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veggie bitsTalk About Smart Cookies!Sam & Ruby’s Vegan Goodiesis a small company that offers32-ounce tubes of vegan cookiedough, each of which producesthree to four dozen of the confections that go rightfrom the refrigerator to the oven. Their ‘Regular’flavors are Chocolate Chip, Yummy Vegan Ginger,and Oatmeal Raisin Walnut, while ‘Deluxe’ varietiesinclude Vegan Chocolate Chocolate Chip, VeganPeanut Butter Banana, and the ultra-fancy VeganCranberry Lime Pistachio Shortbread.For more information about Sam & Ruby’s productsor to order, visit .Spectrum Brings New Optionsin Vegan DHA for ToddlersWant your children to have the health benefits ofDHA but don’t want to give them fish oil? Spectrumhas introduced a fish-free DHA supplement for toddlersone to three years old. This vegan liquid supplementhas a neutral taste, so it can be mixed with food.It provides 125 milligrams of DHA per Tablespoon,an amount that is believed to meet the needs of childrenof this age. Spectrum also makes other non-fishDHA products; unfortunately, these are only availablein gelatin (non-vegetarian) capsules. However, they areworking to find an acceptable vegetarian capsule.For more information, contact Spectrum OrganicProducts, LLC, 1105 Industrial Avenue, Petaluma, CA94952. Their website is .Reviewed by Reed Mangels, PhD, RD.Quick-and-Easy EggplantFor more than 25 years, Dominex has brought the besteggplant products to freezer cases nationwide. Amongtheir tasty, microwaveable vegan items are EggplantCutlets, which are a great foundation for entrées andside dishes, and their Eggplant Burgers. Both itemsare available to eat at home and for food service.To learn more, contactDominex Eggplant at P.O. Box5069, St. Augustine, FL 32085,or via phone at (904) 810-2132ext. 302. Visit them online at.Virtual Museum DocumentsVegetarianism’s History in U.S.Vegetarian America: A History authors Karen andMichael Iacobbo have founded the Vegetarian Museumat . This virtual galleryand archive is the only museum in the world dedicatedto vegetarianism, on or off the Internet. The museum’s‘rooms’ feature articles, letters, journal entries, bookexcerpts, menus, illustrations, and photographs thatreveal much of the story of vegetarianism in Americafrom the 18 th century to the present. In addition, thesite encourages today’s writers on the subject of vegetarianism,artists, and musicians to submit their workand become part of the site’s living history.Getting Your Omega-3s EachMorning Just Got a Little EasierNutritious Living has created a newcereal called Omega-3 Harmony. Thisproduct is heavy on whole grain flakes,walnut pieces, dried cranberries, andthose ground flaxseeds that serve asa great source of vegan omega-3 fattyacids. If the ingredients weren’t reasonenough to try this cereal, take the recommendationof the VRG staff, who scarfed it down by the handful.Write to Nutritious Living’s parent company,Organic Milling Corporation, at 505 W. Allen Avenue,San Dimas, CA 91773, or call them at (800) 638-8686.Visit them online at .Pen Pal Program EncouragesVegetarians Behind BarsIt’s often difficult for vegetarians who are incarceratedto get the vegetarian meals they request. That’s wherea non-profit organization called the Prison VegetarianProject comes in. Besides advocating for veggie meals,this group requests that individuals serve as pen pals.Most pen pals use a P.O. Box and a ‘pen name’ to correspondwith select individuals who wish to discusstheir vegetarian ideas, difficulties, and philosophies.For more information about becoming a pen pal,contact the Prison Vegetarian Project at Cooper Station#57, New York, NY 10276, or call (212) 777-0163.Their website is .10 Issue One 2009 VEGETARIAN JOURNAL
“Teach… YourChildren Well…”A Vegetarian Lesson Plan for High School StudentsBy Philip Becker, Science Educator &VRG Life MemberEVERY SO OFTEN IN LIFE, AN AMAZING ANDwonderful opportunity makes its way tofortunate educators like me. Although I havebeen a high school science teacher since 1996, I neverhave had the opportunity to teach a class to youngpeople about the virtues and practice of becominga vegan … that is, until this year.With all the publicity about various environmentalissues of concern today—not the least of which is globalwarming—I decided to create and implement a newcourse at my school. The design of the academic scheduleat the high school where I teach allocates a two-weekperiod between the second and third trimester each year;this allows an educator to teach a condensed courseon a topic about which he or she feels passionately forstudents of any grade level at the school. I decided tocarpe diem and create my ‘minimester’ course, whichbecame known as Vegy 101: An Introduction to Livingand Thriving on an Environmentally Sustainable Diet.Since I only had nine days available to me to teachthis new course, I immediately sat down and compileda list of topics that I believed were necessary to teach—but not so detailed that I would not engage the studentswho were brave enough to sign up for my class. Afterconsiderable deliberation, I created the course syllabus.See for this and other materials I used forthe class.Day 1Despite the fact that my roster indicated 16 studentshad registered for Vegy 101, 18 students arrived in myclassroom on the first day. Although I was initially shortsome chairs, I was ecstatic to see the class enrollmentincrease. We immediately got the class rolling by myhaving students introduce themselves and provide abrief statement of why they elected to take Vegy 101—especially when all the other teachers at my schoolwere offering wonderfully creative courses ranging fromsnowcamping to pinballing!After the introductions, I had students create anamecard, on the back of which I asked them to writethree questions that they wanted to have answeredby the conclusion of Vegy 101. The list of questionsstudents asked ranged from “What are extra nutrientsyou need to take in if you are a vegetarian?” to “Whatis your opinion of the beef recall?” to “Does makinggelatin hurt or kill animals?” For the rest of the questions,see .The first topic we studied was the relationshipbetween diet and disease. We examined the differencesbetween epidemiological and clinical studies and discussedwhy both types of studies were important inI decided to create andimplement a new courseat my school. It becameknown as Vegy 101.understanding relationships between diet and disease.To give students some appreciation for the work doneby epidemiologists, I created an activity involving apicnic where a disease outbreak occurred—for whichstudents had to identify the food(s) at the picnic thatmade people attending our fictional gathering ill. Afterthe students completed the activity, I had them use awhiteboard to elaborate about their investigation andpresent their findings to the rest of the class.After that exercise, it was time for the daily vegansnack, which was pita, hummus, and raw vegetableson this day. For homework, students were to read andsummarize Chapter 2, “The Evidence Is In,” of thecourse’s textbook, Becoming Vegetarian: The CompleteVEGETARIAN JOURNAL Issue One 2009 11
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