| The Official Vegan & Vegetarian thread |

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Welcome everyone!
This is the thread for all of your vegetarian or vegan needs. You can post about anything
& everything relating to being vegetarian or vegan.
In this thread there will be recipes, links, & some real cool people. ;D


The post following this will have some FAQs that come up a lot.
Like a really important one-being healthy while being vegetarian or vegan.
Please explore the websites I listed under the health concern section, it will help out a ton!

Each day I will update a section titled food porn that will have a picture
of a delicious meal, dessert, or snack to make us all drool.

Each week I will update the recipe section with one easy
recipe that even the worst cooks can make.

I will always be updating with links & info I get in the future.

If you have anything you would like to see added,
or something that could be improved, please let me know through a PM! Thanks!!

Rules:
♥ Do not flame us! We don't come in your meat lovin thread & harass you,
so don't come in here & do it to us!
♥ Be nice to everyone. This is a thread made for information
& for people to share similar interests, not to fight.
♥ Have fun!!
♥ Share information!
♥ Keep on topic.

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What is a vegetarian or vegan?

Vegetarian:
A person who does not eat the meat of ANY animal.
This includes chickens, cows, pigs, fish, shrimp, oysters, clams, & anything else that is a living creature.
Also does not use gelatin.

Ovo-lacto vegetarian also eats eggs & drinks milk.
Ovo vegetarian only eats eggs but does not drink milk.
Lacto vegetarian does not eat eggs but drinks milk.

Vegan:
A person who does not use any animal products at all. This includes chickens, cows, pigs, fish, shrimp,
oysters, clams, leather, wool, silk, honey, milk, eggs, fur, gelatin
and anything that comes from any type of animal.

Why vegetarian or vegan?
Most people are vegetarian or vegan because they feel compassionate towards animals.
They feel that animals are killed/abused wrongly for food, wool, fur and leather.
Slaughter houses are horrible places that beat. abuse, and molest animals.

Other people are vegetarian or vegan because of health reasons.
It has been proven that meat causes the clogging of arteries & can make you very unhealthy.

There are also people who are vegetarian or vegan because they care about the environment, & reducing meat intake will help with the environment.

& some people just don't like the taste.

A lot of people are all of the reasons combined.

What's wrong with slaughter houses?!
Click to find out.

Enough said.

Why are eggs and milk bad?
Eggs are bad because..
Milk is bad because..

Concerned with health while being vegan/vegetarian?
A lot of people get the wrong idea that being vegan or vegetarian is unhealthy & that you don't get enough protein.
The average meat eating American gets TOO MUCH protein.
Here are some helpful sites that you can check out that will tell you everything you need to know about balancing your
vegetarian or vegan diet.

Nutrition link 1.
Nutrition link 2.
Nutrition link 3.
Nutrition link 4.
Nutrition link 5.

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Recipe of the week

Tofu Pumpkin Pie


Ingredients:

1 can (16 ounces) pureed pumpkin
3/4 cup sugar or sucanat (or 1/2 cup maple syrup)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon ground allspice, optional
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg, optional
2-3 tablespoons cornstarch to firm up the pie filling
1 package (10-12 ounces) silken/soft tofu
1 9-in unbaked vegan pie shell

Directions:

Preheat oven to 425 F. Blend the pumpkin and sugar. Add salt, spices, cornstarch and tofu, mix thoroughly. Pour mixture into pie shell and bake for 15 minutes. Lower heat to 350 F and bake for another 60 minutes. Chill and serve. Don't use the low fat tofu, then the pie tastes like it was made with tofu.

Makes: 8 servings, Preparation time: about 1 hour + chilling time, Cooking time: 1 hour 15 minutes

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Links

Animal rights:
Peta
Peta2
Compassion over Killing
Goveg
Tryveg
Farm Sanctuary

Awesome sites in general. -For food, clothes, materials-
Microcosm Publishing
Food Fight Grocery store
Peta Catalog
Herbivore Clothing
Compassion over Killing merch
Alternative Outfitters
Animal rights stuff
Roots of Compassion
Vegan Essentials

Grocery stores
Trader Joe's
Sprouts
Whole Foods Market

Awesome vegetarian/vegan companies
Morningstar Farms
Boca Burgers
Garden Burger
Amy's Kitchen
Fantastic Foods
Yves
Lightlife
Tofurky

Vegan grocery list:
Accidentally vegan

Sample vegan menus
Sample Vegan menus


Vegan Fast Food options:
Fast Food list


Vegan Chain Restaurant options:
Chain Restaurant list


Recipes:
VegCooking
Compassion over Killing recipes
Livejournal vegan food Community
VegWeb
The PPK recipes

Awesome vegan blogs:
Don't eat off the Sidewalk
Fatfree Vegan Kitchen
Let's get Sconed!

More links to come

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Food porn for the week:



Pumpkin chocolate chip bar.

By me.

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[[S a r e n a]]

YES, thankyoouuu.

Finally a place where I can talk about my vegetarian-ism without a fight breaking out.

:3

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I know what you mean. It seems everyone has to argue with veg*n people. It's my decision, not anyone elses. D:

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[Fairlight Child]

Can never have too many vegetarian/vegan threads biggrin
I'm just surprised any "smart asses" haven't commented anything yet.

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Wow, that stromboli is making me huuungry.

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Can never have too many vegetarian/vegan threads biggrin
I'm just surprised any "smart asses" haven't commented anything yet.

Haha. I created mine when I didn't see any. D: There were only 3 pages of posts & I made sure there wasn't one before I made this. But I guess I took too long writing in information/recipes, & now there are a bunch. >:

Oh well. ^_^

& I know, I'm surprised too. I get a lot of hatemail from people just cos of my eating habits. DUUUMB.

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I know what you mean. It seems everyone has to argue with veg*n people. It's my decision, not anyone elses. D:

They seem to always assume that vegetarians/vegans are trying to convert everybody.

I don't want them to shove meat in my face, so I won't shove tofu in thiers.
;3

I have only been a Vegetarian for 3 years, and lately I have been thinking about going vegan. :]

How about you?

[Lamki]

.:: That stromboli looks good xP ::.