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Ahimsa; a Sanskrit word meaning dynamic harmlessness

Howdy friend! I am so happy you are joining the vegan community. Welcome. We don’t have a secret handshake – how cool would that be?! – but I would like to give you a giant cyber hug. Deciding to adopt a vegan lifestyle is a brave and compassionate thing to do. In unity with the Sanskrit word “ahimsa,” following a vegan path is one of dynamic harmlessness or non-violence. Does that mean we never get angry? Geez no! My inner sailor comes out whenever someone cuts me off in traffic just like everyone else. However, as a vegan I do try to live a compassionate life where I actively seek to do no harm to others, particularly animals...

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I often hear that veganism and vegetarianism is not accessible for those who are poor because resources like books and the internet. For those in Toronto, the Toronto Public Library is an excellent resource for accessing the internet and a huge collection of books on veganism.

The following are books on veganism that I have borrowed from the Toronto Public Library:

How it all Vegan

Vegan for Life

Vegan for Her

Color Me Vegan

The Veganist

No Meat Athlete (on my hold list, copies are on order) 

The Kind Diet

The Conscious Cook

Ripe from Around Here (Toronto local author) 

Veganomicon 

30 Day Vegan

Beg

Veganist

Sexual Politics of Meat

The Cheesy Vegan (Just arrived, on its way to me)

This is just a snap shot of the many vegan and vegetarian books available at the library. In addition, with your library card you can also get access to VegNews and Vegetarian Times every month through Zinio Canada. 

This specific post will be updated periodically, can be accessed from the drop down menu on my blog.

Great Vegan Bloggers:

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General Facts

The UN Urges Veganism

This video covers not only the fact that the UN is now urging veganism due to environmental issues but it also investigates what these issues are and how the dairy/egg/meat industry affects it.  You can find many, many sources backing this up and providing even more facts.  This isn't hypothesis that can be ignored.

Healthy?

It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. - Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

http://www.eatright.org/about/content.aspx?id=8357

http://nutritionfacts.org/video/uprooting-the-leading-causes-of-death/

Milk

"It works like this: Milk contains a lot of protein and a lot of calcium. Your body uses magnesium to utilize the calcium you ingest. You need roughly a 1:1 ratio otherwise you will pass excess calcium. Milk contains very little magnesium, only about 1/6 as the amount of calcium, so 5/6 of the calcium you consume from milk is wasted and expelled from urine. Not only that, but your body uses calcium to absorb and utilize proteins, so drinking milk, which is high in protein can deplete your calcium levels."

Proteins

Books

Free Ebook for living with omnis

  All in all vegan is great, for whatever reasons you choose to.  But it is important to respect people.  The vegan movement receives flak, in some cases much deserved, for being rude, sexist, racist, disrespectful and so on.  I'm sure you've heard of them, 269life appropriated imagery and what resulted was racist and misanthropic.  I'll have sources referencing that soon, but the point is this is not okay and gives a bad and hateful name to the vegan movement.  I will soon be expanding more on this topic as there are other discrepencies in the vegan movement such as class discrimination (this is not saying that vegan is a first world luxury, once again more on that later) and a lack of empathy for people, their situations, and location.  I totally applaud the effort and dedication there but don't be a dickface about things guys.