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 Harvard's Health Professionals
A new study from Harvard's Health Professionals Follow-up Study gives no support to the advertising claim that milk helps control weight. In a group of 51,529 men, aged 40-75 years, those who consumed the most calcium or dairy products at the study's onset gained the same amount of weight as those who consumed the least of these products.By Cindy VanSchalkwyk, East Bay Newspapers
In 1992 Barry Brown, 58, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma and given five years to live. Fourteen years later, he's still around, and credits much of his successful cancer story with a radically changed diet. He has been in clinical remission for the past five years.CNN Transcript of Larry King Live
Good evening from Los Angeles. I'm Ryan Seacrest in for Larry King tonight. There is no way to know the exact numbers, but animal rights groups estimate that up to 2 million cats and dogs are slaughtered in China every year for their fur. Undercover video from China and elsewhere in Asia shows dogs and cats being beaten, strangled and skinned.by Reed Mangels, Ph.D., R.D.
It is very easy for a vegan diet to meet the recommendations for protein, as long as calorie intake is adequate. Strict protein combining is not necessary; it is more important to eat a varied diet throughout the day.by FactoryFarming.com
... all dairy cows must give birth in order to begin producing milk. Today, dairy cows are forced to have a calf every year. Like human beings, cows have a nine-month gestation period, and so giving birth every twelve months is physically demanding. The cows are also artificially re-impregnated while they are still lactating from their previous birthing, so their bodies are still producing milk during seven months of their nine-month pregnancy.
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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