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Business Partners generously support Northwest VEG. Please patronize these businesses, whose products and/or services are relevant to our mission. Check out our Business Partners!
Local Links
People's is a cooperative natural food store dedicated to serving the community, not to making a profit. Their priority is always to provide the best, most wholesome food available at the lowest price possible. They believe in safe, sustainable, growing and manufacturing practices. Located at 3029 SE 21st Ave. in Portland.
Growing Gardens' mission is to promote food gardening for improved nutrition, health, and self-reliance while enhancing the quality of life of individuals and communities.
Mirador Community Store offers vegan and vegetarian cookbooks, "uncookbooks" for raw foodists, special diet books such as for food allergies, health books, juicers, dehydrators, canning equipment, bread making supplies, sprouting equipment, herbal tinctures, and more. 5% discount for Northwest VEG members.
Food Fight! is a vegan convenience store with a fun variety of cruelty-free taste treats, including frozen foods including hard-to-find fake meats, fresh baked goods, health products, and plain old vegan junk food.
The 100% vegan Blossoming Lotus provides catering and operates a cafe in Portland, offering creative, organic cuisine including soups, sandwiches, rice bowls, living foods pizza, soft serve and baked treats.
RawPortland — This resource presents a wealth of information about raw foods for the Portland community. You will find testimonials, events, forums, recipes and shopping options.
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Regional Links
The Lighthouse Farm Sanctuary in Salem, Oregon, was formed to guide animals in need to the safety of calm waters. The Board of Directors, volunteers and supporters are dedicated to light the lantern to guide those abused and neglected animals; to prevent disasters; and to prevent needless loss of life.
The Eugene Veg Education Network (EVEN) is devoted to educating the general public about the impact of their food choices. EVEN believes the right information in the hands of caring people lets them make compassionate, intelligent and informed choices for themselves, the animals, and the planet. The group is a resource for those seeking information on a healthful, vegan lifestyle.
Everyday Dish is a website showcasing the culinary creations of Julie Hasson, Dreena Burton, and Bryanna Clark Grogan. Accessible videos show how easy great tasting vegetarian meals can be. Each recipe is posted. Whether you’re vegetarian, vegan or just veg curious, you will find the site worthwhile. Dedicated vegetarians will appreciate the chefs’ creative, diverse and ever-expanding menu.
Vegetarians of Washington is an all-volunteer non-profit organization, based in the Seattle metropolitan area. Their mission is to support people making vegetarian choices while having fun!
VEG SEATTLE — VegSeattle.com is a comprehensive resource for those interested in reducing the amount of meat and/or dairy products that they consume, for whatever reason and at whatever pace. Focus on the Seattle area.
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Global Links
HappyCow’s Vegetarian Guide provides a worldwide directory to vegetarian restaurants and natural health food stores, healthy cooking tips, recipes, raw living foods, travel, veganism and vegetarian dating.
GREEN EARTH TRAVEL — Green Earth Travel provides a guide for many things vegetarian, including raw foods, restaurants and vacations.
VEGAN PEACE — This website's intention is to inspire people to strive towards a more peaceful world. "We can all play a part in lessening the suffering so many people and animals go through every day." Check out recipes, e-cards, animal facts, games and many helpful links: www.veganpeace.com.

VegDining.com is your online guide to Vegetarian Restaurants Around the World.

In 1986, Gene and Lorri Bauston found a living sheep abandoned on a stockyard "deadpile." They rescued the sheep, named her Hilda, and created Farm Sanctuary. Within ten years, Farm Sanctuary became the nation’s largest farm animal rescue and protection organization.
The Institute for Humane Education envisions a world in which people live humanely, sustainably, and peaceably. To create this change, IHE trains people to be humane educators, advances the field of humane education, and provides tools and inspiration for living an examined, meaningful life. The IHE website offers information about educational opportunities and resources related to its mission. www.humaneeducation.org.

Check out the largest community on the Internet dedicated to educating the world about living and raw foods.
Vegan Outreach is dedicated to furthering awareness and understanding in order to bring about fundamental change in our physical well-being, our treatment of others, and our interaction with our environment. VO promotes veganism through the widespread distribution of our illustrated booklets, Why Vegan and Vegetarian Living.
Compassionate Cooks is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering people to make informed food choices and to debunking myths about vegetarianism through cooking classes, nutrition workshops, supermarket tours, and a cooking DVD.

Veganica is an on-line gallery space for artists who are vegetarian or vegan to show their work. It is not limited to visual arts; the site also welcome musicians, writers, poets, animators, performance artists, and others. Part of the profits go to animal rights organizations
This site inludes relevant information about health, books, tips to help one maintain a vegan diet. It also adds news items pertaining to current events.
The Vegetarian Resource Group is dedicated to educating the public on vegetarianism and the interrelated issues of health, nutrition, ecology, ethics, and world hunger. In addition to publishing the Vegetarian Journal, VRG produces and sells cookbooks, other books, pamphlets, and article reprints.
Netveggie.com is a comprehensive web directory that collects all the companies and organizations web sites of vegetarian, vegan and organic foods. Includes vegetarian food, nutritional information, vegetarian gift and more.

VegFamily is a place where vegan parents can come to connect and communicate with other vegan parents.

KidBean is a store for kids. All items, such as bedding, shoes and bath products, are free of animal products.

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Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine — PCRM, founded by Neal Barnard, M.D., promotes preventive medicine through innovative programs, encourages higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in research, and advocates broader access to medical services.
(NutritionMD.org)

Veggie Date is a vegetarian singles and vegan singles dating service. Find singles personal ads, pen-pals and matchmaking — sponsored by GreenPeople (www.greenpeople.org).
VeggieConnection.com is about helping vegetarians connect, in your own city or across the world. Nearly all its members are vegetarian or on a vegetarian path and are seeking to meet other vegetarians. Check it out if you would like to connect with other like-minded vegetarians seeking friendships, pen-pals, and romance.

The Animal Protection Institute (API) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to advocating for the protection of animals from cruelty and exploitation.

In Defense of Animals is an animal protection organization dedicated to ending the exploitation and abuse of animals by raising the status of animals beyond that of mere property, and by defending their rights, welfare and habitat. To contact Portland office, call (503) 249-9996.
Goveg.com offers fully-cited essays on the health, environmental, animal welfare, and human rights issues surrounding the meat industry. The site also has contests, photo and video galleries, hundreds of recipes, FAQs, and more.
TransFair USA, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is one of 19 members of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO), and the only third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States. TransFair USA audits transactions between US companies offering Fair Trade Certified™ products and the international suppliers from whom they source, in order to guarantee that the farmers and farm workers behind Fair Trade Certified goods were paid a fair, above-market price.
Originally launched in June 1999, The Hunger Site focuses the power of the Internet on a specific humanitarian need; the eradication of world hunger. On average, over 220,000 individuals from around the world visit the site each day to click the "give free food" button and help feed the hungry.
Since its launch in July of 2002, the site has established itself as a clear leader in online activism and a dynamic force in the effort to give all animals the happy, healthy lives they deserve. In The Animal Rescue Site's first year of operation, 22.9 million bowls of food were funded for animals in need.
Individuals from around the world visit the site each day to click the "Save Our Rainforests" button and help rescue imperiled land. In just its first year of operation, The Rainforest Site generated funds to purchase and preserve over 5,650 acres of endangered land.
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Magazines
VegNews Magazine offers a variety of feature articles, news, columns, and recipes supporting a veg lifestyle. You will receive a free year of VegNews when you join Northwest VEG or renew your current membership at the $35 level or higher. Join or renew >>
Herbivore, with offices in Portland, Oregon, contains articles that are sometimes serious and sometimes humorous, vegan product and website reviews, etc. This quarterly publication, devoted to a vegan lifestyle, shows that vegans can have fun!
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Books
Vegetarians in Paradise has compiled an annotated list of veg-relevant books they highly recommend. The mission of VIP, based in Los Angeles, is to "offer our friends in the vegetarian community a nesting place to roost awhile and share information about a lifestyle that may keep us flying around a few years longer than our non-vegetarian friends."
This exhaustive presentation of the findings from the China Study conclusively demonstrates the link between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Referred to as the "Grand Prix of epidemiology" by The New York Times, this study examines more than 350 variables of health and nutrition with surveys from 6,500 adults in 65 counties, representing 2,500 counties across rural China and Taiwan. While revealing that proper nutrition can have a dramatic effect on reducing and reversing these ailments as well as obesity, this text calls into question the practices of many of the current dietary programs, such as the Atkins diet, that enjoy widespread popularity in the West.
Meat Market is like a personal guide on how to be (or become) an effective activist. It's pretty short, and has some interesting essays from all aspects of activism. It introduces the idea of dismantlement, the idea to put the agriculture business in a decline within our generation. Erik Marcus says it is one of the realistic goals the movement should strive for. He says that AR activists are focusing too much on health and environmental benefits of a Vegan lifestyle, while we should focus more on the cruelty of factory farms, and make sure that our statements are correct, so we are taken seriously.
In this shocking and powerful book, Howard Lyman uncovers the dangerous and potentially deadly practices of the cattle and dairy industry. Mad Cowboy is a passionate manifesto for change from an industry insider whose firsthand experiences will alter the way you think about your food, and the people who produce it, forever.
Becoming Vegan represents the very cutting edge of vegan nutritional research, a currently fast-paced field. The authors methodically discuss all the various aspects of good nutrition (including phytochemicals and functional foods) from a vegan perspective. Once they have built a solid understanding of the issues, they conclude the book with systematic plans for working toward optimal health, offering tips, shortcuts, and a few recipes.
Incorporating systems theory, teachings from mythology and religions, and the human sciences, The World Peace Diet (by Will Tuttle, Ph.D.) presents the outlines of a more empowering understanding of our world, based on a comprehension of the far-reaching implications of our food choices and the worldview those choices reflect and mandate. The author offers a set of universal principles for all people of conscience, from any religious tradition, that they can follow to reconnect with what we are eating and what was required to get it on our plate.
Specifically designed as a culinary manual for sustainable, nonviolent living with recipes drawn from the food preparation traditions of diverse world cultures, the award-winning Vegan World Fusion Cuisine is the joint project of Mark Reinfeld, Bo Rinaldi, and the chefs of the Blossoming Lotus restaurant in Kauai, Hawaii. Showcasing some two hundred recipes and enhanced with sacred site photography as well as timeless and wise observations from healers, musicians, artists, and philosophers, Vegan World Fusion Cuisine is a unique and welcome addition to any vegetarian cookbook collection. For more about the book, visit www.veganfusion.com.
The Peaceful Palate contains more than 130 pages of tasty recipes designed for optimum health, plus sections on protein myths and facts, calcium cutting the fat, equipping your kitchen, and more. First published in 1992, this revised edition incorporates the latest nutritional findings of the last few years to give you the very best recipes from Jennifer Raymond's kitchen.
Yours for the making are Seitan Salami, Vegan Lox and Bagels, Swiss Fondue, Classic Quiche and more. Renowned vegan cookbook author Joanne Stepaniak teams up with Farm Sanctuary founders Lorri and Gene Bauston to present a plethora of delicious dishes for you to enjoy without meat, eggs or dairy products. If you crave comfort foods, Vegan Vittles is a must-have for you cookbook collection.
Ever wonder where the food comes from at McDonalds or Burger King (or any of those other places that serve food fast and cheap)? Do you want to know what's IN it? Or, what it does to your body? Or what goes on behind the doors of the concrete slaughterhouses that supply these restaurants with their beef, pork and chicken? The Fast Food Craze will help you discover what the fast food giants don't want you to know, what the agribusinesses raising the food don't want you to know, just so they can keep the "fast food craze" fueled and continue to line their pockets at the expense of your health.
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