CORVALLIS, OR - Vegan leader and chef Antonio Martha has announced that chicken wings are now vegan. "As vegans, we want everything to be cruelty-free," Martha said between breaths and chews as he tore into a plate of hot wings. "Chicken wings are not cruel. Chickens don't even fly. The wings are just sitting there waiting to be eaten."

Martha is the head of the Vegan Alliance Group of Unified Educators (V.A.G.U.E.), a group that was formed in order to decide what foods count as vegan. "There are some gray areas. For instance, there are a lot of microscopic animals we eat all the time and yet we still call ourselves vegan," Martha explained after tearing another morsel of meat from a honey barbecue chicken wing. "A lot of animals are killed and ground up in food processing like insects an

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