So You Wanna Be Vegan? Start here.  Kris Carr says it’s a judgement-free zone and you “don’t have to go all the way to be a vegan star,” just eat “less animals” and you’ll be fine.  “You don’t have to become a vegan. You can become a plant-passionate, plant-inspired bean lover!  You don’t have to label yourself at all. Just eat more plants. Eat less animals, less saturated fat, less growth hormones, less GMO, less chemicals and you’ll be fine.”

Vegan in Cleveland? How a meat-free movement is taking root in a meat-and-potato town.  Cleveland is getting a vegan make over thanks to the efforts of eight amazing vegans who decided that the city needed a vegan voice.  “Ten years ago, you would not see the word vegan on a menu in Cleveland very often.  Now, you can go just about anywhere and any server is going to know what you mean when you say vegan. We are extremely vegan-friendly here in Cleveland.”

Windsor Man Says Raw, Vegan Diet a Cure for Many Ills.  Diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis more than 30 years ago, Curt Griffing recalls doctors telling him there was no cure.  Soon after eating a raw vegan diet, his condition disappeared.

Being Vegan – It’s a Horse of Course. “The irony to all of this, if you can call it that, is that a horse is truly no different than a cow, a pig, a lamb, a goat, a chicken, a dog, a cat or any other animal that you might consider. It is intelligent with thoughts, feelings, emotions and reasoning…just as other animals possess in varying degrees. They all experience fear, grief and pain. I can understand the outrage that someone would feel for being mislead to thinking you were eating one thing when you were, in fact, eating something else. But let’s get this point straight…it is all meat…meat that comes from a living, sentient being whose life was brutalized and sacrificed so that we could have a moment of pleasure.”

In other vegan ‘news’…

Anne Hathaway talks about vegan ice cream on the red carpet at the Oscars.

Mayim Bialiks gets bloated at The SAG Awards.

Morrissey gets the Staples Center to expand its menu to include some meat-free options among the other meat-filled ones.

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