http://shoutvegan.com/wordpress Shouting about the disgrace of our society. We need to face upto the fact that killing animals is just unacceptable. Do something worthwhile today. Be vegan. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:14:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well it’s over a month since I said goodbye to Norway and returned to the place I used to call home, the UK. Life here seems quite unchanged. Walking into a store to be able to buy vegan options off the shelf felt a world away from what I had ... http://shoutvegan.com/wordpress/2010/02/the-uk/ So tomorrow the children and I pack up and hope our flight to London goes without a hitch. I have seen the chaos the snow in the UK has caused and hope things have calmed down a bit. At least our pilot will be used to landing in snow and ... http://shoutvegan.com/wordpress/2009/12/leaving-norway/ Yesterday I read the below article from the Telegraph with interest. I would have posted it up straight away had I not been in bed with the flu. However, upon dragging myself up today I thought  the first thing I wanted to do was highlight the hypocrisy yet again in our society. ... http://shoutvegan.com/wordpress/2009/11/were-playing-double-standards-again/ 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 ... http://shoutvegan.com/wordpress/2009/11/food-inc/ I have to admit to making the nicest pumpkin soup I have ever had yesterday so I thought I'd share the recipe which as always I just made up! Lightly fry an onion in olive oil. Add about 4 cups of scooped out pumpkin. Add 3 chopped carrots. Add a pint veg stock, maybe ... http://shoutvegan.com/wordpress/2009/11/pumpkin-soup/ Puppy is kicked to death in park. A 10-week-old puppy was kicked to death when it ran up to a group of people in a Cambridgeshire park in what the RSPCA called a "sickening" attack. The Jack Russell was being walked by its owner, a 15-year-old girl, in Priory Park, St Neots, ... http://shoutvegan.com/wordpress/2009/10/spot-the-difference-game/ Well, Amsterdam certainly is a city of everything! I was told that you could find anything for any taste. There are museums, boat trips, bars, coffee shops where you can smoke cannabis but not cigarettes, theatres, boutique shops, funfairs and then when you want to go for a meal you ... http://shoutvegan.com/wordpress/2009/10/vegan-in-amsterdam/ Is meat eating an addiction? Is smuggling a tin of meat into a vegetarians house to eat when the hosts go out the same as sneaking a quick cigarette when you think no-one will catch you? I think it's not far off. When friends and family are with me I ... http://shoutvegan.com/wordpress/2009/09/addicted-to-meat/ I just had to share this.The smallest piglets of the litter are often held bt their legs and pounded against  concrete infront of their helpless mothers. At what point do you stop and think 'Hang On, maybe that's not acceptable behaviour?' Don't be a part of it. But you love ... http://shoutvegan.com/wordpress/2009/08/the-youngest-piglets-fate/ Yes I filmed it landscape viw via my iphone using qik - try and rotate it to get it in portrait - well, 30 minuites of trying and I'm giving up - got a boy who has just had his MMR to amuse and are for today so hope you ... http://shoutvegan.com/wordpress/2009/08/video-of-the-goats-nextdoor/