Showing posts with label veggies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label veggies. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Wild mushroom foraging (Easter egg hunting)

Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven, Xochitl (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; SOSR

Chantrelle 101: All you need to know
(Mushroom Wonderland) This is an in-depth expose on chanterelles. Yes, our favorite wild mushroom we love to forage in the fall and sometimes out of season. This channel is based in Washington state, in the Pacific Northwest, so we are talking about Pacific chanterelles. Beware of white chanterelles, California gold chanterelles and dangerous lookalikes.

(Mushroom Wonderland) How to find delicious morels with a cellphone

Mycophiles, hit subscribe to Mushroom Wonderland to love mushrooms even more because that's what this channel is all about.

Avoid these toxic shrooms
(Old Man of the Woods) Seven common poisonous mushroom to know

These poisonous mushrooms grow worldwide: Destroying Angel, Death Cap, False Parasol, Deadly Galerina, Jack o' Lantern, Sulphur Tuft, and Earthball. Learn their different forms at different stages of development, as well as their safe and edible lookalikes. Location: VA, MD, PA, DE. Mushroom ID tool, AI-poweredShroomID | Best Mushroom Identification App. More

Sunday, February 4, 2024

Some breeds of chicken CAN fly (video)


Feathers to Flight: Do Chickens Have the Power to Soar?
Go vegan for freedom! Chickens are living beings
(The Happy Chicken Coop) Ever wonder about the gravity-defying capabilities of our feathered friends?

This video asks, "Can chickens fly?"

In the sequel, I kill chickens.
It delves into the flight abilities of chickens (hens and cockerels), challenging common myths and uncovering the truth about these amazing birds.

We explore how their wing structure, weight, and breed play a role in their flying ability. We also share some fascinating facts about how chickens have adapted their "flight" for survival and routine activities.

Why did the chicken cross the road? (Suicide bid)
So are backyard chickens earthbound, or can they take to the skies? Let's ruffle some feathers and find out together.

The Happy Chicken Coop is the place for more insightful poultry content. Stay clucky, Mothercluckers! And whatever you don't imprison or abuse chickens. Let them be free.


Thursday, September 22, 2022

Veggie Burger: made better at home (recipe)

Minimalist Baker Recipes; Imogen, Ananda (DBM), Crystal Q., Wisdom Quarterly Test Kitchen

Add mushrooms and hempseeds.
Now that Doug the Cannibal, former COO for Beyond Meat Corporation, has taken to biting off noses like Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs, we may have to start cutting back on Beyond Burgers.

But we're still vegans who love savory flavors and healthy ingredients. Which brings up the question, Why in the world do faux burgers contain canola (rapeseed) oil of all ingredients? That's one of the worst ingredients in the world! There are fats that heal and fats that kill. Canola, like most plasticized and utterly dead filtered-oils, is a killer. We can do much better than that in our test kitchen. (A: They use it because it's cheap).

Veg burgers on gluten-free buns
Every now and again lovely readers send The Minimalist Baker emails with recipe requests. One such request came recently from a mother hoping to recreate the veggie beet burger a local restaurant serves, which her daughter just happens to love.

All other searches for “beet black bean burger” left her underwhelmed for flavor and overwhelmed at the extensive ingredient lists and time commitments. It's the Minimalist Baker to the rescue!

The following recipe is easy to master, nutritious, flavorful and, most importantly, it's simple. There are just 10 ingredients and roughly 1 hour prep time (or less depending on cooking method). Plus, it’s loaded with nutrient-rich foods like raw walnuts, black beans, quinoa, and raw beets.  More

Thursday, October 24, 2019

LA’s first alcohol-free vegan bar: SourTooth

Symphony Barnes (vegoutla.com, updated); Crystal Q., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly


LA’s first non-alcoholic vegan bar pops up in Yamashiro
L.A. vegan Symphony Barnes
A new non-alcoholic, plant-based bar dubbed SourTooth has opened in the re-imagined “Japanese Bohemian” wing of Hollywood’s Yamashiro Restaurant.

Those in search of a great non-alcoholic cocktail bar experience, complete with plant-based food items, will find it here.

Veg Out LA is a great read (vegoutla.com).
Based on the Pinnacle Potions line of modern shrubs and mixers, the cocktail menu features drinks such as craft mimosas using housemade orange-sage potions, gin and tonics using Seedlip non-alcoholic spirits, and the Japanese Tea Ceremony — a ceremonial-grade matcha and yuzu cocktail.

Guests will also have the option to add extras, such as adaptogens, nutraceuticals, and energizing supplements to their drinks.

The bar’s accompanying food menu, dubbed MeatTooth, features plant-based comfort foods, such as their next level “chick’n” sandwich, savory burgers, purple Japanese sweet potato balls, and much more.
  • SourTooth @ Yamashiro
  • Daily, 5:00-11:00 PM
  • 1999 N. Sycamore Ave., Hollywood
Symphony Barnes is a SoCal native, passionate about health, wellness, and her vegan lifestyle, who enjoys living in and writing about California. She is a graduate of Pepperdine University (B.A. in journalism).

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Fun FOODS for Fall: Go Vegan (Disney)

Ryan Tempfer (vegoutla.com, 9/19); Crystal Q., CC Liu, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly


10 must-try vegan food trucks in L.A.
Several new food trucks have emerged on the scene in the past nine months, lending the City of Angels even more options for irresistible, junky, vegan comfort food. Let's reinvigorate our love of the classics and discover strong newcomers in this vegan food truck roundup.
  • Disneyland and Walt Disney World go vegan (below)
WORD OF MOUTH TRUCK
Delicious vegan fatty (LettuceFeastLA)
Comfort food on wheels — that’s Word of Mouth in a nutshell. Created by young couple Staci Stewart and Chris Chavez in 2017, Word of Mouth has quickly risen to the top of the vegan food game in Los Angeles. They’ve been a must-try at major vegan festivals, such as Eat Drink Vegan and Vegan Playground, as well as a pop-up at other hotspots around the city like Row DTLA and Highland Park. They have a concise menu that features indulgent bites, like deep-fried mac and cheese, along with nostalgic entrees, like they’re spicy chick'n sandwich, which contains a battered and fried cauliflower stake patty, pepper jack cheez, pickled jalapeƱos, and house-made habanero aioli! It’s fire. Stay up-to-date with their events, schedules, and locations by heading to their website and Instagram. More

Vegan ingredients make better pizzas with vegan cheeses, fresh veggies, faux meats

Disney goes vegan

Saturday, July 27, 2019

Eggs communicate from inside shell (video)

Daily Mail Science Correspondent Colin Fernandez (The Daily Mail, July 22, 2019); VeganKit.com; ScienceAlert.com; Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly


Bird eggs vibrate to communicate with each other to warn of imminent attack to their nest, scientific study finds.
Rather than sitting blissfully unaware of the world outside, gull eggs -- or rather the living embryos inside of them -- have a "sophisticated" awareness of what goes on around them, the study found.

The research found that yellow-legged gull eggs, which are found around the UK's coastline, can pick up on warning squawks from adult birds.

The eggs -- having heard [or otherwise sensed] the warning -- will then delay hatching because the coast is not clear [insofar as potential danger exists]. More

COMMENTARY: When does life begin?


Life in the womb (Genetic Literacy Project)
The same happens to us. Human embryos in our mother's womb are aware of the world for nine months before we are officially "born." But life actually begins at conception. So in Buddhist Asia, people are born 1-year-old because of the ten lunar months they spent swimming in the womb on earth are counted as being here and being far more aware than we ever thought. This is unlike the Judeo-Christian West where our age is counted from our birth date. So we in the West are "younger," but we don't look it when we see race groups side-by-side in the same society. "Asian don't raisin" and "black don't crack," it is said. Caucasian skin needs all the antioxidant help it can get, even if that is the self-deceptive youthful number we label ourselves with. But egg science shows the baby inside is alive. This has karmic implications for egg eating and abortions. Think what are doing before you act. Life is precious, and not just our lives but the lives of living beings who make it to the womb.

Monday, July 3, 2017

Pizza for the Fourth of July! (recipes)

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly; Kristy Turner (keepinitkind.com/30-vegan-pizza-recipes...)


It is said (by the Pig Industry?) that Americans will eat 150,000,000 hotdogs today, the 4th of July. That's more beers and barf sessions than on Cinco de Mayo. That's more dead pigs and animal waste parts -- fingernails, guts, eyeballs, rodent feces (really!) all mashed up and dyed reddish -- than we can comfortably conceive.

But My Family Would Never...
Shouldn't we really be eating the real favorite food of these United States? Pizza! Veggie style, nondairy and gluten-free even. Yum! The great thing about pizza, like sex, even when it's not that good it's still pretty good.

Sure, all systems were go on "National Vegan Pizza Day" (June 28th), but we're ready to do our vegan pizza parties right with another from these 30 vegan pizza recipes... Recipes

Epic Fireworks Fails!
WatchMojo
Fireworks shows – when put on by trained professionals – can be a blast. But when it's just me and my friends, the results can be hilarious for everyone else and hazardous for us. WatchMojo.com counts down some of the Top 10 Craziest Fireworks Fails we could find. This video was created in collaboration with Fail Army, check out their YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/failarmy

Friday, September 23, 2016

Impossible VEGGIE burger "bleeds" (audio)

Sally Herships (PRI.org); NoMDforMe.com; Crystal Quintero, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly
Both Beavis and Butthead worked at Burger World and ate dead cows from the garbage.

 
Veggie burger that "bleeds" might convince even carnivores to eat green
Humans [used to be vegetarian during the cyclical golden ages of the past and future but] have [allegedly] been eating animals since, well, before we were human [in this cycle of devolution; see Michael Cremo].


Veggie burger (Bridgette Burkholder/PRI's The World)
But there are now so many people on the planet eating so much meat that feeding and slaughtering all of  those animals [more than 1,000,000 a day in the U.S.] is having a big impact on the global environment, including our climate.
 
That has people around the world scrambling for better meat substitutes, something better than those dry or bland veggie burgers.
 
Patrick Brown, founder and CEO of Impossible Foods, thinks he's hit the jackpot. His company invented a veggie burger that claims to taste, feel, and even bleed like a real dead animal in your mouth.
 
It’s already on the menu at the trendy New York restaurant Momofuku Nishi.
 
Bartees Cox is from Oklahoma. He’s one of eight diners who convened at Momofuku Nishi to test out this new burger. He says his family grew up buying whole dead cows from a rancher and storing them in an extra freezer.
 
“You put it in the garage,” he says. “You could put a Fiat [car] in this freezer.”
 
Joining him at the table are Chris Berube and Bridgette Burkholder. Both are vegetarians and both are nervous about the impending food tasting.
 
“Everything I've read about it says [that] it bleeds like a hamburger,” Berube says. “So when you bite into it, there are all [of] these liquids that come out. I'm actually very anxious about this in a way that I didn't think I would be.”
 
"It’s a little weird. The idea of biting into a slab of meat-like substance is a little weird," Burkholder adds.
 
The bar for pleasing all three of these folks is high. But on the other side of the table it gets even higher. More

The 10 Bad Foods to Avoid
 
Dr. Joel Wallach and Dr. Peter Glidden say everybody must ELIMINATE these ten harmful foods from our diets:
  1. No Gluten
    Grain damage
    Wheat
  2. barley
  3. rye
  4. oats, oatmeal – even if it’s gluten free.
  5. fried foods – nothing fried! Boil, broil, or bake and never more than medium rare for flesh.
  6. oils – and this includes olive oil! No canola, corn, soy, or even virgin coconut oil. If oil is in the name, eliminate it. This includes everything made from oil, such as salad dressing. Dr. Wallach recommends using sea salt and lemon juice as a better salad dressing. Margarine, combo spreads, mayonnaise, eliminate everything made from oils.
  7. burned fats – If food is grilled, place something between the food and the fire (such as aluminum foil) so juice does not drip onto the flame and deposit dangerous chemical byproducts on food.
  8. nitrates/nitrites added to meat – (such as deli meats, cold cuts, jerky).
  9. carbonated drinks of any kind an hour before, during, or after meals.
  10. skin of baked potato (yam, sweet potato). Skins of boiled potato are good.
To watch a detailed webinar on the 10 Bad Foods by Dr. Peter Glidden, email (dmoi@youngevitybc.com) and request a free link.

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Fighting gentrification in L.A. (audio)

Leslie Berestein Rojas, AirTalk (KPCC/scpr.org); CC Liu, Crystal Quintero, Wisdom Quarterly
Latinas in Boyle Heights dress up for Dia de los Muertos (selfhelpgraphics.com)

Activists opposed to gentrification in Los Angeles' historic Boyle Heights are protesting local art galleries, with the latest protest taking place this past weekend.
 
They say new galleries opening in the neighborhood are ushering in wealthy outsiders, and unwanted development. But some say they’re casting too wide a net.
 
In the latest protest on Saturday, activists objected to the opening of the United Talent Agency Artist Space, which is part of an expanding “gallery row” on the western edge of Boyle Heights and along and around Anderson Street near downtown Los Angeles.
 
The anti-gentrification activists view the galleries as contributing to rising rents that they say can displace working-class residents in the neighborhood.

A representative for the United Talent Agency Artist Space did not respond to requests for comment.
 
In the mix of galleries are some unlikely targets, like Self Help Graphics & Art. The community arts nonprofit moved to Boyle Heights five years ago from East Los Angeles, where it had operated for decades.
 
Joel Garcia, director of Self Help, said the gallery's role is to nurture local artists of color. Activists should not paint all of the art spaces...

"This is real. People have lost homes and businesses," one activist group called Defend Boyle Heights posted on its Facebook page. The group also provided video from the weekend protest.

KPCC FM (SoCal Public Radio) has been covering rising rents in Boyle Heights for over a year and mapping cases where businesses and residents have been displaced or evicted. More + AUDIO
A petition started last week on change.org calls for the Irvine-based chain to stop “letting its fans down by failing to serve anything that would satisfy a burger-loving customer who wants a healthy, humane, sustainable option.”
The petition started by The Good Food Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to food sustainability complains:

“If you want a meat-free meal at In-N-Out, you’re going to be stuck eating multiple orders of French fries or a cheese-slathered bun.” This isn’t the first time people have petitioned In-N-Out to change its menu. In 2012, an LA-area vegan also petitioned the chain to add a veggie burger. At last count the petition has already exceeded... More

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Study: cheese, meat, eggs = Cancer (audio)

Amber Larson, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly
Vegan beauty Alicia Silverstone wants moms to loan their breasts (news.softpedia.com)

Winner: "Best Vegan Pizza" using melting, dairy-free Daiya cheese (peta.org)
One Burger King Triple Whopper has 49 grams of dead animal protein, which is the maximum recommended daily total for a 130-pound adult (Joe Raedle/Getty Images).
  
Big Macs are made of cancer-causing flesh.
Middle-aged people with diets high in animal flesh protein -- such as meat, poultry, eggs, milk, and cheese -- face a dramatically increased risk of dying from cancer compared with those who eat low animal protein diets, according to a University of Southern California study published today in the journal Cell Metabolism.

If only cows lived on a compassionate planet
The study found 50 to 65-year-olds who consumed a "high-protein" diet -- meaning they got 20 percent or more of their calories from animal sources of protein -- were four times more likely to die from cancer, compared with those who consumed less than 10 percent of their daily calories in animal protein.
Lines at Vegan Pizza Contest, Animal Advocacy Museum, Throop UU, summer 2013 (WQ)
  
Vegan pizza rules (WQ)
A press release accompanying the study called that "a mortality risk factor comparable to smoking." The risk of early death from all causes soared by 74 percent among the high-protein consumers, researchers found.
 
But the picture changes for those over 65. For them, it appears that a moderate-to-high protein diet [not necessarily from animal sources] actually reduces cancer and overall mortality and is helpful in preventing age-dependent weight loss and malnourishment.
 
Researchers focused their study on a national cross-section of 6,381 people 50 and older who were tracked for nearly 20 years.
 
They also found that among all the age groups studied, a diet high in animal protein increases insulin production and the risk of dying from diabetes-related causes.
 
The higher risk of cancer and overall death among the middle-aged and the increase in diabetes deaths were "either abolished or attenuated if the proteins were plant derived," the study said.
 
Go veg for bliss (WQ/Larson)
Various health agencies recommend that daily intake of animal protein should be about 0.8 grams per kilogram. So a 130-pound adult should eat [no more than] between 45 and 50 grams of animal protein per day. A 160-pound adult should eat between 60 and 65 grams per day.
 
How much protein is that? It sounds like a lot. Here is some help in calculating:
Los Angeles bans e-cigarettes in smoke-free areas
Electronic cigarettes will be prohibited in L.A. parks, restaurants, and "meat-market" pick up bars under an ordinance approved today (3-4-14) by the Los Angeles City Council.

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

The First Thanksgiving (cartoon and dinner)

Ashley Wells and Editorial Team (confessions) Wisdom Quarterly; dinner organizers Dave, Adam, Allyson, Justin, Kristina, Lisa, Prabhat, Tony (L.A.V.G.) HAPPY THANKSGIVUKKAH!
(JM) Instructions on how to prepare a proper cruelty-free Thanksgiving meal are given below.
Hungry Alicia Silverstone was raised to love ALL kinds of living beings like these:
Kind food tastes good (WQ)
A few years after coming onto the human plane, my mother said to me, "You know you were an accident?" "Thanks," I shot back. That was the first time I gave thanks. Been saying it ever since. How about you, Ash?

I was born just outside of wedlock to parents too caught up fighting about waspy matters to take much notice of me. I, apparently, led to their marriage and therefore their unhappiness, which didn't keep me from being a bastard. (Is that the feminine form of the word, or is it the other B-word?) We were Christian back then, obviously, through no fault of my own. Other than choosing it, pre-birth, all part of my divine plan to graduate to a more sublime teaching.
 
(Simpsons) Lisa became a Buddhist on Xmas.  Bart ruins Thanksgiving.

Thank you. That's nothing. My dad used to yell, "You kids are going to drive me to the insane asylum!" I always wanted to go out and start the car, to make a statement. I would have been punished. We didn't have nice, neat "groundings" like everyone else. We had punishments. Wow. You're dark. Next? That's not all! He also used to say, "You don't s--t from Shinola!" And I would ask, What's Shinola, dad?" "I'll show you what it is!" he would threaten. He drank a lot. How about you, Sands?

I was asked once, seriously, if "my people" celebrated Thanksgiving. Like we're not American enough to celebrate the same holidays. (It's like the time Joseph got asked on "King of the Hill"! Did you guys used to celebrate it?) Not really, not because we never did, but because it was too much trouble for my mom. I used to go over my girlfriend's house. Hey, just like Joseph. *Laughter*

I was raised without parents. So I guess that would technically make me an orphan. Worst thing about it was they were there. Physically. They were "checked out" in every other way. One drinking, the other spacing out. One emotionally distant, the other smothering. One aggressive, the other passive. One yelling like a lunatic, the other too brow beaten to speak up. So, essentially, we can agree, We were all raised by a Homer and a Marge?

What if the Griffins were America's first family, the Simpsons?
 
Native American Joseph is cheating with the asker's blond wife.

So is everyone going to a Vegan Thanksgiving (veganevents.org) this year? Unless you guys are planning to harass and hurt animals with paint balls? *Laughter* No, we'll be there, and I'm making California guacamole, which everyone loves all year long.
 
Everyone welcome to the potluck!
FREE Vegan Potluck Picnic on Thanksgiving
Vegan pizza (Animal Advocacy Museum)
When: Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013, 11:00 am-4:00 pm. Where: Rancho Park, 2551 Motor Ave., L.A., CA 90064. (Enter at the first entrance south of Pico on Motor Avenue or see this nice map). 
What: Veggie feast attended by hundreds because it is promoted all over the county, and most people do not RSVP. See Facebook.
 
There may be similar events all over the country, but this is the annual Vegan Thanksgiving Day Potluck Picnic. It continues for its third decade at the same Rancho Park location. Invite friends. Non-vegans are more than welcome, they are encouraged to attend. This is LA's longest-running single day vegan tradition.
 

It's a potluck to look forward to every year with hundreds in attendance. Join a peaceful, turkey-friendly Thanksgiving. Share delicious food, desserts, and drinks. Connect with beautiful people. Enjoy the outdoor environment with music, live performances, and an open mic! So feel free to bring drums or other musical instruments, a Frisbee or a ball to toss. It's a great place for children. Well behaved animal companions like dogs (on leashes) are welcome. More
 
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