New Mexico Vegan May 2017

The Future is Now Non-Human Animal  Humanimal  Planet

Volume 3  Issue 3 May 2017 For Vegans, Vegetarians, and the Veg Curious

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Say Yes To Healthy (Advertisement)

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Editor’s Note

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Assistant Editor’s Note

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It’s Not About A Diet (Advertisement)

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Take a Look in the Mirror

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Toadland Manufacturing, Inc. (Advertisement)

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MeatStinction (Advertisement)

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Spicy Red Lentil Soup

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Photo Collage

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Ecofeminism

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No One Should Be Separated From Their Mother (Advertisement)

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Plant-based Diets

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Let’s Talk About Veganism (Event Flyer)

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The Link Between Animal Abuse and Human Violence

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New Mexico Facts and Trivia

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Cooking With Compassion (Event Flyer)

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Red and Green VegFest Preview

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NM House Rabbitt Facts

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I’m Scared of Needles (Advertisement)

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Resources

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Stand UP!

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Calendar Of Events

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HeartnSole/Vegan Spirituality (Advertisement)

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Adeline Road Trip - Albuquerque Stop

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Fans of Film Café and V Roast Coffee Campaign

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Advertising with NM Vegan

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Contributor Carol J. Adams

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Tammy Fiebelkorn

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Dr. Michael Greger

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Dr. Ankur Gupta

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New Mexico Vegan VoIume 3 – Issue 3 May 2017 Editor: Nancy Arenas Assistant Editor: Arwen NMV Photographer: N. Arenas

A HeartnSole, LLC publication The views and opinions, expressed by contributing-authors, in the New Mexico Vegan Magazine; may, or may not, represent the views and opinions, of New Mexico Vegan.

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These are very exciting times for me as we near the 2nd Red and Green VegFest Albuquerque to be held at the Albuquerque Convention Center on Saturday July 1, 2017 starting at 9am.

It is wonderful to bring speakers together to our Red and Green VegFest to share their knowledge on all things vegan. This year’s theme is Compassion…Love in Action, and with that in mind we have some wonderful cooking demos lined up to show us how to make delicious cruelty free foods. We will be showing the movie, Unlocking the Cage in the afternoon and hope that you will make a point to view it there. We are always looking for cruelty free vendors whom can introduce themselves to us and their offerings. We will be having a tasting table and of course the opportunity to meet new people and or reconnect with friends old and new.

However, the Red and Green VegFest needs the whole community to support it. We are opened to the vegetarians, vegans and the veg curious. We hope that you will spread the word, invite family and friends to come. This is your Red and Green VegFest and it order to grow and make it bigger it needs your support. The more people attend, more people and companies we can attract.

My goal is to work to inspire people in our community to adapt a vegan lifestyle. This goal is centered in the fact that animals need help and I want to help end their suffering. If we can come together, we can, together, make changes and become a stronger voice.

I urge us all to promote vegan events. I urge us all, to raise each other up. I urge us all to remember the “big” picture, which is to end animal suffering, improve humanity’s health and save the planet.

Together, I know, we can achieved this. Let’s stand together and strong with veganism and carry on!

Livegan, Nancy & Arwen

ASSISTANT EDITOR’S NOTE Please be kind to all kinds. Thank you all for your love of animals.

Livegan: -- Arwen.

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Take a look in the mirror. That body you see in front of you; what is it made of?

Organs? Skin? Blood? Sure, but what are those made of?

Cells, right? Human cells. Blood cells, and skin cells, and muscle cells . . .

There are approximately 10 trillion human cells in your bodies, making up the structures and organs that allow you to function. That is quite a number of tiny little factories that digest your food, produce your sweat, and allow your hearts to beat. Standing right next to those wonderful human cells are over 100 trillion microbes - bacteria, fungus, viruses, worms. That means that, inside of us, there are 10 times more bugs than there is “us.� For past 50 years in medicine, we thought these bugs were nothing but trouble. They were the bacteria that caused strep throat, or the virus that gave us a stomach flu; and the medical community wanted them gone.

So, me and my colleagues in healthcare started offering the following advice: kill the bugs! We gave antibiotics.

We suggested Lysol wipes and Purell sanitizers. I personally took pride in giving small packets of Listerine to all of my patients to help them kill as many pesky bugs in their mouths as possible.

And what has happened? Have we all become healthier? Have we eradicated strep, flu, gingivitis, sinusitis? Sadly, no.

Instead, hay fever, eczema, Crohn’s disease, strange allergies are not only on the rise, they are becoming an epidemic. Common health issues, like obesity and anxiety, also on the rise, are now being linked to an unbalanced microbiome. Only now are we realizing that it was those bugs, the 100 trillion small factories on our skin, in our noses, and our guts, that can selfless provide so much benefit to our bodies and our overall health, when balanced.

These bugs will be there, in our bodies, whether we like it or not, ready to either make us healthy, or make us sick.

We harbor resentment for our microscopic friends, because we remember the times that they did us harm, causing sore throats, diarrhea, and ear infections. When our bodies are out of balance, the bad bugs outweigh the good, leaving us sick and angry at them, ready to carpet bomb their domiciles with strong antibiotics.

What happens when we stop trying to eradicate these microorganisms? When our bodies are in-balance, when the good bugs overwhelm the bad?

Magic!

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Our moods improve. Our cravings for high sugar, high fat foods are minimized. Our body odor becomes less offensive. We increase our abilities to digest healthy nutrients from food. The movements of our bowels become, ahem, wonderful. Most importantly, we develop a tremendously strong ability to fight infectious disease without the help of medicine.

So, how do we get the most good bugs, the most balanced bodies?

Join me at Red and Green VegFest on Saturday, July 1, as I present The human microbiome: How the bugs in our guts are the next piece to the total health puzzle.

Ankur A Gupta, DDS has followed a plant-based diet and lifestyle for himself and his family for the past six years. In the past two years, he and his wife began introducing the benefits of such a lifestyle to their patients and community in North East Ohio. Dr. Gupta presents to small and large community groups throughout the country on topics concerning total health, always ending his lectures with practical, implementable, step-by-step ways to be better!

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If you haven’t seen the movie Forks over Knives, I encourage you to do sol The feature film Forks Over Knives examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-based and processed foods. https://www.forksoverknives.com/the-film/

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The word “ecofeminism” first appeared in the early 1970s as part of the radical feminist movement that was appearing around the world to challenge patriarchal power. Ecofeminism is a dynamic political theory that identifies how oppressions are interconnected.

In the early nineties, ecofeminism became the focus of much scholarly work—including a special edition of Hypatia. Several anthologies appeared, including my Ecofeminism and the Sacred. Ecofeminist philosophy was being engaged with by other disciplines. At that point, one aspect of ecofeminism challenged the idea that you could talk about the environment and consider yourself an environmentalist without addressing the fact that people were eating animals and dairy products and eggs. This strand of ecofeminism became known as “animal ecofeminism” in some quarters.

And then the backlash occurred. Ecofeminists were described as essentialists, i.e., that we were saying that there was something unique or distinct about being a woman that made us more pacifist or less violent, that we were somehow holding an essentialist position that upheld the gender binary. In our new anthology, Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth, Lori Gruen and I say, “Exposing dualistic frameworks operating in oppressive situations did not mean that ecofeminists valorized the non-dominant parts of the dualism nor viewed the characteristics of the non-dominant part as ‘natural.’ In arguing relationally and developing a care tradition in animal ethics, ecofeminists were challenging, not accepting, the essentializing structure of the division between men as rational and women as emotional.”

For this new anthology, Lori and I created a chapter called “Groundwork” in which we say, “Look--these ideas, these ecofeminist ideas, this is not new, this is not recent; we have been intersectional and we have been engaging around these ideas for a long time and it is important for us to recognize it.”

Ecofeminism allows for the articulation of an ethic of care. Care is part of how we relate to the other, and that “other” isn’t just another so-called “human being,” but is potentially any part of this planet. Care is a radical political situating of ourselves in relationships to others. The ecofeminist articulation of care becomes both a radical critique of patriarchal privilege and becomes a remedy to this privilege.

The ethic of care is also a practice. In the writings that Josephine Donovan and I have done together, one of the words we use is attention (from Simone Weil, a twentieth century French thinker and mystic). She says, “What is attention? Attention is being able to ask your neighbor what they are going through – and then being willing to hear the answer.”

The question is, and it’s a very political one, “Who is your neighbor?” The ethic of care recognizes how we have failed to acknowledge that who our neighbors are could be defined much more expansively.

Carol J. Adams is a feminist-vegan advocate, activist, and independent scholar and the author of numerous books including her pathbreaking The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory, now in a Bloomsbury Revelations edition celebrating its 25th anniversary. It has been translated into German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Portuguese and French. A Spanish edition will appear in 2016 and an Italian edition is in process. She is the co-editor of several important anthologies, including most recently Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth (with Lori Gruen). The Carol J. Adams Reader: Writings and Conversations 1995-2015 appeared in the fall of 2016. Her writings are the subject of two recent anthologies, Defiant Daughters: 21 Women of Art, Activism, Animals, and The Sexual Politics of Meat and The Art of the Animal: 14 Women Artists Explore The Sexual Politics of Meat, in which a new generation of feminists, artists, and activists respond to Adams' groundbreaking work.

More info at: http://caroljadams.com/why-vegan-feminist/

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A significant convergence of evidence suggests that plant-based diets may help prevent and even reverse some of the top killer diseases in the Western world and can be more effective than medication and surgery. Many of the scourges of modern living might be prevented, including Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and Parkinson’s disease, age-related macular degeneration, cataracts, Crohn’s disease, gallstones, kidney stones, diverticulosis, rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis and vaginal infections.

Additionally, plant-based eating may have a positive effect on abdominal fat, acne, aging, allergies, asthma, body odor, cellulite, childhood IQ, cognition, dysmenorrhea, eczema, gut flora, fibromyalgia, kidney stones, metabolic syndrome, menstrual breast pain, mood, multiple sclerosis, oral health, rheumatoid arthritis, waist circumference and weight control.

Pollutants in Meat Eating meat and other animal products may be associated with a shortened lifespan. Meat contains a high amount of saturated fat, trans fats, sulfur dioxide arachidonic acid and heme iron. Meat, fish, dairy and eggs may also increase our exposure to dietary antibiotics, industrial toxins, mercury and other toxic heavy metals, advanced glycation end-products (AGE)s, cadmium, xenoestrogens in fish and estrogenic meat carcinogens.

A plant-based diet can detoxify the body of these pollutants. Even just small steps toward eating more fruit and vegetables may lengthen lifespan.

Vegans’ Nutritional Needs Contrary to popular myth, vegans have healthy bones and higher blood protein levels than omnivores. Most vegans get more than enough protein. In one study, within a matter of weeks, participants placed on a plant-based diet experienced improvements in blood pressure, cholesterol and insulin levels, insulin resistance and C-reactive protein levels.

Vegans may have fewer nutrient deficiencies than average omnivores while maintaining a lower body weight without losing muscle mass. Those eating plant-based diets appear to experience enhanced athletic recovery without affecting the benefits of exercise. The arteries of vegans appear healthier than even long-distance endurance athletes and those on low-carb diets. In fact, the Paleo Diet may increase the risk of toxin contamination, DNA damage and cancer.

There are two vitamins people need that are not available in plants: vitamins D and B12. There is a serious risk of B12 deficiency if no supplements or B12-fortified foods are consumed. Two other nutrients to monitor are iodine and zinc. Yeast- or algae-based long chain omega 3 fatty acids may also be beneficial.

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Better Nutrition Education Needed Medical training continues to underemphasize nutrition education, and patients often do not receive information about all of their treatment options. Doctors report they don’t practice preventative cardiology because they believe their patients aren’t capable of changing their diets. Kaiser Permanente has begun more aggressive efforts to apprise patients about the advantages of plant-based diets.

Other Benefits of a Plant-based Diet If significantly more people transitioned to plant-based diets, Medicare costs could drop by the billions of dollars.

Plant-based diets may also help lessen greenhouse gas emissions and have a smaller impact on the environment.

Topic summary contributed by Linda. Reprinted with permission from Dr. Michael Greger. http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/plant-based-diets

Michael Greger M.D. FACLM Dr. Greger is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, and public health issues. A founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Dr. Greger is licensed as a general practitioner specializing in clinical nutrition. He is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and Tufts University School of Medicine. His latest book, How Not to Die, became an instant New York Times Best Seller. View the book trailer here.

100% of all proceeds he has ever received from his books, DVDs, and speaking engagements has always and will always be donated to charity.

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By now, most of us realize that there is a strong and undeniable link between the way we treat non-human animals and the way we treat humans. The most commonly cited statistic on the topic is: 76% of those who will harm an animal will also harm another member of the family. (www.spotabuse.com). Another popular statistic is: people with a history of animal abuse are 5 times more likely to commit a violent crime. (Ascione et al, 1999.) The National Link Coalition maintains a complete bibliography of the research done on this topic; it’s extensive and continues to grow. Research is being done that investigates almost every possible angle of the intersection of animal abuse with domestic violence, child abuse and/or elder abuse. Regardless of how you feel about animal rights, you really don’t want someone who hurts animals in your family, house or neighborhood.

The most interesting aspect of all those studies documenting this link is perhaps what isn’t being included in the research. How you treat a dog or cat has been studied ad nauseam. How it affects a child to see their dog or cat friend being abused is a popular research topic. We have many studies focused on how women in domestic violence situations often won’t leave, or delay leaving, the abusive situation because of concern for their companion animal’s safety. What we don’t see included in studies is how our treatment of noncompanion animals affects our interactions with humans.

In the thousand plus citations on the National Link Coalition Website, very few focus on wild, farmed or vivisected animals. There are a few studies that focus on slaughterhouse workers and their increased incidents of violence outside of the slaughterhouse. Not surprisingly, “slaughterhouse employment increases total arrest rates, arrests for violent crimes, arrests for rape, and arrests for other sex offenses in comparison with other industries.” (Fitzgerald et al, 2009.) There are a few studies that focus on illegal hunting, but none on the impact of “legal” hunting on a person’s interactions with others. There are absolutely no studies on the impact of working on a factory farm, “training” animals for a circus, or working in a vivisection lab.

Is it really a large leap to think that those who abuse non-companion animals are prone to violence and that violence could manifest itself as violence towards humans? If kicking a dog often leads to harming of children or spouses, why wouldn’t kicking cows or pigs have the same impact? If killing a companion animal increases your likelihood of harming humans, why wouldn’t killing wild animals do the same?

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For many of us reading this publication, it’s a foregone conclusion that people who hurt and kill any animal are violent and their violence will often extend to humans as well. We see the obvious fact that the correlation between cruelty to animals and violence towards people includes all animals, regardless of their deemed relevance to society.

But, for the clear majority of people in the United States, it is completely acceptable to allow violence towards some animals. Those who sign petitions to make sure people who harm puppies and kittens get jail time often don’t even recognize the disconnect between opposing this violence while passively allowing violence towards farmed animals, wild animals, animals used in research or animals used in entertainment. This disconnect is evident in the lack of research on the topic of violence towards these animals who are deemed “unimportant” by our society. On our path towards a more enlightened, less violent society a necessary next step is elevation of all sentient beings to a level deemed worthy of compassion. Until we reach that level, it seems unlikely that societal and family violence will be eliminated or reduced.

Ms. Fiebelkorn is the President of eSolved, Inc., an environmental and business consulting firm. She is the Board President for Positive Links, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public about The Link between Animal Abuse and Human Violence and providing training to domestic violence workers, social workers, animal control officers and others about this issue. She provides training statewide to law enforcement, social workers, animal shelter staff, domestic violence shelter staff and others on The Link and ways to work together to reduce family violence. She also organizes the bi-annual New Mexico Conference on The Link between Animal Abuse and Human Violence, and represents New Mexico at the National Link Coalition.

She dedicates time to legislative efforts to increase the protection of the environment and animal rights and was instrumental in the passage of ordinances in Boulder and Estes Park, CO that prohibit the exhibition of wild and exotic animals as well as legislation to create New Mexico’s Link Awareness Day. Ms. Fiebelkorn lives with her furry and feathered kids – Suzy (20 year old mutt), Ruby (16 year old mutt), Cinderella (4 year old mutt) and Mr. T (63 year old parrot) - in Albuquerque.

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ABQ Vegan: http://www.meetup.com/ABQVEG/ Otero Veg: http://cloudcroftvegans.com/index.html

HeartnSole Spiritual Community: https://heartnsolerevna.wordpress.com/ Leaf: Taos Vegan Society: http://www.meetup.com/Taos-Vegan/ Santa Fe Vegan: http://www.meetup.com/Santa-Fe-Veg/photos/4704212/445478790/ Silver City NM Vegan Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/vegansupportgroup/

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If you are vegan and offer cruelty-free services and products please let us know for possible inclusion in upcoming NM Vegan Magazines, please email us at welcome22day@gmail.com, on the subject line please write NMV Vegan Products & Services.

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Stand up!... for the good of others, the animals, and the planet… and in so doing, you will “stand up” for yourself.

Vegans: must be heard; must be self-presenting (for, those who oppose veganism, will not beg you, to present your vegan-ideals). Life, itself (all biological life, here), is depending on vegans. Vegans, when trying to save humanity from itself, are like those parents, determined to administer necessary-medicine, to their children (who …complaining about the taste… resist swallowing the medicine). This scenario may appear un-lovingly coercive, on the part of the parents; yet, it certainly is an act of love… some would call it “tough love.” But, in its pure form, is it not simply, wisdom (calm, righteous, and …confident in the value of the service)? Not forcefully controlling; but, persistently caring.

Are you serving the wounded?... Wisdom says, “Serve the healthy nurses, also.” Engage, inspire and promote each other’s efforts for veganism… celebrate them. After all, every truly good deed that we do, is beautifying the “big” picture: global non-violence (beginning with those poor innocent enslaved souls –animals– who lack their own socially-permitted “voice of representation.” Animals are looking for compassionate and courageous humans, to win for the animals, their own legitimate “freedom of speech.” They yearn to be free; it is a right they deserve; and if you only listen, they are saying so.

Animals, as I write this, are dying (premature deaths, at the hands of humans). It is a heavy burden, to me. But the animals themselves… they ain’t heavy, they are my brothers and sisters from another mother. What is heavy to me, is this: most mutual enemies, in this world, agree on …shedding the blood of animals, to feed humans. I am dedicated to creating a global-civilization; wherein, all humans are heart-connected with animals. I am not trying to force an attitude that is un-natural… carnivores do not yet realize, the greatly expanded natural-beauty & animal-charm, that will one-day be theirs; within the non-violent customs, of all-inclusive veganism.

Daily, tell someone about veganism. Daily, lend support to someone, who is promoting veganism. This revolution, is not an easy one; but, we will be triumphant. How can we not be?... just look at the ideal we are promoting. As human slavery was abolished, (in this country, at least); so, too, animal slavery will come to an end, world-wide.

The vegan message is real… it is right. Simply think, really do it… think, what veganism truly is; then you will not doubt, that “happiness for all” is more worthy, than …bloodshed. This is not a discussion of sap, bleeding out of a tree, for maple syrup… you must know, that this is about the PAIN of bleeding …blood… like your own. Veganism is not a short-lived, trivial trend; sprouting-up, only to dry-up, and fade away as a value-less, frivolous fad.

Veganism is the eternal/universal value of peace, that has been flowering for centuries. Our day to blossom is coming, and we will be a Vegan World. Live vegan.

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May 2017 Red and Green Vegan – Dancing with the Bars – Every Thursday - 8:30AM – Movement exercise program for balance and range of motion - Bear Canyon Senior Center, 4645 Pitt St NE, Albuquerque NM Saturday May 6, 2017 - 4:30PM ***New DAY & Time***Red and Green Vegan - Fusion Dance – (vegan snacks served) Partner dancing - Dance is every first Saturday of the month. Lloyd Shaw Dance Center, 5506 Coal SE, Albuquerque NM June 2017 Red and Green Vegan – Dancing with the Bars – Every Thursday - 8:30AM – Movement exercise program for balance and range of motion - Bear Canyon Senior Center, 4645 Pitt St NE, Albuquerque NM

Saturday June 3, 2017 - 4:30PM Red and Green Vegan - Fusion Dance – (vegan snacks served) Partner dancing - Dance is every first Saturday of the month. Lloyd Shaw Dance Center, 5506 Coal SE, Albuquerque NM Tuesday June 20, 2017 - 1:00PM Let’s Talk About Veganism - A Presentation to share the benefits of a plant based diet and its effects on our health, the animals and the planet. It is the kickoff to a series of vegan cooking classes/presentations. Bear Canyon Senior Center, 4645 Pitt St NE, Albuquerque NM July 2017 Red and Green Vegan – Dancing with the Bars – Every Thursday - 8:30AM – Movement exercise program for balance and range of motion - Bear Canyon Senior Center, 4645 Pitt St NE, Albuquerque NM Saturday July 1, 2017 – 9AM-6PM HeartnSole, LLC - Red & Green VegFest Albuquerque, Compassion in Action Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque NM Saturday July 8, 2017 - 4:30PM Red and Green Vegan - Fusion Dance – (vegan snacks served) Partner dancing - Dance is every first Saturday of the month.

Lloyd Shaw Dance Center, 5506 Coal SE, Albuquerque NM Tuesday July 11, 2017 - 1:00PM Cooking with Compassion- Cooking Demonstration and introduction to cruelty free products. Showing you how easy it is to cook vegan. Bear Canyon Senior Center, 4645 Pitt St NE, Albuquerque NM If you have upcoming vegan events, let us know and we will include them in our calendar. Send email to welcome22day@gmail.com, Please write on subject line: NMV COE. Thank you.

We meetup once a month, join us.

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Adeline Road Trip - Albuquerque Stop The community came out in force to greet Ellie and the Gentle’s Barn crew who were escorting Sweet Adeline from California To Tennessee. She made her stop at Thai Vegan on Osuna, where the gracious host stayed opened past their closing time so that we can spend a little time with Adeline the cuddle turkey.

After 5 years of growing our family business "Fans Of Film Cafe and V Roast Coffee" we've decided to slowly transition to a all vegan menu.

We're also faced with having to re-locate the cafe and this is exciting for us because we now have the chance to re brand and go all vegan.

The challenge is we lack some of the funds to move and have launched a an online fundraiser at https://igg.me/at/fansoffilm/x/1905829.

We are the first all organic air roaster, cafe, coffee shop in Albuquerque and we wanna go with a 100% Vegan menu, can you help?.

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