MEATOUT 2011 BLOGGERS' VIRTUAL EVENT

MEATOUT 2011 BLOGGERS' VIRTUAL EVENT

On March 20th the following bloggers will post a special blog post in honor of Meatout! We hope you enjoy visiting their sites where you'll be sure to find delicious vegan recipes,
vegan tips, and/or thoughtful reflection.
***Please note that some bloggers are also doing GIVEAWAYS!
Thanks so much, bloggers, for supporting Meatout!
If you are a blogger and would like to participate, see the bottom of this page. Thanks!

Mighty Vegan (Julie Kelly)

Lola Lollipop (Lara Matthews) *has already created a special
Meatout comic strip that you can also find on her Facebook page. Check it out!

Vegan Heartland (Matthew) * is also having Meatout giveaways on his blog on 3/20

Don't Fear The Vegan (the DeRobertis family) *Will be raffling off 2 canvas bags
custom designed for Meatout that also say - Don't Fear the Vegan!

Vegan Machine (Kaycee Bassett)

MeloMeals: Vegan for $3.33 a Day (Melody Polakow)

Kiss Me, I'm Vegan (Lindsay Wolf)

Action For Our Planet (Oli Dillon Squire)

Hungry Vegan (Vegiegail)

Hungry Hungry Hippie (Elise)

Daisy Wares (Roni Seabury)

We Animals (Jo Anne McArthur)

Our Hen House (Jasmin Singer & Mariann Sullivan)

Your Time Travels (Liz Longacre)

The Tourist Trail (John Yunker)

Ashland Creek Press (Midge Raymond)

The Vegan Project (Bridget Burns, Jennifer Hanover, and Jessica Grajczyk)

Tracie Cooks (Tracie Boyle)

Veg Reflections (Jessica)

Vegan Gluten Free Karaoke (Rachel Lee)

The Dirty Vegan

The Blooming Platter

Julie Beyer's For the Love of Food (Julie Beyer)

The Vegan Swedes (Emma)

Veg Vine (Ryan Draving)

Vegan Splendor (Carol Kunze)

The Fruit Pursuit (Sabine)

VegKitchen

My Vegan Blog (Breezy Rondilone)

My Big Yellow Book (Breezy Rondilone)

LJ's Veganlicious (Laura Jill)

Vegan Miss (Alexis)

Dinner Peace (Colleen Boucher)

The Veganomaly (Shannon Alberta)

Eat & Talk (Kelly E. Spivey)

Reverence Gardens (Chris)

Vegan Wellness (Charlotte Cressey)

Greenderella (Franzi Schleiter) *not a 100% vegan blog, but promoting Meatout
& more vegan recipes every week.

Amanda Eats (Amanda Rock)

Hungry Vegan Traveler (Amanda)

Vegetarian ( Xiao Kang, Terri Lynn Merritts, and Isobella Merritts)

Serendipitous Vegan (Ashley & Richard)

Vegan Fazool (Dawn Carlock)

Vegan Version (Lee Khatchadourian-Reese)

Vegan Appetite (Tami Noyes)

Bankrupt Vegan (Jen Manriquez)

Bunny Bread Surprise (Emily Keith)

Little Vegan Planet

Tena Burnett

The Opinioness of the World (Megan Kearns)

Empire 118

Beyond Willpower (Alicia Birmingham)

VegBlogger

Gone Vegan (Lindsay Hutton)

JAM Vegan Bakery (Jesse Coyne & Mallori Simko)
*Will have special Meatout activities on 3/20

Viva la Vegan! (Leigh-Chantelle)

Soul Veggie (Mark Sutton)

Jill of Ark (Jill Ennis)
* Will be raffling off a free 30-minute animal communication phone session

Lifeforce (Peter Hamilton)
*see a special Lifeforce Meatout news pdf

And don't forget to check in on the
FARM Blog

If you'd like to participate and be added to our list of Meatout bloggers,
please send an e-mail to Cindi@farmusa.org

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MEATOUT 2011 BLOGGERS' VIRTUAL EVENT

MEATOUT 2011 BLOGGERS' VIRTUAL EVENT

On March 20th the following bloggers will post a special blog post in honor of Meatout! We hope you enjoy visiting their sites where you'll be sure to find delicious vegan recipes,
vegan tips, and/or thoughtful reflection.
***Please note that some bloggers are also doing GIVEAWAYS!
Thanks so much, bloggers, for supporting Meatout!
If you are a blogger and would like to participate, see the bottom of this page. Thanks!

Mighty Vegan (Julie Kelly)

Lola Lollipop (Lara Matthews) *has already created a special
Meatout comic strip that you can also find on her Facebook page. Check it out!

Vegan Heartland (Matthew) * is also having Meatout giveaways on his blog on 3/20

Don't Fear The Vegan (the DeRobertis family) *Will be raffling off 2 canvas bags
custom designed for Meatout that also say - Don't Fear the Vegan!

Vegan Machine (Kaycee Bassett)

MeloMeals: Vegan for $3.33 a Day (Melody Polakow)

Kiss Me, I'm Vegan (Lindsay Wolf)

Action For Our Planet (Oli Dillon Squire)

Hungry Vegan (Vegiegail)

Hungry Hungry Hippie (Elise)

Daisy Wares (Roni Seabury)

We Animals (Jo Anne McArthur)

Our Hen House (Jasmin Singer & Mariann Sullivan)

Your Time Travels (Liz Longacre)

The Tourist Trail (John Yunker)

Ashland Creek Press (Midge Raymond)

The Vegan Project (Bridget Burns, Jennifer Hanover, and Jessica Grajczyk)

Tracie Cooks (Tracie Boyle)

Veg Reflections (Jessica)

Vegan Gluten Free Karaoke (Rachel Lee)

The Dirty Vegan

The Blooming Platter

Julie Beyer's For the Love of Food (Julie Beyer)

The Vegan Swedes (Emma)

Veg Vine (Ryan Draving)

Vegan Splendor (Carol Kunze)

The Fruit Pursuit (Sabine)

VegKitchen

My Vegan Blog (Breezy Rondilone)

My Big Yellow Book (Breezy Rondilone)

LJ's Veganlicious (Laura Jill)

Vegan Miss (Alexis)

Dinner Peace (Colleen Boucher)

The Veganomaly (Shannon Alberta)

Eat & Talk (Kelly E. Spivey)

Reverence Gardens (Chris)

Vegan Wellness (Charlotte Cressey)

Greenderella (Franzi Schleiter) *not a 100% vegan blog, but promoting Meatout
& more vegan recipes every week.

Amanda Eats (Amanda Rock)

Hungry Vegan Traveler (Amanda)

Vegetarian ( Xiao Kang, Terri Lynn Merritts, and Isobella Merritts)

Serendipitous Vegan (Ashley & Richard)

Vegan Fazool (Dawn Carlock)

Vegan Version (Lee Khatchadourian-Reese)

Vegan Appetite (Tami Noyes)

Bankrupt Vegan (Jen Manriquez)

Bunny Bread Surprise (Emily Keith)

Little Vegan Planet

Tena Burnett

The Opinioness of the World (Megan Kearns)

Empire 118

Beyond Willpower (Alicia Birmingham)

VegBlogger

Gone Vegan (Lindsay Hutton)

JAM Vegan Bakery (Jesse Coyne & Mallori Simko)
*Will have special Meatout activities on 3/20

Viva la Vegan! (Leigh-Chantelle)

Soul Veggie (Mark Sutton)

Jill of Ark (Jill Ennis)
* Will be raffling off a free 30-minute animal communication phone session

Lifeforce (Peter Hamilton)
*see a special Lifeforce Meatout news pdf

And don't forget to check in on the
FARM Blog

If you'd like to participate and be added to our list of Meatout bloggers,
please send an e-mail to Cindi@farmusa.org

Maynard | GoogleChat: Maynard.Clark | Google Profile

Maynard S. Clark, RAC | 617-615-9672 (GoogleVoice) | Skype: MaynardClark

Blog Links | HSPH Bioethics | LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook | MyBlogLog

Press Releases Vstream Zine - the First Ever 54-page Zine about Vegan Blogs - Available Worldwide Friday, March 18, 2011 San Diego, Ca (Vocus/PRWEB) March 18, 2011 It's officially here the "Vstream Zine - A Vegan Blog Reporter!" Vegan Mainstream is excited to offer the first ever 54-page Zine about Vegan Blogs. It's a compilation of blog recommendations and preferences from your favorite vegans on the planet - not watered down at all. It's sure to become an official guide to the world of vegan blogging. On Monday, Vegan Mainstream announced the first edition of VStream: The Vegan Blog Reporter. This project started with a simple idea: to create a guide that would help old-school vegans, new veg heads, and people exploring veganism, a list of the best vegan blogs online. However, the team learned quickly that classifying "the best" was nearly impossible because everyone had their own opinion. So, instead of providing a flavorless list of the top 10 or 25 blogs, Vegan Mainstream asked some top bloggers, influential vegans and their own staff to tell readers about their favorite blogs in their own words. This compilation of recommendations will equip a novice or expert with new insights to some of the funniest, strangest and most awesome blogs the Vegan community has to offer. In addition, interviews were conducted of fellow bloggers to get their perspective on how they started their blogs, why they think blogging is important to the vegan community and how readers can become more active in the vegan blogosphere. To top it all off, the Zine includes a directory of 200 vegan blogs. Readers simply click on the links in the digital copy of the Zine to quickly access any blog in the directory. The Zine is available as a Print or Digital version. The printed version includes a free copy of the digital version, thus creating the best value. Vegan Mainstream chose a third party to manage the print version to ensure the Vstream Zine is available to a worldwide audience. So, readers anywhere in the globe can access a printed or digital copy. Download the digital copy today to get instant access to the Vstream Zine. Or get your feet wet with a Free Sneak Peek copy. ### For the original version on PRWeb visit:www.prweb.com/releases/prwebvstream/veganmainstream/prweb8220084.htm

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/03/18/prweb8220084.DTL#ixzz1H5EiY9wf

Who's There?

Reminds me of the 'maverick' Episcopal clergyman from the 1960s, Malcolm Boyd, who sat on tall stools in Sixties coffeehouses and read poetry and other meditations.

Boyd hit the scene with Are You Running with Me, Jesus?, which was NOT a book about jogging.

As I sit in offices layered with stuffed bookcases, I think of how many books there are on so many different sides of issues - not just TWO sides of things - could be 3 sides or 4 sides.

Another side to the "Are you there?" controversy is the late Dr. Francis Schaeffer's The God Who Is There. Some of us might have thought, fleetingly, that Schaeffer was just 'begging the question' on God's existence based on the insufficiency of other widely-held worldviews grounded in modernity, such as deconstruction, absurdity, plurality of 'personal truths', etc. Nonetheless, Francis and Edith Schaeffer set up a popular working retreat in Huemes, Switzerland, called L'Abri, where Evangelical dropouts could go pray for answers to prayer, while they studied with this professional philosopher who had dropped out of religious liberalism.

What kind of dry fleece could they craftily set out for God to trick Him into answering their prayers?

The problem of pain and suffering is one of the classical problems of theodicy, and as more and more folks are globally aware (missionaries have been globally aware for millennia) of the depth and expanse of human suffering, the reflections become even MORE poignant, particularly when we consider priorities in the allocation of scares resources - but isn't that how economics is often defined: the quantitative social science of dealing with scarcities - real and presumed, temporary and long-term?

Those of us who have been sensitized to the nature of suffering as pervasive through ALL of sentient life realize that mere palliation is not the total answer. I was pharmacy students on the hoof, parading past my Huntington Avenue windows all day long, but the problem of suffering is not merely about aging and injury, nor about humans alone. Whether we call it 'structural inefficiences' or whatever, agency - human wills/volition - and action from that volition - are often set in motion so that real suffering occurs, not only in the agents, but also in both overt victims and unintended victims.

We KNOW that WE are there, but we're still quibbling about how MANY of us and which of us are morally significant enough to consider... reflectively, ethically.

Coffee smoothies" by Maynard S. Clark

Coffee smoothies"

by Maynard S. Clark

Coffee smoothies, our communion

Of our vegetarian union

Symbol of ongoing grip

On our ways of being hip

Caffeine, our necessity

For each working person's me.

Apologies to the LATE Christopher Gist Raible

Renaissonics - Vegan Early Music Group in Greater Boston

Renaissonics, a Vegan Early Music Group in Greater Boston, tours in many configurations--from a quartet featuring Renaissance Chamber Music to as many as 10, or more, presenting gala Renaissance Dance and Music spectacles.

http://www.Renaissonics.com

http://www.WGBH.org/carols

Renaissonics tours as a vegan group group of musicians. Many of its members are fully vegan all the time, and the others are totally happy eating vegan with those real vegans.

Its members (as of 2005) were:

Dan Ryan - cello

James Johnston - violin'

Miyuki Tsurutani - virginal recorders, crumhorn

Laura Gulley - violin

Douglas Freundlich - lutes

John Tyson - recorders, crumhorn, pipe and trbor

Nancy Hurrell - harps

Eric Galm - percussion