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Americans eat about ten pounds of chicken for every pound of turkey. So with that in mind, it’s no surprise that there are far more chicken-style than turkey-style vegan products.

Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP) was a mainstay of 1970s and 1980s vegetarian cooking, and it’s still commonly available at most natural foods stores.

For the second time this week, Nation’s Restaurant News has run a veggie-friendly article, and unlike this past week’s cover story this article’s not locked behind a paywall. The lead sentence gives you an idea of the paper’s generally begrudging stance toward vegetarians, which is shared by many in the restaurant industry: Veggie burgers have […]

One of my very favorite cookbook authors, Bryanna Clark Grogan, and I have been working together this month to publish her latest recipe. It’s an unbelievably good vegan butter, made from scratch, with not a trace of orangutan-killing palm oil. Take a look! Turns out the timing for this recipe’s release couldn’t be better. Just […]

With the holidays coming up, here's our collection of great vegan gifts, including the very best cookbooks published in 2015.

Welcome to our comprehensive audio guide helping you through Oprah’s 21-day vegan cleanse. Our links to all 21 episodes are below. Also note that Erik Marcus heavily edited and expanded the transcripts from this series, to produce a book titled, The Ultimate Vegan Guide. The book provides all the information you need to make the […]

A few times a year, I’ll quote an anti-vegan at length, and offer responses to the points that are being raised. Today’s the day for another go-’round. Kathy Rudy, an Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at Duke, thinks vegans are misguided.  And she’s distilled her new book on the subject into an article that’s loaded with […]

Peter Singer ends his lengthy New York Times review of Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by calling it, “a supremely important book.” This is precisely the sort of book that, had it appeared a decade ago, would have been unlikely to even mention the tens of billions of farmed […]

Ever since its debut last year, I’ve regarded Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution as the most valuable television series a food activist could possibly watch. Season One of the show demonstrated all sorts of tactics and interpersonal skills that would be of value to anyone who seeks to create change. There can be no doubt that […]

When a disease outbreak strikes animal agribusiness, here is South Korea’s method for dealing with the problem: they dig an enormous hole, dump live animals into it by the thousands, and use excavators to push the dirt back over it. Over the past two months, to combat a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, the country has killed […]