Featured Sites
- VegTampaBay.com's MySpace page
- TryVeg.com
Compassion Over Killing's excellent veg starter guide, lots of recipes, video libray, and much more! - VegForLife.org
Veg Starter Guide
Download PDF Guide to Vegetarian Eating by The Humane Society of the United States.
Video Library
(CBS) BROOKLYN The 4-month-old calf that made a break for it three days ago, dashing out of a truck taking it to the slaughterhouse and setting off a wild chase by police through the streets of Bay Ridge, has escaped certain death. See the video
by Virgil Butler, ex-Tyson slaughterhouse worker
An issue not even thought about by most people, even many of those in the fight for animal rights, is the effects on the minds of those people who do the actual slaughter of the chickens.by Environmental Health Perspectives
High Levels Of Arsenic In Chicken May Require Adjustment in Consumption. Study in Environmental Health Perspectives Reveals Chickens Have Highest Level of Arsenic. Chicken consumption may contribute significant amounts of arsenic to total arsenic exposure of the U.S. population, according to a study published today in the January issue of the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP).by Jeremy Rifkin, The Guardian, UK
Hundreds of millions of people are going hungry all over the world because much of the arable land is being used to grow feed grain for animals rather than for people. Cattle are among the most inefficient converters of feed.by ScienceCentral.com
Mad cow disease has some consumers worried about what might be in their beef—but what about a harmful substance we already know is inside chicken? As this ScienCentral news video reports, there's new information out on the amount of arsenic in chicken.By George Monbiot, The Guardian UK
The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians. But one feature of the celebrations has remained unchanged: the consumption of vast quantities of meat.
Beef Substitutes
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Vegan Beef Subsitutes
Note: Every product listed here is not always available at your local grocery store. Publix tends to have a lot more than others, but you can usually find at least one of these brands at other grocery stores as well.
- Lite Life Smart Ground
- Lite Life Smart Menu Crumbles
- Yves Ground Round
- Publix Greenwise Vegan and Veggie Burgers (sausage too)
- Amy's All American Veggie Burger
- Amy's California Veggie Burger
- Amy's Texas Veggie Burger
- Gardenburger Flame Grilled Burgers
- Boca Original Vegan Burgers
- Morningstar Farms—Better ’n Burgers Veggie Burgers
- Morningstar Farms—Grillers Burger Style Recipe Crumbles
- Morningstar Farms Meal Starters Steak Strips
- Nate’s Meatless Meatballs
- Seitan Wheat Meat or Grain Meat*
- Texturized Vegetable/Soy Protein (TVP or TSP) granules**
- Texturized Vegetable/Soy Protein (TVP or TSP) chunks**
*Grain Meat / Setian / Wheat Meat
According to Barbara and Leonard Jacobs in their excellent book Cooking with Seitan, The Complete Vegetarian "Wheat-Meat" Cookbook, "seitan has been a staple food among vegetarian monks of China, Russian wheat farmers, peasants of Southeast Asia, and Mormons. People who had traditionally eaten wheat had also discovered a method to extract the gluten and create a seitan-like product."
Seitan is derived from the protein portion of wheat. It stands in for meat in many recipes and works so well that a number of vegetarians avoid it because the texture is too "meaty."
Learn how to make your own grain meat at home. It's fun and easy!!
TVP or TSP - Texturized Vegetable/Soy Protein
**TVP is the very, very inexpensive version of the packaged foods. You can find it in the bulk section of your health food store. With some quick recipes and veggie broth, you can do amazing things with TVP: beef style stews, stir fries, casseroles, chili, balls, loaves, and more. Basically, you can use TVP (in chunks or granules) to replace animal flesh in nearly all recipes. You just have to experiement and try the recipes. The best method is to soak your TVP in super hot veggie broth for about 20 min, then use it in your recipes. You can substitue egg, for binding, with ground flax (really sticky). Take two tablespoons of flax powder and add it to your moist recipe, or add a little bit of water and make a sticky paste and then add it to the recipe.
Here's some TVP to help you on your way:
Lentils, Nuts, and Blended Veggies (Celery, Carrots, Onions)
Lentils, chick peas, beans in general, carrots, celery, garlic, and other veggies and ground nuts make excellent loaves and neat balls (veggie balls) and they are naturally filled with protein, vitamins, fiber, trace minerals and are totally delicious and free of soy and wheat gluten and meat!
Here's some links to help you on your way:
- Design Your Own Adventist-Style Vegan Dinner Loaf!
This site is awesome! You name your loaf, then you click the ingredients you want to use, it will deliver to your screen a recipe for a nut loaf, lentils, tofu, or whatever protein you want!!! - Lentil Loaf
- Lentil-Nut Loaf
- Happy Lentil Loaf
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