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Nov
8

Food Inc

Last night we watched ‘Food Inc’, a documentary film about the food industry. I must say, as a vegan, I think I know a lot about food production, turns out not as much as I should! This film is a must for everyone, it is not a film which asks you to go vegan but rather explains how the big corporations really don’t care about farmers or about you and your families safety. As a vegan I often...
Feb
26

Fur coat, no brains.

I stood behind a woman in a store wearing a thick fur coat. Not surprisingly she also barged me out of the way as if I was an inferior being. Fur – guess who it belongs to…that’s right….the animal! Anyone who wears fur when there is a viable alternative is an abomination. Insult who I may, it is downright disgusting. You think so too? The how about ditching your leather shoes, belts,...
Feb
6

Whales

Why aren’t we doing more to stop whaling? Whales are intelligent and peaceful mammals whom we mercilessly allow to be murdered on a regular basis. There is a report about a clash in the news today between Greenpeace and whalers in Japan. It was so far down the news scale I thought I would put it here to get a few more readers. I live in Norway and petitioned when I was a teenager living in th UK about...
Jan
18

Credit Crunch

Are you struggling with food bills during this economic downturn? Maybe you want to take the advice given by the ‘This is money’ website. Instead of buying more expensive cuts of meat you can buy pigs trotters and offal. Awful you think? Well isn’t eating the bottom of a pig or legs of lambs? Maybe it is time you re-thought your whole attitude regarding meat eating. For me, eating  offal is...
Jan
9

Spreading the vegan word.

If you are a vegan, it is likely that you want to share with others the benefits of being vegan, both to yourself and to the animals that will not be killed for you. As the ability to communicate with people is expanding with the growth of technology, now is the perfect time to begin making your presence known! Second Life is a great place to while away some time, whether you treat it as a game or something...
Jan
4

Bone China

Do you have any bone china in your cupboards? If so think hard about the words bone china because that is exactly what is it. I was spurred on to write this article after finding a bone china cup in my cupboard, left by my mother who I only just figured, brought her own cup to drink her tea from! On the bottom of the cup are those words ‘bone china’. Bone china is made with cattle bones, or the...
Dec
29

Happy New Year!

I have to say this year has been the most productive of my life. As I get older I find I am able to focus more on what is important, I hope, not just to me but to those I share the planet with. When I look back on my life I many errors of judgement and there were many selfish decisions I made. I do not regret my life, it has only made me more aware of how easy it is to get wrapped up in yourself, without seeing...
Dec
22

The cod figures are up – lets catch more!

Yes, most people know that we almost killed all the cod in the sea. Yet did you know that the EU have now decided to raise fishing quotas for cod because levels have risen a little? No, that can’t be right, it sounds so stupid…well, it’s true. There will be a 30% increase in the North Sea Quotas. There is still a reduction in the quotas elsewhere, showing that the fish are not doing too well!...
Dec
18

vCJD – Mad Cow Disease

Today another news story appears about the dangers of meat eating, this time a story about how more cases of vCJD or mad Cow’s Disease are to be expected. Yet still no mention in the article about the possibility of stopping eating meat – it is so ingrained in our society that is does not seem to enter peoples minds – or is suppressed by the media. I remember the first vCJD scare and was...
Dec
9

Why doesn’t even the thought of eating dead bodies make us sick?

Why as conscious, intelligent beings would we still continue to eat the bodies of dead animals? Think about this carefully. We are a civilised people, capable of great thought and action. Admittedly humans do seem to have a self destruct capability but overall we can rationalise things out fairly well, can’t we? Then why, in the time we are living, is it not crystal clear that we eat the dead carcasses...

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