Not-So-Vegan and So, So Vegan

by Stephanie Ernst · 2009-07-02 14:05:00 UTC
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Two very different items have been making their way around online spaces this past week: (1) a "hipster vegan"-mocking, but still supremely funny, video titled "So, So Vegan" (which is embedded at the end of this post and the circulation of which by vegans is proof that yes, we do indeed have a sense of humor about ourselves and each other!) and (2) a remarkably involved and impressive investigation into vegan Los Angeles eateries by QuarryGirl.com, which I mentioned briefly in one of this week's roundups.

In the latter, the bloggers revealed the results of a grand-scale investigation into 17 LA-area vegan restaurants to see which ones might be serving food that's not actually vegan (whether inadvertently or, it seems in one case, perhaps even consciously). And we're not talking about some easy, uncomplicated, amateur testing process either. The investigators went all-out scientific, and they report every step of the process in extraordinary detail in the post: "Operation Pancake: Undercover Investigation of LA Vegan Restaurants" (with an update post here: "Operation Pancake: The Plot Thickens"). And really, it wouldn't take a scientific analysis for anyone who's been vegan for any length of time to look at Green Leaves' cheese and immediately question whether it's really vegan. [As I prepare to post this, QuarryGirl.com isn't loading--the site's been receiving a lot of traffic in recent days--but keep trying back periodically if you encounter a problem on first attempt. I'm sure they'll have it back up and running in no time.]

And now the "So, So Vegan" video. Enjoy:

Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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