Vegan Beef Taco Skillet Recipe

The article I just posted a link to about the easyness of being vegan mentioned that one great way to come up with a good vegan meal is to just tweak a non-vegan recipe and drop or substitute for the animal products in it. I do this fairly often. The result is usually delicious. I thought I'd post an excellent, quick, and easy one that I have been whipping up a lot lately.

VEGAN BEEF TACO SKILLET

1 12 oz. package of Morning Star Veggie Crumbles (or another type of vegan ground beef)
1/2 cup of salsa
1/2 cup of water
1 10 to 12 oz. can of tomato soup (I have just been using Campbell's Tomato Coup)
1 10" flour tortilla cut into 1/4" pieces
1/2 cup shredded vegan cheese (I have been using Follow Your Heart Cheddar)

-Cook and stir Veggie Crumbles in a 10" skillet until warmed.
-Stir in salsa, water, tomato soup, tortilla.
-Heat to a boil.
-Turn heat to low and let it cook for 5 minutes.
-Stir in the cheese.

I would say it serves 2. Enjoy!

Easy as V-E-G-A-N

Boston Globe, May 17, 2007

If you think you need to go to great lengths to follow a vegan diet, think again.
Being vegan doesn't require unusual or hard-to-find products. In many cases, you only need to tweak recipes or menu items slightly to create a vegan meal.

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Veg Out With Hawks' Vegan Player

By Faith Dawson, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 5, 2007

In June, Atlanta Hawks guard Salim Stoudamire abandoned his diet of junk food and animal-based foods to become the Hawks' only vegan player. (Vegans typically only eat food from plants — fruits, vegetables, legumes [dried beans and peas], grains, seeds and nuts.) So when team chef Bradley Rouse cooks turkey chili or Cajun catfish for the rest of the team, Stoudamire gets grilled tofu and quinoa (a high-protein grain).

Stoudamire recently sat down to talk about being a vegan in a sport dominated by carnivores.

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Book Review: La Dolce Vegan! Vegan Livin' Made Easy by Sarah Kramer

By gette, Blog Critics Magazine, March 4, 2007

“Vegan? What’s that?” A vegan is a person who chooses to abstain from eating any food product made with animals, a philosophy determined from health, environment, compassion, or a combination of reasons. “What the hell do they eat? And more importantly, are there any good desserts?”

These questions were answered admirably on February 20 at a lecture and cooking demonstration at Syracuse University by Sarah Kramer, author of the recently published La Dolce Vegan! Vegan Livin' Made Easy. The tattooed author whipped up a tomato soup cake from her cookbook and explained to the over 70 people present how to effectively bake without eggs and butter. Butter: easy to imagine substitution. But eggs? How can the baked goods rise? Baking soda and powder!

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Go watch 4 Episodes of the Post Punk Kitchen Now

Or else! It's all vegan.

-The very first episode in which Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero make cupcakes and vegan sushi

-The Valentine's Day Show with sweet potato crepes, strawberry chocolate parfaits, and the band Made Out of Babies

-The Passover show with matzoh ball soup, coconut cream pie, and musical guest Stupid

-The Mexcellente show with vegan tamales and musical guest The Cuban Cowboys

Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act Signed into Law

By Will Potter, Earth First! Journal, Brigid 2007

After a cold and wet morning, politicians and celebrities slogged through the muck of the National Mall on November 13, to pay tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. and break ground on the new national memorial in his honor. Democrats and Republicans, Clinton and Bush, Oprah and Jesse were all on hand in muddied wingtips and pumps, clamoring to show their support for the civil rights leader and his once-controversial tactics.

Representative John Lewis of Georgia told PBS NewsHour, "King inspired me and thousands of other Americans to get in the way. He inspired us to get in trouble. But it was good trouble; it was necessary trouble. And that's why we honor Martin Luther King, Jr. today."

But hours later, those who had spent the morning waxing eloquent about dissent and making trouble were nowhere to be found as about half a dozen lawmakers allowed the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) to pass the House of Representatives on a voice vote.

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The Chilling Effect

By Will Potter, Satya, Dec 06/ Jan 07

Chances are your home won’t be raided by federal agents. You probably won’t get hauled before a grand jury for a political witch-hunt, or rounded up and accused of “eco-terrorism.” While these things are taking place, most activists will only read about them.

These heavy-handed tactics are a small part of the current crackdown on animal rights and environmental activists in the name of “eco-terrorism.” In this “Green Scare,” the real danger is not Senator Joseph McCarthy naming names, or cops breaking down doors: it’s the subsequent fear seeping into every crevice of the movement.

Even at the height of the Red Scare, amid the blacklists and the Congressional hearings, amid the red-baiting and the rhetoric of treason, the McCarthyists rarely, if ever, preached prohibition: they didn’t use their pulpit to ban subversive speech outright because they simply had no need.

The climate of fear they created, through scare-mongering and legislation more palatable for the public, had the same effect. Self-censorship, they learned, could prove even more effective than a new set of Alien and Sedition Acts.

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