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From Vegans to Vengeance

03 Aug 2007

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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?

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.

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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.

by amc89 at 8:01 AM on 03 Aug 2007

amc89 is right-- it happened to me

My 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 :)

by askantik at 9:29 AM on 03 Aug 2007

vegan luv

judging 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.

by zibby at 3:22 PM on 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.

by agrant at 4:15 PM on 03 Aug 2007

Make Mine Carrot Flavored

some vegans have decided to have sex only with each other.

Do protein shakes count as animal products?

by jabailo at 11:02 PM on 05 Aug 2007

Awww

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

by amc89 at 9:21 AM on 06 Aug 2007

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