The Vegan Autumn 1989

AUTUMN 1989

HEALING OPTIONS: MEDICAL HERBALISM

TOWARDS A VEGAN IDEOLOGY • ENTERTAINING ON PEANUTS • SHOPAROUND • REVIEWS

Editor: Richard Farhall Commodity News Editor: Lis Howlett Design and production by UP Studios Printed by Geerings of Ashford Ltd Text printed on 100% recycled paper, supplied by Paperback Ltd, London The Vegan is published quarterly by The Vegan Society Ltd Publication Date: March, June, September, December Copy Date: 1st of preceding month ISSN 0307-4811 © The Vegan Society Ltd

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Inforniotiai

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, the animal kingdom 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, (non-human) animal milks, honey, and their derivatives.

The Vegan Ethic challenges all who preach compassion yet acquiesce in institutionalized animal abuse, especially the cruel practices inherent in dairy, livestock and poultry farming.

Abhorrence of these practices is probably the single most common reason for the adoption of veganism, but many people are also drawn to it for health, ecological, spiritual and other reasons.

The Vegan Society was formed in England in November 1944 by a group of vegetarians who had recognized and come to reject the ethical compromises implicit in lacto-(i.e. dairy-dependent) vegetarianism and consequently decided to renounce the use of all animal products.

Since those early days it has grown considerably in both size and influence, reflecting the increasingly wide recognition of veganism's ethical, health, ecological and other advantages.

The Society now has the status of an educational charity, whose aims include encouraging the development and use of alternatives to all commodities normally derived wholly or partly from animals.

If you would like more information on veganism a free Vegan Information Pack is available from the Society's Oxford office in exchange for an SAE. If you are already a vegan or vegan sympathizer please support the Society and help increase its influence by joining. Increased membership

means more resources to educate and inform. Full membership is restricted to practising vegans, as defined above, but sympathizers are very welcome as associates of the Society. Both members and associates receive The Vegan free of charge.

Vegan Society Publications The Society publishes a wide range of leaflets and lowpriced books and booklets of interest to the newcomer. For a Publication List please send an SAE. The List also includes a number of works which although produced independently of the Society and not necessarily vegan in viewpoint are nevertheless felt to be useful and informative.

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

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

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

Annual subscription: £3.00.

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

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tion: £1.25.

The Vegan Community Project, an organization independent of the Vegan Society, exists to form a contact network between people who are interested in living in a vegan community and to establish one or more such communities. While some of its members seek merely to live close

to other vegans, others wish to establish a vegan land project or centre for the promotion of a

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

The Movement for Compassionate Living — The Vegan Way, an organization independent of the Vegan Society, seeks to spread compassionate understanding and to simplify lifestyles by promoting awareness of the connections between the way we live and the way others suffer, and between development, consumption and the destruction of the planet.

Veganism Abroad There are active vegan societies in Australia, the Netherlands, Sweden and the USA, as well as contacts in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, and New Zealand.

The views expressed in The Vegan do not necessarily reflect those of the Editor or of the Vegan Society Council.

Nothing printed should be construed as Vegan Society policy unless so stated. The Society accepts no liability for any matter in the magazine. The acceptance of advertisements does not imply endorsement. Contributions intended for publication are welcomed, but unsolicited materials will not be returned unless accompanied by an SAE. The Vegan, Autumn 1989

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Prison Eye NEW 23 Penal concerns DutifiL JfyuuU S&inub <Roitnb tb ttfteilatieiv

Young Vegans Go For It! NEW The column for under 14's

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The Old Man Who Cried For the younger reader and the young at heart

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Out and About — The Royal Agricultural Show

Spotlight on ...

Disabled Against Animal Researchand Exploitation

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Reviews Shoparound

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Vino Nasties Spilling the grapes

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Postbag

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Noticeboard Vegans in the Great Metropolis 16 Classifieds The latest survey on 'vegetarians' Cover illustration ('Herbalism') by Jane Witheridge

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News The Vegan Production difficulties have resulted in the late publication of this issue of The Vegan; however, it is hoped that the next issue will return to its normal quarterly schedule.

Members and associates will have received this Vegan in a re-usable (if opened carefully!), self-seal envelope made of 100 per cent recycled paper.

Use of such an envelope benefits the Society because it greatly reduces the time hardpressed staff spend mailing out the magazine. The change to the use of envelopes also benefits the 'consumer' — who, Post Office permitting, receives the magazine in pristine condition.

'Humanized' Milk Dutch-based company, j GenPharm, expects to have bred the first cows to produce human-type milk by 1992.

Manager Otto Postma believes that this bizarre 'feat' will be achieved by using genetic engineering methods to transfer around half-a-dozen human genes into bovine eggs.

The first 'transgenic calf' will be born within a year. In theory, it will be capable of producing milk containing proteins found in human milk "in large quantities at prices that people can afford".

Cows milk — and indeed, any other milk 'stolen' from non-human animals — will never be an entirely satisfactory substitute for human milk, but the 'warped' GenPharm is having a damn good try.

Daily Telegraph 18.8.89 Snippets The Society cannot afford to subscribe to a newscutting service and so would greatly appreciate members, associates and supporters sending in any vegan-related articles from newspapers and magazines.

Please do not forget to identify the source of the cutting and the date of its publication.

Quackbusters The Campaign Against Health Fraud — the so-called 4

'Quackbusters' — officially launched in May, consists of doctors, lawyers, journalists and others dedicated to "protecting the public by highlighting fraudulent practice".

CAHF supporter Professor Michael Baum believes that "none of the so-called alternative medicine is based in scientific fact". He is particularly dismissive of homeopathy and wishes to protect consumers from "fraudulent, unnecessary and unduly dangerous" treatments.

CAHF is supposedly against health fraud in orthodox medicine as well as the alternative variety, however, most of its founders have 'orthodox' backgrounds and so their objectivity must be open to question.

Further information: The Campaign Against Health Fraud, Box CAHF, London WC1N 3XX. (01 673 4401) Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine June 1989 Fish Reprieve?

Good news for those tired of reading in the popular press of the 'wonderful benefits' of consuming fish or fish-oil capsules.

The 'magic', health-giving ingredient omega-3 can be obtained elsewhere. The preliminary results of a study by the US Department of Agriculture suggest that the body converts the linolenic acid in soybean oil to the same omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil.

Vegetarian Times June 1989 Dangerous Dairy The results of a recent American study 'Galactose Consumption and Metabolism in Relation to the Risk of Ovarian Cancers', indicate that dairy products may increase the risk of ovarian cancer in some women.

The study, involving 474 'subjects', found that women with ovarian cancer were more likely to have difficulty digesting lactose and were additionally more likely to use dairy products with a high content of prehydrolysed lactose i.e. yoghurt and cottage cheese.

The Lancet 8.7.89 Canadian child health researchers have found that breast-fed babies who are at high risk of developing eczema are less likely to do so if their mothers avoid eating dairy

products and eggs.

Independent 24.7.89 Only one out of twenty-one milking plants examined during May-July by the Milk Marketing Board's Machine Testing Service had a satisfactory wash cycle. Faults included: incorrect running temperatures, insufficient cleaning solution, incorrect quantities of detergent or disinfectant, and out-of-date chemicals.

Farmers Weekly 11.8.89 The Dutch government is reconsidering its policy for disposing of waste after scientists found dioxins in milk from 100 cows near Rotterdam.

Scientists believe a nearby incinerator is to blame. Still on dioxins, a recent report commissioned by the New Zealand government concludes that paper cartons bleached with chlorine gas leaches dioxins into milk and cream.

New Scientist 12.8.89 Here's Health August 1989

The parasite causes a particularly nasty form of diarrhoea. The worst outbreak occurred earlier in the year, affecting hundreds of people living in and around Oxford and Swindon. People with weak or damaged immune systems are seriously at risk: one person with AIDS has already died of the disease — known as cryptosporidiosis. There is no known cure —except perhaps the unthinkable: an end to livestock farming.

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Soya Milk Advice Following the formation by Provamel of The Soya Milk Information Bureau, Plamil Foods has decided to create a Soya Milk Advisory Service, "In the interests of the vegan movement and in order that enquirers may receive accurate i Forest 'Arson' information and encouragement | The Sunday Times' Insight team has alleged that Barclays to i,bring up their children vegBank, British Petroleum, Shell an .

For an information pack and BAT (formerly British American Tobacco), have com- send an SAE to: Soya Milk Advisory Service, Plamil mercial interests that are deFoods Ld„ Bowles Well stroying Brazilian rainforest.

Gardens, Folkestone, Kent As a result of the allegations, Barclays is selling its in- CT19 6PQ. terests in the Codeara and Feet First Agropastoril cattle ranches in The British Shoe Corporation the states of Para and was caught on the hop when it Matogrosso, which Insight said put a new style of leather shoe were created by the continuing the market named 'VEGdestruction of more than a mil- on AN': the Vegan Society has lion acres of rain forest. The 'vegan' as its trade Brazilian government is consid- registered mark in respect of boots, shoes ering legal action against BP and slippers. after an investigation alleged The Society immediately that the company had adversely took legal action, forcing the affected as much as 250,000 acres by tin mining. BP says it Corporation to undertake to is about to sell its share to Rio withdraw the shoe by November 1989 and to meet Tinto Zinc.

Shell has denied allegations the Society's costs. Readers that mangrove forest had been might like to inspect the cut down to fuel an aluminium Corporation's retail outlet, Saxon Stores, to ensure it is smelter. BAT also denies complying with the terms of the charges against itself.

Environment Digest July 1989 undertaking.

Victims Superbug Cryptosporidium — a parasitic Summer mastitis costs milk mico-organism that lives in the producers £700 a heifer. In 1987, 60 per cent of the 287 guts of animals, commonly calves and sheep — is posing a herds surveyed by the Milk Marketing Board (MMB) sufproblem for Britain's illequipped water authorities: the fered from summer mastitis, and in 1988 nearly 50 per cent 'superbug' is working its way were affected. down the food chain and is Farmers Weekly 7.7.89 ending up in water supplies.

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Lameness is similarly rife: James Booth, head of MMB veterinary services, figures that lameness costs the UK dairy industry £44 million a year with an average cost of £50 a case.

National yearly average incidence is estimated at 30 cows in every 100.

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The Daily Telegraph 2.8.89 • Australia will be spending about £17 million planting one billion trees to prevent soil erosion. About two-thirds of Australia suffers from some form of land degradation as a result of poor farming and poor irrigation.

New Scientist 22.7.89 Cock-eyed • More than half the people At the Traditional Farm-fresh who live in the US are exposed Turkey Association's summer to levels of ozone higher than seminar, Chairman David concentrations recommended Browning said: "We are all un- by the Environmental der pressure from the food lob- Protection Agency. by and must be seen to be pro- New Scientist 22.7.89 ducing turkey humanely and The Dr Hadwen Trust for healthily, and processing them •Humane has awarded in an acceptable way." He then a grant ofResearch £32,337 reminded his audience of their Jonathon Weber of totheDrRoyal strict code which required birds Postgraduate Medical School, to be starved for 24 hours beLondon for research into AIDS fore slaughter. using human cells in culture.

Farmers Weekly 16.6.89 • The summer heatwave resulted in the suffocation of 25,000 In Brief chicks at D.B. Marshall's hatcheries at Gogarburn, • Five people died and fifty Edinburgh and at Broxburn, were hospitalized in Soviet Kazakhstan after contracting a West Lothian. rare fever while shearing sheep. Farmers Weekly 28.7.89 Oxford Mail 23.6.89 • Over the past twenty years the number of dairy farms in • Responding to a England and Wales has fallen Parliamentary question posed from over 83,000 to just under

by Dr David Clarke, 33,000.

Opposition Spokesman on Farmers Weekly 21.7.89 Agriculture, former junior Agriculture Minister, Richard • Fish along a six-mile stretch Ryder, informed the House that of a Gloucestershire river were diaphragm, head meat, panwiped out when a farmer creas and thymus can all be de- sprayed his field with pig mascribed as beef. nure. The liquid effluent Meat Trades Journal 17.8.89 drained into a ditch and contaminated a nearby river.

• Irish pigeon-fanciers, conAndrew Hope of Angell Farm, cerned at the fate of hundreds of birds which went missing on Bentham Lane, Witcombe, Gloucester, admitted the ofa Bastille Day race from Rennes to Dublin have come to fence and was fined £1250 plus the grim conclusion that the pi- £205 costs. geons were eaten by their Farmers Weekly 2.6.89 5 The Vegan, Autumn 1989

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Geoffrey Yates: 1903—1989

Although best-known for Food: Need, Greed & Myopia — a valuable examination of starvation and land use — Geoffrey Yates was also a physicist and life-long critic of Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

Sadly, his critique is incomplete and unpublished.

He first started practising vegetarianism in the 1930s, however, it was not until he retired from teaching physics in 1960 that he developed his interest in the whole issue of food. He became a member of the Conservation Society's food study group and later joined the World Development Movement — again concentrating on the food issue.

Food: Need, Greed & Myopia was bom out of a Friends of the Earth series of Workers' Educational Association seminars in Newcastle. Geoffrey gave one of the lectures and soon after added some further notes.

Veganism figures significantly in the book — he recognized lacto-vegetarianism's serious deficiencies: "While vegetarianism is a welcome first step, its value as a means of reducing cruelty and helping the world's poor and reducing ecological damage is at best limited. Veganism is the proper goal."

The world could do with more like him.

Richard Farhall

Food: Need, Greed eft Myopia is available from the Merchandise Department at £4.55 (incl. p&p) Depths of Naivety According to the Humane Slaughter Association [surely some contradiction here?] abattoir owners and fanners are losing £5 million a year through damage to animals in transit to the slaughterhouse. Its latest campaign — unashamedly tailored to appeal to the meat industry's greed — claims: fighting by pigs, slipping and falling animals, and rough handling of sheep and cattle, results in bruising and marks which combine to knock £5 million a year off the value of meat.

The HSA's recruiting leaflet asks the reader whether it is a "Friend or fanatic?"; highlights its "rational" approach and its

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Perhaps this is one of those rare situations when many in the movement would not object to a 'fanatic' label?

The HSA is now under the auspices of the Universities Fund for Animal Welare (UFAW), which also adopts an exceptionally weak reformist stance. It "accepts that animals are used for food, for experiments, and for many other purposes" and "aims to improve the well-being of all animals, to reduce infliction of pain and distress and to ensure they are killed humanely". Its introductory leaflet tells us: "Deliberate cruelty to animals, fortunately is rare and is a legal offence"!

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thought that the wall of noise is a preferable option? Do we really have to bear their cacophonous evasion of angst?

And of course their repertoire is not complete without the dogs, the dogs that wake us up every morning yapping at everything including the breeze, the dogs that keep on so much most of the day that they are literally crying wolf. But if the 'owners' need is for the noise of identity it's also for the noise of security and what are fables Do you have a to such minds?

Noise can change your outpet, veganlook entirely. We were woken related hate?

Do you need to once one Boxing Day at 7.00 by the bloke next door let off steam? am banging old window Think you can frames (itoutwashisbrandy for do it in no breakfast then of course) but more than 700 the Summer is the worst. In fact I hate the Summer. I words? If so, hate the good weather for it this column's brings out the idiots too; the for you! lower the IQ, the higher the Illustr. J. Breese volume. Give me the short days, the dark evenings and evhaps, but when it all stops momentarily are your ears assault- erybody's doors and windows closed. Roll on Winter's mufed by the mindless, relentless interference of someone else's fle.

This isn't just a plea for music, music so 'good' that erhaps, like me, you peace and quiet. There's more work a long, hard day, a you have to hear it too? (It's to noise than meets the ear, and hard week and you live usually rubbish). Are these this attack on mine may have people desperate for an audiwhere you live because you warped my sense of balance like to get away from the hus- ence? Who are they trying to but I am becoming convinced impress?

Is the constant stream tle, from the noise. And you that people are not meant to of noise really a late effort at come home to the peace and constructing some kind of iden- live too near each other. This quiet you've invested in to be throws up not just the overpoptity? greeted by — noise.

What is it with these charac- ulation problem but the land Ever get home and the bloke one too. Strong arguments next door or a few doors away ters whose lifestyle(?) is dedi- use have already been outlined in is wielding his strimmer again? cated to noise-creation, whose this and other magazines rebanal conversations are at the He was at it last night too. garding the need to control the top of the voice, whose doors (What's he cutting?) Ever been human population, and a vegan disturbed by the thumping and are never closed but slammed? agriculture would free extenIs the silence so terrifying? banging of what seems like a sive areas of land for purposes perpetual building site nearby (Nothing left to think about; God save us from the void). Do other than the present wasteful (is this an adult sandpit or usage which crams people into what?). That's fair enough per- they feel so uneasy with n o w

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living cheek by jowl with those mentioned above on godawful estates or in high rise blocks.

Nowadays I'm forced into constant agreement with Barfly who, when asked if he hated other people — hell is other people? — replie°d, "No, I just feel better when they're not around". And the dogs? Here's the pet problem from another angle and ultimately it's the pet that pays the price.

And what about those damned motorbikes that take twenty minutes to pass out of earshot and the lorries and cars kicking up noise as well as exhaust and using up energy?

Then there's the health risk.

Noise can demoralize, it can shatter the nerves, induce severe anxiety and rage and can lead to open hostility and even violence. It's a killer.

I'm not trying to work out a theory of a vegan world having to be a quiet one but perhaps, like me, you are paying (rent, a mortgage?) for the privilege of listening to others working out their neuroses. (Don't get me wrong. I'm no kill-joy — I'm against people killing mine — and I don't mind the specialoccasion late night party nearby, especially if I'm invited).

But you want, and think you've paid for, your evenings and your weekends, not some other twerps'. You disagree with violation, with intrusion, with aural rape. You want to concentrate, to muse, to relax. Perhaps you join with me in asking that the music stops (not entirely of course but let them listen to their music and let me listen to mine) and that the other polluting evidence of bloody-minded existence be kept in check.

N. A. Batement

he intellectually acteri sties, come in a valazy among us riety of forms: libertarian see veganism as socialists, anarcho-pacithe 'be all and end all' fists, anarcho-syndical— a panacea for the ists, Situationists, revoluworld's ills. Others rectionary communists, free ognize that although communists, individualwide-ranging, this parists, green anarchists ... ticular 'ism' has its All are united by a cenlimitations: it cannot tral belief: anarchy is libprovide all the answers erty. because it lacks an allembracing, systematic The Condition explanatory system and Anarchists seek anarchy plan of political action — a form of social life — an ideology. without authority — in Commonly -motivat- A N A R C H I S T R O B M U R D O C H ARGUES which nobody is in a poed by ethics, ecology, sition to exploit or opTHAT VEGANISM IS NOT ENOUGH health and spirituality, press anyone else, and in vegans choose to abide which aJl the means to by a set of rules, but achieve maximum materihere their similarity al and intellectual develends. They interpret, opment are available to apply, and promote vegeveryone equally. Order an principles in accorin such a society is obdance with their beliefs tained by voluntary and values — the result agreements concluded beof a vast array of ecotween various individunomic, social, religious, als, groups and organizapolitical and cultural intions — both fluences. geographical and profesSome have develsional — freely constitutoped their beliefs fured for the sake of producther by 'moulding' tion and consumption, themselves to a particuand also to satisfy the lar ideology — be it needs and wants of civi'loosely-knit', where lized human beings. exponents believe there Anarchy is not, as your is no completely satisdictionary informs you, llluslr. R Benford fying explanation of soabout chaos and violence. cial relationships or guide to action e.g. most suitable and desirable political This popular definition is a gross distor'democratic* socialism, conservatism or model for the establishment, and mainte- tion of the term resulting from sustained liberalism; or 'tightly-knit', where a nance of, a just and equitable society denigration by those with the most to more rigid programme shows the way to based on vegan principles — a new, rev- lose from its implementation — the rich political salvation e.g. (state) commu- olutionary path to Utopia, an ideology I and powerful. nism, anarchism and fascism. shall term 'anarcho-veganism'.

Whenever rulers lose control and the However, none of these ideologies, ruled begin to organize themselves, the The Anarchists Anarchism offers the most suitWe commonly see them in town centres, Nobody is fit to rule or exert auable and desirable political model sprawled defiantly on, and around, war thority over another. for the establishment, and maintememorials: leather-clad, 'Conflict'-folnance of, a just and equitable solowing punks, with obligatory bottle of rulers cry 'Anarchy!' to indicate that ciety based on vegan principles.

Merrydown Cider or, for the more so- such a condition is highly undesirable — nor even their derivatives, even partly phisticated deviant, Special Brew. of course it is from their point of view!

Their authority usurped, excessive force encompasses veganism in its purest They're 'the anarchists' — or are they? form, indeed, it is difficult to imagine The truth is that our punk stereotype is is the only answer: witness Tiananmen how any one of them could fully accom- no more representative of an anarchist Square. modate such a radical, uncompromising than Margaret Thatcher is of a caring, and far-reaching concept — certainly not compassionate human being. Certainly, Theory the 'loose' or 'soft' ideologies, based on our stereotype displays anarchic traits: Anarchism is the method by which to institutionalized animal abuse and envi- 'doing his/her own thing'; refusing to achieve anarchy. ronmental annihilation.

It is based on a number of premises conform to dominant norms of beAssuming that no sane, rational indi- haviour, perhaps the occasional spot of including: nobody is fit to rule or exert vidual would choose to exist within a to- hunt sabbing or caving in a butcher's authority over another; duties, such as talitarian regime based on fear and pow- window. However, his/her understanding patriotism, obligations to the state, worer worship, that leaves anarchism — but of anarchist theory and practice tends to ship of God, submission to higher classes classical anarchism, like socialism, is not be rather shallow. or authorities, respect for inherited privinoted for its concern for non-human Anarchists, and those who refuse to be leges, are lies; property is theft — laws species! That aside, anarchism offers the labelled such but demonstrate core char- serve the privileged and allow a minority

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to 'steal' that which belongs to us all; governments, of whatever political flavour, are inherently oppressive and coercive, and cannot be modified or reformed — therefore they must be overthrown (revolution); voting (where permitted), serves to reinforce and legitimize a corrupt system; the world is divided into 'haves' (the rulers) and the 'have nots' (the governed); capitalism is divisive, exploitative, inefficient and produces for profit rather than need; state communism is totalitarian; anarchy is liberty, order and sanity.

Their 'artwork' frequently incorporates the internationally-recognised symbol for anarchy: a circled 'A'.

Anarcho-veganism Any vegan worth his/her salt not only craves animal and planetary liberation but human liberation as well. There is no way that capitalism —based on inequality and hierarchy — or, state communism — highly centralized and dictatorial — can possibly meet all our ideals.

Neither, I might add (conscious of the likely political allegiance of my readers), can the green parties. They mean well Spontaneous Order and perform a useful educational funcFundamental to anarchist organization is tion, but they are by no means veganthe theory of 'spontaneous order': given friendly — the August newsletter of the a common need, a collection of people will, by trial and error, by improvisation and improvement, evolve order out of the situation.

It has been witnessed in most revolutionary situations: the early stages of the French Revolution; in the formation of Soviets (workers' councils) after the Russian Revolution of 1917 — before they were taken over by the anti-libertarWhen faced with a mutual threat such as the prospect of a motorway dissecting the community or a hypermarket on their doorstep, those affected naturally draw together and co-operate for the common good.

ian Bolsheviks; Spain in 1936; as well as in the ad hoc organizations that spring up after natural disasters and emergencies.

To further illustrate this point: when faced with a mutual threat such as the prospect of a motorway dissecting the community or a hypermarket on their doorstep, those affected naturally draw together and co-operate for the common good.

Anarchism is essentially about striving for freedom, taking back responsibility and regaining control over our lives.

Being the ultimate decentralists, anarchists tend to form groups based on the locality in which they live. In addition to seeking to raise revolutionary awareness, they may participate in community issues and in other struggles such as those fighting racism, sexism, militarism, imperialism and, increasingly, speciesism.

A significant proportion — 'classical' anarchists — concentrate on the 'traditional' revolutionary stamping ground: class struggle — perhaps as agitators in the workplace.

Unsurprisingly, the preferred vehicle of the anarchist is direct action (not necessarily the illegal variety).

Consequently, it is no coincidence that many Animal Liberation Front (ALF) activists describe themselves as anarchists.

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Kent Association of Green Parties carries advertisements from companies specializing in organic beef and pest control! — and are part of the loathesome system we should be seeking to destroy. Green politicos are well-intentioned but remember: power always corrupts — though maybe you would prefer green politicians compromising, switching tack and running your life?

By way of a conclusion, if you passionately desire: an end to animal abuse; veganic agriculture as the norm; a return to community living; working because you want to; no politicians deciding what is best for you and how to spend your money; no bosses, teachers, policepersons, judges and 'experts' telling you what to do; no homelessness, poverty, despair, yuppies, sexism, racism, ageism, environmental destruction, wars (courtesy of governments) and multi-nationals, then anarcho-veganism — a complete ideology — is for you.

Anarchist Contacts (National) (SAE appreciated) Please note that with the possible exception of London Greenpeace none of these contacts currently embraces the vegan ethic.

Groups • Anarchist-Communist Federation, PO Box 125, Coventry CV3 5QT. • Attack International, Box BM 6577, London WC1N 3XX. • Class War Federation, PO Box 467, London E8 3QX. • Direct Action Movement - IWA, Second Floor, 27 Priory Road, Sheffield.

• International Communist Current, BM Box 869, London WC1N3XX. • London Greenpeace, 5 Caledonian Road, London N1.

• Wildcat, BM Cat, London WC1N 3XX.

Papers • Black Flag, BM Hurricane, London WC1N3XX. • Class War, PO Box 467, London E8 3QX. • Counter Information, Pigeonhole C1, 11 Forth Street, Edinburgh.

• Direct Action, PO Box 761, Camberwell SDO, London SE5 9JH. • Freedom, 84b Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX. • Green Anarchist, Box H, 34 Cowley Road, Oxford 0 X 4 1 HZ. • Insurrection, BM Elephant, London WC1N 3XX. • Organise! ACF, c/o 84b Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX. • Subversion, Box W, c/o Raven Press, 75 Piccadilly, Manchester.

• World Revolution, BM Box 869, London WC1N 3XX.

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Heatthwise

If you have general questions on vegan-related matters you'd like to see answered please drop us a line, marking your envelope 'Healthwise Q & A'. It is stressed, however, that the Society is not in a position to enter into personal correspondence on health matters. ods of manipulation of the bones of the spine and other joints of the body. The object of both therapeutic systems is to help relieve pain and restore health. Although they may use different techniques their philosophy is very similar.

All manipulators move bones Chiropractic and os- and use controlled force. Some teopathy are both meth- will treat your whole body; oth-

17V An increasing number of back-sufferers seem to be consulting chiropractors for pain relief, but how do the techniques of a chiropractor differ from those of an osteopath?

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ers will only treat the area where you feel pain or discomfort. Both chiropractors and osteopaths use their hands to analyse the spinal column for 'suluxations' or 'osteopathic lesions' (slight displacements or adhesions). Feeling 'palpitation' is the main tool of analysis although some manipulators use X-rays as an aid to diagnosis (McTimoney chiropractors do not use them).

Having analysed the boney structure of the body, corrections (manipulations) are carried out. Usually a complete course of treatment is required to effect a return to health.

Chiropractic is a method of maintaining and restoring health by means of manipulation or adjustment of the bones of the spinal column and other joints of the body. McTimoney chiropractors use a particularly gentle manipulative technique.

"Manipulation is a precise, deft and very quick movement resulting in the very minimum of patient discomfort". British Chiropractic Association practitioners base treatment on the "combined assessment of all levels of examination". The short term approach is spinal adjustment —- specific manipulation.

Osteopathy is based on the precept that many common ailments can be directly traced to misalignments in the articulations of the skeletal structure of the body — especially the spine. Osteopaths "relieve localized muscle spasm by expert and controlled movements of the skeletal structure".

The true value of any therapeutic method is determined by its effectiveness in getting sick people back to health.

Entrenched prejudice and disbelief may question the validity of manipulation as an effective therapy but the final, decisive test is: Does it work? For thousands of people the unquestionable answer is "yes".

— Stan Harding, McTimoney Chiropractor, Oxford.

Further information: McTimoney Chiropractic, The Institute of Pure Chiropractic, PO Box 126, Park End Street, Oxford 0X11HH British and European Osteopathic Association, 6 Adelaide Road, Tedding ton, Middlesex TW11 OAY.

P5J1 What is gluten and how LmJ do 1 know if 1 am intolerant of it?

Gluten is a mixture of the proteins gliadin and glutenin which are mainly present in wheat and rye.

About one perso°n in 2000 is intolerant of gluten and intolerance is probably hereditary; in the west of Ireland one person in 300 is sensitive. Intolerance first shows itself in infants when they are being weaned on to cereals. Affected children display poor growth; become anaemic; produce pale, bulky, offensive stools; and develop distended, painful tummies.

This condition is known as 'coeliac disease', however, not all cases are so severe (though it may arise later in life).

It can be confused with common conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome and because of its rarity it may not be considered in the initial diagnosis.

In some individuals the absorptive cells of the small bowel lining are intolerant to a component of the gluten and the damaged and destroyed cells can no longer absorb adequate nutrition. Avoiding the toxic substance enables the bowel lining to regenerate rapidly.

Thus, a gluten-free diet is curative — though vitamin and mineral supplements will be necessary for a while. With special care tolerance may be developed, otherwise glutenfree flour will always be required in the preparation of cereal foods.

If you display the classic gluten intolerance symptoms, the simplest way to confirm intolerance is to avoid all gluten-containing foods and monitor your symptoms. Your personal diagnosis can be confirmed by a test that involves swallowing a specialized capsule on a long thread; a sliver of bowel lining is snipped and removed for microscopic analysis.

Foods to avoid are those containing wheat, rye, oats and barley — for example: bread, cake, cereal and pasta; some soups and sauces; and some tinned and processed foods.

— Dr David Ryde, Beckenham, Kent.

Further information: Coeliac Society, PO Box 220.

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Healing Options

how effective the primary will be — making the body more, or less receptive to the primary's powers. The secondary healing agent therefore 'controls' and regulates the effect of the primary.

Isolating the primary compound is unnatural and potentially harmful; hence, the whole of a medicinal plant is better than its constituent parts.

Unlike synthetically-derived drugs, herbal medicines are lllustr. R Benford easy to tolerate because the substances found in plants are similar in chemical composition to those that form in the body. Drugs can be dramatic and effective in an emergency but they overwork the body and dent its immune system; whereas plant remedies gently coax the body back to its natural equilibrium.

Herbalists, like many other alternative/complementary practitioners, believe in the power of the body to heal itself and adopt a holistic approach to treatment.

MEDICAL HERBALISM

Herbal medicine is the treatment of disease using medicinal plants, both internally and externally.

It is a natural method of healing that depends on the therapeutic qualities of plants to assist the body's powers of recuperation. For medical purposes, herbs are any plants, flowers or trees whch have curative properties.

Origins Herbal medicine can justifiably claim to be the first, or original medicine. Unfortunately, along the way humankind went astray and we ended up with orthodox medicine!

Herbs have been used to treat health problems since the dawn of life. Effective remedies were identified by trial and error and the knowledge gained was passed down from one generation to the next.

Herbalism continued to be the principal form of healing until the 16th century when physicians discovered chemical compounds and began experimenting — often disastrously — with large doses of minerals.

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Interest in herbal medicine returned in the first quarter of the 19th century when chemists succeeded in isolating therapeutically active substances from medicinal plants. In 1827, scientists separated glycoside — the basis of aspirin — from willow bark; then came anaesthetic and antiseptics. Herbal remedies — using the whole plant — became redundant.

However, with the discovery that isolated substances are responsible for a vast array of side effects, herbalism has begun to enjoy an upsurge in popularity.

Fundamentals Herbalists believe that medicinal plants contain both primary and secondary healing agents — grouped as compounds.

The primary compounds are essentially the active ingredients which the early chemists were keen to extract. The secondary compounds are equally important since they determine

Healing Properties In addition to providing valuable minerals, vitamins and trace elements, medicinal plants contain a range of healing agents, or substances, that can be used to prevent or cure illness: Tannins act as an astringent and heal by binding albumen (a protein) in the skin and mucosae to create an insoluble protective layer. Tannins predominate in oak bark and witch hazel. They are particluarly suited to treating infections.

Bitters are found in, for example, dandelion root, and work by stimulating the secretion of digestive juices in the stomach and intestine. They are used to treat gastritis, anaemia and nervous exhaustion. Some act as sedatives and antibiotics.

Alkaloids are used as catalysts for the healing process.

They are often toxic when taken in large amounts. Common examples include morphine, caffeine and nicotine.

Mucilage is found in many plants. It swells up when water is added, forming a viscous fluid. It is used to amplify the effects of other healing agents such as tannins — especially in the relief of irritation. Comfrey has a notably high mucilage content.

Volatile oils or essential oils are natural antiseptics and antibiotics. Found in highly

scented herbs such as fennel, rosemary and mint, they may either be consumed or inhaled (aromatherapy).

Practitioners Qualified herbalists (commonly with MNIMH or FNIMH after their name) have been trained in physiology, anatomy, pathology and differential diagnosis — and have passed both theoretical and clinical examinations.

They should be equipped with the basic tools of medical diagnosis such as a stethoscope, sphygmomanometer (for measuring blood pressure), opthalmoscope (eyes), otoscope (ears) and haemoglobinometer (aneamia).

Like other holistic practitioners they examine the whole person — physical, emotional, mental and spiritual — and attempt to consider the main complaint in the context of their findings. By gentle 'interrogation', the herbalist seeks to build a complete picture of the patient's lifestyle, temperament and constitution — hoping to identify a weakness that may be the subject of stress or strain, causing disease.

Herbalists may take a little longer than an orthodox practitioner to cure your curable disease, or make your incurable disease more tolerable, but at least you will be 'side effectfree' and therefore in a better position to repel other 'attacks' on your well-being.

Finding a Herbalist • look under 'Herbalists' in Yellow Pages • send an SAE for a list of practitioners to: National Institute of Medical Herbalists, 41 Hatherley Road, Winchester, Hampshire.

Recommended Reading • Herbal Medicine by Anne Mclntyre, Optima, 1987 £3.95 • Home Herbal by Barbara Griggs. Available from the Vegan Society at £4.59 (including p&p) A series of three evening classes 'Everyday Healing Herbs' will be held 7,14, 21 November at:'Brighton Natural Health Centre, 27 Regent Street, Brighton. 0273 11

YOUNG VEGANS

ello there and an enormous welcome to the very first regular column especially for those important members of society under 14 years of age! We hope you find something of interest here and that you will write to us and let us know what you think of the magazine and what you would like to see in this column. Also, if there's something you feel strongly about, don't keep it to yourself! We'll print some o your letters in a future issue.

Don't forget to show The Vegan to your friends and get them to have a go at the competition! We want lots of entries. Hope to hear from you soon.

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Writing Competition Write an essay in not more than 400 words on Why People Should Become Vegan. Make sure your writing is clear and neat and send it to us before 25 October 1989. The results of the competition and the best essay will be published in the next issue of The Vegan.

Anyone can take part so long as they are under 14!

Prizes

1st Prize — A selection of vegan chocolate bars kindly donated by Plamil Foods Ltd. 2nd & 3rd Prizes — Cookery book & Pen. Children Vote Green The Green Party swept into power when British schoolchildren voted in a mock Euro election. 27,682 children cast their vote in the election which was organized by BBC TV's Newsround. The Greens took 36 seats, Labour 25 and Conservatives 8. This is surely an indication of the strength of feeling amongst the young on green issues today.

Non-Members If you are under 15 and are not a member of The Vegan Society you can join and get a free pack which includes your magazine plus stickers and a badge. Junior membership costs just £5. A baigain! Please indicate your age when you write in.

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Elefriends The World Society for the Protection of Animals has joined forces with Zoocheck, Care for the Wild and the African Ele-Fund to form Elefriends. It has been set up to protect the African elephant — a species that could soon be under the threat of extinction.

could read it and make use of it for projects on animal rights, vegetarianism and, most importantly, veganism. Unfortunately, the Vegan Society cannot afford to send free copies to all schools at the mo-

CRUNCHY CAKES

200g wheatflakes (Sainsbury, Force Wheatflakes or Safeway Wholewheat Flakes) 1 bar Plamil Chocolate (the nut one is best) 50g vegan margarine

Melt the chocolate and margarine in a saucepan (do not boil). Add the wheatflakes and mix thoroughly. Drop a large tablespoon of the mixture into papercake cups.

Allow to cool and set in the fridge. Eat! Over 80,000 are killed each year for the ivory trade.

The aims of Elefriends are twofold: to work for a worldwide ban on the ivory trade, and to co-ordinate an international consumer awareness campaign, urging people not to purchase ivory. You can help.

For more information write to Elefriends at: 162 Boundaries Road, London SW12 8HG. School Libraries Most junior schools and all secondary schools have a library for general use. It would be really good if a recent copy of The Vegan was on display in these libraries so that everyone

ment, but if you would like a recent copy sent to your school just send us 50p (in stamps if you don't want to buy a postal order or send a cheque) and the name and address of your school and we will send a copy direct.

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"The earth is sick and dying. So too is the human race.

For we are systematically destroying the fabric of the planet which gave us life, and transforming it into a sterile wasteland. We foul the seas and pollute the lakes and rivers with our wastes ... we subject domesticated animals to cruel methods of intensive or 'factory' farming and each year we slaughter thousands of millions of wild birds and animals for sport or ornament.

The world cannot bear this terrible burden..."

Ark has produced a glossy 40 page manifesto, a 7 minute video featuring Dawn French as the earth(!) plus a range of vegan household products which are now available in supermarkets. It also plans to open a chain of vegetarian [and vegan?] fast food restaurants. Its plan is to reach as wide an audience as possible Although the group started in Britain, its intention is to become an international movement with support groups being established all over the world. Already there is a network being created in Britain. People who join Ark are invited to make subtle but important changes to their lifestyle, thereby reducing the pressure on the environment.

There is a six point pledge that can be undertaken. For further details please contact Ark, 498-500 Harrow Road, London W9 3AQ. 01 968 6780.

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t had been raining, but sponded, "but fish cannot now the sun shone and a For even younger readers breathe in air." Marjie Mum little girl who was nearly thought it was all very cruel. six, her even littler brother and "Yes," the old man said, "I Sam the dog, had gone out to could barely watch the fear and play. pain of the fish as they Their shoes and socks got thrashed about, slowly dying." soaked and their big blue ball "Why were the fish killed? sent up spray as it skidded asked Bumpy Bernie. Marjie across the grass. The game Mum knew this: "It's so that was to keep the ball away from children can have fish fingers Sam the dog. Suddenly, Sam for tea." the dog got to it first and ran "But we don't eat fish!" exoff to a bench where an old claimed Rhuti Tootie. man was sitting. Because no"I know," said the old man, one was trying to get it, Sam "that's why I am smiling just a the dog dropped the ball and little." Rhuti Tootie was puzlay, a little soggy and panting, zled. How did he know that on the grass. The old man patshe did not eat fish before she ted his head and picked up the had told him? ball. The two children ran to get it.

Forests The old man, who was quite The old man stared into the the oldest man they had ever distance. "After that we landed seen, smiled at them and said in a country far away where what a good dog they had to there were forests. The trees look after them. Just then their were very tall and colourful mother arrived carrying the birds flew from branch to shopping. branch. There were delicate "Hello," she said, "what are flowers, spiders and snakes. I you two up to?" stood and looked in wonder, "Oh they are having a lovethen all of a sudden, all the anly time playing with the dog," imals rushed past me in terror so that I could hardly keep my said the old man. Then, lookfeet." ing at the little girl, he asked: "And what is your name "Why?" asked Bumpy then?"

Bemie. He was good at asking "Rhuti Tootie," she replied. why.

"What a funny name," said "Well," said the old man, "I the old man. looked in the direction from "My real name is Suzanne," which they had come and I she said, "but Rhuti is what I "A fire!" cried Rhuti am called."

Tootie, "Just like in "It's an African name," said Bambi." her mum who's own name was Marjorie but who was known saw great clouds of smoke." as Marjie Mum, "And this is "A fire!" cried Rhuti Tootie, Bernard."

"Just like in Bambi."

Rhuti, called Rhuti Tootie, "Yes," said the old man, shouted: "He's called Bumpy "but when I got closer I saw Bernie." Bemie laughed.

"Much older."

The old man smiled that this was no accident."

"I bet I know why he is called again.

"What had happened?" It was Marjie Bumpy," said the old man.

"Why are you crying?" asked Bumpy Mum's turn to ask a question.

"It's because I keep bumping into Bernie.

The old man sobbed. "There were things," said Bemie. The old man said he have stopped since I met you two." men setting fire to the forest." What did thought that was why and they all He "Idabbed at his eyes with a crumpled Bumpy Bernie say? You've guessed it, laughed. handkerchief, "But I'll explain."

"Why?" "He's only three," said Rhuti Tootie, The old man sighed. "They burned the and then she noticed that the old man Fish forest to grow grass for cows to graze." had tears running down his cheeks.

"I have been travelling all round the That is not so bad thought Rhuti Tootie, "Why are you crying?" she asked.

Marjie Mum looked a little em- world and I was crying because of what I for cows need homes too.

The old man, looking into her mind barassed, you could always tell by the saw. First I went to sea. There, I saw said: "These men did not have kind ships dragging the fish out of the water way she smiled. The old man smiled too, in great nets so that they drowned in air." hearts like yours, no sooner had the cows crinkling up his nose.

"You can't drown in air," said Rhuti eaten the grass than the men rounded "I'm a very old man," he said, "older Tootie.

Oh dear, what a strange man this them up and took them to a large buildthan you could possibly think." ing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just like a factory. Leaving the "Older than grandpa?" asked Rhuti was. factory were lorries laden with beef burg"You are right in one sense," he reTootie.

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ers for people to eat in England. I looked inside the factory and saw great vats of blood and the cows were hanging by their hind legs — dead. You ask why I am crying. The forest was destroyed, the animals made homeless and the cows all murdered — just so people could eat meat."

"We don't eat meat," said Rhuti Tootie, almost in tears herself, "we are vegetarian."

"Yes, vegetarian," added Bemie, except he could not quite say it properly.

He had found the old man so interesting that he had not bumped into anything for a whole ten minutes.

Rhuti Tootie and Bumpy Bernie were excited at seeing the little calf. He had a fine brown coat and moist, trusting eyes.

"Yes" beamed the old man," my tears nearly stopped when I met you. Perhaps my life all those years ago was not in vain."

"What is your name?" asked Bumpy Bernie.

"Francis," replied the old man, "I am from a little town in Italy called Assisi."

The Calf Just then a farmer walked by leading a

little calf. The little calf kept crying out for its mother and in the distance a cow could be heard calling to her little calf.

Rhuti Tootie and Bumpy Bemie were excited at seeing the little calf. He had a fine brown coat and moist, trusting eyes.

Marjie Mum said "Look Bernard, look at the little calf!"

Once more tears streamed down the old man's cheeks. Rhuti Tootie thought, oh dear, he's always crying.

"Are you alright?" asked Marjie Mum. She was worried because the old man looked ill and seemed to be fading away.

"Do not concern yourself with me," he replied, "I can see where the farmer is taking the little calf."

"Where?" asked Rhuti Tootie. The old man looked solemn. "The farmer is taking the little calf to be killed and he will cut the little calf's throat."

Now the old man looked angry. Bernie and Rhuti were astonished and upset.

"Why?" cried Bernie.

"Why?" added f Rhuti, "the calf \ r must have done «» i /. something terri- / J ft / f

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For those who would like to make a bequest to the Society the following form of words is suggested: "I bequeath to the Vegan Society Ltd, Registered Charity no.

279228, presently at 33-35 George Street, Oxford OX1 2AY, the sum of £ , and declare that the receipt of the Treasurer or other authorized officer of the said Society shall be good and sufficient discharge of such legacy."

Property left to the Society is another valuable contribution to our cause. If you wish to will land or property to the Society, please write for details of how to arrange this.

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killed."

The old man said: "No, the little calf has done nothing wrong but his mother is producing milk for him and the farmer wants to sell it and make himself rich.

People will drink the milk and put it on their cornflakes."

Old Francis was grief stricken. He looked even more faded and their ball he was holding dropped to the ground and rolled away. Rhuti and Bernie ran to get it but Sam the dog got there first. When they looked round the old man had gone — nowhere to be seen.

Marjie Mum said: "Let'& go home now."

"Who was that man?" asked Rhuti Tootie.

"Well, he called himself Francis from Assisi and perhaps he really was. When we get home I will tell you about him."

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BATTERY CHICKEN PROTEST Saturday 11 November 1989 BIRMINGHAM Assemble 1.00pm Chamberlain Square for short MARCH through city centre.

Reassemble 3.00pm at Beckett's Farm, Withal, nr. Birmingham for RALLY. Speakers

include:

Richard Farhall, Vegan Society Trevor Hall, NAVS Richard Mountford, Animal Aid Tim Phillips, Turning Point Robin Smith, BUAV Chico White, Tamworth Animal Welfare Food and stalls!

Contact: CAFAA, PO Box 156, Cardiff CF5 5YD Tel: 0222 569914

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OUT AND ABOUT THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW

Chris Aston, Campaigns Organizer of the Campaign Against Farm Animal Abuse (CAFAA), investigates the welfare of some of the Show's 'exhibits' he 1989 Royal Show, held at the National Agricultural Centre, Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, was as artificial and contemptuous towards the exhibited animals as ever. We attended the Show hoping, as with previous visits, to see signs of serious consideration being given to the accommodation and welfare needs of the animals on display. As usual, our hopes were dashed.

Sows in Distress Perhaps 100,000 people — mainly from farming and agribusiness backgrounds — visit the Show to catch up with trade innovations and to 'enjoy' the development of new arable and animal husbandry techniques.

One established technique is imprisoning highly curious, intelligent and socially aware animals in dimly lit sheds.

Individually stalled and unable to turn around, the life of a Stoneleigh sow is not a happy one — a message the Campaign Against Farm Animal Abuse (CAFAA) has repeated over the last five years.

The unit housed forty sows, forced to face in one direction; standing on slatted, metal grids; lacking bedding and companionship; showing signs of a burning desire for freedom — something they will never have during their I61/2 week period of pregnancy.

One sow, in a strange crouching position, appeared to be pleading her escape.

Perhaps later she may have been transferred to the farrowing house where, in an equally restrictive device, she would spend three weeks acting as a milk bar for her young. The expectation of her captor would be for her to produce two litters of ten piglets per year, with a target of five litters over two years.

After weaning, the sow would be moved to her stall in the sow yard and, usually within 7-10 days, would be mated with a boar to begin the whole, wretched process again. The boars — though not stalled — are frequently housed in a state of solitary confinement.

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The Show's fattening stock fared no better: variations on flat deck and kennel pens were dimly lit and overcrowded, and possessed inadequate ventilation, humidity and temperature control.

Whether as sow-suckling piglets, early weaners, finishing porkers, baconers, or heavy hogs, the animals suffer boredom, frustration and stress — deprived of freedom, pasture and fresh air. Every aspect of their lives is regulated. On the day we visited the pig units, temperatures rose to the mid Eighties. The automated ventilat- iiiustr. R. Benford keted at 48-60 days, weighing 2.25kg. The ion/humidity system provided scant comfort to those imprisoned — those who object of the system is to produce the best would have little chance of escape in the possible carcass, heaviest weight, and most cost-effective feed conversion ratio. event of fire.

In 1952, a male broiler chicken would be slaughtered at ten weeks, weigh 3.301b Hens Entombed have a feed conversion ratio of 3.60. In The poultry unit, under the direction of a and 1985, the broiler would be slaughtered at new management promising an 'egg-cit- seven weigh 5.301b and convert ing' future for the industry, was equally feed at weeks, 1.97. In the UK alone there are 1.31 distressing.

Over thirteen thousand Shaver Starcress million birds crammed into broiler units Brown battery hens aged 49 weeks were and laying cages.

At most agricultural shows it is unusual incarcerated. Bedraggled, featherless and three to a cage, each bird had just for the public to have access to such obvi50x45x50cm and 10cm trough space. Their ous cruelty. Typically, an event — esseninstinctinve needs — scratching, dust tially a conspiracy of powerful agribusiness bathing and stretching their wings — were interests and public-funded departments — is about gloss, self-congratulation and frustrated. undesirable issues such as bovine Automated food and water supply, egg keeping spongiform encephalopathy(BSE), bovine collection, light, temperature, humidity, ventilation, plus a compterized feed com- somatotropin(BST), listeria and salmonelpound and predator-free housing, showed la, well under wraps.

Despite constant pressure from CAFAA the agribusiness mentality in its sickening — including the initiation of a Central TV 'glory' and the hen in her nightmarish realtyinvestigation of the pig unit — the (increasingly) grotesque suffering of the animals at Stoneleigh continues.

Overcrowded For further information send an SAE. Broilers to: CAFAA, 3 George Street, Balsall In the broiler units we were able to view Heath, Birmingham B12 9RG. CAFAA is organizing a national the birds through a glass panel. Each house stocked 4,000 one month-old Ross birds — demonstration against A.E. Beckett & Sons Poultry, near Birmingham on gasping for air and struggling for space.

A notice explained that the process Saturday 11 Novemberl989. [See Diary would last nine weeks with the birds mar- Dates and ad. on page 14}.

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egetarians — who are British people is dairy prothey, what do they duce: it comes largely from think about food and the fortified food given to what do they eat? the cows and from contamiThese were the questions nation of milk by iodine posed in a survey by Alizon compounds used for disinDraper and her colleagues at fecting teats and milking the London School of equipment.

Hygiene and Tropical Much has already been Medicine. The study, The written about vitamin Bj2 Diet of Vegetarians in but it is worth repeating that Greater London (published it is advisable for vegans to June 1989), financed by the ensure they receive a regular Ministry of Agriculture, supply.

T I M K E Y ASSESSES THE RESULTS OF THE LATEST Fisheries and Food SURVEY TO FOCUS ON 'VEGETARIANS' (MAFF), was initiated beZinc and Vitamin D cause of concern that little The argument for increasing the intake is known about the increasing of zinc and vitamin D is less convincnumber of 'new' vegetarians in ing. Zinc intakes have been Britain. somewhat below recommendOne hundred and thirty-seved levels in many studies of en 'vegetarians' were recruited both vegetarians and meatwith the help of the Vegan eaters, with no signs of defiSociety; Vegetarian Society; lociency.

The major source of cal radio stations; restaurants vitamin D for most British peoand shops; and social networks. ple is sunlight rather than food There were 38 vegans, 52 lacto— although a dietary source ovo-vegetarians and 37 demimay be important for those who are vegetarians — who usually niustr. R. Benford exposed to little sunlight. avoided fish, or meat, or both.

The subjects recorded their food any ob- Non-food Matters intake for three days and underwent a vious signs of structured interview, during which they nutritional deficiency, the authors make As far as the 'non-nutritional' characteranswered questions both on how often the tentative suggestion that the low av- istics of the vegans are concerned, it is they ate various foods and on their reaparticularly difficult to interpret the finderage intakes of zinc, iodine, and vitasons for, and attitudes to, a vegetarian ings of this study because the sample lifestyle. There was no control group of mins B j 2 and D in the vegans may be of was not particularly representative: presome concern and that increased intakes regular meat-eaters but the subjects' didominantly young to middle-aged, wellets were compared with government rec- It is interesting to note that a major educated, professional and disproporommendations and previous surveys of source of iodine in the diets of tionately female. relatively young individuals in southern most British people is dairy proIn contrast to the lacto-ovo and demiBritain. duce: it comes largely from the vegetarians, more of the vegans lived fortified food given to the cows alone, cooked for themselves and beFindings and from contamination of milk by longed to a "relevant organisation". The In general, the results of the survey were iodine compounds used for disin- authors speculate that the findings may result from "the demand of the vegan what one might expect and were similar fecting teats and milking equiplifestyle, (which) tend to make social to comparable studies. All three 'vege- ment. mingling with the omnivorous populatarian' groups had moderate intakes of energy (calories); high intakes of fibre from food or supplements "could do no tion difficult". and polyunsaturated fat; and low intakes harm and might prevent the onset of a All three vegetarian groups were disof saturated fat — all in accordance with deficiency state in some cases". This trustful of the food industry and of concurrent popular dietary advice. Meat and suggestion appears to be most reasonable ventional medicine, and were convinced — in the case of the vegans — other ani- for iodine and for vitamin B12that their diet was beneficial to their mal foods, were replaced by increased health. Sixty per cent of the vegans had intakes of cereals, legumes and nuts, and Iodine & Vitamin B 1 2 adopted their diet for ethical reasons, a (high) consumption of fruit and vegetacompared with 50 per cent of the 'lactobles. These factors would be expected to The iodine content of land plants is de- ovos' and 30 per cent of the 'demis'. result in low rates of corony heart dis- termined by the amount of this trace ele- Approximately 20 per cent of all groups ease and some cancers. ment in the soil (which in most of Britain had adopted their diets for health reaIn the vegan group, average intakes of is not high). Deficiency of iodine can sons.

The most striking and encouraging magnesium, iron, and vitamins A, Bj, cause serious diseases such as goitre in Bg, C, E and folic acid were well above children and myxoedema in adults. feature of the study is that it was underthe Recommended Daily Amount Adequate intakes can only be ensured by taken at all, that a large, detailed exami(RDA); whereas average intakes of pro- eating seafoods (e.g. seaweeds); plants nation has been conducted at one of the tein, zinc, iodine and vitamins B2, Bj2 grown in iodine-rich soil (which cannot leading British centres for nutrition and D were slightly below. While the readily be identified!); or by taking sup- teaching and research —financed by the MAFF — is a clear indication of the recommended levels are deliberately set plements.

It is interesting to note that a major rapid increase in the numbers of, and ina littie above the average requirements of individuals, and none of the vegans had source of iodine in the diets of most terest in, vegetarians — of all types.

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MENU 1 * Battered.

Mushrooms with Avocado Sal^e/ *Leek and Walnut Lasagne Mixed Salad Spiced Apple Crumble Battered Mushrooms 8oz (225g) firm mushrooms 6oz (170g) wholemeal flour 1 scant teaspoon baking powder 3 tablespoons vegetable oil approx. third of a pint (200ml) soya milk seasoning to taste vegetable oil for frying Wipe the mushrooms clean and dry thoroughly. Button mushrooms are ideal for this recipe, but if you use larger ones, cut them into thick, even slices.

Make the batter by whisking together the flour, baking powder, oil and enough milk to make a thick, creamy mixture.

Keep beating for a few minutes. Add seasoning.

Dip the mushrooms into the batter and deep fry on a medium heat until golden. Drain. Serve hot with sauce.

Avocado Sauce 1 large, ripe avocado squeeze of lemon juice garlic salt or half a clove of garlic, crushed pinch of marjoram 1-2 tablespoons soya mayonnaise, or yoghurt or tahini seasoning to taste Mash the avocado flesh until smooth. Add the other ingredients, mixing well. The soya mayonnaise, yoghurt, or tahini

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Sweetcorn Soup *Ratatouille Pie Pureed Potatoes *Parsnip Coleslaw Autumn Fruit Salad with *Cashew Cream (Grapes, Blackberries and Sliced Bananas)

Ratatouille Pie 2 tablespoons vegetable oil loz (30g) margarine 1 large onion, sliced 1 large aubergine, sliced then cubed 2 courgettes, sliced 1 yellow pepper, sliced 3 tomatoes, skinned and chopped seasoning to taste 1 clove garlic, crushed bay leaf 1 tin chick peas

For pastry: 6oz (170g) wholemeal flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 3oz (85g) margarine approx. 3 tablespoons cold water 1 tablespoon sesame seeds or mixed herbs (optional) Heat the oil and margarine together in a large pan. Add the onion, stir, cook briefly. Add the remaining vegetables, seasoning, garlic and bay leaf. Stir again, cover the pan and cook gently for about 15 minutes or until just tender.

Remove the bay leaf, add the drained chick peas and turn the mixture into a pie dish.

Put the flour into a bowl, mix in the baking powder. Use fingertips to rub in the margarine until you have a mixture like fine breadcrumbs.

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Leek and Walnut Lasagne 8 sheets lasagne 3 tablespoons vegetable oil 2 large leeks, cleaned and sliced 1 red pepper, sliced 2oz (55g) walnut pieces loz (30g) wholemeal flour half pint (285ml) soya milk seasoning to taste parsley loz (30g) breadcrumbs extra nuts and parsley (optional) Drop the sheets of pasta into a large pan of boiling water and cook for about 6 minutes, or until just tender. Drain, then lay them on to a clean tea towel, ensuring they do not touch.

Use half the vegetable oil to saute the leeks and pepper slices for a few minutes, then cover the pan and cook gently for 10 minutes (check that they don't burn — add a trickle of water if necessary). Stir in the walnut pieces.

Heat the remaining oil in a clean pan, add the flour and cook for one minute. Add the soya milk. Cook, stirring continually, to make a thick, white sauce. Season and add some chopped parsley.

Lightly grease a shallow tin or dish and lay a third of the lasagne across the bottom. Spread half the leek and walnut mixture over this, then some of the sauce. Repeat, then add the remaining pasta and the rest of the sauce. Sprinkle with bread crumbs.

Bake at 375°F/190°C (Gas Mark 5) for 20-25 minutes.

Sprinkle with extra nuts and parsley sprigs before serving (optional).

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he darker evenings are as good an excuse as any to entertain at home. The only trouble is that most people assume that inviting friends to dinner must be expensive. Of course, this may be the case — but it isn't necessarily so. You can dish up impressive meals without forking out your last penny, but it does require a little extra thought and planning.

One very useful trick is to splurge on a luxury ingredient — the kind that can turn an everyday dish into something special. An avocado, for example, can go a long way if used imaginatively. So can a fresh pineapple and even a small punnet of out-of-season strawberries.

Try sprinkling a few pistachios over a cabbage and carrot slaw — or adding chopped olives to a marrow and tomato dish. Artichoke hearts turn a simple pizza into something unusual — use the tinned variety if you can't get your hands on a fresh one. A few mange tout give a lift to a stir-fry and a nut cream spooned over an apple crumble changes its character completely. Little touches like grated lemon peel, fresh parsley, a few chicory rings and so on, add visual interest too.

Another trick — if you have little cash but plenty of time — is to make up the more complicated dishes that few people bother to do at home these days.

Lasagne is a bit of a fiddle — but worth it. So is puff pastry, but used to top a simple (and inexpensive) mixture such as mushrooms, celery and kidney beans, it proves well worth the effort. Even home-made baps, fresh from the oven, can make your guests feel especially welcome.

And to end your meal: your very own tofu cheesecake, fresh fruit sorbet, or dried fruit sweets served in paper cases with a cup of coffee.

The following menus will help you get started. Substitute where necessary and be prepared for some nice surprises!

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Roll out into a circle and place this over the top of the vegetables, rolling it down over the edge. Prick with a fork.

(For extra flavour add seeds or mixed herbs — either when kneading dough, or sprinkled on top of pie).

Bake at 375°F/190°C (Gas Mark 5) for 20 minutes, or until crisp and beginning to colour.

Parsnip Coleslaw 8oz (225g) white cabbage, finely shredded 1 large parsnip, peeled and shredded 1 large carrot, peeled and shredded half bunch watercress, trimmed vinaigrette dressing or soya mayonnaise 1 teaspoon caraway seeds (optional) Stir together all the ingredients in a large bowl. Add dressing or mayonnaise, using the minimum amount necessary to moisten vegetables. Sprinkle with seeds (if using). Cover and chill until needed.

Cashew Cream 8oz (225g) cashew pieces water or soya milk to mix optional flavourings: syrup, maple syrup vanilla essence, rosewater Grind the nuts to a fine powder. Add enough water or soya milk to make the mixture thick and creamy. Serve as it is, or flavour to taste.

All recipes are for four average servings. An asterisk before a menu item indicates that a recipe is supplied.

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Retrospect

Donald Watson continues his regular column on our movement's early history ural food, even if all other conditions of life are right. This was, and is, the physiological case for veganism. As propagandists we should make more use of Huxley's table of comparative anatomy which gives nearly twenty examples to show where our anatomy and functions are identical to those of the frugivorous apes and different from those of the carnivores. It is useful in Donald Watson, first Secretary of the Vegan debate when the cruelty Society cowardice - conceit approach fails. he term 'early vegans' For thousands of years, has come to mean the sometimes through necessity, few who started the but usually through wrong movement in the 1940s. A bet- choice, man has been trying to ter description would be 'latter- tum himself into a carnivore, day vegans'. The early vegans driving his square peg into nawere probably a more numer- ture's round with dire conous group consisting of most of sequences at hole, the comers. the human race — before humankind invented tools to sub- Hygiene Hazards due and kill animals.

Some of our early critics Today, our new system of purtold us that this was pure con- veying food — which depends jecture since it referred to a pe- on a sophisticated system of reriod before recorded history. So frigeration — adds even more it did, but it was conjecture to the health hazards. How ofbased on sound deduction, for ten do we find a packet of how could early man have ob- frozen peas that is solid, provtained the food of a predator ing that at some point since without the body of a predator packing the peas have thawed to kill it, or the means to cook it and been re-frozen? This may to make it edible? He would, of not be as serious with peas, but course, have had access to plen- what when it happens to meat, ty of animal food such as earth- fish or made-up dishes suitable worms, grubs, frogspawn, small for vegetarians? Food manufacslow-moving mammals, rep- turers and suppliers have overtiles, raw eggs and carrion — whelming commercial reasons all of which he must have for keeping standards as high as found as unattractive as we do possible, but the whole system today. In any study of human is balanced on a knife edge of diet this long period must not safety, which becomes even be ignored, for it was then that more precarious when the food our anatomy and digestive sys- is sold. tem evolved.

A diet that is based largely We can assess food on ethi- on foods that are hygienically cal grounds, or on grounds of packed in shells, husks, pods appearance, smell or taste, but and skins seems even more atonce it is swallowed all our tractive today that it did in 1944 control ends, we pass it over to — especially when we rememthe forces of nature and if our ber that every mouthful of comchoice has been wrong we pay mercially produced animal food the price — as indeed is the today probably contains antibicase with other animals. otics from feedstuffs. Could not this be the cause of the increasNatural Frugivores ing number of diseases arising Any animal can be brought from the breakdown of the imdown by depriving it of its nat- mune system? Here, some of us

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speak from the depths of our medical ignorance — but we also speak from the heights of our common sense.

Into the Wind It was difficult in 1944 to find anyone else who was going our way. Hector Nichols, who managed London's best known vegetarian hotel in Palace Gate in the 1930s and '40s, told me that no-one had ever asked for vegan food.

For many years before 1944 I had been secretary of the Leicestershire Vegetarian Society where it was my job to arrange speakers for the monthly meetings. None ever chose to speak on the wider interpretation of the vegetarian definition. The nature cure school of therapy approved the use of dairy foods and extolled the use of yoghurt. Dugald Semple — the 'Scottish Thoreau' — who was my sympathetic chairman when I introduced veganism at the International Vegetarian Union in 1947, claimed to have been a vegan for several years; however, this enthusiasm did not extend to his books where he advocated raw milk rather than pasteurized.

Edgar Saxon, a gifted writer and speaker, wrote derisively in his magazine Health and Life about "this flight from the animal". Milton Powell, a wellknown naturopath and psychologist, warned about transferring too readily our own sensitivities to those of animals (he later relented and wrote a glowing testimonial for publication in The Vegan News [later to become The Vegan. Ed.]).

Edmond Szekely, founder of Cosmotherapy, wrote about the

misguided people who would not use milk and were prepared to let the cow suffer with her full udder. This naivety spelt the death-knell for cosmotherapy for some of us. Dr. Josiah Oldfield, founder of the Fruitarian Society, advocated "the kindly fruits of the earth together with the pre-digested fruits of cows and fowls".

Henry Salt [anthology reviewed on page 26. Ed.] in his book The Logic of Vegetarianism had a chapter entitled 'The Consistency Trick' in which he referred to the "cock and bull" arguments of those opposed to the use of milk and eggs. It was but a repeat of what Edward Maitland had written in 1875: that farmyard operations (castration) were justified because they allowed the animal to live a useful life. This view was greeted with silence by the vegetarian movement — a silence that prevailed until we broke it in 1944.

Not before time.

Now, nearly half a century later, with our increased knowledge and experience, we can see what pressing human problems are related; that ttiey will be solved together or not at all; and veganism will be central to their solution.

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Twelve pounds worth of flesh is all it takes to claim your romance. Titles include A Heart in the Highlands (a meal of haggis perhaps?) and Desire in the Desert (camel steaks maybe?).

how time is upon us once more with a vengeance and, with the big national agricultural shows out of the way, the smaller towns are having their turn.

Last year's show season was marred by an accident when some shire horses bolted.

Consequently, regulations have been tightened up in order to protect the 'innocent' show-going fanners and their families from the 'dangerous' beasts they come to gawp at. Despite this, things very nearly went wrong at a show when a bull panicked and made a dash for freedom — through the crowds.

Nobody was injured but the bull ended up sedated, 'safely behind bars'.

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Cruelty in Court The darker side of farming has had another airing locally with yet another prosecution for cruelty to animals. In the latest incident, dogs and pigs were found dead and dying in a scene of utter degradation. I was amazed to read that this abysmal neglect occurred (according to the defence lawyer) because those concerned were so keen to care for animals that they had taken on too many. If this was the quality of their caring I dread to think what their idea of neglect might be!

The defendents were fined and banned from keeping dogs or pigs for 8 years. The fines did not cover the cost of the 22

prosecution.

Pencader's dog cruelty case has also been judged: those concerned were fined and banned from keeping dogs for 10 and 20 years. Local feeling remains outraged: not only were the fines again nowhere near enough to cover the prosecution costs, but the guilty left behind large debts with local businesses — for, of all things, animal feed.

calves being torn away from their mothers or the slaughter of those who will not be kept on as milkers. "See how a working farm is run" — what lies.

My tales are not entirely full of woe! A local enterprise called the Body Centre has been investigated and has been found to supply non-animal derived, non-tested products under its own label — a welcome expansion of cruelty-free choice in the area.

Finally, feeling the urge to go out for a meal the other night, I rang a couple of local eateries to see if they would be able to feed me. Whilst neither of them had a vegan menu — or even advertised vegan food, they both said they would be happy to cook whatever I wanted, given a bit of notice. What's more, they even seemed to know what a vegan is. I haven't investigated the places yet but I'll work on it and report back at a later date.

Incomplete Picture The thousands of holidaymakers flocking to this part of west Wales are the target of many of the enticing leaflets packed into the Tourist Information Centre.

A common form of entertainment offered is a visit to a local farm. One advertisement invites children to help feed the Jersey calves between 4 and 5 pm; at the same time up to 50 * Margaret Langrish can be people can safely view the calves' mothers being milked. contacted at However, there is no mention of the times you can watch the

Too Slow Margaret Langrish* — whom you may remember went to Spain at Easter to try to prevent the stoning of small animals in terracotta pots — has recently written to draw my attention to a petition she is organizing to the European Parliament.

In April, it published a draft regulation banning the import of furs caught with the leg hold trap. Unfortunately, the EEC Commission has given countries still using this method of trapping up to nine years to introduce a more humane alternative. Margaret has estimated that 385,000,000 animals will die if the leg hold method continues to be used for the full nine years. Her petition calls for the ban to be introduced by 1991.

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Prison Eye n increasing number of prisoners are joining the Society: by midJuly the figure stood at 356.

However, due to the varying attitudes towards veganism within the management of the UK's 140 penal establishments, achieving uniformity in decision-making is very much an uphill task. Only the dietary aspect of veganism is officially recognized by the Home Office and so many prisoners feel this is the furthest they can go.

major problem. The Society has exerted constant pressure on the Home Office to encourage it to issue guidelines stating that suitable toiletries must be made available, either by mail order or via the prison canteen. Currently, it is left to the discretion of the governor.

A few governors are sympathetic to the vegan ethic; the remainder require a lot of persuasion!

A few months ago the Home Office announced it was unable to initiate a change from animal-based soap to a Toiletries vegetable alternative because Availability of cruelty-free toi- of the additional cost that letries continues to present a would be incurred. However,

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discussions with one of the vegetable soap suppliers who had contacted the Home Office revealed that the company is in a position to reduce the penal system's soap bill! I leave you to draw your own conclusion.

I am particularly keen to receive details of those prisoners who have access to suitable toiletries. This information can then be used to exert pressure on those establishments failing to take this issue seriously.

Non-prisoners can assist by writing to the Home Office at the address given below.

The National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) would like to hear from any inmate experiencing difficulties obtaining vegan toiletries and clothing. Once it has received sufficient complaints it will take the matter up with the Home Office.

Animal Rights Prisoners There are currently four 'animal rights prisoners' detained in Her Majesty's Prisons: Sean Crabtree, Ronnie Lee, Geoff

Sheppard and Roger Yates.

You can support them by dropping them a line or making a donation to their defence/welfare funds. For details send an SAE to Support Animal Rights Prisoners (address below).

SARP is a support group which provides information on prisoners, financial assistance, and arranges prison visits.

Finally, a reminder that the Society has produced a Prison Information Pack. It includes details on prison life, complaint procedures and vegan toiletries.

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Disabled Against Animal Research and Exploitation (DAARE) The fourth in an occasional series on the history and activities of kindred organizatioj t the age of two and a half I was diagnosed as having Chronic Juvenile Arthritis. The disease, for which there is no cure, affected all my joints — destroying my cartilage, deforming my body and wasting my muscles. By the time I was five I had spent two years in hospital and was restricted to using a wheelchair.

I had always felt uneasy about the vivisection issue. I secretly disapproved on moral grounds but dared not voice my opinions. I was afraid to show my disapproval in case I appeared ungrateful — after all, was I not the one who would ultimately benefit from such experimentation?

ing that somebody ought to start an animal rights group for disabled campaigners.

Weeks later I received a letter from an American, Dana Soule, who had been severely disabled since birth. She was unable to walk and suffered painful spasms in her muscles. Dana had also discovered the myth behind animal experiments and was working voluntarily for an American anti-vivisection organization.

After months of planning we formulated a unique animal rights organization — Disabled Against Animal Research and Exploitation (DAARE). We needed help to launch the group so Dana approached People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in Washington and 'You're lucky, you can walk away I approached the BUAV. We explained from this poster. Please give that a group of disabled and chronically generously' ill people would give strength and credibility to the movement and attract a great I ignored these feelings for many deal of attention from the public and meyears, until one day, in my home town, I dia. The BUAV agreed to fund DAARE noticed a massive advertisement. It de- and Dana came to the UK for the launch. picted a woman in a wheelchair with a caption that read: 'You're lucky, you can Success walk away from this poster. Please give DAARE is now 3 years old and is a generously'. I knew the charity in ques- tremendous success. During our first tion financed vivisection and I suddenly year I discovered that I was not the only realised that my image was being used to one with a disability who wanted an end raise funds that would ultimately cause to animal experiments. We have mempain and suffering to millions of animals. bers from all over the world with varying I wanted no part of it. degrees of disability and chronic disease.

The work of DAARE is multi-faceted.

Preparation We produce a range of literature that is I spent the following months researching specifically targetted at the disabled the facts concerning vivisection. It did community which explains why it is imnot take m e long to discover that experi- portant for us to reject vivisection. We menting on animals was not only moral- have spokespersons who give lectures to ly unjustifiable but also scientifically un- schools, colleges and disabled organizareliable. Along with the majority of the tions.

We supply, on request, an updated list population I had been brain-washed into thinking that animal experiments told us of medical charities who do not fund aniabout humans when, of course, they only mal research. The public likes to give money to research charities so it is vital tell us about animals.

Shortly after this revelation I wrote an that we offer them an alternative. Selfarticle for the British Union for the help organizations are particularly imAbolition of Vivisection (BUAV) ex- portant because they offer practical help plaining how people with disabilities and give advice on living with a disabilicould give their support to the animal ty; do not fund any sort of research; and rights movement. I finished by suggest- educate both the disabled and able-bod-

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ied that it is possible to live with certain forms of confinement — there is life after disability!

We also: write to our specific disabled charity and voice our objections if they support or fund vivisection; support nonanimal research methods such as human cell, tissue and organ cultures, computer models and clinical studies; and campaign for funds to be redirected from animal experiments to areas that will directly benefit disabled people such as increased allowances, affordable aids/adaptations and better access.

"What some of these animal rights people need is a good dose of paralysis to give them some perspective."

The 'Other Side' Of course we have our opposition! An article featuring the views of a recentlyformed group, Incurably 111 for Animal Research, has been appearing in regional newspapers throughout America. Its members are under the impression that the animal rights movement will jeopardize their chance of a cure. I was able to reply to this article on behalf of DAARE and consequently it was printed in over 30 newspapers.

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Incurably 111 for Animal Research has the backing of the Californian Biomedical Research Association!

Another example of how some disabled people are under the impression that vivisection is their only hope is the recent outburst of a spinal injured man in Canada: "What some of these animal rights people need is a good dose of paralysis to give them some perspective." Members of DAARE were able to point out to him that we actually knew what it was like to have paralysis and thanks to animal research will continue to do so.

Barriers It is important to remember that some people, like myself, will never be cured in the true meaning of the word. My disease has caused irreversible damage to my body — no amount of animal research will benefit me. Many DAARE members are in the same position.

Unfortunately, we live in a society obsessed with 'physical perfection', where the media constantly bombards us with images of the 'perfect' body.

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is to join the millions who walk on two legs. This is exploited by the vivisection industry when it (constantly) claims to be on the brink of a 'miracle cure' — but, of course, it needs more funds!

Naturally, I would prefer to be ablebodied, because the quality of my life would improve. Many disabled people cannot work and so cannot afford goods and services that would improve their

struggle with inaccessible housing; inadequate allowances; limited resources for aids and equipment; and impossible public transport facilities — when millions of pounds are being spent on useless animal experiments. DAARE is a vehicle through which these feelings can be expressed.

Finally, I would like to express a concept that DAARE members feel is extremely important: the disabled experi^DisaffeS j^tyaitifb SZnimab ence and animal experimentation parallel. People who are disabled or have a <R(fearc/u S j c£xj>(oi(a(iorv chronic disease have often experienced feelings of frustration and anger as a quality of life. If finance was not a prob- result of living with various forms of lem and attitudes changed then my de- confinement. This can give them a sire to be able-bodied would disappear. unique insight into the feelings of aniOf course we need cures for chronic mals which are born and bred in isolaand fatal illnesses and we need to be tion or suddenly find themselves in a free from pain — but animal experi- frightening environment. Most people ments are not the answer. We must de- with disabilities have experienced isolavelop non-animal research methods and tion, fear and pain. We would never practise preventative medicine if we wish this discrimination on another livwant to see major medical advance- ing being — human or non-human. ments. However, those of us who know For more information — including our condition will not change must be details of the Able-b port allowed to accept this fact.

It infuriates me to see my friends

Reviews cism and so there was significant emphasis on self-sufficient agriculture and a balanced diet.

In retrospect, much of the nutritional advice given looks hopelessly mistaken — but at least the Ministry tried.

Anyone taking a more disinterested look at MAFF would want to address the key question of how and why it allowed itself to fall into the pocket of Loaves and Fishes the National Farmers' Union — a fact acknowledged by those — an Illustrated of all political persuasion.

History of the As I write, nearly 400 peoMinistry of ple are suffering from salmonella poisoning — Agriculture, thought to be caused by cold, Fisheries and Food cooked pork — and the new 1889-1989 Minister of Agriculture, John Selwyn Gummer, is showing no MAFF £7.95 signs of breaking the tradition Pbk, ISOpp If ever there was poetic justice of total complacency that has been a feature of his it is that the propaganda Department. But that's a story planned in 1989 to celebrate you will not find in Loaves 100 years of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and Fishes.

• Mark Gold (MAFF) has been effectively ruined by repeated revelations about the sorry state of the British Food industry.

Given the bungling incompetence of the Ministry, it almost seems inevitable that instead of printing articles about how much we owe to its policies and guidance, newspapers and magazines have been full of accounts of salmonella and listeria; Filthy and barbaric slaughterhouses; the dangers of food irradiation; and the failure of MAFF to protect consumers (and animals) from the ruthlessness of producers.

As you might expect from a The New Consumer book published by the Ministry, Pilot Edition, June 1989 Loaves and Fishes is a careful- New Consumer Ltd. ly selected history of its activi- £1.95 ties over the last 100 years.

Page ten of this new magazine Although there are some very mentions the difficulties of interesting photographs and il- "swimming against the tide" — lustrations, there is a significant yet, if ever a publication 'swam absence of anything to do with with the tide', this is surely it. factory farming. Nevertheless, The tide of information now if you can accept the prejudiced engulfing the poor old 'caring viewpoint, there are some inter- consumer' —much of it esting features. pumped out daily by the mainFor instance, it is fascinating stream media — is threatening to compare today's food policy to become an unmanageable (or lack of it) with the war time flood. The 'green' bandwagon efforts of the then Ministry of has become so crowded that Food. A fit and healthy popula- there can hardly be any space tion was needed to fight fasleft for anyone else to clamber 26

aboard! With so many 'green' publications already devoting so much space to 'ethical' consumption, this magazine (to be launched in September), will compete in quite a crowded market.

The New Consumer is an ambitious project, over and above the publication of a magazine: there are plans for books, guides, merchandise, a research programme — even the formation of New Consumer groups "seeking to work on issues of creative consumer power" at local level. The intention is to "provide the public with high quality information" — a similar aim to that of The Ethical Consumer which appeared in March.

Whereas The Ethical Consumer (an alternative Which?) concentrates on specific products and the companies providing them, The New Consumer clearly means to be more varied and wide-ranging in scope: the pilot edition features sponsorship, organic farming, the BST scandal, Tesco's 'green' policies, co-ops etc. — as well as useful product and company information. The New Consumer is sure to be a success and because of its different approach is likely to take its place alongside The Ethical Consumer — not supersede it.

However, both magazines lack sufficient information about price and product availa b l y — key issues for those on low incomes. Also, I would prefer The New Consumer to be more incisive and hard-hitting, investigating corrupt corporate practices and abuses of power. Unfortunately, there is something about the hype and colourful packaging that recalls the fake, superficial gloss that wraps all the underlying nastiness of our consumer society.

With its cheerful pictures of 'ethical' products and bright young 'alternative' entrepreneurs, it celebrates consumption and the affluence that makes 'choice' possible — along with the purchase of a 'correct' lifestyle. In the end the smugness irritates. Too many claims are made for 'consumer power' — yet its political effectiveness remains unproven.

This is not to denigrate the approach, merely to recognize its limitations. The myth of 'consumer sovereignty' needs

to be exposed not reinforced — after all, it is the lack of opportunities for genuine creativity in so many lives and the despairing belief that 'There Is No Alternative' to the capitalist free market, which leads to preoccupation with the bits of choice that remain.

The real issue is whether ethical consumption can mean very much in an unethical system.

• Barry Maycock

The Liberator Various Artists Deltic Records/Artists for Animals Distributed by Pinnacle Records Cat: Delt LP3 A 14-track (18 on CD) Artists for Animals compilation album, The Liberator draws together a broad sample of singers and songwriters who, between them, touch just about every area of animal exploitation.

The highlights of the album come in the most harrowing tracks. Robert Wyatt makes full use of his genius in 'Pigs' one of the cleverest, simplest songs I have heard in a long time.

Similarly, Anne Clarke and Patrick FitzGerald evoke simultaneous chills and anger with 'Toros', an account of the macho matadors: "But his strength is just a thin disguise/as the brave bull stares through his eyes/at the emptiness of these peoples' lives".

Nobody can accuse Chumbawamba of sitting on the fence. Their rumbling comments on the animal rights movement come in the form of 'Knit Your Own Balaclava'.

The track ends with wellknown TV and radio presenter James Whale ranting his predictably ignorant views on laboratory raids. Then someone rings him up...

Other aspects of The Liberator are much more sombre: Shellyan Orphans' 'Suffer Dog' is almost a lament, dealThe Vegan, Autumn 1989

ing with the tiea between the misery of vivisection, human vanity, and the self-serving legislation that encourages it; Kalima mix sorrow, desperation and New Age Jazz in 'Rain Forest'; and sit com writer Carla Lane recites a terse, vivid piece of prose entitled 'The Abattoir'. Elsewhere, The Style Council attack bloodsports with scathing lyrics and a tight, bitter guitar.

In 'One Million Hamburgers', the Frank Chickens expose the absurdity of the bui^er bar industry with their funky-clever arrangements and Captain Sensible lends a raucous tone to the album with 'A Sporting Life'.

His scorn for the pink champagne brigade is magnificently directed: "When you're rich/the world is your pantry".

The Duritti Column, Josi Without Colours, TV Smith and The Cleaners From Venus all have tracks that lend the album musical variety and allows it to embrace the animal rights movement with a rich diversity of approaches.

The Liberator is not full of ranting polemic — relying upon the listener's reaction to the music as much as the lyrical content. It may enforce your views; it may change them; it may do neither — but buy it anyway. The music is good and the money could not be going to better places.

• David Spence

movements can unite tweedy stalwarts from the shires, British Movement supporters in Union Jack t-shirts and blackclad anarchists with bright cockatoo haircuts?

Animal Warfare traces the growth of the more extreme side of Britain's animal rights movement from the inception in 1973 of the Animal Liberation Front (then the Band of Mercy) and its entryism into other, more legitimate pro-animal organizations.

The chapter which discusses the anti-speciesist philosophy of the movement obviously covers the vegan and vegetarian heartland — where personal commitment lies deepest.

Most of the remaining chapters are taken up with examining the increasing violence against the animal abuse industry and the growing acceptance of this escalation, not just by the ALF's 'godfather', Ronnie Lee and other well-known key personalities in the movement, but also by the incredibly diverse band of rank and file supporters who have become increasingly frustrated with the appallingly slow progress of more traditional campaigns.

The author — albeit reluctantly — admits that physical and economic ALF attacks do close fur departments, put abusers out of work and raise insurance premiums.

Other chapters cover the feelings of the vivisectors (the ALF's main target); the less violent, well-organized Animal ANIMAL WARFARE Liberation Leagues (the author is clearly more impressed with them); and the increased involvement of Scotland Yard — especially, since the 'Mars Bar' hoax of 1984, the quietly persistent PC Colin Wiggins.

But whereas the book's emphasis is on animal rightists' violence, it scarcely touches the intense violence of the slaughAnimal Warfare terhouse, the factory farm and the vivisection lab. — the very David Henshaw, raison d'etre of the movement.

Fontana £3.99, Pbk, 214pp David Henshaw was responsi- There are no photos of animal abuse to help the impartial ble for the 1986 Brass Tacks TV programme on the militant reader understand the rage felt side of the animal rights move- by activists, and the author clearly accepts the scientific ment. Animal Warfare is the end justifying the means in the natural follow through to that vivisection lab., whilst persisprogramme. tently refusing to acknowledge The movement presented the link with the science labs of him with a subject that was Auschwitz and Dachau. "often impenetrably bizarre" But regardless of the omis— after all, how many other The Vegan, Autumn 1989

sions and a few nitty gritty inconsistencies, this is a well-researched book, with an index which usefully and thoroughly chronicles the growth of the animal rights movement over the past 16 years.

It is sensationalist but fascinating at the same time, and gives many a chuckle along the way. A must for those involved in the movement — at any level.

• Dave Wet ton

human reform but there were some biographical studies of 'poet naturalists' like Thoreau, Jeffries and Shelley. One of his best known books, Animal Rights , published in 1892, is described by Peter Singer as the "best of the eighteenth and nineteenth century works on the rights of animals". And his Plea for Vegetarianism was mentioned many years later in Ghandi's autobiography.

It is, though, in The Creed of Kinship (1935), that Salt's essential philosophy can be seen in his call for a new religion: "It is my hope that what — THEmay be called a free or rational SAVOUR OF SALT religion founded on kinship, A Henry Silt Anthology MWRtt «Wl and expressing itself in unselfish deeds, will eventually take the place of the many superstitious beliefs that have in the past been regarded as religions, and in many cases continue to be so honoured." This creed — a contract of human and sub-human relationships — described as "so simple", The Savour of Salt he that it "may at present appear but slight and negligible in — a Henry Salt comparison with the complicatAnthology ed doctrines theology has piled (Eds.) George Hendrick & up: in reality as the one sure Willene Hendrick and abiding hope for mankind, Centaur Press £12.95 it will include and out last them H b k , 204pp all".

Henry Salt was bom in 1851 The Savour of Salt — with and died in 1939. Educated at nearly 200 pages of extracts Eton and Cambridge, he refrom his writings — will help turned to Eton as Assistant dispel the loneliness and desoMaster, however, by 1884 he had given up his job — deter- lation which Salt himself mined to "work for humanitari- recognised was a consequence anism". He had made this step of those who realise they are partly through discovering so- "living among savages".

The incredible sagacity of cialism and vegetarianism and partly by realising the connec- his writing, combined with not tion between simple living and a little humour, make this book one of the most enjoyable, ima "juster social state".

He then moved to a cottage portant and vital you could in the wilds of Surrey where he own.

• Simon Wild attracted to him many of the well-known socialists whose acquaintance he had made at Reviewers Eton: George Bernard Shaw, Mark Gold is Campaigns William Morris, Sydney and Director of Animal Aid Beatrice Webb, and even Barry Maycock is a member Ramsey MacDonald. of the Green Line Editorial In 1891, Salt and some Collective friends formed the Dave Spence is a free lance Humanitarian League, whose writer/reviewer specializing purpose was to "proclaim the music general principle of humaness" inDave Wetton is Treasurer of underlying the various disconRSPCA Members' Watchdog nected efforts of societies such and former Hunt Saboteurs as those working for peace, ani- Association Secretary. mal welfare, social justice and Simon Wild is Press prison reform. of Southern AntiDuring his life, he published Secretary nearly 40 books — most urging Bloodsports Society 27

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margarine supplied by the mailorder firm Food Watch is vegan and its products are now available from a number of retail oudets. Another new margarine which is more likely to be available in the north and in branches of William Low Supermarkets is called Gold Blend; made by Rowallan Creamery in Kilmarnock, it comes in 250gram blocks and is clearly marked as suitable for vegans.

In a Squeeze For breakfast Jordans have launched Multigrain Puffed Cereals and also Traditionally Flaked Wholewheat & Raisins.

Under the very appropriate name of Easy Blend, that old faithful in the kitchen, Modern Health's Vecon Vegetable Stock, is now also available in a squeezy bottle. How much easier to add to soups and stews, and to make up a hot drink. A new gravy mix on the market is made by G. F. Dietary; this is wheat-free and gluten-free, and in Vanilla, Black Cherry, n recent months I have each canon contains four handy Raspberry Ripple and Tutti been labouring long and sachets. If you are looking for Frutti — and the other, from hard over the new edition something decidedly spicier to Unisoy, under the name of of the Cruelty-Free Shopper add to your cooking try Maranelli's, comprising and I feel tempted to tell you Gramma's Health Pepper Vanilla, Chocolate and about some of the interesting Spices. They not only pep up Raspberry Ripple. The Unisoy your cooking but are said to new products and companies that I came across for inclusion, range is free from added sugar have medicinal properties too. and sweetened with apple juice, They come in neat little glass not to mention the misapprehensions, sheer stupidity and at as are their soya 'yogarts' jars with a helpful leaflet, and which are now available again you can choose from Mild, Hot, times near-criminal ignorance that I encountered. Alas, space in Black Cherry, Peach Melba, Extra Hot and Super Hot — Raspberry and Strawberry. Last phew! does not permit, and you will just have to get your own copy! but not least on the ice-cream front, Sunrise have brought out I need all the space I've got All the Way here just to keep you up to date their Ice Dream in a new on products that have appeared Coconut version, and their oth- To cool you down I can really er flavours are now available in recommend a superb range since the last issue.

4-litre catering packs for guest- (more than twenty varieties) of houses and restaurants. organic fruit and vegetable Busy Time juices made by the German The long hot summer has clear- Going for Gold? firm of Rabenhorst. But bely been a busy time for the again, three varieties — Look out in Sainsbury branch- ware manufacturers of frozen Rosy Cheeks Red/Gold, desserts. How nice it is, for the es and elsewhere for Unisoy Eisenblut, and Summertime — 'Gold', alongside the White kids especially, to be able to either added honey or Wave soya milk. This newcom- contain walk into a health food shop lactose.

Lactose in a juice? Yes, er has added calcium and vita- apparently and come out with a vegan to give it mins and is sweetened with ap- 'body'. Theused carob ice or one of Genice's Biotta range of orple concentrate. But if Plamil Cornettos — now available in juices is not vegan for the strawberry and raspberry ripple, is your preferred brand you will ganic same reason, so you need to as well as the original hazelnut. be pleased to leam that Plamil read print even on At the Living Without Cruelty Ltd's increasingly popular sug- juices.theForsmall a wide selection of ar-free soya milk in the blueExhibition in July the tubs of the Rabenhorst juices and lots liveried cartons is now availdairy-free ices made by besides, if you are ever able in a 1 -litre size. The large more McNabs in five different within striking distance of multiple firm of Haldane flavours sold out well before Rhos-on-Sea, Clwyd try and Foods has also launched its the end. (Beware, by the way, make a detour to do your shopown soya milk in two variof the new dairy-free ices by ping at the Whole in the Wall eties— organic sugar-free and Berrydales, all of which conwholefood shop at 77 Rhos added sugar — under its new tain honey.) Adding to the Promenade. It is another of the choice are two new ranges: one Hera So Good label, under all too few 'all the way' vegan from Granose, under the name which you will also find a new enterprises and as such deserves of Sweet Sensation — available vegan margarine. The vegetable

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support. Among the goodies on offer there is a super new cheese alternative spread called Scheese. Made by that enterprising outfit Green Dragon Animal-Free Foods, it comes in jars in two flavours — Smoked Gouda and Cheddar.

Demand that your local health food shop stocks this, and in case of difficulty, since it is not yet very widely distributed, the firm's telephone number is 0248 680267. The same firm has brought out its popular salad dressing in a new variety — 'Nnaise with Tarragon. A tasty pate made from carrot, onion and celery, and which can be served either hot or cold, is made by La Terrinerie. Clearly labelled as vegan, look for it in the chilled cabinet.

Spick and Span On the domestic cleaning front there is now a considerable choice of vegan products available, and it is no longer necessary to send away for such items. In the new Shopper you will find carpet shampoos, window cleaners, furniture polish and more. The Little Green Shop offers a particularly wide range and their products are now in branches of Lifecycle and elsewhere. If you feel able to use your influence in your place of work to bring about a change to environmentally sound products the Ecover range (entirely vegan, except for the washing-up liquid) is now available in large sizes suitable for use in hotels, schools, hospitals, etc. Another new name to look out for is Astonish, made by a firm called Emm & Bee; it comes in two forms — as a stiff paste for harder surfaces and as a cream cleaner. We are assured that the products are both vegan and biodegradable.

Astonishing Range When it comes to toiletries and cosmetics, dare I say it again you'll just have to consult the Shopper to see the astonishing range of new stuff, but to take just a couple of items: from Weleda there's a Citrus Deodorant and Citrus Bath Milk; and from Dolma we have tasty Fennel, Mandarin and Spearmint Lip Balms. The latter company (mail order address: 19 Royce Ave, Nottingham, NG15 6FU) also does a new range of Foot Shampoos to ease those aching feet after all that shopping!

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Stocks of the first edition of The Cruelty-Free Shopper were exhausted in late August, some 20 months after the title's launch in December 1987, with total sales topping a magnificent 10,000 copies â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a Vegan Society record. Congratulations to author Lis Howlett and to all those who helped the UK's most comprehensive guide to animal-free commodities to achieve such a high level of success.

For the benefit of vegans, lacto-vegetarians and others seeking to end, or at least reduce, their dependence on animal and animal-tested products we are pleased to announce a second, thoroughly revised and greatly expanded edition of this unrivalled practical aid to cruelty-free living. Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd in association with the Society, it is available NOW for just ÂŁ3.99 post-free .

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VINO NASTIES hat, you may ask, could be more natural than the contents of a bottle of wine? Surely the only thing to worry about is whether the vigneron washed his/her feet before leaping into the fermentation vat?

Unfortunately not, commercial wines — whether Grand Crus or humble Vin de Pays — are a minefield for the unsuspecting consumer. The problems begin in the vineyard ...

Chemicals are also excluded from the actual wine-making process (although a strictly limited amount of sulpher dioxide may be used to prevent oxidation — provided it has been obtained from natural flowers of sulphur). Because grapes unsprayed with herbicide sport rich and vigorous natural yeasts, there is no need for cultured yeasts to be added at the fermentation stage.

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Chemical Attack From the moment the vines bud in March, to the time the grapes are picked in September, the vines are subject to ceaseless application of chemicals: artificial fertilizers, systematic growth promoters, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and arachnicides. Not only do these treatments devastate fragile eco systems, they also threaten both wine producer and consumer.

The most serious health effects came to light in the mid-1980s in the slums of Los Angeles and the favelas of Mexico City: women who had worked in the vineyards of California and Oregon began to give birth to deformed babies. The most likely culprit, 2,4,5-T — first used as a defoliant (Agent Orange) in Vietnam — is now the focus of a 'ban' campaign; however, it is only one of dozens of chemicals commonly used in vineyards known to be carcinogens, mutagens or allergens.

The abuse of the grape does not end in the vineyard, European Economic Community (EEC) regulations allow wine-makers to use almost thirty chemicals to flavour, colour, clear and otherwise treat wine. One, potassium ferrocyanide, has been banned in the U.S. Furthermore, producers may add illegal substances such as diethylene glycol, sugar beet and methyl alcohol.

Organic Perhaps unsurprisingly, organically produced wines have taken the wine world by storm over the last year, appearing in wine bars, restaurants, off-licences and health food shops.

Considerable emphasis is placed on good husbandry and natural fertilization.

Pests are kept down by encouraging birds and by the application of — for example, rhubarb juice, garlic infusions and high pressure steam treatment of the soil.

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Nasties All wines are cleared (fined) in order to remove impurities. In Bordeaux the practice is to use egg white; whereas in Burgundy and the Rhone milk casein and potassium caseinate are more widespread. Throughout southern France, Spain and Italy, gelatine d'os (marrowbone jelly) is generally used — although many farmers simply shovel dried blood into the cuve. Growers may have their own favourites ranging from isinglass to silicon dioxide to the revolting colle d'equarrissage — knacker's glue.

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

Send your letters to: The Editor, THE VEGAN, 33-35 George Street, Oxford OX12AY

Growing Pains Following my article in the Spring 1989 Vegan, I feel I should point out the reservations we have about veganic farming.

To farm without livestock involves the manipulation of an eco system naturally containing a balance of plants and animals, to a farming system which will produce satisfactory yields of plant foods only.

Trials in veganic farming on the Continent have revealed gradual and significant reductions in yields, quality and soil condition over the years, compared with mixed organic farming systems. So, enthusiasm for this type of fanning must be tempered by the evidence that a sustainable veganic system has not yet been developed.

Additionally, do we have the moral right to manipulate the environment so far from its natural balance? Conventional agriculture has grossly distorted natural processes for the last fifty years — and look at the environmental and health problems that are now becoming evident as a result!

I feel we must proceed with caution in the development of sustainable veganic systems. I look forward to further collaboration with the Vegan Society to reach this aim.

• Susan Millington, Elm Farm Research Centre.

Human 'Output' The article on veganic farming missed a very important point: The Vegan, Autumn 1989

somebody once said that the best fertilizer is obtained when food has been passed through an animal — including a human. I am surprised Dr. Susan Millington has not mentioned this.

I have grown food with my own 'output' for ten years.

When you bury human output immediately there is no problem — apart from the effort.

I use what I call an 'earth bucket' in which earth is placed to cover the output. The content is buried in the ground.

This may seem primitive but those flies buzzing around every manure heap cannot get to mine.

• Frank Flowers, Manchester Discovery I would like to reply to Leah Leneman's 'quarrel' with The Vegetarian Guide to the Scottish Highlands that there is an absence of entries in the Outer Hebrides.

Since compiling the Guide I have discovered four places doing vegetarian food in the Outer Isles. Anyone know of vegetarian/vegan establishments in Orkney and Shetland?

• Jane Clarke, Avoch

By Example May I suggest that one hesitates before attempting to persuade others to go vegan? Though you might just succeed, I think it better to quietly set standards and then those close to you may witness the benefits, think about it, ask questions, and

even contemplate emulating you.

Arising out of discussion, give your reasons for making the change and the benefits you have experienced, and allow others to decide for themselves — without coercing them into a decision.

In lecturing I find that when I present an unusual idea unemotively it creates more rational discussion.

• Dr. David Ryde, Beckenham Medicinal Plea Could you ask your readers to write to as many natural medicine companies as possible — e.g. New Era, Lanes, Nelsons — asking them to consider vegans when they formulate new medicines and alter old ones?

I am sick to death of lactose, gelatine and other non-vegan nasties going into these products.

• Lesley Roberts, Southwark Resolution I have just discovered that Oxfam is involved in a poultry rearing scheme in Tanzania.

Perhaps I have been naive enough to believe that Oxfam is not involved in animal exploitation. Now that I have had my eyes opened I will not be donating again.

• Robert Bayliss, Halifax Thankyou I would like to thank the parents who completed my questionnaire on the topic of weaning babies onto a vegan diet.

I am delighted with your replies — particularly those of you who supplied additional information and letters. The letters acted as an inspiration to me in the writing of my study.

I wish all vegan parents the best in the raising of their children on the vegan diet.

• Julia Heyes, Blackpool Sounds Painful As a 'Venglish' (vegan newspeak) contribution how about replacing 'running around like a chicken with its head cut off' with ' running around like a butcher with his living cut off!'

• John Middleton, Dagenham

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World Day of Action Against tails: Keith Chadney, 12a MacDonalds, leafletting will Endlebury Road, North Paper Wise take place outside the Cardiff Chingford, London E4 6QF. branch from 10am onwards.

Foxhunting season begins. The National Council for Voluntary Organizations' Waste Further details: CAW 0272 Details: HSA, PO Box 87, 776261.

Exeter, Devon. National demos Watch Project has produced Recycled-Paper-Recycling: A World Day of Action Against co-ordinated by CAW 0272 Guide for Office Use. It covers MacDonalds. Contact: London 776261. paper consumption in the UK, Greenpeace, 5 Caledonian 2 - 5 November. Alternative recycled stationery and a guide Road, London Nl. 01 837 Medicine & Complementary to setting up an office waste pa7557.

Therapies Exhibition, March against Central Kensington Exhibition Centre, per collection system. It costs £2.50 (inc p&p) from: Waste Public Health Laboratories, Derry Street, London W8.

Watch, NCVO, 26 Bedford Colindale, and the National Open 10.30am daily. Closes Square, London WC1B 3HU. Institute of Medical Research, Thurs- Fri 8.30pm, Sat-Sun Mill Hill. Meet Colindale tube 6.30pm. Adults £3.50. Senior (Northern Line) 11am.

Citizens £2.50. Children £1.50. New Age Returns Organized by Middlesex 11 November. Battery Chicken New Age Products has been Animal Rights Society. protest, Birmingham. Assemble rescued and continues to supply Exhibition: 'Who's Dying 1.00pm Chamberlain Square genuinely cruelty-free cosmetfor a Piece of Meat?' Middleton for short march. Reassemble ics, toiletries, health and houseHall, Central Milton Keynes. for rally at Beckett's Farm, hold products. Further details: Sales goods, leaflets, etc.

Withal, 3.00-4.30pm. Contact: LJ. Allen, PO Box 114, Contact: Animal Action.

CAFAA, PO Box 156, Cardiff. Guildford, Surrey GU2 SAG. Leighton Buzzard 378747.

CF55YD. 0483 68644.

15 October. Service of 28 November - 23 December.

Intercession and Thanksgiving Green Christmas Fair at the Loadsagreenmags for Animals, St. Michael at the London Ecology Centre, 45 North Gate, Commarket Street, Shelton Street, Covent Garden, New titles jumping on the green bandwagon include: Oxford, 3pm. Contact: The London WC2H 9HJ, 10amOxford Federation of Animal 6pm, Mon-Sat, admission free. Green Magazine, a full colour monthly, soon to be available Welfare Societies. Oxford 01 379 4324. from your newsagent; and 57844.

3 December. Annual Buying Green, a £6 per year bi16 October. World Food Day. Smithfield Demo against the monthly available from PO 21 October. Anti-MacDonalds Meat Trade at Earls Court.

Box 14, Stockton-on-Tees TS18 Fayre, Conway Hall, Red Lion Details: Vegetarian Society 3YL. Square, London WC1, 11am061 928 0793.

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"U" Community Project Those interested in forming a school designed to be a flexibly pro-vegan, non-exclusive, nonuniformed, competition-free, alternative to those provided by the state and located in a lowcost housing area — e.g. Wales, ct

Ronnie Shifted Animal rights prisoner Ronnie Lee (V02682) has been moved to HMP Channings Wood, Denbury, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ12 6DW. Nosh Vegan-owned Veenas, 8 Beacon Terrace, Torquay TQ1 2BH (0803 294902) serves Indian and Italian food daily, 12noon to midnight. A 10% discount is offered to Vegan Society members.

Goodies Another 10% discount awaits Vegan Society members at Hunza Wholefoods, Syon Park Garden Centre, Brentford, Essex.

Recital On 15 October, Jon WynneTyson (author of Food for a Future) will be reading from The Extended Circle with the help of Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Sarah Badel and Christopher Timothy, at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. The programme will include A Pinch of Salt, a oneact play about Henry Salt.

Details: The Cheltenham Festival of Literature, Town Hall, Cheltenham GL50 1QA. SG Back The Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group newsletter is back in production. Details: ALF Supporters Group, BCM 1160, London WC1N 3XX.

Whole Earth Competition Whole Earth is preparing a new recipe leaflet and wishes to include vegan recipes. Original recipes — incorporating one or more Whole Earth products —should be sent to: Whole The Vegan, Autumn 1989

Earth, 269 Portobello Road, Local Groups London Wll 1LR. A Whole Earth hamper will be sent to the supplier of the finest recipe.

Closed Down The Animal Rights Movement Information Service, 14 High Street, East Budleigh, Devon has ceased operation. Any enquiries regarding the circus coordination campaign that they were running should be directed to: Co-ordinating Animal Welfare, PO Box 598, Bristol BS99 1RW. Abortion A new group is being started for vegetarians and vegans op.

Across the water The Animal Rights Movement (Fermanagh/Tyrone Branch), as well as campaigning on animal rights issues, is the only group running an animal rescue service in the west of Ireland. It desperately needs funds to build a much needed sanctuary.

Please send donations (cheques payable to ARM Fermanagh/Tyrone branch) to: The Animal Rights Movement, do 5a Ann Street, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland BT74 7ES. Safe pussies Fully-elasticated 'Safety Release' cat collars are know available for safety-conscious moggies everywhere.

Owners/guardians should send: ÂŁ1.00 (for two collars); their address and telephone number (to be inscribed on the collars); the size/age of the lucky cat(s); and details of the required colours) to: 72 Knights Court, Wellingborough, Northants NN8 4DF. Proceeds to The Vegan Society.

Shopper Slip Purchasers of the new edition of The Cruelty-Free Shopper are advised that owing to a technical error the name of the product manufacturer/distributor does not appear opposite the entry under whiteners on p. 56.

Please correct your copy by inserting ELIKO* in the space opposite the text 'CoffeeMate (kosher parve sachet version), ParevMate.'

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SPEAKERS LIST Occasionally the Society is asked to provide a speaker for educational establishments, voluntary and charitable groups, and specific events throughout the UK. If you feel confident that you could give a talk on veganism, the General Secretary would like to hear from you with a view to compiling a Speakers List.

Contact: Richard Farhall, General Secretary, The Vegan Society, 33-35 George Street, Oxford OX1 2AY The Vegan Society's 1 1 t h Frey Ellis Memorial Lecture

EATING WITHOUT CRUELTY:

MYTHS AND REALITY

Gill Langley MA PhD gave the 11th Frey Ellis Memorial Lecture to a packed hall at the 3rd Living Without Cruelty Exhibition on 17 June.

A copy of 'Eating Without Cruelty: Myths And Reality' is available from the Society in exchange for a large SAE.

LAKE DISTRICT

ACCOMMODATION

A C C O M M O D A T I O N for fit vegan in exchange for property maintenance/housework and voluntary help for Vegfam. Write to "The Sanctuary', Nr Lydford, Okehampton. Devon EX204AL. N I C E R O O M available in comfortable, spacious flat with garden, sharing with woman, dog, 2 cats. £45 per week. London SE4. 01 692 0761 L O N D O N - SINGLE ROOM in vegetarian/vegan non-smoking house. CH, washing maching. £45 pw inclusive. 5 mins walk tube. Tel: 01 368 5654.

CATERING

F R O M PRIVATE DINNER parties to weddings, A&D Catering will provide excellent service with vegan food. Will quote for all areas. A&D Catering, 48 Hamstead Road. Birmingham B19 1DB. Tel. 021-554-2349.

COURSES

RESIDENTIAL Weekend/Day Courses .Wholefood establishment, no smoke. Norfolk village pub convened.

Bunkhouse-style accommodation. SAE Castle Acre Staging House, PE32 2AG.

EATING OUT

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

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

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION

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For comprehensive list see Special-Interest Holidays and Holidays Abroad sections of The Vegan Holiday & Restaurant Guide

10 Deerswood Lane, Bexhill TN39 4LT. Tel. 042 43 5153.

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

Loaning Head. Garrigill. Alston. Tel. 0498 81013.

"FAIR PLACE". WatermiUock-onUllswater, Penrith CA11 0LR. Vegetarian l.

HIGHLANDS, near Loch Ness.

Vegetarian guest-house, vegan meals always available. Disabled access. Gendale'.

Mandally Road. Invergarry. Invemessshire. Tel. 08093 282.

ISRAEL. Vegan wholefood guesthouse in peac e NEW FOREST village, peaceful downland, nr. Salisbury, de&ghtful guest-home, wholefood, vegetarian, vegan, B&B, nonsmoking. Tel. (Downton) 0725/21730.

MANCHESTER. B&B. Vegetarian.

Vegan. Private house. Women only. Nonsmoker. Central heating. Tea facilities in rooms. Open all year. Tel: 061 881 0346.

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

ST IVES, Cornwall. Exclusively vegetarian/vegan guest-house overlooking Sl Ives Bay. Close to beach a .

TENBY. Enjoy Welsh hospitality at Duneside vegetarian/vegan guesthouse.

Penally, Tenby, Pembrokeshire SA70 7PE. Central heating, open all year. Tel. 0834 3365.

MID WALES. Staylittle (Machynlleth 12 miles), vegan/vegetarian B&B for nonsmokers. B&B £9.00 per person per night Optional evening meal. Tel. (05516) 425.

NORTH WALES. Beautiful Victorian stone farmhouse just 3 miles from Snowdon and near Anglesey's sandy beaches. Luxury accommodation.

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Hear Siwtvy, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 0LB

MB, accommodation. Situated hi Oeeliix Potter's picturesque village of Nut Sawrey with Its oMa worlde inn, 2 miles from Hawkshead. Lake Windermere (car ferry) 2 miles Delightful ueorooms wim iB&conee, iv, etc., no nwy views over Eathwaite Water Ideal centre tor lakes. lams. Mis and Gnadate Forts) AmWes*)e, ConfUon, and Bownua only • short drive away For details and booking

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"Seapoint" Upway, Porlock, Somerset, TA24 8QE • Spacious Edwardian House overlooking Porlock Bay • Open log fires • Coastal/moorland walk • Trad/vegetarian/vegan meals • Special diets

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Tel. 03397 55759for details or write to 11 Bridge Square.

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Crosthwaite Mill Cottage

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Welcomes Vegans

Vegetarian Guesthouse in the Lake District offers delicious and varied meals in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.

Vegans always welcome — please advise when booking so we can plan our set menus accordingly. No smoking.

Open for dinner to non-residents (bookr brochure to:

The Saltings, Lalant St Ives, Cornwall

Quality cuisine that is animal friendly with many items always available lor vegans and those ol special diets

MAIL ORDER

"Woetkete" * Set in the Grampian Highlands of Scotland • Wholesome, healthy cruelty-free food • Free use of cycles for guests SELF CATERING COTTAGE attached.

Fantastic scenery, endless walks 10% discount for vegan society members No smoking.

on Dartmoor

Elegant 16th century and Victorian dining and guest rooms

The perfect retreat for non-smoking vegans and vegetarians, next to our unspoilt wajer mill. A very special place for bed and breakfast with evening meal

PARK CRESCENT, LLANDRINDOD WELLS, POWYS. Tel. (0597) 2186.

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Vegetarian Restaurant and Guesthouse

LAKE DISTRICT - LYTH VALLEY

Tel: (07687) 72830

£2.99+35p p&p ABERDEEN Vegan/Vegetarian bed and breakfast. (Non-vegetarians welcome).

Central location, near bus/rail stations Open all year. Central heating, television and tea/coffee facilities in rooms. Packed meals available. Arden Guest House. 61 Dee Street, Aberdeen. Tel. (0224) 580700.

ANGLESEY. Modem 6-berth caravan (not on she), animals welcome, 2 miles from Beaumaris. Ideal touring location.

Tel. 0248 810530.

BEXHILL-ON-SEA. Vegan/vegetarian bed & breakfast. £7 per night. Radio, TV, tea and coffee facilities. Completely vegetarian household. Vegan bedding etc.

Stannary

BEECHMOUNT

Tel (0736) 753147 Quiet Country Hotel overtoiling beautiful hdalestuary and bird sanctuary Britain's oldest vegetarian and vegan hotel is family owned and stands in its own grounds dose to beaches and unspoilt coastal walks Superb cuisine and friendly personal service. Some rooms with showerAwe en suite For further information and hure please contact

The 'Our Choice' collection of vegan natural beauty preparations arc brought to us by the people who care about the way we look, the way we feel, the beauty of nature WITHOUT ANIMAL SUFFERING. For mail order details, please write to: 'Our

Choice'. 30 Richdale Avenue. Kinon Lindsey.

Gainsborough, Lines DNll 4BL. Tel: (0652)648668.

NO ANIMAL INGREDIENTS NO ANIMAL TESTING NO ANIMAL HARMED

VEGAN AROMATIC BATH PRODUCTS, Hair Care. Perfumes and Skin preparations. For full information send SAE to DOLMA, 19 Royce Avenue, Hucknall, Nottingham NG15 6FU. Trade enquiries welcome.

VEGAN BEDS! Cruelty-free, non-allergenic, no CFCs, choice of comfort/support levels, handmade, sustainable limber. For our range of ethical products contact Designerwares, Y Gorlan, Tynygonel, LL74 8QE. Tel: 0248 852019.

LIQUID CONCENTRATE is the biodegradable liquid soap derived from coconut oil, which is free from animal products and animal testing. SAE for details: Dept EV, Janco Sales, 11 Seymour Road, Hampton Hill. Middlesex TW12 1DD. BON1TA SKINCARE — an exclusive VEGAN skin care range including bath oils and essential oils. Cruelty-free using natural ingredients. Details from Bonita (VN3). 23 Archers Close, Droitwich.

Worcs.

MISCELLANEOUS

1RIDOLOGY: Bryan Wood, M.B.R.I..

Master Iridologist, Romford, Essex. Body diagnosis through the iris of the eye. Tel:

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THE COAT OF MANY COLOURS THE STAR, THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS

but not wealthy, is searching for that spe-

VEGANS WELCOME! The Vegetarian Society Cookery Residential Cookery School always offers vega h

20th — 22nd October

INTERAIL COMPANIONS sought for early Autumn by 25 year old vegan. Box 155.

PUBLICATIONS

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

Calendar Year subscription S15. Address: 501 Old Harding Highway. Malaga. NJ 08328, USA.

AH1MSA.

1st— 3rd December To be held at:

The Order of the Cross Snelsmore House, Nr Newbury, Berks.

RG16 9BG Tel: 0635 -412266

EGETARIAN

A ) A T C H A )A K E R S VEGETARIAN A N D U N A T T A C H E D ?

SITUATIONS VACANT

SECRETARY/ADMINISTRATOR needed for Vegan Centre now being established in MADEIRA. Accommodation, food and small wage offered. Write with photo and CV for more details to Box No. 153 .

Get-together with many hundreds

THE FLOWERS OF HOPE Saturday, 18 Ncn/ember 10.30am1.00pm.

Talks and sharing on the theme Vegetarian/vegan lunch available

of like-minded members of all ages, locally and countrywide, for introductions,

socials,

holidays

and friendship network - vegans also welcome.

For information ring 0 1 - 3 4 8 5 2 2 9 anytime or write to VMM, Century House, Nelson Road, London N8

To be held at:

The Order of the Cross, 10 DeVere Gardens, Kensington W8 5AE. Tel: 01-937-7012

THE CANCER HELP CENTRE, BRISTOL

Send for our free introductory brochure. The full Therapy Pack costs £6.50, including details of all aspects of our programme - vegan diet, stress-control, psychologcal counselling and healing.

Cancer Help Centre, Grove House, Clifton, Bristol BS8 4PG Telephone Help-line: (0272) 743216.

VEGFAM feeds the hungry — vegetable foodstuffs, leaf protein, horticulture, irrigation. afforestation etc.. The Sanctuary. Nr Lydford, Okehampton, Devon. EX20 4AL. Tel: 0822 82203.

PERSONAL

NATURAL FRIENDS

If you want to contact other vegans, consider using Natural Friends.

Nationwide -100 word ads - bi-monthlv membership lists - newsletter - sensible fees - many 100's of members.

FIND OUT MORE -NOW! Send a stamp to: NATURAL FRIENDS (VGN), 15, BENYON GDNS, CULF0RD, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP28 6EA. TEL: CULFORD (028484) 315

CONTACT CENTRE CONTACT CENTRE is a friendship agency, quite different from all the others. It enables you to choose your friend(s) from detailed advertisements or to write an advertisement yourself without disclosing your name and address. CONTACT CENTRE gives you full scope; you don't even have to complete a form.

CONTACT CENTRE operates among other things a British Vegan Service, a British Vegan/Vegetarian Service and the International Vegetarian Penfriend Service without hidden charges and with many offers for a nominal fee. or even free. As we cannot tell all in (his advertisement, please find out how you too can benefit by requesting free details from Contact Centre, BCM Cuddle, London WC1V 6XX. Those who had their letter relumed, please do write again. You can join at half fees, sincere apologies.

Full translational services from or into German, French and Dutch.

FASTING WALKS For some 5 years, o r g a n i z e d small groups have b e e n w a l k i n g in t h e loveliest parts ot Europe whilst fasting. We c o v e r 10-15 miles e v e r y d a y of the w e e k . For most, it is a rew a r d i n g e x p e r i e n c e , b o t h in losing weight a n d refreshing our minds a n d bodies. contact For further details, please

RATES AND CONDITIONS All prices inclusive of VAT Personal: £4.50 for 20 words (minimum).

Additional words: 25p each.

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Additional words: 35p each.

Box No: £2.00 extra Semi-display: £6.00 per single column centimetre Series discount (4 consecutive insertions): 10% PAYMENT Pre-payment please by cheque or postal order made payable to 'The Vegan Society Ltd' and sent to: The Advertising Manager, The Vegan, 33-35 George Street,

Oxford 0X1 2AY. Eire and Overseas: payment must be by sterling cheque drawn on an English bank or by international money order.

PUBLICATION DATES March, June, September, December COPY DATES First of preceding month CONDITIONS OF ACCEPTANCE The submission of an advertisement is deemed to warrant that the advertisement does not contravene any Act of Parliament nor is it in any other way illegal or defamatory or an infringement of any other party's rights or an infringement of the British Code of Advertising Practice.

The Vegan Society reserves the right to refuse or withdraw any advertisement without explanation.

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

Prospective advertisers note that all display advertisements (1/8th page or more) in The Vegan are now handled

by Geerings of Ashford Ltd. For full details please apply to: The Vegan Advertisement Office, Geerings of Ashford Ltd., Cobbs Wood House, Chart Road, Ashford, Kent TN23 1EP. Tel. 0233 33366.

When replying to an advertisement please mention that you saw it in The Vegan

KATZ GO VEGAN Vegecat and Vegekit (vegan supplements), combined with recommended homemade recipes, provide your cat with all the necessary nutrients for a healthy, balanced diet.

6oz Vegecat (10 weeks supply) £5.85 6oz Vegekit (6 weeks supply) £5.36 Recipe sheet provided. Cheques/POs payable to: Katz Go Vegan Orders to: Katz Go Vegan, Vegan Society, Box 161, 33-35 Oxford OX1 2AY.

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THE CARING COOK Cruelty-Free Cooking for Beginners

by Janet Hunt

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

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

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

All you could want â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for less than you'd expect.

Orders to (BLOCK CAPITALS THROUGHOUT PLEASE): The Vegan Society (Merchandise), 33-35 George Street, Oxford OX1 2AY Cheques /POs to be made payable to: The Vegan Society Ltd.

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