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Here’s a preview of one of our latest creations at Vegan Secrets HQs. Non-Dairy Vegan Chocolate Cheesecake, we actually made this as a gift for some friends we visited recently and it had some amazing reviews too. Everyone loved it, and frankly no one could even tell that it was dairy, cruelty free and fully vegan! Our trickery was brilliant! 

Decorated and topped it off with Soy whipped cream, Chocolate spread and Sprinklings of vegan chocolate. YUMMO! 

Tech savvy vegetarians launch VegBang, the first veggie news sharing site, to fight the Digg mafia

VegBang.com, the first vegetarian and vegan news sharing network, was launched today. VegBang is a veggie oriented clone of Digg, and was born as a response to the systematic link rejection suffered by vegetarians in that popular site. 
 
(PRLog.Org) – Dec 20, 2007 – VegBang.com, the first vegetarian and vegan news sharing network, was launched today. VegBang is a veggie oriented clone of Digg, and was born as a response to the systematic link rejection suffered by vegetarians in that popular site.

VegBang started as a way to fight back the Internet gang called the Digg mafia (also known as the bury brigade), who blatantly bans every pro-vegetarianism submission to Digg. Being vegetarianism one of Digg’s taboo topics, a couple of vegans joined together and decided to develop a whole new site to spread the news and links that were not allowed to share over the Digg network. That was VegBang’s kick start. And after one month of succesful Alpha testing, VegBang now reached its Beta status.

Today, with hundreds of registered users and daily links submissions within categories such as Animal Rights, Environment, Events, Health, News and Recipes, VegBang is reaching its main goal: to provide the vegetarian and vegan community with the ultimate social framework for fresh news and substantial links sharing. Vegetarianism is exploding everywhere over the Internet (big media, weblogs, newsletters, forums) and the VegBang team hopes to ignite that vegetarian explosion.
About VegBang:

VegBang is the first social network for people to share the best vegetarian related Internet content. From news to recipes and from health documents to weblog posts, VegBang’s users love to crawl the web and share their latest finds. This value content is auto-regulated by members themselves: anyone who joins the community becomes an editor. VegBang’s social network technology allows all its users to submit an article that will be reviewed by all and will be promoted, based on popularity, to the main page.

For more information about VegBang please visit www.vegbang.com or write to info@vegbang.com

“What’s natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What’s natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What’s natural and right is love.”

Quote from: Susan Powter

Yummo! If it’s Minty and coated in Chocolate I must admit I have to try it (as long as it’s vegan of course!) . . . and I just happened to come across a quick and easy little recipe for ‘Minty Chocolate Patties’ the other day online so I had to give it a whirl.

It’s had some rave reviews from family and friends so far. Here’s a photo of our success with this minty little recipe.

To get the recipe yourself CLICK HERE

Christmas is the ultimate foodie holiday. So we’ve been searching the internet for sites with some great vegan menu ideas for you this Christmas Season. Some traditional style others not so traditional.

At BBC’s Food page you’ll find two great vegan holiday menu’s with such things like . . .

> Stuffed apricots from the Vegetarian Society
> Broad bean, lemon and sage dip from the Vegetarian Society
> Parsnip, beetroot and basil crisps by Patrick Williams from Planet Christmas
> Tofu croquettes with cranberry sauce from the Vegan Society
> Roast potatoes and parsnips with onions, herbs and cherry tomatoes, from the Vegetarian Society
> Christmas pudding ice cream from the Vegan Society
> Nut coated dates with mango chutney by Patrick Williams from Planet Christmas
> Grilled vegetable ‘ceviche’ with fennel and cumin jam by Paul Gayler
> Kofta balls in tomato sauce by the Vegan Society
> Spiced vegetable pilaff by Antony Worrall Thompson
> Bombay potatoes by Manju Malhi
> Winter fruit salad

Click here for more details

You can also check out VegSource for some ideas for American, English or Southern Italian Christmas vegan menu ideas.

Or there’s Cherry’s site which also has some great recipes especially for cruelty-free meals Click here to view.

And here are loads of Vegan Christmas and Holiday Season Recipe ideas that everyone will enjoy, Click Here. 

So no matter what you like to cook during Christmas and the Holiday season you’re bound to find some great tasting recipes out there that will make the day 100% Cruelty-Free. 

“Animal experiments are the product of barbarian ignorance toward animal life by those who arrogantly take the right to submit animals to pain and suffering for their own selfish ends. What these researchers do to the animals they experiment with is more barbaric than any of the past cavemean behavior. The cavemen in primitive time had more compassion for animals than our present-day scientists have.

Humans will not find proper solutions to human problems as long as they are cruel and insensitive to other forms of life, including the animals.”

Quotation’s from the Book “Angelo’s Message” – Aurelia Louise Jones

Note from Rebecca . . . Either you are part of the solution or you are part of the problem - Undoubtedly this may come as a surprise to most of humanity who falsely and ignorantly assume that they are not contributing to such cruelty and torture of the animal kingdom – but the fact remains if you are a tax payer you are to some degree supporting such torture as many grants are given to scientists by governments to keep up such barbaric behavior behind closed doors.

But let’s not forget about all the goods uneducated humans purchase on a daily basis that have also contributed to animal experimentation. Simply buying simple things like medicines, cosmetics and many other household goods you are contributing to the cruel torture of animals.

It’s time for Humanity to face Reality and support cruelty-freedom this Christmas. Please be consciously aware of the decisions you make as a consumer and only buy Cruelty-Free, NOT-Tested on Animals items to place under your Christmas tree this year.

If you haven’t quite organized your veggie christmas shopping just yet then no worries as we’ve put together some of our favorite resources all in one place which may help you with some of your veggie shopping this year . . .

Click here for Veg Gift Ideas

Are you looking for some Healthy Weight Loss & Diet Advice for Lacto-Ovo Vegetarians and Vegans? Then this is a great place to start . . . with Articles on Weight Loss and Dietary Nutrition, Plus a Healthy Veg-Diet Program, and Advice on Vegetarian Foods and Free Recipes . . .

Go Here: Vegetarian Weight Loss

Carrot juice is one of the richest sources of vitamin A and other vitamins, especially B complex. Its mineral content is equally rich, and includes calcium, copper, magnesium, potassium, sodium, phosphorus, chlorine, sulpher and iron.

So it makes sense that carrot juice is a great energizing detox juice, being full of beta-carotene, calcium and vitamin c you can’t go wrong with this Super Juice in your healthy living diet. I highly recommend it for a refreshing and healthy alternative.

Tyr this recipe out for yourself:

• 3 carrots
• 1 apple
• 1/2 orange
• 1 stick celery
• 1/2 inch ginger root

Juice together and enjoy!

Defending eating habits seems to be a primal instinct for people.  These days Westerners are running out of excuses for their gluttony.  Well-read people no longer believe meat is necessary to meet our protein needs or that milk is the favored source of calcium.  With the crumbling of these two time-honored battle fronts the vitamin B12 issue has become the trendy topic whenever a strict vegetarian (vegan) diet is discussed.  Since the usual dietary source of vitamin B12 for omnivores is the flesh of other animals, the obvious conclusion is that those who choose to avoid eating meat are destined to become B12 deficient. There is a grain of truth in this concern, but in reality an otherwise healthy strict vegetarian’s risk of developing a disease from B12 deficiency by following a sensible diet is extremely rare—less than one chance in a million.

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