Hey do you know about Lush? They make cosmetics (bathbombs, soaps, shower stuff, massage bars etc) that aren’t only handmade with fresh ingredients but are now even more vegan friendly.

Back in the day I had to order soaps and bath bombs and all that from Lush online but a few years ago they started opening storefronts in Chicago. The problem was while they denoted the vegan items on their online store and in their catalogs with little green Vs the retail shop had no Vs anywhere. So to find something vegan you would have to walk around with a catalog in your face hunting down the vegan items. Everytime I shopped there i would make a point of asking about vegan labeling. Then the other day i walked into Lush and noticed they finally had little green Vs everywhere. Hooray! Now it’s real easy to walk around and fill up my basket with Lush goodies without having a clerk holding my hand and referencing the catalog. Just look for anything with a green V on it.

Oh and Lush also has a policy against animal testing. How about that?! Lush products also use minimal packaging. Most of the solid stuff is just in a pile waiting for you to drop in a little plastic baggie or wrap in paper. So they’re pretty cool all around. I encourage you to go on in and try some of their great vegan products. Thank them for making the ethical choice for making and supporting vegan products and taking a stand against cruelty in animal testing. After you try them out please drop a review on Yelp.

(Here’s what the vegan logo looks like btw:)

How droll right? Well yup, we’ve got a group on there too. Join up!

People who are vegan often take care to watch their language to avoid speciesist or condescending connotations associated with words we were raised saying. For example: “animal companion” has replaced “pet” in some circle to equalize the relationship between non-humans and their care takers. “Meat” might become “flesh” to shed the anonymity of the animal for which it came. Etc etc. While many may roll their eyes and scoff something about political correctness ruining these United States words do have meaning which is why we use them and I think coming to a common understanding will help us communicate our true intentions. I’ll be the first to bend, slice, dice and mix and match words but there are a few instances that kinda peeve me out and help illustrate what vegan really means. Continue reading →

To help bring the best vegan goodness to the people we here at VeganChicago have adopted Yelp.com as our main tool for reviews. After much research and work we feel that this is best way to bring the most up-to-date information to the most people and Yelp is a damn good website for it. Continue reading →

Cheese pizza is the bane of vegans everywhere. Not only is it a delicious comfort food that alot of us have grown up with but the social aspect can leave us ostracized from the group. Now before I digress into a sociological analysis of the tomato on bread ritual lemme just say pizza is good and we miss it! Continue reading →

The vegan fast food restaurant we all know and love is opening up a new location in Wicker Park at 1300 N. Milwaukee. Sylvia Watycha and Moshe Shalom are two righteous vegans who have filled an obvious gap in vegan cuisine and that’s vegan fast food! Be it burgers, hot dogs, chili cheese fries, BBQ bits,or shakes just to name a few, they got it covered. Sylvia and Moshe wear their ethics on their sleeves but try to make inroads with their unassuming fare and decor. It aint no hippie joint and you wont see lentils on the menu.

This new location was a year in the making and we’re glad to finally see an actual location being fleshed out of the corner of Milwaukee and Paulina. Sylvia wouldn’t give us an exact date and we can’t blame her but she hopes it will coincide with the anniversary of their first location which is March 10th.

When we’re on the southside we make sure to load up sacks of hedonistic vegan food to vice out on. Now that they’re north this is going to get very dangerous.