• The Veggies Unite! Recipe Directory is a well-organized, searchable collection of thousands of vegan recipes
• International Vegetarian Union's searchable international vegan recipes with more than 1000 recipes
• Vegan recipes collected from alt.food.vegan
• FATFREE is a searchable archive of several thousand fat-free and very low fat vegetarian recipes, as well as information about healthy, very low fat vegetarian diets.
• The "Cat-Tea" Corner has a nice collection of vegan recipes, some Romanian, with a handy search by ingredients
• The Kitchen Link has a searchable selection of vegetarian recipes
• Zel Allen's recipes; Zel publishes new recipes every month in the Vegetarians in Paradise web-zine.
• vegancooking.com, which features photographs and recipes of simple vegan dishes; you can also submit your own recipes
• Kake Pugh has over 100 vegan recipes that are well categorized and searchable
• Scented Nectar's Page of Tastiness is a list of hundreds of sites with vegetarian recipes
• Sushi Making Notes (485 KB) from Martin Blazevich's 4/19/03 Vegan Sushi-Making Party
• Steve Brill, naturalist, has a site with recipes for wild edible plants and mushrooms

Presentations

• Why Vegetarian
• Vegetarian Gardening (and accompanying article); also see Center for Vegan Organic Education.
• Introduction to Animal Rights - available in HTML slide show format or Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

Stories Written About TVS

• The March 21-27, 2001 issue of The Independent had a fun cover story called "Meat vs. Veggie", and included a good interview with Dilip

Reprints of TVS Material

• "Vegetarian Gardening" (from our V12#1 newsletter)
• Our "Sunshine Rider" book review

General Resources

• Sign up for a credit card; by specifying TVS' code (692), TVS gets a small royalty percent of your purchases without cost to you!
• TVS is an affiliate of the Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG) and North American Vegetarian Society (NAVS), and a member of the Vegetarian Union of North America (VUNA) and International Vegetarian Union (IVU)
  • VRG publishes the bimonthly Vegetarian Journal with yummy recipes, product and book reviews, nutrition articles written by health professionals (including our own Suzanne Havala!), new topical information, and a wide range of articles; membership is $20 ($10 for TVS members). We always feature their pamphlets (such as Vegetarianism in a Nutshell) at our literature tables.
  • NAVS sponsors Summerfest annually and puts out an attractive quarterly magazine on the vegetarian lifestyle, Vegetarian Voice. Membership is available for $20 ($26 family), but TVS members qualify for half price.
  • VUNA was founded in 1987 as an umbrella organization that helps to form and support local vegetarian groups in the US and Canada.
  • VUNA serves as a liaison to the global IVU; VUNA members are also IVU members. Check out how to say important vegetarian phrases in various languages (if you choose a native language other than English, you can hear Dilip saying phrases like "I am a vegetarian").

• The American Vegan Society has been a great group since 1960, and publishes the quarterly magazine, American Vegan (previously called Ahimsa)
• Frequently Asked Questions about vegetarianism, originally compiled by Michael Traub of the rec.food.veg newsgroup and Vegan-L mailing list, and now maintained by the International Vegetarian Union
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• The Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom has a variety of interesting information sheets on topics ranging from basic nutrition to genetically engineered food and issues in possibly putting cats and dogs on a vegetarian diet.
• Dr. Steven Best, Philosophy Professor and active member of Vegetarian Society of El Paso, has a collection of his well-presented articles, book reviews, and other writings on a wide variety of vegetarian issues, such as about the global meat culture and the environment and Gandhi's vegetarianism and non-violence.
• Veg-News is a daily source of press releases, articles, and other timely news about vegetarianism
• VegNews monthly vegetarian newspaper
• Realities 1989 Facts Making a Strong Case for Vegetarianism
• Facts of Vegetarianism is an online booklet about strong reasons to be vegetarian.
• 101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian by Pamela Rice
• VegDining.com lists several hundred all-vegetarian restaurants around the world.
• HappyCow is a global guide to vegetarian and healthy dining, as well as health food locations, around the world
• Travel expert Peter Greenberg offers some useful travel tips for vegetarians
• Vegetarian Times magazine
• Vegan Outreach
• Vegan.com
• Vegan Online
• VegWeb
• VegSource
• Vegan Street provides a light-hearted look at vegan living, news, and products
• Vegetarians in Paradise are a husband and wife team, Zel and Reuben, in Los Angeles who publish a monthly web-zine about vegetarianism. Do check out Zel's recipes!

Food Issues

• Bob LeRoy, nutritionist, registered dietitian, and nutrition advisor to the North American Vegetarian Society since 1990, has an excellent 12- page document that we share here in PDF form ready to view or print, Good Nutrition: A Look at Vegetarian Basics
• Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine maintains NutritionMD.org, a web site with nutrition and disease prevention news, with a focus on healthy plant-based recipes
• ADA Position Paper on Vegetarian Diets
• Jack Norris, RD, of Vegan Outreach has an excellent summary that he seems to keep updated of the state of vegan nutrition research and pointers to good nutrition advise
• Organic Consumers Association
• Animal Ingredients and their Alternatives
• Need to eat at a fast food chain and wondering what your veg*n options are? Several sites, including vegetarian-restaurants.net, Sword2SkyVegan.net, and Earthsave-Nashville give good pointers.
• In The Comparative Anatomy of Eating, Milton R. Mills, M.D, argues in detail how humans may be “behavioral” omnivores, but anatomically we seem to be designed to eat a purely plant-based diet
• Online Vegetarian Resources.

• Milk fact sheet (from the Toronto Vegetarian Association)
• PCRM's "What's Wrong With Dairy Products?"
• Dr. John McDougall, a physician who has been researching the effect of health through nutrition since the 1970s, has a detailed article in his March 2007 newsletter about the problems with dairy products; he also maintains a summary page about calcium and dairy products.
• IVU has a good summary in their frequently asked questions of problems with dairy as well as eggs
• Worrying About Milk is a discussion of Dr. T. Colin Campbell's research findings about the human health problems associated with drinking cow's milk
• Calcium and Strong Bones
• The Notmilk Times email list
• "Got Osteoporosis?" An August 1999 popular press magazine article describing dairy's possible contribution to osteoporosis.
• TVSer Pravin Shah wrote an article in our fall-winter 1997 newsletter giving a Jain ethical perspective on problems with dairy.

Raw Foods

• Raleigh-based The Raw Choice began selling their products through area Whole Foods Markets mid-2004. There are plans to open a raw foods café, also in Raleigh, in 2004 or 2005.
• Why Eat More Raw Foods?
• Fruitarian Network
• Raw and Living Foods (Yahoo)
• Sprout Growing

Environmental Issues

• International Vegetarian Union has a summary of links related to global warming and diet
• The Vegetarian Union of North America has a page of links about dietary connections to global warming, including their own May 2007 press release on the topic.
• A 2006 United Nations Food and Agriculture report documents how meat and milk production generates more greenhouse gas emissions than transportation and that animal agriculture is "one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global", being a primary cause for global warming, land degradation, water shortages and pollution, air pollution, and loss of biodiversity. The report is nicely summarized in a February 7, 2007 AlterNet News Magazine article, Vegetarian is the New Prius and described in an August 6, 2008 article by The Nation, Eating Meat is Worse than Driving a Truck ... for the Climate.
• A noted ecology and agricultural scientist, Professor David Pimental of Cornell University, documents the environmental impact of meat and dairy (January 2001) and the page Bicycling Wastes Gas? uses his work to show that "meat production is so wasteful that walking actually uses more fossil energy than driving, if the calories burned from walking come from a typical American diet."
• Worldwatch May 2001 report "ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT ECONOMY IS MAKING THE WORLD SICK"
• "Meat Eating Environmentalist? How Can That Be?"
• A Christmas Eve 2002 commentary Why Vegans Were Right All Along, part of a special report on famine, cites environmental data to conclude that "famine can only be avoided if the rich give up meat, fish and dairy ... it's the only ethical response to what is arguably the world's most urgent social justice issue"
• Waste of the West is a self-published 600+ page book about the environmental and economic problems of public ranching; an online version is available (along with information about how to order the hardcopy book)
• Environmental activist Mike Hudak has a website with articles related to the impact of diet on the environment, such as degradation of western rangelands, and, since Feb. 9, 2004, has a weekly radio program focused on animals, environmental conservation and social justice - you can listen to the audio of the interviews archived in MP3 format.
• The Vegetarian Society of Switzerland has an annotated collection of links to major international organizations and their research about plant-based diet and climate change

• Overcoming Consumerism
• "The Politics of Meat and Dairy"

Peace and Justice Issues

• A flyer describing how a meat-based diet contributes to conflicts over resources

Religion and Vegetarianism

• IVU's Religion and Vegetarianism link collection
• Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians
• Judaism and Vegetarianism
• The Jewish Vegan Lifestyle
• Was Christ a Vegetarian? With references to the Bible and history of Christianity; much is extracted from Keith Akers' A Vegetarian Sourcebook, 1989
• The Christian Argument for Vegetarianism
• Was Jesus a Vegetarian?
• A group in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) publishes an informative monthly online journal on vegetarianism, The Peaceable Table
• Essene fruitarianism
• Islam and Vegetarianism
• "The East Is Green" - Eastern Philosophy and the Environment
• Why Hindus Don't Eat Meat
• Vegetarianism in Hinduism
• Some Jain Reasons to be Vegetarian
• Hare Krishna Perspective on Vegetarianism
• A Buddhist Perspective on Vegetarianism
• Native Americans and Vegetarianism
• Secular Ethics and Animal Rights

• VeggieDate
• Valentine's Day recipes for love and thoughts on aphrodisiac qualities of vegetarian food
• Do Vegetarians Make Better Lovers?

Vegetarian Families

• TVS had a newsletter (v11#2, Fall-Winter 1997) that focused on raising children vegetarian; you can read, for example, about problems with cow's milk in infancy, and thoughts on raising a child vegan, including peer presssure, nutrition, and references.
• The Vegetarian Resource Group has an excellent and comprehensive web page on raising vegetarian families; they also describe how you can prepare your own wholesome baby food for your little ones.
• VegFamily is fairly comprehensive, including a discussion board, information on pregnancy, and an area for children's stories and crafts.
• The Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom has information sheets on relevant topics such as pregnancy, feeding infants, and vegetarian nutrition for children.
• Vegetarian Baby and Child has information online as well as a newsletter that you can subscribe to.
• VegSource has a number of interactive discussion areas such as parenting and family and issues for vegetarian youthto exchange ideas.
• Feeding Vegan Kids
• TVS' Suzanne Havala has a VRG article about nutrition for seniors.

Vegetarian Athletes

• Vegetarian Diet for Exercise and Athletic Training and Performing: An Update is a short and readable summary for nutritionists, and includes an extensive set of 90 medical and nutrition references
• The Vegetarian Resource Group has a good summary article on sports nutrition for the vegetarian with exercise physiology and nutrition references
• There is available a good annotated collection of links about vegetarian bodybuilding
• There are many famous vegetarian athletes, such as
  • Dr. Ruth Heidrich, vegan author who holds the world record for fitness for her age group at the Dallas, Texas Cooper Clinic, and who has won more than 600 trophies in her continued competition in triathlons and marathons
  • Dave Scott, vegan and 5-time winner of the famous Hawaii Ironman triathlon
  • Nine-time Olympic gold medal-winner Carl Lewis
  • Football great Joe Namath
  • Baseball home run champion Hank Aaron
  • Tennis great Billie Jean King
  • Chris Campbell, Olympic wrestling medalist

• Very Vegetarian Society of Winston Salem
• Charlotte Vegans
• Asheville Vegetarians
• Vegetarian Society of Washington, D.C. (Read their excellent June 18, 1998, article in the Washington Post)
• Vegetarian Society of Richmond, VA
• Hampton Roads Vegetarian Society (SE Virginia)
• East Tennessee Vegetarian Society
• Vegetarian Society of South Jersey
• Mid-Hudson Vegetarian Society
• Club Veg Founded by TVS' past president Amie Hamlin, with chapters in Binghamton, NY and Philadelphia, PA
• Southern Connecticut Vegetarian Society
• Northern Connecticut Vegetarian Society
• Rhode Island Vegan Awareness
• Boston Vegetarian Society
• Salem Vegan Society (SVS), Salem, Mass
• Pittsburgh Vegetarian Society
• Vegetarian Society of Georgia
• Black Vegetarian Society of Georgia
• Black Vegetarian Society of Florida based in South Florida
• Vegetarian Network of Austin
• Vegetarian Dallas
• Fort Worth Vegetarian Society (formed in 1992)
• Dallas-Fort Worth Vegetarian Education Network
• Black Vegetarian Society of Texas based in Dallas (check out their well-presented list of Frequently Asked Questions)
• Vegetarian Society of Houston
• Vegetarian Society of El Paso (see member Steve Best's writings)
• Vegetarian Society of New Mexico
• Vegetarian Resource Group of Tucson A great group of folks; they are a local group and not specifically related to VRG, mentioned under General Resources above
• Vegetarian Society of Utah (formed late 2005)
• Chicago Vegetarian Society
• Go-Veggie! based in Chicago (formerly Heartland Vegetarians)
• Milwaukee Area Resources for Vegetarians
• Central Ohio Vegetarian Society (greater Columbus area)
• St. Louis Vegetarian Society
• Vegetarian Society of Colorado
• San Francisco Vegetarian Society
• South Bay Vegetarian Society (California)
• Sacramento Vegetarian Society (California)
• Southern California Vegetarians
• Vegetarian Society of Hawaii
• Toronto Vegetarian Association
• Winnipeg Vegetarian Association
• Calgary Vegetarian Association
• Vegetarians of Alberta
• Vancouver Island Vegetarian Association

Miscellaneous

• Galaxy Theatre currently displays for free a slide featuring TVS before each film, as a public service.
• Dilip's Vegetarian Page
• EcoRoommates.com to search for vegetarian/environmentally friendly roommates
• McSpotlight
• Mad Cow Disease Home Page
• Animal Rights Philosophy
• Animals' Voice is an online magazine of animal issues, with its genesis in the magazine of the same name published between 1986-1997.
• Leather Substitutes Resource Guide
• IVU maintains a very interesting Museum of Vegetarianism, including information on the early human diet
• Michael Bluejay, an Austin, Texas activist, publishes a diverse website including an interesting history of vegetarianism in the U.S. as part of his vegetarian guide
• The Vegetarian Museum is a virtual online museum dedicated to the history of vegetarianism in the US
• FamousVeggie.com highlights some famous vegetarians
• The Vegan Vixens are a group of women that started in late 2003 with a television show to capture people's interests and introduce them to veganism
• The Radical Vegetarian Cartoon Book uses humor to question non-vegetarian ways
• Bizarro Comics has a section dedicated to veganism
• Send a friend an animated vegetarian greeting card!
• There are a number of websites, such as blackvegetarians.org, that deal with vegetarianism specifically from an African-American perspective
• Vegbay is an online auction for the vegetarian and Green communities

Other Local Resources

• Local Vegetarian Resources Guide
• Raleigh-based The Raw Choice hosts organic, vegan, raw events.
• Humane Carolina, a grassroots animal advocacy organization. You can subscribe to their email list summarizing current issues.
• NC Society for Ethical Culture - See the results of our 2003 joint potluck discussion of ethics
• Culture and Animals Foundation, led by Dr. Tom and Nancy Regan, is based in Raleigh and sponsors the annual Compassionate Living Festival in early October.
• SPARC, Students Protecting Animals Responsibly and Compassionately, is an active NC State University organization
• The Carolina Vegan Association, with chapters in the Triangle and Triad (Winston Salem-Greensboro-High Point) areas, was formed in late 2008 with organizing meetings and activities focused on animal rights.
• NC Greens (see our summer 1996 Grapevine article on the Green Party)
• Sierra Club - Capital Group
• Vegetarian-Friendly Restaurants in Carrboro and Chapel Hill as compiled by Triangle Community Online
• The nationally syndicated Go Vegan radio program by Bob Linden airs Saturdays 2-3p, locally on WCHL 1360 AM; GoVeganRadio.com has archived programs that can be heard online

Cohousing and Intentional Living

• Blue Heron Farm
• Vegans in Community

Vegetarian blogs (web-based journals)

• Vegan Lunch Box is a fabulous daily picture and description of the lunchbox of a lucky vegan child since his first day of first grade in September 2005; it won an award for best food blog in 2006
• SuperVegan, a blog by the publishers at Lantern Press is "a shockingly ambitious website made by vegans for vegans" and includes a large set of links to other vegetarian blogs
• Vegan Menu includes pictures of delicious vegan meals, with some preparation notes
• Dinner with Dilip

Email Resources

• Veg-News, a daily vegetarian news source as described under General Resources above, is also available as a mailing list (we recommend the digest version) that you can subscribe to.
• FATFREE is a mailing list for the discussion and sharing of recipes of very low fat (ovo-lacto) vegetarian food. There is also a searchable archive of this mailing list.
• Sci-Veg offers a moderated scientific discussion. The Sci-Veg project has been dedicated to providing accurate, scientific information about vegetarianism and related issues since early 1996.
• There are a variety of Yahoo! Groups (anybody can start a group, and messages can be read by visiting the web page or can be emailed), such as NC Vegans, Veganism, the Fruitarian Network, Raleigh Raw Foods Potluck Group, and several groups on Christianity and Vegetarianism (christianveg and vegchristian, and Catholics Promoting Vegetarianism).