Food & drink
Halloween is nearly here, and let's face it: where any sort of party catering is concerned, we've all got a friend who is craftier, more talented in the kitchen and better able to work within limitations than we are. And in my case, that friend is a very gifted, amazingly arty and very creative...vegan.
Year after year, she puts me to shame on halloween with her dairy-free treats and each year I promise to myself that I'll come up with something equally impressive next time. So, I've decided to start simple, and whip up some vegan halloween cupcakes that might just rival hers. I'll be following a vegan recipe and decorating mine to look like these ones (including my favourite: the very simple yet effective 'ghost') made by vegan foodie extraordinaire Amy. Then I'll posting the evidence here! [Via Crafty Crafty]
Read on for the basic vegan cupcake recipe
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Animal welfare
Committed vegan and not-afraid-to-get-her-hands-bloody type Chrisse Hynde (left, click image to enlarge) has recently done a Q&A with the delightfully-monikered Fish & Chimps, PETA Europe's very own blog.
The conversation doesn't contain a great many surprises for those familar with The Pretenders frontwoman's career as an activist, although it is interesting to hear her restate that her music career is of secondary importance in her life:
"I consider myself an animal activist first and my music as more of a hobby that gives me a platform to fight for animals."
Hynde goes on to select the highlights of her life as an animal activist and share her views on PETA's "provactive" tactics, while over on PETA's main site are a couple of new Pretenders tracks - from new album Break Up The Concrete - available for streaming.
Read the PETA blog Q&A here
Check out The Pretenders' new tracks here
Green News
Gone are the days when the most fun you had as a veggie was deciding between omelette and lasagne in restaurants: now, we get our own clubs, blogs and even TV stations - with British internet broadcaster Veggie Vision, founded and presented by Karin Ridges, leading the way in meat-free entertainment.
What might vegetarians want to watch that the rest of the planet doesn't, you might well wonder. In much the same mind, I went to investigate the site.
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Green News
I do love the Vegetarian Awards. Each year, they represent an extra little bit of progress being made towards a society where eating meat just isn't seen as necessary anymore, because there's so much to recommend life without it: great places to eat, tempting treats and a wider choice of vegetarian body products to name but three motivations. Follow the jump to see the final nominations!
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Food & drink
Now, you could roam far and wide desperately seaching for egg-free, vegan friendly pasta. Or you could make it yourself, with total control over the ingredients, quickly and easily without a pasta maker.
This tutorial on Instructables tells you how to do just that, The ingredient list is short and simple, and the instructions are nice a clear. Plus you'll wow everyone by making your own pasta!
Related: Mother Hemp Hemp and Spelt Pasta | Ugo bespoke organic pasta
Green News
Which is worse, fur or meat? In their latest campaign, animal welfare campaigners PETA have turned their attentions from 'celebs who wear fur' to 'celebs who aren't vegetarians'.
Jessica Simpson was among the first to be singled out after appearing in a T-shirt emblazened with the mysterious claim that "Real Girls Eat Meat". (Some reckon it's a dig at her boyfriend Tony Romo's vegetarian ex-girlfriend, Carrie Underwood. But still?) They've certainly increased the size of the target, and a big target's easier to hit, but one has to ask: aren't there better things to hate Jessica Simpson for?
Related: Gore 'too chicken' to go vegetarian, says PETA | Olsen twins get the PETA treatment | Best veggie products to satify your omnivorous urges
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Green News
I'm curious to know where the sudden surge in vegan-friendly sex toys has come from. Could it be that a dairy-free diet promotes such health and vitality that our vegan friends are in a perpetual state of arousal? Or is it perhaps that most of these items have always been entirely cow-free but are only now starting to be labelled as such? Either way, it's good to know that you can enjoy a bit of hanky-panky without any livestock involved...
And it's no longer just your 'standard' lubricants and rubber johnnies that are going vegan these days either -- a quick glance through a popular online sex toy emporium brought up a vegan-friendly blindfold vegan-friendly cock rings and even a vegan-friendly ball gag (well, I guess if it's going on your mouth you do want to be sure).
On a more serious note, we are all concerned about chemicals we put into our bodies when they're in the form of food, so why should sex aids be any different? Follow the jump for a video on why the natural and vegan-friendly sex aid industry is growing!
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Halloween is nearly here, and let's face it: where any sort of party catering is concerned, we've all got a friend who is craftier, more talented in the kitchen and better able to work within limitations than we are. And in my case, that friend is a very gifted, amazingly arty and very creative...vegan. 
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