Celebrate Halloween Vegan Etsy Style

I love Halloween! It is quite possibly my favourite holiday. Today I bring you a few picks from Vegan Etsy team members to help you celebrate in style.

Check out the vegan Halloween caramels from Feed Your Face! Caramel-y and delicious.

 Greet your guests with a handmade 8x10 Samhain signed print from Dark Faerie Creations
on the door.

Get a set of skull stitch markers from Vegancraftastic so even your knitting can be in the spirit of the season.

Kitty can celebrate too on a pumpkin print cat blanket from Luns'a Apawthecary.

 A wee pirate ghost by Panda With Cookie can haunt your desk cubicle for fun.

Cookies for me?

Check out these adorable crocheted cookie magnets from Aletha's shop, Radical Fringe! Now you can enjoy the happiness of cookies all the time... without the calories. ;)

Chocolate Chip Cookie Magnets

Oatmeal Cream Pie Magnets

So... where DO you get your protein?

What's always amazed me about the protein myth is that it's most often believed by die-hard meat eaters - the people who, say, love a good steak (cow!) and see that as the ultimate protein source. It's also frequently thought that cows live idyllic lives, whiling away their days happily eating grass on a sunny hillside.

So, if all cows eat is grass... where's all that protein come from?

Well, cows' flesh is of course made of protein. And cows are meant to eat little else other than grass. The big secret, known by vegans everywhere? PLANT MATTER CONTAINS PROTEIN! What a revelation. And if we add this pair of twos, we get the following four: if cows can get protein from plants, we can too.

Personally, some of my favorite places to get protein are almonds, almond milk, bread, quinoa, and a variety of legumes.

What are YOUR favorite vegan sources of protein?

A classic: the What Vegans Eat chart

But... how do you get your protein?

Vegan MoFo - more than half over!

Vegan MoFo 2011 is just whizzing by! It's practically 2/3 over, and as usual it's nearly impossible to keep up with all the amazing blogging that's going on. Before it's all through, try to take a peek at these great teamie blogs:

My Zoetrope
Veganosaurus
Veganville
Panda With Cookie
Vegans on the Move
Kittee: Craft Maker to the Stars
Miss Muffcake
Veggie Amanda (Newman Improved)
The Traveling Austin Vegan

Enjoy these great reads, happy MoFo, and go vegans!!

Everybody loves CUPCAKES! Meet: Tea Loves Cake

Please welcome one of our newest team members, Leah of Tea Loves Cake and FenDove. While over at FenDove you'll find her artistic creations, at Tea Loves Cake you will find an abundance of CUPCAKES!

Snowball Cupcakes

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Special Vanilla Cupcakes

Good enough to eat! Part Two.

Who doesn't love to wear their food?! No, we're not encouraging a food fight. Check out these awesome and adorable ways to wear your veggie pride!

Strawberry Gateaux earrings from Art by Susmitha

Fruits and Veggies pins from Sick on Sin

Eat Kale Daily tote from Eat Your VegTees

Happy World Food Day!!

Today has been declared World Food Day! This is the perfect time to take a hard look at your food, where it's coming from, and how your purchasing choices affect the world around you. Many of us are well into this process, but it's important never to stop questioning, probing, and learning. Our food environment changes daily, and there is nothing on the planet that isn't touched in some way by the food industry. There is nothing more fundamental or crucial than food, and it deserves our full attention.

The Organic Consumers Association has taken today as an opportunity to create Millions Against Monsanto - the company which (often together with Dow Chemical) has pioneered so many of the modern food industry's atrocities. GMOs are a hotbed of debate, and Monsato is at its white hot core. Learn more! Get educated! And remember, one of the best ways to affect change is to simply reduce demand.