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 learn how to make core foods than it is to learn specific recipes. What are core foods? They are foods that can form the core of your diet because they […]
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. Each of these foods deserves to be a regular part of your diet—they are super healthful, delicious, and can be prepared in countless ways. Salads Salads are one of the […]
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 yet when you meet most long-term vegans you quickly realize that their diets are way more varied, delicious, and healthful than a typical omnivore’s. Perhaps that’s only to be expected […]
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 contain ingredients that are clearly derived from meat, milk, and eggs. Want to go further? Again, it’s simple: avoid products containing leather, wool, or silk. Now you’ve probably eliminated 99.8 […]
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 all too easy, especially as a new vegan, to come off as a freak to the people closest to you. So in this chapter we will look at how to […]
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, going vegan is mainly about being properly motivated. Let’s quickly review the main things you can do to stay motivated: Read vegan-oriented books. You’ll learn things that will make your […]
Appendix B Books, Websites, & Nonprofits Books Eating Animals. Jonathan Safran Foer. (The best book to examine factory farming issues.) Meat Market. Erik Marcus. (Features many factory farming details not covered by Foer, plus advocacy strategies.) The Animal Activist’s Handbook. Matt Ball and Bruce Friedrich. (Excellent intro to animal advocacy.) Striking at the Roots. Mark […]
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 Budweiser & Bud Light (Anheuser-Busch sponsors rodeos) Chimay Coors Corona Flying Dog Brewery Full Sail Brewing Co. Geary Brewing Company Harpoon Brewery Heineken (but it tastes like piss) Lagunitas (everything […]
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. Cashew cheese is a perfect pizza topping, and it’s also great for grilled cheese sandwiches. Eating it with sprouts on a bagel may also make you happy. Ingredients 1 teaspoon […]
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 Nations study that’s become the gold standard in reports tying meat to climate change. The report concluded that meat caused 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, and indicated this total […]
