Soul Vegetarian East Piles on the Yumminess
Anyone who assumes vegan food is going to taste gross should have been at Soul Vegetarian East on Sunday.I attended a birthday celebration at this all-vegan restaurant on the South Side of Chicago, and the food was phenomenal.On Sundays one meal is served to everyone. Ca

Gore Walks an Odd Environmental Walk
Former vice president and climate-change guru Al Gore skirted the issue of animal agribusiness during an hourlong discussion in Chicago this morning.Chicago Public Radio's newsmagazine program "Eight Forty-Eight" to

Elizabeth Kucinich Joins Staff of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
The wife of Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, has joined the staff of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.Elizabeth Kucinich is the vegan-health group's new director of public affairs.As the wife of a politician, she knows more than many about the workings of Capitol H

New (Short-Term?) Procedure for Comments
I want to mention a change to the comment section of "Digging Through the Dirt."I prefer to have comments posted automatically, right after they are submitted. But recently I've been getting a lot of spam posts.I'm not referring to people who disagree with what I write; I welcome th

Giving Thanks for Pro-Veg Image
I love when veg*anism turns up in unexpected places.Today I found it on my company's internal computer system.Each week when the engineers update our internal system they include a picture on the home page, just for fun. It's typically about something that is happening that week or that happened in his