• The SS10 collection for Loden Dager includes two great organic cotton suits! You’ll be able to get them at Opening Ceremony. These casual blue and gray suits are great for warm weather with a tee shirt, or layered-up for cooler weather. No ties required!
• Would you eat lab-grown meat? I’m happy with my seitan, but some argue that with lab-grown meat, no one gets hurt! What do you think? Is growing flesh with no immune system safe? Is it any more “natural” than the genetic freaks we have crated where 99% of meat comes from, as it is? Read the article at Guardian and tell us your thoughts. Environmental solution or sci-fi nightmare?
• Rumor has it, that the legendary Stella McCartney and the legendary Morrissey are teaming up on some vegan shoes for men. They will probably cost an arm and a leg, but not from our animal friends. Read the full article at Ecorazzi. 
“This creates a grim picture of enormous meat factories kitted out like gyms where uncounted thousands of muscles silently work, unencumbered by bodies.” Clearly the author has never seen the inside of a factory farm or slaughterhouse. Those are grimmer images by far. I have mixed feelings about this. Someone in my social circle is a microbiologist. He said this particular technology is essentially cloning and requires stem cells harvested — initially, at least — from animal fetuses. The stem cells themselves could be cloned after that, but he likened the process to making photocopies of photocopies — eventually the image starts to break down and a new original must be created. So even if we eliminate killing animals for meat, we’ll probably end up replacing factory farms and slaughterhouses with artificial insemination/abortion facilities and fetal processing plants. The cloned meat’s lack of an immune system is irrelevent as long as it’s grown in sterile conditions. (Compare that to our current meat supply *having* immune sytems yet being ripe with disease.) I don’t know that I would ever eat cloned meat because I’m enjoying my transition to a raw foods diet. Economics will determine how well the product is received by the general populace. If cloned mean is cheaper than animal flesh, you’ll see it everywhere.
Besides Novacas, and the exorbitantly priced Noharm, are there any really good lines of vegan men’s shoes? Whatever happened to OlsenHaus’ supposed line of men’s shoes coming out??