A tasty stew that uses up any vegetables you have lurking around the fridge. Enjoy!

In an effort to ease the dietary transition to veganism, we invite staff, students, and faculty at Penn to join the Penn Vegan Society’s new Vegan Mentor Program. We will provide every mentee with a free vegan food basket and a personal vegan mentor.

After jumping some initial logistical barriers, we are now pleased to present the finished version of the recording of Dr. Campbell’s presentation “Diet, Heart Disease, and Cancer: Health Policy Failure and a New Medical Paradigm” in Irvine Auditorium on 29 February 2012.

When discussing veganism, I promise you someone will pull the cheese card

I’m a lazy cook. If I can get a machine to do a task for me, then the machine is going to do it. So, today I put my roommate’s Vitamix to work for me.

On the weekend of 30 March to 1 April 2012, the University of Pennsylvania will host the first Ivy League conference dedicated to exploring the academic basis for plant-based diets and non-violence and building a cohesive community of activists and advocates.

Don’t know where to start on making your own foods? Try these simple recipes to kickstart your culinary adventures.

On 29 February, PVS is bringing renowned biochemist T. Colin Campbell to campus to present on his paradigm-shifting work in nutritional biochemistry and its ramifications for health/bioscience-related fields and the healthcare system.

 
Like sex? Good sex? Yeah, we do too. Though if your vasculature is getting clogged from your diet, you might want to reconsider what that means for your sex life. Oh, and even if you’re as young as 18, you can still experience trouble with arousal (for any sex organ). Watch the above clip where the creators of Forks over Knives explain the link between impotence (for both men and women) and cardiovascular disease.

Food culture in the United States is a complex monster. The number of factors that influence the culture around what and how we eat is dizzying at it simplest. Though one issue that is particularly relevant to the vegan population is the genderization of foods. Essentially, the associations made through pop culture between certain food groups and their masculinity or femininity can have a profound effect on the collective perception of what we should eat. In this article, however, I’d like to focus more specifically on “what men should eat.”