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Our first anthologies have been very well received and we are now working on books for 1997. If you write poetry and would like the opportunity to have it published alongside likeminded people in good quality, carefully edited books, we would like to hearfromyou.

be in any style and on any subject; Poetry Today editors ensure that poems selected for individual anthologies complement each other in form and content. Send your poems to: Claire Evans, Poetry Today, Dept 8A, Upper Dee Mill, Llangollen, Clwyd LL20 8SD. Tel 01978 869109.

Send up to three poems, no more than 40 lines each, to Claire Evans at the address below Poems can

Please send copies of p o e m s and keep your originals as we are unable to return them.

CONTENTS 4 NEWS

W E L C O M E ! So, how's the N e w Year resolution faring? Alive and kicking or in need of 12 m o n t h s ' 'preparation'?!

Invariably, I choose quantity not quality and end u p with an (over)optimistic list of ten or so good intentions — including eight 'carry forwards'. This year, I've got off to a flying start by actually implementing, a week into January, a notion that made its resolution debut in the mid 80s! Yes, after many years contemplating my o w n mortality, I've finally made a will. And, what's more, I feel really good about it.

N o longer am I one of the 7 0 - o d d % of 'maybe tomorrows'; no longer have I abdicated my responsibilities to my nearest and dearest; no longer have I effectively licensed the state to apportion my post-demise net worth; and no longer am I concerned that m y (hopefully timely) end w o n ' t prevent me continuing to fly the Vegan Society flag (I'm talking cash bequest here — not asking that my preserved right arm be affixed to Donald Watson House and employed as a holder for a pole sporting a vegan sunflower flag. O n the other hand . . . ) Like many 'too laters' I avoided making a will because a) I had no desire to help the legal profession prop up Mercedes, and b ) a DIY approach appeared, well, complex.

Fortuitously, I discovered Wills and Probate* (Which? C o n s u m e r Guides) — an easily digested guide that enabled me to knock u p a straightforward PC-generated will in just 15 minutes! A couple of signatures f r o m willing witnesses in the office and, hey presto, everything was legal.

T o conclude: don't be a 'too later'. H o w ever you decide to go about will-making it's great to k n o w that your desire to spread the vegan w o r d doesn't have to die with you.

Y o u can still make a difference. Make it so. * Good alternative: How To Write a Will and Gain Probate{Kogan Page)

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6 J D H 0 0 Naughty - but nice!

8 SHOPAROUND Goodies

10 THAT MAN MOBY 'Techno's first star' talks to The 14 THE GARDEN OF LOVE The magic of Robert Hart's 'forest garden'

15 VEGANS INTERNATIONAL

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16 YOUNG VEGANS Creepy crawlie special!

17 MEGAN THE VEGAN Megan gets her man 18 LIVING VEGANISM Lifestyle news 19 SPRINGTIME STIRRINGS Reactivate those taste buds 22 A VEGAN PARADISE? A vegan alone in Papua New

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23 HEALTHY LITTLE VEGANS Here show 24 GROW VEGAN The seed scene 25 REVIEWS 26 CONTACTS NEWS E

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© T h e Vegan Society The views expressed in The Vegan do not necessarily reflect those of the Editor or of the Vegan Society Council. N o t h i n g printed should be construed to be Vegan Society policy unless so stated. T h e Society accepts no liability for any matter in the magazine. T h e acceptance of advertisements (including inserts) does not imply endorsement. T h e inclusion of product information should not be construed as constituting official Vegan Society approval for the product, its intended use, or its manufacturer/ distributor.

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News E GOLI - IT'S GRAV(E)Y

Mancnester Wholesale M Poultry refused to pay almost 1000 d u e s t o the Meat & vestock C o m m i s s i o n ( M C L ) claiming t h e Recipe for L o v e C ^ m ^ a f g n " a r o u i e d chauvinistic or x e n o p n o b i c e m o t i o n s in customers". F o r t u n a t e l y for the M I X a H i g h Court j u d g e ruled a g a i n s t t h e abattoir — h a d the M L C lost it w o u l d have had tc r e p a y the £ 1 9 m c a m p a i g n costs t o abattoirs a n d other 'coinpulsory contributors'.

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U n d e r n e w E u r o p e a n Union ( E U ) rules, existing crates for veal calves o v e r 8 w e e k s must be s c r a p p e d by 31.12.06. For n e w / r e b u i l t holdings, the ban c o m e s into force on 1.1.98.

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A survey which examined disease incidence and health in 90 Friesian Holstein herds found that mastitis averaged 20.6% and lameness 17%. Calf mortality varied from 1-20% — averaging 7.8%. ( Veterinary Record. 16.11.96.)

Farmers Weekly, 22.11.96 V e g a n s t u d e n t nurse, Mel Harg a d e n is s t u d y i n g the methods a n d availability of pain control d u r i n g child birth for v e g a n mothers. If y o u have first hand e x p e r i e n c e in this area, contact

her at: 66 Machon Bank, Netheredge, Sheffield 57 1GP

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Eco Village If you've ever dreamed of living with like-minded people in a sustainable, vegan village, then the Eco Village Project is for you.

Of course, plans for vegan communities have come (and often rather speedily) gone — but the advantage of this Project is that it is being set up by the established and respected experts in the field of alternative, useful plants, Plants For a Future (PFAF). It is

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envisaged that over 1500 species of plant will be used

Scottish salmon farmers have been given the go ahead to treat their fish with ivermectin, a persistent and toxic chemical previously banned from use in fish farms. John Duffus, Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Toxicology says that ivermectin fed to salmon or discharged into lochs could find its w a y into people, possibly reaching toxic levels.

New Scientist, 7.9.96

— for food, clothing, paper-making, medicine etc — in a 'forest gardening' setting.

PFAF is looking for prospective villagers (with, or willing to acquire useful skills), supporters, expertise, donations/loans and fundraisers.

For further details contact:

Future, The Field, Lostwithiel, Cornwall PL22 0NG 01208 873554.

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In November, a simple dinner for pensioners at Wishaw Old Parish Church, Lanarkshire achieved worldwide notoriety when it transpired that the gravy in the steak pies consumed came with a deadly freebie — £ c o i i 0157:H7.

So far, 18 people — j u s t one short of equalling the 1985 Canadian fatal food poisoning record for the bug — have died of the bacterium and around 400 have shown symptoms of infection. The pie-maker, awardwinning local butcher, John Banfaces legal action brought by relatives of the deceased.

E coli thrives in the bowels of cattle sheep and humans. Although it can be spread by apple juice and even potatoes, the main media are believed to be undercooked beef, milk and cheese from cows, sheep or goats. Indeed, in December, an Aberdeenshire farmer became the world's first known case of a person contracting E coli while working with sheep.

British cases of E coli 0157 have risen from 53 in 1985 to 1046 in 1995. The US Department of Agriculture has warned that E coli0157:H7 outbreaks are forming "a traditional, steeply inclined epidemic curve."

Guardian 11.12.96; Independent, 3.12.96; Independent, 16.1.97; Observer, 1.12.96

MILKY BAR KIDS?

The School Milk Campaign (PO Box 412, Stafford ST17 9TF 01785 248345; is calling for the UK dairy industry to run a national scheme to combat the risk of child TB and rickets. It is demanding the full reinstatement of European school milk subsidies, worth £6m, which were withdrawn from secondary schools in the November 1995 Budget. However, in 1995-96, local authorities received total EU milk subsidies worth £ 17.93m — but many opted out of distribution schemes to avoid increased paperwork.

NEWS

A Labour Government would be sympathetic to the Campaign: Gavin Strang, Labour's Farm Minister thinks "Our children need to be drinking a lot more milk."

The Milk Development Council currently provides up to £1 m to the National Dairy Council for nutrition promotion in schools.

Farmers Weekly, 17.1.97

CHECK YOUR MEMBER In the MPs Members' Register, 36 MPs are involved in farming or sit on the boards of food companies. 'Highlights' include:

Conservative MPs

Quentin Davis (Stamford & Spaldin)— sheep farming Christopher Gill (Ludlow) shareholding in F A Gill meat processors Archibald Hamilton (Epsom & Ewell) — director, Woodgate Farms Dairy Robert Hicks (CornwallSE)— adviser to Milk Marque Bernard Jenkins (Colchester N) — wife owns shares over £25 000 in Raleigh's Dairies Norman Lamont (Kingstonupon-Thames) — consultant to Monsanto Paul Marland (Glos W) — adviser to Unigate Dairies

Labour MPs Tony Banks (Newham NW) — adviser to London Beekeepers' Association Food Magazine, Jon-Mar 1997

LUCK OF THE DRAW Congratulations to the winners of the Vegan Society's Grand C r u elty-Free Draw 1996: 1st prize £1000 — G i v e Edwards (Bournemouth); 2nd prize £250 — Nicola W a t t (Norwich); 3rd prize £\ 00 — Steve Pinegar (Leeds); runner up prizes £25 — E Rasey (Derby), Gillian Hamilton (Barnet), E Smith (Honiton), N Woolridge (Nottingham).

N o joy? There's always this year! Look out for your tickets in the Summer Vegan.

FUN OUTDOORS

This year, the Vegan Summer Gathering returns to Exmouth, Devon, 30 August-6 September.

Adult cost is approximately £70 (excluding food) with concessions available. Accommodation is in self-catering flats. For details and a booking form, send an SAE to: Malcolm Home, 10B Windsor Sq, Exmouth, Devon EX8 1JU. The long-established Vegan Camp has its seventeenth outing, this time in the Peak District, 9 - 2 3 August. As usual, there'll be a huge array of activities — so get your booking bumpf now by sending an SAE to: .

DESIGNER DAISY In conjunction with Sainsbury's, ADAS, the Ministry of Agriculture's farming consultancy, has

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developed the Designer C o w — a dairy cow which can produce semi-skimmed and butter that spreads straight from the fridge.

However, in the light ofBSE, massive consumer resistance is expected because the techniques employed — for example, feeding the cows fish oil, fish meal or plankton to produce milk rich in the fatty acid, Omega 3 (and so help prevent heart disease in humans) —• may remind shoppers of the dangers of feeding animal proteins to herbivores.

Sainsbury's hopes to begin selling a range of Designer Daisygenerated 'healthy eating' products within 18 months.

Observer, 15.12.96

DAY OF THE VEGANS

The Vegan Society is seeking more vegan healthcare professionals — GPs, herbalists, osteopaths, homoeopaths, aromatherapists etc — w h o are keen to be consulted by vegans. Interested practitioners should ring Tracey or Amanda on 01424 427393.

On 6.1.97, animal rights prisoner, Barry Home began a hunger strike which he will abandon only if the Government agrees to ban vivisection within 5 years.

Write to him at: HMP Bullingdon, PO Box 50 Bicester OX6 6PR. ARC News, January 1997.

A University of Wales student is looking for female vegans to help out with her project — an analysis of diets. Contact Jannette on 01222 344515.

South Wales Echo, 17.12.96 Viva! is opposing plans to build motorway service stations in the West Midlands that will promote the sale of halal meat. Details: Viva! PO Box 212, Crewe, Cheshire CW1 4SD 01270 522500.

Many thanks to all of you who played a part in last year's World Vegan Day — after three years, more and more people —including reporters — now know what 1 November represents without the Vegan Society having to tell them!

The (UK) Vegan Society was again fortunate enough to benefit from the assistance of a celebrity vegan — this time, Wendy Turner who, with a little help(l), put our case on radio and wrote to the Letters Page of all local newspapers in the UK. There isn't space to list all our readers' efforts — but you know who you are and we're grateful for your contribution! In the meantime, let's have your ideas for WVD activities for this year.

The sender of the most original (and practicable!), to arrive on the Editor's desk by 10 April, will receive a £5 discount on Vegan Society merchandise.

The volunteer-run. Market Rescue has been set up to buy farm animals from markets and rehome them in sanctuaries.

Details: 61 Mount Ararat Rd, Richmond-upon-Thames, TW10 6PL 0181 891 0237.

The new co-ordinator for the Shellfish Network is:

Tricks Wendy Turner (new Vegan Society Hon Patron) used to like to play on big sister, Anthea: Raiding her wardrobe... bursting in when Anthea was with a boyfriend saying: "Anthea, would you like my dirty bath like you usually do?"... singing all the latest songs she couldn't stand.

Independent, 25.1.97

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Further GMO information and useful addresses

T o widespread condemnation and outright disbelief, the European Commission (EC) has decided to allow Ciba-Geigy's genetically-modified maize into Europe.

T h e US-grown G M Maize contains a gene which makes the plant resistant to a herbicide — glufosinate, and a gene from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis which produces Bt — an insecticide. T h e British Government, n o w happy with the EC's decision, originally challenged the prospect of sale because the British Advisory Committee on Novel and Food Processes ( A C N F P ) was worried about a third gene in the maize, an enzyme k n o w n as beta-lactamase.

T h e enzyme, which could find its way into the bacteria living

Germany has recorded its first suspected case of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (nvCJD) and France its second. To date, 12 Britons have actually died of the disease, believed to be linked with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). Estimates of the number of Britons likely to die from nvCJD over the next 2 0 - 3 0 years vary widely —anything between 1000 and 80 000.

In a new BSE twist, a chicken is to be tested for the disease after displaying similar behaviour to infected cattle on a BSE-affected farm.

Independent, 1.11.96; Independent, 16.1.97; Observer, 26.1.97; Sunday Times, 19.1.97

F o o d s e n s e (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) London SW1P 3JR (Genetic Modification & Food — free) G e n E t h i c s N e w s PO Box 6313, London N16 0 D Y Genetics Forum 3rd Floor, 5-11 Worship St, London EC2A 2BH G r e e n p e a c e Canonbury Villas, London N1 2PN 0171 354 5100 Natural L a w Party Mentmore Towers, Mentmore, Bucks LU7 0 Q H 01296 662211 Rt H o n J o h n G u m m e r MP Secretary of State for the Environment, 2 Marshall St, London S W 1 P 3 E B (foryour GMO concerns!)

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Congratulate yourselves! After just 3 months, you've helped the Vegan Society's Celebrity Cookery/Health Video Appeal get a third of the way to its £10 000 target! As at 31.12.96, contributions actually received stood at an impressive f3,457 — including exceptionally generous donations of £500 each from London Vegans and West Norfolk Animal Rights. In addition, the Cyril Corden Trust* — whose objects are: "helping Humanitarian and Animal causes and education in Vegetarianism", which has helped a variety of worthy causes from providing a field for rescued horses and kennels for an animal sanctuary, to sponsoring a wave power exhibit and a pottery for young people with Downs Syndrome — has pledged a substantial sum, which means that preparation for the video can begin and, with your continued The Cyril Corden Trust's Founder, now support, there will be sufficient monies to really go to town on aged 93, vegan for 20 years and meatmarketing the finished product. free since his 20s So, if you haven't already chipped in — or Santa was particularly good to you — or you're wondering what to do with those Halifax, Woolwich and Alliance & Leicester demutualisation shares — worry no longer. Remember, just £25 gets you your name on the video and a pre-release copy!

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Britain, as usual, lags behind in the resistance stakes. Supermarkets still insist there is nothing they can do about identifying Monsanto's Roundup Ready soya bean which, in the US, is mixed with their conventionallygrown counterparts. Nevertheless they have partly redeemed themselves by banning unprocessed GM Maize as an animal feed ingredient within their meat supply chains. The frozen food retailer, Iceland, however, is committed to being geneticallymodified organism(GMO)-free.

U K R O F S , the UK Register of Organic Food Standards, which determines the legal status of organically-produced food, has stated that G M O s "have no place in organic

in the intestines of farm an imals and humans, destroys ampicillin, an antibiotic in the penicillin family. The E C has overruled the 12 European Union (EU) member states who last June voted against the G M Maize.

In November, Greenpeace attempted to block the arrival in Britain, Belgium and Germany of the first shipments of genetically-modified U S soya. In Germany and Austria, uproar over the G M beans has forced leading food giants like Nesde (UK of6ce: St George's Hse, Park La, Croydon, Surrey CR9 1NR) and Unilever (UK: Blackfriars, London EC4P 4BQ) to label, or not to use GM soya products.

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Releases of GMOs into the environment are likely to accelerate — the EC has recently made it easier to get permission to do so.

An information sheet on generic engineering is available from the Vegan Society in exchange for an SAE marked 'GE' (address opposite).

Farmers Weekly, 27.12.96 Food Magazine, Jan—Mar 1997 GenEthics News, Nov-Dec 1996 Greenpeace; Guardian, 11.12.96 New Scientist, 4.1.97

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The Nation's Network of Wildlife Trusts has called on the Government to clamp down on "overgrazing" by sheep — especially across Britain's uplands. Its latest report, Crisis in the Hills, points out that the number of sheep in the UK has risen by more than a third in the last 20 years to 44m — 4 sheep for every 5 humans.

The report cites government research which shows at least half of the country's moorland heather is in a poor or suppressed condition. The heather (characteristic of our treeless hills), the mountain hare and ground-nesting birds like the golden plover are among species suffering from high sheep densities.

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pring is the time for action so what better opportunity to revamp your shopping list.

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CEREAL FILLERS Now we've all switched to lighter morning snacks, recharge your batteries with one of these satisfying breakfasts. J o r d a n s leads the way with the exotically named Crunchy Maple & Pecan Flavoured Cereal, but for something more down to earth K e l l o g g ' s is in the running with its Raisin Wheats and Apple Wheats, packed with fruit and vits.

Got an evening to spare? Take my advice and snuggle up with Green & Black's sultry new addiction.

After just one chunk of its Organic Hazelnut & Currant Dark Chocolate you'll be craving more. Failing that, if you're into the health kick Cast u s brings you two new snack bars: Liquorice and Banana — made from sundried fruit and nothing else! Or N e w Earth's Hip Organic 9bar may be more up your street. Packed with nutritious hemp seeds and chocolate.

IT'S BEAN SOUPER A bowl of creamy Mediterranean Lentil or Countryside Thick Pea Soup from Mr Bean Foods could keep hunger at bay for hours. Other tummy fillers to entice include Butter Bean & Tomato, Chick Pea & Tarragon, Carrot & Cannelloni, and Spicy Bean & Sweetcorn. Still on soupy business, S u m a introduces Organic Spicy Lentil Soup and, continuing the bean theme, look out for its Organic Haricot Beans.

For Easter with lurve Instead of saying it with flowers this Easter, why not surprise your family and friends with a wicker hamper from Healthy Hampers? All baskets are overflowing with sumptuous goodies — including a chocolate Easter bunny presented with a ribbon, bow and, for that extra special finishing touch, a personal message. So, spread a little happiness by phoning 01252 878698.

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LIQUID GOLD As this is the soya bean revolution, make way for more bean juice care of the Belgian company Lima. Lima 3 is made from an enriching combination of organic soya, oats, rice and natural vanilla.

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GALLOPING GOURMET The search for speedy meals goes on. Haydiffe's Country Foods presents two vegan slices to fill up your sarnies — Soya Protein with Sage & Onion, and Soya Protein with Tomato & Basil. Why not sneak them into salads as well? Nature's Gate's melt-in-your-mouth pasties include Spicy Lentil and Creamy Mushroom flavours. Veggie Goulash and Sundried Tomato & Herb are a taster from the pie selection. Its delectable pates are a must too. Phone 01506 636171 for local outlet info.

ON THE GRAPEVINE Listen up for more news on alcoholic tipples for heady spring picnics. Bulgarian Vintners deals with several wineries in Bulgaria and, whilst most of its wines contain gelatine, five have very sensibly been clarified using bentonite or kieselguhr: Rousse Welschriesling and Misket — available at Somerfield; Rousse Muskat & Ugni Blanc — Victoria Wine & Co-op; Rousse Chardonnay — Unwins; Rousse Debut Sauvignon Blanc — Coop; and (phew, I'm going to need a drink after all this!) Sliven Chardonnay — Somer-

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Hawaiian Pacifica Spirulina is thought to be a rich source of iron, essential fatty acids and antioxidants. Benefits include helping to boost energy levels and cleansing the body. Now you have the chance to clear out your system naturally.

The Naturopathic Health & Beauty Co is offering a free bottle of Hawaiian Pacifica Spirulina flakes to the first 25 readers whose names are drawn on 2 April. Send your name and address on a postcard to: HP Spirulina^Jegan Offer, 37 Rothschild Rd, Chiswick W4 5HT. For stockist info phone 0181 9878640. field. There's even more from the mail order company. World Wines Direct which has a selection of organic North American red & white wines from the Montevina winery. To order (free) phone 0800 864 000.

SCENTATIVE FEET So you've been on your feet all day?

Absolute Aromas is one step ahead.

You now have the chance to pamper that most neglected body part. Its Treat Your Feet range has four essential oil blends to choose from: (relaxing) lavender, (sensual) ylang ylang, (revitalising) peppermint and (cleansing) tea tree & lemon. They can be used in conventional footbaths or electronic massagers.

Why not complete the feet treat by dusting on Tea Tree Deodorising Foot Powder or spraying on Tea Tree Foot Spray from Thursday Plantation?

KID'S STUFF

Four new varieties of pasta are available from baby food specialists Baby Organix Stars, Spinach Alphabets, Pumpkin Ducks

has choccies for every occasion — Easter eggs, bunnies,

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Stiletto Foods's debut, Dutch Fruit Loaf is perfect for simple suppers, light lunches or occasional naughty nibbles. Rye flour creates a distinctively different taste and the abundance of fruit makes it an unforgettable treat.

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SMOOTH OPERATORS Calling all men who prefer close shaves Body Shop now offers a nonanimal shaving brush to whisk away your whiskers.

For silky smooth skin use Tisserand's new Peppermint & Oatmeal Soap. The peppermint oil has an antiseptic effect and the oatmeal acts as an exfoliant to clean off dead skin cells.

ITALIAN COLLECTION As you know, Italian shoes are famed worldwide. So you can imagine the near hysterical reaction when information about a complete range of animalfree footwear — and belts, bags and wallets, came into the office from Le scarpe di Linus. Chic feet are now within your grasp. To give you an idea of what you can expect: for men there are around seven smart shoe and boot styles; for women about 12 (foot paradise indeed!). Also available are unisex trekking boots and three styles of sports(foot)wear.

All designs appear reasonably priced — even after shipping costs. For further details contact: Le scarpe di Linus, 37123 Verona - Via Rigaste S Zeno, 23/f, Italy. Tel/Fax (0039) 045 8010922. Helpfully, the company employs an English translator!

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Caring for life For a clear skin and conscience, Vegan Society Trade Mark user Care for Life (see backpage) can help. It's bodycare formulations, containing quality plant oils and extracts from around the world, are fragrance free — great news for sensitive souls like me! The range consists of a Cleanser, Toner, Hand & Body Lotion, Moisturising Lotion and Relaxing Foam Bath. True to its name, Care for Life is committed to contributing 10% of its turnover to animal rescue.

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hen I found Moby backstage at Camden Town's Electric Ballroom, he was wrestling a package open. I get loads of presents and stuff" sent to me when I'm on tour, he explained, and promptly produced two bars of Tropical Source chocolate.

What impeccable timing, I was thinking — until Moby announced: Unfortunately, they're no longer vegan.

Dispensing with the usual preliminaries, I joined him in a full-blown label appraisal. See, he said, showing me the wrapper, now it says only '98% dairyfree'. The ingredients themselves proved 'kosher' enough. But not, alas, the company's admission that its confectionery is unavoidably tainted by milk chocolate during processing. (Touchingly, Moby's friend had attempted to protect him from this information by scribbling over it!). "At least they're being honest," I remarked. Well, joked Moby, there are times when I wish they wouldn't be so honest.

MOULD BREAKER Moby shot to instant fame in October 1991 when Go!, his catchy Dance ver-

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sion of the Twin Peaks theme, crashed into the Top Ten. His subsequent performance on Top Of The Pops had a massive impact. No band, no guitars, not even a singer —just one man and his keyboard. And never before had a keyboard been played with quite such gusto! A bemused British public didn't know it yet, but this was the shape of things to come. Like it or loathe it, Dance music has exploded into a major cultural force and Moby, more than any other musician, has been instrumental in that process.

EARLY TECHNO MAN 'Techno's first star' was born in the USA. Raised as an only child in Connecticut by a single parent and two grandparents (his father died when he was two), Moby's upbringing encompassed a mixture of influences. While weekdays were spent in a (stereo)typical suburban setting, weekends saw him whisked away to the altogether different world of hippy communes. My mother did acid when she was pregnant with me, Moby has been quoted as saying, I think that explains a lot.

Equally offbeat is the intriguing story behind his name: Well, when I was bom, the given name on my birth certificate was Richard Melville Hall. I'm related to Herman Melville who wrote Moby Dick, and it's all kind of a pun on that — Richard/Dick, Melville/Herman Melville. Then when I was lying in my mother's arms, at like a couple of days old, she felt that Richard was much too big of a name, too adult of a name for a teeny little infant. So my father said "Oh, we'll call him Moby" — and ever since that's been my name. I'm proud of it in a really strange way. And I only started thinking about this like six months ago! About what Moby [the whale] represents on an allegorical level in the book? It's about this clash between the 19th century rationalists, feeling they could impose their order on the world, and Herman Melville, saying no you can't — the world is a big vast chaotic place, and human will and human order compared to the big, vast world is paltry. So I'm named after the big, vast, chaotic world.

Some of Moby's earliest and fondest

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childhood memories are of times spent in the company of animals: I have pictures ofmy mum bathing me — I don't think we had a bath tub, so she was bathing me in the kitchen sink — and there was a cat lying at one end of the sink, and a couple of laboratory rats on the other. To this day, he finds something phenomenally comforting about the presence of animals.

Moby also grew up surrounded by music. His artistic mother played piano and guitar, and it wasn't long before he began to experiment himself: I kind of felt compelled to start playing music. I loved listening to music, and it just made sense to want to be involved with something that I was in love with. Later, in the bohemian environment of his mother's painting studio — a communal space also used for band rehearsals — nineyear-old Moby taught himself to play drums. That, he reckons, was sort of what started it.

comfortable. Like you Like when you're in had to only buy the right an airport, and you're 'There was a records and wear the right starving and you clothes and dance the haven't eaten in 12 cat lying at one right way and take the hours, and there's nothright drugs. It seemed so ing to eat. But at the end of the sink, fraught with worry! Over same time I'm not the last couple of years the harmed by that. If anyand a couple of music that's meant the thing my awareness of most to me has been the world is increased laboratory rats — being hungry in a more traditional punk or alternative rock —guitar, place where everyone's on the other5 bass, drums, and some not hungry. I wouldn't guy singing. There's an trade those moments emotional vulnerability for anything, I love there that I really appreciate and also that, it broadens myreahsation of who something that I can connect to. That's I am and what the world is like. how I want to present myself as well. I can express a lot through instrumental FORGIVING MOBY music — but I also need that outlet of Moby's also a Christian, but not in the being able to scream at the top of my biblical sense: lungs!

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Moby's an outspoken a vegan spokesman as you could wish for: I do MR VERSATILITY see being a vegan as one of the domiPunk left a lasting impression — and nant motifs of my life, and I hope to be launched him into an extensive explo- vegan until the day I die. I don't ever ration of the underground rock scene. want to wear or purchase or use or eat But by the late 80s he'd fallen headlong animal products. under the spell of Acid House — a As well as calling his new album Annew and exciting form imal Rights, Moby has of electronic music that packed the sleeve notes had nothing to do with with propaganda. This 'I'm happier playing in a band. is quite characteristic.

Moby's solo career was The cover of his previknowing that unleashed (first as DJ, ous album contains two then as producer of his essays, several famous my actions own records), steadily quotes ("Nothing will gathering momentum have not caused benefit human health until he'd established and increase the chances himself as Dance of survival of life on the direct sufmusic's leading impreearth as much as the sario on both sides of evolution to a vegetarian fering of other the Atlantic. His muchdiet" — Albert Einlauded debut album restein), and a list of 60 creatures' vealed a remarkable facts about animal/envitalent (albeit a resdess ronmental destruction one), but the release of his second has (eg "90% of all food borne pesticides confounded everyone. As Dominic are found in meat and dairy products").

Wills, Sunday Times rock critic, put it: Moby's records are worth buying for "Moby's last album, Everything Is the information alone! And, as he's Wrong, showed him to be more than quick to point out, the benefits of proficient in an embarrassingly wide veganism are not limited to animals variety of musical styles. Ambient, and the planet: techno, hi-NRG, even caustic punk I'm happier knowing that my actions rock, he seemed to have a firm grip on have not caused the direct suffering of them all. Animal Rights adds a further other creatures. I think that that's a restring to his bow, being purposely ally nice thing. In general I'm healthier metal throughout".

— especially as I get older. I watch my In other words, Moby's ditched friends get older, and they get fat, and they get sick more often than I do.

Dance and recorded a Rock album: Around 1992, I realised that all the Empirically speaking that's the way it things I loved about Dance music just goes. People who base their diets on weren't there any more — like that animal products, as they get older it sense of naive, wild-eyed celebration. It hurts them. Either cardiovascularly or became much more conseri'ative. And with cancer. There are times when it I'd walk into record stores and feel un- would be really nice not to be vegan.

conventional by any stretch of the imagination. I love Christ, and I believe in the virtues of humility and compassion and love and tolerance and honesty. But that doesn't link me to Christianity, that hnks me to Christ! There are lots of Christians I can relate to — but there are lots of Buddhists I can relate to. I do base my personal ethical structure on the teachings of Christ, and I recognise Christ as God in whatever capacity I can understand what God might be.

Then there's the direct influence of feeling the Holy Spirit working through me — which might sound very ambiguous and strange but it's a slow process — and I definitely feel changed by that. I strive to be forgiving, cos our culture does not exactly put a lot of value on forgiveness, and to be honest — honest with myself, honest with God, and that means honest with everything. When Christ was around he didn't ask people to be good people particularly, he asked them to be honest.

INFECTIOUS Moby may be right to remove himself from the rave mainstream. For me, he remains one of its redeeming figures.

His own Dance tracks, it should be emphasised, are far from uninspiring (and can, incidentally, be sampled in the soundtrack of the Vegan Society video, Truth or Dairy). But, watching the all new guitar-wielding Moby on stage, switching comfortably between Jimmy Hendrix covers and Country and Western versions of his old rave hits, I had to hand it to him. The man's versatility knows no bounds. And there's an infectious energy to Moby's music that transcends format. Thrash metal fan I might not be — but I danced all the same.

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Dear Doc Vegan Society Honorary Patron, Michael Klaper MD answers another of your questions Since I adopted a vegan diet a significant amount of my body fat has melted away, however, I do notice that I now seem to be more sensitive to cold weather.

What can I do to stay warm and comfortable all year round?

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ltimately, the source of all the heat in o u r body is energy from the sun — delivered to Earth in the w a r m t h o f sunbeams and captured by t h e chlorophyll molecules in the leaves of green plants. This miraculous green p i g m e n t stores the heat energy of sunlight by converting it to m o r e rapid vibrations of electrons in sugar molecules (which w e eat as food).

As w e digest and absorb these e n ergy-containing food molecules, they are carried t h r o u g h the bloodstream to o u r b o d y cells w h e r e they are broken apart and their energy released. T h e energy is seen in the form of (a) m e chanical w o r k (contraction of m u s cles), and ( b ) chemical w o r k (nerve impulse c o n d u c t i o n , h o r m o n e synthesis in gland tissue, etc.). W h e t h e r mechanical o r chemical, all these active processes release heat, which will then w a r m t h e blood, and thus raise the t e m p e r a t u r e of tissues and organs t h r o u g h o u t t h e body.

H o w can w e maximise conversion of the chemical energy in f o o d into thermal w a r m t h ? By far, the m o s t effective m e t h o d is through the c o n traction (exercise) of large muscle groups — especially in the arms, legs, back, a n d torso. B o d y w a r m i n g of o u r b o d y tissue can also be accelerated by: • A d d i n g heat externally, by w a r m i n g of the skin via repairing to a w a r m e r r o o m , hot showers, saunas, w a r m blankets, etc.

• A d d i n g heat internally, by ingestion of w a r m t h - c o n t a i n i n g foods — eg h o t drinks, w a r m soups, baked potatoes, etc.

In chilly w e a t h e r conditions it makes nutritional a n d thermal sense for the lean, cold-sensitive, vegan person to add m o r e carbohydrate-rich foods t o their diet — such as h o t porridge in the m o r n i n g , hearty vegetable stews or soups at l u n c h , and baked potatoes or rice-based entrees for dinner.

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These foods not only provide chemical energy to generate heat, but since most are eaten as cooked dishes, they also bring their own thermal-calories with them.

For lean people (with healthy arteries and n o diabetes or high blood pressure), the addition of slightly m o r e oil-containing foods to the diet during cold conditions can help, since the added fats are available to be b u r n e d for immediate release of thermal energy or to be stored as a slight gain of insulating adipose tissue.

Therefore, a modest increase in c o n sumption of nuts and seeds (up to +1/2—f cup/day), or nut and seed b u t ters (+2—3 tbsp/day), or an extra teaspoon or t w o of olive oil and/or flax seed oil can be a valuable strategy for the lean person to generate and retain m o r e body heat.

HEAT THIEVES So, n o w that we've generated this vital body warmth, the trick to staying comfortable is to retain the heat by making sure it leaves the body at a rate equal to or slower than it is being generated.

If you k n o w the three ways in w h i c h body heat is lost, you will u n derstand h o w to retain as many precious calories as possible, keeping yourself w a r m and toasty.

Heat escapes from the body through three classic mechanisms: C o n d u c t i o n is the loss of heat from your body through direct contact with a cooler object, such as happens w h e n you sit o n a cold, stone bench.

Heat always flows from a warmer body to a cooler body.

C o n v e c t i o n is the kind of heat loss you experience while sitting in a draught w i t h the wind blowing across y o u r exposed skin. Moving water can also steal heat convectively while o n e is immersed in it. C o n v e c -

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tion steals heat in the following way: unless the air/water is warmer than your body's temperature (in which case heat flows into your body), your body's warmth will inevitably heat the layer of air or water molecules immediately adjacent to your skin in an attempt to bring the air or water temperature up to 37 °C. However, due to the wind/moving water currents, this newly-warmed air (or water) is immediately blown (or washed) away — to be continually replaced by 'new', cooler air (or water). This cooler layer will then soak u p more body heat, and in turn will be immediately replaced by ever more cooler air (or water) — which then seeks further wanning!

R a d i a t i o n is the direct loss of heat through our body's generation of electromagnetic (light) waves. This constant energy emanation is a welcome sign of life — yet it steadily carries heat away from the body, and thus can be a drain of vital warmth.

Fortunately, the same measures that will be presented to retard heat loss through convection are also effective in blunting heat loss through radiation.

STRATEGIES FOR KEEPING WARM Whatever you are (or not) doing the strategy is the same: Generate enough heat through muscular exercise (and, if needed, through ingesting warm foods) and slow down the heat loss through conduction, convection and radiation to a rate appropriate for retaining a comfortable level of body heat. Warmth-conserving strategies include: R e d u c i n g heat loss t h r o u g h conduction This means avoiding direct contact of the skin (on any part of your body)

with any surface cooler than 37°C. If you must sit or lean against such a surface, retard the conductive heat loss by utilising some materials — eg cushions, layers of newspaper, clothing, cardboard — with heat-insulating properties (preferably in several layers).

R e t a r d heat loss t h r o u g h convection and radiation Any wind will steal heat from the body •— and will do so most avidly from those areas that have (a) the largest blood supply, and (b) the thinnest skin. Such an anatomical arrangement brings large volumes of heat-carrying blood to the body's surface — where it can be lost with little resistance to the flow of cool, moving air sliding over exposed body parts.

T h e body area that leads the 'heat loss parade' is the head — namely, the scalp and the face, followed by the neck, under the armpits, and the front of the groin. Shielding these areas from moving air goes a long way towards stifling heat loss both through convection and radiation. T h e basic idea is to trap a stationary layer of air against the skin, warm it to near body temperature, and then hold it in place so it cannot blow away. Insulated clothing is always most effective when worn in at least two layers.

T o keep the entire body warm, it is essential to reduce convection and radiation heat loss off the greatest heat radiator of them all — the top of the head. T h e single most effective tool for staying warm is a comfortable, well-fitting hat, preferably of a soft, synthetic weave and with good insulating properties.

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THE GARDEN OF Plants For a Future's Ken Fern experiences the magic of Robert Hart's 'forest garden'

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ave you ever gone somewhere so special that it takes you completely out of yourself? You just walk around it trying to absorb the meaning and the beauty of the place?

Last summer I was fortunate to visit such a site — the forest garden (the only mature working example I have seen in the UK) created by Robert Hart.

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Whilst the surrounding fields looked dry and barren, the garden was green, lush and, as we soon found out, literally dripping with fruit.

I walked around in a dream. Narrow pathways lead you amongst fruit and nut trees. Growing into them you will find climbing plants, such as grapes and kiwi fruits. Growing under them are various fruiting shrubs — such as blackcurrants and gooseberries, and herbs and salad plants that succeed in the woodland shade. O n the garden's sunnier edges more conventional vegetables are grown.

There was an amazing amount of food, especially plums, in the garden.

"Help yourself to whatever you want", Robert said, "there is too much here for me." I needed no second invitation!

In the evening we shared a meal with Robert and talked in depth about forest gardening and his vision for the future.

SHOWCASE Robert moved to his farm in 1960, with the idea of self-sufficiency. His practices then were fairly conventional — annual vegetables, fruit trees and livestock; however, he found that perennial vegetables and herbs were easier to grow and more productive.

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Many could be grown successfully under trees — as could many 'less well known' types of fruit and vegetable.

The forest garden was evolving.

The motivation behind the garden was not just based on growing more food in less space and with less effort.

Robert was very aware of inequalities —- especially between western cultures and the less developed nations. He wanted to demonstrate a system that could provide more food and an improved standard of life for those in areas of the world where starvation is an ever present threat.

He also wanted to show a garden that could heal — both the individual and the planet. Robert's whole philosophy is based on love. He is convinced that this is the most powerful force in the world and that, when given unconditionally, it will transform.

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wonderful, peaceful and healing experience. I was lucky enough to camp in the garden that night. A magical expe-

BREAKFAST IN THE RAW In the morning I walked around the garden feasting on plums, apples, plums, mallow leaves, more plums, whitebeam fruits and yet more plums. I tried to harmonise with the energy of the garden, to feel that energy coming into me as I ate its produce. This was the most delicious and satisfying meal I have eaten.

Later, Robert gave us a short tour.

He apologised that the garden was not looking as good as it could — he had been unable to do much work in it earlier in the year as a result of a serious accident. However, to my mind this was the final proof of the value of forest gardening and using perennials. If this had been a normal food garden what would be growing now if the gardener had been too ill to work it? The forest garden and its perennials will produce a good crop, with little maintenance, for many years.

When you look at a conventional food garden what you normally see is rows of one vegetable type, and a separate area of fruit trees and bushes.

The gardener is constantly battling against the Just being in SHARING THE forces of nature — pests, diseases, drought, flood ..

DREAM the garden is . The ground is dug every There is an urgent need year, it has to be fertilised, a wonderful, for more people to take and there is a constant up forest gardening — battle to control the such systems are possipeaceful and weeds. It's war! ble even on small areas ofland. In the southern healing The forest garden is a Indian state of Kerala, totally different concept. which has a population Everything grows toexperience density three times gether in an harmonious greater than Britain, way that mimics a natural there are literally millions of small forwoodland. However, instead of the est gardens. Most of the area is covusual woodland plants (most of which ered with trees, it is lush and also are inedible), the trees and shrubs bear productive. Robert's dream is to see edible crops, with edible herbs and vegsuch gardens being developed all over etables growing beneath. the world, bringing more food to Below ground, there are root interpeople and healing both them and the actions taking place that aid growth. planet.

For example, certain plants (especially peas and beans) draw nitrogen from the Ending this article, I would like to atmosphere, which interacts with soil make an appeal to anyone who feels an bacteria, enriches the soil, and thereempathy with the concept of the forest fore raises productivity. This 'symbiogarden. Robert has devoted his Ufe to sis' takes place on other levels: bees finding a practical way of demonstratcollect nectar and pollen but at the ing the power of love and his garden is same time fertilise flowers so that fruit the living proof of his beliefs. But he is produced. A bird eats the fruit, flies needs others to share his garden, help away and later defecates an unharmed him work it and, most importantly, seed that will grow into a tree. Humans secure its future. Immediately, this can also become a part of this 'cycle of means he needs at least one more perlife', rather than always trying to conson who understands the philosophy trol and dominate. of the garden and is willing to do the necessary work to help him develop it The forest garden is a practical way further. that humans can once more learn to work in harmony with nature. It is a If this sounds like you please write very healing garden — not only does it to me at: Plants for a Future, The heal the gardener, it also helps to heal Field, Penpol, Lostwithiel, Cornwall the planet. Just being in the garden is a PL22 ONG.

VEGANS INTERNATIONAL Vegan Society Council member, Alex Bourke pulls it all together ICH BIN EIN VEGAN We have a very good magazine with reports on veganism, Vegetarisch fit, available monthly. Many of the recipes are vegan.

Animal Ingredients and Their Alternatives has been published by Lars Thomsen from the animal rights group. Face IT. He has also published the German version of David Cowles-Hamar's Manual of Animal Rights and translated Kath Clement'sWby Vegan.

A few weeks ago I went to Frankfurt and cooked Tofu Stroganoffon a TV youth talk show, Karacho. The topic was meat.

Vegetarische Initiative in Hamburg has launched a big advertising campaign, 'I don't eat anything that has eyes'.

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FUN IN THE SUN Australia is having not one, not two, but three vegan festivals this year! The national festival was held in Hepburn Springs in January.

The Channon Regional Festival will be held in northern New South Wales, 2 5 - 2 8 April. Details from: Elisabeth, PO Box 1215, Lismore, NSW. Tel 066-897 461.

The climax will be the two-week Ninth International Vegan Festival on the Barrier Reef in August. At least 20 of us are going from Europe and are aiming to get cheaper flights by going as a group. To join us on a holiday of a lifetime, with stopovers to visit vegan groups in Bangkok or California, write to me c/o The Vegan.

LIBERTE, EGALITE, VEGAN! Campaigning vegans are under threat of legal of action, not from a mere multinational, but the government, for exposing the truth about the prevalence of BSE/CJD (resulting in a massive reduction in beef sales). The offices of Aequalis, France's top vegetarian/vegan group, have been searched repeatedly by the police and the group's president, Muriel Arnal has been told to hand over the names of sources. Aequalis has refused to co-operate and has been accused of wanting to turn the country vegan.

To support this brave and brilliantly effective group, and receive its excellent magazine (in, er, French), send at least 200FF to: Aequalis, 12 de rue Fief, 92100 Boulogne, France. Tel +33-1-4621 08 03.

POLISH EXPANSION Vegan psychiatrist, Tomas Nocum MD has published the country's second vegetarian magazine, Wegetarianin and translated Dr Klaper's Pregnancy Children and the Vegan Diet. Please send money and relevant magazines to: Wegetarianin, ul Hutnicza 18/44, 20-218 Lublin, Poland. Tel +48-81-76 48 11.

CONGRATS! To Spanish Vegan Society President, Francisco Martin, who has become General Secretary of the International Vegetarian Union. A speaker of five languages, he is one of the most experienced, enthusiastic and friendly vegan activists in the world. He is a leading figure in Vegans International and regular visitor to UK vegan events.

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Send a cheque for £7 (or SAE/IRC for more details) to: Vegans International, 87 Porchester Rd, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey KT! 3PW, UK.

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INSECTOMANIA

In the summer marw people seen to have trouble with ants invading their h o m ^ s j w / * feel very sad when people buy toxic ant killer or pour boiling^MH^down the holes in paths where they think an ant nest is s i t u a t e d T f e ' J ^ i e v e r had any problem with ants because I have always folfovMBfi'l-ady Dowding's advice. Lady Dowding was the wife of the British air chief marshal, Lord Dowding and founded the original non-animal tested cosmetic company, Beauty Without Cruelty. She recommended talking to any creature that was becoming a nuisance and asking i would kindly mind leaving!

If you find a few art house remove them carefully — a soft brush and dustp: e trick — and place them outside, Also, never leave cru bits of food (which attracts them) on the floor.

I have noticed that p i try to exte inate ants in their garden never completely I themselves of d I wonder if it is because the remaining ants just movi taking their queen and babies with them. The 'elsewhere se.

One year, I was lifting a paving stone whe( across a connplex ant township. There were pathways le to different compartments — one seemed to be the nursery. White larvae, pupating in silk cocoons, were carefully laid out side by side. Upon being discovered the ants THE GRASSHOPPER quickly picked up the larvae in I live near a contipoto whci c there their mouths and disappeared. are a lot ofgrasshopphta. ft hey They all worked in unison, as if make a lot of noise 7?) the sujnmer, they had practised a drill for and they sometimes filing in to such an emergency, and were your face when you 'walk past. I gone in a minute. In case they once found a grasshopper widi no wanted to come back, I carehack legs and only two ordinary fully replaced the paving ones. I didn 't think he'd live long stone. Better to have them in outside, so I took him home and my garden than in my house, I put him in a large tray widi lots of thought. They never have engrass and leaves. When 1 went to tered my house and I like to look at him an hour later he had think it is because of my courgone! I don t know how he got tesy to them. out or where he went but 1 never saw him again.

Eloise Harding (15) Sadly, this is my last contribution to The Vegan. I have enjoyed my stay and would like to thank all those w h o wrote to me and w h o read the page.

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PENFRIENDS Eloise from Suffolk would like to write to a vegan/veggie boy, 14—19 years. Eloise is 15, likes reading, writing and bicycling.

To contact her, please write to me at The Vegan.

ANTS It is estimated that there are around 10 million billion ants in the whole world. How they got this Sgure 1 don't know, they couldn't have been around the whole world counting them, so this figure could be way off how many ants there really are.

Ants habits are astonishingly like human behaviour: fvtTiey live in large communities ' cities, as we call them, ei&behaviour tends to serve hole colony, not just themselves. all behave in a way that makes society work, we don't act as individuals, j 3 If an ant loses Its best it will die, just as we woul&fjnii4£/aifHcult to live on an isolated ijaftd<jll alone, away from all other peoplev 4 There arc different types of ant within the communityjust as we all serve differentjobs in society.

In some ways 1 feel that the ant community is better tkan txir society because every akt serv es a purpose and helps tfce^gno/e community work. In ourTbciety

there arc some people who do not help coward the good running of society. However, in some ways our society is better because unlike the ants we question certain things that we are told. Ants have to follow in blind obedience. Our society, although restrictive, gives us a choice and allows us to try and change certain things.

Jaime Johnson (17) I agree with Jaime. If people were as obedient as ants there would be no animal rights activists would there?

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Living Veganism A single-handed Katharine A Gilchrist reviews your correspondence HORMONAL

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a n y a p o l o g i e s , b u t Lesley is t a k i n g a break f r o m this c o l u m n f o r a w h i l e . S h e is n o t ill, o r a n y less d e d i c a t e d t o v e g a n i s m t h a n b e f o r e . S h e j u s t feels t h e n e e d f o r a r e s t f r o m w r i t i n g this, in order to concentrate her energy e l s e w h e r e . In t h e m e a n t i m e y o u j u s t have m e .

THE RED STUFF T h e r e was a very useful response f r o m readers o n t h e issue o f h e a l t h . Firsdy, w e have g o o d n e w s a b o u t b l o o d d o n a tion (or, l o o k i n g at it from t h e recipie n t ' s p o i n t o f view, b l o o d transfusion).

Alison M o o d w r o t e to say: As a vegan I am keen to donate blood both from a sense of helping other people but also to demonstrate that I am healthy enough to do so and not anaemic. I have been writing to my local blood transfusion service every 2 years or so, asking if they still use animals to test the blood. I was very pleased to be told finally.... that they no longer do so.

Alison e n c l o s e d a letter (22.3.96) from t h e L o n d o n a n d S o u t h East Z o n e o f t h e N a t i o n a l B l o o d Service.

T h i s states: I am very pleased to tell you that blood which is routinely donated in England is tested using diagnostic procedures which are based on monoclonal antibody technology, rather than polyclonal antibodies produced in the serum of rabbits. This means that anybody who believes strongly in the welfare of inimals can be confident that when they donate their blood, it is being tested in a manner which in no way harms animals.

R e a d e r s i n S c o d a n d , Wales o r N o r t h e r n Ireland m a y w i s h t o find o u t if this applies t o t h e w h o l e o f t h e United Kingdom.

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T h r e e readers expressed an opinion on h o r m o n e replacement therapy ( H R T ) .

Kathleen Keleny-Williams wrote: Being brought up from birth on a vegan diet, I never had the slightest trouble of ever needing HRT (nomial vegan diet makes normal body functions). So, no antibiotics, painkillers or other medications have ever been needed or used or taken. I grow all my own vegetables and some fruit all organically and I am 88-years-old.

Excellent as this is, s o m e vegans do have health problems (although it is likely that m o s t of us w o u l d have f e w e r p r o b l e m s had w e been vegan from birth). George R o d g e r sounded a n o t e o f caution: I do not think it is right for anyone to express an opinion on this subject unless she is experiencing, or has experienced, the very common adverse symptoms of the menopausal years, or he/she at the very least is/has been very close to a woman suffering these symptoms (eg a marriage partner).

Traditionally, male doctors were notoriously unsympathetic to these problems. Even ifa woman says she had menopausal problems and just endured them, I don't think that gives her the right to say that other women should also just endure them!

However, I think I have read somewhere that a diet high in raw fruit and vegetables (approx 75%) can be helpful in alleviating these symptoms. It may have been written in one of the books

by Susannah and Leslie Kenton . ..

Marian Stanton wrote: Women do not need HRT. A full explanation is given in the W h a t Doctors D o n ' t Tell Y o u book just pubhshed by Thorson's.

This is a 'must read' book.

OF DOGS AND DENTISTS A n o t h e r reader, Mrs S Edwards, referred to t h e What Doctors Don't Tell You Dental Handbook (Wallace Press, 1996). This includes a list of UK dentists known for removing mercury and using non-metal fillings, some of whom practise homeopathic and holistic dentistry, and are interested in nutritional and alternative treatments. Regular dentistry involves the dehberate injuring of thousands of animals to test the chemicals used.

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A n o t h e r book m e n t i o n e d was the Homeopathic Treatment of Small Animals by Christopher Day (ISBN 0 8 5 2 0 7 2 1 6 3, £8.99). T h e letter included the addresses listed elsewhere on this page, plus details of a herbal medicine clinic (more information soon, I hope).

M r s Edwards also pointed out that our pets suffer just as much from vaccinations, processed food, etc. Dogs can be vegan — as can cats if given the correct supplement.

By the way, are there any books or leaflets o n nutrition for vegan dogs — or d o people just have to rely on the manufacturers of vegan dog food k n o w i n g their stuff?

Margaret Lawson wrote with information about a range of complimentary therapies named Vita Fons II (formerly called Vita Florum). She has f o u n d these products very helpful. . . no product has been tested on animals

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Finally, an apology for a line being omitted f r o m the last Living Veganism. Before " U n t i l now!" we should have included the c o m m e n t , by Rosey Stock: "I wish to express my amazement at never having seen these c o m m e n t s in print".

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RECIPES

SPRINGTIME STIRRINGS Richard Youngs invites us to reinvigorate our taste buds

Now that the days are getting warmer, brighter and longer, heavy winter fare is on the wane. Soup

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salad or soup with an interesting sandwich are viable meal options, But, you don't want things too light (it isn't summer yet!), so these soups are thick, the salads hearty, and the dips/spreads substantial. Plus there's a simple potato dish that fits well with all these recipes.

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BUTTER BEAN 'COLESLAW' 115g/4oz pre-cooked butter beans juice of half a lemon a little olive oil salt and pepper 1 small carrot equal volume of white cabbage

Place the butter beans, lemon juice, olive oil, salt and pepper in a liquidiser and blend until smooth Adjust the olive oil, salt and pepper to taste Grate the carrot. Finely shred the cabbage. Stir into the butter bean mixture Check the seasoning — it may need sharpening up with more lemon juice or a little salt Chill in the fridge until ready to use as a salad or sandwich filling

NEW POTATO AND ONION ONE-PAN 340g/12oz new potatoes 1 medium onion 2 tbsp olive oil salt cfi? cro

» Wash and scrub the potatoes. Peel the onion. Slice both very thinly • Place a small frying pan over a low heat. Pour in the olive oil ' Once warm, lay down the slices of onion and saute until just transparent. Now layer the potato slices on top of the onion, occasionally sprinkling some salt among the layers > Cover and cook for 20-30 minutes, until the potatoes are soft • Serve straightaway — the onions should be nicely and sweetly caramelised, going well with a sharply dressed salad

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SMOKED TOFU AND KIDNEY BEAN DIP/PATE cfi? ex)

115g/4oz smoked tofu 115g/4oz pre-cooked kidney beans 3 tbsp olive oil salt and pepper to taste cfij

CHICK PEA, OLIVE AND TAHINI SALAD 225g/8oz pre-cooked chick peas 10 kalamata olives 2 tbsp tahini 4 tbsp water small strip of nori soy sauce to taste

• Remove the stones from the olives, then roughly chop them • In a bowl, thin the tahini with the water. Rip the nori into the mixture. Add the chick peas and prepared olives. Add soy sauce to taste. Stir • Chill for 1 hour, then serve

AVOCADO AND HARICOT BEAN SALAD 2 ripe avocados 225g/8oz pre-cooked haricot beans 2 spring onions juice of lemon 4 tbsp olive oil tsp vegan mustard 1 /2 tsp salt

Peel, stone and dice the avocado. Chop the spring onions.

Place both in a large bowl with the haricot beans In a cup (or similar), thoroughly mix the remaining ingredients. Pour them over the avocado, beans and onion. Toss Refrigerate for 1 hour before serving

• Place the tofu, beans and olive oil in a blender and work into a smooth paste • Add salt and pepper. Blend again. Spoon out into a bowl ' Serve with crudites or as part of a sandwich

SPRING MINESTRONE 3 tbsp olive oil 1 spring onion 1 small leek 1 small carrot 1 small white turnip 2 cloves garlic 395g/14oz tinned tomatoes 285ml/ 1 /2pt vegan stock handful shelled broad beans handful broken spaghetti salt and pepper

Finely chop the spring onion and leek. Scrub and dice the carrot, peel and dice the turnip. Crush the garlic In a large pot, soften the spring onion and leek in the olive oil over a medium heat for a couple of minutes. Add the carrot, turnip and garlic, and cook for a few more minutes Pour in the tomatoes and stock, then add the broad beans.

Bring to a boil, then turn down to simmer for 45 minutes Check for seasoning and adjust with salt and pepper.

Throw in the broken pasta and cook until it is tender Check and adjust seasoning once again. Serve

WATERCRESS SOUP 1 small onion 2 tbsp olive oil 1 bunch watercress 3 medium potatoes 570ml/lpt stock salt and pepper

Slice the onion. Wash the watercress. Peel and dice the potatoes Saute the onion in the oil over a low heat. When transparent, add the watercress. Cook for a minute, then add the remaining ingredients Bring to a boil. Cover. Turn down and simmer for 30 minutes until the potatoes are very soft Liquidise. Return to pan. Heat. Adjust seasoning and serve

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A VEGAN PARADISE? Margaret Stevenson believes she has found something close

magine it: piles of huge avocados at 5p each, large bunches of sweet bananas for only lOp, an endless supply of delicious, freshly picked pawpaw, passionfruit and oranges spiced by exotic delicacies such as the Rabaul mango and the succulent soursop (large, juicy fruit related to the custard apple) — this vegan paradise is Papua N e w Guinea.

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MIRACULOUS Papua N e w Guinea lies just to the north of Australia and just south of the Equator. Its temperature along the coast, where I have lived for the past seven years, ranges from a cool 26°C in the rainy season to a humid 32 °C in summer.

For vegans who like to supplement their diet with convenience food, Papua N e w Guinea is not ideal, but for the vegan who is content to feast on what nature provides there is a wealth of local food to choose from. Sadly, many urban Papua N e w Guineans have Banana trees turned their backs on local produce, and their previously unfurl new healthy diet has been supplanted by imported tinned leaves before fish, white rice and Coca Cola. Progress! my very eyes For people who do like to grow and eat their own food though, nowhere could be better. Plants grow with astonishing speed. Sprouts for instance! Read the sprouting handbooks and they write in terms of days — in Papua New Guinea for days, read hours! The climate could not be better. And as for fruit and vegetables, it is difficult to stop them growing. Banana trees unfurl new leaves before my very eyes, and the soursop trees I planted from seed two years ago are now taller than my house and already bearing fruit.

ON THE OTHER HAND . . .

So what are the negative sides of being a vegan in PNG? Well there is the prevalence of that distinctly Australian export, the ubiquitous BBQ, which seems to be at the centre of almost every social function — and, while no

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one tries to persuade me to eat meat, I don't particularly want to see and smell carcasses being roasted either.

Eating out is a challenge too, a bit like being a vegan in England 20-30 years ago I imagine. Given 24 hours notice, the restaurants can usually manage to steam a plate of vegetables, but a little more willingness to experiment would not go amiss.

Then there is the assumption that because I am a vegetarian — vegan is too much to contemplate — I must be either a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church or a heavily disguised member of the Hindu community! The idea of not eating meat on religious grounds seems acceptable here; the fact that 1 don't want to eat meat or animal products because I do not wish to exploit or harm animals, seems beyond comprehension.

And, sadly, there is the other, less attractive side to the market. Among all that glorious array of fruit and vegetables he the smoked carcasses of flying foxes and tree kangaroos; the cuscus furs; the lizards and the crabs tied to stakes; the live chickens being swung casually round by the legs as the shoppers buy the rest of their purchases, keeping their 'meat' alive and fresh for tomorrow's dinner.

But while there is cruelty towards animals here, their treatment lacks the calculated, intense, cruelty of the

factory farms of the 'civilised' world.

Pigs come very high in the 'pecking order' and are prized possessions. This is particularly so in the Highlands where it is still not unknown for women to breast feed piglets. Most pigs roam freely and are well looked after until their slaughter, when they are usually tied to a stake and clubbed to death. Gruesome and unnecessary yes, but at least they are spared the long and traumatic journey to the abattoir.

FROM A TINY SEED . . .

So when it becomes time for me to leave Papua New Guinea, will I really feel I have made any difference to people's consciousness? I haven't started a vegan society (there may be other vegans here, but I have yet to meet them), I haven't protested, I have merely lived my life according to my beliefs.

"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around," said Henry Thoreau.

The Papua New Guineans I have worked with and the students I have taught will remember me as the men ino save kaikai abus na dringim susu (Pidgin for 'woman who doesn't eat meat or drink milk') long after my name has been forgotten. I hope that my presence here will have given some of them cause for thought, and sown the seeds for a more gende and compassionate society.

FEATURE

HEALTHY LITTLE VEGANS 'Vegan Nutrition' author, Gill Langley tells us how

t conception and during pregnancy a woman's choice of foods may have a profound effect on her child, not only in the womb and during infancy, but also decades later. Recent research suggests that early nutrition can modify the risks of developing illnesses — such as diabetes, heart disease and respiratory failure — in old age.

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THE BEGINNING Extra protein and vitamins are plentiful in vegan diets, with one or two exceptions. Some vegan women eat less than the recommended amounts of the vitamin riboflavin, so they should choose foods rich in this vitamin, especially during pregnancy.

Vitamin D-fortified foods or supplements are officially recommended, particularly during the winter Vitamin D does not occur naturally in plant foods, so vegans should heed this advice. Additionally, because it is thought little ac- ' rive vitamin B12 is available naturally in plant foods, women are encouraged to use B)2-fortified foods/supplements to safeguard the development of their baby's brain and nervous system.

Records from an American vegan community showed that several hundred vegan infants had normal birth weights, while in Britain, the average birth weight of 19 vegan babies was only a little lower, at 3.31 kg, than the 3.48 kg averaged by omnivore babies in the same study.

BREAST FEEDING Many vegan mothers breast feed, and for longer than average— the best possible start in life for a baby. Addition-

ally, vegan breast milk is likely to have lower levels of chemicals such as PCBs, D D T and dioxins. More of these chemicals are found in meat, fish and cow's milk than in plant foods.

Although rare, there have been several cases of breast-fed infants of vegan mothers developing serious B ] 2 deficiency, which can cause mental and physical retardation. Fortified foods/supplements are currendy considered the only reliable sources of B, 2 for vegans. Extra minerals are plentiful in vegan foods, although calcium consumption by vegans tends to be slightly below the recommended optimum.

Fat is currently a hot topic when it comes to infant nutrition. During infancy we require a higher fat intake than at any other time of our lives. It's vital for growth, and especially for development of the brain and nervous system.

The fat content of breast milk varies according to a mother's diet and her own body fat stores. Vegan diets probably lack a fatty acid called DH A which our bodies can normally make. However, recent research suggests that premature babies may require DHA in their food.

Most vegan infants obtain enough iron from their food, although vegan diets tend to be a little low in calcium. For vitamins D and B 1 2 , fortified foods/supplements ensure a good supply.

Well-planned vegan diets, including a wide range of natural and fortified plant foods, provide all the nutritional requirements of pregnant and nursing women and their children, from infancy to adulthood.

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Top to bottom: Willow Arran at 2 months; Katrina-Jasmine Russell at 2 years; Caspar Boulding at 10 years

Key points: Feeding little vegans

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Infants need plenty of energy (calories), including fats. Well-cooked and mashed pulses and grains are high-energy foods, especially with a little added vegetable oil Use more soya bean or rapeseed (canola) oil, and less sunflower, safflower or corn oils. This encourages the body to make fatty acids, important for the brain and vision Choose margarines and soya milks which are fortified with vitamins D 2 and B ] 2 Low-salt yeast extract provides plenty of minerals and vitamins Black molasses boost iron and calcium intakes Tofu prepared with calcium sulphate (check the label) is rich in protein and calcium Soya flour, wheatgerm, millet, ground almonds, wholemeal bread, dried figs and dried apricots contain lots of iron. Dried fruits can be soaked in water and liquidised, to make a thick spread Include some citrus fruit, potatoes, green leafy vegetables or tomatoes in each meal to enhance iron absorption

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pring is upon us again and so I have been looking through some of the new mail order gardening catalogues to see what's available in 97.

A new introduction to the Chase Organic Gardening catalogue (01932 820958) is the 19th Century Vegetable Collection Gift Pack, which comprises an attractive box containing a selection of Victorian vegetable seeds — including broad and runner beans, peas, cabbage, carrot, onion, cauliflower and lettuce.

Garden Jargon C l o c h e Plastic or glass cover placed over plants to e n c o u r a g e g r o w t h or provide protection

Clubroot Growth-inhibiting

disease of brassicas causing swollen a n d misshapen roots

H a r d y Describes plants able to survive frosts a n d winter conditions L i f t i n g D i g g i n g up plants for replanting or vegetables for u s e / s t o r a g e

Pricking out Carefully

selecting a n d moving tiny seedlings f r o m their original g r o w i n g place to larger pots P r u n i n g Cutting back s h o o t s / b r a n c h e s to improve g r o w t h , s h a p e a n d control disease

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O t h e r catalogue highlights include: a yet-to-be-named Brussels sprout, resistant to powdery mildew and (light) leaf spot; a 'British born and bred' dark green spring cabbage, Pyramid Fj; two new cauliflowers — the early maturing Marmalade, and quick growing 'mini'. Idol; a commercially-viable radichio, Fireball Fj which, apparently, yields up to twice the marketable weight of traditional varieties; several new lettuce varieties; Mixed Leaves, a 1200 lettuce seed mix of butterhead, cos, crisp and loose head varieties; a variety of okra, or Lady's Finger (sow and raise like an aubergine); Sweet Mexi Fj — a new 'all round disease resistant' sweetcom; a yellow version of the popular cherry tomato, Gardener's Delight — Mirabelle F,; catnep (Nepeta cataria), that feline 'high' cats can't resist; and several new potatoes, such as the "old-fashioned" flavoured Kestrel — resistant to blackleg, mosaic virus, eelworm and drought.

eating qualities. T h e Enthusiasts catalogue contains a Heritage Tomato range — including the intriguinglynamed Yellow Stuffer, Green Zebra and Brandywine. All worth growing for the fun of it! Over 100 new introductions — including no less than eight 'ideal for vegans' sunflowers — grace the pages of the Seed catalogue.

Henry Doubleday Research Association members receive a 10% discount on orders over £10.

Once again, Suffolk Herbs (01376 572456) astounds with an impressive range of organic seeds and now plants as well! Its huge list of

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As well as seeds and gardening aides, the Chase catalogue also brings you growing tips — for example, to combat carrot fly grow four rows of onions with each row of carrots, or cover the crop with Enviromesh, or delay sowing until early June.

herbs contains welcome information on uses — for example: if burnt.

C o m m o n Fleabane drives away fleas and other insects; the tuberous roots of the wonderfully-named Gay Feather make a soothing tea for kidney ailments and effective gargle for sore throats; Hound's Tongue, used mainly as a poultice, is useful for treating insect bites, burns and scalds; the well-known Indigo produces a clear and fest blue colour; and the rare Madder (aren't we all!) yields red dye from its extensive root system.

M r Fothergill's (01638 751887) publishes three mail order catalogues which include many 'old' varieties. I was surprised (but pleased) to learn that its seeds are not treated with pesticides or fungicides after harvest.

T h e Y o u n g Plants by Post catalogue includes a Heritage Potato Collection, consisting of 12 old varieties — first earlies, second earlies and maincrop — once grown for their superior flavour, cooking and

A range of animal-free (though not necessarily organic) garden products, available from many garden centres, is produced by G e m Gardening (01254 356635). Items include: Gem Loam-based John Innes Seed and Cutting Compost, Gen Loam-based John Innes Potting Compost, Foremost Loam-based Aquatic compost, Foremost Loambased John Innes Seed, N o . 1, N o . 2 and N o . 3 Composts.

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The Home Front As I write this (early January) a blanket of soil-warming snow has covered the garden for two weeks. The only vegetables remaining outside the polytunnel and greenhouse are leeks, Brussels, mooli, carrots, potatoes and cabbage. A thaw is due shortly so it will be interesting to see what is still edible!

It was warm enough to work just one day in the garden this Christmas — spent repacking the compost heaps and clearing away organic 'rubbish'. Some of the time inside was employed for the now traditional festive activity of choosing seeds for the coming year. We saved some seeds but it's easy to get carried away with ordering in the excitement!

We're hoping East Sussex will be 'hosepipe-ban-free' in 1997 but there's no guarantee. Last summer, we didn't have enough time to fetch and carry sufficient water to meet the crops' needs. Consequendy, some plants went to seed before becoming productive. However, given the copious quantities of water used by the livestock industry, one feels tempted to ignore such bans and use the opportunity of a court appearance to publicise this scandalous state of affairs. Any volunteers?!

Grow Vegan puzzler For how many years is a date tree likely to live?

1 2-3 2 20-30 3 200-300 Write your answer on a postcard and post, with your name and address to: Grow Vegan Puzzler, The Vegan, Donald Watson House, 7 Battle Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex TN37 7AA by 10 April 1997. The sender of the first correct entry drawn will receive a copy of Green Gastronomy by Colin Spencer.

Congratulations to Mr P Hagwood, winner of the last competition.

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Gardners Restaurant 511 Fulham Road London SW6 0171 381 1411 Tues-Sat 5-11 pm With night temperatures plummeting to the chill side of freezing, I and a threesome of convivial males set off for Gardners, the newly-opened all vegan eaterie situated bravely in the kebab and burger haven that surrounds Chelsea FC. O n arrival we were greeted by Philippa, the front of house half of the morally crusading couple who conceived and run the enterprise.

Husband Michael was beavering away behind the scenes to provide us with what, for fear of scaring away the restaurant's mainly meateating clientele, is defined as "potager cuisine".

Three of us chose the clay's Tomato Rasam soup to start .while the fourth had the brandy-laced Gardners Pate, declared wholly acceptable. The thick soup came with the inaccurate description of being spicy rather than hot — unfortunate for the member of our group who breaks out into a sweat upon encountering a chilli at a hundred paces.

Mains consisted of Caesar Salad — a thick tofu dressing with a selection of leaves, olives and tomatoes', whilst another had the mushroomy Sussex Pond Pie — a substantial portion with a thick herb pastry crust. Cassoulet, the final choice, was a rich stew of chestnuts (elusive), fennel and red wine. Potatoes came with the last two dishes but all

other vegetables (crisp though burnt outside), had to be ordered separately.

Puds of a fairly unexciting Turkish Apricot and Almond Ottoman Cake, and a very good French Apple Tart were chosen by two of the heartier eaters — the whole being rounded off with the treat of decaf soya milk cappuccino. Unfortunately there was no mineral water — although a special water filter system is planned.

The bill came to a 'reasonable for Fulham' £17 a head.

The cigarette smoke from the solitary puffer at another table proved a bit of a blight — and the unsoothing pop/rock music was a little less than warming but, overall, we found the food more interesting and of a greater selection than the vegan norm.

Although Gardners would prove a good bet for uninitiated friends, or for a slightly more formal evening, if homely comforting is what you need after your team has been defeated at Stamford Bridge, good old Windmill down the road must win out.

Katherine Monbiot

ALSO ON THE EDITOR'S DESK...

Inside the Maze Mark Jerram, selfpublished, £1 .50 (p&p incl), booklet, 100pp. Fiction on vivisection theme.

By post: 32 Rowan Ave, Chingford, London E4 8QT Love Yourself, So Hate the Weight Brother Craig, Woodbridge Press (US), £8.99, pbk, 127pp.

Vegan weight loss. See Books by Pose People and Other Animals Animal Aid, £8, wiro-bound, 92pp.

Secondary school teachers' resource.

By post: Animal Aid, Bradford St, Tonbridgc, Kent TN9 1AW

Salmonella: the Scare T h a t Never W e n t Away Martin Walker, What Doctors Don't Tell You, £3.95, booklet, 16pp. By post: What Doctors Don't Tell You, 4 Wallace Rd, London N1 2PG Vegetarian Visitor (1997), Annemarie Weitzel, Jon Carpenter, £2.50 (post-free) pbk, 80pp. By post: Jon Carpenter, Spendlove Ctre, Charlbury, Oxon OX7 3PQ W h a t Doctors D o n ' t Tell Y o u Lynne McTaggart, Thorsons, £8.99, pbk, 376pp

REVIEWER Katherine M o n b i o t is a nutritionist, former women's arm wresder champion, writer, colonic irrigation practitioner, cleansing retreat organiser and, last season, was Chelsea FC's nutritionist.

Almost Human a play by Robert Rigby Tiebreak Touring Theatre* 'Almost Chimp' would be the way I would choose to describe the amazing performance

by Kelvin Goodspeed of the unfortunate animal at the centre of this incredibly powerful and moving play.

Almost Human was commissioned by the Lynx Educational Trust for Animal Welfare, whose aim it is to use theatre in education as means of making people re-examine their attitudes towards animals. The play, backed by an educational pack, has received a deservedly enthusiastic response while touring schools and colleges in East Anglia.

With a cast of only four, the work covers the life of a chimpanzee, captured from his native forest environment by a commercial trapper. He is subsequently subjected to an horrendous life of fear, physical pain, mental torment and anguish, and great humiliation as he is used by a succession of greedy, cruel, or simply unfeeling humans. Firstly, as a circus act, then as an animal actor in TV ads. As an inevitable personality disorder develops, and the physical injuries from his mistreatment take their toll, he is subjected to the zoo cage. Eventually, and most disturbing of all, he ends up in a vivisection laboratory where, mercifully, one of the scientists recognises the animal's almost total mental and physical devastation and secretly administers a lethal injection.

If all this sounds incredibly depressing, Almost Human, which manages to address almost every aspect of animal rights, miraculously retains both its humour and lightness of touch. The remaining three cast members switch roles between their various grotesque characters with well directed skill and confidence.

Sadly, only in London for one day, the Trust is hoping the play will be performed at the Edinburgh Festival. If you get the chance, do catch it.

Katherine Monbiot

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Contact News VEGAN SOCIETY LOCAL CONTACTS Note: Local Contacts are Vegan Society members who have offered to act, on a voluntary basis, as a point of contact for those interested in the Society's work. They are not official representatives of the Society. Their levels of activity and knowledge may vary according to their individual circumstances.

When writing to a Contact, please remember to enclose an SAE.

major hypermarket recently opened near where I live, so I called in to see how well vegan products were represented. I shouldn't have bothered. One young staff member couldn't place Linda McCartney, had not heard of her products, and confirmed my findings that none was sold. What chance lesser known vegan products?!

It can sometimes be dispiriting to find you are still an 'odd' minority in an omnivorous world. Yet all this could change so radically as to be unrecognisable in a comparatively short time. There are around 170 000 adult vegans in the UK — a tiny V3 of 1% of the population. So why is this good news? Well, if each vegan convinced a non-vegan of the undoubted health, ecological and compassionate benefits of veganism during one year, and this process was repeated annually, then 80% of the population would be vegan in eight years!

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Dream on, I hear you say. But think about this. I am a long way off retirement age, yet I remember clearly when coal mining was, arguably, the most powerful industry in the country; when computers occupied their own air conditioned office floor; and, as a commuter, tearing along the platform to jump into the only nonsmoking compartment on a ten-carriage underground train. You were a bit of an oddity as a non-smoker — a social misfit — and if you had told people that 'smoking can seriously damage your health' would be printed on cigarette packets, they would have considered you two dates short of a packet.

We vegans are now where I, as a non-smoker, was then — and it wasn't that long ago. If you convinced someone today to give up smoking you'd be recognised as at least improving their health and, possibly, saving their life. Exactly the same should be true if applied to eating animal products — witness BSE, E. coli and whatever (surely) comes next.

Of course there are enormous vested interests in the meat, fish and dairy industries, but so there are in the tobacco industry. However, we are moving towards a time when supermarkets sell predominantly vegan products and people won't be able to understand why wool and animal skins are worn.

If you need any help hastening this process, get in touch with your Local Contact; if a Contact, ring your Regional Co-ordinator; and, if we need help, we can go to Brian Barker, recently appointed National Coordinator.

There is support at every level. The Vegan Society needs more members and more Contacts, to work together to make this a truly vegan society.

Terry Bevis

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LETTERS

Postbag REASONABLE

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', Donald Watson House, 7 Battle Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex TN37 7AA, UK, Fax 01424 717064

VEGANISM IS . . .

Rosey Stock is mistaken when she says "merely cutting meat, fish, eggs, milk, cheese etc out of your diet does not make you a vegan" (Living Veganism, Winter 1996).

This is precisely what a vegan is — no more, no less.

Vegans are not necessarily animalloving, environmentally-friendly, health-conscious, non-smoking, teetotal persons — desirable although all these may be.

True, dietary veganism may be regarded as only a beginning, from where each individual can progress as far as s/he wants, or can, but it is nonetheless veganism,

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whatever the motives.

George D Rodger Aberdeen

URINE!

We desperately need it! Vegans have not put themselves at risk of a number of diseases. It now looks as though we may be able to find out who is incubating some diseases — especially BSE — by comparing their urine with that of a vegan who became one before 1982.

If this is you, and are willing to send a sample, ring me on 01282 474300 and we will send a small container.

Steve Dealler Consultant Microbiologist, Burnley Health Care NHS Trust

In reviewing Simply Vegan — Quick Vegetarian Meals, Alan Wakeman challenges the book's statement that tofu is a higja fat food — asking: "Can 4.5% be called high?"

(Reviews, Winter 1996).

While tofu is 4.5% fat by weight, this means that 46% of the calories we get from tofu come from fat (1g fat yields 9 calories). Given that the Department of Health recommends that total fat intake should represent 33% of all energy consumed, it is perfectly reasonable to call tofu a high fat food.

Ms R M Papworth Lanes

STAR LETTER Appearing on Ready Steady Cook would be a fun way of propagating our message. I'm ready to put myself forward but need a partner. Please contact me if you are willing to go with me to the pre-programme selection interviews in Leeds.

Julie Smith

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I feel the editing of my Postbag (Summer 1996) letter has misrepresented my views. My intention was not to encourage people to shop only at supermarkets and neglect wholefood stores — which are clearly more ethical and should be supported.

However, the main point of my original letter was to query why the soya milk stocked at two of the largest supermarkets (Tesco and Sainsbury's) had been omitted from the soya milk review in the previous issue. These are some of the most palatable on offer and excluding them did a disservice to aspiring vegans.

A Y Parsons Cornwall

provide support, allow vegan children to build friendships with each other — in the Aberdeen area.

Please write to me if this interests you. Diane McKay

MAKING THE LINK

I'm undertaking the final year of a Women's Studies degree and am looking for information, and women to interview, to help me research the links between animal oppression and women. If there are such links why are more feminists not pro animal rights?

Rebecca Wyatt

PARENTS, PLEASE

I am interested in starting a Vegan Parents group — to exchange views.

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Diary Dates MARCH 13-16 (prov)Crufts Demo, NEC, Birmingham. Details: Pet Trade Action, 0121 643 2445 15 March for the Rights of Animals, leaves Temple Place, Embankment, London, noon for: Animate â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Festival for the Rights of Animals, Westminster Central Hall, Storey's Gate, London, 10am-8pm Details: Green Party Animal Rights, 01843 863943

APRIL 16 Adopt a Lab. Details: ARC News, PO Box 339. Wolverhampton WV10 7BZ, Abolish Vivisection March, Oxford. Details: BAVA, 01386 833846 19 Mark of Remembrance at Consort Beagle Breeders, Ross-on-Wye. Details Consort Beagle Campaign, 54 Allison St, Birmingham B5 5TH 20 Vegan Children's Spring Picnic, Guide Hall, 93 Guildford St, London WC1, 1.30-4.30pm. Details: 0171 622 3998 2 1 - 2 7 Lab Animal Week Details: NAVS, 0181 846 977724 Lab Animal Day. Details: NAVS, 0181 846 9777

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18 Sponsored Walk & Wheel for Dolphins across Humber Bridge for International Dolphin Watch. Details: Robin, 01482 634028

For a comprehensive list of events, send an SAE + 2 first class stamps to: The Animal Rights Calendar, 180 Mansfield Rd, Nottingham NG1 3HW

Listings The following businesses offer a discount to Vegan Society members and, in most cases, supporters.

All require evidence of membership

Discounts ACCOMMODATION Bradford's Tennis School Thicket Meadows North, Newlands Dr, Maidenhead, Berks SL6 4LL 01628 29744 10% (accommodation & tennis lessons) Brookesby Hall Hotel Hesketh R d , Torquay T Q 1 2LN 01803 292194 10% Mrs K CleUand (B&B) Bank Farmhouse, Felindre, Berriew, Welshpool, Powys SY21 8QX Donmar 43 Bernisdale, Isle ofSkyc IV51 9NS 01470 532204 10% (B&B) Glenrannoch House Kinloch Rannoch Perthshire P H 1 6 5QA 01882 6323075% Gorse Hill Holiday Park [caravan hire/sales] Trefiw R d , Conwy, N Wales LL32 8HJ 01492 593465 10% Green Lodge [s/c] Trawnamadree, Ballylickey, Bantry, Co Cork, Ireland 00 353 27 66146 5% Greenside 48 St John St, Keswick-onDerwentwater, Cumbria CA12 5AG 017687 74491 20% Inglewood Hotel 26 Palace Terr, Queens Prom, Douglas, Isle of Man IM2 4 N F 01624 674734 5% Ivy Guest House 3 Melbourne PI, Bradford, W Yorks BD5 O H Z 01274 72706010% Loaning Head Wholefood Vegetarian Guesthouse Garrigill, Alston, Cumbria 01434 381013 10% (not bar & reductions) Mount Pleasant Farm Gorran High Lanes, St Austell PL26 6LR 01726 843918 10% N e w Leslie Farmhouse Leslie, By Insch, Aberdeenshire AB52

LOCAL GROUPS (Vegan/Vegan-Biendly.

When writing, send SAE. See also Contacts News) B r a d f o r d Vegetarian Society Atma Trasi, 66 Kirkgate, Shipley BD18 3EL 01274 598455 Bristol Vegetarian & Vegan Society Jill Greenway, 6 Oakridge CI, Sidcot, Winscombe, N Somerset BS25 1LY 01934 843853 Bromley and Environs Vegetarian G r o u p Kathy Silk, P O Box 317, Beckenham, Kent B R 3 1WP Bognor Regis & Chichester Vegan & Vegetarian Social C l u b Victoria Rickeard, 220 Aldwick Rd, Bognor Regis, W Sussex P 0 2 1 3 Q H 01243 863871 Cambridge Vegetarians Irene Beal, 33 Chesterton Hall Cres, Cambridge CB1 1AW 01223 357374 C a r d i f f Vegetarians Fiona Hackett, 24 Snowdon R d , Ely, Cardiff CF5 4 P R C a r m a r t h e n Vegans Aardvark Wholefoods, Mansell St, Carmarthen, Dyfed Chester & District Vegetarians Brian Burnett, Nant yr Hafod

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MISC/MAIL ORDER Altered States Flotation Centre 4 Marlborough Rd, Wootton Bassett, Wilts SN4 7EJ 01793 855414 25% Empress Ltd P O Box 92, Penzance, Cornwall T R 1 8 2XL 01736 6579015% (essential

Cottage, Llandegla, Clwyd LL11 3BG 01978 790442 Colchester Vegetarian & Vegan Society Annette White 01206 263545 Edinburgh Vegans Edinburgh Peace & Justice Resource Centre, St Johns Church, Princes St, Edinburgh EH2 4BJ Forest Vegetarian & Vegan Society 9 Russell Rd, Buckhurst Hill. Essex IG9 5QJ Glasgow Vegans Jim Connelly 0141 554 3885 Gloucester Vegan & Vegetarian Group 13 Croft Rd, Newent, Glos GL18 1SW 01531 822375 Hull & District Vegetarian Group Patricia Tricker, 31 New Village Rd, Litde Weighton, E Yorks HU20 3XH 01482 841544 Kingston & Richmond Vegetarians John, 48 Harrowdene Gdns Teddington, Middx TW11 ODJ Martin 0181 541 3437/John 0181 977 9648 Leeds Vegetarian & Vegan Society Ian Davison, 41 ' Hillcourt Dr, Bramley, Leeds LS13 2AN 0113 257 2760 London Vegans 24-hour Info Line: 0181 931 1904 Manchester (social events) Anne Barr 0161 862 9711 Milton Keynes Vegetarians & Vegans Peter Simpson

oils) Hermitage Oils East Morton, Keighley BD20 5 U Q 01274 565957 10% J D Home Deliveries Unit 12, Staveley Workshops, Works Rd, Hollingwood, Chesterfield, Derbys S43 2PE 01246 473818 Lower Shaw Farm Shaw, Swindon SN5 9PJ 01793 771080 5% Not Just Nuts Bam Cottage, The Street, Wallington, nr Baldock, Herts SG7 6SW 0176 388 209 5% (collected orders, once/month only) Sally Novello (children's party entertainer] 36 Swingate, Kimberley, Notts NG16 2PH 0115 945 9218 Numerology Readings Avon Hse, 62 Hamham Rd, Salisbury, Wilts SP2 8JJ 01722335586 10% Veggies Catering Campaign (Nottingham) 180 Mansfield Rd, Nottingham NG1 3HW 0115 958 5666 10% (frozen burgers/sosages & snacks from oudets) Vegi Ventures Casde Cottage, Casde Acre, Norfolk PE32 2AJ 01760 755888 5% Vinceremos 261 Upper Town St, Leeds LS13 3JT 0113 257 7545 5%

RESTAURANTS Byblos 262 Kensington High St, London W8 0171 603 4422 10% Cafe Natural Greenhill St, Stratford-u-Avon CV37 6LF 01789 415741 10% Cafe Pushkar 16c Market Row, Brixton, London SW9 8LD 10% Demuths 2 North Parade Passage, Bath BA1 1NX 01225 446059 Dylans 99 Broad St, Hawley, Stoke-onTrent, Staffs 01782286009 5% Fungus Mungus 34 St Peters St, Canterbury, Kent 10% George's Place 7 Queen St, Penrith, Cumbria CA11 7XD 01768 66635 10% Herb Garden 24 Upper High St, Taunton, Somerset TA1 3PZ 01823 282 884 10% Mandeer 21 Hanway PI, London W1P 9DG 0171 323 0660 10% Pumpkins 76 Clarence Rd, Hackney, London E5 8HB 0181 533 1214 10% Rasa 55 Stock Newington, Church St, London N16 OAR 0171 249 0344 10% Riverside Vegetaria 64 High St, Kingston-u-Thames, Surrey KT1 1HN 0181 546 799210% Roti North

01908 503919Oxford Vegetarians 57 Sharland CI, Grove, Wantage, OX12 OAF 01865 450793 Sheffield Vegan Society Sundmm, 30 Chatsworth Pk Rd, Sheffield S12 2UF 0114 264 8473 Solent Vegetarians & Vegans Brian Barker, 18 Northlands Rd. Easdeigh, Hants S 0 5 0 9AX 01703 570015 S Bucks Vegetarian Group Bina Malde, 121 Deeds Grove, High Wycombe, Bucks HP12 3NY 01494 440946 S E Hants Vegetarian Group John Davis 01705 667420 S E Wales Vegetarian & Vegan Information Network Chns Sutoris, 10 Duffiyn Terrace, Wattsville, Gwent NP1 7QN W Devon & E Cornwall Vegetarian Group Alison Fife, The Stannary, Mary Tavy 01822 810897/8 VEGSOC Students Union, Kings College, Macadam Bldg, Surrey St, London WC2R 2NS 0171 701 3079 Wolves Vegan & Veggy Society Box V, Students Union. Wulfruna St, Wolverhampton 01902 717342 York Vegetarian Society Lin Wilson, c/o Ashley Park Rd, Stockton La, York

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Bailgate, Pontefiact, W Yorks 01977 703915 10% St Ann's Well Cafe Victoria Wk, St Ann's Rd, Gt Malvern, Worcs WR14 4RF 01684 560285 10% Shahee Bhelpoori Vegetarian & Vegan Restaurant 1547 London Rd, Norbury, London SW16 4AD 0181 679 6275 10% (not supporters) Shiraz 113 Oak La, Bradford, W Yorks BD18 2AF 01274 490176 10% South Square Vegetarian Cafe South Sq, Thornton Rd, Thornton, Bradford BD13 3LD 01274 834928 10% (£5+) Tea Room Des Artistes 697 Wandsworth Rd, Clapham, London SW8 3JF 0171 652 6526 (beer!) Thin End for Hungry People 41a Fore St, St Austell, Cornwall PL25 5PY 01726 75805 10% (not supporters)

SHOPS Ashgrove Stores Horsted Keynes, West Sussex RH17 7AP 01825 790243 Beano Wholefood Workers Co-op 36 New Briggate, Leeds, W Yorks LSI 6NU 0113 243573710% (Mon-Thurs, orders over £5) Breckles Wholefoods 12 Cawdry Buildings, Fountain St, Leek, Sufis ST13 6JP 01538 387660 10% Cambridge Health Food 5 Bridge St, Cambridge CB2 1UA 01223 350433 10% Canton Health Foods 218 Cowbridge Rd East, Cardiff 0/222 397983 10% Cardiff Health Foods 4 Church St, Cardiff 01222 220990 10% Countryside Wholefoods 19 Forty Hill, Enfield, EN2 9HT 0181 363 2933; 90 Aldermans Hill, Palmers Green, London N13 081 882 2799, 80 Copley Rd, Doncaster, S Yorks 0302 341827; 2 & 4 Old Station Rd, Newmarket, Suffolk 5% (not delivery service) The Court House Bookshop 181 Edward St, Brigthon BN2 2JB 01273 600365 20% Down to Earth Wholefoods The Enterprise Ctr, Veganism may be defined as a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as possible and practical, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose.

In dietary terms it refers to the practice of dispensing with all animal produce — including meat, fish, poultry, eggs, animal milks, honey, and their derivatives.

Abhorrence of the cruel practices inherent in dairy, livestock and poultry farming is probably the single most common reason for the adoption of veganism, but many people are drawn to it for health, ecological, resource, spiritual and other reasons.

If you would like more information on veganism a free Information Pack is available from the Vegan Society in exchange for two first class stamps.

The Vegan Society was formed in England in November 1944 by a group of vegetarians who had recognized the ethical compromises implicit in lacto (ie dairy-dependent) vegetarianism. Today, the Society continues to highlight the breaking of the strong maternal bond

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NATIONAL & SPECIALIST GROUPS Movement for Compassionate Living — The Vegan Way Promotes simpler vegan lifestyles. Publishes New Leaves (£3pa) 47 Highlands Rd. Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 8NQ Plants For a Future Veganorganic information centre for edible/useful plants and demonstration ground. SAE: The Field, Penpol, Lostwithiel, Cornwall PL22 0NG 01208 873554 Vegan Bikers http://www.nildram.co.uk/veganmc; Vegan Business Connection Encourages mutual support within the vegan community and lists businesses supplying vegan goods/services. SAE: Veggies 180 MansBeld Rd, Nottingham NCI 3HW 0115 958 5666 Vegan Community Project Contact network for those interested in living in a vegan community or forming one. 4issue newsletter sub: £1

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(not supporters) Nature's Gift 11 Cotswold Rd, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex SS0 8AA 01702300421 10% Paragon Health Foods 4 Bakery Ct, Ashby de la Zouch, Leics LE65 1AL 01530 560601 10% Quarry Shop 13 Heol Maengwyn, Machynlleth, Powys 10% Roath Health Foods 39 Wellfield Rd, Cardiff CF2 3PA 01222 486023 10% Salisbury Health Foods Queen St, Salisbury, Wilts 10% Surbiton Whole Foods 14 Claremont Rd, Surbiton, Surrey KT6 4 Q U 0181 399 2772 10% Tordarroch Crafts Milton of Tordarroch, Farr, Inverness IV1 2XF 01808 521414 10% Two Cats and a Mouse! 61 Queens Rd,

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Mid Glamorgan CF34 OPB Vegan Information Network Rapid response enquiry service PO Box 2801, Brighton BN1 3NH Vegan-Organic Horticultural/ Agricultural Network Researches and encourages non-animal growing techniques 58 High La, Chorlton. Manchester M21 9DZ 0161 860 4869 Vegan Prisoners Supporters Group Helps vegan animal rights prisoners obtain food, toiletries etc. SAE: PO Box 194, Enffeld. Middlesex EN1 3HD 0181 292 8325 (help iineJVegfam Overseas aid agency based on vegan principles. SAE: 'The Sanctuary', nr Lydford, Okehampton, Devon EX20 4AL 01822 820203

INTERNATIONAL Vegans International Co-ordinates the promotion of veganism, encourages the formation of new organisations, publishes a newsletter, and organises vegan festivals. Country Co-ordinators:

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VEGAN PUBLICATIONS Vegan Views Informal quarterly. 4-issue sub: £3 (Non GB — £ 4 ) 6 Hayes Ave, Bournemouth, Dorset BH7 7ADY Figan Cymreig (The Wales Vegan) Bilingual quarterly. Sub: £1.50 Bronyr Ysgpl, Montpelicr, Llandrindod, Powys, Wales

LISTS Send an SAE to the Vegan Society for any of the following lists: Health Care Professionals; International Contacts — mainly individuals Trade Mark — registered users Vegan Families — child-raising vegans willing to be contacted to provide mutual support

Hutson, Robin Lane, Tim Powell, George Rodger, Rick Savage (Chair), Rod Shelton, Chris Sutoris, Sharon Worsey National Local Contacts Co-ordinator Brian Barker Volunteers Eileen Hardy, Phil Joyce, Mick Lambert, Amanda Rofe (Information Officer), Tim Sloan, Ann Stahley STAFF General Manager Richard Farhall Development Officer Jenny Sawyer Administration Officer Nicola Ottewill Administration Officer (Membership) Tracey Goodall Administration Assistant Bill Palethorpe General Assistant (Part-time) Ann Bloomfield

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ANIMAL RIGHTS

Dreaded Comparison: Human and A n i m a l Slavery Marjorie Spiegel. A penetrating study loaded with shocking comparisons of human and animal slavery, of racism and speciesism £3.95 Feminism, Animals and Science Lynda Birke.

Feminist concerns about animal suffering and the relevance of feminist critiques of modern science to the treatment of animals in laboratories £12.99 Silent Ark Juliet Gellatley. A personal story of discovery of the meat and dairy industries £6.99 Why Animal Experiments Must Stop Dr Vernon Coleman. The moral, ethical, medical and scientific arguments against vivisection £6.95

A n i m a l Liberation Peter Singer. 2nd edition [Pimlicoj of the bible of the modern animal rights movement £10.00 A n i m a l Liberation: A G r a p h i c G u i d e Lori Gruen, Peter Singer & David Hine. A powerfully illustrated introduction to the subject £4.95 A n i m a l Rights — E x t e n d i n g t h e Circle of C o m p a s s i o n Mark Gold. Animal rights: the philosophy, principles, history and prospects £7.99 A n i m a l s , Politics & Morality Robert Garner. A n assessment of moral issues, philosophical claims, the modern animal protection movement and strategies employed £14.99 T h e

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Green Gastronomy

ULIET GELLATLEY with TONY WAUDLE

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A b u n d a n t Living in the Coming A g e of the Tree Kathleen Jannaway.

Towards a vegan, tree-based culture £2.00 Beyond Beef — The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture Jeremy Rifkin. The real costs of the 'cattle culture': animal suffering, hunger, poverty, environmental destruction £8.99 Compassion: The Ultimate Ethic ( A n Exploration of V e g a n i s m ) Victoria Moran. An examination of the history and philosophy of the vegan movement £4.95 Food For a Future Jon Wynne-Tyson. A classic work, powerfully arguing the moral, economic, ecological, physiological and nutritional case for vegetarianism and veganism £4.99 T h e Realeat Encyclopedia of Vegetarian Living Peter Cox. Despite the title, principally vegan in content. Includes 300 international vegan recipes £16.99 (Hdbk) Why V e g a n Kath Clements. A simple and straightforward exposition of the case for veganism £6.95

COOKBOOKS 365 Plus O n e Vegan Recipes Leah Leneman. A n imaginative and varied collection of ideas for starters, soups, main courses, side dishes, sweets and salads £6.99 A n Allergy Cookbook Patricia Carter. Recipes free of animal products, chocolate, salt, sugar, baking powder, wheat and cornflour £6.25 Green Gastronomy Colin Spencer. Gourmet vegan recipes arranged by season £9.99 The Single

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Vegan Leah Leneman. This is the book to persuade you that it really is 'worth the bother' for one £5.99 Rainbows & Wellies Jackie Redding & Tony Weston. An unusual and enchanting cookbook offering recipes for 14 nights of six person vegan dinner parties at Taigh na Mara Vegetarian Guest House in the Scottish Highlands £74.95(Hdbk) Simply Vegan (2nd ed) (US) Debra Wasserman. Includes 70-page nutrition section and recipe nutrient breakdowns £11.99 The Vegan Cookbook (2nd ed) Alan Wakeman & Gordon Baskerville. 200 richly varied and carefully graded recipes, ranging from the quick and simple right through to the unashamedly gourmet £7.99 Vegan Cooking Eva Batt. More than 300 simple, nourishing and economical recipes. A classic £5.99 The Vegan Gourmet (US) Susann Geiskopf-Hadler & Mindy Toomay. Delicious and imaginative vegan cuisine with recipe nutrient breakdowns £8.99 The Vegan Kitchen Mate (Aus) David Horton.

100 simple recipes, complete with kitchen tips £3.25

HOME & GARDEN

Forest Gardening Robert A de J Hart. 2nd edition of the vegan guide to creating a food-producing forest garden £10.95 The Green Home Karen Christensen. A lively and wideranging introduction to all aspects of green home-making £9.99The Organic Gardener's Handbook Margaret Elphinstone & Julia Langley. A comprehensive and practical guide to the subject — including plenty of information and advice suitable for green-fingered vegans £9.99

NUTRITION & HEALTH Foods That Cause You to Lose Weight (US) Neal Barnard MD. An American vegan doctor explains how choosing certain vegan foods leads to, and sustains long-term weight toss £8.99 Love Yourself, So Hate the Weight! (US) Brother Craig. Vegan slimming tips from a weight-losing Catholic monk. £8.95 Pregnancy, Children & the Vegan Diet (US) Michael Klaper MD. A practical guide to ensuring health and balance

throughout pregnancy and to raising healthy children on a 100% animalfree diet £7.95 Vegan Nutrition Gill Langley MA PhD MIBiol. The most comprehensive survey of scientific research on vegan diets. Includes key points, easy-to-follow tables, chapters on all major nutrients and section on vegan mothers and children £8.95 Vegan Nutrition: Pure & Simple (US) Michael Klaper MD. A practical guide showing 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 £7.95

REFERENCE The Animal-Free Shopper The Vegan Society. Popular shopping guide for those wishing to buy goods which are free of animal ingredients and involve no animal testing.

Includes product listing sections — Food, Drink, Toiletries & Cosmetics etc; useful addresses; and information on animal substances and additives £4.95 The Animal Welfare Handbook Caroline Clough & Barry Kew. A guide to animal welfare and rights — the issues, arguments, legislation, organisations and resources £8.99 Food For Free Richard Mabey.

The wild food forager's bible — details of over 240 edible berries, nuts, fungi and leaves £7.99 The Pocketbook of Animal Facts & Figures Barry Kew. All the information you need — at your fingertips £6.99 Vegetarian London (previously Cruelty-Free Guide to London,) Useful guide to veggie/vegan eating places and healthfood shops £4.99

VERSE Talking Turkeys Benjamin Zephaniah. Fun poems by the presenter of Truth or Dairy £8.99 {Hdbk) A number of titles lack a vegan perspective but have nevertheless been included on the basis of their informativeness or practical value • Ring 07424 427393 for Vegan Society publications & merchandise catalogue • Order form opposite

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Classified ACCOMMODATION D O N A T I O N S required to help purchase sheltered accommodation for elderly vegans in need. Contributions to: 'Homes For Elderly Vegetarians Ltd', Chancery House, St Nicholas Way, Sutton, Surrey SMI IJB. 0181 652 1900. Specify 'Vegan Fund'.

R O O M T O L E T at Vegfam H Q N/S vegan. SAE to: ' T h e Sanctuary', Nr Lydford, Okehampton EX20 4AL. Tel/Fax 01822 820203.

BANTRY, IRELAND Self catering apartments for singles, couples and families.

Peaceful wooded surroundings. Organic vegetables and vegan wholefoods available.

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A L L S E A S O N S WHOLEFOOD VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT 167 St Marys Lane, Upminster Essex R M 1 4 3BL, 01708 640340 Fully licensed and air conditioned.

Extensive range of vegan wines and beers.

We specialise in quality wholefood cuisine.

Organic produce is used where possible.

The majority of food we produce is vegan.

We can also supply food for outside functions (weddings, celebrations etc).

Opening Hours

Monday 10am-4pm Tuesday-Saturday 10am-9 30pm* Sunday 10am-3.00pm

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* Last Orders taken at 9.30pm Allseasons is strictly non smoking Easy access from junction 29 M25

G U I N E A PIGS. Caring and responsible life-long owners required for five males.

Need grass gardens, runs, hutches provided. Phone 01243 863871.

V E G A N C A T S ! Animal-free supplement for home-made recipes. In use since 1986. SAE: Vegecat, The Vegan Society, Donald Watson House, 7 Battle Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex TN37 7AA, UK.

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V E G A N / R A W F O O D permaculture.

Introductory course. Devon, 28th-30th March, residential/non-residential — make it a long Easter weekend break. Call Steve: 01647 61192. £35 (£20 concession).

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FUNERAL SERVICES G R E E N / D I Y FUNERALS Ecofriendly inexpensive coffins, memorial tree-planting. Please send £1 in unused stamps with A5 size SAE to Box 328.

HEALTH CLARIDGE HOUSE Centre for healing, rest and renewal. Vegetarian/Vegan, nonsmoking. Run by the Friends Fellowship of Healing. Open to all. Retreats, short/long term stays. Weekend courses, conferences, healing and counselling available. Nr. Lingfield, Surrey. 01342832150. Box 371.

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D O R S E T Vegan guest house set in A.O.N.B. Coastal walks. Home of alternative healers. Offering courses, alternative treatment of animals. (01297) 678597.

FRANCE At last! Opening spring 1997 vegan NS B&B in Pyrenees.

Accommodation in 101 yr old stone farmhouse shared with owners. Walking, cycling, relaxing. 500FF or £50 pppw.

Write: Le Guerrat, 09420 Rimont, France.

Tel. 00 33 5 61963703.

GREECE Beautiful cottage to let near sea and mountains, n/s veg. From £25/£70pppw/sc. Ph/fcx 0116 2681331 or http:/www.ark.org/users/veg-greece/

BLACKPOOL

WILDLIFE HOTEL

Open all year round Licensed. 100% non-meat.

Small friendly hotel.

(Exclusively vegan/vegetarian. Special diets catered for — all freshly made.)

No smoking throughout.

Situated two minutes from the sea.

Near all the attractions. Parking available.

39 Woodfield Road, Blackpool FY1 6AX. Tel. 01253 346143.

COME & GO AS YOU PLEASE Vegetarian/vegan.

Cussens cottage, en-suite rooms with own entrance, tv, tea-making. Residence sun-lounge/dining room.

Vegetarian/vegan 3 course dinner when req'd.

Peaceful rural setting, pub, shop, p.o.jestaurant. 10 min. walk.

Cycle hire, riding, mountain walking.

Nearby 13th century historic Kilmallock.

Easy drive to Kilamey, Tralee, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Shannon Lakes, Atlantic coast Relax in secluded lawns and organic kitchen garden.

Brochure and booking details.

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B&B, VEGETARIAN/VEGAN Near Heathrow, Windsor, Henley, Reading.

Berkshire, Bath Rd. A4. £35 double, £20.00 single. Tennis school for lessons.

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DETACHED country home in quiet hamlet near Wimbome, Dorset.

Exclusively vegetarian/vegan B&B. Spacious comfortable twin en-suite T/C facilities, TV. Ideal touring, walking, cycling area. No smoking. £15 per person per night. Tele: 01202 841561.

DEVON (Lydford). S/C for N/S visitors at VEGFAM's HQ. SAE to: 'The Sanctuary', Nr Lydford, Okehampton EX20 4AL. Tel/Fax: 01822 820203.

D O R S E T (Lyme Regis) Exclusively vegan/vegetarian B&B. Double self contained en-suite available. Tea & coffee making facilities. Colour T.V. Non smoking. Off road parking. 10 minutes walk to seafront. Dogs welcome with well behaved owners!

The longest established exdusively vegan and vegetarian guest house in France, set within a peaceful hamlet in this unexploited and beautiful region.

We offer a very high standard of comfort and hospitality ensuring a relaxing holiday.

Our internationally acclaimed imaginative cuisine is freshly cooked each evening using our own fresh produce.

For 1997 brochure telephone (0033) 5.45.71.47.49 or write to:

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Poriock, Somerset TA24 8QE Tel: 01643 862289

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High Banks. Lockeridge. Nr Marlborough Wilts SN8 4EQ Tel: 01672 861362

Come along to The 13th Note and experience our delicious home-cooking.

There is a 10% discount for all Vegan Society members.

The 13th Note cafe is completely animal/dairy free and is therefore suitable for both vegans and vegetarians.

CUMBRIA Vegan B&B, 2 rooms.

Stricdy no smoking. Children very welcome. Good local wal v

Comfortable Edwardian guest bouse with spectacular views across Poriock Bay and set in the heart of Ex moor's wild heather moorland. Delicious traditional vegetarian and vegan cuisine. Fine wines. Logfires.Candle-lit dinners. Luxurious bedrooms, all en-suite.

ETB 2 crowns Highly commended

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Quiet Country Hotel overlooking beautiful tidal estuary and bird sanctuary.

Britain's oldest vegetarian/vegan hotel stands in its own grounds close to beaches and unspoilt coastal walks.

'Woodcote', The Saltings, Lelant, Stives, Cornwall Tel. 01736 753147

The Old Post Office Llanigon, Hay-on-Wye

imrr A very special, distinctly different, 11th century listed bouse at the foot of the Black Mountains. Only two miles from the famous book town of Hay-on-Wye. Separate guests sitting room, lovely bedrooms £r relaxed atmosphere. Exdusively vegetarian/vegan. From £14 pp.

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BEECHMOUNT NEAR SA WREY, AMBLESIDE, CUMBRIA LA22 0LB Vegetarian/vegan B&B. delightful country bouse accommodation. Situated in Beatrix Potter's picturesque village with its olde worlde inn, 2 miles from Hawkshead. Lake Windermere (car ferry) 2 miles. Delicious breakfast, lovely bedrooms. Superb lake/country views.

For brochure tel.

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Brookesby Hall Hotel

Exclusively vegetarian. Glorious sea views. Quietly situated next to an extensive area of coastal woodland.

Close to beach and town centre.

Delicious wholefood vegan meals prepared by vegan proprietress.

Please contact res. props for brochure and further details.

Tel: 01803 292194

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Norfolk Vege & Vegan B&B Winter & Spring Breaks Visit our large 18th Century cottage for a break- Picturesque mediaeval conservation village with castle ruins and ancient priory.

Many architectural & historic interests locally and an abundance of interesting walks and beautiful countryside.

Bicycle hire and delicious evening meals are available. £15pn.

Tel: Claire or Jon on: 01760 755165/0378 610546

CHAPEL STREET, E X F O R D S O M E R S E T T A 2 4 7PY Relax in the heart of E x m o o r N a t i o n a l Park and e n j o y t h e b e a u t i f u l s u r r o u n d i n g s .

N o s m o k i n g . Exclusively vegetarian and vegan f o o d .

Most rooms en-suite, all with tea/coffee facilities.

C o n t a c t Nigel for details, t e l e p h o n e 01643 831694

HOLIDAY FLAT/D.I.Y B&B in Victorian vegan home. Woodland fell setring. Twin/family bedroom. Windermere 015394 47977.

W H I T B Y Falcon Guest House, B&B, vegan/vegetarian. Quiet location, seven minutes walk from centre and harbour.

Lounge and sunny breakfast room. Parking near house. Tea-making equipment. £. 15 (plus child reductions). Tel: 01947 603507.

Y O R K Vegetarian/Vegan wholefood, non-smoking B&B. Comfortable en-suite accommodation. 10 mins walk centre. £18.

T H E C H A M P I O N J U I C E R . Boxed and hardly used. The real McCoy! Cost £300 new. Yours for only £175. 01435 862945.

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Navy/red centre line; Burgundy/navy centre line; Natural/navy centre line (neutral). Enquiries to: r send £8 (per belt), waist size and colour choice. Non-profit making, all proceeds to help less well-known endangered wildlife. Make cheques payable to 'Wildlife For All'. Allow 3 weeks delivery.

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Bethany Vegetarian Nursing & Rest Home 7/9 Oak Park Villas. Dawlish, Devon EX7 ODE. Tel: - (01626) 862794

Exclusively Vegetarian And Vegan Diets. Wholistic Care offered with a choice of Complementary therapies.

A friendly, non-smoking home for Short or Long stay. Holiday and Respite Care

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I N G L E T O N Yorkshire Dales.

Vegetarian/Vegan B&B ,C15 at picturesque Prospect Cottage. Two or more nights £14.

Tel: 015242 41328.

ISLE O F W I G H T B&B. Peaceful home of vegetarian/vegan owners. Picturesque village. Tel: (01983) 731279. Evening meals available by request.

LAKE D I S T R I C T Eden Green vegan/vegetarian guesthouse in central Keswick. 2 for the price of 1 bargains, romantic Valentines and Far Eastern Feast short stays. Tel: 017687 72077.

M I D - W A L E S Vegan B&B/Ashbrooke therapies. Unwind before log fires amidst beautiful hills and woodlands. Ideal for walking, relaxing, dreaming. (01686) 413671.

O L D R E C T O R Y H O T E L Maentwrog, 01766 590305. Three acre riverside garden.

Main house/budget annexe. All en-suite.

Informal atmosphere, home cooking, vegan & Italian menu. Reduced 2+ nights. Dogs welcome.

P E M B R O K E S H I R E Coast — Trefin, nr St Davids. Vegetarian/Vegan guest house, en-suite rooms. 5 mins walk from spectacular coastal path. Walking and climbing holidays available. Tel 01348 837095.

ST IVES Cornwall. Vegan guest house.

Close to beaches and picturesque harbour.

En-suite rooms. Self-catering apartment also available. St Judes, St Ives Road, Carbis Bay, St Ives, Cornwall T R 2 6 2SF. Tel. 01736 795255.

S C O T L A N D T H E G R E E N Guide to Veg, & Vegan Hideaways £4.95 incl. p&p.

Also Rainbows and Wellies — Scottish Vegan dinner party cookbook £16.95 Tel. 24hrvisa 01854 655282 Fax 292. Taigb na Mara Veg. Guest House & Vegan Info Service, Freepost IV1229 the Shore, Lochbroom, Ullapool, IV23 2BR. S C O T T I S H H I G H L A N D S Near Kyle of Lochalsh. Vegan B&B in modem bungalow with spectacular views. Ideal centre for exploring Skye and Wester Ross. B&B From £15, EM £9. Julie and Brian Neath.

Tel: 01599 555341.

S O M E R S E T Exclusively vegetarian guest house. All meals vegan. Bordering Devon and Dorset. It is an ideal base for touring, walking or relaxing in our 16th century house. Crewkeme 01460 73112.

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THE ORDER OF THE CROSS SPIRITUAL A I M S A N D IDEALS

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CRUELTY-FREE COMPANIONS Exclusively vegan contact agency!

For details send SAE to: CFCs, 7 Trafalgar Close, Wouldham, Kent ME1 3YF

PUBLICATIONS A H I M S A . Quarterly magazine of the American Vegan Society. Veganism, Natural Living, Reverence for Life.

Calendar Year subscription £12. Address: PO Box H, Malaga, NJ 08328, USA.

Regular Services, Meetings and Retreats are held in London and elsewhere.

For further information please contact: The Headquarters (VN), 10 De Were Gardens, London W8 SAE. telephone 0171-937 7012.

V E G A N G U I D E to Paris £2.50, Hippy Cookbook £ \ .99, H o w to Write a Vegan Book .80 post free from: Alex Bourke, 11 Guinea Street, Bristol BS1 6SX.

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A V E G A N / V E G E T A R I A N C H E F is required to work in a busy vegetarian wholefood restaurant in Upminster, Essex.

T h e applicant must be fully qualified and experienced. This is a full time position.

Wages negotiable. Applicants must be vegan or vegetarian.

Funds a r e available t o h e l p y o u n g vegetarians/vegans, u p t o the age o f 25, w h o are in n e e d and to educate y o u n g p e o p l e in t h e principles of vegetarianism.

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The order is an informal Fellowship, having for its service in life the cultivation of the Spirit of Love towards all Souls: Helping the weak and defending the defenceless and oppressed; Abstaining from hurting the creatures, eschewing bloodshed and flesh eating, and living upon the pure foods so abundantly provided by nature; Walking in the Mystic Way of Life, whose Path leads to the realization of the Christhood; And sending forth the Mystic Teachings unto all who may be able to receive them — those sacred interpretations of the Soul, the Christhood, and the Divine Love and Wisdom, for which the Order of the Cross stands.

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C O N T A C T C E N T R E is a caring, so low fees friendship agency, quite different from all others catering exclusively for vegans and vegetarians both in Britain and abroad for any purposes.

C O N T A C T C E N T R E enables you to choose friend(s) from detailed adverts and/or to write an advert yourself without disclosing your name and address.

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