Via Marvin and Matt Yglesias, a study showing that vegan “sausages” were able to fool a surprisingly large number of people.
I have to say, though I’m a vegetarian and not a vegan, I eat very few ersatz meat products. There’s a kind of paradigm shift that you make when you realize that a meal doesn’t [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Fake out
Posted in Vegetarianism/veganism on July 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Durable community
Posted in Environment on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An experiment in local energy self-sufficiency in Germany. I’d like to see some discussion of how scalable something like this is, but it sounds promising.
Gibbons are people too!
Posted in Animals on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, they’re apes at least.
“The love of God in Christ Jesus” – but do we believe it?
Posted in Spirituality, Theology & Faith on July 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today in church we heard a passage from Romans that contains one of my favorite couple of verses in the entire Bible (I imagine I’m not alone in this):
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor [...]
At the risk of becoming a one-note blog…
Posted in Animal Rights and Issues, Uncategorized on July 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I don’t really want to be in the position where I feel like I have to blog about everything that appears in the media on animal rights, especially since the same arguments tend to get repeated over and over again. But since this piece appeared in the Washington Post Sunday Outlook section, it might be [...]
Eat PB&J, save the planet
Posted in Environment, Food, Vegetarianism/veganism on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As a big fan both of peanut butter and jelly and reducing our meat consumption, I really like this.
Lutherans to repeat Anglican follies?
Posted in Anglicanism, Church matters, Lutheranism on July 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Oh great. Is the Lutheran World Federation about to go the way of the Anglican Communion?
In my experience, Lutherans are less keen on centralized ecclesiology than (some) Anglicans, so maybe we can avoid an analogous meltdown and keep cooperating, like with the good work of Lutheran World Relief, under the loose confederation that seems [...]
Bean vs. teat
Posted in Environment, Food on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What’s more environmentally friendly – soy milk or cow’s milk? Looks like soy by a nose. Personally, I’m a big cheese-eater, but I do like to put soy milk on my cereal and in the occasional espresso drink. The article makes the interesting point that the limited market for soy milk is a mark against [...]
