Life is journey, we'll help you eat along the way...
Greetings Friend,
As we reflect on another year past, and we want to thank you for all your help. You have been an integral part of HappyCow's efforts, and your emails, updates, technical, and monetary contributions have made our work together possible.
Your support has been the backbone of our vital efforts in 2005, as together we have:
• Added over 1,000 new vegetarian-friendly listings globally.
• Implemented user-friendly features including: printer-friendly city pages, maps for the US & Canada, mobile access for cell phone & palm pilots, and visitor reviews for individual listings.
• Supported vegetarian-friendly restaurants & health food stores.
• Celebrated the success of "A Vegan World is Possible" contest.
We look forward to continuing HappyCow's free service to you: veggie lovers, friends of animal, health-minded and compassionate people everywhere.
Sincerely,
Eric, Diana, and the Cows
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December 2005
In This Issue
Greetings
What's New
Restaurant
Visitors Forum
Travel
Book
Interview
Thanks
About HappyCow
We are a free
worldwide guide to
vegetarian
restaurants and
health food stores.
We promote
vegetarianism as a compassionate,
healthy, and environmentally sustainable way of
living.
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What's New?
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Vegan Gift Shop online
An alternative store providing cruelty-free gifts & goodies for the holidays, birthdays, and every occasion. Proceeds from the shop will help fund the HappyCow project. Please visit today:
www.VeganGiftShop.com
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Whoever said coming in second doesn't pay?
Not so for the runner-up winner of our "A Vegan World is Possible" essay contest, Robert Kai Irwin. He and his family will be flown to the island paradise of Kauai, Hawaii this weekend for a vegan feast complimentary of The Blossoming Lotus restaurant. See the cookbook that inspired the contest: Vegan World Fusion Cuisine
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Interactive Maps... Coming Soon
With technical help from volunteer Jessi Lyn Berkelhammer, we will soon install inter-active maps for the USA!
Jessi Lyn, a resident of Pittsburgh, is a long-time HappyCow user who advocates bicycle riding to keep our environment clean.
Featured Restaurant
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Pizza Pi
(Seattle, Washington, USA)
Vegan pizza anyone? We chat with owner Russ.
Q: Hi Russ. What makes Pizza Pi so unique & different from other pizzerias and restaurants?
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A: Pizza Pi is the first and only 100% vegan pizzeria in the world. Others may offer vegan options, but only Pizza Pi offers ONLY vegan options.
Q: What is your signature dish?
A: The "Garlic Sauce Favorite" is our most popular pizza. Our white sauce has a unique garlic flavor that most customers stick with once they try it. It was my wife's favorite pizza during recipe development, and she has excellent taste :) |
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Q: Sounds yummy. So, what would you say to someone to help them better understand vegetarianism & health?
A: We try not to interject our personal opinion into people's dietary choices. There are many sources of information available to those considering vegetarianism or veganism. We simply offer an option for people who have already made the decision, via whatever means, to eat a vegan meal.
Pizza Pi's gourmet vegan pizzas are a must-have when in Seattle! (website: www.pizzapi.net)
Also check out: HappyCow's FRIEND Restaurants & Health Food Stores
Visitors Forum
... past polls & results revealed
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Vegan Treat Winners!!
Thank you to everyone who participated in HappyCow's October MooZine survey. As promised, here are the 3 randomly drawn winners who will receive yummy treats from The Vegan Baking Company: Rachel Schiros of Ohio, Karen Carreras of Illinois, and Valerie Jordan of Washington.
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In August, we asked you if Trader Joe's chain of stores throughout the USA should be included in HappyCow's guide under "Health Food Stores." The result?
68% YES / 32% NO
In April, we asked, Who are you?
40% Vegetarians; 35% Vegans; 8% Raw foodists; 17% Mostly Veg (also eat non-veg)
Top reasons why you eat veg:
#1 Animal rights, #2 Health, #3 Personal and/or Spiritual, #4 Environment
Destination: Asia
You are invited to join VegVoyages in 2006 on a 17-day journey into serendipity: the exotic isle of Sri Lanka. On this adventure you will discover cultures deeply rooted in tradition, explore the dense tropical jungles, traverse thousand–year-old kingdoms, and relax on white sandy beaches -- all the while being transported back in time to this mystical island that Marco Polo once referred to as, "The most beautiful island of its size in the world." For details about the Sri Lanka, Malaysia, or India adventures, please visit: vegvoyages.com
Book Pick
Almond Essence is a collection of home-style recipes that utilizes the healthy almond nut as well as other nuts and seeds. Explore the nutritional benefits of the almond nut, learn to sprout it and make delicious nutmilk from it! Complimentary of author Janet Doane, the recipe for "Almond Sunflower Seed Cheese" can be found at: HappyCow's collection of raw food recipes |
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An Interview
with animal rights advocate and Go Vegan Radio show host, Mr. Bob Linden
Q: Hello Bob. Why you become a vegetarian-vegan?
A: I was attending Queens College in New York City in 1971 and was getting to be a pretty good cook, especially glazing chicken. Just one night, the chicken wasn't a round, non-descript, cellophane-wrapped "food"; that night, for some reason, the body was more apparent to me, something about the leg, the thigh. It really hit me that this was someone, not something – someone who probably is on my plate involuntarily,
someone who suffered who-knows-how-much pain, and in fact, she was killed just for me to eat. I decided I could no longer eat animals. Unfortunately, I remained quite unaware of the suffering inherent in dairy and eggs and I continued to consume those, until I really awakened in 1984 and became a true vegetarian – a vegan (as a 65 year-old new vegan recently called it – "the truth of life").
Q: What is the Go Vegan Radio show and how can our visitors listen to it?
A: Technically speaking, and subliminally suggesting "tax-deductible donation,"
Go Vegan With Bob Linden is the radio show produced by GoVeganRadio.com,
a project of 501©(3) International Humanities Center. Currently, it is broadcast Sundays in Los Angeles at 1:30pm on KTYM-AM-1460, and Sundays in San Diego at 1pm on KCEO-AM-1000. It is available online anytime at www.GoVeganRadio.com as well as podcasts. Go Vegan Radio, in its mission to save the world as the only sane radio program in all of corporate "meaty-uh," attempts to counterbalance the meat-head propaganda forced down our throats by our genetically-mutated, McNugget–Pharmaceutical, Vivisection–Prison industrial society. Go Vegan Radio is where eating carcass and embryo and drinking bloody trans-species mammary secretions are examined as the aberrant animal-sacrificing cult behaviors that they are, with emphasis on their catastrophic impacts on human health, environment, world hunger, war and peace... read full interview
Have you heard of the garlic diet?
You don't lose much weight, but from a distance your friends think you look thinner. more veggie humor
Thank You
NuTru - providing high quality vegan supplements
Animal Art By Sandy - animals paintings as seen in MooZine
Shoes With Souls - comfortable & stylish vegan shoes
Also to all the vegetarian restaurants & health food stores staff & owners for opening your doors to us hungry vegetarians!
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Email us your feedback, stories, and ideas.
Visit our global restaurant guide at: www.HappyCow.net
Wanna share your veg-friendly services or products with HappyCow visitors? details
Next MooZine Feb '06:
Desserts Book Giveaway, and Moo Discoveries
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Please forward MooZine to your friends, add to your websites, and post on your blogs.
All Contents Rights Reserved. 2005 HappyCow's Vegetarian Guide
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