The Meaty Truth (25 page)
Authors: Shushana Castle,Amy-Lee Goodman
Vegan Coconut Macaroons
Bet you can’t eat just one of these bite-sized delicacies . . .
Ingredients:
7/8 cup sugar, preferably coconut sugar
½ cup non-dairy milk
5 teaspoons vanilla extract
¾ teaspoon salt
¾ cup all-purpose flour
3 cups unsweetened, shredded coconut
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Mix the sugar, non-dairy milk, vanilla extract, and salt. Blend. Add the coconut and blend well. Then add the flour and mix well. With your hands, form the dough into balls, and place on a lightly oiled cookie tray. These will not change size when heated, so make them to your preference. We prefer about one-inch-all-round balls.
Bake for about twelve to thirteen minutes. Store macaroons in a covered container or freeze in freezer bag or container. Enjoy!
Vegan Chocolate Brandy Cake
Get ready for this cake to rock your world. Adapted from a homemade South African recipe, this cake really does melt in your mouth. It is the perfect cake for birthdays, family gatherings, and gaining popularity among friends.
Chocolate Cake Ingredients:
1 cup organic all-purpose flour
1 cup organic sugar
2 teaspoon baking powder
¼ cup cocoa powder
½ cup hot water
½ cup sunflower (or canola) oil
Ener-G Egg Replacer: Mix 6 teaspoons Ener-G replacer with eight tablespoons water
Non-dairy butter (for cake pan)
Heat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Prepare a bundt cake pan using non-dairy butter and flour. We like to use a springform pan.
In a large bowl, sieve together the flour, sugar, and baking powder. Form a hole in the middle of the mixture, and mix in the cocoa powder, hot water, and sunflower (or canola) oil. Mix together until sugar is dissolved.
Beat egg-replacer mixture. Fold the egg replacer into batter.
Bake for about 25 mins. This cake is moist, so be careful not to overbake.
For the Brandy glaze:
½ cup of sugar
½ carton of soy creamer
2 tablespoons of brandy
In a saucepan add the sugar, brandy, and soy creamer, and bring to a boil. Be sure to poke some small holes in the top of the cake so the brandy seeps through. Pour mixture directly over warm cake when removed from oven and still in the pan. Leave to cool.
For the Chocolate Glaze Frosting:
½ bag of non-dairy chocolate chips.
¼ cup of almond (soy, or other plant milk of your choice—although rice milk is far thinner than other plant milks)
Melt the chocolate with the soymilk in a saucepan, stirring frequently. Place the cake onto a plate. Pour the chocolate glaze over the cake, and allow it to set. Serve and enjoy!
Be sure to check out our list of cookbooks and resources to keep your palate sizzling!
Recommended Resources for a Healthy, Happy Life
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ant to learn more? Need some inspirational recipe ideas to get started? Want to get in shape? Want to know how to disease-proof your life? Don’t worry; we’ve got you covered. These books, movies, and online resources will keep you connected, informed, inspired, and motivated.
A Cookbook for Every Occasion
There is no shortage of delicious recipe books that don’t contain all the crap! From meat substitutes to raw desserts, gorgeous salads, hearty stews, and comfort favorites, these cookbooks can teach you how to make it all.
- Artisan Vegan Cheese
by Miyoko Schinner - Betty Goes Vegan
by Annie and Dan Shannon - Chloe’s Kitchen
and
Chloe’s Vegan Desserts
by Chloe Coscarelli - Crazy Sexy Diet
by Kris Carr - Eat Vegan on $4 a Day
by Ellen Jaffe Jones - Skinny Bitch: Ultimate Everyday Cookbook
by Kim Barnouin - The Candle Café Cookbook
by Joy Pierson, Bart Potenza, and Barbara Scott-Goodman - The Cheesy Vegan
by John Schlimm - Isa Does It
by Isa Chandra Moskowitz - Mayim’s Vegan Table
by Mayim Bialik with Jay Gordon - Skinny Bitch Bakery
by Kim Barnouin - Skinny Bitch in the Kitch
by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin - The Conscious Cook
by Tal Ronnen - The Happy Herbivore Cookbook
by Lindsay S. Nixon - The Joy of Vegan Baking
and
The Vegan Table
by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau - The Kind Diet
by Alicia Silverstone - The Sublime Restaurant Cookbook
by Nanci Alexander - Unprocessed
by Chef AJ and Glen Merzer - Veganomicon
by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero - Vegan A La Mode
by Hannah Kaminsky - Vegan Chocolate
by Fran Costigan - Vegan Cooking for Carnivores
by Roberto Martin - Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World
and
Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar
by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero - Vegan Diner
by Julie Hasson - Vegan for Life
by Jack Norris and Virginia Messina - Vegan Holiday Kitchen
by Nava Atlas and Susan Voisin - Vegan Soul Kitchen
by Bryant Terry
Stay Classy, Stay Informed
- Animal Factory
by David Kirby - Comfortably Unaware
and
Food Choice and Sustainability
by Dr. Richard Oppenlander - Diet for a Small Planet
by Francis Moore Lappe - Dominion
by Matthew Scully - Eating Animals
by Jonathon Safran Foer - Farm Sanctuary
by Gene Baur - Fast Food Nation
by Eric Schlosser - Food Politics
by Marion Nestle - Gristle
by Moby with Miyun Park - High Steaks
by Eleanor Boyle - In Defense of Food
and
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
by Michael Pollan - Mad Cowboy
and
No More Bull
by Howard F. Lyman, Glen Merzer, and Joanna Samorow-Merzer - Making a Killing
by Bob Torres - Making Kind Choices
by Ingrid Newkirk - Meat Market
by Erik Marcus - Meatonomics
by David Robinson Simon - Milk: The Deadly Poison
by Robert Cohen - On Being Vegan
by Colleen Patrick-Goudreaux - Pandora’s Lunchbox
by Melanie Warner - Righteous Porkchop
by Nicolette Hahn Niman - Skinny Bitch
and
Skinny Bastard
by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin - Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson - Slaughterhouse
by Gail A. Eisnitz - The CAFO Reader
edited by Daniel Imhoff - The End of Food
by Paul Roberts - The Engine 2 Diet
and
My Beef with Meat
by Rip Esselstyn - The Food Revolution
,
Diet for a New America,
and
Voices of the Food Revolution
by John Robbins - The Unhealthy Truth
by Robyn O’Brien and Rachel Kranz - The Vegucation of Robin
by Robin Quivers - The Way We Eat
by Peter Singer and Jim Mason - The World Peace Diet
by Will Tuttle - Veganist
by Kathy Freston - Whole
by Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Howard Jacobson - Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows
by Melanie Joy, PhD
Get Healthy, Get Fit
- Rethink Food: 100+ Doctors Can’t Be Wrong
by Shushana Castle and Amy-Lee Goodman - Animals and Public Health
by Aysha Akhtar - Eat and Run
by Scott Jurek - Eat to Live
and
Disease-Proof Your Child
by Dr. Joel Fuhrman - Finding Ultra
by Rich Roll - The Food Prescription for Better Health
by Dr. Baxter D. Montgomery - Healthy Eating for Life for Children
by Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and Dr. Amy Lanou - Health Power
by Dr. Hans Diehl and Aileen Ludington - The Whole Heart Solution
by Dr. Joel K. Kahn - Just be Well
by Dr. Thomas A. Sult - Pet Goats and Pap Smears
by Dr. Pamela Wible - The Pillars of Health
by John Pierre - Power Foods for the Brain
and
21-Day Weight Loss Kickstart
by Dr. Neal Barnard - Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease
by Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr. - The China Study
by Dr. T. Colin Campbell with Thomas M. Campbell II - The Expert’s Guide to Weight-Loss Surgery
by Dr. Garth Davis and Laura Tucker - The No-Dairy Breast Cancer Prevention Program
and
Your Life in Your Hands
by Prof. Jane Plant - The Starch Solution
by John and Mary McDougall - The Thrive Diet
by Brendan Brazier - Vegan for Her
by Virginia Messina and JL Fields - Vegan for Life
by Jack Norris and Virginia Messina - Waist Away
by Drs. Mary Clifton and Chelsea Clinton - Whitewash
by Joseph Keon
Google These Websites:
- www.rethinkfoodbook.com
- www.forksoverknives.com
- www.engine2diet.com
- www.ewg.org
- www.foodsafetynews.com
- www.foodandwaterwatch.org
- www.humanesociety.org
- www.nutritionfacts.org
- www.pcrm.org
- www.peta.org
- www.realfoodchallenge.org
- www.ucsusa.org
- www.vegnews.com
Make It a Movie Night
- An Inconvenient Truth
- Blackfish
- Earthlings
- Eating
- Fat, Sick, & Nearly Dead
- Food, Inc.
- Food Matters
- Forks Over Knives
- King Corn
- Planeat
- Super Size Me
- Tapped
- The Eleventh Hour
- The Cove
- Vegucated
Chapter One:
1
Food and Water Watch,
Factory Farm Nation: How America Turned Its Livestock Farms into Factories
(Washington DC: Food and Water Watch, 2010), 1.
2
Daniel Imhoff,
The CAFO Reader: Tragedy of Industrial Animal Production
(California: Foundation for Deep Ecology, 2010).
3
Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production,
Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm
Animal Production in America
(Maryland: John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: 2009).
4
James Pearce, “Brave New Jungle: Factory Farming and Advocacy in the Twenty-First Century,”
Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum
21(2011), 434.
5
Barry Shlachter, “Contract growers hoping the chicken industry offers a steady nest egg may instead be trapped by debt,”
Rodale Institute,
6 March 2005,
http://www.newfarm.org/news/2005/0405/040505/contracts.shtml
.
6
Eric Schlosser,
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
(New York: First Mariner Books, 2001): 138.
7
Eric Schlosser,
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal:
138.
8
Eric Schlosser,
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal:
138.
9
Renee Johnson,
Recent Acquisitions in Livestock Industry
(Congressional Report, 2009).
10
Food and Water Watch,
Economic Cost of Food Monopolies
(Washington DC: Food and Water Watch, November 2012)
https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/reports/the-economic-cost-of-food-monopolies/
.
11
Dan Flynn, “Monopoly Practices Divide Rural America,” Food Safety News, 30 August 2010,
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2010/08/monopoly-practices-divide-rural-america/#.U2pu-1d1App
. USDA, GIPSA,
Enforcement of the Packers and Stockyards Act,
2010, (Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs) (9 CFR 201).
12
Christopher Leonard, “USDA Proposes Tougher Meat Industry Anti-Trust Rules,”
Huffington Post
18 June 2010.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/18/usda-meat-industry-antitrust_n_618084.html
.
13
Christopher Leonard, “USDA Proposes Tougher Meat Industry Anti-Trust Rules,”
Huffington Post
18 June 2010.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/18/usda-meat-industry-antitrust_n_618084.html
.
14
Congressional Research Service, “USDA’s ‘GIPSA Rule’ on Livestock and Poultry Marketing Practices,” By Joel Greene, R41673 (Washington DC, 2014)
http://nationalaglawcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/assets/crs/R41673.pdf
.
15
Nicolette Hahn Niman,
Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farming
(New York: Harper, 2010).
16
Daniel Imhoff,
The CAFO Reader: Tragedy of Industrial Animal Production
(California: Foundation for Deep Ecology, 2010).
17
Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production,
Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America
(Maryland: John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: 2009).
18
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson,
The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food
(New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2009).
19
Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production,
Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America
(Maryland: John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: 2009).