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schedule Noon - 1 Visit with the animals! 1:00 Hors d’oeuvres & drinks Peruse raffle & silent auction items 2:00 Banquet & speakers Dan Piraro Kris Carr Rory Freedman Jenny Brown 3:30 Dessert & Joy Askew performance 4:00 Raffle & silent auction ends Cover: The late, great and much beloved Hershel the turkey. Photo by Andrea Barrist Stern. Donors Contents Product Donation Raffle/Auction OLIVIA’s PASSING Albany Vegetarian Network Equal Exchange A Scent of Scandal GOODBYE TO AN ICON Barilla Flavorganics Alternative Outfitters By WFAS Co-Founders: Doug Abel Black Duck Imports Florida Crystals Beauty without Cruelty and Jenny Brown Bob’s Red Mill Food Should Taste Good Bonobos Boylan Bottling Co. Glad Corn Cahoots Handbags Bridge Tofu Gluten Free Pantry Candle Café TALKING TURKEY Brooklyn Brewery Good Earth Tea Cosmo’s Vegan Shoppe By Kris Carr Catskill Mountain Coffee Guayaki Cow Jones Industrials Chicago Soy Dairy (Temptation) Happy Baby Crystalyn Kae SUrvIVING HOLIDAY Country Choice Herbology Beauty Deirdre Cross MEAT MONGERS Dr. Cow Lagusta Luscious Earth Essentials Enjoy Life Foods Lantern Books Emerson Resort By Dan Piarro Field Roast Late July EO Products Follow Your Heart Little Vegan Monsters Erica Julien SKINNY BITCHING Great Eastern Sun Lotus Brands Franchia By Rory Freedman Hi Ball Energy Mary’s Gone Crackers Glee Gum IZZE Organic Food Bar Herbivore Clothing Co. K Vintners & Charles Smith Wines Posh Pelts Luna 61 NEW-FOUND OPTIMISM Melitta Primal Strips Matt & Nat By WFAS Co-Founders: Doug Abel Perfect Foods Probars May Wah and Jenny Brown Planet Inc Raw Revolution Natural Gourmet School Sunflower Natural Foods Robert’s American Gourmet Pangea REcIPES Wholesoy & Co. Tribe Hummus Pangea Organics Wise Acre Frozen Vega Pilates of New Paltz Wholesome Sweeteners VeganDish Rawvolution/Matt Amsden SOME OF OUR NEW ARRIvaLS Wildwood VegNews Schoolwide, Inc. Wholesome Sweeteners Sideshow Kitties BRILLIANT HOLIDAY GIFTS Goodie bags Wildwood Snice Alternative Baking Co. Snooty Jewelry Au’Some Housing Sparrow Handbags A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS Aubrey Organics Harmony House Bed & Breakfast The Vegetarian Site B4 Brands Pike Lane Vegetarian Belts Blue Marble Foods Pink Willow Cottage Waterfall Rental Country Choice Woodstock Inn on the Millstream Bob’s Red Mill Crofters Turtle Island Foods Divine Treasures Beyond Skin Dolphin Natural Chocolates Herbology Beauty Dr. Bronners Little Vegan Monsters Eat in the Raw Posh Pelts Edward & Sons Trading Co. V-Dog Food ON OLIVIA by Sheila Hyslop Olivia was a special goat she also was my friend Olivia’s Passing: I met her when she first arrived Goodbye to an Icon and was with her at the end She touched so many people By Jenny Brown and Doug Abel in as many different ways Despite her personal troubles Olivia faced some hard times in her long life. She had been abandoned in a barn for she got us through many a day three months after her owner’s house burned down, living off a neighbor’s table scraps and puddle water, she came here full of parasites and with crippling hoof neglect. Nurturing and healing really seemed to be her thing Raised as a solitary goat, she seemed not to recognize her own goatiness and instead From helping Dylan through his ‘calf-hood’ preferred to free-roam the farm in the company of people and other farm critters, to showing Albie what joy goats can bring which endeared her to visitors and staff alike. I think my favourite memory Olivia also had a maternal side, which she would call upon when an orphaned calf, is our multi-species walks lamb or goat arrived at the farm, anxious for a connection. Her first farm adoptee here Goat, human, pigeon, dog and calf was Dylan the calf (above, right), whom she took under her wing, so to speak. Dylan Times like that you know, “Life rocks!” gained about 1000 pounds in the 3 years since, a little too big to cuddle up with in a pen, but they could still frequently be found grazing alongside each other. Although she was a mature girl she liked to butt and play Olivia’s “Princess Leia”-like horns and her princess-like personality sparked a growing But at other times she would join you fan base of paparazzi, including a website page by hardworking volunteer Bob Esposito and just pass the time of day dedicated to her seemingly endless varieties of facial expressions. When she was diag- nosed with Lymphoma in the spring of 2007, we feared she might not make it through So although her body left us the winter. Indeed, she was shivering and losing weight once the weather turned cold, Her spirit is everywhere so she ended up coming to live in the foyer of our house for what we though would be I thank you Olivia for showing us her last days (our climate-controlled medical building was yet to be built). Between the it really is good to care constant attention and trays of wheatgrass, a cancer-fighting remedy recommended by Kris Carr (a Thanksliving speaker today), Olivia made a dramatic rebound and graced Rest, play and head-butt in peace us with another 18 months. She was a teacher, a comedian, a best friend, a supervisor, a rabble-rouser, a missionary and a pure, beautiful soul. She was so many things to so many of us, humans and ani- mals alike. This month we tearfully said goodbye to this magnificent lady who touched so many — more than those many could have ever imagined. Your memory will live on in our hearts forever, sweet Olivia. May you rest in peace. science experiment. In a world that to stop eating animals, then consider runs on rapid globalization, the Stan- your health. It’s all about the pH of dard American Diet has spread like the body. Some of the most acidic an aggressive cancer. As a result, the foods that lower pH come from ani- Talking major health issues that are soaring in mal products (including dairy). Even our country—diabetes, heart disease, the National Cancer Institute and Turkey obesity, and cancer—are now plaguing the American Institute for Cancer the entire planet. Thank you, Uncle Research agree that cooked meat By Kris Carr Sam, for the globalization of illness! increases the risk of developing cancer. But we can fight back. A key player The more well-done the meat, the in Team Health is oxygen. In 1931 more carcinogenic it becomes. Studies scientist Otto Warburg won a Nobel show that a diet higher than 10% Kris Carr is a best-selling author, Filmmaker, and Inspirational Speaker. She is the Prize for the connection he discov- animal protein increases your chance Director and subject of the award-winning documentary Crazy Sexy Cancer (TLC, ered between oxygen and cancer. His of developing cancer. Americans eat Discovery Health). Kris’ first book,Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips has been translated studies showed that the number one way more than that! In Dr. T. Colin into seven languages, and her second book, Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor: More Rebel- cause of cancer is a lack of oxygen in Campbell’s book The China Study, he lion and Fire for Your Healing Journey, is quickly becoming the “must have” guide the cellular environment. Warburg estimates that “80% to 90% of all can- to rebuilding body/mind/spirit (and wicked sense of humor), in order to triumph determined that cancer cells are cers, cardiovascular diseases, and other over disease. Kris has been featured on The Today Show, Good Morning America, anaerobic, which means they thrive degenerative illness can be prevented The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, Access Hollywood and The Oprah in an oxygen-depleted environment. by simply adopting a plant-based diet.” Winfrey Show. In 2008, Kris and her husband Brian Fassett founded Crazy Sexy Conversely, they cannot live in an So is it nature vs. nurture, bad genes Wellness, a company dedicated to supporting individuals on the interconnected oxygen-rich environment. vs. bad habits? You decide. But before journey to personal and planetary health. They begin production on their ass-kicking An acidic environment makes us you do, educate and empower yourself. TV show this spring. To visit her blog and online community go to crazysexylife.com sick, while an alkaline environment Today scientists are proving that most floods our bodies with oxygen, keep- mutations (genetic mistakes) are not ing us vibrant and healthy. Hands- inborn, but develop later in life as a Remember the Milton Bradley game recoveries from cancer, traveled the down, the best way to increase the result of lifestyle choices and environ- “Operation”? Well, before a nasty stage country taking seminars, interviewing alkalinity of our bodies is to adopt a mental factors. Only 5% to 10% of all four cancer (with no cure and no top researchers, doctors, alternative vegan diet with a high concentration cancers are thought to be hereditary. treatment) forced me to educate my- practitioners, nutritionists, and healers. of raw foods. That’s right, pass the Wow, pass the broccoli! self, that juvenile game was my main Basically, I left no stone unturned. Fi- chlorophyll! Think about it: Chlo- It’s been five years since my diagno- reference for the body’s organ systems. nally I settled on a plant-based vegan rophyll is the substance that allows sis and though I still live with cancer it I was still looking for the “wishbone” diet designed to cleanse and repair my plants to absorb light from the sun is completely stable, and thanks to my when, out of nowhere, my vascular body by building my immune system. and convert that light into energy. diet, I am thriving! I’d never go back system blew up! If you want to stack the odds in your Our very existence depends on the to swallowing the acidic suffering that When my doctor told me to “watch favor and potentially avoid a major sun and the plants.