Tag: cruelty-free
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Whole Foods Market is helping and harming the environment
By: Gloria Stovall Where do you buy your groceries? Is your preferred place to shop living up to its “eco-friendly” and “green” standards or causing harm to the environment? Businesses and organizations are exceedingly influential with the proven capability to both positively and negatively impact the environment. For example, Whole Foods Market, with an impressive…
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Cultivating a Healthy Environment: Starting at Home
Guest Blog Entry is by Rich Johnson of Better Healthier Life. In our pursuit of a sustainable and flourishing planet, the role of individual households cannot be overstated. A healthy environment is not solely the responsibility of governments and industries; it begins at the grassroots level – within our own homes. By making conscious choices…
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Vegan leather is ethical, attractive and affordable
By Gloria Stovall When I first became a vegan sixteen years ago, vegan fashion was the last thing on my mind as I was merely concentrating on the vegan diet instead of the vegan lifestyle; but as I matured as a vegan, if you will, I began to embrace the complete vegan lifestyle as opposed…
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Vegan chocolate cake with vegan chocolate buttercream frosting
By Gloria Stovall Featured above is one of the most yummy, exquisite, mouthwatering, rich, moist, chocolate vegan cakes I have ever tasted in my 15 years of being a vegan; and to make this delightful vegan cake more irresistible, it was smothered and covered in a luscious, creamy, smooth, sweet, vegan buttercream chocolate frosting that…
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15 reasons why honey is not vegan
By Gloria Stovall Honey is an animal product and definitely not vegan, but at the beginning of my conversion to the vegan lifestyle, I was oblivious and ignorant of the fact that honey was not vegan as I assumed as many often do, bees are not harmed in the process of making honey and bees…
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12 ingredients vegans should avoid
By Gloria Stovall Before I became a vegan, shopping was effortless and swift as I was not obsessed with reading product/food labels multiple times before making a purchase, but after making the commitment to the vegan lifestyle, I invest as much time as needed to thoroughly read labels to guarantee I am not buying products…
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My ardent love for animals
By Gloria Stovall Everyone who knows me will enthusiastically agree without hesitation that I love and adore all animals, most ardently. Even before I became a vegan, I was passionate about animals and their well being; but that fondness significantly blossomed and deepened when I became a vegan. Many critics say being a vegan is…
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Make your own vegan cruelty-free household products
By Gloria Stovall One major lesson I have learned thus far from living the vegan lifestyle is the importance of being self-reliant, innovative and wise, especially when the products available for vegans are limited, overpriced and well…let’s just say-not always good quality. In addition to animals, I genuinely care about the environment and truth be…
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Products labeled vegan does not necessarily signify cruelty-free
By Gloria Stovall Did you know that products labeled ‘vegan’ does not always symbolize ‘cruelty-free?’ I know this may come as a surprise and be quite unsettling; but truth be told, one should not assume cruelty-free products are vegan and vice-versa. I personally have been buying cruelty-free products for years and always assumed ‘cruelty-free’ meant…
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