by Jason on July 31, 2006
Lest we all think that the feds have been brainwashed by industry lobby groups determined to paint all animal rights activists as terrorists, here’s some good news: according to FatalException, the US government might be poised to make it easier for vegans to identify beer filtered with fish guts! OK, they don’t actually care about vegans, but people with life threatening allergies clearly need to be able to safely drown their sorrows, so later this year regulations may be passed that will require alcohol makers to follow the same rules that are in place for many food items, and if their wines are filtered with, say, isinglass, a simple warning might show up on the labels. In the meantime, of course, we’ve got your back with the vegan booze list. Link.
by Jason on July 28, 2006
For more than five years, I’ve been writing about the many many (many) serious and not-so-serious reasons to adopt a plant based diet, and yet the majority of the world continues to eat animals. From time to time I wondered why that was, but it wasn’t made clear to me until I got a note from Dagda Samildanc that explained the one thing dead animals can do that plants can’t: they can get your car classified as a hearse, which lowers the vehicle registration fee by $200. That’s the way of the world in New Zealand, where a woman recently tried it out, claiming her car was a non-commercial hearse because she carried dead chickens home from the supermarket. And it worked. So there’s a fun game for you this weekend: as traffic goes by, speculate how many hearses are on the road. Remember, it’s not just vegan hyperbole, it’s a matter of NZ law. Link.
