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Celebrations and Vegan Cheese

July 10, 2012

2007: Pizza made with Follow Your Heart

This week marks It’s Easy Being Vegan’s five year anniversary. In celebration, I’m rerunning two of my first blog posts. My first post back in 2007 was on giving up cheese. In just five years, we have seen the birth of several new vegan cheeses — making it even easier to be vegan.

The blog post below originally appeared on July 9, 2007. I have updated it for 2012.

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The End of Cheese As You Know It

Do you think it would be too hard to give up dairy? I felt this way for years until a friend of mine pointed out the link between the dairy and veal industries. (Thanks, Megan.) I knew right then I had to make the change from vegetarian to vegan. For more information on what’s wrong with dairy, click here.

2012: Pizza made with Daiya

Years ago the soy cheese options weren’t so good. They didn’t melt and many included casein, a milk-by-product. Many still do. But now we live in 2012 2007 and there are great vegan cheese alternatives. My favorite is Daiya Follow Your Heart brand. It comes in several flavors and melts. You can use it on pizzas, sandwiches, nachos — anywhere you would normally use dairy cheese. You can buy it at Whole Foods Wild Oats, and many natural food stores. If you don’t live near a store that sells this product, you can buy it online. See how easy this is?

Remember: If you think you can’t give up cheese, switch your thinking and decide to give up supporting animal cruelty instead.

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March 5, 2008

Hey, faithful readers! If you like the It’s easy being vegan! blog, tell VegNews. Help this blog get some publicity and you might win a prize from VegNews for your efforts. Read on for details.

From the March ’08 VegNewsletter…
March VegNewsletter Question of the Month + Giveaway
Blogs: They’re freakin’ everywhere. No matter what you’re looking for—from serious news content to the opinions of more than a few lunatic minds—you can find a blog to fit your fancy. Naturally, there are about a bajillion vegan blogs of all stripes: food blogs with coma-inducing photography, abolitionist blogs with political content, and blogs dedicated to veg resources. Those categories don’t even begin to scratch the surface of all the other kinds of blogs that happen to be written by us veggie types. So this month, what we really want to know is: What are your top five favorite blogs? (Perhaps It’s easy being vegan! is one of them?)

Send us an email by March 31 and tell us all about which blogs you love and why. Is it their design? Their in-depth recipe details? The amazing products they feature? Whatever the reason, we want to hear it. You may just see your favorite blog honored in our VegBloggy Awards, coming soon to a July+August issue of VegNews near you!

To even out the technology-heavy question this month, we’ll be selecting one respondent to win a ’70′s Throwback Gift Bag. We’re sure you’ve all read the groundbreaking “History of Vegetarianism” article in the current issue, which covers the emergence of the ever-expanding modern veg movement (and if you haven’t, you may want to step away from the screen and give it a gander). Remember what the animal-product-free lifestyle was like before there was The Web, much less Web 2.0? In honor of times past, this month’s giveaway will feature our signature VN tote bag filled with goodies that are sure to take you right back to the golden age of disco.

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