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Mar 10, 2010 2:19 PM CST

Vegetarians: Beware That Glass of Wine

Vintners often use animal products in production

(Newser) - Just because it's made from grapes doesn't mean a glass of wine is OK for committed vegetarians. Many vintners use animal products made from bones or even fish bladders in the final clarifying stages, explains Steven Kolpan. The good news is that only minuscule amounts of the so-called fining agents...

How to Have Greener Sex

Feb 22, 2010 12:08 PM CST

How to Have Greener Sex

Eco-friendly products coming to a bedroom near you

(Newser) - If you’re an environmentalist with a strong libido—and hey, who isn’t?—why not try some of these naughty ways of helping the planet? They won’t hurt a bit, unless you ask nicely, the Chicago Tribune promises.

Vegan Condoms: Most condoms contain the milk protein casein, but

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Now In Child's Old Kitchen, No Meat—or Butter!

Sep 1, 2009 1:09 PM CDT

Now In Child's Old Kitchen, No Meat—or Butter!

Vegetarian occupants hope chef 'is not rolling over in her grave'

(Newser) - The sacrilege! Not only has the kitchen in Julia Child’s former Cambridge home—familiar to millions of devotees of her show—been renovated to within an inch of its life, the Boston Globe reports, its new owners have hung a picture of a cow with the caption: “Nobody...

Vegan Shoes Walk Right In

FASHION ROUNDUP

Jul 9, 2009 11:54 AM CDT

Vegan Shoes Walk Right In

Plus, white bucks are back and heels are lowered

(Newser) - Veganism isn’t just for food anymore. “Times have never been better for vegan fashion,” a PETA spokesperson says. “Vegan apparel and accessories companies are sprouting up everywhere in the US.” The Wall Street Journal tried out three pairs of vegan shoes and determined that synthetic...

US Animal Activist Makes 'Most Wanted Terrorists' List

Apr 21, 2009 1:59 PM CDT

US Animal Activist Makes 'Most Wanted Terrorists' List

(Newser) - In a first, the FBI today put an animal-rights crusader on its “Most Wanted Terrorists” list, CNN reports. San Francisco-bred activist Daniel Andreas San Diego is charged with the 2003 bombings of two corporate buildings. Authorities allege he believed the companies were tied to animal testing. The FBI has...

Vegetarian
Butchers Plug
'Clean' Meat

glossies

Apr 4, 2009 1:47 AM CDT

Vegetarian Butchers Plug 'Clean' Meat

(Newser) - Former vegetarians are opening butcher shops and revolutionizing the US meat industry, educating buyers about humanely grown cattle on small farms, Gourmet reports. Their squeamish attitude toward steak—inspired by horror stories of mass-market meat production—is making them the most trustworthy sellers. “When we opened the butcher shop,...

NBC Bans PETA
Veggie Porn
During Super Bowl

Jan 27, 2009 9:58 AM CST

NBC Bans PETA Veggie Porn During Super Bowl

Ad featuring lingerie model grinding with pumpkin too sexual for network censors

(Newser) - PETA’s latest TV ad reaches a whole new level of extreme—and has been nixed by NBC from Sunday's Super Bowl telecast, the New York Post reports. The ad—taglined “Vegetarians Have Better Sex”—features models in their skivvies getting down with vegetables. According to PETA, reasons...

Tasty Morsels on Fried Chicken

Jul 13, 2008 11:48 AM CDT

Tasty Morsels on Fried Chicken

Daily Green presents some lesser-known facts about poultry

(Newser) - You might be well acquainted with the Colonel and his famous fried chicken, but beneath the crunchy skin lie some lesser-known facts. The Daily Green sides its poultry with a six-pack of trivia.

It's a place: After toying around with the name "Ptarmigan," one town's handful of residents

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One Man’s Garbage Is Another's Thanksgiving

Sep 11, 2007 6:11 PM CDT

One Man’s Garbage Is Another's Thanksgiving

Movement fights waste by foraging for food

(Newser) - Folks looking for food in a back alley these days might be “Freegans” - that’s “free” plus “vegan” - who are “opting out of capitalism in any way that we can,” one says. Their New York trash tours have already trained 14,000 people,...