A Forum for Vegan Opinion No. 104 Spring 2005 £ 1

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Editor: An English schoolgirl was sitting on the Wealthy nations import protein foods from Harry Mather beach in Thailand when she saw the sea those undernourished countries to feed to their recede so violently that fishes were intensively reared farm animals. Modern breeds Web site: John Curtis being stranded. She told her parents of cattle can no longer thrive from grazing in that her teacher had taught them that the fields. They have to be fed with protein Contributors: this is what could happen on the Indian concentrates and since we do not have the space Graham Cole Ocean and that they had five minutes to produce them in our lands, we import them David Graham before a huge wave would follow. They from poor countries. A simple fact, but not Jenny Hall all left the beach, told the hotel widely known. The information which had Malcom Horne reception, the other sunbathers were impressed itself in the mind of a schoolgirl, Danw November warned and many lives were saved. saved many lives. If people simply realised that Alan Spinks our animal farming results in human famine, Mat Turner By Harry Mather the compassion evoked by the disaster we Peter White witnessed following the tsunami, should bring little, often quite simple, information, about changes in farming and in diet that would Post address: when acted upon can have great benefit the health of the rich as well as that of Vegan Views, beneficial consequences. the poor. A Animal Farming Flat A15, The generous wave of sympathy With all the suffering and strife, 20 Dean Park Road, resulting from the catastrophe of the causes Human greed and killing that goes on in the Bournemouth, recent tsunami has shown that the Famine world today, it may be that the BH1 1JB. mass of humanity can react with present generation is facing a crisis generous compassion when faced with a great that they will be unable to ignore. It sometime Email: crisis. The number of victims of this disaster seems as though only great crises such as the [email protected] has shocked the world. Some hundred thousand two world wars can bring radical changes in killed and perhaps a million or so made society. 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If you don’t 11th-18th June 12th Vegan Summer the Adriatic Coast. Hosted by AVI, viale want your letter published please make Brianza 20, Milano. www.vegetariani.it email this clear when writing. Visit www.veggies.org.uk/calendar.htm [email protected] We expect to publish quarterly, but for the latest vegan and animal events. Vegan have no fixed publication date, so write related events are also at: early to be included in the next issue. www.veganviews.org.uk 3 Keeping Pets There was a lot of French flair that went into vegan diet. Dear Editor, the food and it was delicious. It certainly gave Love and good luck to us all as we play our Last week I discovered your magazine on the me some ideas! part in the culture of change. internet, more by luck than design. I was The building is very large – lost my way in Steve Charter actually looking for information on vegan the rooms - and the chapel had a great feeling of www.permaculture-steve.net organic gardening, a method that appears to be peace about it. Situated in a forest of chestnut www.ecoforest.org the only really safe way of growing . trees, they were growing their own food (even Although I am not a vegan, more of a free range passion !). Osteoporosis, Bone-Health and and preferably organic omnivore, I am very I really recommend anyone who wants to get Nutrition concerned with the quality of the food my away for a time for peace and harmony to pay I was motivated to write this by the experience family eat. Reading your many passionate this one a visit. of a close friend aged 75 who has osteoporosis, articles from “the other side of the argument” as It’s called “Douceur st Harmonie” and whom I have been advising on bone- it were, was a thought provoking experience (Sweetness and Harmony) el Faïtg, 66230 conserving nutrition over the last three years. and in future I shall certainly prepare more Serralongue, France Tel. 0033468396256. When she went off for a festive celebration vegan meals and minimise the carnivorous Regards and a happy and peaceful ’05. with her middle class professional family, I aspect of our diet. Victor Kosby supplied her with plant sources of protein, etc. However, there is one thing in your for her to take whilst they feasted on the usual publication which struck me as hypocritical, in Pre-historic Diet was the Best traditional standard British diet (which is bone- fact no, make that nuts, totally bonkers; an Dear Vegan Views, eroding!). The ignorant suggestion “just add advert for vegan cat food. Presumably a Alan Withnell’s article in VV102 on “The calcium and protein to solve the difficulty” product to be bought by vegans to give their Nature and Importance of our Pre-historic Diet” came up. feline friends. Who in their right mind with a is very interesting – and useful. Having existed Fortunately, on 23rd December 2004, the passion for the sanctity of life would keep a happily and very healthily (by most book I had ordered from The Vegan Society, murderous cat as a pet?? Anyone with a garden people’s/vegan’s standards) on an essentially arrived in the post: Plant Based Nutrition and could tell you horror stories about the carnage raw vegan diet for just over 10 years (3 years Health by Stephen Walsh PhD and I caused by these predators. I am fortunate vegan before). I have certainly proved to immediately set to reading it. I can recommend enough to live in the country and although I am myself that it is possible… and also very it to anyone who wants either to fine tune their not so naïve as to be offended when a positive for people and planet. vegan diet, or to reduce a specific set of health sparrowhawk leaves a pile of feathers, my heart There is much to learn on this path, and the problems. But for those who have neither the sinks when I find the mutilated corpses of bids movement to eat a high percentage raw vegan time, energy or inclination to read such a book, and small mammals discarded by my diet (greater than 50%, particularly 70–100%) I will briefly make a few points derived from neighbours’ cats. When I lived on a housing is growing fast, both in the mainstream “me” the text. estate in , where almost every home culture, and amongst concerned activists The author speaks of foods detrimental to owned a well fed cat, their killings seemed even seeking a better world (see.www.funkyraw.org) calcium balance. Great in protein yet calcium more pointless The poor blackbirds and their We may have learnt that some vegans have diminishing are: eggs, fish and meat. One fifth young didn’t stand a chance. done well for 20 years without supplementation of calcium is depleted proportionately by these Cats do not always kill for food, they kill – we also have learnt of many who have not. So foods per unit of protein. because they are cats. You cannot be an ethical “better safe than sorry” is the best approach, i.e. Chapter Seven. ‘Balancing Calcium: A Team vegan and a cat owner. You either respect B12 supplements as necessary/appropriate. Game’ dispels the point made to my friend: or you own a cat. You cannot do both! Growing your own greens and sprouting pulses, ‘just add a little calcium!’ Trying to fill a bucket If you think I am being over dramatic then etc for an excellent source of low cost, highly with a big hole in it is somewhat futile. consult the RSPB and ask hem for statistics, nutritious organic greens is very beneficial – Unsurprisingly, a protein intake which is very clinical facts on the impact domestic cats have please do more of it! (especially in the UK, small is bad for bones, yet, intakes of protein on the wildlife populations. where the chlorophyll in greens gives us the which are great also lead to losses of calcium Being a pet owner means being responsible sun’s energy directly). Wild greens are also of greater than input. for the actions of your animal. Being cat owner great value (learn what is what first). In the Potassium tends to conserve calcium and is a truly bloody responsibility! northern climates we are not in our ‘natural pre- plant foods are usually rich in potassium, unlike Rose Hunter, France. historic’ climate – we need less fruit and more animal protein. Vitamin K in lettuce, broccoli PS Perhaps this letter is not vegan friendly greens here. and green leafy vegetables, reduce bone enough for you to publish, but I do hope it does So, combining vegan agro-forestry and breakages. Magnesium, Vitamin C and possibly at least cause some discussion in your office. permaculture with localised, small-scale omega 3 fatty acids contribute to strong bones. It’s all well and good being a hunt saboteur or horticultural/market garden will revitalise local Caffeine intake reduces calcium in the body. an active member of , but food economies, cut the massive amounts of Importantly, the Nurses Health Study in USA sometimes saving wildlife from a needless food waste we see, and give us much healthier did not notice any reduction in femur fracture death can be achieved quite simply by not food choices. We can feed the world without after extra calcium intake, mainly from dairy buying that cute little kitten. the inefficient, desert-creating, massive over- products. Lowering salt intake (i.e. sodium) dependence on that Alan Withnell also lowers calcium loss. Bread is a big source A Haven of Peace suggests we need. farming = desert of sodium. Pane Toscano is a ‘no added salt’ Dear Harry and Co, creating monocultures that mine soil minerals bread now baked in Britain. Salt-free rice cakes Whilst on a tour of France in Autumn last year I and destroy soil structure; fruit = trees, which and Matzos (a Jewish unleavened wheat and decided to visit one of the adverts in Vegan bind CO2 and build and protect the soil. water, salt-free bread made by Rakusens) are Views ‘Small Vegan/Organic Community, etc’. Our protein needs are even lower than Alan useful. Well, if you want to take a step nearer heaven Withnell indicates – human breast milk is less Big losses of calcium come from chicken, in this life, this is it. Bleuette is a most than 3% protein – all the long lived tribes are fish, eggs and cottage cheese. Big gains in charming and may I say beautiful lady. I was low protein consumers, that eat small calcium levels come from almonds, spring with a friend and we were received most quantities, and simple fare. greens, kale and soya beans, though oranges hospitably and invited to dine with the other 6 More and more vegans are trying the ‘eat and bananas do assist. Red peppers help too. or 7 people there. more raw’ way, recommended by the wise and Bodily exercise is also needed humble forest garden pioneer Robert Hart, as Fears about lack of protein in a plant based 4 well as (I believe) the world’s most successful diet are covered in Chapter 11 of the book. ‘success guru’ Anthony Robbins – a 70% raw Sprouted mung beans and are very good foods but almost every , almonds and McDonald’s have made a big decision and presumably people prefer slow, real food. cashews will supply sufficient protein. Red approached the VegSoc. What VegSoc decided People are beginning to see, apart from the peppers, tomatoes and vegetables like cabbage is immaterial. I would personally have die-hard meatheads who will become an ever and broccoli are rich in Vitamin C which help preferred it if they hadn’t approved it and the dwindling breed, along with the fox hunters and with the absorption of iron. Eggs which are Vegan Society hadn’t approved Nestle or Coca smokers. often held up as an ideal source of protein, but Cola etc. for certain products, but if we looked McDonald’s have helped us on the way with are not well balanced with lysine (an imported at the whole company, then most people would their logo change to a question mark, because amino acid). never get to see the logo, and we would be some people will soon be saying: McWho? There is more that could be written, but any accused of elitism. Chris Childe. reader wanting to know more will do well to To make big changes we have to live in the order this book from The Vegan Society. May I real world. The U.S. elections have shown us Fighting back – and winning! also mention that the best to what negative campaigning achieves. People The middle months of 2004 have seen further conserve bones are Vitaquell, which are free are turned off. Similarly people want to know developments in my health situation, ranging from added salt. They do one called ‘extra’, a what vegetarianism can offer. from an initially expected permanent requi- ‘low fat’ one, etc. So what will customers or employees of rement for dialysis – as cancerous cells multi- May the readers enjoy strong bones. McDonald’s think if they see the VegSoc logo? plied alarmingly, compromising my right Cerys Brangwyn. 1. They will not care, so no difference. kidney – to amazing euphoria as pronoun- Further details for ordering this informative 2. They will not want anything to do with cement of remission was given last month. book will be found in our BOOKS section. vegetarians, so they will no longer [December 2004]. Quite a year! patronise/work for McDonald’s. At times, this long sought-after dream was Vegetarian Champion Swimmer 3. They will realise that there is no longer a seemingly never to be fulfilled. I am absolutely It was with great pleasure that we welcomed gap between meat-eaters and vegetarianism as thrilled!! our old friends Bill Pickering and his lovely far as what they like to eat, in that meat-eaters Our combined protocols have retained 60% wife Clarrie on August 22nd. Bill had come to can, and often do, eat vegetarian/vegan food. function of my one remaining kidney. It is give the Shropshire Veggies and Vegans Group Obviously they often consume animals as well. hoped that this will be sufficient to avoid the a talk on his experiences as a long distance If we compare what happened with smoking, it requirement for further dialysis. We will strictly swimmer. Bill who had been a vegetarian since doesn’t change as a result of demos and civil monitor the non-functioning left kidney for any he was 17 years of age, and is now a young 83 disobedience but constant arguing for sense, signs of infection. Should that occur a year old gave a most interesting and that eventually led people to make them change nephrectomy will be strongly advocated. enlightening account of what it was to be a themselves. This is the key – awareness and Remission status has been gained through the World Champion Record Breaker, and of their motivation. Not awareness of the plight of present cessation of activity in both tumours in friendship with Ken Dodd the comedian. animals, people already know much of that - left arm. Over the last several years, these two Bill has many achievements to his credit. He –though they should know a lot more – telling have acted like a spark-plug, igniting activity in swam Morecambe Bay 17 times, a distance of them can switch them off and they can hide one or more of the other eleven tumours sited twelve miles, in 1954. He swam from Dover to from the facts. In order to be motivated they throughout my body. Ramsgate in record time in 1954, a distance of need to know how easy it is to be This news was ascertained a few days after 18 miles; he broke the world record for vegetarian/vegan, not feel guilty about what speaking at the Festival of Life at Conway Hall, swimming the Channel in 1955 at the age of 34. they are doing. London on September 12th. It was sheer delight He swam the Bristol Channel at the age of 50, The fighting/guilty strategy will change for me to be part of such a vociferous crowd of and swam it the following year in the other some people, such as me (but I’ve always people who harmoniously embraced our vegan direction, and he is one of only two people to questioned everything anyway) but for the lifestyle: I asked everyone with ANY health have swum the Firth of Forth in Scotland, 16 majority of people, aka sheep, it doesn’t work. issues to contact me – I have been inundated!!! miles, and as far as we know he was the first What does work are friendly, persuasive Though it has taken an enormous amount of person ever to have swum the Wash and as far arguments. radical action, expertise, faith in abundance, as we know he is the only person to have done The U.S. have demonstrated how futile financial cost, countless miles of travel, perse- so. fighting is, it just achieves the opposite to what verance and oft-times sheer gut instinct – I have Very Best Wishes, is wanted. The McLibel trial shows how the finally arrived at what I trust will be a calmer Bob Cramp. might of McDonald’s couldn’t win with all period of time. It now behoves me to develop Editor: Older readers of Vegan Views may their power. They had to make several admis- positive actions which will prolong this remember how Bill Pickering was held up as an sions and changes. remission for as long as possible. example of vegetarian fitness when he swam the McDonald’s have always had their finger on There are no guarantees – medics acknow- Channel. We can also remember the exploits of the pulse, and what they’re seeing now is a ledge that with four recent renal failures and a vegan swimmer Jack McClellan who also broke change in habits, at least in Britain. They’ve further cardiac arrest this year, my body has swimming endurance records. decided to change their logo, their world recog- undergone an enormous amount of stress and nisable logo, to a question mark (on the adverts they will not extend their current twelve-month McDonald’s and the VegSoc Approval of anyway). People do not change something this outlook…hopefully, I can. McQuorn basic unless there is a very good reason. Their During October, I have been cautiously I have heard many arguments on this reason is that they have to move with the times. training, with a view to acquiring my 2005 subject. Here are my own thoughts: Despite all their market research, however, they British masters’ qualifying status late When I first heard this I thought: “The have made a big mistake and don’t know it. November 2004 - which is just four short have sold out. This is the It will be like Consignia (remember them?). weeks’ away! worst thing they have ever done”, and then I Before they realise it McDonald’s will be no This will be the ‘icing-on-the-cake’ for me if thought a bit more… more than a Scottish name. my guardian angel sanctions the pulling off of Personally, I would still boycott McDonald’s This may seem fanciful nonsense, but things this – after a very tough year. and all fast food outlets, apart from the change very quickly. Who would have During 2005, I promise to return to writing vegetarian ones. However, the VegSoc logo, predicted the change of logo or even the further nutritionally informative/inspiring like the Vegan Society trademark, is awarded to VegSoc approval of a McDonald’s product? articles for you all. a product that matches the criteria, not the Yes, it is true. Nothing lasts forever and LOVE, LIGHT and PEACE in the coming ethical stance, of the company. Anyone seeing McDonald’s have peaked. It is my prediction year. the VegSoc logo has to think about the that supermarkets and fast food retailers are on Pat Reeves, practitioner of nutritional and Vegetarian Society. It might seem like VegSoc their way out. functional medicine. Always available at are selling out, but it is actually vegetarianism We talk about the evil McDonald’s empire, [email protected] or via my that is seeping in. Fast food is on the way out. but as far as I am concerned they are now on the website: Supermarkets are struggling. Healthy food is back foot. Just as with the Roman Empire there [email protected] in. Dairy farmers are going out of business. is the first chink in the armour, and just as This argument is not about the VegSoc but surely it will crumble. Some stores have closed 5 about McDonald’s and animal food generally. such as the Manchester Airport, where Only 80 pages but very important for all those who are sick of hearing people say “Well, Hitler was a vegetarian”. Although it may seem difficult to be certain about Adolph Hitler’s diet, it seems certain that he thought meat dishes caused him stomach cramps, perspiration and smelly flatulence. That is why he avoided meat. Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda who boasted that people will believe any lie, if you repeated it often enough, has proved his point in this. He wanted to promote him as a clean living, celibate, selfless leader dedicated to his people and abstaining from tobacco, alcohol and meat, but cooks, for example have written about his favourite meat dishes like liver dumplings and stuffed squab which he ate with relish when he could. He was also partial to Bavarian , ham and liver. He was far from abstemious, and had a sweet tooth. He loved cream cakes and sweets. 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The day length in March increases, the temperatures rise and we are off with another growing season and I am always filled with that eagerness to sow seed!

By Graham Cole

owever, some patience and caution is necessary because from past Hexperience I know the weather can still throw cold and wet at us, and in the north of the country it will be even later before things settle down and it is frost-free. With the climate changing and the trend towards milder condi- tions things are moving up to a couple of weeks earlier than 20 years ago according to some surveys. Now with nature stirring from the winter dormancy, in the milder areas some seeds may be sown outdoors. When the soil is drying on the top, is workable and warmed by the sun, try a few sowings of broad beans, peas, radish, spring onion, lettuce and carrots, and plant onion sets and shallots. In the south I get long as they are used in layers and not heaped stronger and higher in the sky, days lengthen the shallots planted earlier than this along with in a pile with little else to stop a slimy black and winter is behind us but look out for late garlic at the end of January or early February. mess forming! The heap needs fibrous bulky frost and cold winds. Many seeds can However some time can be stolen by starting greenstuff and a variety of waste mixed with be sown outside including beetroot and parsnip, things off under cover in frames, cloches and the grass to get good compost. and later in the month climbing beans – runners the greenhouse with half-hardy annuals such as and French. I find the climbing type of French tagetes, lobelia, nicotiana, busy lizzies etc. and Different Colours and Shapes bean does better – away from the slug damage the «exotics» such as sweet peppers and of As in previous years I will grow several types and rotting that happens to the dwarf bush course the tomato.... of tomato from the huge choices available now types. Planting of early and maincrop potatoes March will see the start of grass cutting in in the seed catalogues and shops giving us the can be completed, drawing up the soil over the most areas and the mowings are a very valuable chance to savour many varieties (that you will emerging tips will protect them from late frost addition to the compost heap causing the never get in the supermarkets and greengrocers) damage and stop tubers that swell later from temperature to rise which helps the biological with thin skins and nice flavours. This year I being exposed to the light. Straw, if it can be process along, adding nitrogen and moisture as will grow my self-saved seed of «Claire’s obtained, is another good way to grow potatoes, Delight», renamed by me because it’s actual just spread out on the soil surface at a good name is «Bloody Butcher», a terrible name for thickness and plant the tubers through the straw Victory for McLibel Two a delicious and large variety! Also consider into the soil. Weeds can be discouraged by this The European Court of Human Rights in growing the reliable «Harbinger» – a good layer and moisture conserved – important for Strasbourg has ruled that Helen Steel and early standard size one with flavour, the cherry the tubers as they bulk up. David Morris did not have a fair trial when types «Gardener’s Delight» and «Sungold», the McDonald’s sued them for libel for distri- latter being one of the best yellow cultivars, Orchards saved buting leaflets criticising McDonald’s food, plus «Shirley», one of the better flavoured Further to my comments last year about the and employment methods. Under the then modern types. Most of these will remain in the threat of more orchards being lost there seems legislation, legal aid was not allowed in libel greenhouse and a few will find themselves to be a reprieve thanks to English Nature and cases. The case was very complicated and planted outside against a sheltered and hot DEFRA. It was thought they would not qualify the defendants, both on very low incomes, south-facing wall. By the way, saving tomato for the Single Payment from the EU Common had to defend themselves against a multi- seed is quite easy if the variety is open-polli- Agricultural Policy. However, under the policy, national corporation able to afford the best nated and not an F1 hybrid (F1 will not come exceptions are made for environmental legal minds. The judges considered that the true from seed). You just select a fruit in late reasons(!!!!) as orchards provide habitats for correct balance had not been struck between summer, take the seeds out, wash in a fine sieve wildlife such as birds, insects such as the noble the rights of the protesters to express their and place on a saucer to fully dry out, then store chafer beetle and horseshoe bat and many are views and the rights of McDonald’s to in an envelope in the fridge until the next planted with old varieties that are still useful. It safeguard their reputation. They ruled that growing season. has to be said that more fruit should be grown “denial of legal aid had deprived them of Other vegetables that come in different in the UK anyway for many good ecological their opportunity to present their case effec- colours include courgette (yellow), beetroot reasons and that the subsidies that still support tively before the court.” The European Court (yellow), carrots (purple – new, I have not tried unsustainable chemical farming and abuse of also found the damages against the defen- these yet), climbing French bean (purple, should be shifted to encourage more dants were disproportionate and awarded yellow, mottled red), the capsicums or peppers plant-based horticulture/market gardens and them £24,000 in financial damages and also (red, yellow, orange and purple) and the leafy smaller scale farming in the UK. The EU does their costs. Swiss Chard or leaf beet that is a mix of green, not enable this to happen and won’t for the This case might result in some alteration red and yellow. So you see not everything is foreseeable future – so we have to grow our to the British Libel Laws, which have so far green and then there are yellow raspberries.... own as much as is possible… seemed very unfair. It will no doubt make wealthy corporations think twice before they Late Spring rush to court. The month of April signals a period when HM nature gets a move on with the sun getting 7 A PILLAR OF VEGANISM In memory of Arthur Ling

Arthur Ling, who died on 18th January drink but retained a green tions. Another innovation aged 85, after a short illness, lived a life colour which was found to was mini pots of soya milk, dedicated to veganism. When he was on be unacceptable to suitable for travellers and holiday aged 7 with his meat-eating consumers. On 15th July for picnics and which parents, he saw a large fish hauled up 1964 a feature in The Daily ideally would have been from a pier and the way it was hacked Mail reported on Dr. supplied to airline caterers revolted him. From that moment he Franklin’s experiments in a for the use of vegan could not face any flesh on his plate. “milk” factory in a walled passengers (or others off section of a large firm wanting to avoid dairy By Harry Mather producing dehydrated produce). Demand for the vegetables. The reporter latter was not sufficient to hough well-meaning, his parents had no confessed that when justify its continuation. ideas on nutrition and he had no repla- diluted, the product seemed Concern over the threat of Tcement protein. All his uncles and aunts remarkably like genuine Genetically Modified Soya said he could not grow up big and strong if he milk. Success came in 1965 Beans brought a new did not eat meat, but Arthur was only the more when a based on challenge. Arthur Ling determined to prove them wrong. During a long soya beans was produced in countered by sourcing a life he remained keen on sporting activities. He a small factory in Iver, milk made with white peas took a daily swim in the sea from his home near Buckinghamshire. and sunflower seeds., now Folkestone until his last illness. He also played But Plamil was not marketed as White-Sun. tennis and badminton. In the 1970s he founded simply a concoction of soya beans. Drs. Alan This means that if it was no longer possible to and ran a local boys football club. Stoddard, Douglas Latto, Bertrand Allinson, find soya beans that are not genetically In his teens, he realised “what a lot of Frey Ellis and J.G. Davis were consulted to modified, then an alternative exists to maintain bunkum it was to be told we were doing the formulate a milk that would be nutritious and the supply of a plant milk. Dr. Franklin had cow a favour by drinking its milk” and he be close to human milk, including calcium and originally developed milks from various plants became a vegan, before the name existed or The vitamins B2, B12 and D2. The original site was that could be easily grown in the British Vegan Society had been formed. owned by property developers. So, in 1972, climate, but these had the disadvantage of being In the early days of the Vegan Society, a sub- thanks to 16 vegans taking out Debenture slightly green in colour A successful product committee was formed to look into ways of shares, they acquired the freehold of a site in was obtained from cabbages, but it had a green getting a vegetable milk on the market, because Folkestone which remains the company’s colour which it was thought would not be there were no non-dairy milks available in this factory and offices. I can remember a TV news acceptable to the public. Now a product is country. This sub-committee included Leslie item featuring the launch of Plant Milk with a available without reliance on imports from Cross, Barry Green and some others, but some test-tasting on passers-by in a street in Slough. USA. The white peas used for the production of of them moved away to different parts and My wife was allergic to cow’s milk and as new White Sun are obtained from France. A soya nothing resulted from this initiative. Years later, vegetarians we were happy to buy the new Soya bean has now been developed that will grow in Arthur saw an advert in the Vegetarian News Milk from local Health Food Stores. Sales this country and is being successfully culti- inviting any persons interested in making however seemed confined to vegans purchasing vated. available a milk made from plants to attend a it from specialised outlets, and even these were The word ‘milk’ was sometimes contentious meeting at the Friends’ Meeting House at mostly reluctant to stock it. Arthur therefore as people usually associate it with the product Euston, London. Arthur found that it was Leslie had also to work hard at advertising and of a cow, although the terms ‘’, Cross who had convened the meeting and promoting the new product to vegans and to ‘’, ‘milk of magnesia’, even ‘tiger Leslie invited Arthur to take the chair The thirty people allergic to cow’s milk (the latter are nut milk’ were accepted. In the early days it was or so present decided to meet again and adopted more numerous than one would suspect). His local Labelling Laws that had to be contended the name of Plant Milk Society. funds were very limited, but he had the deter- with, later it was a European directive, Granose and Mapletons were well mination to seize every opportunity to promote promoted by Dairy Interests that felt threatened established firms selling vegetarian products the Plant Milk. The first product was made by the rapid growth in sales of Soya Milks. and were approached with a view to putting a double strength, which could be diluted one to Arthur rose to this new challenge and combined vegetable milk on the market, but both firms one with water to give a consistency of milk or with other Soya Milk manufacturers to lobby could not see any market for such a product. A used neat as a replacement for cream. against proposed regulations, fearing that plant milk powder was being produced in USA As sales of the ‘milk’ were too low to make customers would be deceived into thinking the by Loma Linda, a Seventh Day Adventist the company profitable, he developed a milk- new labels marked ‘Soya Drink’ meant that the organisation. On being approached, they style chocolate bar and as he did not have the product had been changed to something inferior replied they could only deal with Seventh Day necessary moulds, etc., he found a chocolate to what they had been accustomed to. In fact Adventists. Granose was part of that belief and manufacturer to produce it for him. They even when finally the labels had to be changed, could have been an answer, but they once again declared that his chocolate was better than the customers continued to buy the Soya Milks and declined. one they were producing for themselves. might not even have noticed the change of Arthur Ling had trained as an accountant and Eventually a different chocolate was produced name, relying more on the general appearance had knowledge of company law. He offered to in the Folkestone factory where a wide range of of the pack. set up a company to produce a vegetable milk. chocolate and carob bars are produced today. Being himself keen on sports, Arthur thought Dr. Hugh Franklin, a food technologist who had From that beginning, Arthur Ling continued of celebrating the 21st Anniversary of the produced Barmene, and Leslie Cross were to expand his range of products that vegans founding of Plamil with a sporting event. This employed by the new firm. Experiments could buy in all confidence, because they were resulted in a half-marathon competition held in followed on various commonly growing plants produced by dedicated vegans. Folkestone, exclusively for vegans and vegeta- even grass. Cabbages produced a palatable Soya cream was a natural follow-up. There rians. The event was a great success and it was were rice puddings, pease puddings, fudge, hoped that other organisations might have taken 8 egg-free mayonnaise, Veeze which was an it up as a yearly event. Unfortunately no one alternative to soft cheese, all to vegan specifica- else took on the organisation of further events. He was also concerned with the Milk in the U.K. and built up a market nutrition of small children, having from small beginnings when no one himself brought up three children as else was prepared to do so. When they vegans, and being in contact with realised the market was there, others many vegan parents of young came in force. But Arthur always children brought up the vegan way. recognised that he owed his first Mother’s milk is considered best success to the Health Food Stores and until weaning time and it is not similar shops who first bought his recommended that ordinary Plamil One of the earlier labels of Plamil. produce, and out of loyalty to them, he should be exclusively relied on refused to sell to larger outlets where absorption of calcium unless the diet has suffi- before weaning. But he was keen to show that others were able to cash in on. Loyalty, vegan cient potassium to balance sodium intake (i.e. children could be brought up without the use of principles and sticking to what he believed was salt). Stephen Walsh’s book Plant Nutrition and cow’s milk and thrive. Details were obtained right were for him guiding principles. Making a Health gives sound information on these points from mothers who had brought up their profit was necessary, but not the chief aim. (published by The Vegan Society – see our children with the help of soya milks and His achievement was widely appreciated and Books Page). published in a booklet that also gave nutritional the Institute of Health Food Retailing awarded Arthur seemed to be always coming up with guidance. This has helped young parents to him a Certificate for his work on the ideas: producing recipe sheets, quizzes or have confidence in bringing up their children in development of vegan foods and shortly before Resolutions to AGMs in order to keep Plamil to the vegan way, and helped them counter the he died he was delighted to be awarded by the the fore and was always keen that vegans scepticism they often encounter from relatives, Young Indian Vegetarians a Mahaveer Award should be kept informed about sound nutrition, especially the dismayed grandparents who may for ‘playing a pivotal role in the promoting a and that it was possible to bring up babies and be anxious about a diet that seems so alien to Vegan lifestyle.’ children on a vegan diet, although dismayed them. It should also be remembered that some During 2004, his feet were affected by a grandparents may be undermining the confi- parents, relying on too restrictive a diet for their blood infection which his immune system was dence of young parents. He regularly wrote to babies have (albeit very rarely) unwittingly unable to cope with. He leaves the legacy of a Vegan Views to heep readers informed of his damaged their offspring on diets branded as thriving business which is dedicated to latest news. ‘vegan’ although they were not following the producing vegan products and tied to this by its In 1987 Serena Coles resigned as president of advice of The Vegan Society. The booklet has Memorandum of Association. He has built up a The Vegan Society and Arthur was chosen to been more recently updated, including advice wide range of popular products, and a firm present her with a bouquet of flowers for the from qualified Nutritionist Sandra Hood, who ready to take up new challenges. occasion. He was obviously surprised to find is now taking on the task of updating the He is mourned by his three children. His son that Colin Howlett then nominated him for the booklet. (See our Books page for more details). Adrian has long been associated with the Presidency which was voted by common It should be remembered that Plamil ‘milks’ business as a manager and is keen to expand the accord. This led him to be directly involved are made to a high standard of nutrition and business abroad. Arthur started with an idea and with difficult times when most of the executive contain minerals and vitamins that are absent small difficult beginnings. His quiet manner members resigned, having run out of money from soya milks that only contain the soya masked a strong determination, which brought and inspiration. Arthur presided over some beans. So, as usual, reading the label is him success and recognition and gratitude from stormy AGMs when various factions created important, especially if you are looking to the vegan movement. Dedicated from problems. He was also instrumental in finding maintain the levels of vitamin B12 and vitamin childhood to lessen the unnecessary suffering more economical premises for the Vegan D in your diet. When some Soya Milks were of animals, he has played a part which few of us Society offices, thus helping to restore the marketed with “added calcium”, Arthur pointed can hope to emulate. finances, involving the move from their offices out that this was not necessarily an advantage in Oxford to the present offices in St. Leonards and that Plamil was based on clear nutritional on Sea standards. It is now known that increased intake Arthur Ling was the first to produce Soya of calcium will not result in increased Tribute Arthur Ling From Adrian Ling, 18 January 2005 14:01 liberal. He was anti-war, egalitarian, a ahead of its time. At retirement age in the It is with deep regret we announce that our supporter of ‘the common man’. A lover of the 1980’s, he continued to work actively for many father Arthur Ling passed away in the early outdoors he was an active Naturist, known to years, being honoured with a number of hours of 18th January 2005. Many, through his many in his home village for his early morning ‘lifetime’ achievement awards. Whilst still work and life interests, knew our Dad. He was a swims in the sea. He was also a lover of sports, participating in running the company he latterly private man, uncomfortable in the public arena, played tennis and badminton for many decades and gradually dedicated himself more and more but who reached out to many, touched and and in the 1970’s founded and ran a local boys to research of the nutritional aspects of the influenced them with his life style and views. football club. vegan diet, his true love and passion. His life and relationships were shaped by a An accountant by profession he was involved He was made virtually house bound in the strong sense of direction, distinct unwaving and in his first commercial project in the post war spring of 2004, by a rare skin disorder, known uncompromising views on many subjects. It is years. A company called Sunoil, based in to be a symptom of the gradual breakdown of these attributes that helped him to forge a way Wales, was created to produce biodiesel from the immune system and cause of depression. In for the vegan lifestyle to be recognised in the Sunflowers. Unfortunately this project was 50 November 2004 he was admitted to hospital face of much social unawareness. years ahead of its time and did not enjoy with a serious heart condition. Struggling with He was not one for social norms, indulging in commercial success. He is known by most for complications he died peacefully in his sleep. almost anti-establishment activities with is work at Plamil and the Vegan Society. From He leaves us, his three children, Julie Trevor unassuming relish from an early age. To his his association with the Vegan Society in the and Adrian. parent’s horror, he became a vegan at the age of 1950’s he joined a group interested in seven (in 1926 veganism was completely producing a non-dairy milk, which eventually unheard of) when he witnessed a fish being became Plantmilk Ltd, later changing to Plamil killed at the seaside. He spent a lifetime Foods Ltd, to which he dedicated himself. It promoting the vegan ideal. produced in 1965 the first widely distributed His views on many subjects were essentially Soya milk, a true achievement and again far 9 HELPING THE TSUNAMI VICTIMS

At 1:25pm UK time on Boxing Day 2004 (click on Articles and go to VV67). Although India. Vegfam received a telephone call from now ten years old, most of what was said then is Pastor Paul Jesudoss (with whom it has still fully relevant today. What will Vegfam do that other organi- worked on various philanthropic sations don’t? projects over a ten year period), to say We asked Frieden Howard a few questions The Vegfam principles of using plant foods there had been a massive tidal wave specifically about the 2005 Indian Ocean direct for the feeding of humans, and moreover that had hit the coastal plains of the Earthquake Appeal (interview by Malcolm using local (non GMO) varieties (where Tamil Nadu state in India, some distance Horne). possible) to achieve this, with minimal impact from Madurai where he lives and runs a on the fragile environments in these countries, welfare mission. In the past he has What will the money raised by this are understood by the organisations that quickly assembled a relief team to go appeal be spent on? Vegfam works with, and whose projects are and help in an emergency (for example, Vegfam was fortunate in having sufficient funded (in part or full) by Vegfam. earlier in the year his teams helped with funds, not destined for particular projects, that flood victims in Bihar and Assam). it could place at the earliest moment (instead of In the short term there’s been a massive raising the money first before being able to do fundraising effort worldwide to help the e proposed that one relief team and two anything), for emergency feeding of tsunami tsunami victims. But there must also be rescue teams set off that evening with survivors through Pastor Jesudoss and his a need for longer term support and aid. H3,000 food packets of plant based foods organisation. So the question I am frankly Do you think the various governments - vegetables, pulses and rice - to help the people answering is “What will the appeal monies be and aid agencies will do enough to help who had been living on the seashore and had spent on once the sum of £3,000 has been met?” in the longer term? survived this tsunami wave. He requested that - and we are well on the way towards that – and There has been a very generous response to this Vegfam fund these food packets tsunami disaster by individual at a cost of £3,000. His proposal people, organisations and and request was discussed and If anyone would like to donate to the appeal, or help to governments. agreed by Vegfam Council publicise it (leaflets available), contact Vegfam at The However, the needs of the members and he was informed Sanctuary, Nr Lydford, Okehampton, Devon EX20 4AL (tel: survivors are very great and will that same day he could go ahead, 01822-820203, also 01550-721197 in Wales, website: last for a long time, until they are and that the money would be www.veganvillage.co.uk/vegfam). Donations can also be made sufficiently fed by growing their sent electronically as soon as directly to the “Vegfam Indian Ocean Earthquake Appeal” own food, and organised so that possible. Instructions were account at the Co-op Bank (Customer Services, PO Box 250, they have their dignity and are prepared the next day (a Bank Skelmersdale, Lancs WN8 6WT). The sort code is 08-92-99 and independent of charity (or Holiday) for the Co-operative a/c number 65158447 (if outside UK, bank identification code government) assistance. A non- Bank, and the fax was there for CPBK GB22, international bank a/c number GB57 CPBK 0892 governmental organisation the start of business on Tuesday - 9965 1584 47). UK tax payers can increase the value of their (NGO), or aid agency, must and the transfer was made on donations by completing a Gift Aid form. always seek the views of those Wednesday 29th December. people it strives to serve as to Pastor Jesudoss has reported that what they need rather than the areas visited were Nagapattinam, Kanya my answer is “Seeds for vegetable gardens, marching in with what the NGO thinks they Kumari, Cuddelore, Kulachiel and Velankanni. and/or water supply”. need. My experience of voluntary work in other Shortly afterwards the VEGFAM INDIAN (than Vegfam) Overseas Aid charities (albeit OCEAN EARTHQUAKE APPEAL was set And which countries will the money be whilst in the UK) suggests that some govern- up. It is hoped that money can be raised to set spent in? ments will find other pressures upon them that up longer term vegetable growing projects, Vegfam has been funding some of the projects leave the NGOs to continue the work until they which will be placed with on-the-spot of a major charity, which we have recently are no longer needed. And that should be the charities/organisations with whom Vegfam has learnt has been working in Sri Lanka and aim of every charity/NGO - to do itself out of a worked over a number of years. No deductions Indonesia from 1996 onwards and went into job when the community it helped is (at last) for administration will be made from these action immediately after the tsunami wave self-sufficient. donations. struck, and for this reason we will be consi- There are scores of aid agencies/NGOs, as Vegfam’s usual work as a charity (registered dering its project proposals to be sent to us well as the governments in the affected in 1963, and “feeding the hungry without early in March. I should add that Vegfam countries, working to overcome the destruction exploiting animals”) does of course continue financed a Leaf Concentrate project (1982), and caused by this tsunami disaster, and whilst I alongside this appeal – providing short and long a well for drinking water and vegetable garden hope and pray that they will do enough in the term aid to countries whose people have been watering (2001), both in northern Sri Lanka, longer term, experience tells me that this may the victims of drought, flood, cyclone, famine whereas this would be the first time we are not be so. There is real need to be met, and it and war, as well as earthquake. In 2004 over looking at a project in Indonesia. will be there for a long time. With help and £26,000 was distributed to projects (emergency Pastor Jesudoss is also asking us to consider support, Vegfam will be able to contribute to feeding, seeds for planting, water supplies, etc) further help for the Tamil Nadu State area of this work. in countries such as Tajikistan, India, Ghana, Sudan, Mozambique and Bangladesh. In 2003 over £50,000 (an all-time high) was distributed. See the Winter 1994/1995 edition of Vegan GLOBAL WARMING CAN BE CHECKED Views (No 67) for a lengthy overview of AND PEOPLE BETTER SUPPLIED WITH Vegfam’s work and interview with Frieden FOOD AND OTHER NECESSITIES Howard, Vegfam’s trustee. This can be found IF WE USE LAND FOR TREES THAT on the VV website at www.veganviews.org.uk ABSORB CO2 NOT FOR LIVESTOCK THAT EMIT METHANE A MUCH MORE POWERFUL GREEN HOUSE GAS 10 Details from MCL address on page 18. Dawn of a New Age for Vegans

As vegans we are likely to be vigilant about our food choices, carefully inspecting labels and checking for hidden ingredients. But what about how our plant foods are actually grown in the first place? Many of us presently choose organic produce but then a dilemma arises because this is exten- sively grown using animal manures, an environmentally harmful by-product of fellow creatures that will all too soon be slaughtered. This is usually ignored by vegans unless they grow their own.

By David Graham, Jenny Hall & Peter White (Vegan-Organic Trust)

ow vegans have good cause for celebration! A significant objective has Nbeen achieved that will give choice to us and will benefit the whole eco-system. There is now the real possibility of profound struc- tural change in how food is produced. This change will be a beneficial influence on the dominant culture that is currently reliant on the exploitation and death of farmed animals. Iain Tolhurst. The Stockfree Organic Standards have about, then for the first time ever, vegans and violent social change with weapons of mass now been published and represent one of the other consumers will know that they will have ethical production! most important advances in horticulture and the choice of eating animal-free food, not just We are inevitably, and properly asked, why agriculture because for the first time a method organic. By taking animal by-products and we have not called the Stockfree-Organic of growing food without the exploitation and artificial chemicals out of food production, the Standards, “Vegan-Organic Standards”. After death of farmed animals is set out clearly. These Stockfree Organic Standards point the way to a much debate and consultation there was a signi- Standards classify a method whereby only new solution, as part of an evolutionary ficant majority view that communicating with plant-based fertilisers are used in growing food. process. Indeed, the Standards will also evolve farmers and growers with terminology that was Vegan-Organic Trust with its network of as new techniques develop and become widely familiar and understood by them was critical. supporters and experts has developed the available. “Stockfree” is unambiguous. We have changed Standards in compliance with EC regulations. The next important phase is publicity. VOT is the original term, which was “stockless” into By law no produce may be sold as organic extremely fortunate to have Iain Tolhurst as its “Stockfree” as we consider this more positive. unless the grower has been certified with a advocate; Iain is one of the most respected This concept of food production enables an recognised body. Commercial growers who horticultural advisers, both in the UK and objective discussion about growing metho- wish to adopt these standards can now do so. th dology to take place. We are not asking growers Although primarily aimed at commercial overseas. On 8 November 2004 Tolhurst to be vegan in order to apply for our certifi- growers the Standards will provide guidance Organic Produce in Berkshire became the cation. And it is going to be a fact that most for all those who wish to grow food vegan- world’s first grower to be inspected under the growers will not be. We initially wanted to do organically. We will encourage existing new Standards. The inspection was carried out the certification ourselves but at present we do commercial vegan-organic growers to register by Soil Association Certification Ltd on behalf not have the resources to do this. That is why and use our symbol on their produce. As more of the Stockfree Organic Services, an we need your involvement. new vegan farms are established, and as cattle independent department of VOT. The Stockfree Everyone can play a part in this exciting farmers who are disillusioned because of the Organic standards do not represent the views of development: Vegan-Organic Trust needs your devastating effect of Foot and Mouth Disease the Soil Association. Iain’s celebrated market support in the vital task of spreading the word and BSE epidemics become stockfree, growing garden is now growing to the new Standards. about the Stockfree Organic Standards. This is grains, fruit and vegetables, the symbol will It’s early days yet for this new initiative but the real challenge for the vegan movement. We spread and become recognised. As this comes already there have been enquiries from other growers about adopting this system. Iain must reach out and obtain support from the Tolhurst has recently spoken to many growers estimated 750 thousand vegans. Among other To join us, make a donation, obtain infor- and said that he found nothing but positive initiatives, a publicity campaign is being mation about help needed etc contact Patrick feedback for the Stockfree Organic Standards. planned to raise awareness of these topics and Browne, VOT, 161 Hamilton Rd, Longsight, It also appears very likely that the Welsh everyone can help with this. Please join us. We Manchester M13 0PQ. E-mail: College of Horticulture will adopt the need money, regional/local organisers, and [email protected] or ring 0161 928 Standards, become a Stockfree Organic demon- distributors of our magazine Growing Green 3614 (10am to 10pm) stration centre and provide a formal qualifi- International. It’s not everyday that vegans To obtain a copy of the Standards and cation in Stockfree Organic food production. In have the opportunity to participate in a Application Pack for growers contact Jenny January Iain addressed a conference of successful movement for non-violent social Hall on 01942 621769 email: sowandgrow- Californian organic growers, giving a slide change which gets to the very roots of life. [email protected]. presentation compiled with Jenny Hall, the Don’t pass it up! Vegan-Organic Trust registered charity brilliant administrator of our Stockfree Organic number 1080847 Services Office, showing the Americans that www.veganorganic.net we are still in the vanguard of radical, non- 11 VEGAN CONVERSATIONS I GOT WRONG

Last week I met a young woman – let’s reluctance is due to my cynicism about people’s It’s difficult but I do believe we should have a call her Number One –who told me she lack of awareness. stab at talking about this unpopular topic. has a new message for her friends. ‘Did The belief that unlimited choice in all areas of Superior silence or cautious hesitancy won’t you know that for every plane journey our lives with no thought for the impact our change the world. My Number One was right to you take you should plant 50 trees? It’s choices have on the world we so take for spread the word about tree-planting and global for the environment’ she explained with granted. The mantra personal choice for all is a warming. It takes guts. And tact: is not my zeal. ‘Because of the exhaust gases. Air marketing ploy which diverts us from looking strong point! travel’s one of the worst things for critically at our 21st century way of life and global warming’. seeing how harmful it is to us and our Planet. Later the very same day, a teenager started up a Recently it’s being heavily promoted by food conversation with me. His complaint was Danw November reflects on how she should political leaders too – as well as advertising – he doesn’t seem able to take advantage of all the propagate veganism. and I’m very suspicious about that. choice offered him in the supermarket and he I’m continually amazed at people’s attitudes feels a failure. smiled a superior smile. ‘You don’t need to to food. There seems to be only one ethic: ‘I trawl around just gawping and always end go on. I know all that. That’s why I never you’ve got to eat what you like. It’s a duty! up buying the same thing: a bag of muesli and a Ifly.’ Whatever turns you on is the message. Nothing bag of dried apricots’ protested Number Two. Her face fell. ‘I do fly,’ she confessed. ‘I go to else matters. (I’ll qualify that: knowing that ‘There must be something wrong with me.’ South Africa four times a year to visit my eating and body-weight are linked, large I tried to reassure him. I began explaining it’s parents.’ numbers of women choose food for other all false choices. And rotten ethics: First-world ‘I suppose we all have to make choices’ I said reasons beside naked enjoyment – the wrong availability at the expense of people in much frostily. ‘And I suppose there are other things reasons.) poorer parts of the world as well as local we can do about global warming. I don’t have a Despite all the hectic propaganda, the suppliers and their on-off labour force*. He car for instance.’ messages about diet and health have penetrated ought to be proud of himself for not being taken ‘Nor do I’, she enthused. the UK population only scratchily. And the in by all the advertising and hype! And so on ‘And I’m a vegan.’ people who practise dietary choices as a grass- and on, in a supportive vein. Her face fell again. ‘You too?’ (I late learned roots political act are rare indeed. He wasn’t listening but gazing far away. her partner is vegan – ‘for health reasons’). ‘I eat meat’, she added hesitantly. ‘Do you know why it’s good to be vegan? It’s because we could feed so many more people Local Campaigner Receives that way. And have loads of room left over for trees. And did you know farm animals produce huge amounts of greenhouse gases? We don’t Award for Saving Animals need them and they’re bad for the planet.’ A pause. She rallied valiantly. Europe’s largest vegetarian and vegan on her dream of getting her own veggie TV ‘Well I’m going round telling everybody 50 group, Viva!, is delighted to announce programme. trees for every trip! Why don’t you help me Billericay resident Karin Ridgers as one of «I grew up veggiewise with Viva! and I spread the word?’ the recipients of its Action for Animals am proud to be an active member - since I grimaced and turned way. I wondered Award, in recognition for her outstanding about day one!», said Karin, «A few years sourly why she needs to make 4 trips a year to commitment and dedication to saving ago Juliet, Tony and the team even came South Africa. Is she really going to plant 200 animals and promoting vegetarianism and over to Essex and launched Viva! Essex with trees a year Is she really going to plant 200 trees veganism. The Awards are a special, one-off me. Since then we have given many radio every year (or is that 400?) Where’s she going event and part of Viva!’s celebrations of its interviews, talks, run Viva! demos and stalls, to put them? Who’s going to look after them? 10th anniversary on 26 October 2004. Karin organised many vegan events and been on Trees, like other living things need care. was presented the award by Viva! patron, TV. Knowing Viva! has given me the confi- I wanted to confront Number One about actress Jenny Seagrove (Woman of dence and the inspiration to be active - meat-eating too. I just managed to stop myself Substance, Judge John Deed), at the organi- spreading our message is my biggest giving her a mini-lecture about animal sation’s 10th Anniversary Dinner on the SS passion. I owe it all to Juliet, Tony and all the suffering. Enough’s enough, I thought. Leave Great Britain, in Bristol last Saturday. Karin Viva! team. Thank you Viva! so much for that for later.. is one of Viva!’s most enthusiastic this special award.» But Number One made sure there was no supporters - she says the campaigning group , director of Viva! said: later. She disappeared as fast as she could and has changed her life. Through her tireless «Karin is an absolute star. She is a didn’t come back. campaigns in Essex she has reached tens of campaigning dynamo - and that is why Viva! I realised I’d put the dampers on someone thousands. From becoming veggie when is delighted to be able to acknowledge her who’s beginning to think about issues of impor- Viva! launched in 1994; she went on to form drive and determination to help animals and tance. I’d been patronising and judgmental Viva! Essex. She runs a celebration event for work towards a cruelty-free, veggie world.» instead of applauding her new-found awareness which attracts 300-400 Viva! is a campaigning group that exposes and encouraging her in her enthusiasm. Later, I locals; distributes thousands of leaflets and animal cruelty with high-profile, nationwide agonised over whether I should have kept my tirelessly fundraises for Viva!. Karin’s group campaigns, often based on undercover work big mouth shut. Somehow or other whatever I is very active - always getting numbers out and secret filming. Viva! also produces a say ends up sounding like a sermon. I scolded for Days of Action - from stopping the wide range of materials to help people myself. factory farming of ducks to holding photo change to a vegetarian diet. Their work has On the other hand I feel I’m being a coward if calls outside shops selling Adidas kangaroo won many tributes, including the Daily I don’t bring up veganism and related issues boots; and distributing 10000 vegan leaflets Mirror ‘Pride of Britain Linda McCartney when it’s appropriate. Is it all too easy to say to local restaurants to help them give Award for ’. nothing? Or sometimes diplomatic? Maybe my vegetarian options and increase their Karin Ridgers was interviewed in Vegan customer base. Karin has also produced the Views 96. Veggie Guide to Essex - and is now working 12 ‘My parents are vegan you see,’ he inter- zing back into your life. You know?’ lives. I find these the hardest to connect with. rupted. ‘I was brought up vegan. I’m not now. I Keep a grip on yourself. I told myself. Try a Communication is made all the more hazardous eat eggs, sometimes cheese. But still. ‘Yes, he bright cheery tone! when we’re pampered and wooed by the mantra was blaming his parents for his inability to be ‘Well actually I’m a vegan and I eat lots of personal choice for all. mesmerised into making false choices around raw food. O but not oysters!’ (I managed a One problem is the word itself. ‘Vegan’ food! And putting me in the blame-frame since watery smile). ‘Especially this time of year. It’s sounds clinical and puts people off. I think it he’d already found out I was vegan. absolutely the best time for fresh raw local needs replacing. ‘Vegetarian’ belongs to us by Not realising this, I was launching into a view produce’, I added merrily. right and sounds jolly and accessible when that choice is phoney and consists largely of ‘O, I couldn’t do that. Not in a zillion years’. shortened to ‘veggie’. it was stolen from us and choosing one set of packaging over another She looked horrified. After all I was proposing given to those who still eat animal products. when he just walked away. she limit her right to unlimited choice. Stuck with ‘vegan’ we’ve got to use it – for now Two down! And only halfway through the ‘But I’m not vegan just for health reasons’ I anyway. And no shying away into euphemisms day! added firmly. ‘I’m appalled at the way people like ‘cruelty-free’ and ‘animal-friendly’. I think What’s going on here? I asked myself. are so obsessed with their health actually. Pure it’s important to be honest and direct. Well it’s not all my fault. Vegans don’t get a vanity.’ It’s up to us vegans to present ourselves and very good press. We’re viewed as killjoys who A silence hung between us. Was she waiting our message in a persuasive and a palatable make other people feel uncomfortable. Worse for me to expand on my sex-life? I carried on way. I certainly haven’t learned the knack. still we may be some disaffected non-vegans regardless. Although I don’t enthuse over The Fresh person’s parent or partner or ex.. We’re just ‘There’s lots of other reasons for being Network I have to say they’ve got it right where about OK if we’re vegan ‘for health reasons’. vegan. Beside health reasons. You know?’ presentation and marketing are concerned. (Who doesn’t pay respect to the Goddess Health I grinned and waited. And waited. She turned Yes: palatable. My feeble pun reminds me of these days?). But vegan ethics? It’s a turn off! the conversation rapidly to something else. the most successful proselytiser for veganism I I am totally useless at spreading the word, I ever met; a woman who regularly cooks for Much later the same day yet another stranger told myself miserably that night. Different large gatherings in the open air. She conjures appeared on the scene. Number Three immedi- people have different talents and I’m a lousy feasts out of blackened cooking-pots over open ately brought up the topic of diet. Third time communicator. fires and every meal she makes is unique and lucky? I wondered. I decided not to hide my I do think it’s hard to talk creatively and generous and delicious. light under a bushel, but I’m afraid I soon winningly about being vegan. It’s hard to find It’s only when asked for her secret that she tells quailed. the right way through to people: through all the her grateful patrons: ‘It’s 100% vegan.’ ‘I’ve heard oysters are good for you’, she barriers and misconceptions. Some people are © Danw November. October 2004. began. ‘Raw oysters of course.’ actively hostile. There are those with personal * Not on the Label: What really goes into the ‘Live animals,’ I screamed, but silently. baggage (like my Number Two). Other people food on your plate. By Felicity Lawrence. 2004. ‘It’s not just a myth. They really do bring the are just not interested in changing their cosy

PRESS RELEASE: From the Vegan Society, 22nd February 2005 VEGAN DIETS AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT: WHAT’S THE REAL EVIDENCE? Asian Tsunami From the International Vegetarian Union’s The claim that milk and meat are vital to Both these studies were carried out in the «IVU Online News», February 2005… children’s development, which swept though 1980s and the results should be well known to The Asian Tsunami has already faded the media earlier this week, originated from an any scientist presuming to comment on vegan from the world’s headlines, but the work American press release based mainly on a two- diets and child development. will obviously continue for a long time to year study of 544 undernourished Kenyan The soundbite that went the rounds this week come. IVU has done what it can to support children, completed in December 2000 and comes from taking the results of the one test on our member society, Food For Life, in their published in the Journal of Nutrition in undernourished Kenyan children where meat outstanding efforts to provide free November 2003. (1) seemed to have a better impact than vegetable vegetarian food for tens of thousands of As usual, the original information evolved oil and ignoring all the contrary evidence both people. Paul Turner, Director of FFL and a beyond all recognition as it moved from scien- from the Kenyan study and from direct studies past member of the IVU International tific paper to press release to soundbite: of western vegans. Council, is currently in Sri Lanka to ensure «There’s absolutely no question that it’s «This is not science but blatant spin», said that the generous donations they received unethical for parents to bring up their children Vegan Society Chair Alex Bourke, «and repre- are being used in the most effective manner. as strict vegans», proclaimed certain sections of sentatives of the media who have uncritically IVU works on a very small budget, but the media. (2) passed on the soundbite have been sadly we do sometimes give grants for well The scientific paper compared groups of misled.» planned projects. However even the best of Kenyan children given three food supplements: plans can go wrong and a grant of 1,000 meat, milk and vegetable oil. Three measures REFERENCES: UK pounds recently had to be returned (1) http://www.nutrition.org/cgi/reprint/133- of mental development were taken: Raven’s from a project that didn’t go ahead. Rather visuo-spatial test, verbal meaning and arith- /11/3965S.pdf (2) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4282257.stm than simply put it back in the bank the metic. On all three measures, the vegetable oil International Council agreed to donate this group beat the milk group and on two measures http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2005/0218- micronutrients.shtml money to Food For Life. Just a small token, the vegetable oil group beat the meat group. (3) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?- but along with the money donated by «Even on the paper cited, the soundbite attri- cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt= abstract- vegetarians around the world we can make buted to Professor Allen is clearly far fetched» &list_uids=3414589 a little difference to those in need. All of said Stephen Walsh, author of Plant Based (4) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?- IVU’s funds come from our members and cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt= Nutrition and Health. But there is far stronger supporters, so if you have paid a Abstract&list_uids=2771551 evidence than this that vegan diets support subscription we trust that you will be in healthy development in children. In the UK a PUBLICATIONS: agreement with just a little of your money study of 39 vegan children found that «the being used in this way. growth and development of children reared on Plant Based Nutrition and Health, by Stephen Walsh, published September 2003. For further updates from FFL go to both vegan and vegetarian diets appears www.ffl.org. normal.» (3) Also a new book called Raising your Vegan In the USA, a study of 400 vegan children Infant - With Confidence will be published later reached the same conclusion. (4) this year. 13 It is recommended that vegans should include a Pour into a mould or serving bowl. You could mixed small quantity of iodine in their diet. The best chop some banana or other fruit into the bowl 1 teaspoon mixed spice source of iodine is from sea vegetables, before pouring in the jelly. 1 teaspoon sugar commonly referred to as seaweeds, but if we 4oz (100gr) currants look on them as useful to our nutrition why call Nori Flakes or Atlantic Dulse are other forms of 1 teaspoon salt and 2 oz chopped candied peel them weeds? sea vegetables I find palatable when sprinkled are optional The idea of eating ‘seaweeds’ is far from on salads or included in stews. There are more encouraging, yet carrageen also can be adventurous ways of preparing sea vegetables, 1. Stir the yeast into the warm water and milk used to make jellies to replace the conventional as included in some vegan cookery books. mixture and add sugar. Leave 5 mins in a warm gelling agents derived from animal hoofs and place to froth up. horns Hot Cross Buns 2. Mix the flour, spice, currants (salt and These spicy buns are traditionally eaten on candied peel if used) in a bowl and add yeast Gelozone is the Brand name of a carrageen Good Friday, but with modern marketing they liquid. based gelling agent which can be used. One appear in the shop much earlier. Buns from the 3. Knead thoroughly until smooth. Shape into teaspoonful of the powder should be mixed in a shops may contain cowís milk in the mixture 12 balls and place onto an oiled baking sheet. little cold water and stirred until completely and may be glazed with egg white. But you can Leave in a war place until double in size. dissolved. easily make your own using soya milk. 4 Cut a cross on each bun with a knife. Put a pint of apple juice or orange juice into a 5. Bake at Gas 7, 250C/450F for 15-20 mins. pan, add the gelling mixture, stir it in and heat 1lb (500 gr) plain wholewheat flour Buns should be brown and sound hollow when until steaming but do not boil (say to 80°C. - 1oz (25gr) yeast or a tablespoon of dried yeast tapped. 180°F.) 7 fl.oz (200ml) warm water and soya milk H. Mather HERE AND THERE

Hunting the animal life?. The following web references treatments based on animal experiments, then The ‘ with Dogs’ Act took effect on have been found www.ffl.org for providing animal experiments would cease completely. 18th February. The date of the Waterloo Cup vegetarian food and www.noahswish.com for Staying healthy is not only good for you; think Hare Coursing event at Altcar near Liverpool updates on the animal situation. The World of the money you will save!, but it will also be was brought forward so that it could be legally Society for the Protection of Animals also has good for millions of animals. held this year. The ‘Countryside Alliance’ has an information on its website www.wspa.co.uk. HM. already lost in two court appearances where Vegan help can be given through VEGFAM - they claimed that over-ruling the House of see our article in this issue. Cows for Africa Lords by the House of Commons was illegal, Before Christmas, charitable organisations but they will try further legal action including Laws Against Activists asked people to donate funds for supplying an appeal to the European Court. Hunt The government is planning a law targeted at cows to people in Africa. The purpose is to help supporters are dismayed that their centuries old curbing the actions of animal rights activists., the native populations to feed themselves. But custom has become illegal. They were out in such as demonstrating outside the homes of animals are inefficient ways of providing food force the day before the ban took effect and the researchers. and are wasteful of water, which is a problem following weekend they turned out in numbers Extreme rights activists are reported to have for most Africans. Supporting VEGFAM and to, as they put it, test the law not break it. They committed desperate acts such as digging up a HIPPO, which promote the more efficient plant claim the law has loopholes that allows them to grave and throwing a brick through the window proteins is a far better way of helping poor flush out foxes with two dogs and a gun, to hunt of someone who supplies oil to a breeder of people to help themselves. (See our Advert rabbits with dogs and to exercise their hounds. animals for research. Activities of recent years pages). They can take the opportunity to do drag have become more desperate and extreme. And HM. hunting, when a scent is laid out for hunts to could awaken revulsion in the general follow but without a fox and a kill at the end. population that we need to bring over to our Fur in Fashion Those who enjoy riding and socialising can point of view. The original aim of the ALF was Fashion leaders have reverted to the stone age continue their innocent pleasures. Many who to harm the commercial interest of those and making fur fashionable again. Primitive follow the hunt do not want to see the brutal end involved in animal cruelty and the purpose of peoples were justified in killing animals in self- of the chase. It is only those who enjoy a kill the proposed legislation is aimed at maintaining defence and for food in times when other food who are upset by the law. It should be repeated the commercial viability of what is a sizeable was lacking. This is no excuse in modern times that hunting is an ineffective way of controlling industry. when furry animals are kept in small cages and the fox population and when hunting was held Those who defend research on animals refuse we have alternatives that will keep us warm up for a year during the recent foot-and-mouth to answer the points based on facts that are more efficiently. crisis, there was no noted increase in the fox raised by such doctors as Vernon Coleman, Ray HM population. By the time you read this, the Greek, Robert Sharpe and others with first hand situation may have become clearer. experience, showing that animal experimen- Stormy Seas HM. tation is bad science, misleading and sometimes In January 2005, unprecedentally strong gales disastrously harmful to human patients. swept the Outer Hebrides and broke the cages Tidal Wave Many are now turning to the ‘alternatives’ of of the many fish farms there. Most of the The Asian tsunami was a catastrophe for the ‘complementary medicine’ that are not based on salmon were killed and a very few may have local human population, but what happened to animal experimentation. Sometimes people swum out to the wild sea and may mix with the who have been given up as hopeless cases by wild salmon. 14 conventional practitioners find a cure from the HM ‘alternatives’. If everyone turned away from Unnecessary Additives Sudan 1 is a red dye causing great Health of Vegan Children problems to food producers. One can only speculate why it was given the name The claim that milk and meat are vital to The soundbite that went the rounds this week of a country that has been torn for some children’s development, which swept though the comes from taking the results of the one test on twenty years and recently suffered media earlier this week, originated from an undernourished Kenyan children where meat massacres and refugees on a huge scale, American press release based mainly on a two- seemed to have a better impact than vegetable oil which the world seems unable to prevent. year study of 544 undernourished Kenyan and ignoring all the contrary evidence both from The food additive has been tested on children, completed in December 2000 and the Kenyan study and from direct studies of published in the Journal of Nutrition in November western vegans. animals and found likely to produce 2003. We can only conclude that certain sections of cancer in them. Since animals react diffe- As usual, the original information evolved the press are only concerned with creating sensa- rently to animals and animals also differ beyond all recognition as it moved from scientific tional news in order to sell papers, and will distort in reactions between themselves, it paper to press release to soundbite: «There’s the facts to suit their ends. should be uncertain whether humans will absolutely no question that it’s unethical for It seems incredible that the media can still also get cancer from the additive, but it is parents to bring up their children as strict vegans», pretend that there is something wrong with the proper to be on the safe side and the Food proclaimed certain sections of the media. (e.g. vegan diet when so many children have been Standards Agency was right to call for http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/.health/4282257.stm successfully raised on a strict vegan diet and the withdrawal of product containing The scientific paper compared groups of grown to healthy adults. A visit to the annual Sudan 1. Kenyan children given three food supplements: Vegan Camp proves that numerous vegan children Sudan 1 is a colouring that was added meat, milk and vegetable oil. Three measures of are healthy and full of energy. to an ingredient of Lea and Perrins mental development were taken: Raven’s visuo- The Press Release from The Vegan Society Worcester Sauce. Most vegans ill be spatial test, verbal meaning and arithmetic. On all which exposed this falsehood also announces the aware that the "real" recipe for Worcester three measures, the vegetable oil group beat the publication later this year of a book Raising your Sauce includes anchovies (a fish) and milk group and on two measures the vegetable oil Vegan Infant – With Confidence. will be avoiding it anyway. There is a group beat the meat group. vegan alternative available. What is amazing is the number of New Vegan Magazine to be launched products in which this ingredient was Realfood are going to produce a UK vegan magazine with a cover used. Reading the labels and their lists of price of £1. It will be available on subscription for only £6 for 6 ingredients makes one wonder at the at bi-monthly copies. The first edition is 8 pages and is available to the complexity of what is thought of as a download for free from their website at www.realfood.org.uk. simple product. Some are preservatives The next edition will be available in March which will be that keep give the product a longer shelf extended to 20 glossy pages. They need agents to help sell the life, such as salt and sugar, which we magazine in their area – contact Realfood on 0845 458 0146 if donít need too much of, also other preser- you are interested. vatives, whose names may be less Realfood are based in the Midlands, and are the organisers of the North West Vegan Festival and the Heart of England Vegan familiar. Others additives are flavourings Festival. They also hold vegan food fairs which are stalls offering and flavour enhancers to give the product free vegan food to the general public in various different towns to an agreeable taste, but not necessarily promote veganism – see VV102 Grassroots News for details. adding to its nutritive value. Some They recently launched their new information trailer which they flavourings are made up in chemical will be taken round festivals and town centres. One of Realfood’s labs to simulate the real thing. For campaigns is against ‘Freedom Foods’ as promoted by the instance, products tasting of strawberry RSPCA – Royal Society for the Promotion of Caring Abattoirs as or raspberry may not contain any of these Realfood have re-christened them. The RSPCA promote animal farming with higher welfare standards, . Others are colourings (such as although some organisations have criticised these standards for being only a small improvement on Sudan 1) to make it look fresh - for current practices in the animal-farming industry. The RSPCA also have meat recipes on their website to instance green peas quickly lose their promote their ‘Freedom Foods’. colour and have green colouring added. There are literally thousands of New vegan café in Manchester additives used in food production and it is said that many of them have never Shortly after we put our ‘Eating Out in shops and cafés. As one of the volunteers been tested for safety. People generally Manchester’ article together for VV103, we heard explains: «The reputation of Manchester’s seem to have lost the art of cooking about this new radical bookshop + fully vegan Northern Quarter is of being a vibrant, happening simple meals in spite of the popularity of café in Manchester… community but a lot of the new additions have Cookery Books and TV Demonstrations. A new alternative political bookshop called been shops with trendy branding. We feel we can They seem to accept that their meals ‘The Basement’ opened in Manchester in widen the spectrum a bit. We want somewhere to come from ready-pre-packed made December 2004. The Basement stocks a diverse represent the energy and ideas of people who dishes to take home and pop into the range of books and merchandise dealing with think there is more to life than just shopping. microwave. They seem unable or contemporary political and social issues and There are loads of interesting things going on in unwilling to wash a lettuce and buy them celebrating grassroots culture. Within the Manchester. There always have been. We want to more expensively ready washed and bookshop there is also a cheap vegan, fair trade make it easy for people to find them and get and organic café; free internet access; a mini- involved. We’re not just a shop, but a gateway to packed in plastic. They seem unable or library for customers to browse some of the many another world.» unwilling to take their own sandwiches titles on sale; an information space; and an If you are in need of a few interesting gifts but to work, but spend more money buying exhibition space. weary with consumerism and in serious need of a them out.. Manchester has a proud tradition of grass roots brew, a place to put your feet up, check your email If you buy your own ingredients and community action and a diverse culture. and chat about the state of the world, then this is prepare your own meals, at least you Continuing in this tradition, The Basement is not- the place for you. know what is in them and that for vegans for-profit and is run by volunteers who were The Basement, 24 Lever St (just off Piccadilly is important. brought together by the anti-war movement with a Gardens) M1. 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Also available Other vegan dishes include: all pastas and from a few shops. noodles that don’t have egg in them, rice I bet you wear leather shoes! dishes, beans and lentils, wheat, oats, barley, The Vegan Society was founded on changes in rye, maize, cous cous and chick peas. Vegan what people eat and that is the basis of defining This symbol is the trade cookbooks are full of tasty recipes to guide you. a vegan, but from the start vegans have wanted mark of The Vegan Society, There is soya milk, , , to avoid all animal exploitation in their way of which it permits to be used almond milk, soy yogurts, soy cream and soya life. Nowadays it is reasonably easy to find on products which fulfil their no animal ice creams as well as sorbets. non-leather footwear and belts. Leather coats ingredients, no animal testing criteria. It Vegans avoid gelatin. 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Nutritionists are satisfied that Conventional medicine is often based on cru- peoples, sustainable within the planet’s vegans do have a nutritious diet. Beans, lentils el animal experiments. Alternatives are herbal- resources and free from all animal and nuts are rich in protein. ism, homeopathy, acupuncture and other ways. exploitation. Annual subscription £5 (or what you are able to afford) includes the quarterly journal New Leaves. SAE for Subscribe to Vegan Views! details to 105 Cyfyng Road, Ystalyfera, It is easy to subscribe to Vegan Views. Fill in Postage is included. Swansea SA9 2BT. Tel. 01639 841223. the form or write a letter. (Remember to include Europe and surface mail overseas four Web: www.mclveganway.org.uk your payment.) issues for £5 including postage. Vegan Organic Trust encourages and Airmail outside Europe four issues for £7 researches into non-animal growing Subscription rates including postage. techniques. 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The Plant Milk Trust was established in ❏ 103 Looking Round Manchester. ❏ 94 Vegan Organic Network 1976 to promote soya milk and other vegan ❏ 102 Our Prehistoric Diet ❏ 93 Nutritional Supplements foods, particularly in the areas of research ❏ 101 Interview with Vegan Village ❏ 92 and publicity. It is managed by five devoted ❏ 100 Vegan Views: The early years ❏ 89 Feeding the world honorary trustees. Gifts or legacies are most ❏ 99 No More Fish ❏ 88 Farming crisis welcome, and all monies received are totally devoted to the Trust’s work, without ❏ 98 Food co-ops ❏ 87 Meat in crisis any administrative expenses. 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SOUTH each month. Details: George Barwick. Tel: London Vegan & Vegetarian Families To publicise your meetings, appeal to 01792 518773 Group If interested contact Lesley on 020 meet vegans or request penpals, Email: [email protected] 8861 1233 or email [email protected] please send details for this page. We Carmarthen Vegetarian Friends We are London Vegans meet on last Wednesday of also put these details on our website. nearly all vegans and we meet socially on the the month (except December) 6:30 – 9:30pm at The Vegan Society have their own first Tuesday of each month at 11.30am at the Millman St Community Rooms, Millman St, local contacts – see the Vegan Waverley Vegetarian Restaurant, Lammas St, London WC1. 24 hour info line: 020 8931 magazine for details, or their website Carmarthen. Just come, or to check phone 1904. Web: www.londonvegans.org.uk at www.vegansociety.com for a list. 01267 241547 or [email protected] London Animal Action A local animal rights The Vegetarian Society have affiliated group campaigning against all forms of animal local groups and information centres MIDLANDS cruelty, e.g. the , the meat industry, which often include vegans – see Shropshire Malcolm Cramp Tel: 01952 animal experiments and hunting, and for a way www.vegsoc.org/network for a list. 432874. [email protected] of life not based on the exploitation of animals, Nottingham The Animal Rights people or the environment. BM Box 2248, check where/if the meeting will take place. Confederation meet on the first Monday of the WC1N 3XX. Tel 0845 458 4775. Norfolk Vegetarian & Vegan Society Jane month from about 7pm, usually at the Sumac Web: www.londonvegans.org.uk Johnson, 17 St Austins Grove, Sheringham, Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Email: [email protected] Norfolk, NR26 8DF. Tel. 01263 821609. Nottingham. Social, speaker, snacks. Phone Vegetarian and Vegan Gay Group Email: [email protected] beforehand 0845 458 9595 for details. (London) Informal social & campaign group Web: www.vegfolk.co.uk Email: [email protected] meets in London on the last Sunday of each Solent Vegetarians & Vegans John Curtis, Birmingham Vegetarians & Vegans c/o 5 month and has other events for gay, lesbian, 31 Cranbury Rd, Eastleigh, Hants SO50 5HB. Esher Road, Kingstanding, Birmingham B44 bisexual and transgender vegetarians, vegans, Tel. 023 80643813. Email: [email protected] 9QJ. Tel: 0121 353 2442. fruitarians and raw foodies and their friends, Web: www.ivu.org/solentveg Leicester & Rutland Campaigning for and those who would like to be. Further details: Bournemouth Vegetarians & Vegans Tel. Animals to promote ways people in their information line: 020 7713 9063. 01202 555712. Email: [email protected]. everyday life can help animals by making a few Email: [email protected] Web: www.ivu.org/uklocal/bournemouth. simple changes such as buying non animal- Web: www.vvgg.freeserve.co.uk Isle of Wight Vegetarians & Vegans Tel. tested products & adopting a vegetarian or Bedford Vegetarians Tel 01234 365651. 01983 407098. Email: [email protected] vegan diet. Sam McCreesh (youth local contact Web: www.bedfordvegetarians.co.uk Web: www.iwvv.org.uk for Animal Aid, PETA VIVA! and The Veggiesocials Social group covering London Penzance Vegans social group currently Vegetarian Society). + South East. Web: www.veggiesocials.co.uk meet each Wednesday, 8pm in the Bath Inn pub Email: [email protected] Vegan Essex meet 1st Tuesday every month (right-hand bar), Cornwall Terrace, Penzance. Web: www.campaigningforaniumals.co.uk at Brentwood School Sports Hall (Courage To confirm details, please call 01736 786473 or Hall, Middleton Hall Lane). email [email protected] NORTH Web: www.veganessex.org Web: www.wiz.to/penzancevegans Sheffield Vegan Society meet in the Kingston & Richmond Vegetarians Guildford Vegetarians welcomes vegans to upstairs room of the Fat Cat, Alma St, Kelham welcome vegans. Send SAE for programme to its varied programme of events (see local Island, on the first Wednesday of the month. John, 49 Harrowdene Gdns, Teddington, groups listings on www.vegsoc.org/network) Business 7:30pm, and then social 9pm. Contact Middlesex TW11 0DJ. for further information or to join the email list PO Box 537, Rotherham S66 7WW. Harlow Lian Tyler, the Vegan Society and ring 01483 425040. Tel: 0114 258 8869. Vegetarian Society Local Contact for Harlow Thames Valley Vegans & Vegetarians Web: www.sheffieldvegansociety.org.uk has compiled an online Vegan guide to Harlow social events, veggie and vegan support and Doncaster & Area Vegans & Vegetarians and the surrounding areas. Tel: 07754 166813. info, talks and presentations, displays, infor- meet about once a month for socialising in Web: www.veganharlow.co.uk mation stands in the Reading area. Web: various ways (e.g. walks, picnics, meals out, Email: [email protected] www.makessense.co.uk/tvvvs yoga). Ring Vivien on 01405 769730. Hastings Animal SHAC meet every second East Riding Vegans meet once a month for Tuesday of the month. Phone: 01424 430 425 WALES socialising. New members welcome. Mark, 140 or e-mail: [email protected] to Swansea Vegans meet on third Monday of Victoria Avenue, Hull, HU5 3DT. Web: www.merrydowncontrolware.co.uk/ervegans Email: ervegans@merrydowncontrol- ware.co.uk Useful websites Tel: 01482 471119. General Vegan online shopping Leeds Vegetarian & Vegan Society Meet www.veganvillage.co.uk www.isitvegan.info (vegan foods/drinks) twice a month for various social events and www.btinternet.com/~bury_rd (Vegan News: www.isitveggie.com (vegan foods/drinks) activities, fantastic pot luck lunches, newsletter free on-line magazine) www.crueltyfreeshop.com (Dr Hadwen Trust) every few months. For a programme and/or newsletter ring Natalie on 0113 2484044 or www.eco-centric.co.uk (A website for vegans www.veganstore.co.uk email [email protected] and people interested in alternate lifestyles in North Riding Vegetarians & Vegans the UK/Ireland) Vegan-run business lists Meals, walks, theatre etc. Patricia, tel/fax 0845 Artists, accountants, translators… 458 4714 (BT local rate). Lists of Veggie Restaurants & cafés www.veggies.org.uk/vbc.htm Email: [email protected] www..net (worldwide) www.veganvillage.co.uk/services.htm Cumbrian Vegans Are you interested in www.vegdining.com (worldwide) joining a local group for shared www.veggieheaven.com (UK) Vegetarian information information/support? If you are then please call www.vegetarianvisitor.co.uk www.vegsoc.org (UK vegetarian Society) Mandy on 01900 817038. www.ivu.org (International Vegetarian Union) Travel www.planetveggie.co.uk (Planet Veggie) www.vegetariansabroad.com www.campaigningforanimals.co.uk 19 Campaigning for Animals

The story of a dedicated young animal rights campaigner and horse-lover, Sam McCreesh The new kid on the block of Animal Rights campaigning has got to be 15 year old Sam McCreesh, who lives at home in rural Leicestershire and Rutland. Sam first got into animal rights two years ago after picking up a leaflet about Hillside Animal Sanctuary in a Norfolk holiday cottage whilst on a summer break. Then a meat-eater, he was intrigued by the sanctuary’s investigation work into Factory Farming, which was an eye opener as he was previously unaware of the conditions in which meat is produced. Two months later Sam announced he was going vegetarian, and it took him three months to stop eating meat, and a further seven months to give up fish, at which point he joined The Vegetarian Society. Says Sam “I became vegetarian because I couldn’t justify the cruelty involved in factory farming, and although I could have chosen to eat so- called free range or organic meat, factory farming just put me off eating meat altogether. It just isn’t necessary to eat dead animals when you can live perfectly healthily on a plant-based diet”. Around the time of going vegetarian, Sam also discovered his love for horses. “I took up riding after seeing some quite advanced riders jumping and thought it looked really fun” explained Sam, who has now been riding for one and a half years and is at Pony Club Gold level. “I want to campaign for the rights of all animals but my greatest love are horses, and I fully support Animal Aid’s Horse Racing campaign and Viva!’s campaign to end the export of live horses from Poland to Italy”. In September 2004 Sam was made the first youth contact for Animal Aid, the UK’s biggest animal rights organisation. Around that time Sam also became a youth contact for The Vegetarian Society, a local contact for Viva! (Vegetarians International Voice for Animals) and a member of the PETA2 Street Team (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). Sam is also an ardent member of the RSPCA, Viva!, Animal Aid, Redwings Horse Sanctuary, Dr.Hadwen Trust and The Vegetarian Society, born, destined to change the history books help animals in their everyday lives, by making and sponsors horses at Hillside Animal forever, and things will certainly go from a a few simple changes such as buying non Sanctuary, Redwings Horse Sanctuary, Bransby local to national level if he fulfils his ambition animal-tested products & adopting a Home of Rest for Horses, and a dog called Sam of working for a peacefully campaigning vegetarian or vegan diet, and includes copies of at Dogs Trust Snetterton! animal rights group in the future. Comments his series of guides, local campaigning work Sam has also written a series of guides aimed Sam “All animals should be treated as equally and various national campaigns, as well as a to encourage others to follow in his footsteps. as humans and I am determined to make a brilliant fun & games section suitable for all The series consists of 3 different guides called positive difference to their lives. Too many ages. In the Eyes of a Teenage Vegetarian – A animals are used and abused in this appalling Teenager’s Guide to Going, Being and Staying world and I am going to help put an end to their Veggie!, Getting Involved with The Vegetarian suffering!” Society – A Guide for All Ages and Abolish If you would like to contact Sam you can do so HUNTING IS KILLING Cruelty: The Essential Guide to Campaigning by e-mail at for Animal Rights. The enthusiastic teenager [email protected] or to in the name of SPORT has also launched his own website, receive monthly email updates about Sam’s SAVAGERY in the www.campaigningforanimals.co.uk and does work send a blank email to e-news@campaig- several information stalls and displays every ningforanimals.co.uk with the subject name of TRADITION year. SUBSCRIBE. One thing is for certain – a hard working and Sam’s own website, www.campaigningfora- determined animal rights campaigner has been nimals.co.uk aims to promote ways people can