Wild Heart Bistro by BotaniCuisine

04/26/2025

With That Vegan Disabled Gal – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

04/20/2025

🔥 VEGAN FACT CHECK: Elephants Don’t Eat Cheeseburgers!

🥦 The biggest land animals on Earth?
They’re ALL herbivores.
Elephants, rhinos, hippos, gorillas—yep, all plant-powered giants.

So next time someone says:
“You need meat to be strong!”
Just kindly remind them…
“Gorilla strength runs on leaves.”

You don’t need animal protein to be tough.
You need plants, passion, and maybe a peanut butter smoothie.

Strong. Vegan. Thriving.

02/22/2025

Dear friends, Chef Skye here. You all know me as an animal ri… Skye Michael Conroy needs your support for Support Chef Skye's Battle with Crippling Bone Disease

05/04/2024

Smart!

A varied plant-based diet of whole grains, vegetables, and beans can easily meet your daily protein needs, without the risks of animal products.

Plant protein is the most beneficial source. A study published in 2020 found that replacing red meat with high-quality plant proteins such as beans, nuts, or soy may be associated with a reduced risk of coronary heart disease.

03/11/2024

"To Donald Trump, Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán is “fantastic,” Chinese leader Xi Jinping is “brilliant,” North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is “an OK guy,” and, most alarmingly, he allegedly said Adolf Hi**er “did some good things,” a worldview that would reverse decades-old US foreign policy in a second term should he win November’s presidential election, multiple former senior advisers told CNN.

“He thought Putin was an OK guy and Kim was an OK guy — that we had pushed North Korea into a corner,” retired Gen. John Kelly, who served as Trump’s chief of staff, told me. “To him, it was like we were goading these guys. ‘If we didn’t have NATO, then Putin wouldn’t be doing these things.’”

"Trump’s lavish praise for Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán while hosting him at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, just days after all but sealing the Republican nomination on Super Tuesday, shows it’s a worldview he’s doubling down on."

To Donald Trump, Hungarian strongman Viktor Orban is “fantastic”, Chinese leader Xi Jinping is “brilliant”, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is “an okay guy”, and most alarmingly he allegedly said Adolf Hi**er “did some good things,” a worldview that would reverse decades-old US foreign p...

03/11/2024

Wild Heart Bistro closed on March 6, this year 2024. We will relocate asap, although it may take a few months.
Updates announced on our website. You can also sign up for email updates. This link is also on our website's home page:

Newsletter / Updates for BotaniCuisine: Plant-Sourced Dining Outreach and Wild Heart Bistro

03/09/2024

An Open Letter to Mark Magnesen, CEO of Oscar Mayer - in response to their recent announcement they would start making vegan hot dogs and sausages.

Dear Mr. Magnesen,

Today Oscar Mayer, the company you lead, announced that it will be introducing vegan hot dogs and sausages in partnership with NotCo, a plant-based food company backed by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.

In a single leap forward, you have potentially become one of the leading vegan food producers in the world - with the ability to bring about unprecedented changes in our food system.

As a small but popular producer of vegan cheese committed to trying to reform that same food system, I want to congratulate and applaud you and your team for taking that important leap.

It is important for several reasons:

・It will reduce the number of animals killed and tortured for hot dogs and sausages.

・It will mitigate climate change by reducing the number of animals putting out methane (i.e. farting and burping up the stuff).

・It will help clean up water supplies that have been polluted by runoff produced by the raising and slaughtering of animals for food.

・It will improve human health by reducing the amount of cholesterol, saturated fat and nitrites people consume.

・Fewer workers will be injured and emotionally traumatized by working in slaughterhouses and meat packing facilities.

I believe that these new Oscar Mayer products will be very successful and of great benefit to your shareholders. This is because there is a pent up demand for cruelty-free substitutes for hot dogs and sausages. It is also because not even the most committed carnivore eats hot dogs and sausages because of
what they are made of, which includes things like fat, bone, connective tissue, nerves, blood vessels and meat scraped off bones. So making them out plants will not put off many existing consumers. It may even be welcomed by them.

As a producer of vegan food, I feel it is my responsibility not just to make alternatives to animal products - but also to get the word out about why it is so important to make them.

So along with offering my congratulations and thanks, I am asking you to do two things:

・Join me and many other vegan food companies in donating a portion of your proceeds and some of your vegan products to charities that rescue farmed animals and advocate for them by exposing the cruelty of meat, dairy and egg production. Some are national charities (like Farm Sanctuary and Mercy For Animals). Others are local and more grass roots - like the many sanctuaries that struggle to rescue farmed animals all over the country.

・Open all of your plant- and animal-based production facilities, and the slaughterhouses and factory farms that supply the animal-based facilities, to the public during normal working hours, so people can see exactly what the difference is and why the step you took today is so significant.

You have just taken a first bold step towards being a leader in the vegan food movement. I invite you to take the next one and join the movement that will make hot dogs and sausages one of the greatest success stories in the growing plant-based space.

Best wishes and thanks,

Michael Schwarz
Founder and CEO
Treeline Cheesemakers

📷 courtesy of Rowdy Girl Sanctuary

03/08/2024

Stella McCartney urged other designers to stop using animal materials during an interview at COP28.

Read more here - https://buff.ly/3SFYQeO

03/08/2024

02/18/2024

They also didn't have grocery stores or nutritional science and had to eat what was around them.

"Recent research challenges the traditional view of early human diets in the Andes, suggesting a shift from “hunter-gatherers” to “gatherer-hunters.” The study, analyzing remains from the Wilamaya Patjxa and Soro Mik’aya Patjxa sites in Peru, reveals an 80 percent plant-based and 20 percent meat diet among early Andeans. This finding, based on isotope chemistry and statistical modeling, contradicts previous beliefs and influences current perceptions of diets such as the Paleodiet. It also indicates a need to reassess archaeological frameworks globally."

The commonly used term "hunter-gatherers" for describing early humans should be revised to "gatherer-hunters" in the context of the Andes in South America, suggests groundbreaking new research led by an archaeologist from the University of Wyoming. Archaeologists long thought that early human die

02/18/2024

02/06/2024

Tuesday. Feb 6 @ 2:40 pm. I’m not feeling well and need to close the Bistro now, for the day. I’ve had a post-covid cough many weeks and it feels worse. Going to the doctor.
Will post again later with an update about tomorrow.
Please check this page again or the website for updates.
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