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Just Something They Cooked Up

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In crazy food styling land, nuts are fixed in place with super glue and berries get touched up with lipstick.

A scandal rocked the vegetarian world last month. It was revealed that vegetarian lifestyle magazine VegNews routinely ran photographs of meat-based dishes to illustrate its meatless recipes. Examples included ice cream made from actual cream, beef frankfurters posing as their vegan counterparts, and pork ribs with the bones airbrushed away to look like a soy substitute. Bear in mind that these were stock photos used for budgetary reasons, and that no animal products touched the VegNews test kitchen. Still, readers were outraged, immediately offering up their online condemnation. They called it hypocrisy of the highest order, a betrayal of their trust, a show of contempt springing from deliberate and systematic deceit.

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Eats Humans and Leaves

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Mike Tyson strikes a blow for vegans

Mike Tyson snacked on Evander Holyfield’s ear. He threatened to make a meal of Lennox Lewis’ children. He is perhaps the planet’s most notorious flesh-eater. But these days there’s nothing meatier than a seitan cutlet in his George Foreman Grill. Mike Tyson: holier than thou?

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