First off, apologies for the newbie post, but I have been trying to Google this. I used to live in the UK and am only just starting the process of emigrating to the US, but I've found the way in which vegetarians/vegans are defined back home and here is a bit iffy. I know I have to put up with people saying "your friend's a vegetarian, but they ( Read more... )

earlier this week i posted that wordsmith.org had used "vegan" for a word of the day. well, they ended up using vegan-related words the entire week:

3/17: vegan - one who does not consume animal products.
"Kitsch, lively and glamorous, Canadian food writer Sarah Kramer bucks all
   the vegan stereotypes."
   Leonie Cooper; The Garden of Vegan; The ( Read more... )

i get words emailed to me from wordsmith.org, daily. just checked my mail and found out today's word is vegan. cool.

A.Word.A.Day--vegan



Guest wordsmith Matt Ball (veganpa at comcast.net) writes:

Growing up, I was a big fan of Carl Sagan, and I dreamed of exploring the universe, expanding the frontier of human knowledge and vision. I started my ( Read more... )

as of late, my greatest frustration involving animal rights has been vegans ( Read more... )

Q: What is a vegan ( Read more... )

I wrote this rant last night while drunk and I like how it turned out. No offense to anyone named Joe.

"If you're that concerned about labels, you could call yourself strict vegetarian.

Don't dilute my veganism with animal products, though, please. It's kind of rude."

( Rant and analogy are under here. )