Resources
Local
Keweenaw Co-op – Community owned grocery / deli with numerous vegan / vegetarian foods.
Northern Vegans – Vegan group based out of Negaunee. They were the U.P.’s first vegan social/educational organization.
City Green Market – Facebook Page – Michigan’s only vegan grocery – Negaunee, MI
Plant Centered Living – Resources to help you easily navigate your plant centered lifestyle.
Health & Nutrition
NutritionFacts.org – A strictly non-commercial, science-based public service provided by Dr. Michael Greger, providing free updates on the latest in nutrition research via bite-sized videos.
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine – The Physicians Committee is leading a revolution in medicine—putting a new focus on health and compassion. The Physicians Committee combines the clout and expertise of more than 12,000 physicians with the dedicated actions of 150,000 members across the United States and around the world.
Center for Nutrition Studies – The Center was established to advocate Dr. T. Colin Campbell’s life changing research findings with the world through a variety of resources including a robust website with articles, recipes, a monthly newsletter and more.
For Athletes
No Meat Athlete – From the web site – “No Meat Athlete isn’t about labels or preaching. Instead, it’s about discovering the healthiest, happiest version of you — and for many people, that means being active and eating a plant-based diet.”
OrganicAthlete – OrganicAthlete is a membership community for vegetarian and vegan runners, cyclists, and triathletes.
Brendan Brazier – Brendan is the formulator and cofounder of Vega, bestselling author of the Thrive book series, creator and host of the Thrive Forward web series, and editor in chief of Thrive magazine.
Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness – Site with tons of information on vegan bodybuilding and fitness.
Ethical / Animal Rights
Abolitionist Approach – The mission of this website is to provide a clear statement of an approach to animal rights that (1) requires the abolition of animal exploitation and rejects the regulation of animal exploitation; (2) is based only on animal sentience and no other cognitive characteristic, (3) regards veganism as the moral baseline of the animal rights position; and (4) rejects all violence and promotes activism in the form of creative, non-violent vegan education.
Friends of Animals – Friends of Animals is a non-profit, international animal advocacy organization, incorporated in the state of New York since 1957. Friends of Animals works to cultivate a respectful view of nonhuman animals, free-living and domestic. Our goal is to free animals from cruelty and institutionalized exploitation around the world.
FarmSanctuary.org – Their mission is to protect farm animals from cruelty, inspire change in the way society views and treats farm animals, and promote compassionate vegan living.
Compassion over Killing – Compassion Over Killing (COK) is a national nonprofit 501(c)(3) animal advocacy organization headquartered in Washington, DC, with an additional office in Los Angeles, CA. Working to end animal abuse since 1995, COK focuses on cruelty to animals in agriculture and promotes vegetarian eating as a way to build a kinder world for all of us, both human and nonhuman.
General
Vegetarian Resource Group – The Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG) is a leading source of credible, practical, and scientifically based information about veganism and vegetarianism.
Forks over Knives – Forks Over Knives was launched in 2011 as a feature documentary. Backed by scientific research, the film presents a radical but convincing case that modern diseases can be prevented, halted, and often reversed by leaving animal-based and highly refined foods off the plate … and adopting a whole-food, plant-based diet instead.
Happy Cow – HappyCow was founded in 1999 as a public service to assist travelers and people everywhere find vegan, vegetarian, and healthy food.
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