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Drive, eat, pray: where to dine in the city during Holy Week

Joaquín Carlos U. de Jesús
Updated as of Apr 15 03:56 PM

If you’re staying in town this Holy Week—whether you’re doing the Visita Iglesia ritual or just want to go somewhere while the traffic is light—there’s reason enough to seek out these quaint restaurants that are (mostly) open during the long Easter weekend Read more »

Vegetarian patty gets the Burger King Whopper test

Jane Lanhee Lee, Reuters
Posted at Apr 01 08:28 PM

The Impossible Whopper comes at an extra cost - about a dollar more than the beef patty Whopper. But Finazzo said research shows consumers are willing to pay more for the plant-based burger. Read more »

BGC eats: Grand Hyatt Manila goes green

Angelo G. Garcia
Posted at Apr 01 11:55 AM

The hotel is offering plant-based meat alternative products by Beyond Meat starting this April.  Read more »

Sagada’s best-kept secret is a triple threat: a poet, activist, and restaurateur

Ces Oreña-Drilon
Updated as of Mar 31 10:50 AM

In the northern edge of the country, In the tourist town of Sagada, Mountain Province, Gawani Domogo-Gaongen is striving to practice her zero waste philosophy and pass it on to visitors of her vegetarian cafe, Gaia. By her poetry, she is zeroing in on her culture and heritage by writing in the local Kankana-ey language. Read more »

Watch your language: Tasty words 'luring' people to healthier foods

Thin Lei Win, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Updated as of Feb 06 04:58 PM

Rich and zesty or low fat and vegan? Clever marketing with mouth-watering words can boost sales of plant-based dishes by more than 70 percent, experts said on Tuesday, amid a drive to cut meat intake to improve human and planetary health. Read more »

Pinoys urged to reduce meat consumption to help the environment

Anna Cerezo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 11 07:50 PM

Here's something to chew on: a chunk of climate emissions is caused by what we eat. Read more »

Ice cream na gawa sa ampalaya, malunggay, patok sa mga health-conscious

Elaine Fulgencio, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 16 09:13 PM

Para sa mga health-conscious at mga nanay na hirap pakainin ng gulay ang kanilang mga anak, maari nang gawing ice cream ang mga gulay. Read more »

Mga Pinoy na nagiging vegan, dumarami

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 20 01:16 AM

Mas dumarami ang mga Pinoy na nagiging vegan o mga kumakain lang ng gulay at putaheng plant-based.  Read more »

'Free the chickens'

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 24 09:38 PM

An elderly man converses with members of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), as they dramatize the plight of chickens by squeezing in a metal cage in Manila's Chinatown on Tuesday. The animal rights activists urged the public to avoid eating chickens and opt to go vegetarian, with 4 days left before the celebration of the Year of the Rooster. Read more »