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Green Earth in Pasadena, California, features Asian and international vegan cuisine. Enjoy fresh food and cake in an elegant setting.

Mooi, meaning "beautiful" in Dutch, is the newest RAW cafe in Los Angeles, California, specializing in live food art and raw ice cream.

Bedford Farmers Market in Bedford, Texas, provides fresh seasonal produce, gourmet tamales, specialty food items, and fresh salsa.

Chill in Tempe, Arizona, is home to the Chill-Beri Frozen Soy, a delicate and creamy vegan frozen treat.

Cynthia King vegan ballet slippers

May Wah Healthy Vegetarian Food is a company dedicated to supplying delicious vegetarian food. Their extensive line of products includes vegan prawns, vegan salmon, and veggie burger patties.

Rivenrock Gardens edible organic cactus

Are vegetarians happier? A recently released study in the Nutrition Journal found that vegetarians have lower instances of depression, anxiety, and other negative moods.

Vegetarian diet can help keep the toxins away.

Sugar industry acting like big tobacco in its defense of hi-fructose corn syrup.

Kids' Guide to Helping Animals magazine shows kids ways they can be heroes for the animals.

Actress Kate Winslet narrates undercover video footage of the torment that ducks and geese endure in foie gras production.

A new study by Yale's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity found that youth-oriented cross-promotions on food packaging (i.e., using a cartoon, character, athlete, toy, or branding from a famous entertainment franchise to make a product attractive to kids) increased by 78% between 2006 and 2008, and that only 18% of those products were considered nutritious enough to be sold to youth. -Whole Life Times

When Dutch researchers tried to measure vacations' impact on happiness, they found that the most reliable pleasure vacations offer occurs before you've even left home. A study of 1530 adults showed that those who took vacations during the study period reported increased happiness for about eight weeks prior to a trip, probably because of the fun of planning and the anticipation of relaxation. But upon returning from their travels, only vacationers who described their trips as "very relaxing" had any post-vacay high, and it lasted for just two weeks. People whose trips were just "relaxing," "neutral," or "stressful" garnered no happiness boost upon their return. Study author Jeroen Nawijin, a professor of Tourism Research at Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, says that based on this research it might make sense to use your vacation budget to take multiple short trips throughout the year, rather than a single long one. -Whole Life Times