“Pain in my ass” caught my eye. I had just opened Facebook and noticed a friend’s caption, “Glad about this!” regarding a new ban in her county on single-use plastic bags. The person who commented based his complaint on inconvenience, annoyance at the small non-compliance fee, and “negligible ... Read More

April of 2019, eight or nine years after attending my first VegMichigan Vegfest, I decided to return to the annual event. I’d been waiting for the right moment to return to veganism after a long lapse into the local food movement and eating small amounts of cheese, eggs and fish. Fortunately, I had ... Read More

Greta Thunberg inspired a world-wide movement, Fridays for Future, where children skip school on Fridays to protest climate change. Millions of youth, and even adults, all over the world are taking action for the climate change emergency. How ironic that Greta’s name rearranged is Great! Greta’s ... Read More

I was out for lunch. Nice place, not all vegetarian but highly accomodating to those of the veg persuasion. It was a sunny but unseasonably cold day in April and when I saw that the soup was butternut squash (vegan; one of their soups is always vegan), my mind was made up. I ordered a large soup ... Read More

Dear Jennifer Finney Boylan, After reading your New York Times opinion piece, from November 13, 2019, I had to catch my breath, catch it again, and then walk away. I needed to analyze just why I was so disturbed. You write that if we really thought about our relationship with animals, we ... Read More

Holidays are a mixed bag for vegans. While we cherish spending time with loved ones at year end, we also struggle because, as an acquaintance joked years ago, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Eve are “meat holidays.” I learned where meat comes from when I was seven. My childhood Christmases in ... Read More