vegan freak version 2.0

Completely Revised and Rewritten – Coming December 2009

Curious about veganism? Want to be a vegan? Just wondering how to be vegan without going insane? In this informative and practical guide on ethical veganism, we help you learn to love your inner vegan freak. Loaded with tips, advice, stories, and comprehensive resources that no new vegan should live without, this book is key to helping you thrive as a happy, healthy, and sane vegan in a decidedly non-vegan world.

This is the best-selling guide that thousands have used to go vegan and stay vegan. Read on to find out how to channel your own inner vegan freak!

Status update: 6 December 2009: Books are printed and on the way to stores! In the next day or two, we’ll also be posting details on a 20% off presale, so stay tuned.

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Oprah Gives Away Free Chicken; We Yawn and Say We Told You So

May 11, 2009

It hurts us more than it hurts you to say it, but hell, we have to say it anyway: we were right.
Last May when Oprah went on her 21-day vegan “cleanse,” the vegan blogosphere was awash in a feckless giddiness. To some vegan bloggers and podcasters, Oprah was the seeming deus ex machina who could [...]

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Vegan Freak Radio 107 Available

May 5, 2009

On this show, we talk about everything from why you shouldn’t give up on your medication to why logic and facts will make you no friends, and why we think it’s a little crazy to eat just bananas and romaine lettuce every day.

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Moving Beyond Environmental Veganism

April 29, 2009

If you start doing even the most casual kind of research on intensive animal agriculture, you quickly discover that there are a handful of what appear to be very compelling reasons to go vegan on account of the environment. Whether you’re repulsed by the lagoons of manure that people sometimes drown in, or the idea [...]

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Stop Eating Cheese: an excerpt from version 2.0

April 27, 2009

Because we get asked about how to stop eating cheese so often, I figured I’d post this here prior to version 2.0 coming out. The gist of our argument — which we explain in much more depth in the book itself — is this: to go vegan, just do it cold tofu, and stop eating [...]

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Swine Flu and Empathy

April 27, 2009

I’ve been reading around the vegan interwebs today, and there’s a putrid air of triumphant moralizing, as if this is factory farming finally coming back to hit us with what we have deserved all along. Look, I get it. We’re tired of watching a rapacious industry kill billions under its bloody heel, and when the [...]

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Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach » A Call for Humility

April 27, 2009

While all of Gary’s blog entries are worth a read, this one is particularly poignant in the face of recent news:
Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach » A Call for Humility.

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Version 2.0: Changes Are Afoot

April 27, 2009

The other day, Kelly and Joe over in our chat room mentioned to me that used copies of the first edition of Vegan Freak were going for something like $40 and up on Amazon.com. That’s flattering in one kind of way, and depressing in another. The flattering aspect is probably quite obvious. The depressing aspect, [...]

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A Mariachi Band, 1000 bean burritos, and an Elevator: Or, the distortions of the “Eccentric Vegan”

March 13, 2009

Sometimes, being in this movement is like being trapped in an elevator with a Mariachi band that just ate 1000 bean burritos.
Elaine Vigneault, the “eccentric vegan,” is hoping to drive some traffic to her sad little site by getting in on the critique that I made of Ryan McReynolds’s entry about his misunderstanding abolitionism. Though [...]

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Of Straw Men and Feckless Thinking: Misunderstanding Abolitionism

March 11, 2009

One of the great things about the Internet is that someone who has no real training or background in an area can write whatever they want about it. This is also, simultaneously, one of the worst things about the Internet.  This observation is nothing new, but I’m reminded of the downside of it whenever I [...]

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Vegan Isn’t a Dirty Word

March 6, 2009

Since getting involved in struggles for animal rights a number of years ago, I’ve noticed a curious tendency of many people to use the term “veggie,” often with the apparent intent to encompass both ovo-lacto vegetarians and vegans. I’ve also noticed a hesitancy on the part of some people and organizations to use the term [...]

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