Rediscovering the Vegan Roots of Levantine Cuisine
Meat was always rare in the Levant. The fasting kitchens of its churches and mosques left one of the world's richest plant-based cuisines.
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The Ethical Reasons for a Vegan Diet
Ethical Diet
In a world driven by consumerism, the suffering of animals is hidden behind marketing, packaging, and profit-driven industries.
The Health Benefits of a Vegan Diet
Healthy Diet
A well-balanced vegan diet offers proven health benefits, from weight management and heart health to a lower risk of chronic diseases like diabetes and cancer.
The Economic Benefits of Veganism
Economic Diet
A vegan diet is often assumed to be expensive. In practice it can be one of the most affordable ways to eat well.
Rediscovering the Vegan Roots of Levantine Cuisine
Traditional Diet
Levantine cuisine has long embraced plant-based traditions, with dishes like mujaddara, hummus, and foul medames rooted in centuries of sustainable eating.
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Reasons to Become Vegan
The Economic Benefits of Veganism
Veganism in Lebanon is not expensive; the imported part is. Why lentils, beans and bulgur are the cheapest way to eat.
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The Health Benefits of a Vegan Diet
What the research says about vegan diets and the heart, weight, diabetes and cancer, and the one thing every vegan needs: B12.
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The Ethical Reasons for a Vegan Diet
Most of what is done to animals is never seen by the people who pay for it. Why we think it should be, and what we do about it.
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Articles
The Mirage of Plenty: Why Consumerism’s Promise Is Crumbling
80 billion land animals a year, a quarter of all meat wasted, three quarters of farmland for livestock: the numbers behind the promise of plenty.
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Fragments of a Silent Rebellion: Everything is Connected
A personal essay by Samer Beyhum: why, for him, filmmaking, veganism and the rights of those we do not yet understand are one practice.
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A Balanced Vegan Diet, the Levantine Way
What a balanced vegan diet looks like, food group by food group, with the amounts to aim for and the Levantine dishes that already provide them.
Read MoreThe Hidden Costs of Eating Meat
Processed meat, antibiotic resistance, new diseases, and the animals themselves: the costs of eating meat that never appear on the price tag.
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The Vegan Guide Show
Almond Milk
Yal asks why cow's milk still counts as normal, and shows how little it takes to make almond milk at home: almonds, water and a pinch of salt.
Read MoreVegan Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies
Cookies without butter, eggs or milk: peanut butter holds them together, and cacao and chocolate chips do the rest.
Read MoreVegan Pancakes
Pancakes with no eggs and no dairy: flour, plant milk, a little sugar, and whatever you want on top.
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The Alternative Kitchen Podcast
Yal Solan | Vegan Awareness: A Conscious Diet Is a Conscious Life
Alternative Kitchen co-founder Yal Solan on becoming vegan, answering the questions vegans always hear, and why she sees dairy as a feminist issue.
Read MoreFawziya Jaffan | Faith, Compassion, and Veganism: Rethinking Sacrifice
Photographer and Muslim vegan Fawziya Jaffan on animal rights in Islam, halal slaughter today, and why she argues Eid's sacrifice can be charity.
Read MoreHuaida Rajab | Breaking the Salad Myth: Plant-Based Food, Community, and Change in Lebanon
Huaida Rajab of Orenda on running a plant-based restaurant in Lebanon, and why nine in ten of its customers are not vegan.
Read MoreGeorge Achkar Salame | Animal Rights, Food, and Justice in Lebanon
Activist George Achkar Salame on street activism, a push for animal rights in Lebanese law, and why animal and human rights are one fight.
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