Oh how the Grumpy Vegan wished he had an original copy of this publication in his archive. What I have to contend with is a copy of the cover of the original paperback book that I made of the only one I have ever seen a copy of. I have treasured this poor substitute in the hope that one day I will possess an original. Please get in touch if you know where I can get a copy.
It is the most splendid example of anti-vivisection agitprop art.
This terrific graphic, er, graphically shows that vegans just don’t eat brown rice, grass, muesli and leather sandals.
This whizzy wheeze is produced by the Web site, I Love Charts. Why not send this graphic to everyone who can’t (or won’t) understand what vegans eat?
The Hastings Vegan Dining Club met recently in the home of Richard and Lonnie, which is where our group first met some three years ago. Our first dinner consisted of five people whereas our latest was almost 20! Richard and Lonnie write the Organic Gardening column for Kitchen Garden magazine. Richard is one of the club’s most popular chefs as he likes to push the boundaries of vegan cooking. Even when cooking a traditional ‘pie n veg’ dinner, he makes it extra special with a delicious mushroom and chestnut pie, which is made with gluten-free pastry. Everyone admired the pie’s proud disposition on the plate while lamenting our own individual attempts with collapsing pastry. The puff pastry (again made with gluten-free flour) was filled with custard, chocolate and caramel. You can always tell when the food served at the Hastings Vegan Dining Club is particularly good as everyone stops talking and quietly (and reverentially) savour every mouthful. Several guests had to eat two each of the pie and the pastry because they were so unbelievably good. (Don’t forget to click on each photo to get the full picture!)
Romania Animal Rescue deserves to be recognised as Website of the Week for their unstinting work against difficult odds. RAR, like other organisations based in the USA, UK and other developed countries, is dedicating to helping animals in a country other than the one they’re based in.
Of course, animal cruelty and suffering is everywhere and no country is exempt from our inhumanity toward animals. And, of course, groups active in the countries in which they’re based also do sterling work. However, I admire particularly those who seek to overcome boundaries of significant distance and learn how to navigate around cultural and economic challenges to making a difference to animals who are at risk.
Recently, RAR wrote about Toto, who was
hit by a car and is paralyzed. In the area where he lives, people throw stones at him and want him dead. He knows he is not loved. However, a man with a kind heart feeds him and made him a little kennel. I put one of Anu Raatikainen’s blankets in his kennel. This brave innocent dog… walks using his front legs and carefully lifting his hind legs. He is active and eats and he enjoys every kind gesture every kind word. He needs: Treatment and a place where mean people do not have access. Ideally, someone to love him and give him a home. Romania Animal Rescue was contacted for help for Toto. A home has been found in Oregon for this little fellow, but we need help getting him there please! Thanks to support from our Facebook friends, he will be transported from Targoviste to AlmaVet in Bucharest for treatment by the RAR vets, will have his vaccines, possible surgery, deparasiting and deworming, and then will go into foster care awaiting his travel to the USA for adoption.
To learn more about how you can help Toto and other dogs and cats like him who need our help, please visit Romania Animal Rescue.
