Earth Day happened this week. It seemed like it was going to be ignored, especially by our elected representatives, so a group of climate activists got together outside Toronto City Hall. They wanted to introduce the new kid in town – the Climate Vegan Campaign. “Climate Vegan” is a term recently coined by a group of Toronto activists whose aim is to join the dots of forest destruction, water usage, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions to the cow in the china shop – animal agriculture.   

I've been a vegetarian for almost five years now and this has never been a problem for me.

Morally, I feel as if I line up with veganism more than vegetarianism. My reasoning for going vegetarian in the first place was because I've always felt uncomfortable with the idea of eating a dead animal. I've always been an animal person, and eating my friends was just a little too icky for me.

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I am sixty-year old grandmother, artist, amateur photographer, gardener and avid reader.  Six years ago I started to thoroughly investigate the impacts of animal agriculture and I was determined to leave no stone unturned.  I steeled myself to not look away when the brutality of what we do to farmed animals was all too apparent and painful.  And it was incredibly painful; my  

Happy Day one of the vegan challenge. How's it going so far? For me, I'll admit it's a challenge. A vegan challenge, if you will.

Since menu planning is such an important part of having any success with this week of dietary change, I thought I'd pull up some links. Check out these delish, delightful, and dietarily appropriate recipes for vegan challenge week. See you in the grocery aisle:

Are you standing there with the fridge door open, wondering how to be vegan today? Well look no further than here for some recipe ideas:

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Back in the day…

When I went vegan in the mid-'90s, friends and I told ourselves that tubs of rice cream were as satisfying as the real thing and that veganism didn't mean giving up a stitch of pleasure. The truth is, though, at the time cheese substitutes largely tasted like barf and the endless plates of white pasta and watery "red sauce" at our cafeteria were a drag. We were regularly plied with the question, "But what do you eat?"

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Toronto musician and film maker Gabriel Nicolau, known as Gaiaisi, has had his Tell a Friend music video go viral. His video has more than 100,000 views and has been shared by Upworthy. Steff Pinch spoke to Gabriel about how other animal rights activists can go viral.

Why did you write the song?

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Chana Masala is a comforting Indian curry made with tomatoes and chickpeas. This recipe combines several principles of cheap and delicious vegan eating: it uses an inexpensive protein source, it is super easy to make, and will leave you with a ton of leftovers. 

Adapted from Smitten Kitchen

1 tablespoon olive or vegetable oil

1 large onion, minced

1 clove garlic, minced

2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger

1 tablespoon ground coriander

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When it came to going vegan this past week, all I can say is thank God I could cheat a little.

I have friends and colleagues who have little choice in the matter, either because of health reasons, or out of deeply held moral convictions. Cooking hats off to them!

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Hogtown. The moniker that Toronto has carried for a century. Because of that, there is no better place to have given birth to the most successful grassroots, farmed animal rights organization in all of Canada.

Three years ago, Toronto Pig Save was formed by a small group of dedicated Animal Rights Activists in order to 'erect glass walls' on Toronto's several slaughterhouses. Their purpose was to ensure that the community knew of the existence of these industrialized killing facilities; to help educate the public that there are healthier, compassionate choices; and to bear witness to the thousands of lives lost on a weekly basis.