February is Vegan Cuisine Month!
Everyone Can Celebrate Vegan Progress Today, vegan is a familiar word. Chances are you know...
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Vegans Organize Events this Coming Vegan Cuisine Month
Vegan Cuisine Month (February) is a great time for vegans to come together and to introduce others...
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Jay Dinshah and The Pillars of Ahimsa
Jay Dinshah first wrote on the “pillars” of Ahimsa in 1966. This November marks the 90th anniversary of Jay’s birth, and today his message is still important, possibly more than ever.
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Philly Vegan Day Named In Honor Of Jay Dinshah
Happy Philly Vegan Day! Often we request Philadelphia observe World Vegan Day with its own local...
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AVS President Freya Dinshah named ‘Queen of the Vegans’
New Jersey Monthly recently profiled the president of the American Vegan Society, Freya Dinshah,...
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Celebrate the launch of the U.S. Veg Movement in Philadelphia
In doorstep remarks, this fascinating origin story will be commemorated, and even re-enacted, with the aid of music and live improv cartooning. The event will be bookended by veg-history walking tours, a signature feature of the new institution.
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FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND AMERICAN VEGAN CENTER TO OPEN IN PHILADELPHIA
The American Vegan Society (AVS) is pleased to announce a new storefront office and event space in Philadelphia. The American Vegan Center will open this summer at 17 N. 2nd Street in Old City.
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America’s first milk was vegan milk
Food journalist Avery Yale Kamila discusses Native American traditions for making milks, butters and cheeses from nuts in a new article, “Americans have been enjoying nut milk and nut butter for at least 4 centuries.” As Freya Dinshah noted last year in the New York Times, “We’ve had coconut milk since probably the beginning of time and if they want to be explicit they can say cow milk and we can say soy milk. The dairy industry thinks they’ve got the corner on milk.”
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November 2 is Dynamic Harmlessness Day
Dynamic Harmlessness Day celebrates Jay Dinshah’s legacy, appropriately on his birthday. It is a comprehensive philosophy based on doing more than simply avoiding intentional harm, but rather actively striving to “live up to truth” and help other beings, whether human or not.
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TBT: In Israel Jay talks veganism, learns to eat hummus
Jay brought the concept of ahimsa — dynamic harmlessness — to a great many people, and sent back to America news of not just his travels, but food: Especially in Israel, he detailed meals with foods that would only become standard fare here much later.
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Are the USDA dietary guidelines inherently racist?
Dr. Milton Mills has provided testimony to the USDA Dietary Guidelines Committee on multiple occasions. He also co-authored the 1999 Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) report on Racism in the Dietary Guidelines. As the 2020 guideline recommendations were being drafted, we checked in with Dr. Mills on how these may, either unwittingly or intentionally, have a racist effect on nonwhite populations.
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Tofurky founder, holiday-roast pioneer, sets sights on vegan cheese
The “overnight” success of Tofurky was at least fifteen years in the making, with plenty of long hours, speed bumps, and heartbreaking reversals. In this 25th anniversary year, founder Seth Tibbott has released a book chronicling how it all happened, In Search of the Wild Tofurky.
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