Undercover Investigation Asks: Is Your Vegan Meal Really Vegan?

This is the kind of thing that can really make a vegan shudder.  After hearing lots of seedy rumors about LA vegan restaurant hotspots, Quarrygirl bloggers and their tipsters decided to do their own covert investigation to see if some common non-vegan ingredients (eggs, casein and shellfish) were present in the restaurants they had taken [...]

PCRM Confirms It: KFC Chicken Causes Cancer

We know that eating chicken is bad for the animals and the environment, but chicken is not one of those meats that are often connected with ill health … until now. Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) tested 12 samples of the Kentucky Grilled Chicken from six different KFCs and found cancer-causing carcinogens in all 12 [...]

US Weekly Counts Mary-Kate Olsen’s Dead Animals

If you know anything about anything, than you HAVE to know that fur just ain’t cool! Sure it might look warm, but don’t be fooled. The price of that snuggle power is a whole mess of torture, cruelty and all-around BAD karma!  US Weekly (yes, you read correctly) recently helped spread the word in a feature [...]

UK Article Shows Vegetarians How To Be A ‘Born-Again Carnivores’

And now for something completely different: Today, especially with all the studies coming out in favor of a vegetarian diet, we generally see “How-To” articles for weaning yourself off of meat and dairy. However, in a recent article in the UK Times, a former vegetarian (for 25 years!) has profiled her shift back to a meat-eating [...]