If it's not Scottish it's craaaaap!

Admit it, we all miss a little meat in our lives - bacon, cheeseburgers, haggis. . . what, you don't miss your haggis? And you call yourself Scottish? Lucky for us Scots, we can now get vegetarian haggis! Try to contain your excitement. 

(photo source: http//www.thehaggis.com/haggis.html)

The uninitiated may be wondering 'WTF is haggis??'. (Pardon the picture, it was the only one I could find. No really! Ok not really I just liked it. Sue me.) No less than a Scottish delicacy my friends - sheep innards cooked with onions and oatmeal then boiled in an animal stomach. With a side of mashed turnips (neeps), what could be lovelier? Ah, the idyllic childhood memories it stirs. I'm having a fit of nostalgia.  Or possibly a seizure. 

In truth this is not terribly surprising, since there are almost twice as many vegetarians per capita in the UK compared to the US (6% vs. 3%,  using rough math). Which is amazing to me as I didn't think there were any vegetables in the UK. Unless you count turnips. 

This nouveau take on an old classic is made with beans, lentils and nuts in place of meat. Not easy to find this one if you're in the US but Amazon can get it for you as can FoodFight (yo Chad, you's cool my man!). 

It makes me wonder. What's next - vegan spotted dick? steak and kidney pie? Toad-in-the-hole? Bubble and squeak? (mmm brussels sprouts.) Actually that latter this wouldn't be hard to make - open the fridge, throw whatever raw or cooked vegetables you find into a pan and fry those bad boys to within an inch of their life. Just don't do it in suet. Can you tell I have a soft spot for traditional British fare?

Well there's nothing for it but to get a hold of the stuff and try it. (Mum, will you see if the British store near you carries it pleeeeease?) It will be lovely fodder for another posting. Stay tuned. 

Peace out. 

It was inevitable. . .

Vegan porn. Oh yes, you read correctly.  Or more specifically 'titillating tofu eaters' (tee hee, titillating!) according to Veg Porn,  a site dedicated to porn for plant-eaters. The site is run by a woman who goes only by the name of FurryGirl. 

And unfortunately, she *is* rather.  

As an aside, you may be wondering how on earth I come up with these topics. Mostly by googling 'vegan' or 'vegetarian' with other interesting words, for example vegan+naked, vegan+chocolate, vegan+****sucking dirty ***** with huge **** taking it in the *** by ******* with enormous ****. You get the idea.  

So back to our furry friend. Although FurryGirl is an honest-to-goodness confessed sex trade worker, most of the pictures on the site are sent in by average Joes (and Jills). And speaking of Jills did you know 'Jilling' was a verb? Yes, I learned something new today. (If you're still pondering that one, remember Jill's significant other was Jack.) But aside from nude and semi-nude photos there's also a nude cooking collection, oh yes, vegans cooking their favorite recipes in the buff. That just seems dangerous to me. I burn my fingers sometimes and that hurts. Never mind the endless supply of puns (". . now we whip up the icing and spread it evenly on the buns. . ")

Ahem. But getting to the point (quickly), I'm wondering as I click around the site (purely for research purposes of course): Is this porn, with a side of veganism, or porn being used to promote veganism? Because while I've said I'd take my clothes off to help animals, the latter still seems disingenuous. But in this case, the evidence seems to point to the former. For one thing, FurryGirl has been in the sex trade ('peddling online smut' according to her bio) much longer than she's been vegan. It certainly seems like she's just doing what she likes and what she's good at, and using that as a platform to promote an animal friendly lifestyle. It's not much different than this blog - I can write (pretend I can anyway, or the argument doesn't work) and I use that skill to help promote what I believe in. 

We can't always choose the talents we've been given, but we can choose to honor those gifts by furthering a cause we believe in, and making whatever impact we can. Wow, I think I just made a porn site seem noble. Who said I couldn't write? Pfftt. 

Peace out. 

(Photo source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinkmoose/252694264)

Best Animal Rights T-shirt Slogans EVER

Wear your heart on your sleeve, and your politics on your t-shirt. Or so the old saying goes. Well it's something like that anyway.  So in tribute to the animal rights/vegan/vegetarian t-shirts slogans, I present you with the 10 best: 

10. Beat your own meat

9. Tofu: the other white meat

8. Heart attacks - God's revenge for eating his animal friends

7. Animals die to keep your fat ass alive

6. This vegan only eats her man's meat

5. If you want to wear fur, stop shaving

4. Vegetarians are animals in bed

3. I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.*

2. First runner up:

1. And . . . . . our winner: 

(Image from http://www.threadless.com/submission/170537/Vegan_Zombie?streetteam=roboppy)

*Originally  a quote from A. Whitney Brown

Peace out.