The Vegan Thread

That article blaming people for poverty for eating quinoa is bullshit, and not looking at it in the context of the overall global problems generated by a heavy meat diet, or exploitation of farmers by global food companies. The response to it is spot on.

You can't blame the consumers, we just want our quinoa and coffee, it's the local governments failure to regulate prices for locals and the wholesalers pushing the producers for unsustainably low prices.

Wish there was a way to sort Guardian comments by most likes. You could have something interesting responded to on page two or three which people respond to, but unless you have the time to go through them all, it gets swalled up in the flood.

I thought the vegan angle was exceedingly silly. And seeing as I don't pay much attention to food fads, I hadn't even heard of quinoa having these nutritional properties. I also can't remember ever eating it.

Personally I find quinoa extremely dull but its a big part of the current whole foods fad at the moment, you certainly didnt used to be able to get it in your local tescos thats for sure.

I really like it in a salad with tofu, broccoli and chilli. Would take quinoa, bulghur, millet or buckwheat over cous-cous any day. Cous-cous is too small.

http://vegansaurus.com/post/40684400970

I'm not a vegan, but went to this vegan restaurant in York the other day and it was really nice and great value for money.

http://www.el-piano.com/

And the response...
http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/22/quinoa-bolivian-farmers-meat-eaters-hunger

Yeah, this is a good response.

^^Been there too, was very tasty indeed

Quarrygirl does occasional videos of vegan businesses now. Here's the excellent Ms Cupcake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rogwjqxoTpg

Can anyone (from experience pls, not just googling) recommend a good book on bringing up a baby / child as a vegan, ta.

I can't help you from experience, but the Vegan Society has quite a lot of material on this--I expect you would already have found it?

http://www.vegansociety.com/lifestyle/nutrition/infants-and-children.aspx

http://www.vegansociety.com/lifestyle/parenting/

http://shop.vegansociety.com/product_info.php?products_id=242

http://www.vegansociety.com/uploadedFiles/Vegan_Lifestyle/Parenting/Babies%20and%20Children%20booklet.pdf

http://www.vegansociety.com/feature-articles/Bringing%20up%20a%20vegan%20baby.pdf

http://www.vegansociety.com/lifestyle/parenting/vegan-babies-and-children/

Some good news:

http://buav.org/our-campaigns/no-cruel-cosmetics

that's incredible! such good news.

^^ that is amazing. at last!

On an unrelated note I made some banging soup earlier, 1 and a half massive sweet potatos (2 normal size ones would be enough for 2 people), a tin of coconut milk, 2 bulbs of garlic, half an onion, a fistful of fresh coriander and a couple of Birdseye chillies. I had it with another couple of chillies and some more coriander on top because I flipping love chillies and coriander. Just roast the sweet potatos for about 20 minutes then blend the lot of it, heat it up and chow the fuck down.

Sounds good. It amazes me that more people have never tried sweet potato.

Growing up, this was a staple of our Sunday roasts. Parsnips came second on the veg scale.

On an unrelated note I made some banging soup earlier, 1 and a half massive sweet potatos (2 normal size ones would be enough for 2 people), a tin of coconut milk, 2 bulbs of garlic, half an onion, a fistful of fresh coriander and a couple of Birdseye chillies. I had it with another couple of chillies and some more coriander on top because I flipping love chillies and coriander. Just roast the sweet potatos for about 20 minutes then blend the lot of it, heat it up and chow the fuck down.

This sounds good!

...people have never tried sweet potato.
I don't know what I'd do without sweet potato! It's the one veg (apart from onions) that I pretty much always have in the kitchen.

Been putting sweet potato in everything recently too, such a versatlie veg, its amazing in chilli.

It's London Vegan Drinks again next week, on Thursday the 21st:

http://fatgayvegan.com/london-vegan-drinks/

Dammit, I can't make this Thurs but lmk if you're going next month!

Im not a vegan . I eat eggs, milk and cheese . No meat or fish. I have been using soya milk in porridge the last few weeks. (The mrs and I both agree it is nicer than milk)

i try to have a couple of vegan days a week .

KFFF, give oat milk or almond milk a try too, I like the taste of them more.

Oat milk is awesome, hazelnut is nice too.