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- 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 Michael Greger, MD
October 2001, 34-year-old Washington State native Peter Putnam started losing his mind. One month he was delivering a keynote business address, the next he couldn’t form a complete sentence. Once athletic, soon he couldn't walk. Then he couldn’t eat. After a brain biopsy showed it was Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, his doctor could no longer offer any hope. “Just take him home and love him,” the doctor counseled his family.[1,2,3] Peter's tragic death, October 2002, may have been caused by Mad Cow disease.by Matt Bear, NonViolenceUnited.org
I loved spending summers on my grandparents’ farm. I remember waking up to roosters crowing and the wonderful aroma of Grandma’s breakfast wafting upstairs. I’d rush out to help Grandpa feed our 40 sheep, two steers and the 50 or so pigs.by Vegparadise News Bureau
Traditionally, the first step in making cheese was to kill a newly-born, milk-fed calf and remove its stomach to make rennet. The rennet was derived from the inner lining of the abomasum, the fourth stomach of the calf or any other animal classified as a ruminant.by Jonathan Leake — News.Com.AU
Cows are capable of strong emotions such as pain, fear and even anxiety about the future. But if farmers provide the right conditions, they can also feel great happiness. The findings have emerged from studies of farm animals that have found similar traits in pigs, goats and chickens. They suggest such animals may be so emotionally similar to humans that welfare laws need to be reconsidered.by Donald G. McNeil, Jr., New York Times
The F.D.A. proposed banning from animal feed the brains and spinal cords of cows more than 30 months old. It also proposed banning the same parts of any animal not passed by inspectors as suitable for human food, any tallow that contained more than 0.15 percent protein and any meat contained in brain or spinal column that was separated from carcasses by machine.
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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