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Veggywood’s Animal Welfare Giving Guide
Veggywood has been doing a great job highlighting animal welfare holiday gift guides on her site the past week. I can’t stress enough how much small retailers and charities appreciate your business during the holiday season. So before you do all your shopping at a big box retailer, take a few minutes to look at [...]
The Vegan Collection Store Shutting Down For Buy Nothing Day
As part of the international day of protest against consumerism, The Vegan Collection will be shutting down our shop on November 27th from 12:01 AM until Midnight in observance of Buy Nothing Day. We prefer to spend the day examining the issue of over-consumption rather than selling product and suggest celebrating the day by doing [...]
Harvey Levin, Vegetarian and Vegan Collection fan
[flv:http://blog.thevegancollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/tmz_VC.flv http://blog.thevegancollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/harvey.jpg 640 360] Someone tipped us off to this clip that was aired on TMZ on TV last week. Media mogul Harvey Levin takes out his Vegan Collection “Traveler” wallet and proclaims “Leather Free!” His staff gives him a hard time about it, but we think it’s great that Harvey’s standing up to his [...]
Vice Magazine Interview w/Pastry Chef Brooks Headley
One of the best and most influential hardcore bands to ever exist was Born Against and this month’s Vice Magazine has a great interview with their drummer, Brooks Headley, by their singer, Sam McPheeters. Brooks recently made the transition from punk rock drummer to head pastry chef at NYC’s prestigious Del Posto restaurant. In the [...]
Find Our Belts at Herbivore Clothing Company
The Vegan Collection is happy to announce that you can now find our belts at Portland’s very own Herbivore Clothing Company! We started reading Herbivore Magazine way back at issue one and have had the pleasure of visiting their Portland store. So you can now stop by their shop and see the items in person [...]
Eating Animals Feature on CNN.com
It was nice to see one of yesterday’s “Feature Articles” on CNN’s homepage was the article “Eating animals is making us sick” written by Jonathan Safran Foer. I have to admit, I haven’t read Jonathan’s new book “Eating Animals” but I have a $5 off Waldenbooks coupon sitting right in front of me which will [...]
Photo Gallery of Santee Alley Illegal Animal Sales
blogdowntown posted this article and photo gallery weeks ago and I’ve been meaning to write about it, but haven’t gotten around to it. Ed Fuentes followed Los Angeles’ Animal Sales Task Force on a recent Saturday during a sweep of Santee Alley looking for vendors selling small animals. As Ed reports, ten felony arrests were [...]
Bound Angels – Videos of LAAS Shelter Animals
Here’s a great new volunteer run website. “Bound Angels” goal is to try and teach shelters a better way to market their animals. They are currently focusing on my neighborhood shelter, North Central, on Lacy Street. Here is a current sample. Check out their site here and be sure to forward it on.
New Belts/Wallets in the Shop
We are happy to announce we have two new additions to the online store: The “National Wallet,” a medium sized bi-fold wallet which contains 5 card slots, 2 interior slip pockets, a clear ID window and a single bill section. The wallet measures 3.25″ x 4″ when folded and comes in 4 colors, traditional black [...]
Introducing Our New Belt: The Sampras
Just got done editing the product shots of our new belt “The Sampras.” Look for that and our new style of wallet in the online store next week.
New Website for Skin Trade – The Film
As you hopefully know, 25% of the profits from all sales on our website go to charity, one of those being A.R.M.E. (Animal Rescue Media and Education). On top of rescuing unwanted and homeless animals, A.R.M.E. has also produced the award-winning documentary “Behind The Mask.” A.R.M.E. is currently hard at work finishing up their second [...]
Find our Wallets at MooShoes in NYC
We are happy to announce that New York City’s MooShoes is now carrying The Vegan Collection wallets in their shop and online store. And from now until September 26th you can save 10% off our wallets from them if you use the code veganwallets at checkout. The discount will automatically apply. Order the wallets online [...]
Find our Products in the VeganEssentials Online Shop
We are happy to announce that VeganEssenatials, one of the oldest cruelty-free retailers in the United States, is now carrying our belts and wallets. So if you’re ever in the Waukesha, WI area you can stop by their shop and see the items in person. Or you can order our products from them online here.
Check out The Coalition to Unchain Dogs
One of my favorite animal rights blogs (Change.org’s Animal Rights Blog) tipped me off to this awesome group, The Coalition to Unchain Dogs. In addition to advocating for the passing of laws that disallow or severely restrict the chaining of dogs, the group also build fences for chained dogs in the Raleigh/Durham area. To date, [...]
Shelter Dog Personal Shopper
Katya Lidsky has come up with an innovative way to get people to adopt from the local shelters, she offers her service as a shelter dog personal shopper. Shelter Shopper Inc. does an initial consultation and then searches every shelter and rescue group in order to find the perfect match. They do a personality assessment [...]
Check Out Humane Consumer
We met the people behind Humane Consumer at the 2009 AR National Conference last month. Their postcard had been sitting in my “to-do pile” as a reminder to check out the site since then. I had some time this past weekend to start going through said pile and finally visited their site and it’s great! [...]
Announcing New Wallets from The Vegan Collection
If you were at the Animal Rights National Conference a couple of weekends ago, this is old news, but for everyone else: The Vegan Collection is now offering wallets. We have three styles to choose from, a classic Bi-Fold, a simple Tri-Fold and a Compact Bi-Fold. All three are available in both brown and black. [...]
2009 Animal Rights National Conference Recap
If you missed the 2009 Animal Rights Conference then you made a big mistake. There were booths abound filled with a wealth of knowledge and a treasure trove of cruelty free goodies. Attendees were able to visit shops and purchase items that would normally be only available through the internet. The conference also included a [...]
The Vegan Collection on VEGGYWOOD
I started reading the very awesome VEGGYWOOD blog a couple of months ago. Basically, Polly Helen does exactly what I wish I had time to do on this blog, write a couple of posts a day about animal friendly events happening around LA and miscellaneous vegan links on the web. Well, today up pops a [...]
Pet Emergency Info on the iPhone
I recently heard of the website PetMD, which is like WebMD, but for pets. Very cool and very informative. They cover all kinds of pets from dogs to lizards to ferrets. What I didn’t realize is that they now have a slick iPhone app with all the emergency info built right in. So if you [...]
Alternative Outfitters is Selling Our Belts
We’re proud to announce that Alternative Outfitters has started carrying our belts in their online store as well as their storefront in Pasadena. Alternative Outfitters has always taken care of me for all my shampoo and chapstick needs, so we are really excited that they are now carrying our products as well as their usual [...]
Belts Now Available in the Store
We’re happy to announce that we have added belts to The Vegan Collection store! Made out of the same high-quality material as our shoes, these belts are durable, fashionable and aren’t going to crack from long-term use. The belts are available in five sizes in both black and brown colors. You can pick them up [...]
Vegan Coupons Online
Coupon/discount site Tjoos has a section of their website (with a handy RSS feed) dedicated to coupons from various retailers that feature vegan products. There’s not a whole lot there, but they do have coupons from Lush, Downbound and Road’s End Organics (discounted Mac and Chreese anyone?). There’s also one company on the list called [...]
Veg iPhone App Wrap-Up Post
As an iPhone owner, I’m always on the lookout for new/handy apps. There’s quite a few cool vegan/vegetarian apps that have come out recently and The Urban Vegan and Groovy Vegetarian have put together their Top 10 Vegetarian iPhone apps lists. I have personally used the Vegan YumYum app to come up with new recipes [...]