Here are fresh tips for each day in November to celebrate World Vegan Day (November 1) and World Vegan Month. With so many benefits and so much at stake, there has never been a better time to embrace your inner-herbivore. November 1/Day 1 There are so many amazing resources for new and transitioning…

They were 30 miles apart but the lack of gun safety laws means everything is in our own backyard — In 1976, novelist, memoirist and essayist Joan Didion wrestled to the ground what compelled her to write in a piece called “Why I Write,” which was excerpted from a collection of hers and published in the New York Times. It’s a great essay. You can find it online. …

My sweet little baby turned 240-months-old on June 12, or 20 years, (hush!) and this occasion had me reflecting on some of the things that I think made it easier for me and my husband to raise our son vegan during a time when things were not nearly as friendly…

Another week, another mass shooting. We brace ourselves for the platitudes, the ones that we tolerate and the ones that make us seethe, we hear the politicians pantomiming something that has been calculated to approximate an appropriate response depending on party affiliation and we see the loved ones in the…

I was lucky enough to be at the National Restaurant Association Show and I got to eat allllll the vegan foods. I’ve got some thoughts. Here are the products that really made an impression on me as being of superior quality, unique, filling a gap, or, ideally, all of the…

On a recent Saturday, I met some friends for dinner for the first time in many months. We have known each other for a long time, nearly twenty years, going back to when we were new moms looking for vegan community for ourselves and our children. We raised our herbivorous…

Let’s honor all mothers with fabulous animal-free eats! — What could be better than brunch? Brunch without any compromises to our taste buds or our ethics. I know information about animal agribusiness will make you lose your appetite, but it’s worth knowing that we can have plant-based versions of dairy, eggs, meat and more without hurting the animals, namely…

Use these 16 strategies so eating healthfully doesn’t cut into your time. I’m going to get the difficult part out of the way with a little honesty: if you want to eat nutritious meals, you are going to have to eat some quality produce, whole grains and so on. There…

Alternative title: Happy anniversary to us, Ruby-Mae! — “The women I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong and they handled it. They handled it a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women…