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Site Review, HappyCow.net, Vegetarian Travel Guide
Vegetarian Travel Guide, Dating, Health, Recipes, Resources
Thanks to Diana H. for sending the Happy Cow link to Savvy Vegetarian. She complimented our website, and politely refrained from saying, "You should have found our site and put a link long before this!"
I apologize for overlooking Happy Cow. I've been lax, but I promise to spend a lot of time on their website from now on.
I was quite struck by the name "Happy Cow" - I imagined the cow as happy because it's vegetarian, hasn't been eaten, or milked by machine 3 times daily, or made to be anything but a sacred cow, happily wandering the streets, mooing contentedly and snacking in gardens, when not putting out a very useful website.
Site Description: HappyCow's Vegetarian Guide offers an international, searchable directory of vegetarian restaurants and natural health food stores, recipes and healthy cooking tips, information on living and raw foods, a travel guide with vegetarian travel health advice and resources, veganism and vegetarian dating.
Things I Liked About Happy Cow:
- The vegetarian travel and dining resources - I was thrilled to discover vegetarian restaurants I can visit when I go see my daughter in Missouri
- The fact that it's global in scope - you never know when I'll make that long-cherished trip to the UK or Thailand!
- That it has a site search, something SV doesn't, though my husband mumbles something about doing that every now and then
- That it's obviously a labor of love, charity and selfless devotion. I wish them increasing success in their fund-raising enterprises so they can support themselves while working full time on the site.
- Update 4.13: Happy Cow has a long-awaited site re-design with many new freatures, and is even better organized and more searchable - quite a feat in a site as huge as that. Plus they've had a really spiffy newsletter for the past year or two (I lose track of time). Congratulations Happy Cow!
There was nothing I didn't like on Happy Cow, but:
- In the listings for U.S.A. restaurants and natural food stores, there wasn't a single mention of Fairfield, IA, the midwest's vegetarian mecca. Yes, really! I would know, I live there. Truly, the glories of Fairfield seem to be one of the best kept secrets in the vegetarian universe! Needless to say I got busy and added a bunch of entries to Happy Cow for my home town.
- The producers of HappyCow seemed rather modest and retiring by net standards. There were several mentions of British Columbia - perhaps they're Canadian. (I found out later they're just nice, shy Americans who live on the west coast.)
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