ATX Vegan Knitters

ATX Vegan Knitters

The wonderful employees of Dhaba Joy/Toy Joy have put together a vegan knitting circle right here in Austin! Join the MySpace group and come to the first February meet-up this weekend.

Sunday February 17, 2008
7-9 pm ish
Dhaba Joy
2900 Guadalupe

Bring a friend! We'll have extra needles and yarn if you are a beginner!

Vegan Networking

I moved to Austin from New York City about five months ago and I am constantly amazed by the strong sense of community that I feel here. Austin always has a million things going on, but here are a few vegan-specific ones you may enjoy:

• Sunday Potluck: a weekly themed vegan potluck, past themes have included gourmet cafeteria foods, fancy hors d'oeuvres and pies!
• Vegans Rock Austin!: an excellent resource for all things vegan and vegetarian, they hold their own monthly potlucks and meetups too.
• Veggie Speed Dating: having trouble finding a partner that shares your penchant for vegetables? try vegan speed dating! it's a new event they've just started at dhaba joy on guadalupe. a seven course meal and seven single potential partners or new friends to meet? sounds awesome to me.
  

vegansexuality

some food for thought: do you choose your romantic partners based on their eating habits? if so, you may be part of a newly named group known as the 'vegansexuals'.

Potts, who coined the term vegansexuality, says the “negative response of omnivores” to her study has surprised her. Even some fellow animal lovers question the wisdom of vegansexuality. A blog for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals noted that sleeping with only fellow vegans means forgoing the opportunity to turn carnivores into vegans by the most powerful recruiting tool available — sex.

PETA’s founder and president, Ingrid Newkirk, agrees that vegans smell fresher. (“There’s science to prove it,” she says.) But Newkirk is all about the recruiting, even if it means one convert at a time. “When my staff members come to me and say: ‘Guess what? My boyfriend, now he’s a vegan,’ I say, half-jokingly: ‘Well, it is time to ditch him and get another. You’ve done your work; move on.’ ”