No. 94 AUTUMN 2002 £1 In this Interview with Vegan Organic Network; issue: Letters; Recipes; Books; Cartoon. VEGAN VIEWS VEGAN VIEWS is independent of From the editor…. Flat A15 the Vegan Society but shares its The world is still full of violence, 20 Dean Park Road aims. It was started in 1975 by a terrorism, anti-terrorism, murders, group of vegans who wanted to Bournemouth threats of war. If humans hold make contact with others interested human life so cheap, how can we BH1 1JB UK in creating a more harmonious way persuade them to have more regard of living based on veganism, and to and compassion for animals? Web: www.veganviews.org.uk communicate more informally than Yet, if we can think of animals as could be done in the official journal expendable and that their only SUBSCRIPTIONS of the Vegan Society. 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Eight for £3 including 7 More Vegan Awareness summer are gathered in. There is an postage. Topics covered include: 8 How and Why Vegan abundance of produce from the VV93 Nutritional Supplements 10 Cartoon vegetable kingdom to satisfy all our VV92 Veggie Pride 11 Poem / Viva demo report needs. We can be thankful for the VV91 How and why vegan 12 Letters food provided and that we have VV90 Porton Down 14 Vegans have Healthy Colons? learned we can live healthily VV89 Feeding the world 15 Nutritional Supplements without having to kill for our food. VV88 Farming crisis 16 Books As our ideas spread around the VV87 Meat in crisis 17 Recipes world, there will be more peace and VV86 Hard choices contentment in the world. VV85 Sprouting seeds Produced by Harry Mather, with Our bloodless meals are a VV84 Leah Leneman: in memory assistance from John Curtis, Hilary blessing for the whole planet. VV37 Arthur Ling interview and Wesley. Front cover: Ruth Lewis. VV34 Leah Leneman interview Printed by JR Print, 109a Nortoft Road, Bournemouth, Dorset. Page 2 VV94 LIVE EXPORTS PROTESTS 29 Sep National Vegan Festival Now that Britain has been declared free from Foot and 10am - 5pm. Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, Mouth disease, Live Animal Exports have been resumed Holborn, London WC1 4RL (nearest tube: Holborn). £1 from the port of Dover. Compassion in World Farming entry (under 16 free). Campaigning stalls, tasty vegan have renewed their campaign to stop this trade. To be food and drinks, speakers, wide range of vegan products included on their emergency list to attend short-notice for sale. Web: www.veganfestival.freeserve.co.uk. protests at Dover, call their Live Exports Hotline on 01730 237 379. 2 Oct World Farm Animals Day (Gandhi's Birthday) Farmed Animals Action are asking groups and people to mark the day with things like: free VV93 FRONT COVER veggie tastings, veggie pledges, demos and leafleting. A reader noticed that over the cover picture of VV93 Please tell them about your event. Contact 0845 were some latin words and asked for a translation. 4560284. Email: [email protected]. Web: www.farmedanimalaction.co.uk Homo Veganus non capit muscas translates as 'A Vegan Person does not catch flies' Jamie who wrote it said the 27 Oct - 3 Nov UK Vegan Week original latin was 'an eagle does not catch flies' and he From the UK Vegan Society's Autumn 2002 magazine... interprets that as meaning 'an eagle has better things to "This year's theme is wider availability of vegan food do than catch flies'. What Jamie was expressing was for everyone to enjoy in restaurants, hotels, pubs, Homo Veganus does not kill, but looks to higher things. hospitals, schools and cafes. A new guide will help The aim being to differentiate between the ordinary caterers cope with the increased demand for dairy-free gardener who might use blood and bone meal and a egg-free, animal-free catering, with details of alternative veganic one. ingredients, advice from catering professionals such as the manager of the NHS Better Hospital Food project and marketing tips on how to tap into the new demand." WWW.VEGANVIEWS.ORG.UK The week is coordinated by the UK Vegan Society. Vegan Views magazine is now available free as an Web: www.vegansociety.com 'Acrobat download' from our website at www.veganviews.org.uk. If you're not clued up on 1 Nov World Vegan Day computers, this means that people can get the magazine The Vegan Society was founded in from the internet onto their computer screens, and it November 1944. Celebrate being vegan. looks exactly like the paper version that subscribers get. Talk about it. Talk to caterers. Contact the They can also print it if they want it on paper. Back Media. Write to your local paper. This issues of the entire magazine before VV93 will not be year's theme is: 'Food Suitable for available on our website since they were not produced Everyone'. Web: www.vegansociety.com. on a computer and are too difficult to convert. But there's still plenty of selected articles from many of 1 Dec Christmas Without Cruelty Fayre these old magazines on our website. Probably the biggest UK Fayre devoted to Vegetarianism, Veganism and Animal Welfare/Rights. Originally, we thought about having an email-only It's at Kensington Town Hall, Hornton Street, London subscription category. We were advised that we'd end W8. 10am - 5pm. Stalls, vegan food, and celebrity up spending a lot of time emailing, maintaining email auction. A good place to do your Xmas shopping! lists and chasing up subscription renewals. Making it Organised by Animal Aid. Web: completely free as a download from our website means www.animalaid.org.uk. that we don't have to do anything (people can download it by themselves) and far more people are likely to PLANTS FOR A FUTURE COURSES… download and read it - people love freebies. Making it Further details: 01208 872 963 or 0845 458 4719 free was not an easy decision; would lots of current 20 – 23 Sep Shaping The Future of PFAF – 2 subscribers stop subscribing, which could eventually Four-day gathering aimed at bringing people, information, skills, undermine the paper magazine? If you currently ideas, and knowledge together with a focus on PFAF's future. subscribe but want to switch to the downloadable 5 - 6 and 26 – 27 Oct Woodland Gardening Courses version, please consider sending a yearly donation to with Stephen Nutt. Both courses centre around the construction of the Garden of Love, a woodland garden in an existing 1 acre VV to guarantee the future of the paper magazine. We woodland dedicated to Robert Hart.