to look at

For the second time this week, Nation’s Restaurant News has run a veggie-friendly article, and unlike this past week’s cover story this article’s not locked

He wrote yesterday about eating bluefin tuna for the New York Times, and after the inevitable backlash now wonders if it’s OK to write about

Steve-O, the man behind the finest film series in cinematic history (Jackass 1, 2, 2.5, and 3), just bailed on a benefit for the American

I’ve repeatedly heard rumors that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is vegan, but they’re bunk. Here’s what’s really going on: he’s decided that the only meat

One more time in case you haven’t yet learned it by heart: live by vegan celebrity, die by vegan celebrity. I’m not a vegan anymore…I’m

Worthwhile but depressing New York Times article about Yotam Ottolenghi, one of the top chefs in the UK, and the grief he takes from the

In my travels around the United States, I’ve invariably been impressed by the level of activism occurring throughout Texas. For any number of reasons, you

A kick ass letter from this past December: Dear Mr. Prather, After learning about the bizarre way you breed killer whales, my friends at PETA

Not since Nina Planck has the New York Times published such a pathetic article. That old, tired, and always insincerely-asked question about plant suffering is

My pal Marisa Wolfson, who really should do stand-up comedy for a living, wrote the following review for Vegan.com: If Skinny Bitchhad sex with a

I exercised uncharacteristic restraint last week in my write-up of Heart Attack Grill pitchman Blair River’s death. Too easy a target, and I’m not into

This week’s feed is sponsored by Jodi Chemes, CPA. I’m probably one of the most committed Do-It-Yourselfers in the vegan community. I typeset, index, and

Essential reading for everyone who eats fish—a long and superb article from Erik Vance arguing for something I’ve long suspected: that much so-called “sustainable seafood”

I dutifully ordered a copy of Kathy Freston’s Veganist the moment I heard she was appearing on Oprah. I just finished it last night. Seems

This page offers a convenient alternative to standing in a drug store, checking the vegan and animal testing status of one product after another. Amazon.com

When a disease outbreak strikes animal agribusiness, here is South Korea’s method for dealing with the problem: they dig an enormous hole, dump live animals

It’s easy to do animal advocacy that will save large numbers of animals from harm; easier still if you get a little reading under your

Ever since its debut last year, I’ve regarded Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution as the most valuable television series a food activist could possibly watch. Season

Exciting stuff for vegan junk food enthusiasts. I’ve been waiting almost 25 years to eat Pop Tarts, but the real ones have whey or gelatin

My friend Shani Campbell is one of the the San Francisco Bay Area’s most dedicated animal advocates. She’s also a huge Howard Stern fan. Well,

The newest Vegucating Robin episode is online. This one’s as simple as it gets: Robin shows Gavan how to make her beloved Green Drink. Watch

A few weeks ago I blogged about the fact that casino mogul Steve Wynn became vegan after watching “Eating” and that he’s since revamped the

In another step away from its core menu offerings, McDonald’s will be adding oatmeal to its breakfast menu. It appears to come with a dairy-based

Superb Chicago Tribune article on the new six-step animal welfare labeling standards pioneered by the Global Animal Partnership, which are currently being rolled out by

Live by celebrity, die by celebrity. Yesterday, P. Diddy announced to his 3 million twitter followers that he was getting married, and had become vegan.

In a USA Today interview, McDonald’s CEO Jim Skinner prevaricates over the push to tax fatty fast food meals: I pay attention to legislative activity

Exciting stuff here: Janet Jackson spends several minutes telling Jay Leno about her favorite vegan foods. Vegan living just got another big push into the

A year after getting yanked, one of my favorite vegan food products is back on Amazon.com. It’s a love-it-or-hate-it food, much like Marmite, but to

I first encountered the proposition all the way back in 1995, when I was researching Vegan, that industrial society would grind to a halt if

Kieron B. emails me: Last night on the Biggest Loser TV show, Bob Harper, one of the show’s trainers, invited struggling contestants to his house

More than a decade into retirement and nearing age fifty, NFL great Herschel Walker continues to be a monstrous physical specimen. Get a load of

As a result of several new studies coming out, Jack has revised his article addressing the fact that even mild B12 deficiencies can elevate homocystine

This past week, the New Yorker published an article by Malcolm Gladwell on Internet-based activism, which basically asserts that it’s incompatible with the heavy lifting

On today’s CBC Radio Q program, Eating Animals author Jonathan Safran Foer debated Anthony Bourdain about meat eating and factory farming. You’d think a conversation

60,000 chickens were found dead this week at a North Carolina factory farm, a result of a failed generator powering the facility’s ventilation system. This

Important piece in the Washington Post by Kwame Anthony Appiah, titled “What will future generations condemn us for?” Appiah introduces a three-point system for distinguishing

Forget about the Yahoo/Huffington Post video I blogged last week that featured Bill Clinton talking about his near-vegan diet. I’m now wishing it was never

Here’s a silly but widely-read news piece blaming deforestation on—of all people—people who avoid meat. The piece was published today in a free newspaper handed

A new opinion piece by Rutgers philosopher Jeff McMahan in the New York Times is already provoking a vehement response. McMahan suggests that we should

Ellen DeGeneres never ceases to impress me. In today’s segment  with Lady Gaga, she stays poised and positive despite Gaga’s ridiculous meat costume. Watch how

Salon.com has a solid interview with Hal Herzog, author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard to Think

Angelina Jolie took a big swipe at veganism this week: I joke that a big juicy steak is my beauty secret. But seriously,I love red

One of the annoyances that accompany reading both the pro and anti-vegetarian literature is that many of its authors have pathetic analytical skills. Take Lierre

Two weeks ago, I jeered at the USDA for releasing new nutrition guidelines that called for increased milk consumption. Now other experts are weighing in.

It’s the best-ever time to stock up on DEVA brand vegan vitamins and DHA fulfilled by Amazon. Right now, Amazon is offering free two day

The results caught the researchers off guard: The researchers found the vegetarians reported diets significantly lower in EPA and DHA, the omega-3 fatty acids that

In Indonesia, a man caught having sex with a cow claimed the cow had seduced him. The article doesn’t say what brand of lingerie the

Unrelenting bad news for the Arby’s fast food chain: Wendy’s and Arby’s were brought together in a 2008 merger. While Wendy’s sales have stabilized, Arby’s

You know what kills me about publishing Vegan.com? Every morning, I see the books my readers purchase through the Amazon.com links, and I’d say that

A neurological study published last week showed more empathy-related brain function in vegetarians than in meat eaters when both groups were presented with scenes depicting

Not the greatest ‘go veggie’ talk you’ll ever witness, but still a nice four-minute video to show omnivores who, hearing veganism framed as an all-or-nothing

I know I’m far from the only person who is still in a state of shock over Mercy For Animals’ Conklin Dairy Farms cruelty video.

Here’s an fascinating new TED talk on an emerging approach for cancer treatment that involves starving cancer tumors through a combination of drugs and everyday

Jack Norris has some super helpful news for hungry travelers: anywhere there’s a Starbucks you can get a vegan breakfast. About $3.00 gets you a

The world’s newest celebrity vegan is…Mike Tyson, who has apparently stopped eating meat, dairy products, eggs, children, and ears. It’s fair to say that no

Too funny: here’s one hazard of faking your brand. Arizona Iced Tea is coming under fire for the state’s new immigration law, so the company

As I noted in my Jamie Oliver review yesterday, I’m a sucker for anyone who sets insanely ambitious goals. A couple months ago, I wrote

Bill Maher is among the most admired vegan celebrities out there. Just one problem: he’s not vegan. A reader emailed me: Listening to the podcast

The Huffington Post just published a long interview with Michael Pollan that covers, among other things, the criticism he’s received by Eating Animals author Jonathan

As I finished watching Episode 3 of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, I realized the program has cemented its place in my heart as my favorite

I just watched Episode 2 of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. Last time around, after watching the first episode, I announced I was hooked. And now,

Some fantastic news: starting tomorrow, Daiya vegan cheese will be carried at all 279 Whole Foods Market locations in the USA. I’ve only had the

Some annoying news: UC Davis’ Prof. Frank Mitloehner, who I blogged about yesterday, has found an admitted flaw in Livestock’s Long Shadow, a 2006 United

This blog pretty much exists to call the meat industry on its nonstop spewage of bullshit. But every now and then I see something from

Appendix D Cashew Cheese People have been asking for my cashew cheese recipe ever since I mentioned it in Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating.

Appendix C Vegan-Friendly Beers Here’s a handy list of 25 popular vegan beers and breweries. Anchor Steam and all Anchor beers Anderson Valley Brewing Company

Appendix B Books, Websites, & Nonprofits Books Eating Animals. Jonathan Safran Foer. (The best book to examine factory farming issues.) Meat Market. Erik Marcus. (Features

Appendix A Advanced Activism Given sufficient commitment, it’s possible for one person to keep millions and millions of animals out of the slaughterhouse by following

Chapter 27 Basic Activism & Outreach If there’s one thing I wish I could change about the vegetarian community, a single fact that frustrates and

Chapter 26 Staying Motivated We’ve now covered everything you need to know in order to transition to a vegan diet. Once you’ve learned the basics,

Chapter 25 Friends & Family In this chapter, we’re going to consider the influence your dietary choices may have on your friends and family. It’s

Chapter 24 Animal Ingredients Would you like to eliminate something like 97 percent of your consumption of animal products? Simple: just stop eating foods that

Chapter 23 Beverages One of the ironies of veganism is that many people won’t try it for fear their diets would become too limited, and

Chapter 22 More Core Foods: Salads, Stir-Fries, & Grilled Veggies In this chapter, we’ll look at how to create terrific salads, stir-fries, and grilled veggies.

Chapter 21 Core Foods: Smoothies & Sandwiches Although cookbooks can teach you a lot about cooking, it’s a vastly better use of your time to

Chapter 20 Outfitting Your Kitchen When I became vegan in the late 1980s, veggie-friendly restaurants were so scarce, and vegan convenience foods so few, that

Chapter 19 Meat, Dairy, & Egg Replacements When the subject of veganism comes up, omnivores often say, “I could never give up cheese,” or, “I

Chapter 18 Convenience Foods Of all the chapters in this book, this is the one that can push you most rapidly towards becoming vegan. Here,

Chapter 17 International Travel People tend to freak out when confronted with the idea of traveling as a vegan. Happily, with sufficient preparation, it’s generally

Chapter 16 Veggie Restaurants Now that we’ve looked at non-vegetarian restaurants, it’s time to consider veggie restaurants. While I don’t have much to say in

Chapter 15 Non-Vegetarian Restaurants We just spent the past several chapters exploring supermarkets, natural food stores, farmers’ markets, and online retailers. After all that exhausting

Chapter 14 Online Groceries Not so long ago, shopping for vegan food online was prohibitively expensive. When the Web got popular in the late 1990s,

Chapter 13 Farmers’ Markets Farmers’ markets have it all. They are outdoors in the fresh air. They offer tons of sustainably grown, organic, local produce.

Chapter 12 Natural Food Stores Now that we’ve considered your vegan options in supermarkets, it’s time to give the same treatment to natural food stores.

Chapter 10 The Counterculture We’ve spent the last few chapters looking at some of the main issues surrounding the switch to a vegan diet. Now

Chapter 9 Celebrating Your Progress As you continue to put effort towards being vegan, it’s wise to periodically pause and evaluate the progress you’ve made.

Chapter 8 The Mental Game Let’s now turn to the mental games that everyone plays when moving towards a vegan diet. Becoming vegan obviously involves

Chapter 7 Should vs. Must We have already covered a lot of ground. We’ve seen, for instance, that all vegans need a daily source of

Chapter 6 Eat More Produce The previous chapter looked at the negative side of a vegan diet—we confronted the main nutritional pitfalls and considered ways

Chapter 5 Vegan Nutrition Switching to a vegan diet can deliver some real health benefits. Compared to a typical omnivorous diet, a vegan diet is

Chapter 4 Cookbooks After reading the previous chapter, I hope you’ve committed yourself to trying as many new vegan foods as possible. One of the

Chapter 3 Crowding, Not Cutting Every person contemplating a switch to a vegan diet starts by wondering: just how hard is this going to be?

Chapter 2 The Ethics of Animal Agribusiness I think the best starting point for considering the ethics of eating involves looking at the business side

Chapter 1 Health and the Environment The practice of avoiding meat dates back thousands of years, but it was not until the mid-1800s that the

Going vegan can be terrifying, especially at the very beginning when you’re wondering what fine mess you’ve just gotten yourself into. I wrote this book

One day, I want to hide myself in a cave for a few months with about ten pounds of coffee, so that I can be

As 2009 drew to a close, I decided to write an article summarizing my entire year of blogging. I had no idea what I was

I can’t believe I missed it: the Meat Industry Hall of Fame’s first-ever induction ceremony occurred in Chicago on October 27. And what a night

Below are links to “The Year in Meat: 2009.”  This article is lengthy, so I strongly encourage you to print out the nine page typeset

Ellen DeGeneres just brought her personal chef onto her show for a cooking demo for a vegan chicken pot pie. It’s a terrific demo. and

Four years ago, McDonald’s made a promise for the benefit of all humanity. They vowed to retire their McRib sandwich, and never, ever bring it

Here’s a video of Paul McCartney performing the song live, and you can get an MP3 of the studio version for free by visiting his

I’ve got huge respect for Rachel Maddow, who has got to be one of the best interviewers in the business. Last night she had on

Vegan news doesn’t get any huger than this. Cargill, a company hip-deep in factory farming, says its R&D team has made milk obsolete as a

What Michael Jordan was to basketball, egg producers are to despicably villainous behavior. They simply have astonishing gifts in this respect that nobody can match.

Emily Weinstein, writing in the Times’ fallaciously named “Mark Bittman on Food” column: I, on the other hand, had never put a live lobster in

Here’s a USA Today article all about future NFL Hall of Famer Tony Gonzalez. After sitting next to a vegan on a plane (it wasn’t

That damned movie is out, that you couldn’t pay me to see. So, in celebration, here’s Julia bashing vegetarians in the most clueless way imaginable,

So much in life is dependent on asking great questions rather than mediocre ones. U.S. News & World Report has an article asking: “Can Red

I just got back from watching Food, Inc., and it’s pretty much what I expected it to be: a very well done expose´ on agribusiness

The May 2009 issue of Chef Jason Wyrick’s Vegan Culinary Experience is now out. You can click this link to read the full magazine in PDF. A

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau’s newest cookbook, The Vegan Table,< just hit Amazon.com. It's jammed with gorgeous color photos, and offers 200 recipes, including: Pumpkin Curry Roasted Red

I’m stunned almost to the point of being speechless. McDonald’s has a video on their website that I think is probably a better vegan advocacy

You’re probably sick to death of all the buzz surrounding RSS, Facebook, and Twitter. But I’ve got to tell you: you’re missing out as an

I’ve always been fascinated by Keith Richards, a man noted as much for his ability to survive massive long-term drug abuse as for anything he’s

One of the main themes that runs through my writing concerns animal agriculture’s ability to evade responsibility for the massive harm it creates. Whether it’s

I hardly know where to begin, but let’s start here. I admit it. I used to watch The Brady Bunch when I was a kid,

Vegan Spinach Pasta Dough Originally uploaded by The Shellyfish These PLAY-DOH like beginnings led to a sensational-looking vegan lasagna meal. Check out the blog entry

Just saw this great forum post at Countercultural.net: Apparently the newspaper in Kankakee County, Illinois, has a “Speakout” anonymous 24-hour phone line where people can

vegan pizzelles Originally uploaded by Vegan Noodle Until today, I’d never heard of a pizzelle, and no entry appeared in my Mac’s usually excellent New

Whole Cauliflower Baked in Puff Pastry Originally uploaded by eatnvegn What a fantastic idea. And here’s a blog entry all about it.

Indian Fried Tofu Originally uploaded by myveggiekitchen Here’s what you get when you cross a classic Asian staple with Indian-style cooking. Here’s the recipe, plus

Erik Marcus — David Foster Wallace, Foodies, and Lobster (Aug 2004, revised Aug 2008)

By Erik Marcus, Written in August 2004, Revised September 2008. This past week, I learned that David Foster Wallace contributed a piece about the Maine

There’s usually nothing I could care less about than celebrity weddings, but this one is different. Now that California allows gay marriages, Ellen DeGeneres was

Here’s a report from the campaign trail by Nikki Benoit, Outreach Coordinator for Florida Voices for Animals: Wearing my “Vegan Outreach” t-shirt, and accompanied by

It’s been a banner day for vegan feature articles. We’ve got two — count ’em, two — such articles published today. The first is published

Vegan Brownies from Whole Foods Originally uploaded by ilovemypit Let me concisely explain why mothers exist. They exist so that they can buy me a

Welcome to our comprehensive audio guide helping you through Oprah’s 21-day vegan cleanse. Our links to all 21 episodes are below. Also note that Erik

If people insist on eating meat, it’s obviously important to eliminate as much cruelty as possible. But does getting rid of some pain and suffering