Home-made Vegan Apple Pie
“New Welfarist Scum”
Here’s an interesting take on the rights vs. welfare debate.
Sarah Palin at Safari Club International
The Grumpy Vegan is certain that American readers will know who both Sarah Palin is and what the Safari Club International represents. British readers and others throughout the world, however, probably recognise the former but not the latter. Let’s just say that Safari Club International is a group of wealthy people who like nothing better than to kill wild exotic animals, including elephants, lions and tigers. Oh my! This report of Palin’s speech to SCI’s annual conference makes for scary reading on many fronts. Take, for example, this collection of one-liners.
My family loves animals in the wild—and also next to the mashed potatoes…For most of these frou-frou, chi-chi types, the extent of their experience is in the Tiki Room at Disneyland…We eat organic—we just have to shoot it first. And it comes wrapped in fur, not cellophane.
But it’s this part which follows on from her remarks about the recent Arizona shootings that is the most frightening,
I’m knowing too, though, how important it is, for their sake, for America’s sake, that we do not allow the evil acts of one mentally deranged murderer [to] change America’s way of life. We must not allow this tragedy to stifle our constitutionally protected rights, including our Second Amendment rights. Beware of what’s coming. I really do believe that God has shed his grace on thee. We can’t blow it. We can’t allow an atrophy of the foundation that is America, that is so exceptional.
The Second Amendment is the right for Americans to bear arms. So, there’s no room in the Palin-and-Safari-Club-World for any questioning of gun ownership notwithstanding the many tragedies of innocent people killed by others who believe they have a right to a gun.
Christian Vegetarianism – an archive
A quick follow up to the Loving Lulu post: To pursue further interest in the history of the relationship between vegetarianism and Christianity, visit Christian Vegetarianism.
Loving Lulu
Lulu, the online self-publishing Web site, is phenomenal. My introduction to Lulu was when I wanted to produce privately a book of the chapters I had been writing for my forthcoming book, Animal Dharma. There was a bit of a learning curve in figuring how best to format the text but after some experimentation and making mistakes, well, it was really quite easy. Then, within a day or so, your book is delivered to your home in days!
On Thursday, January 27 I placed an order for a book. On Saturday, January 29 it was delivered in the mail to my home. That’s amazing! The cost? As much as I would be prepared to pay for it in a bookshop.
And the book?
Familiar Strangers: The Church and the Vegetarian Movement in Britain 1809-2009 by John M. Gilheany, which I look forward to reading, as I love studying the history of the UK and US animal welfare/rights movement.
Vanquished by the Vindaloo
Last night the Grumpy Vegan and friends and neighbours went to the Hastings Arms on George Street in Old Town Hastings for their Ruby Tuesday’s weekly curry night. Always a good deal at a good price. Always I chose a Madras vegetable curry but last night I ordered the Vindalooo vegetable curry instead.
What a different a name makes!
The Vindaloo was delicious but so spicy that it was impossible for me to eat. I ate as much as I could but the Vindaloo won. I knew I had to stop when my lips began to burn peppery and spicy hot. Frequent mopping of the brow helped as well as sips of a cold beer. But images began to spring to mind of plunging into the cold sea, filling my mouth with lemon sorbet and stripping my clothes off to run naked down George Street with my mouth wide open, if I thought it would help.
Sensibility prevailed, however.
I gave in to the Vindaloo. It won. The Grumpy Vegan lost. Next time, I’ll have the Madras vegetable curry, thank you very much.
