Vegan

Seven of the best sites for vegans. Know of another site that should be listed here? Leave your suggestion at the bottom of this page. (Related search: Alternative Medicine, Nutritional Supplements, Guacamole)

1. Vegan.com - Blog offers news of interest to vegans, vegan recipes, more. (www.vegan.com)

2. Vegan-Food.net - Offers all sorts of vegan recipes, including vegan replacements for cheese, meat, eggs, etc., and vegan desserts, breakfast foods, much more. Also includes blog posts on different aspects of becoming a vegan or finding vegan food for different situations. (www.vegan-food.net)

3. Veganism at Wikipedia - User-edited online encyclopedia describes veganism as “a philosophy and lifestyle that seeks to exclude the use of animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose,” and says that “Vegans endeavor not to use or consume animal products of any kind.” Also gives some information on how many people are vegans, why they become vegans, health benefits of veganism as well as health risks if diets are not varied enough, more. (en.wikipedia.org)

4. Vegan Action - Non-profit group aims to help you understand the benefits of a vegan lifestyle, and help you become vegan not only in what you eat, but also with what you wear and what you feed your pets. (www.vegan.org)

5. Vegan Babies - June 16, 2008 column addresses the question of whether it’s safe to feed babies a vegan diet. (www.timesonline.co.uk)

6. How Our Vegan Diet Made Us Ill - June 17, 2008 article discusses the potential downsides of a vegan diet, especially a diet consisting only of raw foods (the headline is a bit misleading as not all vegans eat only raw foods as the family portrayed here was doing). (www.independent.co.uk)

7. Clint Eastwood Targets the Legacy of Dirty Harry - June 1, 2008 article on actor/director Clint Eastwood includes this paragraph: “People ask him to autograph rifles, but Eastwood is no Charlton Heston. A vegan, he was distressed to hear Hillary Rodham Clinton boast recently about bagging a bird. “I was thinking: ‘The poor duck, what the hell did she do that for?’ I don’t go for hunting. I just don’t like killing creatures. Unless they’re trying to kill me. Then that would be fine.” (www.latimes.com)