meat is murder

Hollywood has again endorsed the vegan lifestyle as Natalie Portman launches a range of vegan shoes. As with all vegan lifestyle choices the environment will benefit by the reduction of water consuming, gas and effluent producing livestock.

Natalie Portman, academy award nominated and golden globe winning actress, fashion muse, style icon and humanitarian, was born in Jerusalem. A Harvard grad, noted for charitable pursuits, noticed the absence of fashionable animal-friendly footwear and collaborated with Té Casan for her debut collection.

Not one to merely lend her name, Portman worked closely throughout to maintain quality standards and an exceptional design aesthetic. Dazzling, playful, elegant and free of animal products, each shoe exudes the starlet’s own personal style. All of Portman’s proceeds will be donated to the Nature Conservancy, a non profit that works tirelessly to protect ecologically fragile lands and bodies of water.

tescan.com

It’s Friday, it’s the weekend, and for a lot of people no more work for a day or two, so let’s have a positive story rather than focusing on the torture and misery of the meat & dairy industry. For those visitors of meatismurder.info from the US (and there are a lot of you!) there is a new vegan bakery in town - NYC to be precise (and soon to move to West Hoolywood). Also, this story again highlights that vegans should no longer be viewed as a fringe group eating veggie burgers, but a vibrant ever growing community with money to spend and a market to be met.

In a city dominated by cupcakes overflowing with sugar, flour and butter cream, it’s easy for those with delicate tummies to feel left out. BabyCakes offers all natural, organic and delicious alternatives free from the common allergens: wheat, gluten, dairy, casein and eggs.  Rest assured, all sweeteners have been chosen responsibly and used sparingly. White sugar will never be found in our bakery, nor will we ever use toxic chemical sweeteners. Instead, most products are sweetened with agave nectar—a natural syrup from a cactus which is low on the glycemia index and often a safe alternative to most non-insulin dependant diabetics. Occasionally, unprocessed and unrefined sugar is used in certain goods, although sparingly.

Erin McKenna
Founder, BabyCakes NYC™

BabyCakes NYC™
248 Broome Street
(Btwn Orchard & Ludlow)
New York City, NY 10002
(view a map)

Telephone 212.677.5047

Monday: 10am–8pm
Tuesday-Thursday: 10am–10pm
Friday-Saturday: 10am–11pm
Sunday: 10am–8pm

meatismurder have been advised that in Manchester, UK there is a benefit gig being held in December to raise money for a social centre that has been shutdown due to fire and flood damage. The news is relevant to meatismurder because the space has a lot of functions that benefit animals. It has a vegan cafe that feeds vegans and highlights to non-vegans how great the food can be. It acts a focus for animal rights groups and campaigns, and has even held an art and history exhibition about the ALF.

Single Cell Collective at Cafe Saki Thurs December 13th 8pm-2am (map to Cafe Saki)

Single Cell invites you to bear witness to a night of music by Defunkles and
Caulbearer performed by the ever mutating cellular big band. With special guest I-mitri from UK roots-reggae label, CounerAction. Imagery by The Heap.
(More information:myspace.com/singlecellrecordings)

The gig is to raise money for The Basement - a social centre in Central Manchester with a vegan cafe, library, bookshop, computer hub, meeting venue and exhibition space.
The Basement is a place for all those who are sick of Manchester’s polluted streets and corporate takeover, angered by wars, environmental damge, animal abuse and mainstream media lies. People who want to turn the world upside down to start making things better. Everyone gives their time and skills for free in order for The Basement to be a hub away from capitalism.

    * a collective of collectives have a look at our page on the Working groups
    * a haven away from capitalism
    * a little bookshop
    * a vegan / organic cafe
    * a radical book, zine, magazine, dvd and video library
    * an exhibition/event space
    * a computer hub
    * a place for groups and people to meet and hang out
    * entirely staffed by volunteers (who all work very hard for free)

the Grocer…an artist of vegetables…however he is thinking of moving into meat & dairy. Let him know how you feel about this. We need beautiful vegetables on the street, the supermarkets sell us pornographically presented images of meat everyday, everywhere, we need to give the vegeatables a fighting chance.

Pasting up fresh grocery items because i love you, Chicago. I’m accepting requests and suggestions for painting subjects - limited to non-boxed grocery items that are uncooked. This can include fruit, veggies, bread, meat, fish, etc. Send me a message and i’ll try to hook it up! Right now i’m going to focus on fruits and veggies, but i’ll hang on to the meat/bread/fish requests for when i’m ready to do that.

Current Requests - I’m getting to these, i promise!

- Ginger
- Garlic
- Limes
- Horned Melon (completed)
- Leek
- Star Fruit
- Mushrooms (completed)
- Rutabaga
- Sweet Corn
- Mango
- Peach
- Bananas
- Papaya
- Blueberries
- Durian
- Beets (completed)
- Cabbage
- Blackberry
- Pineapple
- Clementines or Oranges Do nipplettos count?
- Peas in the pod

Non fruit/veggie requests for later

- Red Snapper
- Pork Chops
- Wedge of Cheese

Thanks, Juxtapoz! - June 22, August 3

Commission Requests
I have had quite a few inquiries about commissioned work - which i’d love to do. When asking about the price of a proposed commission, i need to know the following info:
1. size
2. type of fruit or veggie
3. your preference of rectangular wood panel with painted background -OR- wood “cut-out” around the contour of the fruit.

Just sent me a flickr mail or an email with the details and i’ll get back with you right away!

TheGrocer.org
Chicago, USA

Vegan foodstall in New York City wins top chef award. This is great because it means even more people are going to go and try vegan food and see how delicious and varied it is. It isn’t always lettuce and something brown! Infact being made to think differently about your food and be made aware of new ingredients means that most people when they adopt a vegan diet have a more varied diet that in their past eating lives.

Thiru “The Dosa Man” Kumar.

Kumar, who runs NY Dosa, a vegan food cart at Washington Square Park South and Sullivan Street, won the third annual Vendy Award, which is bestowed upon the city’s top street chef vendor. Kumar, who had competed unsuccessfully in the two previous Vendy Awards, finally won for his specialty Pondicherry dosas, a type of filled crepe. He accepted the large silver Vendy cup on Saturday night.

Kumar beat out four other finalists: Veronica Julien from Veronica’s Kitchen at Front Street and Pine Streets; Muhammed Rahman from Kwik Meal at 46th Street and Avenue of the Americas; the 10-member crew at Super Taco at 96th Street and Broadway; and Farez “Freddy” Zeideia of The King of Falafel and Shawarma at 30th Street and Broadway in Astoria, Queens.

WPvideo 1.10

get video

The public whittled several hundred entrants down to the five finalists. A panel that included former Food Network host Sara Moulton then selected this year’s winner.

All it takes is some time to read and an open-mind and people realise that something needs to be done about what is happening out of sight to put bodies on a plate.

Supermodel PETRA NEMCOVA has become a vegan after reading up on the planet’s fish problems.

The stunning Czech Republic catwalk star reveals she gave up meat and dairy in February (07) because she wants to set an example and help save ocean life. Nemcova explains, “I became quite green… I have a very strong connection to nature… and I read that if we fish the way we fish, in 2048 there will be no more fish left, which is pretty soon. So it’s a statement.”