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A Forum for Vegan Opinion No. 114 Spring 2008 £1

In this Issue: 4 Books 9 Cartoon 14 Vegan Organic Growing 6 Why I went Vegan 10 Feeding the Hungry 15 Recipes 7 Cultured Meat 11 Words from the Wise 17 Vegans in your Area 8 Letters 12 A Look at the News 20 Simplify...and Survive

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Survival is Front cover picture wanted to grow up strong and healthy. Blooming Marvellous by Ruth Lewis. a great compulsion and soldiers are taught how Thanks to Diane Cooper for being the to eat worms and insects in desperate The earliest recorded civilisations, in the model. Ruth tells us that she wanted to circumstances. fertile crescent where we now find Iraq, Iran and Egypt, were based on the cultivation of make the cover picture more positive this The Biblical description of the origins of grains such as barley. Those primitive humans time. mankind show them in a Garden setting and who had moved out of the restrictive their 'fall' expels them to a harsher world. Our environment of the forest, now flourished as Post address word 'paradise' apparently comes from a large communities and civilisations. A step Vegan Views, Persian word for a walled garden. Evolutionary forward in human progress. 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Vegan Views 3 attitude they bear on how we should relate to be allowed to drain out. The reason for this is Vegetarian Visitor 2008 animals, namely in a compassionate attitude, mainly hygienic and is similar to the Jewish Where to stay and eat in Britain not in despotic dominion. method of slaughter which is accepted as legal edited by Annemarie Weitzel £2-50. ISBN 978- in this country, despite the fact that the general 1-00-7906067. Published by Jon Carpenter, law is that animals should be stunned before Alder House, Market Street, Charlbury OX7 slaughter. The author discusses this subject at 3PH. Available from Jon Carpenter great length. Although the Islamic method of Publishing, Direct Sales, 2 Home Farm slaughter appears to be the same and many Cottages, St. Paul's Cray, Kent BR5 3HZ. £2- Muslims accept animals slaughtered under 50postage included. Jewish rules and declared to be 'kosher', the author goes to great lengths to point out that the Islamic rules have as their chief concern a duty of causing the least suffering to the animal and considers that stunning prior to slaughter should cause less pain, but the Jewish authorities insist that stunning is not acceptable. The author debates this at length producing much scientific and medical data. The author's own attitude to animal welfare and animal rights is clearly stated in the following extract from his preamble. "The purpose of the book being to show that the sacred texts of Islam show that animals should be treated with care and concern. Although the Prophet Mohammed allowed his followers to eat meat, after all this was customary in his day, he never said that they should and there are numerous A central text is that "all the creatures on earth, instances when he rebuked people for cruelty and all the birds that fly with wings are or neglect of animals. communities like you" (Qu'ran 6.38) meaning Human greed and self-indulgence needed some that animal species are created as species in excuse, however flimsy, to exploit animals; their own right with their own purpose in the and the institution of religion offered them that great scheme of creation and they were not excuse by disseminating the creed of man's created, as has long been held and is still unconstrained dominion and domination over A guide to Guest Houses, hotels and private assumed, created solely for humans to use (or the rest of God's creation. It is true that all the homes in England, Wales and Scotland abuse) as they wish for food, 'sport', religions have tried in their respective ways to offering hospitality to the vegetarian and vegan entertainment or any other purpose. strike an equitable balance in the mutual rights traveller, with cafés, restaurants and pubs and obligations between man and the rest of the serving vegetarian/vegan food. He also looks at the attitudes of other major religions that were established before the species. The Scriptures of all religions contain More than 600 entries, all fully checked just coming of Islam. expostulations on all kinds of cruelty to before publication. animals, but they have ceased to be taken Animal sacrifice is related to the days of seriously - either by the theologians or the Animal Welfare In Islam Abraham the patriarch of Israel who is also public. by Al-Hafiz Basheer Ahmad. Masri venerated by Islam. Abraham was prepared to sacrifice his only son. However incredible this The religious institutions are supposed to be Published by The Islamist Foundation. ISBN may seem to us today, this was common in there to give guidance to their respective 978 0 86037 595 1. Available from: primitive religions. He decided that it would be followers in all kinds of moral problems. If all Compassion in World Farming, River Court, more humane to sacrifice a goat in place of the the churches and temples, all the mosques and Mill Lane, Godalming GU7 1EZ. £10-80 inc. human sacrifice. Animal sacrifices as a synagogues were to make a concerted effort, to postage. 'scapegoat' became a significant part in Jewish bring their moral influence to bear. it would not religious practice. Islam seems to be following only educate their laities, but would also put This is a reprint of a book that the late Peter this tradition when the feast of Eid is celebrated pressure on the politicians and the economists Roberts of Compassion In World Farming by the public sacrifice of a lamb as a token of of the world most of whom are sitting on the invited the author to write and which was first their devotion. The author stresses, however, fence. Perhaps some religious leaders though, produced by the Athene Trust (a publishing that whilst those making the offering are still suffer from the misconceptions of the branch of CIWF) in 1989 allowed to eat of the meat, thy are enjoined to Middle Ages, when they believed that their The author, who has since died, was a greatly make sure that the poor and deprived are also only business was to deal with the human soul. respected scholar with wide experience and taken care of and that none of the food is Since animals are thought to have no soul, they knowledge of Islamic texts and his object was wasted. or left to rot. This feast involves large are not considered to be the responsibility of to explore the sacred texts of Islam in relation quantities of animals in Mecca, the authorities organised religion. to animal welfare and their relativity to the there take pains to recover surplus food and Let us hope a day will dawn when the great present day. send it to peoples in poor Islamic countries. It religious teachings may at last begin to bear is proposed that the main purpose of this fruit; when we shall see the start of a new era, This it does with impressive thoroughness, but festival is to ensure that the poor are taken care this book ranges far wider than this remit. The when man accords to animals the respect and of and it would be acceptable to make status they have long deserved and for so long author has studied widely not only in other charitable gifts to the poor instead. religions but he is also widely travelled and can been denied." relate to actual practices and has a good grasp Another contentious problem arises with the of the relevant physiology and medical slaughter of animals. for food. The rule is that A Window Into Nature knowledge. He stresses the underlying food animals should have their throats cut FINDINGS by Kathleen Jamie (Sort of Books meaning of the original texts to bring out the swiftly with a sharp knife and the blood should 2005, £6.99) 4 Vegan Views This book has nothing directly to do with rather less, but does that have something to do A pocket Guide in 56 languages explaining veganism or vegetarianism, and its author is with my vegan sensibility? what vegans eat and do not eat. not a vegetarian. It is, however, one of the most beautifully written books I have ever read and, The Maes Howe story "Darkness and Light" Growing Green - Techniques for a with its central theme being the observation of can be found on the web at Sustainable Future by Jenny Hall and Iain nature (with such a "sharpness of looking", http://books.guardian.co.uk/lrb/articles/0,,1124 Tolhurst. £18.99. ISBN 095522508. Published Andrew Marr's phrase) it ought to have an 890,00.html - and a Google search on Kathleen by The Vegan Organic Network (available appeal to anyone who enjoys the coast, the Jamie will lead you to many other references. from October Books). Growing fruit and veg without animal manures, blood fish & bone, countryside, and the birds and wild animals Malcolm Horne. that live here with us. etc. Besides, it's in a way challenging to see Eat, Drink and Be Vegan Vegetarian Guides publishes a number of through the eyes of someone so enormously by Dreena Burton. Published by Arsenal Pulp useful restaurant + B&B/Hotel guides: sympathetic and interested in nature who has Press, Vancouver ISBN 978-1-55152-224-1. Vegetarian Britain 2006, Vegetarian London not chosen the vegetarian route. A few years UK Distribution: Turnaround, Unit 3 Olympia 2005, Vegetarian Europe, Vegetarian France. ago, at our local vegan group in Swansea, and Trading Estate, Coburg Road, Wood Green, Details: www.vegetarianguides.co.uk. London N22 6TZ. www.turnaround-uk.com. then later on at the Vegan Summer Gathering, we ran a discussion on the theme of "what Dreena Burton has already published two makes some thoughtful or compassionate vegan cookbooks, which have been well Correction to Vegan people turn vegetarian, while others, perhaps received in North America: The Everyday equally or even more thoughtful or Vegan and Viva le Vegan. Views No. 113. compassionate, don't?" Perhaps readers would We apologise for a word on the third column of have suggestions, because as I recall we didn't There are 150 recipes with plenty of cooking page nine near the end of the third paragraph, manage to come to any great conclusions! notes and tips. She creates imaginative dishes which, for reasons we cannot explain, appears Except that small events in childhood, perhaps both savoury and sweet, some simple and as 'bslaning'. It should read 'balancing'. How observing some random cruelty towards others designed for special occasions to amaze the word got scrambled is puzzling and we animals, often seemed to develop a sympathy those who assume that vegan food must be dull apologise for the confusion this must have in people that would later lead to and unexciting. Pasta, Polenta and Potatoes are caused. We have corrected the error in the free vegetarianism. given a different slant and there are several downloadable version of the magazine on our new looks for Hummus. There are also many website. Kathleen Jamie is an award-winning and dishes for special occasions. It is an attractive acclaimed Scottish poet and writer, and paperback book, well presented and with 18 FINDINGS, a collection of eleven essays, colour photos. concentrates entirely on Scotland, and the Dedication Scottish landscape that she is so familiar with. The author lives in White Rock, British Ed: I came across this in Vegan Views no. 83 In one of these essays she is keeping a sharp Columbia. Canada and has a website: of 1999. It is even more relevant today. eye on the cliffside beyond her house in Fife, www.everydayvegan.com and a blog: binoculars at the ready, for nesting peregrines www.vivalevegan.blogspot.com What did you do in the war, daddy? ("I hear the peregrine's thin shriek, over and "I wasn't born then, son. They're over, anyway" over, like a turnstile pleading for oil"). In Skinny Bitch in the Kitch another it's searching for corncrakes on the The Best Selling Book Skinny Bitch has been "No, not in them big world wars. The wars Hebridean island of Coll, then it's watching the followed up with a vegan cookbook Skinny against starvation, cruelty to humans and salmon striving to leap homeward (and mostly Bitch in the Kitch, which has more than 75 animals, racism, abuse of the environment - failing) on the Highland river Braan. Or recipes, mostly aimed at new converts looking them wars." sailing off Mull alongside white-sided for substitutes for their conventional diet. "Well, son, when I saw the images on the TV dolphins, leaping, diving. Skinny Bitch in the Kitch by Rory Freedman of the starving, I cried. But this isn't just a book about the nature that's and Kim Barnouin. When I read in the newspapers about the out there around us, somehow separate. 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Vegan Views 5 puzzling is that so many people claim to be Why I Went environmentalists and yet they won't give up Don't Cause eating meat, the biggest destroyer of this earth. Vegan Kerry Barlow Panic Back in the 70s, my brother who was ten years When listening to a Radio Four programme older than me, dropped out of Teacher Training Ed: Will more readers tell us how they turned about bird flu, I heard an expert on epidemics College. He returned home and got a job in a vegan? say that about one quarter of a million people slaughterhouse. At the time I was only twelve died between 1850 and 1950 because, although years old and although I knew some of the The Only Way governments knew that bovine tuberculosis issues with regard to meat (my parents had was a cause of tuberculosis in humans, they been involved in farming prior to my birth) I were afraid that if people knew it, they might didn't see anything first hand. My father who Forward panic and stop drinking cows' milk. It would was a completely insensitive oaf, used to tell There have been several programmes on the seem that cases of tuberculosis in humans fell us all about the cows bellowing for a week television highlighting the cruel treatment of substantially when milk started to be tested for after their calves who had been taken away our animals for food, and the growing obesity tuberculosis. Although this secrecy is shocking from them. He didn't see anything wrong with among the population worldwide. enough, what is even more shocking is that this this and was completely incapable of putting The TV programme showed two ways in which fact is not widely known. Can it be that himself in another man's shoes and chickens are reared, one organically and the governments don't want us to suspect that they understanding the anguish that those animal other way in which chickens are kept in are capable of withholding scientific truths? were going through. He used to tell us how he unnatural conditions so that people can buy shot feral cats that came round stealing his In the BSE crisis of the 1990s, we were told at cheap food. We have known about the cruel first that this dreadful disease could in no way chickens when they were trying to feed their and terrible conditions in which these young young. There were tales in plenty and my be transmittable to humans. and they vilified chickens are reared for a long time due mainly respected researchers who said it could. Only young mind was taking it all in and starting to to the dedicated activists who have raided such view the world in a different way. when the facts became only too self-evident places. did the authorities admit it was transmittable to About the same time as my brother dropped I saddens many of us that virtually all creatures humans. Fortunately the disease did not spread out of college, we went on holiday to France who share this planet earth with us are at the as widely as it might have. Panic did occur and were fishing one day on the beach. I joined mercy of mankind. Over the years mankind has when the truth had to be admitted and sales of in as I had been taught to, but this particular been responsible for the extermination of many beef plummeted by a half, though confidence time I caught a fish. I was horrified and wanted species, thus depriving the up and coming was soon regained as the panic subsided. to put it back; but they didn't let me and generations of ever seeing them. instead, the fish went back to the camp with us There is still a continuing problem with the for supper. I didn't eat it. Another reality had From a religious point of view, people were intensive rearing of food animals and its impact come home to me. taught about the life of Jesus, and to obey the on human health. The widespread use of ten commandments as a way of life. antibiotics both for treating diseased animals My brother stayed on working at the Considering its long history, it has failed and as growth promoters results in the slaughterhouse and gained promotion until he miserably to have had any impact on people development of disease-resisting bacteria and was managing it. He came home and told us living today, so much so, we have had two viruses, so that doctors find it increasingly about the tumours that they would cut off the world wars, but no one has learned from them. more difficult to find an effective drug to use meat and the abscesses that they would burst In fact there is more crime in the world today on humans. with the pus being swilled off before sending than ever there was, dishonesty, greed, murder, There is presently a concern that cow's milk the meat through for human consumption. I you name it, we are all living amongst it. remember him having to go to the could be associated with the increase in breast slaughterhouse on Christmas morning to feed Did you know that one acre of land will cancer in women. Professor Plant was neither the cattle that were there waiting to be physically support nine adults, but to grow vegan nor even vegetarian when she developed slaughtered on Boxing Day. I remember food to feed animals to eat for food you will breast cancer and cannot be accused of bias in thinking about the terror they must have been only support one adult.? This is a huge waste this matter, but repeated experience with the going through. Years later, he went to work for of resources, and at the same time putting disease convinced her, as a scientist, of the another slaughterhouse that kept a Judas Cow, pressure on farmers to produce more meat at direct connection between that form of cancer a cow that was kept there full time and would the expense of animals' welfare. and the drinking of cow's milk. You would be led through in front of new arrivals to make think that she, at least, would be taken Did you also know that 50 years ago meat was it easier to deal with them. I also had a sister seriously and listened to with respect, because responsible for 85% of the world's food who wore a mink coat, another who wore a health authorities are very concerned about the poisoning; it is now considered that to be over rabbit coat and a brother who got his jollies out high level of breast cancer in women. 90%? Did you also know that the consumption of shooting at anything that moved. However, they are much more concerned about of meat is responsible for 18% of global the panic that might be created if women were At the age of sixteen, I started to become warming, compared with 13% on public advised to avoid dairy products - which is what involved in animal welfare organisations and transport? Professor Plant is advising. The profits of a became a vegetarian, later becoming vegan. I large sector of farming and retailing would be Mr. Singh who is now 98 or could be now 99 found chocolate the hardest thing to give up. severely hit. Nevertheless, we have to face years of age is a life Vegetarian, so were his (This was 20 years ago and the choice of vegan reality. parents. For the past 13 years he has been a chocolate is much wider now). Living at home, Vegan. He runs ten miles most days , and his it wasn't easy to change my diet, but I was Present intensive animal farming has a great ambition in life is to run the marathon when he determined and persevered. Understandably I impact on our general health, because of the is one hundred years of age. had little in common with my family, but way animals are reared and treated, and when we consider that animals need play no part in slowly but surely had less and less to do with Many of us believe that the only way forward our diet and we were probably never designed them, until I severed all ties. I feel that in the world today is for everyone to adopt a to use any animals as part of our optimum diet somewhere along the line the gods made a Vegan way of life. By doing so we would the need for great changes becomes even more mistake and put me with the wrong family. eradicate starvation, cruelty and make the important. The sooner we face the facts the Being a vegan is a very isolating life and where world a far safer place for humans, animals, better. Ignoring facts only makes things worse you have little in common with the mass of the and the environment. population. Living in a rural community, where in the long run. Bob Cramp. death and destruction is the norm, is an even H Mather more isolating experience than town and city dwelling. The one thing that I find most 6 Vegan Views Cultured Meat Can Ruin Factory Farming Cultured meat is meat created artificially using history of animal rights or even of civil society the current situation for factory farmed muscle cells, in contrast to reared meat taken activity. But reared meat consumption can be animals. Even if encouraging the potential of from slaughtered animals. Its manufacture uses reduced even in the most difficult campaigning cultured meat is - contentiously - viewed as a comparatively tiny number of animals, and environments by replacement with cultured toleration of continuing abuse of animals by one of the major production techniques does meat. Its production technology can slip across humans, the benefits for animals of successful not require any killing. Many animal rights borders with multinational companies or commercialisation overwhelm the activists have given cautious support to returning expatriate students, and presents little disadvantages in every possible circumstance cultured meat because it could replace reared challenge to public values in industrial now and in the future. meat on supermarket shelves if it is cheap societies and no challenge to their political enough. You may have seen my letter about it systems. Cultured meat could reduce the huge suffering in Vegan Views last autumn. caused by the reared meat industry, as well as Because technology can undergo simultaneous the pollution, diseases, and inefficiency. It is a Compared with methods such as lobbying, the and self-sustaining spread through different new and evolving technology, and people do development of cultured meat requires much companies around the world, cultured meat not know how quickly it will emerge and how less work to deflect consumption from reared could lead to a cascading reduction in the it will use animals. In addition to the scientific meat. For animal welfare and rights activists amount of animal suffering. Moreover the challenges, there are questions of how to who can influence its development, it offers a benefits would be permanent, since the facilitate the rapid global spread of the highly effective means of operation. As the knowledge of a financially successful technology, and how to ensure that meat number of activists is small, it helps make the production technology is not easily lost. producers make the jump from production of best use of limited resources. Animal welfare would no longer be merely reared meat to cultured meat. Despite some dependent on in changes of public morality and problems, cultured meat gives a realistic hope Rearing animals is an inherently inefficient awareness. of ruining completely the reared meat industry, way to produce meat because of the low value and animal rights activists could be leading its of much of their bodies and waste to producers. There are arguments against cultured meat, of development. Cultured meat, by removing everything apart course. One is that the product is associated by from meat during production, should be able to reputation with slaughter and slaughterers, if James Waters, www.antimeat.org undercut the price of reared meat in the long not itself actually requiring killing. This is a run. At present, cultured meat is still under good argument for vegans to avoid eating the More virtues of plants development and so is expensive. product. It is not a good argument for Looking back some thirty years, I found this opposition, when cultured meat offers a Large companies are responsible for most of high praise for the value of plants in a review significant chance to reduce animal suffering in an old vegetarian magazine: the 2,500 animals killed each second for food, hugely. driven by the push for profit. Cultured meat "The power of Plants" by Brendan Lehane can turn the situation around, so that profit- A more serious charge is that cultured meat (1977), a book divided into five chapters chasing producers would abandon reared meat production still involves the suffering and representing the power of plants - power to and make factory farming rivals financially slaughter of animals. Some methods do kill survive, power to sustain, power to heal and uncompetitive. The process has already begun, animals, in order to extract cells. However, the kill, power to alter consciousness and power with finance for cultured meat innovation forms of production most likely to be over the spirit. provided by the Sara Lee food company. Once commercially viable would not require large- financially successful production is established, scale slaughter of animals, which would be "By means of plants, the rays of the sun are adoption by companies around the world can expensive and defeat the financial purpose of a transformed into flesh. Alone of all life-forms , be very rapid. shift to cultured meat. One of the leading plants can not only catch sunlight but - by a methods used in research involves animal unique alchemy - compound it with terrestrial Development of cultured meat is highly biopsies, without the need to kill at all. It ingredients to make the basic food and efficient as a means of potentially reducing appears that a single cell could generate a huge substance of all things.... If there were a region reared meat consumption because it targets the amount of meat, because cells grow in number where infinite beauty and infinite peace operation of meat producers precisely. Many very quickly, although it would take a scientist prevailed over the dark and over the tormented animal rights interventions try to change public to determine the smallest viable number of aspects of earthly life, it could not be pictured opinion, leading to changed behaviour by cells to satisfy global meat demand. If activists without plants. In every religion and consumers or regulators, leading to changed reject production of cultured meat entirely, cosmology, heaven is a garden." behaviours by meat producers. Necessary as they reject methods which need almost no this process is, it is time-consuming and if animal input. Food for Africa there are any gaps in it, animal abuse can GM crops are promoted as being the solution continue. Cultured meat production can be Some activists may take a strict animal rights for producing more food for Africans. But if adopted by all large meat producers no matter or abolitionist position that animals should not they are short of food why do we import food what they, the public, or the government think be used in the development, production, or from Africa and not leave the food there in the about animal welfare. even intellectual conception of cultured meat in first place? Planting food trees in Africa would any circumstances. In its implication, such a Cultured meat presents a challenge to reared help compensate for the trees being destroyed stance goes far beyond most rights or in the tropical forests of the Amazon, which are meat which complements traditional campaign abolitionist positions. Firstly, the benefits of methods. On their own, traditional methods are being cleared because of the demand for meat cultured meat accrue principally to the species by the rich nations. unlikely to succeed in the huge challenge of which are used in cultured meat production, bringing down the reared meat industry. which is frequently not the case with human Although they have achieved major successes use of animals. Secondly, and much more for animal welfare, the trend in recent decades importantly, there is no other likely use of No smiles has been for continuous, massive increases in animals which comes remotely close to the global slaughter for meat. astronomic net benefits to animals which in food miles

Growth in meat production is greatest in large would follow from successful marketing of developing countries such as India and China, cheap cultured meat. The usual absolute rights Grow locally where consumers are eating much more meat position protects animals from the possibility as they become richer. For the global animal of worse long-run outcomes than the purported Think globally rights movement, there are difficulties in short-term benefits of their use in some Vegan Organic Network campaigning in countries without a strong situation. It is hard to see how any long-run outcome could be worse than continuation of www.veganorganic.net Vegan Views 7 everyone); to prove we can grow organic meals News from Prison for our own family. And, if on the move, a Just wanted to say thank you to your readers fridge/freezer would be unnecessary and you for sending reading material to me (Electricity/gas also). As for washing while I have been in isolation prison cells for clothes/blankets, these could be done with an 23-24 hours a day. Since I wrote awhile back, outdoor fire. Sprouted grains may prove the Department of Corrections has transferred Malcolm*AT*planetwave.net or ring me in the helpful as a handy alternative to 'cooked' me three times. On May 7, 2007 some prison UK (up to late April) on 01792 792442. greens. Chickpeas could be eaten from the can, guards at the Washington State Penitentiary Malcolm Horne. baked beans too. if you need them. Intensive Management Unit punched me in my face and ear causing black eye, black and blue Malcolm's current home near Swansea was Indeed fresh raw food, free of toxins is the left ear, and facial swelling. These cowards open to vegan visitors. This availability may be answer for everyone (if only they knew it). doing this whilst I am handcuffed behind my taken on by Robert Howes, but this has not yet They would not only provide all the necessary back. On May 11, 2007, I was transferred to been confirmed. Malcolm was one of the nutrients, but would also provide all the Washington Corrections Centre in Shelton founders of Vegan Views. liquid/water we require. Having a nibble Washington to their Intensive Management continually throughout the day would prevent Unit (IMU). The Custody Unit Supervisor Cafés in England hunger-pangs - better than big, heavy photographed my injuries. Whilst I was at Dear All, processed meals lacking in goodness. Shelton IMU I filed a complaint to the I'm writing to tell you that my friend took me Washington State Division of Risk I hope you will consider my thoughts, to a lovely little café in Sheffield: 23, Management. The Sate of Washington did Chesterfield Road. They do a lot of vegan Thank you, nothing about it due to them covering each food. It is open Tuesday to Saturday 10am till others' backs. Later I wrote a sworn declaration Ann. 10pm; Sunday 10am till 4pm. It is called 'The to the United States Department of Justice. On Bohemian' and has a lovely ambience. Editor: Can anyone suggest an alternative to December 4, 2007, I received a letter from the "the world's your oyster"? United States Department of Justice Federal Has anyone heard of 'Zeolite'? It is good for so Bureau of Investigation. Carlton L. Peebles, many ailments. It is a naturally occurring Ann also sent us a cutting from a local paper Chief Civil Rights Unit, Criminal Investigative negatively charged mineral, with a unique about a couple living in a Mongolian Yurt and Division saying he forwarded the information crystalline structure. Formed from the fusion of small workshop who have been asked by Mid to the FBI in Seattle, Washington. I also wrote volcanic lava and ocean water, it combines four Devon District Council to give up the home to Amnesty International, Human Rights elements: air, water. earth and fire. It has been they have lived in for seven years because it Watch, American Civil Liberties Union, and used for 800 years throughout Asia and has has no planning permission and it could other organisations concerning prisoner abuses been under research for 13 years of encourage gypsies and travellers to move to by Washington State Penitentiary prison guards pharmaceuticals in US. Contact Simon at the woodland, where Marcus works as a here in the US. I found out that some of the Bronze Age Nutrition on 01723 501444. For woodman, guards who assaulted me also assaulted another more information. (973) 654-4665 at any time. A local parish councillor says that Marcus and prisoner two years ago and broke that Sarah are "highly valued and respected prisoner's back requiring major surgery. Now There is a new Buddhist café opening in members of the community. They bring that prisoner has permanent scars on his back. Holme Road, Matlock Bath, which is fantastic. woodcraft and knowledge and skills that are Since ruffling the feathers of the State of Re my letter: in the last issue about my brother rapidly dying out. We believe their low impact Washington Department of Corrections, I have in USA and his books on Cats and Dogs. His and entirely sustainable life-style should be been having problems getting my legal work. name is Dr.M.W.Fox. He has a website: supported and protected." Marcus comes from They are holding all my legal papers hostage www.naturalchoicehealth.co.uk a family of foresters and is trying to set up a trying to cause emotional distress and woodland so that people can come and learn preventing a Federal Civil Rights complaint Love, Light and Blessings about things like coppicing from being filed since all the facts and paper Sue Fox. evidence is in my property. What they don't Sadly for anyone hoping to set up a self- know is that all the other agencies I wrote to Raw Food is Best sufficient vegan village, planning authorities also have at least a copy of the facts I sent Dear Sir/Madam, will view them with suspicion. them. Washington State Department of Correction has been abusing prisoners for I was very impressed by the television V.V. in Libraries years, only now I am going to expose the abuse programme: 'Crank Diets' where raw-foodists Sonia Gwilliam wanted her local libraries to the best way I can by writing and telling the (vegan) gave me much to consider. Not only is display Vegan Views, however, she has world all about it. it free of chemicals, there is virtually no received the following reply from Lancashire ''packaging'; therefore is environmentally- Michael Donery / Doc.# 977806/A108 County Council: friendly too! Special Offender Unit Thank you for the donations of the two Vegan There are more 'dried' organic foods available magazines however, on consultation, we feel PO Box 54 than ever before, and to 'travel light' vegans there is not a significant interest in the subject could join travellers (or become vegan to warrant a regular subscription so we will Monroe, WA 98272 USA. travellers). I have studied vitamins, minerals, not be taking you up on your offer. etc. for years, therefore am well equipped to Project in Poland travel by bicycle with a pack of dried, organic Senior Librarian. In May this year I'm planning to move to vegan food, knowing I am healthy. Just a bottle Poland. I've got together with Polish vegan of mineral water and the world is my oyster! friends and we've acquired a large property Does anyone share these views? Surely the Home at last with about seven acres of land in the deep world would be a far better place if we all A mussel found its way back to its seashore south east of the country (about 90 miles east shared this view. home after being put in the post. Lynda of Krakow, and then down a bit, not too far Thornton put it in a padded envelope after she For warmth, nylon leggings and jackets - from forests, nature parks and the beautiful found it in a bucketful of shells her son had layered clothing would keep out the cold. Carpathian Mountains). My friends and their collected on a trip to North Wales. She posted three children are already there, and our future Everyone I know wants to get out of the rat- it to a marine biologist who took the mussel plans include vegan/vegetarian B&B, running race. which had survived the 200 km trip to the courses/events, growing food, and so on. If beach. anyone would like to visit this summer, or to By thinking 'carefree' and 'harmlessness', we know more, you can email me on could perhaps have a small piece of land (for Information from The Shell Network.

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Vegan Views 9 Feeding the Hungry - Without Exploiting Animals

Established in 1963, VEGFAM is a Charity This area is very remote and suffers from plots. This process will be ongoing and self- that has been supporting projects that help drought. The people who live in these areas are supporting, year after year. poor people in undeveloped countries to feed tsunami survivors and tribal people. They have themselves in ways that do not exploit animals. only received help from Vegfam and our Seeds for poor farmers project partner Interlock. In India (Oodai Patty Village) £6,100 Their current project for which they need funding is in India to help some of the In other areas, multinational companies are Funds for seeds and water channel irrigation neglected dalits ('untouchables') out of dire moving in and installing electricity in the works. poverty. remote villages (to run water pumps, etc.), also This project will provide seeds to more than providing the tribal people with televisions and 1,500 poor farmers. More than 1,000 acres of Help for neglected dalits luring family members to work in the cities, to Thousands of dalit children are starving in agricultural lands will be planted with grains pay for these commodities. The companies are and vegetables. Andhra Pradesh, India. These illiterate children also building roads and convincing these are unable to go to school and are forced into poverty stricken people to sell their sacred Farmers have not cultivated the land for over child labour. They are in constant pain because cows (which are never usually killed and live four years as they are too poor to buy seeds and of hunger. Girls are often forced into the sex for over 40 years). The cows are then trucked pay the costs involved in channelling water to trade to get food and a small income. Many abroad on the new roads and processed into irrigate crops. Many farmers and their families children are orphans or survive in broken down beef burgers. would have died this year without this project. huts with their widowed mothers. Seed distribution from the harvest should also The project will safeguard local water supplies Vegfam is hoping to raise £7,000 to set up a benefit 25 surrounding small villages. More (using solar panels) and ensure that the local than 2,000 people in total will be helped. Residential Free School, Feeding Centre and inhabitants do not have a need for an electricity Food Production Programme. Initially, 50 supply. - which will in turn keep village The project will benefit the villages for three children will be given 3 meals a day, an traditions intact and safeguard the natural years, after which it should be self-supporting. education and a safe home. Food will also be environment. grown to benefit more than 1,000 villagers. Street children food project As at September 2007, total funding of projects After one year the children will be accepted In South India. £2,000 into state school and the hostel will become a totalled £34,333. residential home and food production centre. Funds for land rental, seeds, tools and Further Projects which were being considered More homes will be set up if funds allow. irrigation supplies for 300 homeless orphaned for the last quarter of 2007 were: street children. Donations for this worthwhile project can be BANGLADESH. Improving Quality of Life sent to: This project will produce a supply of fresh Through Water And Sanitation Intervention nutritious food - providing a daily meal and Vegfam, Indian Children Appeal, c/o Cwm £6,000. Currently the water in this area is drink for the 10 to 14 year olds. These contaminated with arsenic. The project will Cottage, Cwmynys, Cilycwm, Llandovery, youngsters were previously reliant on begging Carmarthenshire SA20 OEU. install 25 tube wells and a rain preservation and foraging through bins for left-overs from scheme. hotels. Many were undernourished and suffering from disease. INDIA. Food Distribution, Kitchen Gardens Here are some of the projects that Vegfam and Water Project. £6,500. promoted in 2007: This area near Madurai recently experienced a heat wave of 49ºC. Funds for emergency food and water Livelihood security project distribution, seeds and inputs to establish In the Democratic People's Republic of Korea The children are now receiving a nutritious school kitchen gardens. meal and drink each day, a basic education and £6,800 funding for vegetable seeds (for training in horticultural kills. Vegfam shall also be looking at the possibility outdoor sowing and greenhouse crops), milling of development of a vegetable farm as a food machine, oil press, soya cake producer, noodle Organic vegetable gardens in Brazil production and income generating project, at a machine, dehusking machine to benefit six £13,000 sheltered home for trafficked women and farming communities (18,000 people) directly. Funds for seeds, tools, irrigation and wind children in Bangladesh. Other people surrounding the farm will also driven water pump; provision for a seed bank Funding is also needed for the project to help benefit from the increased production and and the repair of the community tool and seed diversification of food in the locality. the dalits of India as mentioned in our second store building to benefit 90 families (approx paragraph of this page. This area is suffering from deforestation. 450 people) directly in the State of Paraiba Summer temperatures reach above 30º C. (Brazil's poorest region). A further 3,425 Editor: These projects show us that simple Typhoon and tropical storms are common. people will benefit indirectly by having access solutions can make a life or death difference to Winters can be as cold as -30º C. Snow falls to affordable food. the disadvantaged in poor countries. Charitable from November to January. This project will institutions seem able to by-pass the The area is semi-arid and suffers from drought indifference and corruption that accompanies ensure year round nutrition by the increased and desertification. yield of crops and the processing of soya cake, most Official Aid to poor nations. Vegans also nut butters, oils and noodles. The project will ensure the supply of fresh realise that sending cows and goats to Africa, vegetables and provide future seeds for and other meat-centred projects, apart from Mobile solar water pump project planting. Also a seed bank will be set up, being repugnant to their beliefs, are not the India. £6,400. enabling future production of the vegetable most efficient way. Vegfam gives us a gardens to be self-sufficient. Seeds will also be wonderful opportunity to help in the way we Funds for: Solar Pumps, Tractor and Trailer feel is best. unit. for villagers in the districts of Tamil Nadu distributed to new groups who wish to set up and Maharashtra. This project will ensure that vegan organic gardens. Web: www.vegfamcharity.org.uk. Online villagers have the means to access clean, safe Women will no longer have to walk to the river giving: www.charitychoice.co.uk/vegfam water The mobile unit will pump water into to collect water in buckets, as a wind-driven Facsimile by arrangement. Please first phone storage tanks and then move on into the next pump will be provided. 01550 721197. village; returning in time to refill the storage tanks. This two-year funded project will be replicated next year; setting up a further three vegetable

10 Vegan Views Words from the Wise I have from an early age abjured the use of Dr. Cheyne advised me to leave off meat and Animals share with us the privilege of having a meat and the time will come when men such as wine, and since I have taken his advice I have soul I will look upon the murder of animals as they been free, blessed be God, from all bodily now look upon the murder of men. disorders. Pythagoras

Leonardo da Vinci John Wesley The soul of all living creatures is the same, although the body of each is different. Nothing will benefit human health and increase I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at Hippocrates chances for survival of life on earth as much as any stage and under any clime in which it is the evolution to a vegetarian diet. possible for human beings ordinarily to live. I By all that is sacred in the hopes for the human If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we'd all be hold flesh food to be unsuited to our species. race, I conjure those who love happiness and vegetarian. We err in copying the lower animal world - if we are superior to it. truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system. It is my view that a vegetarian manner of living I wish no living thing to suffer pain. by its purely physical effect on the human Man's supremacy over the lower animals temperament would most beneficially influence means not that the former should prey upon the Percy Bysshe Shelley latter, but that the higher should protect the the lot of mankind. lower and that there should be mutual aid Albert Einstein between the two as between man and man. The pretended rightlessness of animals, the delusion that our treatment of them is without The greatness of a nation and its moral moral significance, is a truly revolting brutality Any religion or philosophy which is not based progress can be judged by the way its animal and bestiality. on a respect for life is not a true religion or are treated. philosophy. It is not upon any true ground of reason, but Mahatma Gandhi from a foolish arrogance and stubbornness, that Not until we extend the circle of our we put ourselves before the other animals and compassion to include all living beings, shall remove ourselves from their condition and Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than we ourselves find peace. fellowship. cannibalism, yet we make the same impression Albert Schweitzer on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on There is a general responsibility of humanity babies, though not on our own. that binds us not only to the animals, who have life and feeling, but even to trees and plants. I am in favour of animal rights. That is the way Robert Louis Stevenson of a whole human being. We owe equity to men and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures. I care not much for a man's religion whose dog If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act Montaigne and cat are not the better for it. of abstinence is from injury to animals.

Abraham Lincoln The vegetarian movement ought to fill with For myself, I believe that pity is a law like gladness the souls of those who have at heart justice, and that kindness is a duty like Until we stop harming all other living beings, the realisation of God's kingdom on earth. uprightness. That which is weak has the right we are still savages. Leo Tolstoy to the kindness and pity of that which is strong. Animals are weak because they are less

Thomas Jefferson intelligent. Let us therefore be kind and It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to compassionate towards them. call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his The practice of religion involves, as the first Victor Hugo principle, a loving, compassionate heart for all dull perceptions. creatures. Mark Twain Men who have practised torture on animals The Buddha without pity, relating them without shame, how I for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, can they still hold their heads among human There is not an animal on the earth, nor a flying mind or reason, that man was possessed who beings? was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and to creature on two wings, but they are people like Dr. Samuel Johnson you. allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being; who spread his table with the mangled The Koran forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily I cannot think it extravagant to imagine that food and dainty dishes what but now were mankind are no less, in proportion, accountable beings endowed with movement, with for the ill use of their dominion over creatures He who takes pity even on a sparrow and perception and with voice. of the lower rank of beings, than for the spares its life, God will be merciful to him on exercise of tyranny over their own species. the Day of Judgement. But for the sake of some small mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, Alexander Pope Mohammed and of that proportion of time it had been born

into the world to enjoy. The establishment of the common origin of all If you have men who will exclude any of God's Plutarch. species logically involves the readjustment of creatures from the shelter of compassion and altruistic morals, by enlarging the application pity, you will have men who will deal likewise of what has been called the golden rule from But they of Ancient Times, justly called The with their fellow men. the area of mere mankind to that of the whole Age of Gold, were content with the fruits of animal kingdom. St. Francis of Assisi their trees and herbs of the earth; stained not their lips with blood. All things were full of Thomas Hardy

Peace. Vegan Views 11 A Look at the News The research unit was first set up during the A Short Life Living on the Moon? first World War when the German Army used In order to keep cows in constant lactation, Scientists are thinking ahead of the possibility poison gases such as chlorine to disable the they have to be kept constantly pregnant and of sustaining life on the moon, if only as opposing enemy forces. It seemed imperative the result is that calves will be born. Female supplements for brief visits. They could grow to research into ways of countering this threat. calves can be used to supplement the milking algae, like spirulina and would make use of herd, but male calves born from mothers bred body wastes as fertilisers. Planning further During World War Two there was much as milkers are not suitable for beef production. ahead they would like to grow tomatoes, concern that poisonous gases might again be So. at one day old, the farmer shoots them. lettuce or potatoes. They realise that used and the general population was issued Some farmers are now saying that it causes psychologically, humans would be unhappy with gas masks. After the War came the Cold them distress to have to destroy a life that they without seeing some greenery around them and War and research into poisonous gases have only just helped to bring into the world they would like also to grow some roses. No continued. There was much secrecy about this and they would prefer to keep them alive for a question, of course, of introducing cows or experimentation, which no doubt was a reason few months to sell on for veal. smaller animals. That would be impossibly for the deception played on the soldiers. The uneconomical. fact is that they became involved in tests for Since the UK has banned veal crates, the nerve gases and chemical weapons, and many practice that kept the calf imprisoned in a box So why do people imagine that it makes sense suffered in consequence. The authorities, where he could not even turn around, calves to subsidise sending cows or goats to poorly including the Ministry of Defence would never can be given some space to move about and fertile lands in Africa? admit to this, and, after decades of litigation, associate with fellow creatures, but not their they have finally agreed to compensation for mothers, as they would 'steal' the cow's milk Instead of dreaming about colonising the the victims and apologised though not which is reserved for humans and not allowed moon, why not concentrate scientific efforts on admitting to any liability. Many of the victims for the calves for whom nature intended it. The creating fertility in the deserts of planet earth - have already died and the rest are of course calves will not live long, but the farmers' the enormous deserts of the Sahara where it is very old. consciences will be a little easier. Also it will known that there are areas with water accessible underground. Australia also has a be more profitable for them than just 'wasting' There is an implication that the only real tests huge desert area, more worthy of being a day-old creature and with the supermarkets occur when they are made on humans. Animals colonised than is the moon. and you don't need controlling the price of milk to prices react so differently from humans that testing on rocket science or rocket fuel to get there. It's unprofitable for the dairy farmer, it will also animals is just a waste of time and tossing a easier and makes more sense to maintain life ease their financial situation. coin would be just as appropriate. on earth. Animal Diseases People are planting trees on the Sahel, the School Cookery Lessons Bluetongue is a disease that affects cattle and is edge of the Sahara, bringing food and boosting The government is requiring schools to start spread by midges. There were a few cases in income. cookery lessons for 11 to 14 year olds once a East Anglia last year and the midges are week from next September. At present children dormant in the winter, and we will have to wait Another simple solution for sustaining life on study Food Technology which embraces until next year before we know whether it will earth was discovered half a century ago by aspects of production and marketing rather than take hold and cause the devastation that foot plant scientist N.W. Pirie. Herbivores have learning to cook for themselves. It is hoped that and mouth caused last year. special bacteria to enable them to break down a closer connection between the actual the coarse fibres of grass stems. He found a ingredients and how to cook them will help Avian flu is still considered by epidemiologists way of making those proteins available to reduce health dangers and obesity. to have a potential threat, similar to the great humans also by a simple process of flu epidemic of 1918, if it did mutate into a fermentation and with a simple centrifuge (like 8oo cookery teachers will be trained and strain that would spread among humans a juice extractor) a paste is produced which can kitchen equipment like cookers will have to be directly. It has not done so and as yet is no real be used in cooking or made into a cake. The installed as many schools cleared them out cause for alarm, but isolated cases of bird flu Find Your Feet organisation was formed and it many years ago after domestic science classes have been found near the Abbotsbury was successfully promoted among poor people were discontinued. It is hoped that children Swannery near Chesil Beach in Dorset in South America, India and elsewhere with who at present mainly see food as processed great success. It was taken up enthusiastically and ready packed meals will become Chickening out by women using local plants. They saw the acquainted with actual fruit and vegetables and Early in January 2008, TV viewers were supplementary protein brings great benefit to how to cook them. Processed foods usually confronted with pictures of the reality of their children's health, especially as it also contain salt and sugar as preservatives and are intensive chicken production. This has led to contained important vitamins and minerals. often high in fat. Any glance at labels will list an increased demand for free-range chickens Since women are in charge of providing food, many other preservatives, emulsifiers which was greater than the UK could produce. it was also a source of income for them. It was colourings and flavourings that are not Free-range chickens have been imported from not possible, however, to promote this on a necessary for nutrition and may have a France to satisfy the demand. Overall large scale, since there was no profit in it for detrimental effect on at least some children. consumption of chicken has also increased, so large western corporations, whereas selling Children will have to provide their own the total amount of suffering has not been seeds for which they hold patents does make ingredients, so there may well be more reduced. profits for them. emphasis on vegetarian sources rather than perishable meat products. Badgers and TB Experimentation on Farmers are again asking the Government to Humans Biofuels and other kill badgers because they are carriers of In the 1940s after the war, service personnel alternatives Tuberculosis and infect their cattle. Scientists were encouraged to go to Porton Down The high standard of living enjoyed today is argue that culling badgers results in the badgers research establishment near Salisbury in dependent on energy supplied by fuels created spreading to other areas where they spread the Wiltshire where they were told they would be in primeval times in the form of coal or disease further. At present, the taxpayer pays taking part in research into the common cold. petroleum. The extensive use of these fuels and out around £190,000 to farmers in In fact they were tested with nerve gases that the increasing need for them as developing compensation for farmers having to kill the TB seriously affected the health of many of them. nations in their billions aspire to emulate the infected cattle to avoid the disease spreading. high standard of living of the richer nations, means that the present sources of energy will 12 Vegan Views soon be depleted. they must eventually become the whole world from that area alone. Prince wash clothes, no water. I want to cook, no completely used up. The point has been Hassan of Jordan is enthusiastic about this water. Always everything is water, no water." reached where it has become necessary to idea. High voltage cables would have to be laid says Haua Musa from Fukaji village, Nigeria. develop alternative forms of energy. between Libya and Sicily and between according to the Charity Water Aid. Morocco and Spain across the straits of Coal and Petroleum were formed from the Gibraltar and power could be run right up to The Movement for Compassionate Living - the decay of plants in earlier days of the earth's Scandinavia. vegan way remind us that farmed animals formation and modern technology is seeking to require a lot of water, so what sense does it grow plants for conversion into fuel. One way Water would be obtained from the oceans make to send a cow or a goat to Africa, an is to convert plants into ethanol that is added to through desalination plants which would of indirect way of feeding people when planting petrol in a proportion of about 5%. This is course be powered by the very power they help trees can provide good nourishment and renew being promoted in the USA by growing maize produce. the environment. (sweet corn) and elsewhere from wheat, rape seed, etc. On further analysis, it is seen that The shade from the giant solar panels and the supply of water would make it possible to grow Health from Plants. growing these crops contributes about as much Are supermarkets trying to catch on to proving crops in hitherto desert areas. to global warming as does the saving in plants are the source of good nutrition? emissions from the use of fossil energy and The possibility of this project is vast and looks Tesco packets of nuts clearly display the concern about global warming is a high a huge step forward for life on our planet. It following information: priority. One solution that is not being seems as though a whole new era could be developed is to grow fast-growing willows before us. Walnuts are high in magnesium, important for which can be coppiced and used as fuel whilst bone health and turning food into energy. still being maintained as woodland that will Unfortunately, the sun only shines by day and remain as a carbon sink. running electric cables from the Southern to the Cashew nuts are a source of fibre which help Northern Hemisphere is unthinkable. and monitor a healthy digestive system. Another source of energy is to make use of the large amount of waste we produce. This is Global Warming is increased by the destruction Brazil nuts are a good source of vitamin E being done in Salford, where waste is taken of rainforests which are huge sinks for CO2. In which help keep your skin healthy from landfills and converted into combined this country we go to considerable expense and Pine nuts also contain vitamin E. heat and power that can provide energy for 1 time preserving endangered species such as thousand houses. This reduces the need for badgers or certain newts. But people eat meat Pistachio are high in protein essential for the landfill sites and the amount of CO2. and meat products are complicit in the body's growth and repair. destruction of large areas of rainforests. This Sunflower seeds are high in magnesium which Other sources of energy can be derived from results in the destruction of many animals is important for healthy bones and turning water as in waterfalls, dams or waves and tides; including whole species, also many plant food Into energy. from the wind which blows fiercely in many species that might have medicinal value, and parts of the world; or directly from the sun which are safer than expensive pharmaceutical A Waitrose supermarket leaflet tells us about which is after all out basic source of energy. drugs. The destruction of rainforests for soya everyday foods full of goodness and they tell us that they taste good too adding them to your China has been engaged for several years in the bean cultivation is not due to the demands of everyday diet is a treat not a chore. Each pack Three Gorges Dam project. A hugely ambitious vegans. Soya is fed to cattle in the modern has mouth-watering ideas. project that is holding back the flow of the farming methods of rich nations. Cattle rearing also requires vast amounts of water which is yellow River for hundreds of miles. It has Nuts are packed with fibre and protein and becoming scarce all round the world. Again we already displaced a million people including a contain 'good' fats which can help lower find veganism as a solution to this world whole city. It is so huge that it is taking some cholesterol, just a handful of Brazil nuts will problem. years to fill the dam to its final height. When provide your daily requirement of the mineral the powerful turbines come into operation selenium, a powerful anti-oxidant, while (perhaps this year) they will reduce by millions Whaling walnuts contain Omega 3 fatty acids. of tons the need for coal now being used in the The group called Sea Shepherd have been 'dirty' power stations that are of great concern following the Japanese whaling fleet in the Cereals, grains and seeds are excellent sources to environmentalists. A problem with dams is Antarctic and publicised the fact that the of fibre and carbohydrates and are at their most that they pile up the silt that flows down rivers Japanese claim they are killing whales for the nutritious in wholegrain form. Try nutty- and the effectiveness of the dam is eventually purposes of scientific research. As no research tasting millet or delicious flavoured quinoa as reduced. A further problem is: how will this papers are ever produced, it is clear that this is an alternative to rice and couscous. merely a pretext. affect the regions lower down the river ? Dried fruits are high in fibre and count toward We can use the power of the sun to heat our However, a Japanese lady wonders what the your five a day target. domestic water and central heating with solar fuss is about since Western nations kill and eat Seeds are nature's little powerhouses - so full panels on the roof of houses and to heat lambs which she sees as lovely, cuddly of goodness including minerals such as iron, swimming pools. One problem often raised is creatures. that the sun does not always shine brightly and zinc and magnesium, that nutritionists call shines least in winter when it is most needed. Iceland promotes whale watching - a tourist them superfoods. attraction which, worldwide, makes £ 1/2 Beans and pulses are high in fibre, protein and There are, however parts of the world where million. the sun does shine fiercely all the year such as calcium and will help you achieve your five-a- the Sahara Desert which is also a vast The unique Galapagos Islands in the Pacific day. Try serving creamy haricot beans or unoccupied space. Whereas people in UK may Ocean were made famous by Charles Darwin's adding protein-packed green lentils to a hearty complain if wind turbines are sited near their observations. Today the Galapagos are casserole. homes or in beautiful locations, the Sahara is controlled by the government of Ecuador and mostly empty and development there might are part of a National Maritime Park. The Sea Lobsters have brains even bring advantages. Shepherd organisation is helping the Ecuador We know quite a bit about lobsters. For A project is already in construction in Egypt to Environmental Police to intercept boats instance, they have several brains called build huge mirrors that will focus on a point carrying more than 18,000 shark fins and ganglia and a complex nervous system running where water is positioned to heat up steam that 40,000 sea cucumbers and to confiscate 30 down the underside length of their bodies. The drives turbines to produce electricity. miles of illegal long fishing lines. National Lobster Hatchery in Cornwall has Engineers can foresee a vast expansion of such discovered that: mirrors in the Sahara and are confident that Water Resources - Lobsters taste with their feet. there is enough space to provide all the energy "All my life everything has been about water. I - They have three stomachs needs of Europe and the Middle East or even want to have a bath, there is no water. I want to - They can live to be 100 years old Vegan Views 13 Vegan Organic Growing the ground or in large Both need a well-drained, fertile and sunny site pots. Sow in late spring and are long lived if kept trimmed to prevent or early summer. In getting too leggy. Fresh leaves can be picked August sow some in any time before flowering. pots for the windowsill/ cold frame/ greenhouse Rosemary can be dried for winter use, adding a for a supply in autumn sprig to olive oil for salad dressings. Sage can, and winter, but must in theory, be picked all year round. have plenty of light and Varieties: Common Rosemary, various do not over-water. prostrate varieties, Green Sage, Purple Sage or Coriander is annoyingly even Variegated Sage. quick to flower and set seed before it has Lemongrass produced much leaf, Finally... a tender herb worth trying if you have particularly in hot a conservatory, greenhouse or sunny conditions, so it is best windowsill: lemongrass, which can provide a sown little and often. strong lemony flavour. Can be grown from Fine feathery leaves at seed needing some heat in a propagator, or is stem tops are a sure sign readily available in most large supermarkets as By Graham Cole, snapped in his greenhouse the plants are about to cut stems. If the stem is fresh and hasn`t been flower. over-trimmed you can get it to root in a jar of water. Fares best grown permanently in a Herbs - Part Two Well drained soil in a sunny spot is essential. container. Keep picking mature leaves as and when As we saw in the last article [VV113], it is needed, this regular cropping should delay I plan to try for the first time this year.... possible to grow quite a range of herbs, both flowering. Once plants do flower allow to set annual and perennial, they do not take up a lot seed and collect when ripe and use in cooking, of room and many can be grown in containers. The Year Ahead keeping some to sow for another crop. The Sun is needed for most of them although the Now as I write in early March with sun, blue Variety "Cilantro" is better for leaves and mints can do well in quite a bit of shade. sky and dry conditions in the south for some slower seed production. weeks and record sunshine hours for February They will be fresher, more nutritious and in many parts of the UK is the winter over cheaper if we can find the space and grow our Thyme now? Little too early to say with hard frosts own. Here are some more examples.... A staple Mediterranean herb for flavouring and still at night, but if it continues dry and settled I a good bee plant in the garden. Parsley shall start to get some land ready for sowing Thyme is an evergreen dwarf shrub and a huge and planting by turning well rotted surface Used since Greek and Roman times, parsley range of varieties is available out there. Buy in mulches and over-wintering green manures in. has two basic types-flat/plain-leafed and curly- spring for planting in beds or containers. Quite leafed. Parsley is a biennial-flowering plant If it turns and gets cold and wet for a while at easy from seed as well. All the types like a then dying in its second year-but is usually least some plot space is ready for the tasks warm sunny site in well-drained soil that is low grown as an annual. It is slow to germinate, but ahead so some caution is advised. But all the in nutrients. Add grit to the planting hole or is worth growing for a good supply of very while the sun is getting stronger and we look container. Trim plants after flowering to keep nutritious leaves providing iron, calcium and ahead to lush leaves, flowers and tasty fruit and neat and encourage new growth. vitamin C. Sow from March onwards in a veg as the new growing season gets underway! warm place-windowsill, cold frame or Snip off stems as you need them and strip off Look out for various Vegan-Organic Gardens, greenhouse. Another good time to sow is the leaves. Can be hung in bunches to dry and Allotments and Farms Open Days this outside in July, even in a large pot. Keep well then store in airtight container. summer-details from VON. watered to aid germination and they should sprout up in three to four weeks. Varieties: Common Thyme, Lemon Thyme, Maybe see some of you on the VON stall at many variegated types for ornamental use various festivals and shows this summer... Parsley plants can be bought from garden centres and then planted out at a good size. It Marjoram / Oregano prefers damp conditions with partial shade, is Seed, Plants & Sundries This low-growing hardy herb is the classic Tamar Organics www.tamarorganics.co.uk. hardy but will produce fewer leaves if left flavour in Italian dishes and is easy and well outside so cover plants with a cloche or move Cartha Martha Farm, Rezare, Launceston, worth growing. Buy small plants of named Cornwall PL15 9NX. 01579 371087. For all potted plants indoors to greenhouse or frame to varieties from a garden centre in March and give you fresh tender leaves in winter. seeds, including good range of Green Manures plant in a warm sunny spot with well-drained and Animal-Free Fertilisers. Harvesting can be continuous and will soil. Also good in containers and cut back after constantly produce new growth in warm flowering. Will last many years. Pick the Agroforestry Research Trust conditions. Try growing as an ornamental leaves whenever you need them for using fresh www.agroforestry.co.uk. Tel: 01803 840776. border edging. and also dry some for later use, tying stems in For plants and seeds. Perennial edibles-fruit, bunches and hang in kitchen to dry. Crumble nuts, etc. Booklets Varieties: "Italian Giant" (plain leaf), "Moss dried leaves off the stalks into airtight Curled". container. Contacts Vegan Organic Network (VON) Varieties: Wild Marjoram, Golden Oregano, Coriander www.veganorganic.net. See p 17 for full Compact Oregano. A favourite this, with its unique, exotic flavour details. that is essential in Indian and Thai cooking or even in a salad mix and easy to grow from Rosemary and Sage seed. Perennial evergreen shrubby herbs with similar needs and use. Nice flowers attractive to bees Coriander does not like being moved, so it is and other insects. best sown where you want it to grow, either in 14 Vegan Views Spicy Chickpea Mixed Veggie Jerk Casserole (Serves 4) 250g (8oz) dried chickpeas, soaked overnight 1 1/2 lb/675g prepared mixed vegetables, diced or use 432g (15oz) can of cooked chickpeas, (sweet potato, yam, peppers, okra, aubergine, drained. courgette) 1 onion, best if first fried for 5 mins 500g (1lb) spinach, stalks removed 1 lb/450g ripe tomatoes skinned and chopped 1/2 tablespoon of flour 175g (6 oz) courgette, sliced Fresh coriander 1/2 teaspoon yeast extract (eg Marmite) 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil Jerk Marinade: 1/4 pint vegetable stock 2 onions, sliced 1 onion, peeled and finely chopped Salt and pepper to taste, or soya sauce. 1 garlic clove, sliced 4 garlic cloves, crushed 1lb mashed potato, (with fresh parsley or 2 teaspoons, ground cumin parsley and thyme stuffing) 1 chilli, finely chopped 1 teaspoon, ground coriander 200g or 6oz short crust pastry 1inch/25cm root ginger. peeled and finely chopped 1 teaspoon ground ginger 3 tablespoons vegetable oil for frying 2 tablespoons lemon juice Salt and soy sauce to taste Method Fry the onion lightly until softened (5 minutes) 2 tablespoons sunflower oil Method and add flour, stock and yeast extract. Simmer Drain the chickpeas you soaked overnight and 2 tablespoon Demerara sugar a few minutes until slightly thickened, then stir cover with fresh water. Bring to the boil and in all the vegetables. Season. 1 dessertspoon soy sauce cook until tender (about one hour). It helps if you mash them once they have become tender, Turn into a pie dish, top with the mashed 2 teaspoons ground allspice but keep checking there is enough water. Drain potato or pastry and bake for 30 minutes at and reserve the water. 250°C/450°F.Gas 8. 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon Wash the spinach and boil for about 5 minutes. You can add any vegetables to hand, chopped. black pepper Drain and chop. Method Heat the oil in a large saucepan, add the onions Ratatouille Parboil the yam and sweet potato for ten and garlic and cook for 10 minutes, stirring 2 large onions minutes. Drain and put in a large pan with the occasionally. 2oz vegan margarine other diced vegetables. Add spices and cook for another 5 minutes 1 lb courgettes (or vegetable marrow) Mix all the marinade ingredient and spoon over the vegetables. Combine well, cover and leave Add 600ml (1 pint) of the reserved cooking 1 can tomatoes for 2 hours liquid (or water) to the casserole bring to the boil, stir well and add the chickpeas, spinach 2 cloves garlic Then add the tomatoes and bring slowly to the boil, whilst stirring. Cover and simmer for and courgettes, adding more water if necessary. Chopped parsley or basil, Simmer for ten minutes, add seasoning. Serve about 25 minutes, until the vegetables are hot. Salt and pepper to taste cooked, stirring frequently to prevent sticking. Diced Aubergines, optional. Transfer to a warmed serving dish and garnish Bulgar Wheat with with fresh, chopped coriander. Cut up the onion and gently fry in margarine in Spinach and Garlic large pan. Serve with a rice dish salad and cornbread 375g (12oz) spinach Chop the courgettes (or marrow) and add to the 4 tablespoons olive oil Cornbread pan with chopped tomatoes and seasoning. 8oz/225g fine cornmeal 2 garlic cloves, crushed Bring to the boil and simmer gently for 20 to 4oz/100g self-raising flour 1 large onion, finely sliced 30 minutes. 2oz/50g vegan margarine, melted 175g (16oz) bulgar wheat, soaked in hot water Tagliatelle with Garlic for 20 minutes to swell the grains. 1oz/25g soya flour and Parsley Dressing 8 fl.oz/225ml soya milk 300ml (1 1/2 pints) vegetable stock (Serves 4) Salt and pepper to taste 8oz/225g tagliatelle 8oz/225ml plain soya yogurt Method 2 large garlic cloves. crushed 1 rounded dessertspoon baking powder Wash the spinach and lightly cook in boiling 4 rounded tablespoons finely chopped fresh 1 small red chilli, finely chopped water for about 5 minutes. Drain and chop. parsley 1/2 teaspoon salt Heat the oil in a large frying pan or saucepan, 3 tablespoons olive oil add the garlic and onion, sauté for 3 or 4 Method minutes until soft. Drain the bulgar wheat, add Method Whisk the flour with the soya milk in a large to pan and stir till well mixed. add the stock Cook the tagliatelle until al dente bowl. Add the margarine, yogurt and chilli and and spinach and stir again. mix well. Meanwhile, heat the oil in a large pan and Simmer for ten minutes, stirring occasionally gently fry the garlic and parsley for a couple of Gradually add the cornmeal, sifted flour, minutes. Drain the tagliatelle and add. Remove baking powder and salt Season to taste and serve hot. from the heat, toss thoroughly and serve immediately. Combine thoroughly and spoon the mixture Simple Vegetable Pie into a base lined and greased 8inch/20 cm loaf 1 small can baked beans Recipe from: tin. A Vegan Taste of Italy by Linda Majzlik. 1 small can peas or sweet corn Level the top and bake in a pre-heated oven at 100°C/375°F/Gas Mark 5 for about 30 minutes. Vegan Views 15 until the bread. is golden and a skewer comes Make a well in the centre you find it easy to get vegan foods, especially out clean when inserted in the centre. Run a when eating out? Please let us know. sharp knife round the edges and turn the loaf Pour in the vinegar and 'milk' gradually out onto a wired rack. Cut into slices and serve Beat well for 10 minutes New not-for-profit veggie warm, either plain or spread with vegan margarine. Allow to stand for an hour or more, then beat café in Southampton again The Art House is an art gallery that has The above two recipes are from: A Vegan recently introduced a veggie café. It's at 81a Taste of the Caribbean by Linda Majzlik Pour oil into baking dish and bring to heat, Bedford Place, Southampton, SO15 2DF then pour on the mixture (entrance on Henstead Road). 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Doncaster & Area Vegans & Vegetarians quarterly journal New Leaves. meet about once a month for socialising in Secretary/Membership/Treasurer: Ireene-Sointu Isle of Wight Vegetarians & Vegans Tel: various ways (e.g. walks, picnics, meals out, 01983 407098. Web: www.iwvv.org.uk. 105 Cyfyng Road, Ystalyfera, Swansea SA9 yoga). Ring Vivien on 01405 769730. East 2BT. Tel. 0845 458 4717 or 01639 841223. Penzance Vegans social group currently meet Riding Vegans meet once a month for each Wednesday, 8pm in the Bath Inn pub www.MCLveganway.org.uk. Distribution of socialising. New members welcome. Mark, 140 booklets, leaflets is c/o Veggies 245 Gladstone (right-hand bar), Cornwall Terrace, Penzance. Victoria Avenue, Hull, HU5 3DT. Web: To confirm details, please call 01736 786473 or Street, Nottingham NG7 6HX Tel: 0845 458 www.merrydowncontrolware.co.uk/ervegans. 9595. email wilf_frith*AT*lineone.net. Web: Tel: 01482 471119. www.wiz.to/penzancevegans. 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In order to avoid Global Catastrophe, we to make it look hygienic, although nobody hungry. We sing ''Feed the World', then go and need to turn away from the way we live now. knows how clean were the hands of those who eat a burger that took food from those we are The changes need not be painful They could packed them. Pick up a packet of potato crisps hoping to feed. With a little more thought and reduce the stress in our lives and leave us and it weighs next to nothing. That is because living more simply, we could allow the poorer healthier and happier - by Harry Mather there is very little potato in it but that small people to feed themselves. amount of potato yields a good profit. It is becoming increasingly obvious, even to Celebrity chefs persuade us that we should be The need for greater quantities of cattle feed, those people who are enjoying a high style of buying all sorts of extra ingredients in order to results in the destruction of huge areas of living, that the lifestyle presently enjoyed in have tasty meals. A recipe using mushrooms tropical rainforests that we rely on to counter the developed nations can no longer be will use three or even five different types of our huge emissions of Carbon Dioxide. It is not sustained and if developing nations with huge mushroom. We are made to seek out unusual the vegans who use soya products that cause populations, like China and India, try to herbs, out of season vegetables or some from the increase in demand for soybeans. Most of achieve a similar way of life, which they do, far away places. Nobody seems to value home the increased production goes to feed farmed the earth's resources would soon be depleted grown old fashioned ingredients like sage and animals, with the result that many more beans and the environment essential for human onion, mint sauce or parsley sauce. That would and much more land are needed to provide the survival would be destroyed. The increasing be too simple and you would not need to buy nutritional value of eating the beans direct. complexity of present lifestyles cannot be their expensive book. Living simply simplifies life. Living more sustained, the only way forward is to live more simply should lead us into consuming more simply. Veganism is becoming ever more relevant to locally grown produce that is in season. Do we the way forward for our planet. The UN Food really need to have strawberries from Peru or We can be happy with a simpler life. This does and Agricultural Organisation has published a wherever for Christmas? Living more simply not mean enduring the hardships that most of thoroughly researched report called Livestock's would greatly reduce the extent of food miles the world's poor have to suffer at present. What Long Shadow that clearly proves the enormous as a result of what we eat. Again we are being we need is to develop an awareness of what our harmful effect that the farming of cattle has on made to be unsatisfied with our present life basic needs are and each individual will adapt our environment, particularly in relation to the style, although past generations managed to to the lifestyle he or she can feel comfortable Global Warming which threatens our survival have a great feast at Christmas with local and content with. as a species. They go so far as to say that the seasonal produce or simple preserves. impact of farmed animals worldwide on Global Primitive peoples lived in small social groups Thinking people and governments now realise more or less self-sufficient and took care of Warming is greater than that of all forms of transport put together. So if the world went that something must be done. They plan to their own basic needs. The basic needs for reduce emissions of CO2 which contribute to humans are pure air, clean water, sound vegan and stopped breeding animals for eating or milking this would be of greater benefit than Global Warming by substituting renewable nutrition and adequate shelter. How many of energy. Biofuels are being substituted for these basic needs do we all enjoy today? Our all our efforts to produce cleaner fuels and reduce transport use. Yet we seem to be petroleum fuels but the production of biofuels air and water may be polluted. Many people in may also emit some CO2 and their benefits the rich world eat the wrong foods and many will not be as great as was at first believed. live in overcrowded accommodation. We do Reducing our energy use however is a sure way not have the right priorities. The world holds enough for everyone's need, but not of reducing our 'carbon impact'. If each of us At present we are manipulated by commercial would reduce our domestic fuel consumption interests, who want us to be dissatisfied with enough for everyone's greed the result would be positive and would also the life we are living and by constant benefits our pockets by reducing our fuel bills. GANDHI advertising, they want us to feel that happiness We need homes that will conserve heat more efficiently and again this will reduce our lies in buying something that we are supposed heading in the opposite direction and people expenses. Energy saving can also be done on a to be missing. Have you ever wondered why who lived healthily on a rice-based diet, prefer community scale with, combined heat and the state economy should need to increase by 2 to feed grains to cattle in a system that is power that recycles the heat generated by or 3% each year. If we had the same lifestyle wasteful. Food prices have already begun to factories into heating homes. Energy can also this year as last year, would it really be a rise as a result of this competition for be generated by using waste materials from hardship? True, many people do need to see an resources. improvement in their lives, which are at a farms and households to produce methane poverty level but none of the increases in the Veganism is a simple solution that is quite which will supply energy. painless and is not the sacrifice some would economy trickle down to them anyway. Vegans can confirm that, although giving up think it is. Even very simple dishes can be very However, it is profitable for commercial meat and dairy may at first appear a great tasty, but it still seems a difficult step for most interests to keep us dissatisfied with our sacrifice, before long they feel their happiness people to take because they are brainwashed by present state and they want us to feel a need to and health much improved. In spite of the convention and vested interests that see no buy something different in order to be happy. information appearing in the media, about the profit in it for them. Simple solutions don't In this way they can keep increasing their sales way animals are treated in today's intensive make money, yet we must break out of the and make more profits, which is the purpose of farming, most meat eaters probably delude vicious circle and wrong attitudes that threaten their enterprises. On this treadmill, we can themselves into thinking that, generally, cows the survival of the human race. We will have to never be happy and we must keep on working graze contentedly in the fields and chickens face these problems at some time. Why not harder and harder in order to keep up, and this peck away at the grains they find in the now? What sort of inheritance are we giving to creates more stress in our lives. Happiness farmyard, laying their eggs in straw when they our children? must always be somewhere else, whereas by get broody. After all this is what they saw in being more satisfied with a simpler life we Even if many people are aware of the cruelty of the picture books in their days in the nursery could be happy here and now. factory farming, few will be aware of the where lasting impressions are formed. The When it comes to shopping for food, the impact that animal farming has on the global brutal reality is hard to accept, especially if it suppliers realise that supplying basic foods scale, that the animals we rear are dependent means we feel we should do something about it such as bread, vegetables and fruit will never on grains imported from poorer countries. and we have to confront our friends and increase their profits. But they can charge There is not enough agricultural land in this relatives with a change in lifestyle. Yet doing much higher prices if they can make it look country (not even in Europe as a whole) to nothing about it is not an option. Continuing much more valuable. Instead of buying a produce enough feed for the number of farm the way we are going threatens the survival of lettuce, you are enticed into buying ready animals we maintain. Foodstuff is therefore the whole human race. plucked and washed leaves wrapped in plastic imported from countries where the poor go 20 Vegan Views