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Liberate VegNews: There is an alternative

Feist the cat helping me work on T.O.F.U.

The truth behind Joseph Connelly's Liberate VegNews campaign is much different than what he would have you believe, and I'm happy to say that, despite past personal issues with partners, the only liberation T.O.F.U. is interested in is for the animals. Read More »

Quarrygirl gives us (and our photos) some love!

tofu robot from Quarrygirl

Late last night I sent the teaser to issue V to a certain tofurobot, and lo and behold, Quarrygirl was on the other end! Lucky for us, she loved it. Read More »

VegNews finally (properly) acknowledges the issue

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"We screwed up."

Those three words were all a lot of us needed to move on to bigger issues, and we finally got them from VegNews yesterday. Read More »

Extending the Olive Branch

6 days after Quarrygirl.com exposed VegNews' use of non-vegan stock photos, VegNews has finally issued a real apology. Is it enough? Read More »

VegNews, Apologies, and the Fine Art of Growing Up

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Let me talk to you about sincere apologies. Real apologies, the heartfelt kind, aren't defensive. Even if they do try to provide explanations for bad behaviour, they never try to provide excuses for it. They admit to wrongdoing, and profess regret for the harm that wrongdoing has caused. VegNews' response to the photo scandal? Not an apology. Here's why. Read More »

T.O.F.U.: 100% meat (photo) free, as we should be

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As someone involved in the publishing business, though not to such an extent as VegNews, I have always battled with several things involving the vegan "purity" of the magazine. The big ones would involve such things as booking a tour date in a non-vegan bar, having people involved with the project who may not be vegan, promoting companies that may not be 100% vegan, and including articles that may not be completely relevant to veganism itself. Read More »