Vegetarian News

VeggiePatti has partnered with Total Health Foods in Wyandotte again to bring more vegan options to the Downriver area.

Arsenic, insect bodies or even wood - the next time you're munching on your favourite sneaky snack, take a moment to consider what you're really eating.

Brandy is the author of the food blog, Nutmeg Nanny . In her spare time she enjoys developing recipes, baking and cooking.

Ryan DesRoches, a native of Charlottetown, is pictured picking berries while cycling on a trail in Germany, meant to show his fondness for using natural products.

One of Joanna Thomas' proudest parenting moments came when her then-toddler son looked up at a pair of golden arches and asked: "What's that big yellow M?" Since birth, her son and daughter - now 15 and 13, respectively - have eaten almost exclusively vegan and sugar-free, said Thomas, 50, who lives on the city's Northwest Side.

Plant-based proteins are becoming more and more popular as people are moving away from beef, pork, fowl and fish for essential amino acids.

It can also refer to the practice of abstaining from the use of animal products generally, not just in diet, including such things as glue derived from animal parts, shoe leather, and natural hair wigs.

My daughter, Thea, a cellist, is spending the summer in Montgomery, Ala. She was thrilled to land a job there playing in the orchestra at Montgomery's Shakespeare Festival.

Sho Kamio of Iysasare works on tofu paste on Thursday, July 17, 2014 in Berkeley, Calif.

I have been asked whether the Baha'i Faith has dietary guidelines or restrictions, because there are so many different kinds of people who are Baha'is.

As many of you know, Detroit has taken draconian--and according to the United Nations, illegal--steps to solve the problem of so many of its citizens being behind on their water bills.

Can ostensibly "secular" laws have communal underpinnings? Can tolerance be judicially enforced, and in such a process, does such enforcement not show demonstrate inherent intolerance? And, as Herbert Marcuse provocatively asked in his 1965 essay "Repressive Tolerance"- doesn't one of the paradoxes of liberal societies arise from this very ... (more)

Last week, the progressive blog-o-sphere absolutely lost it when an article published by Tom Philpott on Mother Jones loudly proclaimed " Lay off the Almond Milk you ignorant hipsters ", which was later republished on other liberal media sites again , and again , and again , each time with an extensive round of negative comments from readers on ... (more)

Defense Nutrition is known for its ChocoWhey products, a line based on cocoa and whey protein.

Jinu Abraham, executive chef of Heritage Auckland, has won the New Zealand Vegetarian Dish Challenge 2014, in the lunch category, with his dish of organic tofu and pea stuffed potato, smoked tomato and onions.

Co-owners, Angela Hernandez, left, and Gloria Gentry hold up a dish of southern fried chicken wings at Southern Exposure on Sixth Avenue.

Helen Mirren is aging like fine wine, thanks to a sensible, portion-controlled diet and 12-minute workouts modeled after the Royal Canadian Air Force exercise plan, People reported Thursday.

The boxer - who fights Saturday night on HBO at Madison Square Garden - counters that he shops at organic, high-end grocery store Whole Foods.

If you'd prefer, substitute soba noodles for the udon noodles. For vegetarians, the salad is delicious minus the scallops; just add more mango or vegetables.

Jess Abramson relaxes next to a scale loaded with chops made from sweet potatoes at her family's shop in Toronto's Little Italy neighbourhood.