Laura Daikin joined the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in 2005 at the age of 21. She began her career in the kitchen as a dishwasher, but after just a month, Laura was thrown into the deep end and promoted to chief cook (affectionately called galley slave) on the Steve Irwin. She fell in love with […]
Product Review: So Delicious Cashew Milk Frozen Desserts
When people learn that I’m vegan they’ll sometimes say, “I could never go vegan, I love my ice cream too much.” The truth is that you don’t need to give up ice cream when going vegan, because their are so many different dairy-free types on the market. In fact, since there is such a wide variety […]
Interview Series: “Edgy Veggie” Ellen Kanner
Ellen Kanner is an award-winning food writer and author of Feeding the Hungry Ghost: Life, Faith and What to Eat for Dinner. She is also Huffington Post’s Meatless Monday blogger and the syndicated columnist Edgy Veggie, is published in Bon Appetit, Eating Well, Vegetarian Times, Every Day with Rachael Ray, and Culinate as well as in other online and print publications. She’s an ardent advocate for […]
Review: The March Vegan Cuts Beauty Box
By now I think that everyone knows about the Vegan Cuts Beauty Box, but occasionally I come across someone who has never heard of it. If you’re unfamiliar with it, let me introduce you. It’s a beauty box service where subscribers receive a box full of cruelty-free beauty products delivered right to their door once a month. The box contains […]
Interview Series: Gene Baur
Gene Baur, president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary, has been hailed as “the conscience of the food movement” by Time magazine. Since the mid-1980s, Gene has traveled extensively, campaigning to raise awareness about the abuses of industrialized factory farming and our system of cheap food production. His first book, Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and […]