Why vegan?

[Frohike]

For all you swedish vegans:
http://www.vegan.nu

[Neil]

TryVeg.com
Compassion Over Killing's website on the "Whys and Hows of Vegetarian Eating." Includes a vegetarian starter kit.
http://www.tryveg.com/

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Preventive Medicine and Nutrition
Explore nutrition’s role in combating specific illnesses, including arthritis, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, and mad cow disease.
http://www.pcrm.org/health/prevmed/index.html
Vegetarian and Vegan Diets
Discover the benefits of a vegetarian diet - for children and adults - and find answers to your questions. Includes a vegetarian starter kit.
http://www.pcrm.org/health/veginfo/index.html

[tempehmomma]

Vegan Nutrition
http://www.vrg.org/
"Simply Vegan" and "Vegan Handbook" by Debra Wasserman
Vegan Nutrition for Endurance Athletes
http://www.brendanbrazier.com/
"Thrive" by Brendan Brazier

[VeggieMan]

Thank you all for great links to great sites. Very informing indeed. What I couldn't find is whether simple (and cheap) sugar substitutes like dextrose or glucose are always vegan (fructose is, as far as I know?). So if anybody knows, let me know please.
Thanks. Blaz

A very good sugar subsitute is organic Sucanat, it's cane sugar in it's most pure form. Look for it in the health food section of the local grocery store.

[xbojanx]

www.veganfreaks.org

and you could find other good links there

[sage]

Awesome links everyone. Thank you.

Here's a Salon article from December (you'll need to click past a sponsor ad) by Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma.

After the spinach e.coli scare, he is speculating about the causes and risks of enhanced strains of e.coli and superbugs caused by factory farming and the centralization of food supply.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/12/07/pollan_bad_food/

In beef-processing plants, there are up to 400 head an hour, which is just -- it's impossible to keep manure off the carcasses. In chicken too, although it's a much more automated system, the very speed of this, when you're eviscerating these animals mechanically, a certain number of times you're going to break the intestines. There's going to be some mishap on the line and the manure, which I assume is the reservoir for, and again I don't know, for salmonella and campylobacter, is going to get in the bath of the water in which you've got your thousands of carcasses chilling, and it's going to spread.

-sage

[xbojanx]

Direct links to brochures/books (maybe would be good to be separate sticky topic):

VIVA!USA Vegan Basics
http://www.straight-edge.net/download/veganbasics.pdf

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) - Vegetarian Starter Kit
http://www.pcrm.org/health/veginfo/vsk/vsk.pdf


Eric Marcus: Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating, 1,1 mb
http://www.vegan.com/vegandownload.php

[xbojanx]

http://veg-tv.info/Main_Page

definitely belongs here:

* Earthlings

* Slaughterhouse: The Task of Blood

* Supermarket Secrets

* Meet your Meat

* Meet your Milk

* Wegmans Cruelty

[veganlove]

I think beet sugar is vegan in the US and stevia is great for baking but super strong!

[xbojanx]

www.veganizam.com

It is in Serbian, still could qualify as under construction, but thanx to xkillerx, it has basics in one of middle Balkan languages.

[XkillerX]

and best of all, since all the balkanian languages are the same shit, if you're any of the above: serbian, croatian, bosnian, montenegrian, macedonian, bulgarian or slovenian you'll surely understand all of it!

[xbojanx]

Every time I see this topic, WHY NOT! comes to my mind.

[vegandancer]

[vegandancer]

excellent,some realy great linksmthankx guys and girls


http://indogo.org/feelthefear/article.php?176

this site has vegan section

[xbojanx]

Some new links appeared on the forum, so to collect them here:


Friends of Animals, vegan starter guide
http://www.friendsofanimals.org/img/Veg ... _Guide.pdf