This is the TEXT for Action for Animals' updated Seattle area Vegan & Vegetarian Restaurant Guide!

Please make sure to support these great restaurants!

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VEGAN RESTAURANTS

Araya's Vegetarian Place
Vegan Thai cuisine
Buffet until 3:00pm
4730 University Way NE
(206) 524-4332

Bamboo Garden
Chinese, faux meats
364 Roy Street
(206) 282-6616
www.bamboogarden.net

Chaco Canyon Cafe
Raw food
Organic coffee & tea
47th & Brooklyn
Coming Soon!

Globe Cafe and Bakery
Affordable home cookin'
Closed Mondays
1531 14th Ave
(206) 324-8815

Good Morning Healing Earth
Whole grains, mostly
organic, breakfast all day
901 NE 55th Street
(206) 523-8025

Hillside Quickies
Organic sandwich shop, seitan, tempeh, etc.
4106 Brooklyn Ave NE
(206) 632-3037

Mighty-O Cafe
Vegan donuts & more
2110 N. 55th Street
(206) 547-0335
www.mighty-o.com

Pizza Pi
Vegan Pizza & Calzones
Closed Mondays
5500 University Way NE
(206) 343-1415
www.pizzapi.net

Pure Manifestations
Indian cafe and art gallery
Open weekdays only
1135 34th Ave
(206) 322-4822

Teapot Vegetarian House
Asian, faux meat dishes
125 15th Ave E
(206) 325-1010

Quickies Too
Healthy, organic sandwiches
1324 MLK Way
Tacoma, WA 98405
(253) 572-4549
Open Mon, Wed, Fri only

VEGETARIAN RESTAURANTS

Cafe Flora
Int'l gourmet cuisine
2901 E Madison
(206) 325-9100
www.cafeflora.com

Cafe Happy
Asian, faux meats
102 Kirkland Ave
Kirkland, WA 98033
(425) 822-9696

Carmelita
Savory vegetarian fare
7314 Greenwood Ave N
(206) 706-7703
www.carmelita.net

Coffee Messiah
Vegan Breakfast 7am - Noon
1554 E Olive Way
(206) 861-8233

Cyber-Dogs
Dogs, espresso, internet
909 Pike Street
(206) 405-DOGS
www.cyber-dogs.com

Green Cat Cafe
Vegetarian coffeehouse
1514 E Olive Way
(206) 726-8756
www.greencatcafe.com

Flowers Bar and Restaurant
Mostly vegan lunch buffet, 11-3pm
4247 University Way NE
(206) 633-1903

Flying Apron Bakery
Organic, 95% vegan
4759 Brooklyn Ave
(206) 526-2903

Lucky Palate
Home meal delivery only
90% vegan
(206) 352-2583
www.luckypalate.com

My Sweet Lord's Cafe
Organic soup, salads
5521 University Way NE

Pabla Indian Cuisine
Vegetarian Indian
364 Renton Center Way SW
Renton, WA 98055
(425) 228-4625
www.pablacuisine.com

Silence-Heart-Nest
Indian, some vegan
5247 University Way NE
(206) 524-4008

Sunlight Cafe
A 'meat & potatoes' vegetarian restaurant
6403 Roosevelt NE
(206) 522-9060

Udupi Palace
Vegetarian Indian cuisine
15600 NE 8th St, Suite 9
Bellevue, WA 98008
(425) 649-0355

Vege Restaurant
Vietnamese, faux meats
18713 State Hwy 305 NE
Poulsbo, WA 98370
(360) 697-2538

Vegete
Sandwiches, soups, desserts
Mostly vegan
131 15th Ave E
(206) 325-1733
www.vegeterestaurant.com

THE FACTS

EGGS

98% of eggs come from hens imprisoned in "battery cages." Usually 4 to 7 birds will live cramped in a wire cage the size of a folded newspaper--though each bird has a wingspan of 32 inches. These cages are tiered so feces and urine fall onto the animals below. Chickens' feet often grow around the slanted wire floor of their cage because they are packed so tightly together that they can not move.

Almost all egg-laying hens, even 'free-range' birds, have their beaks cut off to prevent cannibalism and fighting due to stress. They are also 'force molted' - having their food and water removed for up to 2 weeks to shock their bodies into another egg laying cycle.

Hens are killed when they no longer can produce eggs, so baby chicks are hatched to replace them. If the baby is a male and therefore unable to lay eggs, he is killed at the hatchery - only a few days old.

Unless your eggs come from companion chickens or someone you know, you are supporting intense animal cruelty every time you buy or eat an egg--about 32 hours of caged cruelty per egg.

DAIRY

Cows used for dairy live the majority of their lives in concrete stalls. They are attached to automated milking machines that pump them for milk 3 times a day.

To keep a cow lactating she will be kept constantly pregnant. She will either be 'serviced' by a bull or artificially impregnated on what the dairy industry commonly refers to as a 'rape rack.'

After 4 pregnancies and 4 years of production she will be sent to slaughter. A healthy cow will live 25 years. 10% of cows are so sick after 4 years that they can not even walk. These 'downers' are literally dragged and pushed to the slaughterhouse by a forklift.

Her calves, if male, will be sent to live in a veal crate. Female calves will be raised to replace their mom. Without the supply of calves from the dairy industry, the veal industry would not thrive.

MEAT

Every year, 10 billion land animals and billions more aquatic animals are abused and slaughtered for their flesh. An additional one billion land animals die every year from stress-induced disease or injury before slaughter. The average non-vegan will eat about 40 land animals and many more aquatic animals every year.

Fish often experience decompression when caught. Their eyes can pop out of their heads and their stomachs can be pushed out through their mouth. Fish have well-developed nervous systems, like humans and other land animals, and suffer when they are hooked or netted and forced to die of suffocation when pulled from the water.

Fishing is raping our world's oceans - killing not only fish but other life as well. Shrimp trawling has devastated Sea Turtle populations worldwide.

Industrial fishing results in enormous 'by-catch'--non-target animals caught (and usually killed) but tossed overboard and not counted in a ship's quota. By-catch can range from 50% in long-line fishing to as high as 90% in drift netting.

90% of all land animals killed for meat are chickens. Cutting out red meat but increasing chicken and fish consumption will only increase animals' suffering.

Chickens killed for meat suffer the same de-beaking as egg-laying hens. While they usually are not in battery cages, they must live in filthy crowded sheds, sometimes with as many as 100,000 other birds. Chickens can not establish a pecking order over 120 birds so the crowding and stress leads to constant fighting, injury and often death.

Most pigs are raised in factory farms. They live their lives in a crate, often stacked on top of one another. To avoid tail-biting due to boredom and stress, their tails are cut off when they are piglets. They also have their teeth pulled or ground off, to reduce loss due to fighting caused by stress. Males are also castrated without anesthesia when they are babies, to make them less aggressive.

Mother pigs live their entire 5-year life in a 'gestation crate.' They give birth and nurse their young on a grated steel floor--literally turned into baby-making machines.

Pigs often develop pneumonia from living in their own waste - the ammonia from their urine burns their sensitive noses, causing many piglets to die.

All land animals, whether abused for eggs, dairy or meat, will be transported to slaughter, traveling several days without food or water, usually exposed to the elements. Animals in the middle of the transport truck often die from suffocation while animals on the outside can freeze to death, and sometimes even freeze to the steel sides of the truck.

Most animals are slaughtered on an assembly line--with little attention given to each suffering individual. Chickens and turkeys have their legs slammed into shackles before their necks are funneled between two whirling blades.  If they miss the blades, as many of them do, they are scalded to death before their feathers are removed. Pigs, cows and sheep are usually shackled and hoisted by one leg. As the kill line moves they are first stuck in the chest with a knife, they then have their limbs cut off and finally their skin is ripped from their body. They are often still alive when this happens.

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