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Tag: Vegan

0 Backwoods Chili and Biscuits

September 12, 2012
by backwoodsvegan
· Crusty Collectivist Cooking Project · Recipes Section

I love this time of year! There is so much food available 50 feet from our front door, making meals convenient, cheaper and tastier. There’s something about knowing how your food was grown every step of the way, from tilling in compost through harvesting. Here’s a chili recipe that came mostly from our garden(marked with an *). Enjoy!

Black Bean Chili

2 cups black beans* boiled

1 TBSP olive oil

1 medium yellow onion*, minced

2 large cloves garlic*, minced

1 medium pepperoncini*, chopped

4 Thai hot peppers*, chopped

1 green bell pepper*, chopped

1 3″x3″ square of tempeh, cut into 1/4″ cubes

1/2 TBSP ground cumin

1 tsp ground corriander

2 tsp ground paprika

1 tsp fresh oregano* chopped

2 tsp dried oregano

20 assorted tomatoes ranging from cherry* to large heirloom*, roughly chopped

1 small yellow squash*, chopped

1/4 cup zucchini*,grated

1 ear of corn*, kernels cut off

sea salt and pepper to taste

Boil the black beans in about 6 cups of water until just tender, 45minutes to an hour depending on your bean. While the beans are cooking, heat up olive oil in a separate large pot. Saute the onion for a few minutes until they start to become tender. Add garlic and saute for another minute. Then stir in hot and green peppers and tempeh, mixing thoroughly. At this point, mix in cumin, coriander and paprika, coating everything. Turn the heat up slightly, stir in tomatoes and cover pot, cooking for about 20 minutes. The beans should be ready a this point. Add beans, yellow squash, zucchini and corn, cover and simmer over low heat for an hour. Adjust the flavor with salt and pepper and serve. We chose to serve over oat/corn waffles (see photo), but the recipe wasn’t stellar so I’m not including it. A cornmeal waffle would be perfect, so maybe I’ll post one at a later date. In the meantime, try biscuits!

Quick and Simple Biscuits

preheat oven to 350F

2 cups unbleached flour

1 TBSP non aluminum baking soda

1 1/2 tsp sea salt

1/3 cup olive oil

2/3 non-dairy milk

1 tsp lemon juice or apple cider vinegar

Stir together milk, oil and lemon juice or vinegar, set aside to curdle. Sift flour baking powder and salt together, then add curdled mixture to the dry ingredients. Mix into doughy ball and then kneed for a few minutes adding more flour if it’s too sticky. Divide into six equal balls and press flat onto baking tray and bake for 20 minutes.

Sift flour, baking powder an

1 Working Class Vegan Zine seeks submissions. Comrade Black

June 26, 2012
by stinkbot
· Columns · Features · PE Web Zine · Radness

We are seeking submissions for a zine on being both working class and vegan, to decenter veganism away from the politics of privilege and consumerism.

For many of us, buying whatever we want, flying around to animal rights conferences, or going this or that vegan band’s reunion in another country or state is simply not an option. For many of us who struggle with poverty as a lived experience the middle class liberal politics of voting with your dollars and buying overpriced fancy over-packaged goods is alienating and unrealistic. For many of us the food bank is our grocery store and dumpster diving after a house show isn’t something you do to be cool, it is something you do simply cause you can’t afford to buy good food. Our hope is it will help to be a resource of lived experiences for those who can’t relate to the mainstream vegan middle class clique, and that it would be full of useful strategies for coping with poverty while maintaining a vegan way of living.

The term ‘working class’ is ambiguous and many people use it to mean different things. For the context of this zine the term working class will refer to people who work dead end jobs at near minimum wage, or live on welfare or disability, or who struggle to pay rent each month, or are living on the streets or in homeless shelters. We are not referring to people who work high paid union jobs or work as roughnecks in the oil patch or logging industries. The point is to share the experiences of those who have struggled economically just to meet their basic needs yet feel maintaining a plant based diet is important to them.

Submissions should be between 1/2 a page to 5 pages in length (single spaced). We are open to many formats, from personal stories, to personal essays, to critiques, poetry, recipes, cartoons, jokes, or rants and tips. You can write about your struggles with food, or with mainstream liberal vegans, working with animals, why a plant based diet is important to you, nutrition, activism, wild harvesting, dumpster diving, or about how you have navigated the various barriers to eating healthy on a low budget and useful skills or information you have learned along the way.

Deadline for submission September 30
send submissions to: workingclassvegan@hotmail.com

5 Opening The Cages interview with with Mike XVX by Comrade Black

June 6, 2012
by stinkbot
· Features · Interviews · PE Web Zine

Mike XvX is a long time animal liberation activist, and singer songwriter who tours in the punk, folk punk and hardcore circuits bringing the message of resistance through music and action wherever he goes. Mike has toured extensively, and has taken part in animal liberation campaigns on four continents. Mike is currently organizing a multimedia tour incorporating different genres of music, poetry, film, and demos bringing the message of militant animal liberation and community activism across the west coast.

PE: Tell us a bit about some of the stuff you have been involved in over the years?

Mike XvX: Well other than this tour, I’ve been pretty busy the past few years. As a musician I’ve traveled to about 20 countries in the last three years which has been an amazing experience all on it’s own. Touring as a solo musician gives me the flexibility to tour as frequent as I’d like, wherever I’d like. I feel very fortunate to travel as much as I do to talk about animal rights in front of so many different people the world over, and in that period of time I’ve been lucky enough to build lasting relationships with a lot of folks I normally would have never had the opportunity to meet.

Other than music, I’ve been involved in the animal rights and other movements for almost a decade now. I’ve worked alongside several different groups in that time, and I try to make myself available to anyone that needs help in their campaigns. I work regularly with Portland and Seattle Animal Defense Leagues, volunteer as often as I can with Portland Anarchist Black Cross, as well as have done work for groups like Sea Shepherd in the past. In March of 2011 I traveled to Japan with Sea Shepherd to document the world largest cetacean slaughter, which is the Dall’s Porpoise slaughter in Otsuchi, Iwate. Incidentally, this was also the location of the epicenter of the tsunami that destroyed all of Japan’s northeastern coast, and myself and five other activists narrowly escaped with our lives.

1 Its Coming Through the Air; Writings from Prison #1 / Jordan Halliday

April 28, 2012
by stinkbot
· Features · News · PE Web Zine

Originally posted at Because We Must.

To All My Friends,
First, I just want to say thank you for all the support. Even a simple post card that says “Thinking of you” can brighten an inmates day. I look forward to making many more friends and also having much correspondence with all of you. I would love to promise a response to all of you. However , I’m only allowed 100 contacts and I am not able to respond to anyone residing outside of the United States. Luckily, I’ve been able to respond to all non-international letters so far and I want you all to know I will absolutely read every piece of mail that is sent and isn’t denied and I will try my hardest to respond. If I am ever unable to respond please don’t think I am ungrateful or ignoring you.

1 State of the union…Stinkbot’s column

April 16, 2012
by stinkbot
· Columns · PE Web Zine

Springtime is a time of change, but not reflective change. It’s time for action. As the trees blossom and nature erupts all around us, it becomes time to wake from the nightmare of winter and come alive.
Profane Existence changed formats at the end of winter and as springs growth moves forward so shall we. The time for a limited number columnists, reviewers and contributors has come to an end.
We are no longer shackled by the constraints of page size. We can handle a number of authors and ideas in our new format and so I am inviting you to contribute to this project.

We, sadly have lost some columnists. Some folks feel like the new format doesn’t fit their ideal, and that’s fine. I would point out that the feedback we receive and traffic our site gets is far greater that anything we’ve seen in a dog’s age. We can work together , if you blog we can link to one another! SEE COOPERATION!! THAT’S ANARCHY…or is it communism? who cares?

We want to know what’s going on in your area, and so we are giving you a platform to share the story of your punk community. Is there injustice in your particular neck of the woods? Tell everyone about it. You know what’s going on so please tell everyone! If you are interested in writing for Profane Existence, please contact me. My email address is zine (AT) profaneexistence (DOT) org.

As long as stories are honest, well written (within the boundaries of punk rock authorship which is open to interpretation), and compelling, we’ll post it. All we ask is that if you are posting facts, please also send along sources.

YOU can join the ranks of the perverted.

4 Turning Words into Action: An Interview with ALF The Lone Wolf

April 3, 2012
by stinkbot
· Interviews · PE Web Zine

Abdul Haqq, more commonly known as Walter Bond, is currently serving a 12 year sentence for his actions taken as an operative of the ALF. Abdul has been involved in the hardcore and punk scene for about 2 decades and even had a song written about him by a well known band. I have been writing to Abdul for ever since his most recent arrest on July 23 2010.

This interview was conducted by Comrade Black.

PE: This isn’t the first time you’ve been imprisoned for your political actions. Can you tell us about why you were locked up before, and what you are in jail for this time?

AH: My first time in prison was for one charge of 2nd degree arson and aggravated criminal mischief. It was a state case in Iowa for burning down the home and extensive methamphetamine operation of a major drug dealer. A bit of retribution for manufacturing poison to the community, and my family in particular. Currently I am serving a 12 years in federal prison for the 2010 ‘ALF Lone Wolf’ arsons. I burned down a Sheepskin Factory in Denver, a Leather Factory and a restaurant that sold Foie Gras (bloated duck liver) both of these businesses were in the Salt Lake City area.

0 CCCP Takes on the French The final chapter…

March 30, 2012
by stinkbot
· Crusty Collectivist Cooking Project · PE Web Zine

This project of the CCCP is to take a region, cook what they cook and make it vegan, using ingredients available to the CCCP in their locales and when possible from scratch.

The CCCP is presently made up of four gentle souls (and our partners) we are spread throughout the U.S. and Canada.We eat local and we eat NO KILL.

For our first project, the CCCP took on French inspired recipes to celebrate spring time. The final in the series of French inspired dishes is from Jeremy Stinkbot. Try these recipes and see what you think. Please comment with any changes you make to the recipes and any ideas YOU have to play with and make these recipes fun.

0 CCCP Take on the French part deux

March 16, 2012
by stinkbot
· Crusty Collectivist Cooking Project · PE Web Zine

This project of the CCCP is to take a region, cook what they cook and make it vegan, using ingredients available to the CCCP in their locales and when possible from scratch.

The CCCP is presently made up of four gentle souls (and our partners) we are spread throughout the U.S. and Canada.We eat local and we eat NO KILL.

For our first project, the CCCP took on French inspired recipes to celebrate spring time. The second submission comes from our Cave Wizard Matthew.

Try these recipes and see what you think. Please comment with any changes you make to the recipes and any ideas YOU have to play with and make these recipes fun.

2 CCCP Takes on the French.

March 9, 2012
by stinkbot
· Crusty Collectivist Cooking Project · PE Web Zine

This project of the CCCP is to take a region, cook what they cook and make it vegan, using ingredients available to the CCCP in their locales and when possible from scratch.

The CCCP is presently made up of four gentle souls (and our partners) we are spread throughout the U.S. and Canada.We eat local and we eat NO KILL.

For our first project, the CCCP took on French inspired recipes to celebrate spring time. The first submission from the crew comes from Jake and Dawn. Try these recipes and see what you think. Please comment with any changes you make to the recipes and any ideas YOU have to play with and make these recipes fun.

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The legendary crust classic is now available once again!

We are happy to announce our next new release

WILT – “Self Titled”

Here is a track from the upcoming LP

“Sermon for the Bootlickers”

Tag: Vegan

0 Backwoods Chili and Biscuits

1 Working Class Vegan Zine seeks submissions. Comrade Black

5 Opening The Cages interview with with Mike XVX by Comrade Black

1 Its Coming Through the Air; Writings from Prison #1 / Jordan Halliday

1 State of the union…Stinkbot’s column

4 Turning Words into Action: An Interview with ALF The Lone Wolf

0 CCCP Takes on the French The final chapter…

0 CCCP Take on the French part deux

2 CCCP Takes on the French.