A good interview on Ellen where Jonathan Safran Foer talks about his new book, On Eating Animals.

On Monday, after legislative approval, governor Grandholm signed a bill the phases out veal crates, battery cages, and sow crates. This is the most extensive protection that  any state has passed through the legislative process!

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  Check out Bryant Terry in this short cooking vide0.

  Ingredients…

  Corn, cumin, sea salt, jalepeno peppers,   garlic

Can it be done? Soul food…vegan style? Really? I’m here to tell you it can be done, and in anticipation of the upcoming SCL Soulfood Vegan Potluck, I’ll be posting some recipes I’ve found across this world wide web.

The potluck will be this Friday (May 1), at the Devos Forum, at Calvin College. SCL is teaming up with our friends at ESC for some events raising awareness about Mountain Top Removal. At 3:30 environmental activists from Appalachia will be talking about mountain top removal and environmental justice at the Devos Forum. The potluck is at five. And afterwards, Dr. Jay McDaniel will be giving the second annual Animals and the Kingdom of God Lecture, at 7:30 at the Meeter Center. 

So check out some of the recipes, prepare some food, and come on out for a great evening of food and learning!

Bring your best vegan Indian dish to share.

This Friday, April 17, the potluck will be at 5:30pm in the Library Lobby.

Cumin, Coriander, Ginger.

Tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants.

Can’t wait. See you there.

I just want to call everyone’s attention to a couple of really good article’s written by the New York Time’s Nicholas Kristof. In two related op-eds (the first, and the second) Kristof discuses the massive use of antibiotics in factory farms and what that means for resistant superbugs that can kill humans. Definitely a must read! These articles only reinforce how when it comes to food issues, it is difficult to separate concern for the well being of the environment, non-human animals, and animals.

Friday, March 6 will be the first bi-weekly potluck that SCL hosts this semster.

5:00pm

Library Lobby

Come, share your ideas for a new semester and enjoy some great food.

As always, we ask that the dishes brought be vegan, so all can partake.

The folks at SCL are aware that one of the most crucial ways to live more sustainably is by looking at our diet and the effect this has on the environment. This is something we have noted in previous posts. This week there are several food and sustainability events that SCL is sponsoring, in coordination with the Sustainability Month (Kill-a-Watt) going on in the dorms. It would be great if we could have an awesome turn out. Also, for the food panel and movie it would be nice to have treats. Hope to see you all there!

Calvin College’s Office of Community Engagement has recently published a sustainability guide which can be found online. The guide is a great resource and offers excellent tips for how you can reduce your energy consumption and live more sustainably. The website links to our blog, and so we at SCL would like to welcome any visitors that have ventured here from that page. 

Many of us at SCL have learned about how our diet is connected to issues of sustainability. The connection between the consumption of meat and the effect this has on our planet and global warming is something we have discussed in a previous post. According to the UN, the production of meat contributes more to global warming than all of transportation combined! Given this reality, one of the best ways to reduce your carbon footprint is by reducing or eliminating the meat in your diet. Right now there is nothing on the guide about connections between the consumption of meat and the environment. The website encourages feedback, so how about us SCL’ers let them know a way they can help Calvin people live more sustainably? Improving sustainability at Calvin is something that we at SCL definitely stand behind and its great to see Calvin concerned with these issues.

Due to the nationwide salmonella outbreak that has been linked to peanuts, we are declaring Wake Up Weekend 2009 a peanut- and peanut-ingredient-free event. While it is disappointing to have to rule out so many delicious recipes in one fell swoop, I suspect we’ll all be happier without the specter of a mass outbreak looming over our festivities. Apologies to Jimmy Carter, as well as to those of you who may have been planning a peanut-based contribution to our events. Luckily, the peanut-free options for tasty vegan vittles are practically limitless! Let’s stay on the safe side and exploit some of those!