Vegfueled

The life that you live can be lived vegan. Promoting veganism as a moral stance, a necessity to save life on our world, the baseline of an examined life, and fuel to get the most out of our bodies.

[acti-veg]

(Public) Do you know where theres a list of vegan AND fairtrade/ethical chocolates? Like a good extensive list where its not just one or the other.

I don’t know of any extensive list on that I’m afraid, personally I tend to use sites like ethical consumer and just filter for vegan products. Do any of my followers have any suggestions?

[vegfueled]

Food Empowerment Project has a frequently updated list and an app for chocolate that is not only vegan but also if they source chocolate from areas known for child labor/slavery.

[thecashewchronicle-deactivated2]

let me give you a tofu tip i got from a chef that used to work at one of the best indian restaurants i’ve eaten at here in the midwest

press your tofu by wrapping it in a clean towel and pushing it with your hands, or in a paper towel, it’ll absorb the water trapped inside

then cut it and microwave it for about 45 seconds. i know i know microwaves are evil bc someone said so, but if you use microwaves for anything it should be this, bc it pulls out even more moisture and leaves your tofu kind of thirsty so it can soak in your marinade

then marinade those suckers. you don’t have to do it all day, your tofu doesn’t have to be marinade to the core. tofu itself has an excellent an under-appreciated flavor. marinade it for like an hour. 

i gave this advice to a friend of mine making a tofu dish and he said it made the thing great, and it’s super easy so there you go, maybe it will help you too

[vegfueled]

A Vegan Dietitian Reviews “What the Health”

By Virginia Messina, MPH, RDAs a vegan health professional, I am sometimes mortified to be associated with the junk science that permeates our community. And as an animal rights activist, I’m disheartened by advocacy efforts that can make us look scientifically illiterate, dishonest,

Why would we want to promote a film that makes our community look like an unreliable source of information?

[takethecrunchywiththesmooth]

I’ve been thinking for a while about recapping my past few years of changes, from a lazy, pack-a-day smoker with a favorite burger in every town, to vegan ultra-runner, (albeit still pretty lazy.) Being an ambassador for Vegan Runners Club and needing to publish blog posts gave me the motivation to actually get the thoughts organized and written out. I posted the third part of the story this week.

Check out:  Changing At 30  Couch Potato To Runner Run Long, Get Dizzy 

[takethecrunchywiththesmooth]

My new blog post up at Vegan Runners Club

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[gayy-vegan]

Exactly

[takethecrunchywiththesmooth]

So, we can split hairs over which diet is better BUT allow me this question. If we have 2 diets that improve health and performance but one is completely unsustainable and involves industrialization in order to satisfy demand, while the other can be easily made sustainable and actually beneficial to the environment, shouldn’t it be an obvious choice? Add to that the fact that one of the diets necessitates horrific treatment of sentient beings by the billions. That same diet also necessities deforestation, methane and CO2, pollution etc. So yeah, you may do ok on (low carb) diet for a short while but if you could do equally well, or better, on a sustainable and ethically better diet, why wouldn’t you?

Dr. Garth Davis  (via takethecrunchywiththesmooth)

[vegfueled]

Super Freekeh | Who Charted 321: Woke Weekend

Stard: So freekeh is a grain?

Howard: It's a super grain. Is Heidi Klum a model? No, She's a super model. Freekeh is a super grain.

[takethecrunchywiththesmooth]

Colleen Patrick Goudreau

[vegfueled]

Words matter 

[acti-veg]

hi! any tips on losing weight as a vegan? I've been vegan a year and. half now but have not lost or gained weight but at this point I'm looking to lose weight. I work at a gym and all the trainers recommended eating a bunch of protein drinks and snacks basically but none are veg or highly educated on the subject. I was wondering if you knew or anyone who might. thanks in advanced 💕

To be honest I’m not particularly informed on dieting, but I might be able to point you in the right direction. Meal replacement shakes are generally only good for short term losses from what I’ve read, for sustainable weight loss this is a good article. Do any of my followers have any additional advice?

[vegfueled]

Firstly, weight is not the top indicator of over all health that we like to think it is. Like Acti-Veg says about meal replacements, you might lose weight short term, but are you getting long term health? Health is more important and being on a healthy journey is more rewarding than just quickly losing a few pounds. 

I will point anon to Robert Cheeke’s book “Shred It.” Robert is a bodybuilder by trade, but the early parts of the book focus on what one needs to get leaner and fitter, and there is much in the book about overall physical fitness on a whole food plant-based diet, without necessarily getting super ripped.

[vegfueled]

Pigs Cows Chickens and turkeys  Lives!  Lives brought into this world for the purpose of being killed. Living breathing creatures sharing this planet with us who do not need to die to sustain our lives.

[acti-veg]

Why is ketosis bad if it burns fat?

This isn’t a diet or health blog and I doubt I know anymore than you do about this than you do. I’d just be googling same as you, so I suggest you ask a more appropriate blog about this one. Sorry I couldn’t be more help.

[vegfueled]

Anon should check out any Rich Roll Podcasts episodes with Dr. Garth Davis. 

[vegfueled]

As I Began To Love Myself - Charlie Chaplin at 70

[casilynae]

Vegans need to watch nature documentaries of animals in the wild eating each other. It’s how the world works. It’s harsh but that’s how the world is.

[acti-veg]

And here we have the carnist, stalking their prey at the deli counter… Look at this magnificent predator queuing ferociously at the checkout, one hand poised carefully on their credit card in readiness, knowing that with just one false move they could be overcharged for Italian salami… Nature truly is a cruel beast.

[sweeterthanabumblebee]

for all my lil’ vegan runners

[kittywrinkles12]

I know its from PETA, but its still good to know.

[vegfueled]

There’s so much conversation about this issue. It seems to depend on what day a person contacts certain companies if they’re going to get a different answer about leather and glues and such. I just bookmark this list from the vegan8 and have it ready if I find a shoe sale. It’s as good of a resource as is out there.

[average-smoothie-enjoyer]

I came across some statistics about zoo CEO pay, and I think they nicely demonstrate the fact that zoos are for profit, not conservation:

The CEOs of the Denver Zoo, Baltimore Zoo, Miami Zoo, San Antonio Zoo, Woodland Park Zoo, Fort Worth Zoo, Dallas Zoo, Pittsburgh Zoo, Detroit Zoo, and Kansas City Zoo all make over $200,000 per year. 

The CEOs of the San Francisco Zoo, San Diego Zoo, Houston Zoo, Philadelphia Zoo, Phoenix Zoo, LA Zoo, and Atlanta Zoo all make over $300,000 per year. 

The CEO of the Brookfield Zoo and the CEO of the Lincoln Park Zoo both make over $400,000 per year. 

The CEO of the St. Louis Zoo is paid 1.45 million per year. 

Trust me, zoos are more interested in making a profit than protecting animals. 

(Source)

[acti-veg]

“Eating animals is natural.”

In terms of our evolution, whether or not meat is what we are naturally supposed to be eating is debatable; humans actually share many more qualities with herbivores than omnivores. Our facial muscles are well developed, our jaw is expanded and goes side-to-side rather than up-and-down, our incisors are broad and flattened and those much cited canines are short and blunted rather than the sharp and curved canines we see in carnivores. Our saliva contains carbohydrate digestive enzymes, our stomach has multiple chambers, our small intestines is 10-11 times the length of our body, our liver cannot detoxify vitamin A and our nails are flattened. These are all traits typically seen in herbivores, not omnivores. The animals who are the most similar to us eat an almost exclusively plant-based diet and we we are the only animals who get ill if we eat raw meat. We also have very few carnivorous instincts at all.

To a certain extent however, eating animals can be argued to be natural on the basis that we have evolved to at least be able to process meat, even though recent research by The World Health Organisation suggests that doing so is extremely harmful to our health. Despite evidence to the contrary, we can still happily accept the idea that eating meat is natural because what comes naturally to us should not in any way inform our ethics. Just because something is natural, does not make it right. An overwhelming body of research tells us that humans can thrive on a plant based diet, with both the American Dietetic Association and the National Health Service telling us that vegan diets are nutritionally adequate and appropriate for all stages of life. Eating meat may well be “natural”, but we can easily survive without it and so the decision to consume it is as open to criticism as any other freely chosen behaviour. The idea that we are adapted to do something and therefore should do it has no logical basis whatsoever. 

We are not hunter gatherers anymore, we live in a technologically advanced and culturally complex society. If what is natural is the basis of our ethics, then surely we should all be condemning computers, cellphones, glasses, medication and surgery, too? We cannot simply pick and choose which parts of our natural behaviour to observe and which parts to utterly discard based on solely on which of our primal behaviours we would like to be able to justify. It seems to me that this is an argument that is more about having a convenient approach to ethics rather than a rational one.