Author: Tracy I
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Ten reasons to try more vegan living in 2024
As the new year approaches, it’s a great time to think about what sorts of positive changes might make 2024 better than 2023. On Friday I’ll be more specific about ways to insert more vegan options into your life. But today I am going to offer a few reasons worthy of consideration for anyone who…
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Preview: My Holiday Dinner Plans
I adore good food. So holiday dinners are the sort of thing I plan for. I’ll be partaking on Christmas day with my family. They’re omnivores, and normally I would make a Gardein Stuffed Turk’y and gravy for myself. As I have said before, they are delicious. I made a package of them just this…
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Myth-busting: vegan athletes? Yes!
Early into my veganism I co-founded a blog with my friend and colleague Samantha Brennan called Fit Is a Feminist Issue. The purpose of the blog at the time (blog established in 2012) was to try to articulate a feminist approach to fitness in a way that captured a decades-long conversation we had already been…
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Vegan goodies for the holidays
I like desserts and sweets, especially around the holidays. The only thing is that a lot of the old favourites aren’t vegan. That’s why I make my own fun at this time of year, testing out new recipes and bringing back old favourites. This year, I’m trying two new things: coconut laddoos (which are basically…
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FYI: Most of the “superfoods” are vegan
Whether you’re a “superfood” skeptic or a “superfood” believer, the best thing about superfoods is that the majority of them are vegan. On this ranking of 21 superfoods from Outside Magazine, 19 of them are vegan. As a personal aside, 13 of them are in my kitchen right now (14 if you count whole oranges,…
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Change is possible: Warwick University students vote for campus eateries to go vegan by 2027
This story, “Where’s the beef?: vegan diet to be ‘imposed’ on Warwick University students after vote bans meat and dairy,” came across my inbox last week (thanks, Samantha!). What a reassuring relief to read that it is in the realm of possibility for students of a large institution to vote in favour of going completely…
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I said I didn’t need a rice cooker
I grew up with rice and I have always known how to make perfect long grain white rice on the stove top. You measure out the rice, and then you measure out twice as much water into a pot with a good lid. One cup of rice takes two cups of water. Bring the water…
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On being vegan in a sea of omnivores whom you love
I’ve just finished reading Ed Winters’s book, This Is Vegan Propaganda: And Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You (Vermillion 2022). It’s a great book with really good info about the impact of animal agriculture (particularly factory farming) on the animals, the planet, and humans’ health (not just the claim that veganism is a nutritionally…
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Easy pumpkin muffins that are more like cake (not complaining)
Even though I’m not a pumpkin spice latte person, I do love pumpkin and the cinnamon-nutmeg-ginger-cloves spice blend that has come to be associated with it. And with all the American friends and media blasting me with pumpkinny things related to their Thanksgiving yesterday, I have had pumpkin in mind all week. It is comforting…
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The perverse tradition of “pardoning the turkey”
It’s Thanksgiving in the U.S. today (we had our Canadian Thanksgiving back in October). Frequently called “Turkey Day,” Thanksgiving is a day when the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates 46 million turkeys will be eaten. Another 22 million will find their way onto Christmas tables. Altogether, Americans consume an estimated 245 million (PETA) to 250…
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