The Grist List, 03 Aug 2007

From Vegans to Vengeance 6

  1. Meat-free market

    Tired of cracks about the size of their sausage, some vegans have decided to have sex only with each other. Vegansexuals "taste a lot better," says one -- and in their world, soys doesn't matter.

    Photo: iStockphoto

  2. Ears to you

    Nu metal band Korn have cobbled together plans for a green tour, complete with a nu blend of biofuel they're calling Korntastic. Sounds kinda korny to us.

    Photo: Theo Wargo / WireImage.com

  3. Scouts' honors

    Today's scouts still want to be prepared, just not for the same things their parents faced. Reducing their carbon footprint is a top concern -- as is managing money, having safe sex, and building IKEA furniture. What, no patch for mastering Guitar Hero?

    Photo courtesy Girlguiding UK

  4. Hee hee, you said peepee

    The challenge: run a green gallery for the summer that shows Bay Area residents how to be sustainable at home. The solution: PeePeePonics. Why didn't wee think of that?

    Photo: iStockphoto

  5. Bill Nye, the competitive guy

    Seems the "Science Guy" is now the competitive guy: Nye has challenged his new neighbor, bike-riding-toaster-powering actor Ed Begley Jr., to an eco-duel, saying he wants to "crush him like a bug." Someone's got his bow-tie in a bunch.

    Photo: Jeffrey Mayer / WireImage.com

Katharine Wroth is a senior editor at Grist.

Sarah van Schagen is Grist’s Seattle editor.

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  1. amc89 Posted 1:01 am
    03 Aug 2007

    Amusing, but...Hmm, I'm not sure the "vegansexual" thing is a good idea. I have lots of friends who've influenced their partners to go veggie, or at least eat a lot less meat/dairy/eggs.  The jokes about your diet when you first start dating an omnivore are definitely annoying, but typically they start to understand your point of view over time and often change their diets too.

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    askantik Posted 2:29 am
    03 Aug 2007

    amc89 is right-- it happened to meMy girlfriend was a vegetarian when we first started dating over 2 years ago.  Not too long after, I became a vegetarian, too, without any prodding on her part.  I learned from her actions rather than her having to criticize me.  
    A year later, we both decided to go vegan, and here we are now :)

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  3. zibby Posted 8:22 am
    03 Aug 2007

    vegan luvjudging by the respondents in the study, the ratio of vegan/veg women to men is as off there as it is here.
    i have to agree with the people at PETA that conversion is a girl's best option because there are so few veg/vegan men in the U.S - and your friends have probably already slept with them all.

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  4. agrant Posted 9:15 am
    03 Aug 2007

    Scouts' honour??Perhaps this was incorrectly linked to the wrong story, but the article that your pithy quip referred to was about the Guides (who are young females), and not the Scouts (who are young males). I would hazard a guess that most Scouts would still prefer to learn how to light things on fire, and take field trips to the local video arcade.

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    Delay And Deny Posted 4:02 pm
    05 Aug 2007

    Make Mine Carrot Flavoredsome vegans have decided to have sex only with each other.
    Do protein shakes count as animal products?

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  6. amc89 Posted 2:21 am
    06 Aug 2007

    AwwwThanks for the story, askantik. That's inspiring!

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