VeggieDag Thursday: Quick Links for February 2012.

VeggieDag is an occasional Thursday post on an animal-free diet and its issues.
Quick Links:

• A common myth about vegetarianism "But, where do you get your protein?" Via Happy Herbivore:

  As long as you are eating a variety of healthy plant-based foods, you will not only get enough protein, but enough essential amino acids as well, with no worries about having to pair or complement certain foods together.



• Maple Sage Walnuts. Recipe via Grabbing the Gusto.


• The U.S. Department of Agriculture has published a new list of USDA's new "plant hardiness" zones, the first update since 1990. Via the Kojo Nnamdi Show: What might grow best in your DC/MD/VA backyard.


• The European Union has issued official and legal standards for 'organic wine,' from grape growing to wine production. Via Just Drinks.


• Study finds people in north Peru ate popcorn as early 4700BC. Via BBC.



• Recipe for Cauliflower 'Popcorn.'


• Eat chocolate? Drink beer, says Seattle Weekly.


• World cacao crop threatened by fungal disease, climate, farming practices. Via Diane Rehm Show. And, good news about chocolate, via Kojo Nnamdi Show.


• Three vegetarian recipes for Super Bowl watching, including Beer Chili.


• In 2009, Americans ate more meat per capita than 1971, but less red meat.

  Like the bomb, [Mark Bittman] said, the cow will "determine not only the length of our individual lives but whether, if we could see the earth a century from now, we'd recognize it.

  Via The Progressive Farmer.


• Fight a cold virus with spicy soup: chiles, tomatoes, limes, garlic. Recipe at Mother Jones.

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