Vegan News for December 2021
The Blue Zones Project Hawaii presents “How to Build a Hydroponics Bucket” online at 12 noon, Friday, December 3. “Gardening hydroponically is a great way to grow your own food and have a garden in any setting - classroom, apartment, indoors, outdoors, etc.” Details here.
Surprisingly, there are no upscale 100% vegan restaurants on Maui. Vegan diners choose from vegan cafes, vegan food trucks and restaurants with vegan options that vary widely in quality. The Beet reviewer Anna Keeve recently praised Wailea Kitchen: This Vegan-Friendly Restaurant Will Make You Want to Catch a Flight to Hawaii. “Beyond having over 20 dedicated vegan items on the menu, owner and chef Christopher Malik Cousins has made it a point to source local produce and other items as much as possible, putting farm-to-table in practice with a creative and playful plant-forward menu.”
The 2nd Global Vegfest Online takes place December 18th and 19th 2021, featuring activists and experts from the UK and across the planet in a weekend of livestreams, panels, discussions, performance and presentations – all freely available across social media platforms and both live and afterwards. Details here.
NEWS AND TRENDS
Plant-based diets produce less greenhouse gas
Over Half of Americans Say Future of Food Is Plant-Based – New Poll
Your Plant-Based Diet Could Really Help the Planet
COP26 Accused of Greenwashing Due to Serving Meat and Private Jet Use
Vegan Diets Cheaper on Global Scale, Says Oxford University Study
HEALTH AND NUTRITION
A Vegan Diet May Decrease Number of Meds for Older Adults, Study Finds
Increased meat consumption leads to higher rates of serious disease, study finds
Type of fat, not how much, linked to stroke risk, study finds
An Anti-Inflammatory Diet High in Veggies May Decrease Your Dementia Risk
RESOURCES
There's Now a Fully Vegan TV Network - and It's Free
“They’re Trying to Kill Us” is the follow-up to the award-winning film, “What the Health”
THIS MONTH IN VEGAN HISTORY
December 2, 1861: Lewis Gompertz, author of an influential book promoting an early prototype of what is now called animal rights and veganism and a co-founder of the world’s first Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, dies.
December 1931: The full text of Gandhi’s talk on the moral basis of vegetarianism is published in Vegetarian News.
December 1943: British woodworker Donald Watson, founder of the Vegan Society, presented "Should Vegetarians Eat Dairy Produce?" and noted that "the cow feels the loss of her calf in much the same way that a human mother would feel the loss of her child."
December 2020: Bon Appétit hires its first vegan chef, Chrissy Tracey.