New Mexico Vegan - July/August 2022

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The views and opinions, expressed by contributing-authors, in the New Mexico Vegan Magazine; may, or may not, represent the views and opinions, of New Mexico Vegan.

40% of the world’s grain…

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Inside

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Nancy Arenas

Editor’s Note

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Dan Brook

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End the Slaughter Age…

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Arturo Jose Garcia

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New Mexico Facts & Trivia

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Inspire….

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Resources

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RAGVF Ad

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National Animal Rights Day – Albuquerque

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Every Vegan Recipe…

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Working For The Public As Promised

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Photo Collage

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Sprouting Compassion

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Why We Demonize Factory Farm Workers

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Closing our eyes...

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Vegan Pulse…

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Companions

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LOVE for the Environment

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Meet Our Extended Family

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Red & Green VegFest Albuquerque, Shine ON Preview

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Recipe: Vegan Walnut Meat

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We Are All The Same…

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Advertising with New Mexico Vegan

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We Fight For A World…

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New Mexico Vegan Volume 8 – Issue 4 July/August 2022 Editor: Nancy Arenas NMV Photographer: N. Arenas

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Oh, how time does ‘fly’ ...we are soaring, in its ‘sky’ ……above the…… “June-July” mid-year-mark (of ’22) already.

It is good to see, from this high-eye among the clouds, that America, and Others, are finding a new normal… finally, returning us to business, communications, and gatherings…..… with greater awareness.

Oh, how your support… support for the vegan-cause… will help. ‘Support’ …is creation, itself. ‘Support’ …is the only way, to grow a global-network, of such profound significance, as: V e g a n I s m. So, yes, I am nudging you to… “do more” …with your own time, with your own sweat… yes, I confess, I love vegan-advocacy, and I think…. you will too; so, here comes my… (wait for it)………….……...............................................................“nudge, nudge.”

“We vegans” must be our own …media-campaign. The newspapers, radio, tv, etc., are not putting forth information on how veganism can be an answer… the answer… to our biggest problems. Veganism: is the solution to hunger, climate change, various pandemic-level health crises, animal rights, and more. You and I are: the vegan-media;… …fighting against a deception “out there” …a deception that is being promoted by meat, dairy, big pharma; et al.

Therefore, it is up to me and you, to… flood social media… with the truths we have come to believe in, namely: “why veganism is… the right way to live.”

Clearly, veganism is moving towards…… the global-priority, that it should be. But, have you heard that song, “More, more, more….”

To share information: pcrm.org, nutritionfacts.org, forksoverknives.com.

May you, stay strong & be happy. We are birthing… A Peaceful HUMANimal Spirit... in our solar system. _______________ If you want to contact me, I’m here to help: (( heartnsole3@yahoo.com )).

Cook With Compassion & Eat Without Violence!!!

Livegan, Nancy

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1. New Mexico has 16.68 million acres of forestland.

2. New Mexico is sparsely populated, but did you know that we have only 17 people per square mile?

3. In Red River, it usually snows for 48.2 days a year. That amounts to an average annual snowfall of 159.5 inches per year.

4. Much of New Mexico’s landscape has been shaped by volcanic activity. Our state experienced over 700 eruptions during the last 5 million years.

5. Agriculture began in New Mexico around 2500 years ago, when the Mogollon people started cultivating corn, squash, and beans.

6. Old churches are everywhere. We have a ton of churches, chapels, and cathedrals, we also have the nation's oldest -- the San Miguel Mission, in Santa Fe, built between 1610 and 1626.

7. New Mexico is larger than the countries Poland, the Philippines, and Oman.

8. There are three cities in New Mexico larger than Santa Fe: Albuquerque (32nd largest in the US, at 564,000), Las Cruces, and Rio Rancho.

9. New Mexico even has an official state cookie, the Biscochito.

10. Animals native to New Mexico include the kangaroo rat, coyotes, porcupines, foxes, rodents, rabbits, bobcats, and badgers. At higher elevations, animals such as mountain lions, bobcats, minks, foxes, black bears, muskrats, mule deer, and bighorn sheep are found.

11. In terms of agriculture, New Mexico grows onions, potatoes, beans, corn, lettuce, cabbage, pumpkins, and watermelons.

12. 85% of the nation’s fresh onions are supplied by New Mexico during June.

13. New Mexico remains the largest producer of chile peppers in the US, and it is the state’s most famous export.

14. The first wine grapes ever planted in the US were along the Rio Grande in New Mexico. Today, the state has nearly 50 wineries dotting its landscape.

15. Breaking Bad, the wildly popular and critically acclaimed TV series, was filmed mainly in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Many people now tour various filming locations in town.

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ABQ Vegan: http://www.meetup.com/ABQVEG/ Albuquerque Vegan and Vegetarian Parents: https://www.facebook.com/groups/323534174705753/ Cooking with Compassion https://www.facebook.com/groups/1702731393294024/ HeartnSole Spiritual Community: https://heartnsolerevna.wordpress.com/ Leaf: Taos Vegan Society: http://www.meetup.com/Taos-Vegan/ New Mexico Vegan: https://newmexicovegan.wordpress.com/ Plant-Based Eating New Mexico: https://www.facebook.com/PBENM/?rc=p Plant Powered Events www.facebook.com/plantpoweredeventsnm Positive Links http://www.thelinknm.com/ Red & Green VegFest Albuquerque: https://redandgreenvegfestabq.wordpress.com/ Santa Fe Vegan: http://www.meetup.com/Santa-Fe-Veg/photos/4704212/445478790/ Santuario de Karuna: https://www.santuariodekaruna.org/ Sprouting Compassion https://www.sproutingcompassion.org/ https://www.facebook.com/sproutingcompassion Vegan Pulse www.sproutingcompassion.org www.facebook.com/veganpulse VIP (Vegans in the Park): https://www.facebook.com/events/363650444507091/

If you have an article that deals with veganism and would like to submit it for possible inclusion in an upcoming NM Vegan Magazine, please email us at welcome22day@gmail.com, on the subject line please write NMV Article.

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SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 2022 Albuquerque National Animal Rights Day 2022 Tiguex Park

We thank all of those who attended and stood up for animals that day!

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Councilor Tammy Fiebelkorn …newly elected to Albuquerque City Council… is doing “the walk to her talk.”

Furthermore… her talk is “good.” And this is how it should be, naturally. But, too often, hollow campaign pledges, are voted for, and given an office, with a name on the door that reads “bait & switch.” Suddenly, a new agenda……has surfaced.…… reflecting an attitude, which is… alien… to the attitude… “you voted for.”

Now, let’s follow that stale negative anecdote, with some refreshing positivity- follow Tammy’s political career, for yourself –and then, you will become inspired…… to be a “supporter.”

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You can reach her here: Councilor Tammy Fiebelkorn: tfiebelkorn@cabq.gov

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Sprouting Compassion shows Fourth of July vegan meals on KRQE TV.

Red & Green VegFest Albuquerque teaching clean eating. Promoting Red & Green VegFest Albuquerque, Shine On, on KRQE TV.

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“No one is here by choice” was the unshakable feeling that rattled around my head and uncomfortably settled into my body over the years while working undercover as a factory farm investigator. For fourteen to sixteen hours a day six days a week we were surrounded by death. It’s the type of death that is vilified and often mistakenly depicted at the hands of not only the willing but gleeful participants.

But, that couldn’t be further from the truth. So why is it we demonize factory farm workers? Where do these assumptions come from?

Jo-Anne McArthur — Aerial views of CAFO

The exact number of factory farm workers in the United States is unknown but (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) farms in North Carolina, USA. most studies put the number between 500,000 and 700,000 with a 95–100% annual turnover rate. Of those five-hundred to seven-hundred thousand workers an estimated 38 percent are born outside the United States, many undocumented. This leaves them open to exploitation in an industry where exploitation already runs rampant. In August 2019 what is now considered the largest workplace immigration raid took place across 7 food processing plants in Mississippi and led to the arrest of 680 people highlighting just how dependent our food systems have become on immigrant labor.

The reasons immigrants are targeted for work on factory farms and slaughterhouses is in part due to the high turnover. Many are economic refugees looking to provide for their families and willing to take any work available. This desperation forces these individuals into precarious positions without bargaining power, the right to compensation benefits for incidents including work-related injuries (“repetitive motion injury rate 30 times the national average” and a 50 percent chance of being injured over five years on the job) and leaves them with little pay and no security net. Pushed to work grueling hours and faced with the constant threat of deportation it’s no wonder most factory farm workers are stressed.

During my work it wasn’t uncommon to see workers wearing diapers because bathroom breaks were frowned upon, lunches kept short, and line times ever shortened. The floors of slaughterhouses are slick and dangerous. The air in high confinement operations can be toxic. Dust generated from animals and gases from their waste can easily accumulate to concentrations that make it dangerous for both workers and animals alike. In slaughterhouses cleaning chemicals can cause irritation to the nose, eyes, and airways. And most women have experienced sexual assault or harassment from their superiors. (Sexual assault and harassment is found across all agricultural industries not just factory farms or slaughterhouses).

And if for a second one would think hiring Americans would solve many of these problems, we know this isn’t the case. Exploitative by nature, factory farms and slaughterhouses target those who are already economically and geographically disenfranchised, including Americans. They are the individuals who are struggling — willing to do just about anything to provide for their family. Abuses and safety concerns no matter how egregious are overlooked or pushed aside by the individual because food on their table is more important. With a national income of roughly $23,000 a year workers are barely able to stay above the poverty line creating a cyclical cycle which is incentivized by employers to “recruit family and friends”. In short, they are just trying to survive.

Knowing what we know about the horrid and abusive working conditions, why then are factory farm workers demonized? Where did this stereotype of the sociopathic animal abuser come from? In effort to raise awareness for animal rights, movies such as Earthlings as narrated by Joaquin Phoenix or undercover news investigations often capture highly stressed-out individuals kicking and punching confined and often hurt animals. They depict the callous slitting of throats, the improper stunning, and the tossing aside of injured animals in what are understandably viewed as immoral behaviors lacking in the very basics of human compassion. But their stories are hard to capture in a few frames. What we don’t see are individuals trying their best under less-than-ideal situations for humans and animals alike. And what is largely misunderstood is the psychological damage and trauma that repeatedly leads to these behaviors.

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Every single factory farm worker I met told me they hated their job but couldn’t find another. They didn’t like hurting animals and if given an alternative they would happily, take it. It seemed to me that the bolt gun wasn’t just against the heads of the animals coming for slaughter but to the workers as well. Escape is unlikely and even if attained often comes with lasting psychological damage.

Working in a slaughterhouse is violent at its very core. It doesn’t matter how much state-of-the-art technologies are put in the place. The job itself is all about killing and dissecting, something that even the most hardened would find beyond difficult. The acts are repeated minute after minute, day after day, year after year — frequently leading to cumulative psychological trauma including PTSD. “Consequently, deviant behaviour patterns of slaughterhouse employees have been reported in and outside of the work setting with specific reference to social dilemmas such as substance abuse, intimate partner violence and an increase in crime rates.” Is it really that surprising then to know that this builtup stress, pressure, and psychological trauma can be transferred to the animals for whom they are to care for and ultimately kill?

What is often forgotten in the animal rights and vegan advocacy movement is the inherent privilege of choice.

It becomes easy to demonize or cast judgement on those who aren’t vegan or make choices we don’t approve of. Access not just to fresh food sources but to choose of occupation are too often left out of the conversation. Or, overshadowed by the rights of animals when in fact our food systems are complex.

Solutions will be arduous but achievable if we open up the entirety of the conversation and action to include social justice.

Perhaps COVID-19 helped to bring us just a bit closer on this front. For one of the first times in memorable history the pandemic raised public awareness on modern factory farm and slaughterhouse work conditions.

The stress, crowded workspaces, and unsanitary conditions are all rife for future outbreaks. Additionally, “while large corporations were buying ads telling the American public that the nation was precariously close to a nationwide meat shortage, pushing workers to toil in unsafe conditions, and contributing to panicked hoarding at the supermarket, they were also quietly exporting millions of pounds of meat abroad.”

While many Americans thought that slaughterhouses were shuttering the cold facts where Smithfield Foods was failing to protect their employees from COVID-19. The lack of PPE, employee training on the spread of the virus, plexiglass barriers among other violations led to more than 315 workers contracting COVID-19 (three of which were hospitalized) and a $13,494 fine “the maximum allowed by law.” The lid was peeled off. It is now up to us to decide what to do with that information.

Factory farm workers don’t need our foregone conclusions which only further create social disparity with those already struggling — low-income families, marginalized minorities, undocumented immigrants. They are the ones paying the highest price for our food. What they do need is support and understanding. They need better pay, better healthcare, the right to collectively bargain, to be safe in their jobs, and to be seen. They need us to go after the corporations which allow such practices to infect and spread throughout all levels of their operations.

If we push those whose voices, we need to hear the most, further from us, we stand to lose out on valuable and long-lasting change. After all, food and community go hand-in-hand and to build a stronger global community we must focus on social justice in our quest towards a just, equitable, healthy, and compassionate food system.

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Vegan Pulse

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LOVE: Local, Organic, Vegetarian/Vegan Eating All we need is LOVE. There are many things, and we can (and should) do to preserve and protect our environment if we want to preserve and protect life on Earth. Reducing consumption of resources, reusing products and materials, and recycling what can no longer be reused are all critical to being more sustainable. However, the most important personal thing we can each do for the environment is to fall in LOVE: Local, Organic, Vegetarian/Vegan Eating.

(Vegetarians don't eat any animals; even better, vegans don't consume any animal products, including eggs and dairy.)

There is consensus amongst the overwhelming majority of the world's scientists, environmentalists, governments, major corporations, and many others that climate change in the form of global warming is, by far, the most important environmental problem facing life on Earth. Carrying reusable bags, changing to energyefficient light bulbs, saving water, and driving less are all very good things to do, yet they all pale in comparison to the cool effects of LOVE. None of these or other positive actions prevent us from doing others, and we should try to do everything we can to live more sustainable lives. However, eating has a much bigger personal impact on the environment - as well as our health and the health of animals - than anything else most of us ever do.

Here's some LOVE! Local Think globally, eat locally!

The average item of food in the U.S. travels approximately 1500 miles from production to consumption. By eating locally and seasonally, you're reducing your food miles, the amount of distance your food has to travel from farm to table, thereby cutting down on the amount of oil consumed and greenhouse gases emitted. Being a locavore cuts down on traffic and the need for energy-hogging refrigeration, both of which contribute to global warming.

These are all benefits for the environment. And any benefit for planetary health is also a benefit for our personal health.

Eating locally means eating fresher and healthier produce, eating fruits and vegetables that are in season and grown in your region. Fresher produce maintains more of its nutrients. That's not only healthier and tastier for you and your family, but also better for your region's economy and ecology, supporting local farm families and the local economy while preserving biodiversity and building community. The easiest and most fun way to eat more local is to shop at farmers' markets, where seasonal produce is abundant and, according to sociological studies, people tend to be more social. Packaging, plastic water bottles, and chemicals, for example, are not local. Specifically, pesticides are almost always not local, so eating organic is also vitally important.

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Organic Don't panic, just go organic!

Organic agriculture means farming without the hazards of synthetic pesticides. Quite simply, agricultural chemicals are toxic and deadly, as is their intention. Author Sandor Katz states that, "Agricultural chemicals kill - and not only plants and insects and worms and birds and fungi and the vast universe of soil organisms; they kill people as well." Claire Cricuolo, both nurse and chef, relates that, "When you buy organic, you help to promote biodiversity and cut down on the pesticides that pollute our soil, air, and water. You also support natural systems that will ensure the integrity of our farmlands for future generations."

Organic methods produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions, using only one-third the petroleum as chemicalized crops, while sequestering more carbon dioxide in the soil, thereby being another powerful way to help stem global warming. As with local produce, organic produce also tends to have a higher level of nutrients, studies show, and may be tastier as well. Eating organic is not only healthier for consumers, but is also healthier for farmers, neighbors, animals, insects, and the soil, as well as everyone and everything downstream. Many chefs and other foodies also believe that organic foods taste better.

Another big bonus to eating organic is knowing that you are not consuming any genetically engineered products with their unknown potential personal, public, and environmental consequences.

Alan Greene, M.D. affirms that, "Every little move towards organics is worthwhile." The most effective ways to become more organic is to (1) "Switch out foods you eat most often", (2) "Replace the worst offenders", and (3) "Shop locally, eat seasonally".

Vegetarian/Vegan Eating Go vegetarian/vegan and no one gets hurt!

It is increasingly clear that eliminating, or at least sharply reducing, the production and consumption of meat and other animal products is the single best thing people can do for human health, animal suffering, worker safety, and environmental sustainability.

The editors of World Watch, an environmental magazine, concluded in the July/August 2004 edition that, "The human appetite for animal flesh is a driving force behind virtually every major category of environmental damage now threatening the human future - deforestation, erosion, freshwater scarcity, air and water pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, social injustice, the destabilization of communities and the spread of disease." The November/December 2009 issue of World Watch stated that recent evidence and new calculations reveal that the livestock industry is responsible for 51% - a majority! - of greenhouse gases. Lee Hall, the legal director for Friends of Animals, is more succinct when she states that at the root of almost "every great environmental complaint there's milk and meat.“ Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize laureate along with Al Gore, and head of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, states that the mass production of meat is a major factor contributing to global warming and that, "The single [most effective] action that a person can take to reduce carbon emissions is vegetarianism." We ignore or deny this critical yet simple information at our individual and collective peril. LOVE is the most powerful antidote, by far, against global warming!

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We also need LOVE for our environment, the environment inside of us.

Vegetarians live six to ten years longer, on average, than those who eat meat. Vegetarians have much lower rates of heart disease, cancer, and stroke - the three leading causes of death in the U.S. - as well as more protection against diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, hypertension, gout, kidney diseases, and even Alzheimer's.

What you eat on a daily basis is actually more important than what you buy, save, recycle, or even drive. Eating the Standard American Diet (SAD) is like packing old light bulbs, single-use plastics, styrofoam, hormones, antibiotics, tar, toxic chemicals, chainsaws, SUVs and other deadly clunkers into your pantry all the time. Get the junk out of your pantry and diet! Get the junk out of your community and environment! Get the junk out of your body! LOVE yourself and your family!

If you're not ready to fall madly in LOVE, it's OK to flirt with it. LOVE doesn't have to be all or nothing and it doesn't have to be all at once. You can play with your food, but make sure to have fun.

LOVE can also stand for Living Opposed to Violence against the Environment. We can stop the violence in the world by stopping the violence on our plates. More LOVE means more peace, inside each of us, within our families, and around the world, for this and future generations.

Besides being more compassionate toward animals and much healthier for you and your family, as well as lifting your spirit and boosting your energy, LOVE can help save the world by preserving and protecting our precious planet.

As they say in the 12-step programs, it's about "Progress not perfection." What path are you on?

In which direction is the Cupid's Arrow of your life pointed?

Spread the LOVE!

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Animals can feel empathy just like humans do. Empathy for each other, for us, and even for other species.

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Mountain lions have more names than any other animal in the world.

Mountain lions, pumas, and cougars are all the same species.

The cougar is the 4th largest cat in the world, behind the lion, tiger, and jaguar.

Mountain lions can live in nearly any type of American ecosystem.

They can jump 15 feet high and 40 feet in distance.

Mountain lions can run up to 50 mph.

Mountain lions’ have a different larynx than most of the big cats you may be used to, such as tigers and lions.

As a result, they communicate in different ways, such as chirping, growling, shrieking, and even purring.

Mountain lion cubs have blue eyes and spots.

Mothers defend their cubs from harm fiercely Mothers will live with their Mountain Lion Cubs until they grow up while other adults will be met with on rare occasions.

Male mountain lions are called toms, whereas the females are known as queens.

Mountain Lion babies are called kittens or Cubs. They usually have spots for one year.

The color of the coat varies from silvery-grey to reddish coupled with lighter markings on the body.

A mountain lion has a round head with erect ears, powerful jaws, and retractable claws.

Stealth, secrecy, and solitude - the mountain lions are known by these characteristics.

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Vegan Walnut Meat Ingredients

•1.5 cups walnuts whole or pieces •1 teaspoon garlic powder •½ teaspoon cumin •½ teaspoon chili powder •1 Tablespoon tamari can sub soy sauce if not gf or coconut aminos if you do not do soy

Prep Time:10 minutes

Total Time: 10 minutes Servings: 6

Instructions •Add walnuts, garlic powder, cumin, chili powder, and tamari to a food processor and process until mixture is chopped finely but not pureed.

Notes •Walnut meat will last in the fridge for about a week, or in the freezer for about a month.

If you want to make another variation, feel free to swap in other herbs and spices. Be sure to keep the tamari in the equation no matter which variation you prefer.

•Make your taco meat spicy by adding in more chili powder or swapping it out for a more intense ground pepper like cayenne or ghost pepper.

•Give it Italian sausage vibes with some Italian seasoning and fennel seed. You can even add in some sun-dried tomatoes in place of the tamari/soy sauce.

•Get your curry on with garam masala, turmeric, and ginger.

•Go Mediterranean with some oregano and cinnamon. And then maybe load it into pita shells with some vegan feta, sliced cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, and vegan yogurt. NOM. •Or go for a simple vegan hamburger helper flavor using just garlic and onion powder. This can then be turned into vegan sloppy joe's or a tasty vegan bolognese.

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They protect their young.

They have families.

They have friends.

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