More than Ever, Vegan in the News
Positive vegan stories have been increasingly more prevalent in mainstream news lately. There were numerous good responses to ABC’s new cartoon The Goode Family, including one at the forefront of the New York Times’ television section titled “A Clan So Virtuous Even Its Dog Is Vegan.”
In June alone, all of these and more have popped up as newsworthy articles with “vegan” as a keyword:
* Meat: The Slavery Of Our Time on NPR.com
” I have a prediction: Sooner than you might think, this will be a vegetarian world. Future generations will find the idea of eating meat both morally absurd and logistically impossible. …”
* Goodbye to meat: Switch gradually to become a vegetarian. More fruit, healthy protein likely to improve quality of life in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“As gardens get greener, farmers markets overflow with produce and our cravings for light, summer foods intensify, there’s that temptation to do the unthinkable: turn that dinner salad into a meal, then a habit. Go all the way —- go vegetarian. …”
* Vegetarianism has become mainstream: Is vegan next? in the Sonoma Valley Sun
“Vegans have to endure the resistance that used to greet someone’s announcement that, “I refuse to eat anything with a face.” Vegetarians once seemed a rather fussy lot, as if chicken stock were the equivalent of hemlock – that is, they did until vegans came along, with their laundry list of taboo foodstuffs. …”
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