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I just went a week without meat, and I don’t intend to eat meat again

December 9, 2009 by hollie Going Vegan

I didn’t want to write about this until I’d actually spent a few days eating vegetarian food….but now it’s been eight days, and I’m still alive. Eight days? Without any meat at all? What happened? I read a book, and it changed my life.  A week ago I read Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals, and [...]

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What did Woody think of the foie gras?

May 4, 2009 by hollie Going Vegan

Woody Harrelson is a raw foodist and environmental activist. He runs a website with his wife called Voice Yourself: Transforming the World Together. I was reading People the other day, and noticed that he attended Salma Hayek’s wedding, which featured foie gras and veal on the menu. I wondered how that went over. What does [...]

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Animal welfare, or animal rights?

November 18, 2008 by hollie Going Vegan

Bob Torres at Vegan Freak has made an interesting post about animal welfare versus animal rights. This is an issue I think about on a near-daily basis, as I wind my way through the many food choices I have available to me, trying to decide what’s best to eat: local, vegan, vegetarian, humanely-raised….if the choices [...]

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