rec.food.veg World Guide to Vegetarianism - Internet1
Mark Wisdom
Last-modified: 23 Jul 1995
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rec.food.veg World Guide to Vegetarianism
Internet1
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The 20 parts of this guide contain a world list of vegetarian and
vegetarian-friendly restaurants, stores, organizations, services, etc.
Each part is posted on an independent schedule.
The guide is available on WWW in easy-to-use hypertext format on the
Vegetarian Pages at http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Vegetarian/
** Please send us any new listings or corrections. **
The prefered way for you to send us updates is to use the forms on the
above mentioned WWW site. E-mail updates gladly accepted also, but
please format them in the same format as is used in this guide and
keep comments and reviews short, simple, and straight to the point.
The latest posted copy of the World Guide to Vegetarianism is also
available via e-mail. For an index and instructions, send an e-mail to
mail-...@rtfm.mit.edu with the following line in the message body:
send usenet/news.answers/vegetarian/guide/index
The guide is also available via anonymous ftp from rtfm.mit.edu in the
directory /pub/usenet/news.answers/vegetarian/guide.
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Internet Services
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This section has listings for the following:
USENET Newsgroups Gopher
Mailing Lists Information via E-Mail
World Wide Web Internet Relay Chat
Anonymous FTP
Many thanks to Bobbi Pasternak, who's compiling a list of online
resources for the Vegetarian Resource Group, and to Geraint 'Gedge'
Edwards, our European listings coordinator, for posting much of the
below information on rec.food.veg. If you know of any other Internet
vegetarian resources, please send them to Bobbi Pasternak
<bo...@clark.net> and to myself, Mark Wisdom <mwi...@free.org>.
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World Wide Web (WWW)
Vegetarian Pages
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Vegetarian/
- The main index to vegetarian resources on the Internet. Features
vegetarian news items, a list of major events around the world, an
index to vegetarian info by issue, general reading material, FAQs,
lists of vegetarian people, organizations, and businesses on the
Internet, a list of famous vegetarians, and more.
Vegan Action
http://envirolink.org/arrs/va/home.html
- Information on veganism, soft-copies of The Vegan News, animal
derived ingredients & clothings lists.
World Guide to Vegetarianism
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Vegetarian/Guide/index.html
- What you're currently looking at. A global listing of vegetarian and
vegetarian-friendly restaurants, natural food stores, organizations,
services, etc.
Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG)
http://envirolink.org/arrs/VRG/home.html
- Back issues of the Vegetarian Journal, articles, information,
brochures, and newsletters on veganism, vegetarianism, nutrition,
recipes, new products, travel, scientific studies, book and software
reviews, animal rights.
Vegetarian Society UK (VegSocUK)
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Vegetarian/Orgs/VegSocUK/
- Contains the entire collection of VegSocUK infosheets, reports,
articles, campaigns, local resources.
Animal Rights Resource Site (ARRS)
http://envirolink.org/arrs/index.html
- Extensive collection of essays concerning AR and vegetarianism.
Picture gallery, AR news service, 20-plus hosted home pages,
including PETA, the Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG), Hunt Saboteurs
Association, etc., the Animal Rights FAQ, Campaigns index and action
alerts, and the World Guide to Animal Rights.
ADVANCE
http://www.southwind.net/~ebase/Get/Adv/Adv.html
- A North American grassroots calendar of events, with emphasis on
animal rights, vegetarianism, animal welfare, the environment, &
some human rights issues. Events listed include meetings, rallies,
protests, lectures, symposia, demonstrations, expos, dinners, info
tables, seminars, nature walks, displays, picnics, & whatever else
is going on.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/peta/
- PETA Factsheets (some vegetarian), action alerts, etc. The largest
animal rights organization in the world.
ARK Online
http://www.teleport.com/~animals/
- "The online magazine for people who care about animals."
Recipe Servers:
Veggies Unite!
http://www.honors.indiana.edu/~veggie/recipes.cgi/
- A searchable index of over 2000 vegetarian recipes. Has links to
many nutrition and health sites.
English Server Recipes Folder
http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/Recipes.html
- Although not entirely vegetarian, much of it is vegetarian recipes.
There are links to the Fat-Free archives and a few others.
Local/Regional Vegetarian Web Pages:
For a complete list, see http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Vegetarian/Orgs/
European Vegetarian Union (EVU)
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Vegetarian/Orgs/EVU/home.html
- EVU news and information.
Nodo Vegetariano Milanese (Vegetarian Node in Milan), Italy
http://www.dsi.unimi.it/Users/Students/maresa/Veget/Veget.html
Vegetarians International Voice for Animals (Viva!)
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Vegetarian/Orgs/Viva/info.html
- Viva! leaflets, guides, press releases, campaigns.
Vegan Society UK
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Vegetarian/Orgs/VeganSocUK/vegansoc.html
- Vegan Society leaflets, articles, list of local groups and contacts.
Bradford Vegetarian Society, UK
http://www.brad.ac.uk/~atma/vegsoc.html
Brighton Vegetarian & Vegan Society, UK
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Vegetarian/Orgs/VegSocUK/Local/brighton.html
Portsmouth Area Vegetarian & Vegan Network, UK
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Vegetarian/Orgs/VegSocUK/Local/portsveg.html
Southampton and District Vegetarian Society, UK
http://www.tcp.co.uk/~numbersix/vegsoc.html
The Vegan Society (NSW), Australia
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~tyrus/Vegan_Pages/index.html
Victoria Vegetarian Info, Australia
http://www.vicnet.net.au/vicnet/Adrian/veg.htm
Vegetarian Resource Center (VRC), North America
http://www.tiac.net/users/vrc/vrc.html
North American Vegetarian Society (NAVS)
http://mars.superlink.com/user/dupre/navs/index.html
Toronto Vegetarian Association, Ontario, Canada
http://www.interlog.com/~tva/home.html
Misissauga Vegetarian Association, Ontario, Canada
http://www.interlog.com/~webweave/mva.html
Winnipeg Vegetarian Association, Manitoba, Canada
http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/~wva/index.html
Triangle Vegetarian Society, North Carolina, USA
http://www.trinet.com/tonc/tvspage.html
VivaVegie Society, New York City, USA
http://www.southwind.net/~ebase/Orgs/VivaVeg/VivaV.html
Maine VegNet, USA
http://www.biddeford.com/vegnet/
Student Vegetarian Organizations:
MIT Vegetarian Support Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/vsg/home.html
Rice Vegetarian Club
Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
http://www-ece.rice.edu/~andrew/rvc/rvc.html
WPI Vegetarian Society
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
http://www.wpi.edu/~veggies/
Vegetarian Products:
Midland Harvest Burgers
http://emall.com/Harvest/Harvest1.html
- Midland Harvest burgers and other products.
Naturally Yours
http://www.america.com/mall/store/naturally.html
- Sells grains and grain mills mostly. Seeds for sprouting too.
McBooks Press
http://www.spidergraphics.com/mcb/mcbld.html
- Publisher of a series of vegetarian parenting books by Sharon
Yntema: Vegetarian Pregnancy, Vegetarian Baby, and Vegetarian
Children.
Personal Pages:
See http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Vegetarian/People/ for a list of personal
web pages.
If you do not have access to www (typical www browsers are netscape,
mosaic, lynx, and www) but if you have access to telnet, then you can
use www by telneting to a public www client, some of which are
gopher.msu.edu, info.cern.ch, and telnet.w3.org (128.141.201.214).
You can also telnet to www.njit.edu and log in as 'www'. You can also
access WWW pages via e-mail. For instructions, send an e-mail to
list...@mail.w3.org with 'www' in the message body.
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Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
IRC is a mechanism that allows people to have real-time text-based
group discussions over the Internet. This can be used as a cheap (free
for some) substitute for long distance phone calls.
The following is an explanation of how to access IRC via the UNIX
'irc' client software. Accessing IRC from other software or from other
types of systems should be similar, although the commands may be
replaced with menus.
The IRC is composed of several networks. The big one is called EFnet.
On EFnet, there are 2 vegetarian discussion channels: #veggies
and #vegan. There is a server/robot on #veggies called VeganSrv which
is always available so that interested folks can get information on
vegetarianism. If it's not there, then you are likely on another IRC
network, try switching to an IRC server on the EFnet network (for
example irc.texas.net or sifon.cc.mcgill.ca) using the /server command
(eg: '/server irc.texas.net').
Channels are created when people join them, so if you join '#veggie',
and not '#veggies', you are not likely to see anyone else. #veggies
has about 3 or 4 people chatting at times, but can also often be
empty. Try accessing it at different times of the day.
On IRC, people are known by their nicknames, so you must choose one
with the 'nick' command.
A typical session may include the following example commands:
/nick MyNickname
/join #veggies
/who #veggies (to see who is on #veggies)
/whois gedge (to see info about Gedge, if he's currently on)
/msg gedge argh! (to privately ask Gedge for help)
/quit
All command lines must be prefixed with a '/'. Anything not prefixed
by a '/' will be sent to your current channel for all participants to
see!
If you don't have an IRC client installed on your system then you can
FTP one from ftp.undernet.org in the irc/clients directory. There are
clients here for Mac, PC, UNIX (precompiled or source), and other
systems. For UNIX, you can also automagically install it with
'telnet sci.dixie.edu 1 | sh'.
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USENET Newsgroups
rec.food.veg
- Posting/discussion of all vegetarian related subjects.
rec.food.veg.cooking
- A moderated newsgroup for the posting/discussion of vegetarian
recipes, cooking information, nutrition, and other non-ethical
information.
talk.politics.animals
- Posting/discussion of animal rights related subjects.
alt.food.fat-free
- Posting/discussion related to fat-free foods/diet. Not entirely
vegetarian.
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Mailing Lists
Many mailing lists are available in two formats: regular and digest.
In the regular format, you get an e-mail for every message posted.
This is typically between 5 and 50 e-mails per day. In digest format,
you get one e-mail per day containing all the postings for the
previous 24 hours.
Vegan-L
- A mailing list for vegans and aspiring vegans. To subscribe, send
an e-mail to list...@templevm.bitnet with the following in your
message body:
sub vegan-l <your first and last name here>
For the digest option, also add the following line:
set vegan-l digest
VegLife
- Used to be called Granola. To subscribe, send an e-mail to
list...@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu with the following in your message body:
sub veglife <your first and last name here>
For the digest option, also add the following line:
set veglife digest
Veggie
- For the discussion of any aspect of vegetarianism, vegetarian
lifestyle, or anything relevant to vegetarians. To subscribe, send
an e-mail to veggie-...@bath.ac.uk with the following in your
message body:
sub veggie <your first & last name here>
For the digest option, also add the following line:
set veggie digest
VegPol-L
- For discussing 'The Sexual Politics of Meat' and other
race/class/gender/veg issues. To subscribe, send an e-mail to
list...@jefferson.village.virginia.edu with the following in your
message body:
sub vegpol-l <your first and last name here>
Veg-Admins
- This is a list for people who provide or maintain significant
resources for vegetarians on-line. It aims to facilitate the best
coordination between these providers. For more info, contact
Geraint 'Gedge' Edwards <ge...@inner.demon.co.uk>.
VegCMTE
- For people who want to volunteer time to help VegLife keep up to
date with journals, information files, recipes, etc. Also for those
who want to work with their local vegetarian organizations, or who
want to start their own. Contact Chuck Goelzer <cg...@cornell.edu>
for more info.
Veg-Cook
- A mailing list where vegetarian cooks can exchange ideas and
techniques. Subscribers also receive all posts to
rec.food.veg.cooking. To subscribe, send an e-mail to
list...@netcom.com with the following in your message body:
sub veg-cook <your first and last name here>
For the digest option, also add the following line:
set veg-cook digest
VegFood (Vegetarian Recipe Exchange List)
- Detailed discussion on vegetarian food preparation, including
recipes. To a minor degree cookbooks, cookware, spices,
wine/spirits, etc, will be discussed. No ethical issues will be
raised since we are concerned only with the end result of food
preparation. Guard your waistline! All are welcome. To subscribe,
send an e-mail to list...@cadserv.cadlab.vt.edu with the following
in your message body:
sub vegfood <your first and last name here>
Veg-Raw
- Intended for the discussion of vegetarian/vegan raw food diets. To
subscribe, send an e-mail to majo...@intergate.net with the
following in your message body:
subscribe veg-raw
Veggies
- For British vegetarian events/matters. Remarkably quiet. To
subscribe, send an e-mail to: veggies...@ncl.ac.uk with the
following in your message body:
sub veggies <your first & last name here>
Availability of digest option is unknown to me.
FatFree
- Intended for anyone following an extremely lowfat vegetarian diet,
including followers of McDougall and Ornish. Only vegetarian recipes
are permitted. The focus here is on the health and nutrition aspects
of such diets, not ethical and ecological concerns. To subscribe,
send an e-mail to fatfree...@fatfree.com (digest version) or
fatfree-n...@fatfree.com (non-digest version) with the subject
"subscribe". Recipes are archived on http://www.fatfree.com/.
BA-FatFree
Chicago Area FatFree
- There are also local off-shoots of the FatFree mailing list for the
San Francisco Bay Area and for the Chicago area. These discuss local
issues and arrange get-togethers and potlucks. To subscribe to
BA-FatFree, send an e-mail to ba-fatfre...@hustle.rahul.net
with "subscribe" in the message body. To subscribe to the Chicago
area list, write l...@bio-3.bsd.uchicago.edu or
eka...@midway.uchicago.edu for more details.
Southern Ontario Vegetarian Mailing List
- A list to discuss issues local to Southern Ontario, Canada, and to
arrange get-togethers, restaurant outings, potlucks, etc. To
subscribe, send your request to ontveg-...@csd.uwo.ca.
VegCNY-L
- Vegetarians of Central New York. To subscribe, send an e-mail to:
list...@cornell.edu with the following in your message body:
sub VegCNY-L <your first & last name here>
MN-Veg
- Vegetarians in the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota. To subscribe,
send an e-mail with the line "subscribe" in your message body to:
mn-veg-...@waste.org (regular version) or
mn-veg-dig...@waste.org (digest version).
Vegan News
- The Newsletter of Vegan Action, a non-profit vegan advocacy and
support organization. Contains information of interest to vegans
about animal rights, the environment, nutrition, and activism.
Also, includes San Francisco Bay local announcements. To subscribe,
send an e-mail to list...@mellers1.psych.berkeley.edu with the
following in your message body:
sub vn <your first and last name here>
MaxLife
- A list for those working toward a positive, healthy life style while
at the same time choosing to avoid heavy consumerism. It is for
people who choose their activities with careful consideration to the
pleasure they bring as well as all their costs. To subscribe, send
an e-mail to: list...@gibbs.oit.unc.edu with the following in your
message body:
sub maxlife <your first & last name here>
For the digest option, also add the following line:
set maxlife digest
Macrobiotic
- A list on macrobiotics. To subscribe, send an e-mail to
macrobiot...@veda.is with the following in your message body:
sub macrobiotic <your first and last name here>
Availability of digest option is unknown to me.
AR-Talk
- A mailing list for the discussion of animal rights. Part of the
Animal Rights Electronic Network (AREN). To subscribe, send an
e-mail to ar-talk...@cygnus.com with the following in your
message body:
sub ar-talk <your first and last name here>
Availability of digest option is unknown to me.
AR-News
- Related to AR-Talk. To subscribe, send an e-mail to (?)
ar-news...@cygnus.com with the following in your message body:
sub ar-news <your first and last name here>
Availability of digest option is unknown to me.
AR-SFBay
- News and announcements relating to animal rights and
vegan/vegetarian issues and events for the greater San Francisco Bay
area. Info on demonstrations, potlucks, presentations, and local
news on animal issues. To subscribe, send an e-mail to
list...@mellers1.psych.berkeley.edu with the following in your
message body:
sub ar-sfbay <your first and last name here>
Availability of digest option is unknown to me.
SNARE
- Students Networking for Animal Rights Everywhere. A network of
students involved with animal rights issues working to build
alliances with other students around the world. To subscribe, send
an e-mail to owner-s...@ucs.indiana.edu.
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Anonymous FTP
When FTPing to an anonymous FTP site, use the userid 'anonymous' and
then enter your e-mail address for the password,
Vegetarian Resource Group Archives, 2 sites:
ftp.geod.emr.ca:/pub/Vegetarian/Articles
ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de:/pub/doc/vegetarian
- VRG articles, newsletters, and pamphlets in electronic form.
- 'The Vegetarian Game', an IBM-PC game by the VRG, is available
from ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de.
Vegetarian Society UK (VegSocUK)
ftp.demon.co.uk:/pub/food/vegsocuk
- Contains the entire collection of VegSocUK infosheets, and a lot
more.
FatFree Recipe Archive, 2 sites:
geod.emr.ca:/pub/Vegetarian
ftp.halcyon.com:/pub/recipes
- Large and growing archive of very lowfat and fatfree vegetarian
recipes. Recipes range from simple to complex, easy to gourmet,
mild to hot. There are recipes from cultures all around the world:
Caribbean, Eastern European, South American, mainstream American
and so on. Indian cuisine is particularly well-represented in the
collection. All the recipes are strictly vegetarian and contain no
added fat and very little high-fat ingredients. Yet, the variety
is astounding.
flubber.cs.umd.edu:/other/tms/veg
- Several dozen vegetarian related articles, including the ADA's
position paper on the vegetarian diet, statements by the
Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine, and an array of
files related to Jeremy Rifkin's book, "Beyond Beef".
- Will soon no longer be available.
VegLife
cadadmin.cadlab.vt.edu:/VEGLIFE
- Several thousand vegetarian/vegan/fatfree recipes. Vegetarian FAQs,
information files, discussion archives, etc. Userid 'vegan' and
password 'guest' also work. Maintained by Darrell A. Early
<pa...@vt.edu>.
Vegan Recipes
mthvax.cs.miami.edu:/pub/recipes/vegan
ftp.uu.net:/usenet/rec.food.recipes/vegan
- Collection of vegan recipes. Both addresses have the same recipes.
Greate Cakes Without Eggs, located at 2 sites:
oak.oakland.edu:/SimTel/win3/food/great100.zip
ftp.demon.co.uk:/pub/food/eggless
- 'Greate Cakes Without Eggs'. 216 recipes. In Winhelp hypertext
format. Includes pictures. Simnel cake, gingerbread, 14 different
kinds of apple cake, Lebanese date cake, Jewish orange cake, Greek
walnut cake, Texan Christmas cake, prune bread - you name it, it's
here. About 1/4 of the recipes are vegan, and the others are
lacto-vegetarian. The measures are given in US cup measures,
Imperial, and Metric. This is a ShareWare software version of a
succesful paper book that is sold in England and Europe. Requires
Windows 3.1+.
news.answers Archives
rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/vegetarian
- news.answers archive site. Contains the latest officially posted
copies of the World Guide to Vegetarianism and the rec.food.veg FAQ.
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Gopher
english-server.hss.cmu.edu
- Look under 'Recipes'. See listing under World Wide Web.
gopher.micro.umn.edu
- Archives of rec.food.recipes. Look under 'Fun & Games', 'Recipes'.
4 vegetarian subdirectories of recipes: vegan, lacto, ovo, and
ovo-lacto.
usda.mannlib.cornell.edu
- USDA gopher site containing Lotus 123 spreadsheet format data
regarding various kinds of farm production, food consumption, etc.
A good place to verify some of the statistics used in arguments for
vegetarianism.
If you do not have access to gopher, but have access to telnet, then
you can use gopher by telneting to a public gopher client, two of
which are gopher.msu.edu and panda.uiowa.edu.
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Information by E-Mail
The World Guide to Vegetarianism
- For instructions on getting the latest officially posted copy of
this guide via e-mail, send an e-mail to mail-...@rtfm.mit.edu
with the following line in your message body:
send usenet/news.answers/vegetarian/guide/index
Vegetarian Society UK Info Sheets
- For help and an index, send an e-mail to file...@salata.com with
the following two lines in your message body:
index
help
The rec.food.veg Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Listing
- For the latest officially posted copy of the rec.food.veg FAQ, send
an e-mail to mail-...@rtfm.mit.edu with the following line in
your message body:
send usenet/news.answers/vegetarian/faq
SunSite FTP by E-Mail Service
- Will FTP stuff from any site for you via e-mail. Send an e-mail to
ftp...@sunsite.unc.edu with 'help' in the message body for
instructions. See 'Anonymous FTP Sites' above for examples of what
is available.
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