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Contents

News

Vegan Businesses: Shops 14 The trials and tribulations The Vegan Society Trade Mark *

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It's Time for a Spring Clean!

Dust those tastebuds

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Fundraising Income generation Young Vegans Go For It! The column for under 14s

Retrospect 20 A vegan pioneer looks back 'What's a Vegan Guv'nor?'

22 "A pain in the neck, son"

Sea Vegetables: 'Fruits of the Sea' Full of salty goodness Healthwise — Teeth Banishing dentists

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Sadler's Tales Everyday aspects of vegan living

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Flying on an Empty Stomach?

Avoiding that hungry feeling

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Prison Eye A regular bi-annual

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Neither a Square Deal Nor a Square Meal A vegan prisoner's view Reviews Shoparound The latest vegan goodies Postbag You write . ..

Noticeboard Publications & Promotional Goods Classified

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Cover background by Jane Witheridge

The Vegan Society Council Spring Address

Say not, the struggle naught availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain.

For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks, and inlets making.

Comes silent, flooding in, the main.

And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light, In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly.

But westward, look, the land is bright.

A. H. Clough With veganism, the struggle is fought on several fronts at once: the most important of these is personal example, the influencing of relatives, friends, acquaintances and neighbours by steadfastly holding to our vegan ethic against all blandishments; joining together in a society so that we may educate and inform the wider audience that we cannot reach individually also rates highly.

Members of Council have, of course, put themselves forward in order to achieve just this.

It is essential that no member feels herself or himself shut out from this, or that their efforts are in vain; Council always need your support — your ideas, suggestions and assistance. Your greatest help to the Society is being — and remaining — a member of it, for this gives

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the Society the necessary authority to speak to the world at large.

Since the Annual General Meeting last September, the Council has met regularly to assess the current state of the Society and is putting in place the necessary policies to better position the Society.

Fundraising, of necessity, will be central in these, but the Council will do its best to make it relatively painless.

There has been a good response to the proposed debenture issue to purchase a property (an initiative prompted by the landlords of the Oxford office doubling the Society's rent to £7,000 a year) and the search for suitable freehold premises will now go ahead.

We shall succeed, but only by following our highest aspirations, not our basest fears.

Richard Savage

News Office Move

protein is "broken down into amino acids, some of which are metabolized in the liver and excreted through the kidneys as urea. With the urea and amino acids excreted into urine go large amounts of minerals. One of the minerals lost is calcium."

General Practitioner 13.10.89 Guardian 13.12.89 Vegetarian Times 12.89

The imminent purchase of a freehold office will involve the Society in considerable removal costs. Donations to assist with the relocation would be greatly appreciated. Censored Please mark your envelope A British Union for the 'Office Relocation'.

Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) anti-cosmetics testing commercial has been banned Ostoeporosis from TV, because the Independent Broadcasting The Advertising Standards (IBA) considers the Authority has reprimanded the Authority to be a political group; National Dairy Council for an BUAV and only given a * 15' cinema advertisement headlined: because the British "Worried about Osteoporosis? certification Board of Film Censors judged Consult a Specialist." The it to be too disturbing to be poster featured a milkman, seen by children. The advert implying that calcium in milk shows a model being made-up could help overcome osteoand her skin turning to weeping porosis, a brittle bone condiblisters and sores. tion.

Here's Health 2.90 Osteoporosis is big business: the dairy industry and makers of calcium supplements Breast Protection all benefit from the fear and misinformation generated by Babies who are breast-fed for medical practitioners and the first 13 weeks of life suffer 'experts' who should know bet- a third fewer gastro-intestinal ter. illnesses than bottle-fed babies.

A review in the British The study, undertaken by Medical Journal by J.A. Kanis Professor Peter Howrie at and R. Passmore, concludes Dundee Medical School found that calcium supplementation is that breast-fed babies also have a waste of time and money for less respiratory illnesses. healthy individuals. "The logic Independent 5.1.90 is similar... to that which might lead doctors to give ground-up brains for demenSilver Jubilee tia." They did not find any diets deficient in calcium; yet, In its Silver Jubilee year, in June, Thorsons intends to Plamil Foods — run and publish the Beat Osteoporosis owned by vegans — would like Special Diet Cookbook — to thank all those who have "Help yourself to delicious, supported it since its inception calcium-rich foods for better, in 1965. Plans are under way to stronger bones"! extend its range and a competiOsteoporosis has no single tion for children has been cause — however, lack of exer- launched to celebrate this hiscise and excess protein are con- toric year. Bikes, a radio cassidered to be significant facsette player and Plamil goodies tors. The results of a 15-year must be won. Competition study by researchers from the forms are available in exchange Medical Research Council for an SAE from: Plamil Environmental Unit at Foods, Bowles Well Gardens, Southampton General Hospital, Dover Road, Folkestone, Kent show that a low calcium intake CT19 6PQ. does not increase the risk of hip fracture but that physical activity has a protective effect.

BST Harvey and Monica Diamond in Fit for Life/Living The highly suspect dairy cow milk-boosting hormone bovine Health [well worth a read], demonstrate that animal prod- somatotropin (BST) could soon ucts are a major cause of osteo- be rendered obsolete: Bangor porosis: excess protein — prin- University College's dairy research unit has increased cipally consumed by milk yields by artificially over-nourished omnivores — results in calcium loss. Excess extending daylight hours.

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Researcher Dr Clive Phillips thinks that the technique will go down well with consumers and has possible welfare benefits [but what about the additional stress?] to the cow.

Farmers Weekly 10.11.90

described 1989 as the worst year in the history of the meat trade. He chronicled the year as "starting with salmonella, proceding on to listeria and — by way of the Animal Liberation Front — through to hormones and irradiation, culminating in BSE".

Alas, he forgot to mention that household meat consumption has plummetted to the levels of the early 1970s.

Meat Trades Journal 21.11.89 & 14.12.89

again in January, when Commission has warned that Britain's method of disposing Plumrose warned that all its of the dip after use is dangerchilled sliced meat products could be infected with the bug. ous. Farmers are currently 50,000 packs were withdrawn advised to pour dip down from sale at an estimated retail 'soakaways' or to spread it on fields away from surface cost of £80,000 [shame]. waters. The EC says this breaks Pressure is on H.M. Government to make listeria a the 1980 Ground Water Directive and is threatening the notifiable disease. Public Hospitalized UK with European court Health Laboratory surveys action.

Vegans found that up to 60% of Environment Digest 1.90 uncooked chicken carcasses in Tim Powell, Hospital Liaison shops is contaminated.

Officer, would like to hear from members who have had Listeria infects 12% of pre- In Brief bad — or even good — expericooked, ready-to-eat poultry; ences of vegan catering in hos16% of salami-type sausages; • Scientists in Australia have Robotics pitals, nursing homes or other 50% of raw pork sausages; and developed a portable kit to sex health care establishments. Tim By the end of the decade, cows 10% of soft cheeses on sale. animal embryos and split them may be contacted via the Official figures estimate that to double their numbers — in a could be milked by robots.

The Oxford office. one in 7,000 pregnant women three hour procedure that can cow would be able to enter a loses her baby as a result of lis- take place on the farm. robot milking station when she teria — a total of more than 80 New Scientist 9.12.89 felt like being milked, a pneu- stillbirths or miscarriages a matic arm would set the teat • The second 'Lean on Pork' year in the UK. cups in place, and milking advertising blitz in Jan—Feb Those morbidly fascinated cost would bsgin. the Pork Promotion by bovine spongiform Meanwhile, the world's Council a mere £1 '/4 million. encephalopathy (BSE), eagerly Meat Trades first commercial robot cutter Journal 11.1.90 anticipating the first reported has gone into service at a • Bees at the Heydon Bee of 'mad human' disease, Dutch abattoir: "The cutter sep- case Research Center, Arizona have need wait no longer — clearly, arates the two halves of the car- it's already with us! been fitted with the world's case, with the rear unit of the Independent 11.1.90 smallest bar codes to monitor robot cutting loose the entire "mihums' Guardian 19.1.90 their movements. rectum over a predetermined Guardian 25.1.90 Guardian 18.1.90 length. It also splits the aitch Meat Trades Journal 25.1.90 • The three-year phasing out of bone and separates the hams.

28.1.90 the veal crate came to an end The front unit cleaves the ster- Observer Times 12.1.90 num and opens the abdominal on 1 January 1990, when the New Video wall."

Welfare of Calves Regulations 1987 came into force.

Aimed at secondary school Code named Slaughterline Poison Dip children, Food Without Fear 2000, the robot is the first Meat Trades Journal 4.1.90 explores modern meat produc- example of a heavy investment Increased concern is being • A South Korean province tion, exposes the conditions in programme carried out by the voiced about the annual sheep plans to use monkeys to pick which animals are raised and Dutch since the early eighties dip, part of a national effort to next season's pine nut crop slaughtered, and looks at the to develop a fully automated eradicate sheep scab and fly because of labour shortages. effect meat has on health, the killing and cutting line. strike. Last year, by law, some Daily Telegraph 13.1.90 environment and the Third Agscene Nov-Dec '89 40 million sheep on 18,765 • A substitute for human blood World. Copies are available for Meat Trades Journal 11.1.90 sheep farms were dipped. will be tested on human volun£12.50 plus 70p p&p or on The process involves the teers in a Boston hospital early loan from: Food Without Fear, use of organo-phosphorous this year. Biopure has produced The Vegetarian Society, Epidemic compounds and has been assoultra-purified haemoglobin, Parkdale, Dunham Road, ciated with a number of A record number of salmonella adverse reactions in farmers.

Altrincham, Cheshire WA14 taken from cow's blood. cases were recorded in the first Furthermore, the European 4QG. New Scientist 20.1.90 two weeks of January — 701, 75% up on the same period in 1989. Eggs continue to be the Intolerance greatest single cause of food poisoning in Britain. Last year, Children who have difficulty sleeping, with no apparent despite the Ministry of physical explanation, may be Agriculture, Fisheries and Food suffering from milk intoler(MAFF) ordering the wholeThe Council is seeking to identify suitable ance. Researchers at the paedi- sale slaughter of poultry flocks individuals to act as Vegan Contacts. atric sleep unit at the where one bird was found to be University Children's Hospital, infected, eggs were responsible If you are interested please contact: Brussels, found that 15 out of for 4 out of every 10 food poi17 such children, aged between soning outbreaks where the Terry Bevis, c/o The Vegan Society, 2'/2 months and 29 months, source of infection was indenti33-35 George Street, Oxford OX1 2AY. showed normal sleep patterns fied. within five minutes of cow's A meeting of Vegan Contacts will take place In the first nine months of milk exclusion. last year, 43,300 people were Pulse 18.11.89 after the Adjourned 1989 AGM in recorded as suffering from food Birmingham on poisoning — a 42% increase.

The resulting publicity Worst Yet 5 May [see 'Noticeboard' for further details] knocked out 10% of small egg producers.

Colin Cullimore, Managing Listeria hit the headlines Director of Dewhursts, has

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undraising: few organizations can afford to ignore it. The Vegan Society is no exception.

The new decade sees the Society in a precarious financial position. Despite cuts and close monitoring of expenditure the Society is currently unsustainable and drastic remedial measures loom ominously. However, this undesirable course of action can be avoided if the Society improves its revenue.

Inevitably, organizations look to their members in such situations. These pages contain information on recent money-making initiatives and a number of ideas — some old, some new.

Please see what you can do to help.

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Collections

Although the Society is not yet geared up to providing materials for street and house-to-house collections, it is able to assist members with private collections i.e. those not requiring a licence. You do not need a licence to collect on property where you have the owner's permission, or at private events/meetings.

Vegan Society collecting boxes are available at £2.00 each. This will be refunded when you send in the proceeds f r o m your first collection.

Used Stamps

Used postage stamps may now be sent to the Oxford office. <CQ Please ensure

Recognition The Vegan Society Council greatly appreciates the generosity of those members, associates and supporters w h o are able to help the Society's work by making substantial d o n a t i o n s t h r o u g h o u t the financial year, and wishes to recognize such individuals/ groups in the Annual Report under the following categories: Donors Benefactors Patrons

Cumulative total £25.00- £99.99 £100.00-£199.99 £200.00 +

-))' F w they have at least a one centimetre Xpaper surround and are sorted into for- service/skill, costing them nothing but eign, definitive and commemorative. their time.

Sponsored Events

Generally, the more unusual the better!

Sponsor forms should be well presented.

Auction of Promises

Odds

Boot sales, record sales, book sales, cookery demonstrations, busking, stalls, gigs, guided walks, raft races...

Approach friends, relatives and local businesses and ask them to promise services or goods, for sale at an auction to the highest bidder. Examples include: a ride in a Rolls Royce, a day on a yacht, a music lesson, clothes to the value of £200, a vegan meal, a letterhead design, etc. The incentive for businesses is that their names would appear in the auction brochure and on publicity flyers. Friends and relatives could offer a 6 The Vegan, Spring 1990

The Vegan Society GRAND CRUELTY-FREE DRAW 1990

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The draw will take place at 4.00pm on Sunday 17 June 1990 at the Living Without Cruelty Exhibition, Kensington Town Hall, London.

Requests for books of Grand Cruelty-Free Draw tickets should be directed to: The Vegan Society (GCFD), 33-35 George Street, Oxford OX1 2AY. (Tel. 0865 722166) Ticket stubs and monies must be returned no later than

Tuesday 12 June 1990

Deed of Covenant

A Deed of Covenant substantially increases your gift or subscription to the Vegan Society at no extra cost to yourself, because the Society is able to claim the income tax that you have paid.

Provided you are a taxpayer, the Society can claim an additional 33p (at current tax rates) for every pound you covenant.

The Deed need only apply for four years, assuring the Society of a regular income so that it can plan for the future. It is easy to complete and once made you only have to sign a claim form which we send you in the first year.

HOW YOUR CONTRIBUTION GROWS Here are some examples: Annual Tax Benefits Amounts Rebate over 4 years

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If you wish to make a single donation, the Society can gain the same tax benefit if you use a Deposit Covenant.

For futher information, please contact: The Office Manager, Vegan Society, 33-35 George Street, Oxford 0X1 2AY. 7 The Vegan, Spring 1990

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CLUB DRAW Cash prizes every month!

If you enjoy a bit of a flutter why not help the Vegan Society at the same time?

Each month, three cash prizes will be drawn comprising 50% of that month's pool. The monthly stake is just £1.50 and you can enter as many times as you wish! On the last working day of each month, the winning entries will be drawn.

Just complete the application form below and enclose your remittance for 3, 6 or 12 months as required. Don't worry about forgetting to renew — you will be reminded in good time! All results will be published in The Vegan.

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I enclose cheque/PO payable to The Vegan Society' for £ 3 MONTHS (£4.50 per stake) 6 MONTHS (£9.00 per stake) 12 MONTHS (£18.00 per stake) Return to: Club Draw Organizer, The Vegan Society, 33-35 George Street, Oxford OX1 2AY. This form may be photocopied

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here are always things people want to know about veganism, such as why vegans don't wear leather and wool or eat free range eggs.

Even some vegans can be unclear on many of these subjects, so in this issue we will be looking at some of the many questions we get asked. Do let us know if there is anything you would like us to write about.

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What's wrong with free range eggs?

Approximately half of all chicks that are hatched are male. Because male chicks cannot lay eggs they are destroyed by gassing, crushing, suffocating, decompression or drowning.

The large scale commercial free range concerns can house up to 1000 hens per hectare. Free range hens continue to lay only as a result of a concentrated and supplemented diet and the practice of removing eggs.

After about two years hens become uneconomical to keep because they tend to lay fewer eggs (a hen's natural lifespan is around 12 years).

These birds are labelled 'spent hens' and are slaughtered. Although all birds are supposed to be stunned at the slaughterhouse, the Government's own advisory committee The Farm Animal Welfare Council is unconvinced that all birds are properly stunned (some may have their throats cut while fully conscious) and some may reach the scald tank whilst still alive.

Why don't vegans wear wool?

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The huge wool-bearing sheep is the result of selective breeding. We do not do them a favour by removing any excess wool from their bodies, in fact, millions of lambs and sheep die each year worldwide, as a result of exposure to the cold after shearing. It is also a very 'bloody' affair with many sheep getting badly injured in the process. Nor is sheep farming 'natural'. Worldwide it has caused deforestation, soil erosion, land deterioration and rural depopulation e.g. in the Scottish Highlands and Aborigine Bush homelands.

Farmed sheep are castrated (without anaesthetic); ear tagged (which can cause profuse bleeding); routinely

SPICY FRUIT CAKE

4 oz vegan margarine 3 oz raw cane sugar 2 small grated apples 8 oz wholemeal flour 2 tbs soya flour 3 tsps mixed spice 3 tsps baking powder 3 oz sultanas soya milk juice of lemon Cream the margarine and sugar until light and fluffy.

Mix in apples, flours, spice, baking powder and sultanas. Add a squeeze of lemon and enough soya milk to make a soft dropping consistency. Pour into a greased / lb loaf tin (with greaseproof paper on bottom). Bake for 40 minutes at 355 °F/190 °C (Gas Mark 5). It will be cooked when a knife can be pushed in and out of the cake cleanl

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dipped in cold water; have their tails removed, teeth ground down, pizzle (penis) removed, and coats shorn off; and are fed drugs and hormones. Some are exported and suffer during their journeys to foreign slaughterhouses.

Museling is another procedure carried out on sheep and has been widely condemned.

It is carried out in Australia — the world's major sheep-keeping country — on the Merino breed of sheep. The Merino has lost its natural resilience to 'fly-strike', a condition whereby maggots eat into the skin. Museling supposedly combats this by stripping the skin around the sensitive hind-quarters of the sheep to expose its raw flesh. No anaesthetic is given and no vet is present. The UK imports large amounts of wool from Australia.

As leather is a byproduct of the meat industry, isn't it better to use leather rather than plastic which damages the environment?

Leather is mainly a by-product of the meat industry, though some animals are slaughtered specifically for their skin e.g. ostriches and reptiles. The two industries are very closely connected. Leather is the

most valuable slaughterhouse by-product and if it were not for the leather industry, meat would be more expensive to produce.

Leather is not environmentally friendly. At the beginning of the chain the meat industry wastes massive amounts of land, water and feedstuff to raise animals and pollutes the environment with animal wastes and chemical fertilizers.

The leather industry itself uses many polluting chemicals and dyes which do not biodegrade.

Plastics can cause environmental problems but where there is no alternative such as canvas or viscose rayon (made from plant cellulose) vegans will use plastic rather than leather.

Goat and sheep milk is widely advertised in health food shops these days. Do these animals suffer as much as dairy cows?

In order to maximize milk production goats undergo carefully planned pregnancies in much the same way as dairy cows. Most of the males that are born are either slaughtered at birth or fattened up for a few months to be killed for meat. 50,000 male goat kids are slaughtered every year in this country because they are economically useless. They are chloroformed or have their necks broken — there is no precise legislation.

The welfare code only states that they should be 'humanely killed'!

Many kids are either exported to the Middle East or (increasingly) killed here by 'ritual' slaughter methods i.e. killing the animals without first pre-stunning them so they are fully conscious when they die.

The meat is required for religious reasons by Jewish and Moslem communities.

Amanda Rofe

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SEA VEGETABLES cFRUITS

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THE SEA' ne way in which Britain can put natural resources to good use is the collection and cultivation of sea vegetables or marine algae — over 20 of the 635 seaweeds are native to British waters. With thousands of miles of coastline, beachcombing for 'fruits of the sea' has been a cottage industry in Scotland and Ireland for centuries.

Sea vegetable consumption can be traced back to China in the sixth century BC. Sze Tsu wrote that, "sea vegetables are a delicacy fit for the most honoured guest". Over two thousand years ago the ancient Koreans were sending sea vegetables to the Imperial Court of China, where they were prized for their medicinal value.

There is a well-recorded use of sea vegetables in north west-Europe as well: the Celts and Vikings chewed dulse.

However, it is the Japanese who have most exploited the potential of sea vegetables. They consume an average of 96 sheets of nori per person per year.

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Nutrition

Sea vegetables are something of a nutritional phenomenon, containing good amounts of vitamins — B], B , B ' E, K, pantothenic and folic acids; minerals and trace elements — calcium, iron, potassium, iodine, selenium, copper and magnesium; are low in fat; and have an appreciable protein content.

Japanese studies show that people live longer and are healthier in areas where sea vegetables are eaten abundantly. Cerebral haemorrhage and high blood pressure are rare in these areas.

One of the more unusual characteristics of sea vegetables is their ability to remove radioactive and toxic metal pollutants from the body.

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t Kelp Farm was established in 1985 to specialize in the cultivation of sea vegetables and is currently the only one of its kind in Britain.

Its founders' first task was not an 9 The Vegan, Spring 1990

easy one — locating coastal sites which were free from industrial pollution. Their search led them to the clear, nutrient-rich waters off the west coasts of Ireland and Scotland, and the Isle of Man. Settled in their main farm near Derbyhaven on the Isle of Man they then undertook a three-year pilot research programme. This followed over ten years of intensive research into the life cycles of the various species of edible sea vegetables and the conditions in which they thrived. The varieties that seemed to flourish in these particular waters were wakame, kombu, dulse, and sea lettuce.

Taking the results of their research they designed on-land tanks which are used to secure young plant spores onto ropes known as seed lines. After a preliminary growing period of approximately six months, the sea vegetables are then harvested and low temperature airdried.

Clokie's Scottish Sea Vegetables is a small business adopting the traditional hunter-gatherer approach. It collects sea vegetables from natural stocks north of a line from Skye to Inverness, where one can find some of the cleanest shores in the UK. Sites are monitored to ensure that ecosystems are not unbalanced.

Washing is done by hand and drying takes place in a custom-built herb drier.

Unlike intensive land farming, It is currently able to supply seven varithe cultivation of sea vegetaeties — sugar ware, finger ware, dabberbles needs no fertilizers, pesti locks, grockle, dulse, autumn dulse and cides or herbicides nori.

Richard Farhall Unlike intensive land farming, the The author wishes to thank Debbie cultivation of sea vegetables needs no Richardson for her assistance in writing fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides. In this article. fact, a natural ecosystem develops around the plantation, providing a nursFurther Information ery ground for the young stages of many • Kelp Farm. Contact: Debbie species which can grow to maturity Richardson/Jill Foggin. Tel. 0532 without the risk of dredging or fishing 552171. activities disturbing them.

• Clokie's Scottish Sea Vegetables.

After extensive market research Kelp Contact: Julian Clokie. Tel. 086 287 Farm decided to launch a savoury sea 272. vegetable snack — Kelp Crunchies, of Cookbooks which Mexican Chilli and Garlic are • Cooking With Sea Vegetables vegan. [vegan macrobiotic], Peter & Montse Collection

Gathering still takes place for personal consumption but it is becoming increasingly difficult to locate non-polluted sources — although it is believed that sea vegetables do not absorb pollutants to the same extent as marine animals.

Bradford, Thorsons. Available from the Vegan Society for £4.59 (incl. p&p)

Tasters Required • Ten vegan volunteers are needed to sample new seaweed recipes at South Bank Polytechnic, London.

Contact: Dr Jill Davies 01 928 8989.

Healthwise HEAL YOUR

TEETH JAMES DRYDEN OUTLINES A VEOAN APPROACH TO A PAINFl'E SUBJECT

e lie there, defenceless, tense, overawed by rapidlychanging tech- nology — waiting for the inevitable pain.

What's it to be? A filling, extraction, injection, nervebending scraping, or the full works? Why do we submit ourselves to such agonies?

Of course there will be always be the odd emergency — perhaps the rogue date stone or 'invisible' piece of grit in our (red) lentil soup! — necessitating the urgent need of the services of a dental surgeon, but let's be honest, most of us are there by choice: we chose to abuse our mouth and its contents. The 'ignorance of youth' excuse is less valid nowadays: preventative dental care is perhaps the most successful modern health education programme run to date.

But let's return to choice.

Mixed in with your emotions whilst staring into the impenetrable depths of your dentist's nostrils should be guilt. The materials and drugs used in dentistry have been developed and tested in laboratory animals. And because so many of us continue to damage our teeth, scientists are abusing animals in an

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attempt to develop a vaccine against tooth decay (dental caries).

Tests involving feeding laboratory animals a high-sugar diet have been carried out at the Welsh National School of Medicine (on rats), Manchester University (on rats), the Royal College of Surgeons (on crabeating macaques) and Guy's Hospital (on rhesus monkeys).

Acid-Free

The key to good mouth-care is good nutrition and effective, regular cleansing. The nearer food is eaten to its natural state the better. Acid-producing foods — e.g. sugar (including any processed sugars such as glucose, maltose and fructose) and alcohol — should be avoided. A high alkaline, wholefood vegan diet, rich in nuts, fruit, fresh vegetables and pulses will prevent

Mineralization

Even if your teeth are in the early stages of decay, they will often heal naturally by mineralization. This is, in fact, occuring all the time. The bacteria in our mouths (streptococci) attach themselves to our teeth and mix with proteins from saliva to form colonies — plaque. Plaque on its own does not cause tooth decay (though it can cause gum disease).

When high-acid foods are consumed the plaque turns sticky and cannot be washed away by saliva. The acid attacks the minerals in the teeth resulting in demineralization.

Saliva not only contains antibodies to control the growth of decay-producing bacteria but it also contains minerals which can be deposited back in the teeth to replace those coming out — remineralization. This can only occur when the antibodies in the salvia have finished 'seeing off' the high-acid attacker.

Therefore, if you wish to consume acid foods it is better to build in long intervals, giving remineralization a chance to take place. A very small cavity will not get any larger, unless acid reaches the dentine.

Arresting decay makes even more sense when you realise that the average filling only lasts five years.

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your saliva from becoming too acid and causing tooth decay and gum disease.

Apart from providing an alkaline environment, raw fruit and vegetables also have a cleansing effect; crunchy foods can thicken tooth enamel.

Stress is another contributor to tooth decay. Severe and continuous stress produces extra noradrenalin which increases saliva acidity.

Tooth decay is at its worse during adolescence because of the large quantities of sex hormones. After the age of 25, gum disease is the major problem.

The only way to avoid decay would be to remove every trace of plaque before the high-acid food could get to it. But because teeth have natural

crevices and pits this is impossible. In any case new bacteria from saliva is deposited in minutes. Careful brushing is still important though: use a medium hard (and make sure it stays that way!), nylon toothbrush and whatever method you choose avoid brushing round and round or up and down.

If your gums bleed it may mean that you have not cleaned them properly before and plaque is causing inflammation. This mild form of gum disease gingivitis, can be cured by carefully removing the plaque. If the plaque is not removed, the fibres between the root and bone of the teeth rot and the gum receeds.

Unchecked, the teeth become loose and fall out. How well we brush our teeth (and gums) now determines the number of teeth we will lose in 20 or 30 years time!

Treatment

Toothache . To counter the pain chew on a clove of garlic — powerfully anti-infective — or on a clove, which is not just anti-infective but a local anaesthethic. Oil of cloves can be dabbed on. An infusion or thyme or sage — a teaspoon steeped, covered for ten minutes in a cupful of boiling water — swilled around the mouth, will counter infection and inflammation, and the heat is soothing to pain.

Gums (Bleeding, Sore, Infected, Spongy, Sore). Check that you are not deficient in vitamin C, the B vitamins or calcium. Take a teaspoon of dried sage and steep, covered in a cupful of boiling water for ten minutes. Use as a mouthwash, keeping it in your mouth for as long as possible. Do the same with lemon juice but rinse your mouth afterwards to remove acid.

With a little care and selfrestraint your dentist's nostrils will become a distant memory!

Further Reading

•The Natural Dentist. Brian Halvorsen, Century Arrow (out of print — try your library) • Good Mouthkeeping, John Besford, Oxford University Press .•Home Herbal, Barbara Griggs. Available from the Vegan Society for £4.59 (incl.

P&P) • Dentistry and Dental Research, Liberator, Jan/Feb 1989 The Vegan, Spring 1990

Sadler's Tales

Hilary Sadler continues her column on everyday aspects of vegan living.

'm writing this column in an angry mood this time.

By the time you read this Christmas will have been long gone and no doubt many of those who celebrate Easter will be using the occasion for another mass slaughter. So I'd like to state that I'm fed up with people automatically assuming I had turkey for Christmas dinner, a leg of lamb for the Easter feast, or a joint of meat for Sunday lunch. I'm just as fed up with the next assumpton people make about me, which is that if I don't eat meat then I must live on cheese, eggs and milk. I am conscious that this is the moment where I can clearly

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explain my ethics and the cruelty involved in animal products. But it still gets wearisome after the umpteenth time.

Despite the still growing numbers of those of us anxious to live without the exploitation of animals (both human and non-human), it has to be faced that the carnivores and omnivores still make up the majority. As there are more of them, they take the attitude that they must automatically be in the right, that any opposing views are 'cranky', and that things should be organized their way.

People of differing opinions, they feel, should be grateful for merely being allowed to continue in peace, but should

accept that, as a minority, their sider giving up animal products needs are not important. for the qnimals' sake found it easier when it was for their own benefit and the 'demi-veg' Dissidents was born â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or at least, was People who are opposed to the discovered by the advertising majority regime are dissidents. industry.

I don't believe that just because I too wouldn't mind my life non-vegans make up the major- being made easier, to leave ity in this country they are time for more important things automatically in the right, so but, with a couple of excepwhy should they call all the tions, these time savers are not shots? As a vegan I have for me. The big stores have thought long and hard about greatly increased the number of the issues involved, I have ready-made vegetarian foods done a lot of reading, made they sell but most of these observations, argued with products are useless to me friends and family, and drawn because of their addition of my own conclusions. The pro- butter, cream, yoghurt and, cess still continues. And I greatest bugbear of all, cheese know this is how other people to these dishes. Why is it have become vegans too, thought to be necessary at all? unless they have been lucky Surely, if one only takes the enough to have been brought health point of view, customers up that way. I think we are in a would be much better off with better position to judge than a non-animal alternative, and those who calmly accept the manufacturers could easily status quo just because it's increase the choices on offer made to seem part of our cul- without losing any of the taste. ture, and therefore the way it Not only does this obseshas to be. sion with dairy products and As well as taking no vegetarian food limit the choice account of arguments to the of ready-made foods available contrary, this attitude tends to to vegans in the big shops, it render invisible the vested also tends to limit what can be interests who spend vast done by those food manufacamounts of time and money to turers outside the mainstream make it so, whose lives are who might otherwise find a invested in animal production market among the new healthand who would face financial conscious consumers. The ruin if, all of a sudden, they usual reply is "Sorry not had to stop and find some other enough demand". way of making a living.

All the news in the farming industry at the moment is about Hope the things you can catch from As vegans we are dissidents, meat, eggs and milk. I'm think- and societies have ways of ing of all the news stories dealing with people who speak involving salmonella, listeria, out against the practices of 'mad cow' disease, C a m p y - those who, either by weight of lobacters, etc. Yet because I numbers or weight of power, don't touch the stuff, and don't control what is, or what is not, 'Lean on Pork' or 'Scream for seen to be allowable. After all, Cream', I'm in some way keeping dissenters under conthought to be depriving myself trol by isolating and trivializing their views is an oft-used of a treat. method whereby societies try to minimize the challenge to Choice their authority.

Consumer choice was one of It is comforting to look the big hypes of the late 1980s around and see that such methâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; with a vast range of prod- ods cannot preserve evil ucts for customers to choose regimes for ever and that by from, life had never been easi- steadfastly refusing to comproer. If you chose the right frozen mise people can achieve or cook-chilled product then it change. So I suppose I'll have could leave time for so many to keep on taking up a contrary other things in your life, like position, threatening people's badminton or sailing. Health security and explaining myself. was another big selling point But I certainly won't be and people who wouldn't con- apologetic.

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MIKE PACIE INVESTIGATES VEGAN MEALS IN THE CLOUDS . here is vegan food to be had on aeroplanes, but do we get it? Do we know how to get it?

Straightaway, it needs to be said that we'll do better on scheduled long-haul flights than on two — or three — hour hops to Mallorca or Malta. Scheduled flights are geared up to cossetting passengers rather than processing them, and so are keen to provide a variety of special menus. As a recent round-the-world student friend found, on Air New Zealand the crew went out of their way to tell her of the range of special foods that was available, including vegan.

"They serve lots of fruit, which may have been because it was a Pacific flight."

Another friend remarked on a need for fruit: "I can't understand why more fresh fruit and salads aren't served. My general advice would be always to ask for fruit: there's always plenty aboard. I think it may be kept for the crew." This could be true: many crew members are nowadays insisting on low cholesterol meals.

But both my friends generally got on alright, because they'd travelled a lot, k n e w the ropes — and travelled on scheduled long-haul flights. But what about the once-in-while traveller, the holiday maker, for instance, who may never rise to the stratosphere with Air New Zealand. How do they get on? I went to find out.

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Enquiries

Acting naive, I went along to my local High Street travel agent, and, not wanting to try the assistant too highly, asked if it was possible for me to get a vegetarian meal on my holiday flight.

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depends where you're going." Long haul flights were easy, I was told: charter flights did not cater for special meals.

I swallowed and asked my next question. What if I ordered a very special diet: vegan for instance? The answer was that she'd punch it through her computer if I'd tell her how it was spelt.

I had the distinct feeling that I'd not be contacted and told

What if it was not available? She wasn't sure, and I had the distinct feeling that I'd not be contacted and told. I thought perhaps I was just unlucky in my travel agent's assistant. But I soon found that the information just was not getting through.

In another agent's, I picked up •brochures and airline timetables, to find out what information they gave about special meals of any kind, not just vegan.

The answer was that they didn't.

I found that charter airlines don't advertise special menus — and neither do travel firms. This year's Thompson's Summer Sun brochure, for instance, doesn't mention the possibility of special meals, even though their charter airline is Britannia. This airline does claim to provide special meals: last August they served 5000 'dietary meals of one sort or "another' (out of 825, 000).

So 5000 people must have found out.

I wondered how. Not from Thompson's brochure — and not from Brittania, who told me that they "do not advertise the facility". Other British companies, such as British Airways Poundstretcher Holidays, Beach Villas, Club 18-30, etc.

I found to be just as secretive.

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Why the secrecy? Why are tour operators and charter airlines being so coy? Is it cost? I was assured by Dan-Air, British Airways and Britannia that there was no significant difference in cost between special and ordinary meals.

In theory there is positively no problem about vegan food being provided by all major and most minor airlines. Their catering departments are on their mettle, willing and positively eager to provide suitable menus for almost any kind of pernickety traveller, and they do provide some super food, even though if does lose a little of its savour when served up in plastic trays on plastic fold-away tables.

On Offer

Here are two examples of vegan hot meals from menus shown to me by two airlines: British Airways, primarily a schedule operator, suggests crudites as an hors d'oeurve, followed by "green whole wheat noodles tossed with a little spinach purge in olive oil mixed with pine kernels, sliced carrots with chopped parsley, artichoke slices mixed with sliced button mushrooms and dill herb, thickly sliced aubergine fried in olive oil and stuffed with chopped peppers, chopped courgettes and tomato concasse tossed with a little finely chopped garlic." Desert was pineapple and melon.

Dan-Air, on their charter flight, offer a mixed vegetable curry, coconut rice with raisins, cucumber raita, suparis and chutney, with a graham roll, followed by a fresh seasonal fruit slice. Lovely The Vegan, Spring 1990

mouth-watering stuff, all of it.

In fact, it's been a real surprise to me in my research, to find out just how many kinds of food airline caterers are geared up to provide. A typical list of menus includes vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, low-cholesterol, sugar-free, macrobiotic, and low calorie diets, besides those that are straightforwardly religious, such as Hindu, Moslem and Kosher.

But there may be a slip twixt cook and lip. The enthusiasm of the chefs does not, it seems, get through to the great British public as well as it should.

There may be some excuse for touroperators, but little for the airlines themselves. Very seldom, I found, do brochures, time-tables, and other sources of information provided by airlines include the rather important information about special diets being available. The paying customer, it seems, has to find out for him or herself.

simple. Any place, anywhere in the world that takes a flight booking will process and order for special food. But order early. As my student friend said, "It was easy, if you went along before.

We went to airline offices in Delhi and Sydney and they were only too glad to put it in under 'Special Requests'. Doing it when buying tickets has always been fine."

Of course you need to give the airline time to prepare for your coming. Most airlines reckoned to work to a minimum time of 24 hours

form is passed to the airline's catering department. Here a copy of the request is passed to the kitchens, who ensure that the meal is included on your flight.

Another copy of the request is passed to the cabin crew, and your stewardess will ask you to indentify yourself. No problem. There should be no need for the passenger to do any checking at all between booking and final tasting.

But okay. Why take any chances? As my businessman said, "I think it's a good idea to introduce yourself to the cabin staff on entry to the plane as the odd-ball who needs the special fare. It's best not to wait till your air-borne and the stewardessess ask for people to identify themselves. Even though it's already too late — it's unlikely they'll be persuaded to hold the plane just for your breakfast — you'll have made your point."

And points are what vegans continue to make.

Of course you need to give the airline time to prepare for your coming. Most airlines reckoned to work to a minimum time of 24 hours. Virgin Atlantic and Pan Am claim to be able to do it at 8 hours notice; Brittania requires 48. This reflects the differing degrees of urgency between business people and holiday- * Ed. See Leah Leneman's 'Up and Doing It Away' ( The Vegan, Spring 1989) for makers.

If all goes well, a Special Request tips on travel generally.

Yet the food is ready and the procedure

Prison Eye

Sandra Battram continues her regular bi-annual report

n the past, prisons have enjoyed Crown immunity (being exempt from prosecution under various Acts of Parliament). However, a clause has been added to the Food Safety Bill which, if passed, would give environmental health officers the power of statutory inspection and prosecution. Perhaps we shall start to see an improvement in the food served to inmates!

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cuss the Vegan Dietary Scale.

It was interesting to leam that prisoners must be fed on just £6.10 per week. Surprisingly, prisons are 100% self-sufficient in pork, bacon and eggs; 80% self-sufficient in vegetables; and 75% self-sufficient in milk. All jam and marmalade is prison-produced, together with the majority of bread and cakes.

Few cakes can be eaten by vegans and so more often than not they are given extra fruit.

Conference

In December last year, along with Kathy Silk from the Vegetarian Society, I attended a conference to

deliver a talk to a group of prison catering officers. It was a stormy meeting and confirmed my suspicions that the vegan diet causes great difficulties and is often seen as an inconvenience or 'nuisance' diet.

One catering officer told me proudly that he deliberately served unappetizing vegan meals in order to put the inmate off, saying: "He won't ask for vegan meals again in a hurry!"

Many catering officers are sceptical about 'their' vegans, believing them to be nothing more than 'dietary' vegans — not commited to the whole concept. However, diet is often as far as vegan inmates can go in many establishments: the availability of suitable toiletries and footwear being almost non-existent.

New Book

To help catering officers in their task (and ultimately to ensure vegans are getting a varied diet) the Vegan Society has just produced a cookery book — Vegan Cooking Behind Bars — specifically for prisons. It is about to be distributed to all prison establishments free of charge.

Victimization

Many of our members are still having problems trying to live up to vegan ideals. A regular correspendent has been campaigning long and hard for a pair of non-leather shoes. He has been told to work, but to work he has to wear leather shoes. He has refused and has been punished — loss of remission, cell confinement and removal of all privileges.

Farms are another difficult area. A member wrote that he was told he would have to work on a pig farm, "No way was I working down there, the poor pigs are for fattening — no way would I go."

We will continue to assist as best we can. Please write to me if you have any information you feel we should publish or investigate.

Finally, to those on the outside, please do not forget to support animal rights prisoners. For details send a large SAE to: SARP, BCM Box 5911, London WC1N3XX. Inmates should remember to state they are vegan upon transferring to a new establishment

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he Whole in the Wall was estab-

lished because Liz wanted to run her own business and, as vegans, we were concerned about not making profits from selling animal products. She had considered running a cruelty-free cosmetics operation, but then a small shop in Rhos-on-Sea became vacant, and as Rhos had no wholefood shop of it's own, the concept of a vegan shop presented itself. We wanted to restore the image of the wholefood trade by setting an e x a m p l e to those who had been diverted into the realms of pills and tablets. Our aim was to the sell the most comprehensive range of vegan wholefoods, cosmetics, household cleaners, essential oils, books, magazines etc., and to recreate the ethical association which existed b e f o r e the pills and tablets brigade.

Three vegan entrepreneurs explore the trials and tribulations of running a cruelty-free business

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Another wholefood shop opened about half a mile away run by a milkman

t Considerations Anyone thinking of opening a vegan shop should remember that different

We opened in May 1986, as we did so another wholefood shop opened about half a mile away run by a milkman and his wife — sponsored by the local dairy. We saw this as a challenge and within 18 months, the other shop had closed down.

Confusion

The Whole in the Wall

At first, there was constant confusion in the minds of our customers who thought we were a health shop; we spent many hours explaining why we did not sell cheese, capsules, cod liver oil, etc., and many people who came through the door went out without buying anything.

We estimated that about 1 in 5 of sales were lost on account of our vegan stance. We were also aware that the lost sales were high margin lines health shops needed to pay the rent.

Then a health shop two miles away closed down as the owners retired and we were under intense pressure to fill the gap. Again, we refused, and another health shop opened with a view to filling the void, selling a range of vegan items — at our expense. This is the reason why we ask vegans to support vegan 14

always trying to convince us how profitable their non-vegan lines are. Some of the reps are great; others need to improve their listening faculties.

At the time of writing, our main problem is space (but see below). In addition, we are always short of working capital to finance our plans. Standing still is no problem, but development requires investment. We have so many opportunities now that we are having to plan our development very carefully.

Our stategy was to ensure survival, take low wages, build stock levels and expand slowly. Our opening stock was £2,000; we now carry about £8,000. We consider that we have been very succesful as we now stock exclusively Disos Wines, Rabenhorst Fruit & Vegetable juices, and Green Dragon Animal-Free Foods — and we are about to develop these areas. We never knowingly compromised the vegan principle and we are now respected widely for our standards.

businesses whose ethical position reduces their product choice, a factor that can only be compensated by increased turnover.

We were delighted to find an incredible loyalty among our vegan customers

Support

We were delighted to find an incredible loyalty among our vegan customers.

Their support gave us great courage to continue with the project.

Another problem is the reps who are

Always be honest with your c u s t o m e r s about your ethics

areas require different strategies, and our success relates to developing a business in a Welsh village, then expanding into a Welsh city. What is important is to persevere, always be honest with your customers about your ethics, and remember the message does not always get through the first time. It is also important to remember that expansion requires investment and not just turnover: there is always a delay before turnover liquidates the investment that facilitates the expansion.

Or course our business has an amusing side: One local lady always used to save her coppers and give them to the church. She is not a vegan herself and isn't quite sure what we are. However, she considers us to be something similar to a charity as we are doing something good, and usually have lots of leaflets The Vegan, Spring 1990

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outside the shop. As a result, she started bringing her coppers in to us and it was almost two years before we could persuade her to take some goods in exchange!

By the time this article goes to press,

we shall have moved to a new and larger premises in Bangor. Our new address will be 23 Wellfield Court, Bangor. It will be a much bigger shop with about four times the display area we currently have, and an increase in storage facilities

of about two thousand per cent. It is our intention to develop the retail side and introduce a wholesale facility exploiting both our exclusive lines, and a select range of national best-sellers.

Roger Coates

FC grew out of a bulk buying cooperative in the Portsmouth Animal Rights Group in the early eighties. Originally the stock was kept in the back room of a member's house.

Later a space was rented in a large craft shop in Southsea and the range of stock was increased over a period of months. It then became a possibility that a truly vegan shop could survive and various properties were investigated.

In the late summer of 1984, a suitable place was found and on 29 October 1984 Time for Change opened it's door to the public.

Anyway, our bid was successful and with the help of a friendly solicitor everything was sorted out quite speedily — after the initial waiting and wondering.

I feel that we have been succesful in doing what we set out to do: to inform and educate; give people a good range of food and cruelty-free products at reasonable prices; to be a focal point for various groups; to advertise events, and to show what a vast range of vegan produce there is available.

The fact that we are still here after five years in a naval city like Portsmouth must be classed as some kind of acheivement. We certainly have not made any

tic upright with the products listed on the door) is overdue for replacement with a glass front type of a larger capacity. The frozen food dept. has outgrown all others recently (luckily, that's Kev's job) and thinking back, we didn't have a freezer when we first opened.

There are always day-to-day problems running a shop. The rates, the rent, how much to spend on advertising, what stock to order, which new lines to try, balancing the books, sorting out VAT; and answering endless questions about vitamins, protein, why we don't sell honey-eggs-garlic perles-evening primrose capsules — all part of the job to those in the vegan shop business. On the whole people soon get to know exactly what you are about and I must say that only the nicest people shop at Time for Change.

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Everything seemed to fall into place that year

The reasons for the shop coming into being varied, but basically it was to get the message of veganism and animal rights across to the public. Everything seemed to fall into place that year: my redundancy from a job at Whitbreads brewery, one other person being unemployed, and the group's drive and determination to make Time for Change a success. Although the work force has changed over the past five years and some of the original eight are no longer involved, thanks must go to Lyn, Gary, Nick, Angela, Sylvia and John who laid the foundations.

Today, TFC is run by me (Mick), my wife Val, and close friend Kevin.

We talk over any important decisions but when it comes to the day-to-day shop work we have routine jobs that we just get on and do. It seems to work. We have had several people working part-time in the shop during busy times and Saturdays. The present person in that 'enviable' position is money out of it but that is not the aim.

Carol. I think I've given everyone a The bills get paid, we get paid, and vegans and vegetarians have somewhere to mention now! shop without worry.

Time for Change

Getting Started

Difficulties

The only initial difficulty was persuad- Our main problem is finding space for ing the bank manager that a vegan shop the increasing variety of vegan and cruwas a great idea. Once he found out we elty-free items available. We have now run out of space completely with the preWe have been succesful in sent layout and only a total restructuring doing what we set out to do of the shelving arrangement will solve the problem, something we often talk were willing to put up our house as secu- about and plan. What we normally do is rity there didn't seem to be a problem. fit another shelf in somewhere.

There has also been an increase in The next challenge was getting the premises in Southsea: it was a seven- the amount of frozen food — ice cream year lease and others had applied for it. etc. — and the existing freezer (a domesThe Vegan, Spring 1990

Competition

There are no plans to expand at the present location, only to make better use of the existing space. We are unsure at the moment about what to do when the lease runs out in 1991. It's a way off yet and we will see how we fare over the next year with increasing competition from supermarkets and other outlets. There is also the new business rate to contend with in the coming years. We will just play it by ear.

For those considering opening a vegan shop I would say yes, go ahead and do it if you feel there is a market in your area. But, be careful of how much money you are going to lay out: TFC started off small and has grown into a nice little shop that pays it's way in the world. Whether we can be a nice big shop here in Portsmouth only time will tell, there is certainly a lot that could be done in a bigger place but we can only speak from our experience over the last five years.

Amusing anecdotes? Every day is amusing at TFC! What else can I say?

The day two shelves full of stock fell off the wall? The day the van was stopped for being overweight? The time the window was broken? Not very funny really, perhaps then the strange things we get asked for —the rubber feet for ironing boards, electric fire elements, matches, Frank Sinatra records. . . . Well they are all vegan I suppose.

Mick Perryment

he idea for the Radical Carrot was born in India in early '88. We were travelling and trying to decide what to do together when we came back. The original plan was to open a vegan 'Greasy Joe's Cafe' but because we couldn't find suitable premises we decided to set up a vegan wholefood store.

We wanted to establish a vegan food outlet for two reasons: First, to serve the existing vegan population in our area; and then — in someways more importantly from an animal rights point of view — to bring veganism into the ordinary lives of carnivores and vegetarians in a way that made it seem ordinary. We wanted to try and change the image of vegans and veganism from being 'weird' to something that was so commonplace and popular that it would support a high street store.

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ed to what we stand for. Some 5 or 6 people have told us that they have become vegan since we have opened; others have become veggies (we will still work on those!).

Being a vegan shop we often have to explain why we don't sell honey, milk, eggs etc., and most people understand; this has to be a great way to campaign. Only one person has put up a strong argument about honey — on the grounds that they are only little animals anyway!

The shop has two show rooms. One is the wholefood store, where there is a large range of wholefoods, organic veg.

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together, but when Jill returned to college we were joined by Sue Judd, who has been so valuable to the shop, bringing her own style and commitment to the green and vegan aspects of our work.

We find that two full-timers and one helping out now and then means that the Carrot is not too exhausting. We think this is important: if you are overloaded it shows to the customers and in your dealings with each other. One of our early

Several things that we ordered turned out to be non- vegan Fortunate

We were lucky in that we had sufficient finance to start the Carrot without asking for a loan, we also knew that there was no other wholefood store in Worcester; we therefore missed two of the biggest problems in setting up.

We decided to use only one wholesaler in the beginning: this simpified our running. We talked to a f e w and we settled on Nova of Bristol, they already ran on most of our ethical guidelines — e.g no South African products — and they were sympathetic to our vegan stand. This later proved important because several things that we ordered turned out to be non-vegan and they always took them back. Now we don't make as many mistakes, we have learnt that milk and its sidelines turn up in the strangest products, so we check and check again. If we find a non-vegan nasty now we sell it at cost price.

Being a vegan does not mean that you have to start eating beans and lentils

and bread — as well as goods from the food side of Traidcraft. We also stock a wide range of ready-to-use, convenience food — lots of burgers, pies, ice creams etc. We want people to know that being a vegan does not mean that you have to start eating beans and lentils; and that burger, chips and peas with an ice cream pudding is just as vegan.

The front shop is dedicated to selling goods from the charities that we support — Animal Aid, BUAV, F.O.E & Greenpeace — oh yes, and the Vegan Soc. In addition, we sell goods from ethical trading oraganizations such as Traidcraft and The Craft Market; add to this cruelty-free cosmetics, books, recycled paper goods, incense and pottery from a local potter, and it makes an interesting shop. We think that the front shop is important, not only because it helps our cash flow and the charities, but it attracts a different customer to our shop — people who wouldn't go near a wholefood store; people who have never dealt with animal rights people and for whom this whole animal business is new. Some of our most interesting conversations are with these people. Finally, by having the animal rights tee shirts etc. around the front shop we raise animal rights issues in a way that would be difficult in just a wholefood store — it's hard to ignore a big rat proclaiming it's right to rights or the BUAV 'Animals Don't . . .' sweatshirt.

We don't plan to expand the Carrot, we are happy with it as it is.

Jill Saunders

The Radical Carrot

Imagination

We discovered that you can save a great deal of money when you set up by being a bit imaginative when you are kitting out a shop: we used £20 shelving units from B&Q rather than proper ones from the shopfitters for £100 — they add character to the shop; we bought second-hand or outdated scales and tills; and did our own sign writing and advertising copy — all this saved us a great deal.

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decisions was that the shop should be as good as we could make it within working hours and that we would not spend 'our' time working. That has sometimes been hard to stick to but we are glad that we have — many people running wholefood shops often seem so tired and fed up.

Good Advert

If the Carrot is to be an advert for veganism, then the people working there have to be happy and relaxed (most of the time). We work hard at trying to make each customer feel welcomed and helped: we greet each one, offer help to those who are not our regulars and try and say goodbye to all. We feel that if a visit to a vegan shop is a friendly and warm experience after the trauma of Sainsburys or the apathy of Holland & Barret, then maybe people will be attract-

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The Vegan Society TRADE MARK

he Vegan Society Council is pleased to a n n o u n c e the long-awaited launch of the Vegan Society Trade Mark.

The Society is prepared to authorize the use of the Mark on products fulfilling its 'no animal testing, no animal ingredients' criteria; Plamil Foods made history by becoming the first manufacturer to be s o licensed.

The advantage to vegans — and those seeking genuinely 'crueltyfree' products — is that they will be able to see at a glance whether a commodity meets their requirements; the advantage to the Society is much-need income generated by licensing fees.

By the time you read this, the official launch of the Mark will be in full swing. Members and supporters can help by encouraging manufacturers to apply for registration early — if they don't, their competitors will! Applications should be directed to the General Secretary.

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Retrospect

Donald Watson continues his column on our movement's early history

Donald Watson,firsl Secretary of the \ Society

I f the vegan movement had not been founded in 1944 its advent could not have been long delayed. The ethical pressures concerning the treatment of animals had been building up in this country over a long period through the activities of many organizations whose influence no other country could equal, indeed, even today, many countries have barely began to emancipate animals. It was inevitable that any development of the ethic should start here.

In this preparation the vegetarian societies had played a leading role, distributing millions of items of literature, publishing magazines, books and pamphlets, organizing lectures, debates and summer schools, and in every other conceivable way condemning the needless carnage of the meat industry and exposing the myth that meat was central to adequate human nutrition. It is necessary to reiterate all this so that there can never be any doubt about where the roots of the vegan movement are. We should feel grateful that we had such dedicated 'parents'. For many of us all our early inspiration came from them. They went as far as they thought it possible to go at the time to change the carnivorous habits of society.

First Step

But, as Tolstoy had said, vegetarianism is only the first step.

Pioneers were still needed in 1944 to build on the foundations that had been so well laid. There were yawning gaps of inconsistency which offered themselves 21 The Vegan, Spring 1990

as easy targets for the critics, and as disturbing areas for the faithful. Perhaps most glaring of all was the fact that it was considered wrong to kill the ox for meat, yet acceptable to kill the calf so that man might have milk. The animal welfare movement was fragmented, with each section staffed by workers who, though dedicated and sincere, often seemed blind to events outside their own limited fields of activity. In > particular there was often an extraordinary ignorance about the biological mechanism of milk production. There also seemed to be an illogical preference to work for the furry and the cuddly, whilst ignoring the rights of the equally sentient scaly and slimy.

All the inconsistencies have grown enormously in the intervening years owing to the horrific developments in every branch of animal husbandry.

There never was much room for sentiment in farming; now there can be none. Every creature has become a mere cipher in the balance sheet of economic viability. According to the poet William Blake, a bird in a cage put all heaven in a rage. What would he have written about millions of birds in millions of cages as our present method of keeping hens?

The boundaries of ethical responsibility, once considered sharp, are now so blurred that disengagement from the responsibility of using any animal product is the only right course for the humanitarian. In the last war the story was told of a man who said: "I fought, and I fought, and I fought, but I had to go in the end". It must be so today for many who study the vegan case.

Instinct

Despite our isolation in 1944 we had the gut-feeling that we were joining the big league of reformers. By declaring that man was intended to be neither a parasite, nor a scavenger, nor a predator, and that these roles had within them the seeds of his own destruction if he pursued them,

we believed that we were producing the only blue-print sufficiently radical to meet the demands for this material and spiritual salvation. It was a cheeky claim, coming from a small group who between us had not a single qualification in any of the areas where we were challenging established orthodoxy. We had nothing to sustain us other than our own conviction — and a certain sympathy for the proud mother who, watching the regiment march by, remarked with satisfaction that her Tommy was the only one in step. For it was a matter of 'Hitch your wagon to a star, take your seat and there you are'. The start was bright, but the seat was hard!

Midnight Oil

Most of the early work for the Society had to be done at night.

The evening institute classes where I taught did not close on most nights until 9.30, so it was usually an hour later before the vegan work could begin. It was difficult enough producing 300 copies of the 12-page Vegan News on an old typewriter and an even older duplicator, but the real work began when the avalanche of correspondence arrived following the publication of each issue. Sometimes this exceeded 30 letters a day. It showed great interest in the new cause, but as membership grew it presented me with an impossible workload, so the position pf Secretary was advertised, offering an honorarian of £250 a year. Alan Henderson was appointed, and with the help of his wife Fay they ran the Society from their vegan guest house at Rydal, with an office in Ambleside to house the ever increasing mass of literature. I was able to return to a normal

life, with the honour of being elected as the Society's first president. Soon after, my career in craft education took me north to Cumbria where I was too far away from the Society's activities in and around London to take any further part in the work.

Vegetal'

Much thought went into choosing a name for the new movement for we knew it would be there long after we had gone.

Many bizarre proposals were submitted, some hilarious, and all quite unsuitable for the role they would have to play. The only serious contender to the word vegan was the existing word vegetal. It had already been much used in 1938 by H.H. (Bert) Jones, Assistant Secretary of the Vegetarian Society, in his pamphlet Can Britain Feed Herself on Home Produced Foods? From all the evidence then available the conclusion was that it could feed twice the then population of 48,000,000 on a vegetarian diet, and four times the population on a vegetal (i.e. vegan) diet. This appears to have been the first published work showing the great economic advantage of a vegan diet. Later the theme was developed in greater detail by Dr. Frank Wokes in his wartime Penguin publication — Food: The Deciding Factor.

The word vegetal was not chosen for two reasons: firstly because it referred only to food, whereas we needed a new word to describe a new philosophy of life, and secondly because it could be used only as an adjective, not as a noun. After some discussion about pronunciation t|je word vegan was chosen without a dissenting voice.

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ÂŁ ÂŁ W h a t ' s a vegan, G u v ' n o r ? " "A pain in the neck, son."

Variations on this sort of exchange are heard in prison kitchens whenever news reaches them that a prisoner is vegan. There is usually a collective groan when the catering staff learn that they have to make special meals for one person.

In my establishment we cater for about 750 prisoners. There are usually about 120 on a Moslem diet and 100 on a vegetarian diet. The vegetarians aren't too bad, they just don't eat meat. We get extra beef for the first and extra eggs and cheese for the second. Then we get the vegan.

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quite often has eggs, cheese or both, so that's obviously out. Today there is a vegetable curry on so we can relax.

There is nothing in that, is there, for him to object to? For dessert they are having baked coconut sponge. That will be O.K. because we used vegetarian (vegan) marBeans garine to make it and no eggs. The snag At first glance it appears that he is going is we used milk to make the custard that to live on baked beans. They don't eat goes with it. Better give him some fresh this, they don't eat that. When I look at fruit. what we call the 'normal' diet I can usually see an animal connection some- I expect he's used to black tea. where. Even the morning cornflakes or He soon will be because they porridge has milk with it. I can order have tea with every meal special milk for him, in the meantime he can have porridge just made with water.

The next problem is the tea time meal. The vegetarians are having macaBy now I am beginning to hate roni cheese. Well that's out for him. I'll this vegan

That means getting a separate container and taking out enough porridge for him before I add everyone else's milk. I arrange for the bakers to make him a special supper bun. That will be collected with his tea meal. I know I am going to have to think carefully about what meals I send to his wing.

By now I am beginning to hate this vegan that I have never met. I am convinced that he is only on this diet to make life difficult for me.

Life, of course, is difficult for him as well. We rarely have more than one vegan in our prison at any one time. So he is in the smallest minority group you can get. I sometimes wonder if it is the same person that comes back to haunt me every so often. I must try to meet him the next time he is inside.

Problems, problems

We do our best to cater for minority groups. We get small numbers of Sikhs, the occasional Jew and Buddhist. They are fairly easy to cater for. The Jews obviously don't eat pork, so to me they are the same as the Moslems.

The Buddhists are virtually the same as vegetarians and Sikhs don't eat beef. Then we get the vegan. What are we going to give him for his midday meal?

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keep back some of the macaroni and make a tomato sauce. That should keep him happy. Then we find out that the bakers haven't made him a separate supper bun. The meals are about to be collected. What do we do? Give him some fresh fruit.

Now what about his cup of tea?

That's easy enough. We'll draw off enough tea for him, in a separate container, before we add the milk for everyone else. I expect he's used to black tea.

He soon will be because they have tea with every meal.

During the afternoon I prepare the following morning's breakfast. Everyone is having a boiled egg, toast, margarine, marmalade, cornflakes and milk plus the cup of tea. Everyone, that is, except the vegan. His special milk hasn't arrived yet so he'll have to have some watery porridge, specially made and black tea.

He can't have the boiled egg so I'd better give him some baked beans. Again.

I offer up a silent prayer that when the vegan next goes back to court he is granted bail Dietary Scale

Catering for around 750 prisoners entails a pretty busy day but by about 3.00pm things usually quieten sufficiently for me to check the Vegan Dietary Scale. I find it a source of inspiration, in as much as the normal custard powder is acceptable, as is our vegetarian margarine. It even tells me what makes of peanut butter and yeast extracts I should order. A phone call to our main stores and joy of joys, yes they do have some items on the Scale, left from last time he visited us, I expect. They have even got some soya milk so he won't have to have black tea after all.

Just when I was beginning to feel confident about producing a variety of meals for him, from pasta, rice and soya protein, I notice a warning against using essences and colourings from non-vegan sources. There follows a list of over a dozen E numbers to avoid. Is nothing easy, do I have to check this list every time I make him something? More to worry about for old 'cooky'. Never mind though, at least it's given me some ideas for meals. I expect I'll soon get used to the adjuncts I can use.

Being a fairly religious man, I offer up a silent prayer that when the vegan next goes back to court he is granted bail. I can be fairly certain that just when I have go a nice stock of vegan products in my store I shan't hear from him again.

However, I can be just as certain that just after the best before dates run out I shall hear the phrase, "What's a vegan, Guv'nor?"

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There are at present nearly 60,000 men and women held in UK prisons, which is a higher percentage of the total population than any noncommunist country in Europe — except Turkey. Of these (according to figures given to the Vegetarian Society by the Home Office) approximately 10% opt for a vegetarian diet. From my own observation about only 10% of these request a vegan diet. This is basically because there is an initial fear amongst the uninstructed that an all-vegetable diet is one of very limited variety in terms of taste and presentation.

Prisoners who want to receive a vegan diet, having been previously on an ordinary (i.e. meat) or vegetarian one, are required by the prison authorities to become full members of the Vegan Society as proof of their intentions. In the opinion of many inmates there are a number of benefits in adopting a vegan diet that outweigh its disadvantages.

weekly peanut butter and fortified yeast rations are served up in plastic 'drinks machine' cups, and in consequence we get different quantities issued each week; their contents become rather dusty and dried out after a few topless days in one's cell — and worst they taste of tobacco too, if one's cell companion is a smoker.

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It is a well-known fact that food poisoning is much less likely from vegetable The standard of preparation and cooking is better

meals than from those involving meat.

Being much fewer in number, the standard of preparation and cooking is better for vegan meals than the mass cooked ones. One does not need to spend long in prison to realize that it is impossible to under or overcook a salad, or put too much salt in a baked apple — although what is done to cabbage, carrots and boiled or mashed potatoes at times is criminal!

Having been vegan since 1985 (well before I began my present period of captivity) I think I can claim a degree of objectivity in my views on how vegans W o r m w o o d Scrubs had a fetish for raw vegetables

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— otherwise the choices were 'vegetarian with fish' and 'vegetarian no fish'.

Wormwood Scrubs had a fetish for raw vegetables — whole onions, carrots and half lettuces on a 'do-it-yourself' principle at least once a day, with cold butter beans for 'bulk'.

When I went to Wandsworth I was given rice pudding as 'afters' five days a week and an apple for the other two, although the salad for the tea meal three evenings a week was good. After repeated complaints to the Board of Visitors, the message eventually got through that there were other possibilties to follow dinner apart from rice pudding. But Albany (Isle of Wight) lacked any imagination at all — seven apples or oranges were issued to each vegan diet inmate on Friday evenings as 'puddings' for the following week, even if the pudding the other men received contained no animal products.

Now in Pentonville (London) I do receive a fair range of different meals on the vegan diet. The Sunday tea meal's tray salad is excellent. Due to the banning of anything in glass containers (reputedly in case we cut our wrists by smashing a glass jar — despite the fact that every cell has glass windows!) the

There are in my mind three kinds of vegan prisoners. A number of them are merely opportunists 'going along for the ride'. They sell their dietary supplements to other inmates (for tobacco usually), and have no qualms in seeking meat and animal products to eat whenever possible — getting vegans a dubious reputation in the eyes of many uniformed staff.

There are also a number of dedicated vegans who appear to want to use their ethical convictions as a means of 'getting back at the system'.

Almost hysterical outbursts over quite genuine errors in serving food — e.g. the use of a slice that has past over meat

These vegans seem to want to be matyrs

pasties to serve a vegetable pastie, even though both are in pastry cases — do nothing to endear them or the cause of veganism to overstretched gaolers. These vegans seem to want to be martyrs, but fail to enhance their cause in the process.

The vast majority of vegans opt for a middle way of tolerance — making their views known and pressing for them to be respected, as they are in time if the approach is reasonable and reasoned.

There is little to be gained in seeking the conditions one would have through personal choice at home. After all, 'if you don't like the bedrooms, don't book into the hotel'!

Some people are sent to prison quite unjustly, or without proper cause. But most of us are in captivity because we chose to break the law, and knew the penalties we could face. Vegans can help their cause best whilst in prison by explaining their views to all who ask, by making sensible requests, and by not setting out to deliberately annoy their lawful keepers.

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mentally evil, being more committed to a fetishistic pursuit of the almighty quid in the cesspool of a 'free' market the misuse of 'cruelty-free' to economy than the polymorphous pleasures of orgasmic describe non-vegan products, unity." Mixed up with and an article by Gari Allen on human sex and situationist giving a home to an abandoned graphic terms and conventions this animal. makes for a heady and, interI found the magazine mittently, hilarious read. refreshing, controversial, and Nobody comes out well out interesting. If it has enough of this book — humanism is support it will grow into a press/news/information service. not a creed to which Home apparently subscribes. Home A good buy for anyone involved in animal rights who is, in my view anyway, a deeply comic writer and the is interested in learning about humour here is very black groups and other points of indeed —just the way I like it. view.

How seriously you wish to take • Teri Richardson any of it is up to you. One point on which Home might be serious and which should be of Arkangel Strwarr Home concern to vegans and animal No. 1, Winter 1989 liberationists is the authoritari(Eds. Ronnie Lee & Vivien an tendencies which are Smith) becoming apparent in the £1.00 emerging ideology of deep Arkangel is an animal rights ecology, as exposed and dismagazine which aims to concussed in recent issues of the Pure Mania centrate on the "positive side of anti-civilization/domestication things". It has reports of paper Fifth Estate (Box 02548, actions and campaigns by local Detriot, MI 48202 USA). and national groups (about half This is certainly a work of of the 52 pages) and a large I'olvglHt minority interest and is likely 'Comment' section, in which to be appreciated most by those anyone can express their views with a knowledge of Home's without censorship. other ideas and activities — his The Editorial stresses the Pure Mania critique of art and individuality, need for differences of opinion Smile magazine, the Karen Stewart Home to be discussed in an atmoElliot multiple identity, plagiaPolygon £7.95 sphere of mutual respect and rism and the 1990-1993 art Pbk,176pp for unity in the movement. It strike.

If you are interested, Veganism doesn't play a large information on these topics is observes the internal disputes in local groups and the insults part in this book, it isn't even available from: BM Senior, all that favourably presented, traded by fellow campaigners WC1N3XX. however, younger vegans from London in the media.

• Steve Nichols a punk/anarchist background Arkangel gives the space to criticize one another (hope- might find a certain amount of interest or amusement in it. fully without abuse), and encourages groups and individ- The real themes of this book EARTH FOOD uals to appreciate each others' are alienation, sexuality, efforts. The 'Road to Victory' manipulation and fame/notoriSpirulina ety. Set on the council estates contains snippets of achievements such as: the bankruptcy of East London it follows the fortunes of a group of punky, of a fur firm; the fact that 'anarchistic' vegans as they between 1987 and 1988 the engage in terroristic anti-cash total number of animals crop actions and make it — destroyed by the RSPCA fell BIG, in the wonderful world of by 12,000; and the closure of fktr thisranitrtk^ir.thi an animal lab. which had been pop. A nazi journalist is saved Sfcir IWI from* from his Hitlerite cultism by tpxif bitUh iBtS <-,>• iw* the subject of a number of Mmkmrt H^nrik on activities ranging from leaflet- "the love of a good woman" only to redirect his fanaticism ting to direct action by the to the cause of deep ecology.

Animal Liberation Front (ALF).

The style and structure of Earth Food — the novel is nicked wholesale Other material includes: Spirulina from the 70s cult novels of 'Vegan Man' — a cartoon; Robert Henrikson 'Prisoners and Defence Funds', Richard Allen — Boot Boys , Ronore Enterprises Inc.* with information on court cases Skinhead, Suedehead etc.

Indeed, whole passages seem £7.95 Pbk, 174pp etc.; and 'Obituaries'. The Spirulina is a blue-green algae 'Comment' section includes an to have been transported fron which grows naturally in some article by Ronnie Lee on ALF Allen's books with only the key words changed — "The actions and reactions to them, warm alkaline lakes, but is now an article by Barry Emptage on truth is that yuppies are funda- farmed as a fast-growing, high-

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protein food. The author, Robert Henrikson, is a director of the world's largest spirulina farm, and is also assisting the development of village-scale systems in developing countries.

After introducing algae — "Spirulina speaks to the human species" — and mentioning the use of spirulina as food by the Aztecs and the people round Lake Chad, he goes on to give detailed description of the nutritional value of spirulina: it is particularly rich in iron and pro-vitamin A, as well as protein. The following chapters cover the variety of spirulina products available and the methods of growing spirulina, both with sophisticated but "ecological" technology in developed countries, and as part of the integrated health and energy systems in Third World villages.

This is an easily read book, full of information and enthusiasm. It is now well-known that the production of cereals and beans requires much less of the earth's resources (land, energy, water) than does the production of meat; here we learn that the production of spirulina is more efficient still, and may therefore have a future role in "regreening our planet".

The book has some weaknesses, such as the unfounded suggestion that AIDS is somehow related to the depletion of the ozone layer, and some confused comments on unproven health programmes.

Of potential importance to vegans are the authors comments on vitamin B . After saying that "spirulina is the richest source of Bi, higher than beef liver", he admits that the new, better assay method has shown that most of the Belike material is not, in fact, B — but still concludes that "even using these lower levels, it remains the best non-animal source of B ". In contrast, an eminant B nutritionist has concluded that there is practically no B in spirulina, and that the so-called B comprises analogues of B which may block the absorption of 'real' B . These faults are a pity because they mar a book which contains much interesting and important information.

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cy-makers are subject to subtle ear-bashing courtesy of the agrochemical barons; and, let's face it, which key policy-maker would have the courage to discredit the mainstay of the post World War II farming 'revolution' — the liberal application of soluble nitrate (and phosphorous) fertilizers?

The 1945 Labour Government encouraged famers to maximize productivity.

"Farmers discovered that, within reason, the more fertiliser they added, the greater the yield of crops they produced."

Surpluses became the norm.

Nitrates — The Later, when Britain joined the Threat to Food European Community, megasurpluses became the norm as and Water the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) guaranteed prices Nigel Dudley for main crops.

Green Print Today, the situation has £4.99 Pbk, 118pp become even more ludicrous "The single most important with European taxpayers faced water pollution problem in Britain at present is nitrate con- with the prospect of paying tamination, arising from inten- farmers to produce a surplus, paying them to 'set aside' sive forms of chemical farming." So far so good — but, as [land], whilst paying for polluting farming methods! I digress. the author discovers, pitifully little has been done to assess Although there has been the environmental and health precious little research conductimplications of "excess ed into the health effects of nitrates". nitrate pollution it is suspected This isn't altogether unsur- that nitrates can lead to cancer prising: no doubt our key poli- — particularly the stomach

variety — and 'blue baby syndrome' (lack of oxygen in die blood). More certain is its effects on the environment.

In addition to polluting the freshwater supply, nitrates have contaminated oceans. "Over 1.5 million tonnes of nitrogen are put into the North Sea every year from European countries."

It is believed that nitrates (amongst other agricultural pollutants) are causing massive algal blooms, and disease and viruses in marine life.

A proportion of nitrates evaporate causing air pollution.

One of the breakdown products is ammonium — found in animal manure. "In the last few years there has been increasing evidence that ammonium volatised from the large quantities of manure produced by factory farming units can be an important air pollutant."

Surprisingly, the largest single source of nitrates in our diet is from food, not water — with fresh vegetables harbouring greater concentrations than meat! This does not necessarily mean that vegans and vegetarians are at greater risk than omnivores: the anti-oxidant action of vegetables' vitamin C content is believed to inhibit stomach cancer.

Nitrates are always present in vegetables in small quantities, whatever growing method is used. But where there is heavy application of artificial fertilizers plants are unable to carry out photosynthesis fast enough to get rid of all surplus nitrates.

It is possible, however, to reduce one's nitrate intake: certain species of crop have a higher concentration than others; different parts of plants store different amounts; and crops grown (even organically) under glass build up high levels.

Nitrates is a readable, factfilled book, well up to the author's usual high standard.

• Richard Farhall Reviewers Richard Farhall is General Secretary of the Vegan Society Tim Key is a former Vegan Society Council member whose work involves studying the relationship of diet to human cancer Steve Nichols is an anarchist and animal liberationist living and working in Hastings Teri Richardson is a Vegan Society Council member

THE CRUELTY-FREE SHOPPER

by Lis Howlett

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd. in association with the Vegan Society. £3.99 + 60p p&p The second edition of the UK's best-selling guide for vegans and would-be vegans seeking assistance in choosing products completely free of animal ingredients and testing as part of a lifestyle free from animal exploitation.

• Uniquely comprehensive • Thousands of entries • Informative section introductions • Easy-to-consult • Handy pocketbook format • Cruelty-free criteria • Recommended reading lists • Guidance on additives

Over 17,000 copies sold!

B L O O M S The Vegan, Spring 1990

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Shoparound

Amanda Rofe surveys the latest vegan products

Vandermoortele announces the arrival of a new calcium enriched soya milk under the Provamel label. It contains calcium at the ratio of 140mg/100g of soya milk.

Compare this to cow's milk: 120mg/100g! It is available in 500ml and 1 litre tetra pack cartons from major health/whole food stockists.

Sweet Things

t is encouraging to see that an increasing number of manufacturers recognize the booming demand for non-animal products — not just from vegans but those simply seeking safe, ethical alternatives to their usual commodity choices. Vegans have never had it so good!

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Egg-Free

Soya Health Foods, under the Sunrise label, have come up with two new products to add to their ever-increasing range of vegan foods. Tofu Salads come in screw top jars and can be used hot or cold. They are made from organic ingredients (where possible) and are available in four varieties — Chinese, Brazilian, Japanese and Hungarian. The company also has a light Egg-Free Dressing — containing red and green peppers — which can be used as a spread or a dip.

Prewett's has launched a range of heat and serve meals in four varieties, but only one, Vegetable Ravioli - wholewheat pasta parcels in a savoury tomato sauce — is vegan. It can be heated in a microwave or in boiling water as it does not need to be frozen or refrigerated. Use it as a quick meal or interesting side dish.

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As Easter approaches, thoughts once more turn to those 'little treats'. Look out for Plamil's new plain chocolate and carob eggs which come in two solid halves — and they won't be just a one-off for Easter. You're sure to be spoilt for choice with Earthlore's impressive range: Mini Eggs, Carob Florette Egg, Castle Game Egg, Carob Bunny, Carob Praline Egg and "Masquerade" Egg. [Don't forget that Granny Ann Chunky Eggs are OK.] For those who prefer to avoid caffeine, Itona is able to supply a bar of chocolate with the caffeine removed — the Decaf Bar.

Westsports Walking Boot.

Vegan company Designer Wares has commissioned a top Italian boot manufacturer to produce ' Adige', a completely synthetic boot suitable for hiking, mountain biking and leisure use. It is available in sizes 34-46 and costs £40.00 (incl. p&p). Contact: Designer Wares, Y Gorlan, Tynygongl, Anglessey LL74 8QE. 0248 852019.

Home & Body Care

Honesty has anndunced an environment-friendly product range — Clothes Wash Liquid, Washing Up Liquid, All Purpose Cleansing Concentrate, Disinfectant, Dishwasher Liquid, Dishwasher Rinse Aid, Furniture Polish, Toilet Cleaner and Cream Cleaner. Ask for them at your local health/wholefood store or take advantage of the company's mail order facility. Further Coming back down to information is available from earth, Tilda Rice has produced Honesty at: 33 Markham Road, an Easy Cook Basmati Rice Chesterfield S40 1TA. (0246) which will be much appreciat211269. ed by those with insufficient If you like a luxurious soak, hours in the day — it's preFaith in Nature is able to help steamed for quicker cooking. with Essentiayjath Foam and The company is able to supply Just Desserts a vegetarian recipe sheet. The Just Wholefoods has come up Seaweed Bath Foam. The latter fresh seaweed gathmajority of the recipes are with another sure winner: three contains vegan; the remainder contain new jellies in three flavours — ered from Scottish shores!

Finally, the Organic either vegetarian cheese or Lemon, Fruits and Strawberry.

Product Company has develeggs. Following on from Each packet makes 1 pint of oped a truly amazing selection Vessen Bran Oatcakes, G.R. high class jelly. They have a of personal care products. Of Lanes is now offering Vessen's lovely flavour and seem to be 60 new products, all are vegan Organic Oatcakes Presented in idiot-proof! except for the Aloe Vera Cold an attractive triangular packet, Haldane Foods has Cream and Eye Make Up this new addition lives up to launched its first non-dairy Remover Cream which contain the distinctive flavour of its frozen dessert, Strawberry The range includes: forerunners and should prove Bombes. This is a rich creamy beeswax.

Herbal Foot Soak, Arnica Knee just as popular. dessert with a generous filling and Elbow Cream, Coconut of strawberry puree and coated Sun Tan Lotion, a Travel on the outside with carob. They Carrot Oil Facial Cream, Pack, Saucy come in packs of four and are Apple Face Mask, Facial Crunchy Organic Peanut Butter sure to be a success.

Blemish Cream, Jojoba Neck will be seen by many as a welGel and a Leg and Vein Cream. come addition to Whole They are available through Vino Earth's wide range of nut buthealth/wholefood stores, ters. This company's product The leading off-licence chain, and natural beauty development department must Augustus Barnett has no less chemists shops but can also be obtained be working over time: Whole than four (organic) vegan by mail order (Visa and Access Earth Mushroom Italiano, the wines in its range — Listel taken).

For details contact: The first organic pasta sauce with Gris de Gris Rose at £2.99; Organic Product Company, mushrooms, joins Italiano and Domaine de Villeroy, Castellas Clements Road, Ilford, Essex6 Organic Italiano. Ragu has '88 at £3.49; Domaine des 1BA.01 478 1062. It is launched a new Spicy Tomato Soulie, St Chinian '88 at £2.99; IG1 good to see that this company flavour, available from all lead- and finally Petillant de Listel is keen to encoilfage recycling. ing supermarkets and indepen- (low alcohol) at £1.99.

It has set up a "PVC Collect dent grocers. It is ideal for and Recycle Scheme" so you adding to pasta meals. can send back empty PVC (as Feet To add to the veritable opposed to any glass) containarray of soya milks now enter- At last, good news for those ers for recycling. lamenting the demise of the ing a rather crowded market, The Vegan, Spring 1990

Postbag

Contributions to Postbag are welcomed, but accepted on the understanding that they may be edited in the interests of brevity or clarity.

Send your letters to: The Editor, THE VEGAN, 33-35 George Street, Oxford OX1 2AY

Does she not have rights?

Surely wimmin should have the Fairy Tales right to do what they want with their own bodies? The foetus is As a great respecter of Dave Wetton, I find it hard to under- part of the woman's body right stand why he has called David up until the umbilical cord is cut. It cannot survive without Henshaw's book Animal the woman's body — thus, it is Warfare "a must for those not a separate being but a physinvolved in the movement" ical extension of the woman. ('Reviews', Autumn 1989).

Animal Warfare contains If I were a pregnant woman so many inaccuracies that it is the problem would be to really more like a fairy story choose the course that involved than a history of the Animal the least suffering. Surely, Liberation Front. Fairy stories where suffering is unavoidable, are relatively harmless, howev- vegans should choose the path er, some of the untruths and which causes the least? defamatory statements could Men, governments and relido considerable harm to the gion have consistently tried to animal protection movement. control what wimmin can and cannot do with their bodies. It's Animal Warfare relies heavily on the lies, gossip and about time it stopped and we, as vegans, came out in support tittle-tattle which prevails so of wimmin's right to choose frequently in the movement and is a sad example of how so whether they have an abortion many animal protectionists are or not. more interested in putting the • Charlie Brooke. London knife into each other (even in conversations with unsympathetic outsiders) than getting on Enjoyable with the vital work of saving I can't agree with Gordon the animals. It is therefore a Carr's letter about the organic great pity that Dave Wetton has vegan wine offer ('Postbag', encouraged readers of The Winter '89). I was most interested in the article, sent off for Vegan to purchase the book the wine, and we have enjoyed and thereby put money in the the wine we have drunk so far pocket of a man who is no — particularly because I know friend of animals.

• Ronnie Lee, Newton Abott there's nothing unpleasant or unhealthy in it.

It isn't alcohol that causes Angry alcoholism, it's people's emotional problems. With respect I was greatly angered to read to Mr Carr, it's no good blamthe mention in 'Noticeboard' (Autumn '89 Vegan ) of Lesley ing wine for alcoholism, just as Robert's new anti-abortion ani- it's no good blaming the sun for sun stroke or skin cancer. mal rights group.

Is a woman not an animal? • June Hall, Sowerby Bridge The Vegan, Spring 1990

ties 'normal' appeal.)

Members, local groups and Living Example people 'outside' have contributed to the funding of the On 29 October 1989 my daughter, Sally (aged 11), took Database, so vital to the Society's work. The good name part in the Birmingham Biathlon, which took the form of the Vegan Society will be at stake if the project does not of a 400 yard swim followed materialize soon. by a 21/2 mile run. She completed the course in 31.32 min- • Olive Jones, Chingford Ed. Council has been unable utes, winning the women's to identify any funds in order under 13 years trophy. to continue with the CrueltySally has been a vegan since the age of four because at Free Database, embarked upon by the previous that time she had debilitating eczema and asthma. Now she Council; as a consequence, uses inhalers rarely (usually in the project has had to be held in abeyance. windy weather when taking part in sport) and only has eczema in one finger.

She regularly trains with a Neglected local swimming club and takes I am blatantly, unashamedly, part in all school sports. She is and unofficially, appealing to living witness of the great ben- all vegans and vegetarians to efits of a vegan diet. consider becoming members of • Gill Millard, Birmingham the Campaign for the Abolition of Angling.

WTiy? Because no-one else Database seems to care for the welfare of fish. The RSPCA will not come I am very concerned that the Cruelty-Free Database has not to their defence and the League been set up yet. Although this Against Cruel Sports will not include them in their campaign. project is in embryonic form Friends of the Earth do not (due to lack of support from want to know and have even kindred societies well able to allied themselves with the assist with funding) it is our Association of front-line weapon and without National Specialist Anglers in their cama doubt would place the against water pollution, Society in an unrivalled posi- paign in spite of the fact that discardtion to fight animal abuse. ed lines and lead weights have The strong sales of the caused injuries to, and the Cruelty-Free Shopper is eviof, waterfowl. dence of that fact that no other deathDetails can be obtained society is better placed to bring from: The CAA, PO Box 130, about the mass liberation of Kent TN14 5NR . animals through the promotion Seveoaks, of the cruelty-free ethic and no • Betty Lowther, Cambridge other society is doing it with clarity.

Positive action must be Hospital Catering taken now to halt statements by Patients and staff in the NHS those who would seem to speak will be concerned to hear that with authority on matters of 'vegetarian' meals may not veganism and to counteract always be what they purport to fraudulent 'cruelty-free' activi- be. In my area animal fats were ties by national animal welroutinely used in the preparafare/rights organizations whose tion of 'vegetarian' food. I am compromises and indiscrimito say, however, that nate use of 'approval' symbols pleased discussion with local perpetuate animal exploitation. following senior catering staff I am It's a matter of great urgen- assured that the use of animal cy that the Cruelty-Free fats has been discontinued.

Database is in action as soon as and vegans in possible, providing up-to-date otherVegetarians areas should be aware information on cruelty-free that there may be variations commodities from whatever between hospitals within the source — be it mail-order, same health authority, and wholefood store, comer shop, therefore should enquire exactsupermarket or multiple. (It is ly which brand and type of fat good to see genuine ethical is used in their hospital's companies making sure they kitchen. are reaching a far wider public Obviously vegans eating in by getting their goods on hospital need to state their supermarket shelves alongside requirements very clearly. vegan own brand products — • NHS Staff Nurse (Name and giving animal-free commodiaddress supplied) 27

Noticeboazd Diary Dates

3 April. Living Without Cruelty Evening, Judgemeadow Community College, Marydene Drive, Evington, Leicester, 8.00pm-10.00pm. Vegan cookery demonstration, food, information, stalls. Admission £1.25 (including food). Contact: Leicester Animal Aid 0533 31J557/600402/356309.

7 April. Free the Langford Beagles march through Bristol.

Assemble Durdham Downs 10.00am. Contact: Bristol Animal Aid, PO Box 589, Bristol BS99 1RW. 9-14 April. Meat-Out Week of Action, Manchester. Contact: Manchester Animal Protection Group, c/o One World Centre, 13 Paton Street, Piccadilly, Manchester.

17-23 April. 29th World Vegetarian Congress, Ramat Gan, Isr or.

21 April. Protest at Beechams Laboratories, Stock, Essex.

Contact: Basildon Animal Rights Group, PO Box 323, Basildon, Essex.

24 April. World Day for Laboratory Animals. National march and rally, London.

Assemble 1,00pm-2.00pm, Little Brown Dog Memorial, Battersea Park, London SW8.

Followed by rally at Central Halls, Storey's Gate, Westminster SW1. Contact: NAVS 01 580 4034.

5 May. Vegan Society Adjourned 1989 AGM, Friends Meeting House, 40 Bull Street,

Birmingham B4 6AF, 12.30pm.

Followed by meeting of existing/potential Vegan Contacts.

24-28 May. The First Green Consumer Exhibition, Royal Horticultural Halls, Victoria.

Contact: New Life Designs 01 938 3788.

Council Minutes

Members and associates are reminded that copies of Council Minutes are available at 50p per meeting.

New Mag

Arkangel [see 'Reviews'] is a Marathon Man new animal right magazine based on the principles of posiVemon Stuttard has a contivity, unity, no censorship and firmed entry in the London fair distribution. Subscription: Marathon on 22 April and £6.00.

Contact: Arkangel, would like to hear from those BCM 9240, London WC1N in a similar position with a view to taking advanta e 3XX. Safe Feet

Adjourned 1989 AGM

The adjourned 1989 AGM will be held at the Friends Meeting House, 40 Bull Street, Birmingham B4 6AF, at 12.30pm. The meeting will deal with the following unfinished business: Appointment of Auditors, Proposals for Special and Ordinary Resolutions, Election of Deputy President, Election of Vice-Presidents and A.O.B. It will be followed by a meeting of existing/potential Vegan Contacts.

Money Off

A 10% discount awaits Vegan Society members patronizing vegan shop. Whole in the Wall, 23 Wellfield Court, Bangor, Gwynedd.

1990 AGM

The 1990 Vegan Society AGM will take place on 27 October at Westminster Central Hall,

The Vegan Society's 12th Frey Ellis Memorial Lecture LIVING WITHOUT CRUELTY:

WHY BUSINESS AND POLITICS MUST MIX

by Melody Lovelace, Managing Director of Veganomics Wholefoods and Vegan Restaurant and Ron Bailey, National Campaigns Organizer, The Green Party will be at 5pm on Saturday 16 June 1990 at the 4th Living Without Cruelty Exhibition, Kensington Town Hall, Horton Street, London W8 28

Storey's Gate, London SW1H 9NU. Make a note in your diary now!

A black, synthetic chemical boot (not a welly) is available from Footsure Eastern Ltd., Goddard Road East, Whitehouse Industrial Estate, Ipswich IP1 5NP at £11.10 per single pair. Contact: Footsure 0473 240094.

Volunteers Needed

Scientists at the University of Surrey, Guildford are investigating the transfer of materials in the mother's diet to her breast milk. They are currently recruiting vegan and vegetarian breast-feeding women due to start breast-feeding within the next four months into the study.

For the mother it would involve completing a questionnaire relating to food shopping and the collection of two samples of breast milk. If you would be willi

We Care

We Care is a new vegan toiletries/cosmetics mail-order company where ethics come first. Write for its free catalogue: We Care, Box 11, Corringham Business Centre, Grover walk, Corringham, Essex SS17 7PS. Cookery Course

The Vegetarian Society Cookery School has scheduled a Vegan Inspiration Weekend for 12-14 April 1991 and is prepared to consider a weeklong Vegan Inspiration should there be sufficient demand.

Vegan alte ilable for all veg 93.

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Competition

The supplier of the most original vegan breakfast menu will win a residential weekend cookery course — worth £120.00 — at the Vegetarian Society's Cookery School.

Entries to: Rosemary Billings, VSUK Cookery School, Parkdale, Dunham Road, Altrincham, Cheshire WA14 4QG. 061 928 0793.

Deadline: 20 April.

Membership Cards

Please note that lost/damaged membership cards will only be replaced in exchange for an SAE. Dietary Advice

Health food shop Wild Oats now employs a full-time, vegan "nutrition and diet expert". A Grants Available one hour appointment with Marina Dervan costs £10.

The Vegetarian Charity gives grants — including living costs Additionally, a 10% discount — to help needy vegetarians on all purchases is offered if and vegans under 26 years of this copy of The Vegan is proage with relevant projects. duced. Contact: Wild Oats, Contact: The Grants 210 Westbourne Grove, Secretary, The Vegetarian London WU. Charity, 51 East Budleigh Road, Budleigh Salterton EX9 Local Groups 6EW. Accrington. s Vaccinations

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Information

Vegan Magazines. In addition to The Vegan — the official organ of the Vegan Society — the following independent publications may be of interest: Vegan Views 6 Hayes Avenue, Bournemouth BH7 7AD. An informal quarterly with articles, interviews, news, reviews, letters, cartoon strip.

Subscription rate for four issues: £2.40 (Europe and surface mail overseas: £2.80).

New Leaves 47 Highlands Road, Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 8NQ. Quarterly journal of the Movement for Compassionate Living — The Vegan Way (see below).

Annual subscription: £3.00.

The Vegan, Spring 1990

Cheques/POs payable to: 'Movement for Compassionate Living'.

Y Figan Cymreig (The Wales Vegan) BronyrYsgol, Montpelier, Llandrindod, Powys, Wales. Bilingual quarterly. Annual subscription: £1.50.

The Vegan Community Project exists to form a contact network between people who are interested in living in a vegan community and to establish one or more such communities. While some of its members seek merely to live close to other vegans, others wish to establish a vegan land project or centre for the promotion of a vegan lifestyle.

Newsletter subscription (4 issues): £2.00. Contact: ob The Vegan Families Contact List provides a link between parents throughout the UK seeking to raise their children in accordance with vegan principles. To receive a copy of the list and have your name added to a future edition, please write to the Oxford office — marking your envelope 'Vegan Families Contact List', enclosing an SAE, and giving your name, address and names and dates of birth of children.

The Movement for Compassionate Living — the Vegan Way seeks to spread compassionate understanding

and to simplify lifestyles by promoting awareness of the connections between the way we live and the way others suffer, and between development, consumption and the destruction

Vegans International co-ordinates the promotion of veganism, encourages the formation of new organizations, and organizes an a fesThe - Vegan Contacts Abroad. For a listing, send an SAE to the Oxford office marked 'Vegan Contacts Abroad'.

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Publications & Promotional Goods

The items shown in this section are just a selection from the range stocked by the Vegan Society. Please send an SAE marked 'P&PG' for a full listing. Prices exclude postage and packing (see Order Form for rates). Items marked [VS] are published by, or in association with, the Vegan Society. All titles are paperback, unless otherwise indicated.

Orders are processed within just five days of receipt.

(Food Products, Toiletries & Cosmetics, Homecare Products, Additives, etc). Complete with informative section introductions, recommended reading lists and index. Indespensable. £3.99

1VS] The Vegan Holiday & Restaurant Guide

Colin Howlett Standard guide to holiday accommodation and eating places in the UK catering for vegans. More than 600 entries organized under county and town, with a helpful tariff grading system and other selection aids. Includes section on specialinterest holidaymaking abroad. £2.99

PUBLICATIONS

THE STRlXXiLK FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS TOM REGAN

Background Reading Kath Clements A mass of facts and figures ably presented in a simple and straightforward exposition of the case for veganism. £2.95

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THE DREADED COMPARISON

Food for a Future

Jon Wynne-Tyson A classic work, powerfully arguing the moral, economic, ecological, physiological and nutritional case for vegetarianism and veganism.

Packed with information, statistics, literary quotations, nutritional and dietary data. £4.99

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Compassion: The Ultimate Ethic

Food: Need, Greed and Myopia

by Geoffrey Yates Review of the world food situation and land use, including the vegan alternative, with useful facts and figures. £3.95 Reference Guides

[VS] The Cruelty-Free Shopper

Lis Howlett Brand-new, much-expanded edition of best-selling guide for vegans and would-be vegans seeking assistance in choosing 100% animal-free products as part of a lifestyle free from animal exploitation. Thousands of entries organized into easy-to-consult sections 30

(Ed.) Viv Preece A rich assortment of eating out and holiday/travel-related information of value to lacto-vegetarians and vegans alike. Complements The Vegan Holiday & Restaurant Guide. £3.99 Animal Rights

The Struggle for Animal Rights

Prof. Tom Regan A leading philosopher ^cidly puts the case for animal rights. Chapters on farm and laboratory animals, hunting, dissection, plus autobiographical sketch. £3.50

The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery

by Marjorie Spiegel A penetrating study in picture and prose, loaded with shocking comparisons of human and animal slavery, of racism and speciesism. £3.95

Why Vegan?

Victoria Moran An examination of the history and philosophy of the vegan movement. £4.95 The Extended Circle: A Dictionary of Humane Thought (Ed.) Jon Wynne-Tyson.

Award winning collection of quotations concerning our treatment of non-human species. Hardback. £7.95

The 1989—1990 International Vegetarian Travel Guide

C0MPASI0N

T H E ULTIMATE ETHIC

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FOOD: NEED, GREED & MYOPIA

Exploitation and Starvation In a World of Plenty

Chicken & Egg — Who Pays the Price?

Clare Druce A constructive attack on the egg and poultry industry — examining birds' poor health, living conditions, drug industry activity and human health hazards. £3.99

Beyond the Bars

(Eds.) Virginia McKenna, Will Travers & Jonathon Wray Distinguished contributors discuss the immorality of keeping wild animals in captivity. £5.99

Voiceless Victims

Rebecca Hall A wide-ranging examination of human abuse of animals. Chapters include: bloodsports, slaughter and farming, animals in entertainment, vivisection, and anthropocentric conservation. £5.95

Assault and Battery

Mark Gold A critical examination of factory farming and its effects on animals, people and the environment. £5.95

Animal Liberation: A Graphic Guide

Lori Gruen, Peter Singer and David Hine.

A powerfully illustrated introduction to the subject. £4.95 Cookbooks

[VS] The Caring Cook: Cruelty-Free Cooking for Beginners

Janet Hunt A bargain-priced and easy-to-follow first vegan cookbook, written The Vegan, Spring 1990

expressly for those new to crueltyfree living, ©ffers a comprehensive selection of everday and specialoccasion recipes, plus a mass of hints and tips. Durable, wipe-clean cover. £1.99

The Single Vegan

Leah Leneman Tailored to the needs of vegans living either alone or in non-vegan households, this is a book to persuade you that it really is 'worth the bother' for one. £4.99

ans. Includes highlighted major points, easy-to-follow tables, chapter summaries and detailed index. £4.95

Vegan Nutrition: Pure and Simple

Michael Klaper MD An American physician demonstrates how sound vegan diets can satisfy all the body's needs and play a major role in the prevention

and treatment of many degenerative diseases. Includes nutrient tables, meal plans and recipes.

Large format. £4.95

Pregnancy, Chi the Vegan Diet

Michael Klaper MD A practical guide to ensuring health and balance throughout pregnancy and to raising healthy

The Vegan Cookbook

Alan Wakeman and Gordon Baskerville 200 richly varied and carefully graded recipes, ranging from the quick and simple right through to the unashamedly gourmet.

Complete with nutrition notes and checker. £4.95

[VS] What Else is Cooking?

Eva Ban Companion volume to the above, with a further 300 recipes and more practical hints. Spiral-bound, with wipe-clean cover. £2.99

SPECIAL! Vegan Cookery and What Else is Cooking? bought as a set. £4.50 Nutrition and Health

[VS] Vegan Nutrition: A Survey of Research

GUI Langiey MA PhD The most comprehensive survey ever undertaken of scientific research on vegan diets. Ideal for nutritionists, researchers, dieticians, GPs, community health workers, vegans and would be vegThe Vegan, Spring 1990

Home Ecology

Karen Christensen Packed with practical advice on how ecological principles can be applied in the home, enabling the individual to improve his/her environment and quality of life. £5.95

T-Shirts

Adult: Two designs on 100% cotton: 'Give Bottle the Boot' — red and white on navy blue (small, medium); 'Ban Blood Foods' — red and black on white (small only). £3.50 Children's: Multi-colour 'Famous Vegans ..." design on white cotton. Sizes: 22", 26", 28". £2.75

Amanda Sweet More than 300 recipes, plus nutritional information and hints on buying and storing foods, suitability for freezing etc. £4.95

Eva Ban An updated [1985] and restyled edition of the first major cookbook ever published. More than 300 appetizing, nourishing and economical recipies, plus a wealth of practical advice and nutritional information. £3.50

Home and Garden

Promotional Goods

The Vegan Health Plan

[VS] Vegan Cookery

Barbara Griggs A handbook of simple remedies. £3.99

Kenneth Dalziel O'Brien A comprehensive, yet easy-to-follow guide to the subject by the system's greatest living exponent. £6.99

Leah Leneman First-rate introduction to this vast subject, with hints and more than 100 adventurous recipes for soya yoghurt, soft 'cheese', mayonnaise etc. £4.99

Peter and Montse Bradford A vegan macrobiotic guide to the culinary use of the 'harvest of the oceans'. £3.99

The Home Herbal Book

Veganic Gardening

Soya Foods Cookery

Cooking with Sea Vegetables

children on a 100% animal-free diet. Includes nutrient tables, meal plans and recipes. Large format. £4.95

Button Badges (11/2")

ORDER FORM

After calculating the total sum owing, including postage and packing, send your cheque or postal order to: The Vegan Society (Merchandise), 33-35 George Street, Oxford OX1 2AY. Cheques/postal orders should be made payable to The Vegan Society Ltd. TOTAL COST OF ITEM(S) ORDERED £ POSTAGE & PACKING (See below ) £ Inland: Total Cost of item(s) ordered £2.99 or less — add 35p; £3.00 to £3.99 — add 60p; £4.00 to £5.99 — add 75p; £6.00 to £9.99 — add £1; £10 to £20 — add £ 1.50; over £20 — free Eire and Overseas : Please increase total payment by a further 10% to cover additional surface rate postal charges. (NB Goods sent airmail by special arrangement only.)

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Two colours. Please specify design(s) required (Ring letter code. ( B, C only) 25p each, four for 90p

Stickers (H/2")

Same designs and colours as button badges, in sheets of 12 of same . Please specify design(s) required using badge letter code (B, C only).

20p per sheet, five sheets for 90p

Ballpen

Red and black casing with slogan 'Ban Blood Foods* printed in white on clip.

35p

Notelets

Printed on high-quality, 100% recycled paper. Colour scheme: chocolate brown on cream. Pack of twelve, with four different seasonal designs. £1.25

Bookmarks

Printed on high-quality, 100% recycled card. Colour scheme: chocolate brown on cream. Set of four different designs, with recipes on reverse.

45p

Envelope Savers (Re-

use Labels) 100% recyled paper, non-animal gum. Two designs: 'Globe' — black and green on white; 'Bottle' — black and red on white. £1.15 per 100 (of one design) 31

Classified

ACCOMMODATION

ACCOMMODATION for fit vegan in exchange for property maintenanceAiousework and voluntary help for Vegfam.

Write to 'The Sanctuary', Nr Lydford, Okehampton, Devon EX20 4AL.

CATERING

FROM PRIVATE DINNER parties to weddings, A&D Catering will provide excellent service with vegan food. Will quote for all areas. Celebration cakes to your requirements. A&D Catering, 48 Hampstead Road. Birmingham B19 1DB. Tel 021-554 2349.

COURSES

AUSTRALIA. Dr. Ann Wigmore's Wheatgrass and Living Foods Program.

Training, low tuifion. Free details: Hippocrates Health Centre. Mudgeeraba 4213, Queensland.

VEGANS WELCOME! On all the cookery courses at the Vegetarian Society Cookery School. We provide vegan food options. Join us! 061 928 0793.

EATING OUT

DEVON. Willow Vegetarian Restaurant, 87 High Street. Totnes. Tel. 862605.

Wonderful food, mostly organic ingredients used. Many vegan choices. Special nights every week*

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BEXHILL-ON-SEA. Vegan/vegetarian bed & breakfast. £7 per night. Radio, TV. tea and coffee facilities. Completely vegetarian household. Vegan bedding etc.10 Deerswood Lane. BexhiU TN39 4LT. Tel. 042 43 5153.

CAIRNGORMS. Letterbea is a small, friendly, vegetarian guesthouse in the Highlands of Scotland. No advance notice for vegan meals, no smoking. Special Interest Holidays. Phone or write for 32

VEGETARIAN/VEGAN wholefood bed, breakfast, dinner in comfortable, traditional guesthouse, home of osteopath.

Delicious varied meals. Guided wildlife walks: Glenbellart House, Dervaig, Isle of Mull, Argyll, PA75 6QJ. 06884 282. details: of Garten, 9.

CUMBRIA. Wholefood vegetarian/vegan B&B. No smoking. Evening meals. Open all year. Spectacular Pennine scenery.

Loaning Head, Ganigill. Alston. Tel. 0498 81013.

GWENT. Lighthouse overlooking the Bristol Channel. Unique and fascinating.

Peaceful and serene. Luxury accommodation. Vegans catered for. Relaxation floatroom, log fire . . . romantic setting . .. Tel. 0633 810126.

ISRAEL. Vegan wholefood guesthouse in peace write PENZANCE. Self-Catering accomodation for 3-4. Two miles from Penzance with large garden, sea and country views.

Occasional vegan meals available. Tel. 0736 62242.

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BEECHMOUNT Hear Sawrey, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 OLB

Vagotanan/vagan MB. excaMnt country house accommodation. Situatad in Soatnx Potter's picturesque village of Near Sawrey with its oMa wo noe inn, c miles irom nawxsneac, Lane Windermere (carterry)2 miles Delightful bedrooms with tea/coffee, TV, etc.. and lovety views over Esthwaite Water Ideal centre lor Mm. tams. feds and Gnadale Forest Ambtwide. Comston and Bowness only a short drive away For details and booking

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PRETTY NEW FOREST village, near Salisbury. Ideal walking and within easy reach south coast. Non-smoking.

Veg/Vegan/Wholefood B&B. 0725 21730 SHROPSHIRE. Bentley House. 18C house in unspoilt countryside, close Ludlow, Strettons, Itonbridge. Exclusively vegetarian/vegan wholefood. Vegan proprietors. Central heating. No smoking. B & B, EM. packed lunches. Tel. 05887 255.

SHROPSHIRE. Exclusively vegan wholefood B&B. EM optional, homegrown veganic veg. Lovely peaceful location, adj: Long Mynd. Superb scenery, lovely walks, ideal for touring. Gliding stn. nearby. No smoking. Children and pets welcome. £9.00 p.p. Tel (0588) 61417.

ST IVES, Cornwall. Exclusively vegetarian/vegan guset-house overlooking St. Ives Bay. Close Central h SOMERSET. Exclusively vegetarian/ vegan accommodation in 16th century listed house. Situated bordering Devon and Dorset. Is an ideal base for touring, country walks or just relaxing. Informal atmosphere, BB & EM. Also self-catering available. Vegan proprietors. Details: Merefield House, East Street, Crewkeme, Somerset TA18 7AB. Tel. 0460 73112.

MID WALES. Staylittle (Machynlleth 12 miles). Vegan/vegetarian B&B for nonsmokers. B&B £10.00 per person per night. Optional evening meal. Tel. (05516) 425.

WEST CORK. Vegan self-catering and B&B, with en suite facilities. 8km from Bantry in peaceful wooded surroundings.

Ideal Beaut WESTON-SUPER-MARE. A holiday by the sea with delicious home-cooked 100% vegan meals, comfortable accommodation and friendly atmosphere. "Abbeywood", 2 Whitecross Road. Weston-super-Mare, BS23 11EP. Tel. (0934)416024.

16thC FARMHOUSE. Set in two acres of peaceful, semi-wild garden and orchard.

Wholefood breakfast. EM by arrangement.

We are experienced in wholefood cuisine and happily cater for vegans and special diets. Non- smoking. En Suite and private bathroom. Log fire. Also holiday cottage in converted barn attached to farmhouse.

Nut Tree Farm, Stoughton Cross, Wedmore, Somerset. Tel Wedmore (0934) 712404.

Oran Na Mtara

Breathtaking views from this warm and welcoming guest house set amongst the finest scenery in Britain. Ideally situated on the coast of Wester Ross, we offer spacious accommodation, delicious vegan and vegetarian food and lovely views across Lock Ewe from every room.

Perfect for touring walking, bird watching or just relaxing with our shelves of books. Self cateringflat also available.

"Seapoint" Lpway, Porlock. Somerset TA24 8QE

• Spacious Edwardian House overlooking Porlock Bay • Open log fires • Coastal/moorland walk • Trad/vegetarian/vegan meals • Special diets

.VEGETARIAN GUEST HOUSE

No Cumberland sausage, no Borrowdale trout, but many mouthwatering alternatives . . .

Plus pretty rooms and friendly atmosphere.

No smoking. Vegans and dogs welcome. Dining Room open to non-residents. Booking essential.

Borrowdale Road, Keswick, Cumbria CA12 SDE. Te. (07687) 72830 ((

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The Saltings, Lelant St Ives, Cornwall Tal (0736) 753147 Quiet Country Hotel overlooking beautiful tidalestuary and bird sanctuary Britain's oldest vegetarian and vegan hotel is family owned and stands in its own grounds dose to beaches and unspoilt coastal walks. Superb cuisine and friendly personal service. Some rooms with shower/wc en suite

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* Set in the Grampian Highlands of Scotland * Wholesome, healthy cruelty-free food * Free use of cycles and tandem for guests SELF CATERING COTTAGE attached Fantastic scenery, endless walks 10% discount for Vegan Society members B&B from £9i0 No smoking Tel. 03397 55759for details or write to IIBridge Square. Ballater AB3 5QJ

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CRUELTY-FREE MAIL VST ORDER SERVICE Choose Cruelty-free with confidence with 'Our Choice'. A wide range of vegan natural beauty preparationsAoiletries from many cruelty-free suppliers. No animal ingredients - No animal testing - No animal harmed.

For free catalogue, please write to 'Our Choice' 30 Richdale Avenue, Kirton-in-Lindsey, Gainsborough, Lines, DN21 4BL (stamp appreciated) or Tel. (0652) 648668.

WHOLE IN THE WALL (Vegan W h o l e f o o d s )

A member of the Vegan Business Connection We stock over 900 vegan products in our exclusively vegan shop. We are also able to offer mail order on the following.

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SAE to DOLMA, 19 Royce Avenue, Hucknall, Nottingham NG15 6FU. Trade enquiries welcome.

VEGAN CATS! Vegan supplements for homemade recipes. Vegecat £5.85 Vegekit £5.36. Details/Orders: Katz Go Vegan, Box 161, Vegan Society, 33—35 George Street, Oxford OX1 2AY.

MISCELLANEOUS

AUSTRALIAN Health and Environment Centre being formed. Organic, plant-based agriculture; vegan lifestyle; natural healthcare; alternative technology; renewable energy (wind, solar, plantation timbers etc); wilderness protection and humane treatment of animals. Retired folk particularly welcome, to balance a Youth Involvement Program (YIP!), which provides young people with hands-on training in survival skills, creative crafts, health maintenance and guidelines for compassionate living. With information access and database for issues of global concern.

Membership is invited

Green Dragon Nnaises Green Dragon Scheeses Disos Wines Rabenhorst Organic Juices Hole in the Hedge Essential Oils

the hungry — vegetable rotein, horticulture, irrigation, afforestation etc.. The Sanctuary, Nr m the Wal. 23 Bangor. QwyrteM Lydford, Tel Okehampton, Devon. EX20 4AL. 0248364518 Tel. 0822 82203.

10% discount to members of the Vegan Society.

Wholesale enquiries wetcome. SAE lor details Please note our new address Whote

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PURELY VEGAN . . .

Send £1.35 today for our new catalogue — the very best selection of toiletries, cosmetics and household goods available by mail. (Mention this advert for free gift.)

NEW AGE PRODUCTS, PO Box 114, Guilford, Surrey GU2 SAG.

PERSONAL FASTING WALKS For some 5 yean, organized small groups have been walking in the loveliest parts of Europe whilst fasting. We cover 10-15 miles every day of the week. For most, If Is a rewarding experience, both in losing weight and refreshing our minds and bodies.

For further details, please contact

VEGAN HIKING BOOTS

Blue cardina/synthetic suede uppers, Cambrelte linings. Ideal for hiking, mountain biking, leisure etc. £40.00 incl. Sizes 34 to 46 Also our Vegan Beds (cruelty-free/non-allergenic) Designer Want, Y Dorian, Tynygongt, Anglesey LL 74 S O E .

Tel 0249 852019

BONITA SKINCARE. Exclusively VEGAN skin care and toiletry range including bath oils and essential oils for aromatherapy. No animal ingredients or testing. Details from Bonita (VN), 23 Archers Close, Droitwich, Worcs. Tel. 0905 771908.

ECHOES by L'Arome. Alternative designer fragrances available not only in Eau de Parfum, Cologne and aftershave, but also Hair & Body shampoo, talc and (ozone friendly) deoderant. The whole range is craelty-free using natural ingredients and is suitable for vegans. Echoes — high quality products at mass market prices. For information pack send large S.A.E to Linda Norris, 1 Burleigh Road.

Addlestone, Surrey KT15 1PL. LIQUID CONCENTRATE is the biodegradable liquid soap derived from coconut oil, which is free from animal products and animal testing. SAE for details: Dept EV, Janco Sales, 11 Seymour Road. Hampton Hill, Middlesex TW12 1DD. PLANT A BLUEBELL WOOD. 1000 seeds £7. Free wild flower seed, plant, bulb, native tree lists. Wildseeds, Llandderfel, Gwynedd LL23 7RF. VEGAN AROMATIC BATH PRODUCTS, Hair Care, Perfumes and Skin preparations. For full information send The Vegan, Spring 1990

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AHIMSA. Quarterly magazine of the American Vegan Society. Veganism, Natural Living, Reverence for Life.

Calendar Year subscription $15. Address: 501 Old Harding Highway, Malaga, NJ 08328, USA.

SITUATIONS VACANT

WANTED: Enthusiastic hardworking person for vegan wholefood cooperative cafe.

Phone or send for job description and application^rom to: Seeds Wholefood Cafe, 53 West Nicolson St, Edinburgh EH8 9DB. Tel. 031-667-8673.

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PUBLICATION DATES WOULD YOU LIKE TO MEET OTHER PEOPLE WITH THE SAME IDEAS AND INTERESTS AS YOURSELF? "Friendships", the established Nationwide Introductory agency for people whose interests are in the field of: Veganism/vegetarianism, Green Issues, Alternative Medicine, New Aqe Understanding, Yoga, Herbal Remedies, Organic Food, Meditation, Astrology, Psychology, and Human and Animal Rights.

These are just some of the interests of people you could meet!

For details please write to:

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CONTACT CENTRE

CONTACT CENTRE is a friendship agency, quite different from all others catering for vegans and vegetarians both in Britain and abroad, for any purposes.

CONTACT CENTRE is inexpensive and enables you to choose your friend(s) from detailed adverts and/or to write an advert yourself without disclosing your name and address.

CONTACT CENTRE gives you full scope, you don't even have to complete a form.

Instead a friendly ear is lent to every member.

As we cannot tell all in this advertisment, please write for membership details from: CONTACT CENTRE, BCM Cuddle, LONDON WC1V 6XX.

March, June, September, December.

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The submission of an advertisement is deemed to warrant that the advertisement does not contravene any Act of Parliament, nor is it in any other way illegal or defamatory or an infringement of any other party's rights or an infringement of the British Code of Advertising Practice The Vegan Society reserves the right to refuse or withdraw any advertisement without explanation.

Although every care is taken, the Vegan Society cannot accept liability for any loss or inconvenience incurred as a result of errors in the wording, or the late or nonappearance of an advertisement.

Final copy date for Summer 1990: 1 May 1990

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iting more than 180 references in its 121 pages. Vegan Nutrition is the most comprehensive survey ever undertaken of scientific research on vegan diets. This landmark publication will appeal to vegans, vegetarians and other would-be vegans, as well as nutritionists, researchers, dietitians, general practitioners, and community health workers.

Includes summaries of main sections, highlighted major points, information on all essential nutrients and their availability in vegan diets, easy-to-use tables of food sources of key nutrients, and a detailed index.

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ON OUR LAND SHE DOESN'T NEED TO LOOK OVER HER SHOULDER

The League Against Cruel Sports is the only organisation which purchases land specifically to provide a refuge for hunted animals.

We own 36 sanctuaries—much of it valuable wildlife habitat now safe for ever from developers, destructive agricultural policies and bloods ports.

Through our legal department we also help other landowners to keep unwelcome hunts off their land.

While we are campaigning to persuade Parliament to outlaw bloodsports, the hunted animal needs somewhere to run and hide in safety.

Even when hunting becomes illegal, wildlife will need wild habitat.

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THE CARING COOK Cruelty-Free Cooking for Beginners

by Janet Hunt

Ever wondered how best to take, or encourage others to take, the first steps along the road of cruelty-free cooking? Well wonder no more-top cookery writer Janet Hunt has solved your problem.

The Caring Cook is a double breakthrough on the one hand, making an ideal first vegan cookbook for beginners and on the other, being just the thing for older hands wishing to introduce friends and relatives to the art of compassionate eating.

Its comprehensive and varied range of everyday and special-occasion recipes, wealth of practical advice and helpful hints, and sturdy, wipe-clean cover make an unbeatable combination.

All you could want — for less than you'd expect.

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SOYA MILK PROVIDES VEGAN CALCIUM and VITAMINS B2,B12&D2 The rich creamy texture of the concentrated versions is ideal for desserts and versatile for better cooking-available in 500ml size.

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