Butikiteas's profile

More About Me

Reasons why I prefer to eat vegetarian or vegan:

Animal rights. While, I have noticed positive health changes with no animal products or sugar, that is never my reason just a positive side effect.

I joined HappyCow Members Community because:

I have always used HappyCow to find great places to eat. I felt like I should give back to the community by writing reviews that others can use, since I had so many fantastic experiences using this site. What finally pushed me to write a review was reading a review from a member about how amazing a restaurant was; however, when we went there the restaurant was not amazing. They had only 2 vegetarian options and the menu was extremely deceptive. I felt the need to warn others, since that vegetarian purchased a non-veggie dish.

Here are some places I've been that I liked... and places that I would like to visit one day:

I'm guessing this is question is about food? My favorites are local Indian, Ethiopian restaurants, Norma's (Mediterranean), Blue Fig (Mediterranean), Memphis Taproom, Vedge, Blackbird Pizza (I love you guys), Candle 79, etc. I want to visit just about every vegan restaurant that exists.

Some of my favorite veg*n foods include:

Indian, Ethiopian, Mediterranean, raw, pretty much anything veg friendly.

Here are some books, movies, magazines, and my favorites that I would recommend to other HappyCow members:

Anything by Gary Francione. Seriously, check him out if you don't know who he is. Here is a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRAEgQI9U8I. Vegan Freaks pod casts are great. Also, Gary Yourofsky is fantastic, check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K36Zu0pA4U I strongly dislike Peta or any organization that objectifies another group to promote their group as well as promoting 'happy meat'.