At The Wedge today. Their vegan bakery selection is to die for.

I’m glad this was the toughest decision I had all day. The chocolate cake was palm-product free, bonus! Went home and stuffed my face with orange “chicken”, cake and tea. <3

Making Indian foods for dinner. A mix of dishes, some red lentils, some basmati rice, madras sauce, peanut butter, cocoanut milk, paprika, anise, garlic, fennel, grape seed and ginger oil, and some na’an bread with vegan butter.  <3

Delicious! Walnuts and pine nuts are among my favorites! Good info to know.

renegadered:

Love being Arab. This food is sooo good!!! #arab #syrian #food

Omg. <3 Is that dolmas, hummus, falafels, na’an, tzatziki, and dahl I see?? <3

I went from drinking tea daily to drinking hot tea directly after every meal. I’ve noticed since I started doing that I’ve been storing noticeably less fat. I live in Minnesota and can’t always get out and exercise in the severe cold we get here, frankly, I’m tolerant of the cold, it’s the inability to bike ride or walk at an exercise pace in the feet of ice and snow we get that keeps me indoors. So I wanted to see what could be controlled. Drinking hot tea directly after eating and or sipping tea during my meals has helped noticeably when it comes to my metabolism, I would recommend trying it for that little extra boost when it comes to keeping winter weight off.

I don’t diet, I don’t believe it helps, not mentally, and not physically long-term. While I, personally, could never be happy if I were fat, and I will never let myself get there, because mentally I just can’t, that’s just fine, but it’s not a disorder, not anymore, I make sure I only control my weight and happiness by natural means, exercise and an all-natural diet. I don’t weigh myself, ever, I go by visuals, I literally haven’t owned a scale in at least 6 years. I believe in taking care of yourself. Eat right, not what you are told is right, but truly eat right. Eat all-natural, exercise daily, keep your metabolism up, drink tea after every meal, get just enough sleep, do one thing every day to let yourself truly relax, and if that means having a vegan cupcake every once in a while, then do it, it’s not like you’re dieting anyways, but I encourage a non-food way to relax, like a hot bath. Just be happy, as long as it’s at no one’s expense, your’s included. <3

mushrooomz:

Most meat eaters may be unaware that more than 70% of all beef and chicken in the United States, Canada and other countries is being treated with poisonous carbon monoxide gas. It can make seriously decayed meat look fresh for weeks. The meat industry continues to allow this toxic gas injection into many of the meat products people consume on a daily basis. The question is, how many people have become ill by this chemically altered meat that is being sold to families all over the world? (Taken with Instagram)

Take care of yourself, you can only ever go along with what the earth wants, or against it, and going against the earth goes against everything, including yourself.

WOW just look at those CLAWS and CANINE TEETH! Observe how humans are natural carnivores, as this one easily tears through it’s natural prey, after hunting it down by foot. This male human can’t resist the smell of the rabbit’s rotting flesh - the human’s natural food source - and and easily rips through the fur and “leather-like” skin (redundant), after consuming all the fur that was in the way without even noticing. Completely unphased, another human approaches to take part in the meal, however, the first human is quick to greedily hide his kill until the other human passes. He returns to instinctively go straight for the intestines for excess nutrients from plants and grains the rabbit ate previously, since humans can’t live off of plants or digest them properly in their natural state.

JK, reality check, non-vegans, people don’t eat meat like this, because this is what animals who naturally eat meat do…

open-the-cages:

The 2012 drought has decimated the corn crop causing farmers to search for different types of feed to give their dairy and beef cows.

Not that a diet of corn has ever been the most healthy diet for cows, but the new feed (read: sugary trash) some farmers are giving to their herds is downright despicable. Examples of the kinds of foods being used to get through this season as cheaply as possible include cookies, gummy worms, marshmallows, fruit loops, orange peels, and dried cranberries. The fruit is the best thing on that menu, but marshmallows and gummy worms? (Trying not to be grossed out by the cows eating the bovine based gelatin in those nasty foods.)

Ki Fanning, a nutritionist with Great Plains Livestock Consulting in Nebraska, said, “Everybody is looking for alternatives. It’s kind of funny the first time you see it but it works well. The big advantage to that is you can turn something you normally throw away into something that can be consumed. The amazing thing about a ruminant, a cow, you can take those type of ingredients and turn them into food.”

The fact that a nutritionist is touting the benefits of this kind of junk is potentially just as shocking as the foods being fed to the cows.

Not all farmers are jumping on the candy wagon. Most others are choosing different alternatives like distillers grains, cottonseed hulls, rice products, potato products, peanut pellet and wheat middlings. But the truth is, nearly everyone is struggling to feed their cows when there is no corn to be found.

I live in Minnesota and we’ve already had our first frost during the night. The past few days have been in the 50’s and 60’s, of course, by Minnesota standards that’s still t-shirt weather. Regardless, I brought my potted garden indoors (okra, kale, collards, broccoli, a variety of peppers, and cucumbers), all except for the jalapenos and onions, I harvested them and left the rest of the plant outdoors, as neither of those do well at ALL indoors. My bf decided to leave his heirloom tomato plants outside and try to grow seeds indoors over the winter. I’ll keep everyone posted on how these all go.

Of course this meant lots of new little ‘friends’ in the house. I found one spider and one lady bug so far. That’s fine, we already have a house centipede that has been living in our kitchen for a year now. As long as it’s not deadly or unsanitary in any way, it’s welcome.

I picked some of the kale to boil for dinner earlier this evening. <3

thevaliantchild7:

beckyxvx:

Be honest, which is more appealing to your senses? There is a reason we are programmed to be drawn to bright colours and sweet smells, whereas studies show carnivores to be colourblind and attracted to smells such as blood and decaying flesh.

Hint: even omnivores are attracted to the smell of blood. We’re not. Most people even get nauseous at the sight of it… we’re just not programmed to kill.

The right image is prepared, cleaned, cut meat, the left image is fruit and veggies in their completely natural, unaltered states, they possibly could not even have been washed yet. The example of meat here has to go through a long process of being altered by people work with meat for a living, just so it could be used as a passable example of non-vegan food. A meat-eating human could never eat meat in it’s natural state, unlike a meat-eating animal, because we’re simply not meant to.

historyofmodern:

How much is your beefburger costing the planet?

Reblogging my own post, deal with it.

Ever wondered what exactly vegans eat? How much variety, or lack there of, they eat. What brands, what supplements and what meat and dairy imitations.

I’ve had enough questions about this to go finally get around to taking some photos and making a full list of what I keep in my kitchen. As you can see, on top of it being vegan, the vast majority of the food is organic, and almost 100% of it is from the U.S., and all of it is completely free of any and all artificial ingredients and preservatives.

Sorry the images uploaded small, if you are unable to zoom in and read the text just drag the images to your desktop and click them and zoom in on them that way.

This is hard to watch, and I’ve seen so many videos like this it’s really hard to shock me anymore. I am a vegan, but it’s always been because of the environmental impact, not the animal abuse foremost, unlike most vegans, so it seems. But any reason to be vegan is a good one. Even those of you who still can’t bring themselves to care about animals for whatever reason, these jobs hurt people, too, if you wouldn’t want your parent working in such extremely unsafe and unsanitary conditions, why do you expect someone else’s family members to do so? You’re perpetuating all kinds of harm, to animals, people, the environment, and yourself.

This is what luxury actually looks like. This is what privilege actually looks like. None of these families are rich. This image says a lot, and it needs to not be dismissed. 

Photographer Peter Menzel’s book, Hungry Planet, features families photographed with a week’s worth of food.

this is pretty scary