As the holidays approach, it is time to dig deep into the icy cold depths of the mailbag where we will answer your questions, comments, and concerns. This time we discuss how to fend off feeling discouraged, companies blending plant based protein into animal flesh based products as a means of reducing the amount of animals killed for food, and whether or not we want problematic people to go vegan, among many many other topics. Did we answer your question? Stay tuned to find out!

The Food:

German Schnitzle Haus (Jacksonville, FL)

The Links:

Higher temperatures increase suicide rates in the United States and Mexico (Nature)

Climate change already causing increases in stress, depression and negative mental health, study shows (Independent)

Better Meat Co’s Flexitarian Sausages. 

4th annual Yukon Innovation Prize winners say they want to disrupt fur industry(CBC)