Here's what we've got our eyes on today... Seitan fails to impress on Top Chef - "why use seitan when you could have used the real thing" blogs afire today. Of course. Learning more than just a great recipe, Centro Latino serves up vegan tamales with a side of education. Awesome! Hey Pittsburgh vegans, here's a run down of veg friendly local restaurants in your area. Project Runway returns and Tim tells us about the behind-the-scenes vegan drama in past seasons. Skinny Bitch wants to eat with you.

The dog who won Britain's Ugliest Dog contest in 2005, Mugly, was found in a public park being attacked by a gang.  Apparently the passer-by saw the dog being hit with a stick, kicked and being punched.  And just for the record, the dog is about the size of a cat so it's a very small dog. The owner of the dog, Bev Nicholson, says that Mugly escaped from a ground floor window and that the passer-by recognized the dog from posters she saw around the neighborhood. Nicholson says: "They had pulled out a little tuft of hair he had on his neck...It was the only hair he had and they even managed to take off one of his eyebrows. I can't even work out how they would have done that.  He'd never gone missing before and you worry about letting him out because of what he looks [...]

Your Daily Vegan WTF moment is brought to us today by Boost Mobile, a division of Sprint Nextel.  Their advertisers seemed to think that a video containing cannibalism would be perfect for selling mobile phones. Let me ask you this - would this commercial be appropriate if two humans were featured in lieu of the pigs?  If you said no, ask yourself why you put pigs in a separate moral category than humans.  Both live, have families, fear, and can feel physical pain.  Both are intelligent.  If you said yes, and you have Sprint or Boost Mobile, you should ask yourself if you want to be associated with this type of ... company. And for those who would like to voice their opinion to Sprint Nextel themselves, click here to email them.