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Water Voles: Unvegan Heroes

May 19th, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Yeah, take that meat down.

It ain’t easy being a vegetarian.  I’ve always known that, but apparently a member of the rodent family is discovering that as well.  Water voles, a rodent found in British waterways, have long been vegetarians, but a recent study shows that they have abandoned that foolhardy eating habit and come to the better side. Continue Reading»


Eat Tofu, Kill Earth

February 19th, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Now that is a band.

Once upon a time there was a group of people called vegans.  Among other things, these people claimed that their diet was better for the environment than eating meat.  Had they been right, the world would be a much different place, but luckily for us, they were wrong.  In fact, they eventually learned that their diet was actually worse for the environment than eating meat. Continue Reading»


Beer Me Some Breckenridge Agave Wheat

The taste of skiing?

Colorado is definitely a beer state, and not just because Coors comes from the Rocky Mountain State.  No, it is also home to New Belgium (of Fat Tire fame) and seemingly countless other micro and craft breweries.  While in Breckenridge for a ski weekend, I decided I had to at least try one of these, and because it turned out to be the only one available at dinner, my choice happened to come from the creatively named Breckenridge Brewery.  The brewery, by the way, is actually no longer in Breckenridge, having expanded and moved to Denver in 1992.

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