THE VEGAN SOCIETY LIMITED Founded 1944 - Registered Charity

VEGANISM is a way of living on the products of the plant kingdom to the

exclusion of flesh, fish, fowl, eggs, animal milk and its derivatives (the

taking of honey being left to individual conscience). It encourages the

study and use of alternatives for all commodities normally derived wholly

or partly from animals.

President: Jack Sanderson

Deputy President: Serena Coles

Vice-Presidents: Eva Batt, Jay Dinshah, Catherine Nimmo,

Winifred Simmons, Mildred Simmons

Council: E. Batt, S. Coles, K. Jannaway, J. Sanderson, G. Smith

Treasurer: Grace Smith, but all subscriptions, donations, etc., should

be sent to the Secretary, 47 Highlands Road, Leatherhead,

Surrey

Hon. Secretary: Kathleen Jannaway, address as above

Subscription: £2.00 yearly. (Additional members at same address not

requiring an extra Journal, pensioners and other such

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was formed in 1944 by a group of vegetarians who became aware of the suffering

inseparable from the dairy industry. In 1964 it was recognised as an educat-

ional charity and has grown rapidly in influence and membership, as people

realise its importance for their own health and for the wise use of resources

as well as for the relief of cruelly exploited animals.

Free from commitment to any religious, political, philosophical, social,

dietary or medical group, the Vegan Society endeavours to co-operate with all

who are seeking a positive way forward for mankind.

It challenges all those who preach love and compassion but still base their

lives on cruel practices and the debasement of both man and beast involved in

meat and milk production.

W H A T T H E N D O V E G A N S E A T ?

There is a great variety of vegan diets, from the very simple and truly

economical, based almost entirely on food that can be grown on small plots of

land anywhere, or be bought in ordinary grocers, wholefood shops and green-

grocers, to those using the many vegan convenience foods sold in the Health

Food Stores. The Vegan Society helps with all types of vegan diet.

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the principles of the Society.

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THE ECOLOGICAL BATTLE OF THE CENTURY

"This is a crusade to restore the constitutional

rights of business men."

James Watt

Interior Secretary, U.S. Government

President Reagan's appointment of James Watt is leading to a head-on collision

between rival interests on who shall control the coastline, three quarters of a

billion government acres and the vast national park system of the U.S.A. Are

these national assets to be controlled by, and used for, the good of all the

people, or are they to be exploited by mining interests, oil and gas companies

and other developers whose motives are dominated solely by profit?

According to William Scobie In the Observer (17.5.81) Watt plans to circum-

vent the environmentalists by new federal regulations which will enable land to

be sold with or without state approval. He proposes to release millions of acres

of wilderness to grazing, logging and mining interests. This strange lawyer,

who conducts dally morning prayer sessions at work and who says, "My respon-

sibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until

Jesus returns," belongs to a time that is, or ought to be, gone, when a few pow-

erful people could exploit the land and men and creatures as they thought fit.

The disgraceful treatment of the earlier inhabitants of that country, both ani-

mals and men, and later of the slaves who were deliberately imported, were

symptoms of this outlook. Wherever life is dominated by the profit motive, the

"caring-for" principle takes second place. If God's will is to be done on earth,

the profit motive must be subservient to the "caring-for" principle. President

Reagan promised that he would remove government from the backs of the Am-

erican people. But if uncontrolled, selfish, narrow, profit-dominated interests

are to jump on those backs, the position will be worse than before.

In his first three months in office Watt has cut three billion dollars from

the environmental programme and sacked every preservationist from the

Carter era. James Watt and his type are to be watched and fought and con-

trolled by every democratic process - they are to be revealed as selfish ex-

ploiters, the very opposite of the serving principle as given forth in the Ser-

mon on the Mount. All countries have their James Watts and we should look

for them in our own country and keep them from positions of power.

The U.S.A. also produced Martin Luther King. Tried to the limit, and des-

pite the utmost provocation from the forces of evil and reaction, King suc-

ceeded In living the Sermon on the Mount in a modern situation. He overcame

by using no weapons but the power and moral force of a caring love - as did

Jesus before him, he rejected the weapons used by his attackers. He used the

same kind of words to Malcolm X (a more militant black leader) that Jesus

used, "A house divided against itself shall fall. Can I use evil methods to ex-

press the power of love?" "Sooner or later the Tightness of what I say and

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stand for -will win through and commend itself, and my people shall be free and

not down-trodden, second-class citizens. " The film of Ms life and death, and

the film of "Roots" must touch the conscience of American people and give new

meaning to the phrase, "The Land of the Free".

There is also a message in King's life for us, too. Millions of human beings

live their lives by such principles as, "I'm all right Jack" or "Charity begins at

home" or "Am I my brother's keeper?" or "Everyone must look after himself

and stand on Ms own two feet". Similarly millions of people rarely give a

thought to the life and condition of animals, wild or domssticated. Then at a

certain point there may be a sudden or unexpected confrontation with some of

the cruelties in life, pain and suffering, starvation and drought, shanty towns,

repressive political systems, unemployment, refugees, disease, mental and

physical handicap and a host of human problems and difficulties. Or there may

be a sudden awareness of hunting and trapping, of vivisection, or product-test-

ing on animals, of zoos and circuses, of bull-fighting, hare-coursing and

cockflghling, of fishing and of the multiplicity of cruelties involved in batteries

for hens, pigs, etc., veal calves, and the whole process of rearing animals

for humans and their pets to eat. Some of the more refined cruelties may be

so disgusting and provoke such a reaction that many might want to practise

equal cruelties upon the perpetrators. Since we are literally "the voice of the

voiceless", we must elucidate and make known the cruel abuse of much of the

animal creation as well as revealing the cruelties endured by oppressed

peoples everywhere.

How to tackle these problems and wMch to give our time and effort to are

questions wMch we each must face and ponder ourselves. How far to go and

how active to be, and where to draw the line are points we must each

wrestle with. Should we break the law and risk prison, should we raid build-

ings and damage property, are problems we must each decide for ourselves

as individuals. A s a Society and as stewards of that Society we adopt the

methods as well as the principles of Jesus and Martin Luther King, even

though we sympatMse with the ends of some who use aggressive means.

Jack Sanderson.

T W O M A J O R E V E N T S

OLYMPIA The 6th International Festival for Mind-Body-Spirit, 20-28 June,

1981. An exciting experience not to be missed. About 150 group stalls, a

lecture and a display programme and wonderful people. About 250,000 people

have attended the last three Olympia Festivals. (Ring 01-723 7256.)

LOUGHBOROUGH The 10th Annual Holistic Health and Healing Conference.

About 400 people gather to hear and meet experts in alternative therapies. A

marvellous weekend, 24-26 July, 1981, at the University of Technology.

(Details from The Wrekin Trust, Dove House, Little Birch, HerefordsMre,

HR2 8BB.) J.S.

Back to natural living Disillusioned and frightened by many aspects of our technological age, a growing number of people yearn to return to "natural living". Often the word "natural" is used with the assumption that there are two distinct Orders, that of Nature and that of Man, the former being "good" and the latter "evil". Usually little or no logic is applied to distinguishing between that which is ordained by Nature and that which has been determined by human skill.

Wholemeal bread is described as natural food, regardless of the fact that the wheat itself was bred as well as grown by human ingenuity from wild (natural) grass, that the use of fire for cooking is one of the distinguishing activities of Homo Sapiens, and the making of tools, such as those used in baking, is another. Back to natural living enthusiasts would indeed be daunted by the prospect of living on the produce of Nature unimproved by human contrivance. A diet of wild fruits, shoots and roots plus the occasional addition of such small birds and mammals that could be caught with bare hands and eaten raw, would be accepted in few scenarios of the Good Life. Obviously those who advocate natural foods do not mean that we should go back as far as that. There is much in modern food produc-tion methods that is hazardous to health but Nature's products also can be poisonous. We need a better criterion than "natural".

Too often that which is habitual is accepted as "natural" and equated with the true and the good. It is significant that the word'tnoral 'is derived from the Latin for custom'.'To a degree habit can be a useful guide, but some habits wrongly initiated and disastrous in effect can determine human behaviour in ways that are contrary to both reason and instinct and yet be accepted as natural. A pertinent example is the habit of humans going unweaned through adulthood, dependent on the liquid baby food of a very different species when their digestive systems require solid fibrous food for proper functioning.

In our age characterised by drastic changes developing at a bewildering rate, habits both good and bad are being broken whether we will or no. We need surer criteria of right and wrong based on a deeper understanding of what is truly man's place in the Natural Order if we are to survive. It is this need that is inspiring much of the growing rebellion against science and technology, but unless it is based on reason and wisdom the New Age will be still-born.

"Good: to preserve life, to promote life, to raise to its highest value life which is capable of development. Evil: to destroy life, to injure life, to repress life which is capable of development."

If we interpret "Life"widely enough to embrace spirit as well as mind and body, Schweitzer's criteria will guide us surely whatever our agnostic, humanitarian or religious commitments.

All living things are impelled to maintain their own lives, to further the life of their species and - the spiritual dimension creeping in - to joy in their specific behaviour pattern: the bird to fly and sing, the deer to run, the fish to swim Even if he avoids inflicting actual pain, the factory farmer sins in denying joy to his prisoners and thereby degrades both them and himself. rff s z f

Men and women ar.e part of Nature subject to the Mme destiny as all living creatures. They are under the same compulsion to survive, to pro-create and to care for their young. While sharing many of the joys of other,animals, they function specifically as thinkers and crafts-men. Their brains and hands have now developed such awesome powers that they can destroy all living things with their machinery, their chemicals, their explosives. However, far beyond other creatures, they are able to reflect, to glimpse the significance of Life and consciously to choose to co-operate with or to attempt to distort its purpose. The over-riding need of this generation is to develop awareness, sensitivity and compassion to the full so that science and technology can be controlled and directed to the service of life not to its destruction.

Hence the significance of veganism with its driving force of disinterested compassion for the helpless creatures that man presumes to breed and to kill for his food. Is it compassionate? Does it serve Life? These are the questions we should be asking ourselves, rather than -"It is natural?".

"Unless he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, Man will not himself find Peace" said Schweitzer. We can add "neither will he find health through the vivisection laboratory nor food for his growing numbers in the slaughter houses."

Critics of veganism often claim that the vegan diet is unnatural because Vitamin 812, described as essential for the health of every cell in the body, cannot as yet be obtained adequately from plant sources except in laboratories. However, it is possible that a dietary source of Bi2 has only become necessary for some people for two reasons. Meat eating has caused the b12' producing bacteria to move too far down the intestinal tract for their product to be used. Civilised living with its purified water and hygienic conditions prevents the accidental intake of the bacteria from the environment. Should we therefore continue with the cruel exploitation of animals contrary to the essential impulse to develop compassion to the full? Should we not rather rejoice to have a product of human ingenuity (s12 is produced not synthetically but by bacteria cultivated on a plant base in laboratories) that is clearly serving more humane living?

One of the saddest results of the shallow thinking of much of the back to natural living movement, comes about when townees, having achieved their cottage and few acres, their cow or goat, their pigs and chickens, have to face the inevitable butchering. One couple wrote to me "Our cow has just had her first calf. It's a bull calf. We want to find out about veganism".

Most of the "practical self-sufficiency" writers give fair warning, but too often the penny fails to drop until Daisy presents her calf or Snowy her kid, or half the chicks prove to be male or the piglets reach the aimed at slaughter weight, and the necessity of stamping on compassion arises.

Too many people still think that the dragging of the baby calf from its mother, the immediate slaughter or imprisonment for veal are evils of factory farming but they are inevitable in any system geared to adequate milk production for human consumption. "If you want a satsifactory milk supply you cannot leave the calf on her as she will favour the calf saving the milk 'let down' for it". So writes one adviser on small-holdings and P. Cleveland Peck in "Your Own Dairy Cow" warns that the cow and calf will cry for each other. "It's a sad sound, but having a house cow is about getting milk for your family, so you just have to shut your ears".

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And John Seymour warns "cows in order to give milk have to have yearly calves and half the calves will be male and only some of the others will be needed for dairy replacements-ultimately you will be forced, whatever you do, to sell three quarters of the calves for beef, or kill them yourself. One group, pledged to non-slaughter, have,after only a few years on considerable acreage, found their land so over-burdened with castrated males that they have had to stop breeding, let their cows dry off and buy in their dairy producel

John Seymour gives directions for home butchering. Few not hardened by farm up-bringing will be able to stomach the task. Much extra pain to the animals can be caused by unaccustomed hands, but probably less suffering is entailed than in the often long journey to the slaughter house with hunger and thirst, rough handling and the smell of death as they await their turn. Much false comfort is given to humans by notions of humane killing in modern hygienic slaughterhouses. There is something peculiarly degrading in the treachery of subjecting animals you have taught to trust you to such treatment. The whole mean business could only begin to be justifiable if milk was necessary for human health. Vegans have now proved that it is not, at any age. They have taken all plea of necessity from all animal farming and thus introduced a whole new chapter in human history.

Moreover idealistic back-to-the-landersare too often ill prepared for the incessant chores of dairy farming. Cows have to be milked twice daily whatever the weather, through all the four seasons. Vegan living, once crops are grown and safely harvested and stored can give more leisure for human creativity expressed in crafts, music and the arts, in laughter and dancing.

There is much need for experiments in self-dependent vegan living whether in family units or larger communities In these physical health can be promoted by fresh plant foods grown with Vegan compost, (not organic with its bones, hoofs and blood from the slaughter houses,with its animal manures perhaps from factory farms). How long will it be before it is admitted that the increasing incidence of cancer in humans coincides with the increasing use of artificial fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, with the chemicals added to food to preserve its shelf-life, with the flavourings and colourings to replace wholeness, and with the consumption of the flesh of animals living and dying in increasingly stressful conditions? How long will it be admitted that it is the fats in the flesh of animals immobilised in factory farms that are particularly dangerous as regards heart and circulatory diseases.

Vegan communities, freed from the "double think" of those who preach love and sensiti-vity while continuing to base their lives on the products of cruelty, could become power houses of a new compassionate order free of the wastefulness and cruelty so enigmatically at variance with Nature's wonder and beauty.

K. Jannaway

"Because he has pity on all living creatures, therefore is man called holy".

BUDDHIST SCRIPTURE.

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i ® The Vegan Way Can anyone imagine anything more delicious than a ripe orange, apple, banana,

strawberries, raspberries or other fruit picked fresh from the tree or vine?

Can anyone imagine anything more nutritious than a fresh green salad with

red ripe tomatoes or cucumbers, or a well-baked potato and other vegetables?

Can anyone imagine anything healthier, richer in proteins and minerals

than almonds, walnuts, coconuts, brazil or other nuts?

Try a dish of grains, oats, corn or other grains that have been soaked 12-

24 hours, add to it fresh fruit of the season, dates and figs, and sprinkle lib-

erally with freshly ground nuts. Here is a mixture of vitamins and minerals

fit for a king and queen.

All the a.bove come from trees, vines and plants that produce flowers and

foliage which give pleasure to all the senses, the eyes, the taste-buds, and

fill the air with delicious perfumes which the birds and bees as well as the

humans delight in.

With all the above plentifully available and which delight the eyes and feel-

ings, all the senses, and are obtainable with much less labour than meat

products, how can we continue to eat meat, chicken, fish, milk and cheese,

each of which demands violence,killing and cruelty in its preparation, and com-

pare the smells of a meat market with a vegetable market. How many would

eat meat if they would have to personally kill and prepare the animals? How

many would take away the young calves from the crying mothers and kill them

so that we can continue to have milk, cheese and baby veal? Don't animals

also have "rights"? Isn't the meat industry a vicious form of killing and ani-

mal slavery? Cruelty is written in every glass Of milk, piece of cheese or

meat dish, and why should a higher species suckle on the breast of a lower

species ? What does the violence in butchery do to the spirit of man ? Many

sicknesses are blamed on meat and milk products. Why do we continue this

inhuman practice when it has been proven scientifically as well as by the

lives of thousands living on a fruit, vegetable, nut and grain diet that this diet

is far healthier and. much more humane, much more plentiful and would con-

serve the land and water resources?

Buddha said that we must first have a right viewpoint, a right understand-

ing. Christ said that we must love. Love is the seed of the universe. It is a

force that reaches out in all directions in compassion, sympathy, adoration,

thanksgiving. Buddha said that we must have right speech, right conduct,

right vocation. Christ said that we must love with heart, mind and soul, with

the whole being. Then love will colour every word we speak, govern every

action. Love will become our occupation. Buddha said that we must have

right-mindfulness, right effort, right meditation-concentration which will

lead us to the ONE. Christ said that we must love our neighbours as our-

selves. Our neighbourhood is all life around us, our environment. It grows

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as we grow in love. It includes not only humans but all life - animals, plants,

flowers, trees. From inches it stretches to miles, to countries, to the entire

world and even to neighbouring planets and stars.

There is a solution to hunger and malnutrition in the world. The starving

and undernourished millions can be fed and nourished. The earth can again be-

come a clean and healthy planet, its air and water cleansed and revived, but we

must act quickly before it is too late. It demands a change in the style of living

and sense of values. It demands a break with many past traditions, but if our

civilisation is to survive it must be changed and based upon sound humane

principles.

1) Compassion for all life, human, animal and plant life. No human or

animal slaves. Animals as well as humans must be freed from bondage. Ani-

mal "rights" must be given prime consideration.

2) All_ wastes must be recycled and returned to the soil as compost for it

is the soil that makes life on this planet possible. Destroy it and life and civi-

lisation will disappear. If the soil is healthy the plants, animals and humans

will be healthy.

The new agrarian programme will eliminate animal farming. Truck farms

growing vegetables, fruits and nuts will produce ten times and more food for

humans than is produced with animal farms. Tree farms will, with the sun,

produce all the energy that is needed. Composting of all wastes will eliminate

the need for the many poisonous chemicals presently in use. The water and

air will be cleansed and the climate improved.

The new dietary programme will be based on vegetables, fruits, nuts and

grains. The new diet will eliminate most sicknesses and with a programme of

education and prevention will greatly reduce the need for doctors and hospitals.

Already many thousands are living healthily on this programme and cook and

non-cook books are already available.

The new programme of education will be a continuous living experience

from the cradle to the grave with more responsibility for education being

placed within the family circle. Family gardens will offer more independence

and teach the need to work with nature and not against it. The earth will again

become a garden where families will be raised without violence, hatred, fear.

This is not a dream. It is a possibility which must be instilled in the grow-

ing minds, hearts and spirits of the young throughout the world. The earth is

crying for help. Will you be a volunteer ?

Urgently needed are new agrarians to work with the new farm programme

and to help plan family gardens. Dieticians are needed for the new dietary

programme. Scientists are needed to help replace animal products with plant

products. Teachers are needed to educate the young and the old. Doctors are

needed who will look for causes and not just treat symptoms and to educate the

people in a programme of prevention. Politicians are needed to present boldlj

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this programme in the parliaments of the world. Ministers, priests, religion-

ists, philosophers, artists, musicians, workers; there is a place for everyone

in this new programme of living which already has a good start. Will you help

to make it a reality?

Reuel Lahmer

Urb. Casablanca,

Marbella, Malaga,

Spain. TV?

PEOPLE AND ANIMALS by Dr. J .D. Whittall. Published April, 1981, by the

National Anti-Vivisection Society, 51 Harley Street,

London, W I N 1DD. Paperback £2.50. Hardback

£4.50.

This book is not only another record of the despicable cruelties to which ani-

mals in their millions are subjected by scientists throughout the world. It also

examines the reasons why respected human beings can sink to the level of such

practices, the international industry which supports them and the moral degra-

dation of all that must result if they continue unchecked. He pleads for a new

ethic in medicine based on compassion for all life and capable of healing

humans as whole beings.

FERTILITY GARDENING by Lawrence D. HILls. Published 1981 by Cameron

& Tayleur, £6.50.

If the fertility of our gardens approaches that of Lawrence Hills's mind and

pen we should be doing very well indeed. This latest book is a mine of infor-

mation written with a clarity and verve that make it stimulating reading even

for those with no gardens to cultivate.

He goes into detail about the different kinds of compost material and their

values, the best ways of acquiring them, of making compost and using it. He

does recommend the use of animal products but remembers to suggest alter-

natives for vegans. There is a whole chapter on comfrey and its various in-

valuable uses, another on green manuring, mulching and mounding and others

on the use of wood ash and mineral fertilisers, mineral deficiencies and how

to recognise and treat for them. Though packed with practical help for the

praotising gardener, there are frequent reminders of the needs of all the

world's peoples both today and in the future - needs that can only be met by

making fertile soil, i. e., "one which will continue to produce good crops

indefinitely".-Kathleen Jannaway

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THE VEGAN DAIRY ^ p Milk is only necessary during the nursing period of life and then the only milk that is really suited to the infant is that of its own mother. In the event that this is not available, there are commercial brands of plant milks that have been widely and successfully used. Details of these are contained in the Vegan Society's publication "Vegan Mothers and Children" (obtainable for 65p inc. postage from the Vegan Society, 9 Mawddwy Cottages, Minllyn, Dinas Mawddwy, Machynlleth, SY20 9LW). The Vegan Society has always been in the fore-front of the campaign to promote breast-feeding. Modern medical research has served to amplify its benefits. Cow milk is ideal for calves but not for humans. Its use as a humani food is wrong both from the point of view of health and of ethics (see the Vegan Society's free leafle'ts "Is Cow Milk A Good Food?" and "What Happens to the Calf?"). We are becoming increasingly aware, too, of the effect upon our environment caused by wasteful animal husbandry. Nevertheless many people enjoy milk and find it difficult to give up. In order to help these people we have compiled some information on making and using vegan alternatives to milk and dairy products.

Milks Blend very finely ground nuts or sunflower or sesame seeds, well-cooked soya flour, or porage oats or a mixture of any of these, in water to the desired consistency. Strain for use in tea and coffee. Sesame seeds are especially good for calcium,while sun-flower seeds could be home-grown. Cashew nut milk is probably the most palatable. Add a few drops of oil for creaminess. Experiment on your own for a milk that suits your taste. All the following recipes are only someone else's experiments!

Classic Soyamilk This is a high-protein low calorie beverage which contains no cholesterol. A pound of soyabeans will make a gallon of soyamilk at a very low cost. It can be served hot or cold and flavoured (e.g. with carob). It also makes a smooth milkshake mixed in a blender with a little oil and flavouring.

Rinse Vilb. soya beans and soak in 1 pint o water for 10 hours or overnight. After the beans are soaked, transfer to a colander and rinse again. Blend for one or two minutes one cup soaked soyabeans with one pint boiling water. Pour the contents of the blender into a large heavy pot with one-gallon capacity. Repeat the blender process until all the beans are used (3 times in all). Cook this soyamilk over a medium heat and bring to the boil, stirring occasionally and watching the pot for the first signs of the soyamilk boiling. Turn down the heat and simmer at a low boil for 20 minutes - be quick or the soyamilk will boil over (if necessary, remove the pot from the stove while you adjust the heat). Line a colander with muslin and place it over a pot or large bowl. After the soyamilk is cooked, pour or ladle it into the colander, catching the pulp in the cloth and the milk in the pot below. Twist the cloth tightly closed and use a wooden spoon to press on the bag to extract as much milk as possible. Rinse through any milk left in the pulp by re-opening the cloth and stirring in half a pint of boiling water, twist and press again. Set the pulp aside (it is a useful base for soyaburgers and soy sages). Cool the soyamilk by placing the pot in a sink of cold water and transfer it to covered containers for refrigerating or it will sour- like cow's milk. It can be used in a variety of ways but when drunk fresh, most people prefer to sweeten it, perhaps with a little vanilla.

A Cheap Palatable Soya Milk 2 heaped tbsps soya flour, 4 fl. 02 oil, 2 tsps sugar, 1% pints water. Blend soya flour, sugar and water for 15 seconds. Through drip feed, add oil and blend a further 30 seconds. Bring to boil. Allow to cool. Keeps in refrigerator for a week. Give good shake before use. Good for cooking, milk shakes or in cereals - not in tea.

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A High-Calcium Chocolate Drink Blend for at least one minute: % pint water, 2 tbsps soya flour (check that this has been heat-treated, it should be), 2 tbsps tahini (sesame cream), sultanas or other sweetener to taste and 1 tsp carob (or cocoa).

Oat Milk Blend 2 oz porage oats with 6 fl. oz water, use with breakfast cereals,and strain and use in coffee, tea or cocoa.

A Note on Tea and Coffee Many vegans drink tea and coffee, either black or adding a commercial plant milk. The alternative milk takes some getting used to, but your taste will change given time! Both tea and coffee are "cash crops" akin to tobacco, which waste valuable food growing land in places where people starve. They are not good for health. There are pleasant, cheap healthy alternatives - herb teas, fruit juices and, best of all water. Commercial Milks There are now a number ot commercial plantmilks obtainable from most Health Stores. Plamil by Plantmilk Ltd. Plamil House, Bowles Well Gardens, Folkestone, Kent is produced by a firm that makes only vegan foods, has a vegan director and employs vegan labour as far as possible.

Spreads Grind nuts or sunflower seeds finely and mix with a little oil to a spreadable consistency. They can be flavoured with finely chopped chives, mint, tomato, celery, peppers, onion or herbs, but then will not keep. Avocados make a highly nutritious spread. These home made spreads lack the Vitamin D which must by law, be added to margarine. Margarines and commercial plant milks are the only dietary source of Vitamin D available to vegans so if you do not use them make sure you get plenty of sunlight and consider using Adexolin drops for children (see "Vegan Mothers and Children" from Vegan Society.

Margarines Most margarines contain animal ingredients but Tomor (Van der Berghs) and Vitaquelle are reliably vegan and can be obtained from most Health Stores. Tomor is hard and useful for making vegan "cheese"(see "What's Cooking?" and "First Hand, First Rate" for recipe. Vitaquelle is soft, made from coconut fat and 3 cold pressed oils with no artificial additives.

Creams Cashew nuts finely ground and whipped with water and a few drops of oil, makes a good dessert cream. For fillings it can be blended with grated apple.

Olive Jones' Cream Recipe Whip together (or blenderize) 3 ozs Tomor margarine, 1 dstsp. Silver Spoon icing sugar (or demerara finely ground), 3 very heaped tbsp of soya flour tofu (see below), few drops vanilla essence, pinch salt. Chill

Soya Flour Tofu Soak 4 ozs soya flour in 2 pints of water for 1 hour, bring to boil and simmer for 20 mins, add % tsp.ful Epsom salts dissolved in 2 ozs warm water. When curds form, ladle into colander lined with muslin. Put plate on top, then heavy weight and leave overnight.

The cream can be made with soya pulp from soya bean Tofu - see Spring 81 "Vegan".

Soya Custard Mix 2 tbsps custard powder with 2 tbsps soya flour and 6 tbsps water. Pour on 1 pint boiling water, stir and return to saucepan to thicken. Wholemeal semolina can be used instead of custard powder, perhaps with some carob flour for a chocolate pudding which could be helped to set by adding 1 tsp agar agar to the be"'

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An economical diet Vegan food is much cheaper in terms of basic resources. This advantage is not always translated into shop prices because of government policy and the economics of mass marketing. The basics of the vegan diet are easily obtainable at low cost from the wholefood co-operatives and similar shops which have recently sprung up all over the country (see the list in the current "International Vegetarian Health Food Handbook" obtainable from the Vegan Society for £2.15 inc. postage). Considerable savings can be made by purchasing in bulk, although this requires initial capital, storage containers and space. These problems could be overcome by sharing amongst friends in your local vegan group.

Our recipe book "First Hand, First Rate"' and the nutritional advice in "Vegan Nutrition" (both obtainable from the Vegan Society at 65p each including postage) are invaluable aids to planning a healthy, balanced, diet, although the recommended intakes of some nutrients may be unnecessarily high as they reflect the effect of eating a con-ventional omnivorous diet. The Vegan Society has always stated the obvious that there is no vegan dietl We each have our different tastes, circumstances and convictions and many different types are accommodated under the vegan umbrella.

An article by Harold and Jenny Bland on their very economical diet (£8.00 weekly for 2 adults and 2 young children at 1981 prices) appeared in the Summer 1979 "Vegan" They have the advantage of a very large garden. The contribution below is from a similar family with no garden nor allotment. £16.00 - £17.00 weekly . Please send us details of your food budget and We will publish a selection.

The week's menus detailed below are for a family of two adults and two young children. They live in a fairly remote part of the country, yet find they have a choice of wholefood shops, despite relying on meagre public transport. Some food is delivered in bulk (primar-ily Barmene, which comes at £2.61 for a 3lb tub), but as their garden is not producing anything yet and their village shop must be dearer than a city supermarket, it would be fair to say that many people could obtain the same food more cheaply. The grand total for all the family's food for the week was £16.56.

Daily Breakfast: Raw carrot, apple, pear or orange, bread and Barmene. Porage, sultanas and nuts. Drink: Practically always water but herb teas and fruit juices occasionally. Extras: 1 lb of dates each week for the children and once a month an 11 lb box of grapes (bought off the distributor's lorry), which lasts a fortnight. Four one-pound loaves of bread are baked every Sunday, while half a pound of soya beans is made into tofu every Wednesday.

Sunday: Dinner: Lentil and walnut roast with baked potatoes, greens and gravy. Custard and bananas. Tea: Sunspread, alfalfa, bread and Barmene.

Monday: Dinner: Turkish soup with dumplings. Chocolate semolina pudding with dried fruit salad. Tea: Turkish pate, bread, Barmene and cucumber.

Tuesday: Dinner: Raw nut loaf with haricot bean, beetroot, lettuce and potato salad. Fruit cake and vanilla sesame cream. Tea: As on Monday.

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Wednesday: Dinner: Soyaburgers, macaroni, tomatoes and pepper. Fruit cake and custard. Tea: Tofu, tomato, alfalfa, bread and Barmene.

Thursday: Dinner: Rissotto. Bananas with carob sesame cream. Tea: as on Wednesday.

Friday: Dinner: Parsley Peas, potaotes and greens. Soaked dried figs with vanilla semolina. Tea: As on Sunday.

Saturday: Dinner: Lentil pie with potatoes and gravy. Apple pie with cashew nut cream. Tea: Cold pie with alfalfa.

Lentil and Walnut Roast (with thanks to Margaret Lawsonj: 4 02 onion 4 oz green lentils 3 oz ground walnuts 1% tbsps oil 1 dsp breadcrumbs parsley to taste

Soak lentils overnight and cook in just sufficient water till tender {about 20 mins). Peel and chop onion finely and cook in oil till tender. Add cooked lentils and remaining ingredients to onion. Bake at 400° F for 40 mins.

Gravy: Heat 3 tbsps oil, add 3 tbsps maizemeal. Cook for 1 min. Add % pint Barmene stock, stir well and simmer for 3 minutes.

Custard: 2 tbsps soya flour and 2 tbsps custard powder mixed to cream with a little water. Boil 1 pint of water, add to mixture, return to boil in saucepan. Stir and serve. "See Vegan Dairy Recipes"

Turkish Soup and Pate (with thanks to Elizabeth Rootkin): 1 cup chick peas and 1 cup haricot beans soaked overnight. 1 large onion chopped 2 dsps tomato puree, % lb tomatoes; 1 tsp tumeric, 1 large potato diced, juice of 1 lemon and strips of rind

Put everything in large pot. Cover well with water. Boil gently for at least 2 hours. Remove lemon peel. Pour off liquid, keeping some to blend pate with, and have as soup with dumplings (see "First Hand, First Rate"). Blend remainder with a little liquid for pate.

Semolina Pudding: Make as custard,: but use 2 tbsps semolina instead of custard powder and flavour as desired. 2 tsps agar agar added to the boiling water will aid setting. "See Vegan Dairy Recipes"

Raw Nut Loaf: See "First Hand, First Rate".

Fruit Cake: See "First Hand, First Rate", but the fruit was 12 oz sultanas, 4 oz glace cherries, with 4 oz oil and 1 tsp agar agar in Vi pint boiling water. 1 tsp baking power was added to the flour. Baked for 1% hours.

Sesame Cream: 2 tbsps sultanas 2 tbsps tahini 2 tbsps soya flour, flavouring to taste blended in V2 pint water. "See Vegan Dairy Recipes"

Editorial comment:- This has not been submitted to our scientific adviser. It seems good if plenty of greens, and of sunlight for Vitamin D are assured. K.J.

RECIPES:

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Tofu and Soyaburgers: See recipes in "The Vegan", Spring, 1981

Rissotto: 1 cup savoury rice boiled added to fried potato, tomatoes, onion blended with Barmene stock (preferred by children) plus V,i lb peas and % lb mushrooms.

Parsley Peas: See "First Hand, First Rate".

Lentil Pie: See "First Hand, First Rate" but with 6 oz green lentils used instead of beans and some gravy added for extra juice.

Apple Pie: Pastry as for lentil pie, crammed with chopped apples, sultanas and a little oil.'

Cashew NutCream:1 cup cashew nuts 2 peeled and diced apples blended with 1 cup water. "See Vegan Dairy Recipes"

Sunspread: Sunflower seeds and chopped tomato blended with a little oil. Cold-pressed sunflower oil is used, being bought in bulk. It is used very conservatively.

Leaflets on sprouting alfalfa seeds and baking bread are available from Swindon Pulse, 105 Curtis Street, Swindon, Wilts, in return for a 5p stamp plus an s.a.e.

Or Frey Ellis Memorial Lecture About 65 people attended the third Dr. Frey Ellis Memorial Lecture at Westmin-

ster Friends Meeting House on April 2. They much enjoyed opportunities to meet

each other during the vegan buffet provided by members and the Council and the

excellence of the food was much appreciated.

Jack Sanderson, in the Chair, introduced the lecturer, Dr. D . Davies, of the

Gerontological Unit, University College, London. He had worked for most of his

life investigating trace elements and had written several books on the subject.

Dr. Davies explained that he could give only a general talk on a subject that

was still "on the frontiers of science". The availability of trace elements varied

greatly In different parts of the world and affected dramaticaUy the health of

local people. For example, he had studied people in areas where selenium was

in good supply and found that they enjoyed remarkable activity of mind and body

into advanced age. On the other hand in areas where fluoride was present to ex-

cess people aged very early.

Dr. Davies spoke of the valley In the Andes which he had visited seven sum-

mers running. These people lived to great ages free of cancer and other scourges

of the West. Unhappily since it had been opened up to the world since 1977 west-

ern diseases were occurring.

Accounts of Dr. Davles's travels and investigations In remote areas of the

world can be found in his books, particularly "The Centenarians of the Andes",

"Journey Into the Stone Age" and "Rice Bowl of Asia".

VEGAN SOCIETY HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE

Last year we sent out health questionnaires to members who asked for them.

The questionnaires asked for confidential information of members' diseases,

with details of the treatment and whether or not this was successful. Members

were specifically asked about the part played by their diet in this treatment.

This was by no means a scientific survey but was intended to collate the anec-

dotal information which we often receive from members.

Twenty members returned their completed forms. Their ages ranged from

six (completed by a parent) to 80, with a fair spread in between. Thirteen

were female and seven were male, with the females generally older than the

males. One man was a life vegan (for 40 years) but half of the replies were

from members who had become vegan within the last three years. Fifteen had

either switched to a vegan diet from an omnivorous one overnight or after only

a short spell as a vegetarian. Half had their complaints recognised by a G. P.

and half relied on family, friends or naturopaths.

The most common complaint was catarrh. All the seven sufferers were

cured by a diet rich in fresh fruit and fruit juices and low in starch and sugar

with a noticeable improvement when milk and dairy products were avoided.

Three people suffered from migraine and one lady felt cured. She did emphas-

ise that the "vegan ethoe helped to crystallise new patterns of thought and atti-

tude, which fostered a more positive lifestyle". Her doctor recognised her

cure after 25 years' suffering. She has been vegan for two years and is careful

to eat foods that contain vitamin B12.

A cure was recognised by a G. P. for a man with haemorrhoids who claimed

that the extra greens and salad of his vegan diet had spared him an operation.

He was also astonished at his stamina at the age of 64, six years after becom-

ing vegan. A 60-year-old lady member was quite sure that a vegan diet had

cured her of severe angina - a statement supported by her G. P. A 26-year-old

man, vegan for two years, claimed that a low-fat diet had cured his hepatitis,

while a 45-year-old woman had cured herself of very troublesome acne with a

vegan diet rich in fruit and salads. Her good health and vegan diet have been

maintained successfully for 20 years.

Two longstanding members reported that they had suffered from vitamin

B12 deficiency symptoms. One had followed a vegan diet for 35 years without

supplementing his diet with B12. He made a full recovery six months after

taking a B12 supplement regularly. A 51-year-old lady, vegan for 23 years,

provided another warning for the foolhardy. Her lack of a vitamin B12 supple-

ment made her very ill until the vitamin was included in her diet five years

ago. It took many years for her symptoms to be recognised. Vegans should

ensure that they include B12 in their diet, either from the fortified yeast ex-

tracts Barmene and Tastex (but not Mar mite), the plantmilks Plamil and Grano-

gen or from vegan tablets.

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An 80-year-old lady with varicose eczema since middle-age became vegan

five years ago and writes that she has been cured by a vegan diet and feels

"better now than for some years". Another lady member treated her longstand-

ing acidosis of the stomach with lots of boiled rice and her G. P. noted an im-

provement. A middle-aged woman attributes her cured rheumatoid arthritis to

her new lifestyle while a middle-aged man noticed his stomach pains had

ceased with his change to a mainly raw vegan diet.

The Credibility of Science

Laymen who attend to reports of scientific research are increasingly bewild-

ered by the lack of agreement between scientists on important matters. The

credibility of science is being undermined. Coupled with a growing revulsion of

feeling against vivisection and with growing awareness of the dangers of our

technological age, this could accelerate a trend towards superstition and char-

latanry. The fact that the pre-scientific ages had horrors just as revolting is

easily forgotten.

Could not more effort be made by scientists to achieve a concensus of

specialist opinion on matters of popular concern and see that It is responsibly

reported through the media? If the scientists are not going to lose control, they

must not only clean up their methods, avoiding vivisection, but also recognise

the Importance of the value judgements of ordinary people.

Ritual Slaughter

A reminder of superstitious atrocities still practised In the name of religion

came recently in "A G", the newsheet published by Compassion in World Farm-

ing, 20 Lavant Street, Petersfield, Hants. Millions of sheep are being trans-

ported from Australia for ritual slaughter in the Middle East. Crammed

125,000 per voyage In 14 deck carriers they endure long journeys through tem-

peratures of up to 120°F. After off-loading "they are taken Inland for slaughter

according to the Muslim method which involves facing the animal towards

Mecca, pronouncing an invocation and cutting their throats and allowing them to

bleed to death."

A large slaughterhouse in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, capable of hand-

ling 60,000 animals a year, Is to be converted to 'the pure Islamic method",

I. e., "bleeding the animal to death without pre-stunning, having first blessed

It in the name of Allah". Yet many Moslem communities now accept pre-

stunning as not contrary to the Koran.

Laurence Main

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Diet and Coronary Heart Disease

The article by Stewart Truswell, Boden Professor of Human Nutrition, Univer-

sity of Sydney, published in the May 1981 Bulletin of the British Nutrition

Foundation, is a welcome contribution in the right direction and should have

wider publicity. It summarises in tabular form the views of 37 expert committ-

ees in different countries on the connection between diet and coronary heart

disease. (The Vegan Society has available by kind permission of Dr. Richard

Turner, copies of a similar chart by 22 committees - S.A.E. please.) It also

gives the findings of Professor Norum's questionnaire. This questionnaire was

sent out to over 200 scientists active in relevant research: "188 out of the 193

who replied consider there is a connection between diet and coronary heart dis-

ease; 189 think there is a connection between plasma cholesterol and the

development of C. H .D . ; 176 think that our knowledge about diet and C. H.D. is

sufficient to recommend a moderate change in diet for the population of affluent

societies. The dietary changes in decreasing order of priority are: 1) less

total calories; 2) less total fat; 3) less saturated fat; 4) less dietary choles-

terol; 5) more polyunsaturated fat; 6) less sugar; 7) less salt; 8) more fibres;

9) more starchy foods.

The diet recommended by the Vegan Society is superior on all nine counts to

the conventional diet of western culture, tt is also superior to most vegetarian

diets with their dependence on butter, eggs and cheese, all high in saturated

fat and lacking fibre.

However, it should be pointed out that some vegetable fats - coconut and

palm - are reported by Dr. Sanders (see "Vegan Nutrition", now republished

by and obtainable from the Vegan Society, 60p + 15p p. & p.) to be worse than

animal fats for their effect on blood cholesterol. We regret to have to inform

readers that Vitaquelle margarine, though it is made with three cold pressed

oils high in polyunsaturates, has a large proportion of coconut fat in its com-

position. In this respect it is no better than hydrogenated Tomor, though it is

free of additives, the colouring being provided by the carotene added to give

vitamin A. We will try to find out about other vegetable fats sold in Health

Stores.

Dangers of Mouldy Food

An article in the same Bulletin of The British Nutrition Foundation warns

against the danger of eating mouldy food, i. e., food with fungi growing on it.

It is not enough to scrape off the mould because the threads that make up the

plant body and the poisons exuded by the fungus may have penetrated right

through the food. Soms of these can have very damaging effects on vital organs

(compare the potency of the mould, Penicillin). Nuts, fruits and dairy prod-

ucts are particularly likely to be affected so don't eat the "good" parts of

mouldy fruits, make sure that you store your nuts in dry conditions and ex-

amine them well before use. K. Jannaway

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RECIPES SENT IN BY MEMBERS Please let us have yours.

APRICOT AND COCONUT MOUSSE (quantities for 4-6)

6 oz. creamed coconut 2 oz. brown sugar (or to taste)

i pint boiling water toasted blanched almonds

4 oz. dried apricots Dates

i pint water

Dissolve creamed coconut in boiling water (this is faster if cut into small pieces

or grated). Stew apricots in other water until soft, then puree. Add sugar (if

used) while mixture is still warm. Combine coconut and apricot. Serve chilled,

decorated with pieces of almond and date.

Claire Milne

CHOP SUEY

1 large onion 1 cup stock

Green pepper 2 tsp. Tamari soya sauce

4 oz. mushrooms 2 tsp. lemon juice

\ white cabbage 2 tblsp. oil

8 oz. beansprouts Large frying pan with lid,

1 tblsp. arrowroot preferably cast iron

Fry sliced onion gently in oil for five minutes. Add pepper and fry for another

five minutes. Add mushrooms and cabbage and put lid on for five minutes.

Add beansprouts and arrowroot mixed with stock and put lid on again. Mix

Miso with lemon juice and Tamari. Turn off heat and add the Miso, etc. Stir.

Leave for five minutes.

WEDDING CAKE (Rich Fruit Cake)

16 oz. mixed dried fruit and dates

Grated rind and juice of lemon

2 tblsp. malt extract

10 oz. cold tea (camomile, lemon balm, etc.

12 oz. wholewheat flour

3 tsp. baking powder

3 oz. Tomor

4 oz. almonds

2 tsp. mixed spice

4 tsp. cinnamon

4 tsp. nutmeg

pinch salt

Soak fruit overnight in malt and lemon juice and a little of the tea. Chop nuts

(reserve some for decoration), and add to fruit. Rub fat into flour with spices,

salt, baking powder. Add fruit, etc. Bake in tin lined with greaseproof paper at

Gas 4 (350°) for one hour, then turn down to Gas 3 (325°) for one hour'or until

cooked. Cool. Ice with 4 oz. creamed coconut grated and mixed with 1 tbls. oil.

Decorate with almond, dates or sesame seeds. Susan Fuller

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LUNCHEON CASSEROLE

2 soup plates of boiled spaghetti

oz. mushrooms

1 ripe tomato

1 clove garlic

1 small green pepper

1 onion

Chop above ingredients together. Place spaghetti in a baking dish. Top with the

ingredients. Cook in moderate oven 15 minutes after dotting with dabs of

Vitaquell. Remove and cover generously with the non-animal equivalent of sharp

cheese. Replace in oven for five minutes, then remove, sprinkle with one tsp.

brewer's yeast, 1 tblsp. bran and 1 tblsp. wheatgerm. Stir and serve.

BRAZIL AND CHESTNUT LOAF

8 oz. cooked rice

8 oz. chestnut puree

4 oz. sliced Brazil nut

4 oz. breadcrumbs

2 cloves garlic

1 level tsp. curry powder

Edmund Quincy

2 tsp. Tastex

2 tsp. soya sauce

1 tsp. mixed herbs

1 tblsp. soya flour

2 tsp. salt

Mix all ingredients thoroughly.

A very little water may be needed if puree or breadcrumbs are very dry. This

makes two small loaves. Bake at bottom of oven for about l | hours.

Valerie West

2 oz. wholewheat flour

1 large tblsp. Tamari

salt & black pepper

KIDNEY BEAN-BURGERS

8 oz. red kidney beans (soaked overnight)

2 largish onions

2 oz fresh parsley

Bring beans to boil in plenty of water, then simmer until very soft. Meanwhile

finely chop (or grate) onions and parsley. Drain the beans and mash them. Stir

in onion, parsley, flour, tamari, salt and pepper and leave to cool. The mixture

can now be stored in a fridge for up to a week and used as a sausage/bacon sub-

stitute daily. When frying, put small burger-size pieces into very hot oil to seal

in the flavour and goodness, then turn heat down to cook through to the middle.

P. Morley

NUT SAUSAGES

4 oz peanuts (2 oz. roasted, 2 oz. raw) i tsp. thyme

3 oz. breadcrumbs 3 tblsp. Gram flour or soya

juice of half a lemon flour

2 tsp. Tamari soy sauce Water to bind

Grind peanuts and mix with dry ingredients. Add juice, soya sauce and enough

water to bind. Form into sausage shapes. Fry slowly in oil, turning frequently

for 5-10 minutes. Susan Fuller

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A . G . M . 1981 The second Annual General Meeting of the Vegan Society Limited will be held at

Friends Meeting House, Wharncliffe Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth, on Satur-

day, October 17 at 2.30 p. m.

Notice of intention to propose members to serve on the Council and as Offi-

cers of the Vegan Society, in writing and signed by a member, must be received

by the Secretary at 47, Highlands Road,. Leatherhead, Surrey not less than three

days and not more than 21 days before the A. G. M. and must be accompanied by

a notice in writing by the person nominated of his willingness to be elected.

Resolutions must be received before August 1, 1981.

W E E K E N D A C T I V I T I E S

It is hoped that many members will be able to arrange to stay in the area for the

weekend. Details of accommodation available can be obtained from Laurence

Main, 9 Mawddwy Terrace, Minllyn, Nr. Dinas Mawddwy, MACHYNLLETH

S Y 20 9LW. There are camping facilities near.

Tea will be served fo^ members after the business meeting, but at

other times it will not be possible to cater for members at the Meeting House,

although there will be facilities for making drinks if they bring their own food.

There is a highly recommended restaurant nearby that serves vegan food

food, "Mr. Natural", 77 Southbourne Grove, Boscombe.

It will not be possible to cater for members at the Meeting House but there

will be facilities for serving drinks if they can bring their own picnic meals.

For Saturday morning we are planning a public relations exercise in the town

(details Autumn "Vegan"). In the evening Jean Pink of Animal Aid will speak,

there will be a showing of the Vegan Society Film "A Better Future for All Life"

and a musical entertainment. We plan to invite the public to this and to have a

display of vegan food. Will people who can undertake to provide an item for this

please write to the Secretary.

Sunday morning will be free. In the afternoon there will be an Open Forum

at which members will be given an opportunity to air their views on a matter re-

lating to veganism. Priority will be given to those who write first to the Secret-

ary with details of the matter they wish to raise./First come: first served, so

please write soonl Kathleen Jannaway

DAY COURSE IN VEGAN DIET - October 24 at Richmond Adult College,

Parkshott, Richmond. Lectures and demonstrations from experts and a chance

to meet and discuss with vegans and professionals. £6.50 including lunch and suppi

Apply 47 Highlands Road, Leatherhead, Surrey NOT the Richmond College. 20

Once again we have an encouraging list of new Local Vegan Contacts. We are

attempting to find a Local Vegan Contact for each county (more for large coun-

ties) in the hope that members will rally around them to form local groups. So

far, 43 British counties are served by 54 Local Vegan Contacts, with others in

Ireland and abroad. If you would like to know who your Local Vegan Contact

is, or if you would like to volunteer to be one (we are especially interested in

volunteers from Cleveland, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Durham, Hereford, Lincoln-

shire, Northumbria, Suffolk, Sussex and the Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow

regions of Scotland), please contact the Assistant Secretary, Laurence Main, 9

Mawddwy Cottages, Minllyn, Dinas Mawddwy, Machynlleth, SY20 9LW. Ad-

ditions to our list this quarter are:

BUCKS:

DEVON;(Exe):

DYFED: .

ESSEX (WEST):

HIGHLAND: .

MANCHESTER:

STAFFORDSHIRE (EAST):

WILTSHIRE:

DENMARK:

Publicity in local newspapers is like a double-edged sword. We want to use

this medium to introduce more people to veganism and to answer some of the

prejudiced, ignorant statements that the press often make. All too often, how-

ever, the journalist is seeking a sensational article about the local cranks. The

mighty truth of our message is easily buried under the tiniest hint of eccentricity.

B is refreshing, therefore, to see how our Essex group grasped the nettle boldly

to earn first-rate coverage of their demonstration outside Romford slaughter-

house and freezer centre at the end of March. The only hint of disrespect was

the big headline "Make no Bones... we are vegans!", but if your name is Jackie

Bones you're used to it, as must be the Bulls, our Local Vegan Contacts for

West Yorkshire; A well-illustrated long article was very educational and showed

that if we really try we can manage the press to our advantage. Your Assistant

Secretary has duplicated press releases for other local groups to use as well as

free leaflets to give, to journalists.

Our new Essex (West) Local Vegan Contact, June Ellis, has already been

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very busy helping our champion stalwart Olive Jones in leaflet distributing, sel-

ling books and giving vegan cookery demonstrations. While others think, these

ordinary housewives have been handing out thousands of leaflets (and people do

respond - we receive their letters) and sold hundreds of copies of our books,

especially "First Hand, First Rate". Olive must by now have the butchers of

Chingford thinking of changing to the fruit and nut trade!

The traditionally dairy county of Somerset has also been shaken by the feet

of fifty or so vegans or vegan sympathisers attending the local group's new reg-

ular meetings on the last Thursday of each month in the Friends Meeting House,

Bath Place, Taunton. A special meeting is being arranged for July 10, when

Jack Sanderson, the President of the Vegan Society, will give a talk and film-

show - telephone Robin Dawson on Taunton 75673 for full details of this event

which will be at Taunton Youth & Community Centre, Tangier, Taunton.

Our established local groups are also thriving, with the Liverpool group

meeting at 2.30 p. m. on the first Sunday of each month at Jean Maguire's,

Liverpool, telephone 051-928-7866. Apart from

the fine food, there is a full programme of talks, board games, walks, picnics,

cookery demonstrations, "bring and buy" sales and participation in local festi-

vals, including Liverpool's New Age Festival in St. George's Hall on Saturday,

June 27, which is once again being organised by our member Daniel Lindsay.

Margaret Woolford (Avon, South) has researched an excellent fact sheet

about buying local vegan commodities, including Tofu home-maker's kit. Cop-

ies are available from Margaret at 23 West Way, Clevedon, Avon. A lot of

relevant local facts are included in Lis Howlett's Reading & District Vegan

Group Newsletter. Contact Lis at 72 Curzon Street, Reading, for the current

copy and programme of events. For those members who are keen to be ac-

tively promoting animal welfare, there are regular meetings at Mary Bowen's,

32 Surrey Road, Reading. Mary promised they would be going all out to make a

success of "Don't eat a Battery-Egg Week" (June 6-13), leafletting and contact-

ing local radio, newspapers, shops, churches and door-to-door.

The Psychics and Mystics Fair in Birmingham on March 7 and 8 attracted a

good audience to the daily vegan talks and cookery demonstrations given by

Laurence Main and assisted by our Local Contact for Worcestershire, Diane

Edmondson. A nucleus for a thriving West Midlands Group was soon apparent.

Contact Howard Rootkin (telephone 021-706-2987).

Our various London groups have an "umbrella" meeting on the last Tuesday

of every month in the Nature Cure Clinic, from 7.00 p. m. to 9.00 p. m. The

Nature Cure Clinic is situated at the bottom of Oldbury Place, which Is entered

from Nottingham Street. If you are coming from Baker Street underground

station, you cross Marylebone Road, turn left past the Polytechnic and take

Luxborough Street on your right. The first turning on your left is Nottingham

Street and Oldbury Place is then the third turning on your left. Our London

Contacts will be busy manning our stall at the Festival for Mind-Body-Spirit

which is being held in Olympia from Saturday, June 20 to Sunday, June 28, with

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a demonstration of vegan cookery on Friday, June 26, at 12.45 p. m. We are

situated on the balcony this year, near the restaurant, and we'll be looking for-

ward to meeting you there. This year's festival is a major public celebration of

the tenth anniversary of Friends of the Earth. The doors open at 11.00 a. m.

every day and shut at 9.00 p. m. (7.00 p. m. at weekends). Amongst the lectu-

rers is Richard St. Barbe Baker, lecturing on "The Secret Life Of Trees" at

5.00 p. m. on Tuesday, June 23 (Lecture Theatre tickets are extra).

Jack Sanderson is speaking and showing our film in Exmouth on Monday,

July 6, in Exeter on Tuesday, July 7 (contact John Wakefield,

Exmouth, for details of both meetings) and in Barnstaple on Wednesday, July

8 (telephone Vida Hall on Barnstaple 76304 for full details). George Herriot-

Hunter (tel. Plymouth 880497) is also arranging for Jack Sanderson to visit

Plymouth on Thursday, July 9.

Diane Edmondson plans to hold a Vegan Evening at her home,

Wore., on Saturday, September 26 at 7.30 p. m. Con-

tributions to food and drink and music welcomed. Tel. Bewdley 402186 for

details.

Our West London Group is organising a get-together of local members on

Sunday, June 28 ('phone 01-572-8351 for details). A mother and toddler party

is being organised for Sunday, August 2, when our West London Local Contact's

son, Andrew Wright Barnes, will celebrate his first birthday.

On June 12 Mary Bowen and Nigel Kennett are marrying. They will live at

SLO 9RN, and will be Local Vegan Contacts for

The BOURNEMOUTH GROUP meet regularly - details from Eva Batt, 8 Iford Close, Southbourne. They are keeping up their letter writing campaign and getting an increasing number of letters published. They plan a demonstr-ation to show the "other side" of milk production when the Milk Marketing Board have their" milk - race " in Bournemouth on May 25th.

VEGANS IN MARATHONS Our member Brian Wood finished the course in good time in the London Marathon on March 28th. Richard Carruthers & Ulli Love are training hard for the Paris Marathon; they are asking for sponsors in aid of the British College of Naturopathy where they are students.

HORSE AND CART BAN

I would like to inform members of our campaign to ban horse and cart from public roads, and to bring about changes in the meantime to alleviate the horses' suffering.

I welcome any letters of support, and any incidents of cruelty witnessed, by the "rag and bone" trade, etc. on their horses. Hope you can help.

Myrna Moore,

South Buckinghamshire Laurence Main

K.J.

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Third edition of the COMPLETE VEGAN COOKERY BOOK

WHAT'S COOKING? by EVA BATT

Revised and enlarged with over 300 recipes plus 30 pages of nutritional advice and

helpful hints, "What's Cooking?" is a valued addition to every kitchen and is

especially appreciated by newcomers to the vegan way of life. With its explicit

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£3.00 plus 50p - p&p

FIRST HAND: FIRST RATE by K. Jannaway. Sixty simple recipes for

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VEGAN NUTRITION by Frey Ellis, M. D . , F. R. C. Path., & T. Sanders,

Ph.D. (Nutr.). Scientific assessment of vegan diet based on recent

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PLANT FOODS FOR HUMAN HEALTH with reference to the diseases of

affluence and the needs of the developing world, by Prof. J. Dickerson,

University of Surrey. 35p

THE ROLE OF PLANT FOODS IN FEEDING MANKIND by Prof. A.

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VEGAN MOTHERS AND CHILDREN. Booklet by 10 vegan mothers plus

reports of recent research.

IN LIGHTER VEIN by Eva Batt. Verses to amuse and arouse pity.

SA LA DINGS from the garden and hedgerow, by Mabel Cluer.

VEGAN SHOPPERS' GUIDE compiled by Eva Batt - Spring 1980, food items

^ ^ Autumn 1980, mainly other items

BADGES 7 5p

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By & about members A NEW COMPLEXION

Mine is a sad story - but it has a happy ending. These words may help someone

in a similar predicament to mine to solve his or her problem.

From the onset of puberty until I was 38 years of age the first act upon waking

would be to rush to the mirror to see if I had any new spots or blemishes. This

isn't the best or nicest way to start the day, but it is an indication of my state of

mind.

Everyone has heard doctors and skin specialists say that diet does not play a

significant part in the treatment of acne and the sufferer will "grow out of it". I

never did grow out of it. Well, 38 years old is not exactly the late teens which is

the magic age at which we are all supposed to emerge like beautiful butterflies.

I learned early on that certain foods did have an effect on my skin and I gave

up chips, peanuts, fried foods, chocolate, ice cream and crisps in my late

teens. I also learned to shun any foods containing sugar. So for about 15-17

years I can honestly say I didn't have a biscuit, a pudding or a slice of cake -

except when I was pregnant.

Then I became increasingly aware of the cruelty to animals in the food indus-

try and finally the whole family became vegetarian together after reading the

vegan leaflet "Whatever happens to the calf". My skin improved immensely.

THEN I BECAME VEGAN. I was on holiday almost three years ago and after

seeing a farmer prodding a little calf down a lane I declared that I was not going

to depend on the cruelty of the dairy industry any longer. And this was when the

miracle happened. My skin cleared up within three days. And it has been super

ever since. But, if I cheat and have the tiniest bit of non-vegan margarine I get

a little spot. I always know why they are there. And that is the marvellous

thing. I am in control of my own body. I used toJeel so totally helpless before.

Now I am in control.

As for food, life is super. I soon discovered that I could eat oil on my sal-

ads, curries, egg-free mayonnaise, peanuts, and even vegan chocolate in small

amounts, vegan cakes, biscuits, puddings, etc. Lots of things I haven't had for

years and years - even vegan ice cream! So instead of being on a restrictive

diet, for me it has been the opposite.

My health generally is excellent as my doctor testifies, I run four miles

every morning before starting to bake my bread and tackle the housework and

do yoga, and cycle everywhere. I am seriously considering training for the

London Marathon next year.

It seems strange that I spent so much time worrying, planning, depriving

myself, and then I do a totally unselfish thing like becoming a vegan and I have

solved the problem of over 25 years standing. There must be a moral there.

25 Wendy Zimmerman

LONDON VEGAN NEWS

By the time you read this the "London Vegan News" will have appeared. I in-

vite you to support it by subscribing now - it will only succeed through your

support. I am hoping it will increase the communication amongst vegans -

there are quite a few of us now in London - and also help to awaken people to

the unnecessary suffering animals are going through and the alternative vegan

way.

The first issue will contain an in-depth report of the North London Vegan

Group's story so far, amongst other things. If you are thinking of starting a

group and wondering what activities you can do, this first issue can be of help

to you.

From now on I will not be sending information through the post as I usually

do, so the only way to keep yourself informed will be by getting the "London

Vegan News; £1.00 will bring you three issues, probably more. Please send

cheques or postal orders to: "North London Vegans", c/o Alpay Torgut,

London, N19 5AS.

CLERGYMAN DEFENDS DOGS FOR DINNER

A clergyman in San Francisco^ where the custom of eating dogs has come in with

Indochinese refugees, has written several letters opposing any legislation that

would make it a crime to kill a dog or a cat for the purpose of eating it or allow-

it to be eaten by others. In one of his letters he stated: "I see absolutely nothing

wrong with encouraging refugees to go to the local humane societies and claim

unclaimed pets for personal consumption. I would especially encourage this for

people on meager salaries. I would see nothing wrong with the production of

dogs and cats for sale to people whose background and customs allow for that. "

This idea is to give vegan families opportunities to mix. The only organisation

would be that we all gather at the same site for the same period.

The campsite chosen for 1981 is VAENOL CARAVAN AND CAMPING SITE,

TYWYN, GWYNEDD, WALES, tel. 0654 710346.

Alpay Torgut

From a newsheet published by the San Francisco

Vegetarian Society, Inc.

V E G A N F A M I L Y C A M P

Saturday, 1st August - Sunday, 9th August, 1981

This 66-pitch site has good facilities, is near

the beach, not far from the mountains and has

the Talyllyn Railway as a major attraction.

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FROM THE EARLY DAYS OF THE SOCIETY

Just over two years ago my husband and I felt that we had come to the cross-

roads and that we must cast off the trammels of suburbia and find a freer life in

the country. We sold our house and furniture, keeping only a few necessities

and a few small treasures. We bought a caravan and three acres of land and

moved to Devon.

The land consisted of two-rough fields in a very neglected condition. We had

an acre ploughed up by a local farmer; we bought seeds, and we dug and raked

and sowed. It was pretty tough going, but it brought us great satisfaction. I had

brought a few herb roots with me to form a nucleus, and although they were

ploughed in. and dug up and replanted several times, I now have some fine herb

plants.

We learnt to live very comfortably in our caravan, and stayed in it for 19

months. Owing to developments in our "Market Gardening" we have now mig-

rated to a little wooden hut with work shed attached. We found that the outdoor

life brought us better health and increased strength through physical labour and

living "closer to nature". We-have learnt a tremendous amount about the won-

derful world around us - the weather, the sunrise and sunset, the night sky, the

calls of birds, the soil, the trees, and the wild animals.

We also learnt much of the domesticated animals and the ways of man with

them; and the exploitation of the poor creatures saddened us very much. More

important, though, was the fact that it set us thinking. When we first set out on

our venture we said we would be self-supporting - yes, we would have a nanny-

goat for milk and keep a few chickens, and also bees to give us honey. Well - it

has all gone by the board! We had our goat and "Snowy" proved to be the turning

point. "Snowy" was due to kid in a few months. We tried to milk her - but unsuc-

cessfully. A friend did so for us but somehow I did not fancy that milk, having

seen it come from the goat and having myself strained the hairs, etc., from it.

It was different from'drinking a white liquid delivered on one's doorstep in a

bottle! Then we found we should have to take "Snowy's" babies from her if we

wanted her milk, and we could not do it. So then we made our decision - namely,

no more milk, butter, cheese, or eggs for us. This was nearly two years ago

/JL942/.

We hope that a peaceful and harmonious way of life will spread among the

people of the world through simpler living and non-exploitation of animal life -

for "Nature provides all the materials necessary from the outgrowth of the soil

of the earth, and we need nothing more". We appeal to all vegetarians who have

not yet taken this step to give it their serious consideration.

Evelyn Crocker

This first appeared in "The Vegetarian Messenger" in 1944 and is reproduced

here by kind permission of the writer and of the Vegetarian Society.

REASONABLE FORCE

Most of Bob Plnkus's article "Compassion for Animals - and Humans" ("Vegan",

Spring 1981) is very sensible but I feel he is mistaken in his implication that it

is wrong to use force to liberate an animal from oppression. Whether or not the

use of force in this situation is wrong surely depends on the type of force used

and on all the other circumstances of the case.

Let's take a hypothetical incident. Let us say I look out of my window and

see an old person being attacked by a mugger. What should I do? It seems to

me that I could do one of three things: 1) take no action; 2) call the police; 3)

intervene personally.

It must be obvious to any right-minded person that to chose option 1) and

take no action to help the old person would be very wrong. If I choose option 2)

it may be too late by the time the police come. If the police arrive in time they

may use force to restrain and/or arrest the mugger - and I would be equally

responsible for that use of force because I called them in the first place.

If I feel that I have any chance of stopping the mugger option 3) is obviously

the best. If I can save the old person by peacefully persuading the attacker to

desist then all well and good, but if this does not work then it cannot possibly be

said that it would be wrong for me to use force (the minimum of force necessary

of course) to stop the mugger.

We should apply the same sort of rules to situations where animals are being

attacked by vivisectors, hunters, etc. It is no more wrong to intervene to save

an animal in this sort of situation than it is to save an old person from a mugger

and, In a sense, such personal intervention is even more necessary where ani-

mals are being attacked because it is unlikely that the police will take action. We

must not deny that the use of force may be necessary to save the animal in the

same way as It may be necessary to save the old person.

Indeed "might does not mean right" but it does not necessarily "make wrong",

and it is totally unrealistic to deny that there are some circumstances where the

use of force is justifiable. Even Gandhi, whom Bob admires so much, said that

it was better to use force against oppression than to do nothing and allow that

oppression to take place.

Although non-violent methods are frequently tactically better than the use of

force, slavish and dogmatic insistence on "non-violence" in all circumstances

is a ridiculous and illogical position which is not helpful to the struggle to liber-

ate animals from human tyranny.

Ronnie Lee

VEGAN PUBLICATIONS IN LIBRARIES

Olive Jones and June Ellis have managed to get both "What's Cooking ?" and

"First Hand: First Rate" accepted by local libraries - and borrowers are using

them:

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A VEGAN SERVICE

Having been a vegan for four years (previous to that, 10 years a vegetarian), my

moment of glory came recently. This as a result of volunteering to take part in

the study of platelet function in vegans. Blood platelets are small cells that

start blood clotting when tissues are damaged. Normally, if a tissue is damaged

the platelets aggregate and block up the damaged part with a clot, then the dam-

aged tissue produces a substance which stops the clot spreading. In coronary

heart disease and stroke, this normal control of platelet function is upset and so

a fatal blood clot forms. Platelet function is controlled by polyunsaturated fatty

acids. These are essential nutrients and a high intake is believed to reduce the

tendency of the blood to clot. As the diet of vegans normally contains large

amounts of polyunsaturated fatty acids, Dr. Sanders of Queen Elizabeth

College, London, is asking vegans to contact him if they would like to help with

this work.

I visited Dr. Sanders at the College's Department of Nutrition recently to

offer a sample of my vegan blood along with a record of the type of food I ate

and some samples and was given the V. L P. treatment. I was only detained

about an hour during which time I learned some quite interesting facts, e. g.,

when studies were first begun on vegans there were only about 400, but now

there are several thousands of us! A force to be reckoned with, dont you

think? Anyway, I'm sure there must be quite a number out of so many who

could spare a little time - especially as so many of us abhor experiments on

non-humans. Regarding costs, volunteers are fully reimbursed.

To make the most of my trip to London I thought I might as well visit St.

Thomas's Hospital where samples of blood from vegans are needed for kidney

research. Again, I was made most welcome. Write to Miss V. Johnson if

you would like to help here, too.

As I left for my return journey to Worcestershire, I felt glad that through

following a humane diet I had been able to contribute to these important

studies and at the same time further the vegan cause.

SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL THERAPHY

It is hoped to publish a report on the highly successful first meeting of the above

Society in our next issue. Meanwhile information can be had from Dr. D. Freed,

Dept. of Bacteriology, Stqpford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT.

Diana Edmondson

Dr. T .A .B . Sanders,

Department of Nutrition,

Queen Elizabeth College,

Campden Hill Road,

London, W8 7AH.

Miss V. Johnson, B. Sc.,

Department of Medicine,

St. Thomas's Hospital Medical

School,

London, SE1 7EH.

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ALAS, MORE LIKE CONTEMPORARY THINKING!

I have recently come across an Interesting passage from the second book of

Thomas More's "Utopia" dealing with the way the Utopians handle the consump-

tion of flesh. It would seem that they were more than a little ashamed of the

liking for it but tried to avoid their consciences by allowing lesser mortals to

"handle the beastly stuff". The passage is as follows: " . . . From thence the

beasts be brought in, killed and clean washed by the hands of their bondsmen.

For they permit not their free citizens to accustom themselves to the killing of

beasts, through the use whereof they think clemency, the gentlest affection of

our nature, by little and little to decay and perish."

I feel it reflects the attitude of much contemporary thinking on the same

subject; the same hypocrisy which says as long as I do not have to take part In

the suffering and the slaughter I shall continue to eat meat so please don't tell

me the gory details.

Stephen Cartwright

MORE ON FOOD ALLERGIES

Food intolerance is not unfortunately confined to carnivores; anyone can be a

victim and it is probably more widespread than most people think. Top of the

list of complaints among my vegan correspondents was fatigue, either constant

or episodic. This can often result from intolerance of certain foods, the com-

monest being wheat, other grains, nuts and coffee. "Muddled thoughts" also

featured prominently in the letters; the same group of foods may be respons-

ible. The reaction is probably not an "allergy" in the strict sense of the word,

but a failure of the intestine to digest the food completely - in the partially

digested form (peptides) wheat and probably many other foods contain

"exorphins"; molecules which act on the brain in the same way as morphine.

Rheumatism, distension of the belly, nausea, diarrhoea and constipation and

depression are also characteristic of food intolerances. Of course each of

these conditions may be caused by other things as well, and before leaping to

the conclusion that food intolerance must be responsible it is a good idea to

get thoroughly investigated by the medics to exclude other possibilities.

If any reader suffers from unexplained symptoms and has an inkling that

food intolerance may be responsible, I would suggest a perusal of Robert

Eagle's paperback "Eating and Allergy", available at bookshops and lib-

raries. The book can also be obtained from the organisation "Action Against

Allergy", of 43, The Downs, London, SW20 8HG, which also stocks a large

collection of other publications on the topic. For those with a psychiatric

interest I suggest Richard Mackarness's paperback "Not All in the Mind".

Dr. Mackarness favours a meat-rich diet for treatment, which is obviously

not much use to us, but the sections of his book dealing with diagnosis and

recognition are very valuable.

D .L .J . Freed, M.D.

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SHOPPING WITH EVA ^

Foods

Birds Eye POTATO FRITTERS. VEGETABLE RICE. Although the label

states "edible oil" (which can mean any kind but usually mixed or animal fat) we

are assured that vegetable oil only is used for these foods and it is the com-

pany's immediate plan to continue with this.

Burton's Biscuits Add CARAMEL COOKIES to your Vegan Foods List.

Celaton CH3+ EASE & VITALITY vitamin preparation.

Co-Op ALL OWN BRAND FOOD FLAVOURINGS, and COCHINEAL - the only

colouring in the Co-Op - which is synthetic, not the usual insect extract.

Canned FRUIT PIE FILLINGS.

Crosse & Blackwell PASTA MENU, MUSHROOM VARIETY, but the seasoning

mix in C. & B. Two Minute Noodles, although not necessarily containing any

chicken or beef, is not vegan.

Ener-G Foods JOLLY JOAN EGG REPLACER (for use in cooking), SOYQUK

(Soya Powder), LACTAID (Milk Flavouring), CORN WAFERS. Not yet available

in the South. This company specialises in gluten-free foods - not all of them

vegan. Details from Ener-G Foods Inc., P. O. Box 24723 Seattle, Washington,

92124, U.S.A.

Fullers of Greenoch CHOCOLATE BARS, CHOCOLATE DIPPED BRAZILS,

CHOCOLATE DIPPED GINGER. (Much chocolate, even plain, contains some

butter.)

Granny Smiths SHORTBREAD MIX (you add your own fat). The only vegan

product from this company.

Granose GRANOGEN. Some readers have been puzzled by the wording on the

new label. The company explains that this now has to comply with U. S. regu-

lations but "there is never any possibility of any milk derivatives being used".

Plamil Foods Plamil PEASE PUDDING. An economical and versatile savoury

which is used hot or cold as the protein part of a main meal, a grilled snack or

as a spread. See serving suggestions on label. CAROB FRUIT NUT BARS - a

delicious new vegan confection. Two lines from this vegan company which

should be in the Health Food Stores by the time you get this journal.

Telma TELMA SOFT MARGARINE. Now available in the U. K. (Try delica-

tessen shops.)

Vitality House RAW SUGAR MINCEMEAT.

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In common with, apparently, all tablets, the New Era range of Biochemic Remedies contain lactose (milk sugar). We should be pleased to hear from any-one who knows of a manufacturer not using this in tablets.

I still get letters from readers about foods which they tell me are vegan but which have "emulsi f ier" listed on the label. May I remind readers that this in-variably contains an animal derivative - which is probably why it has not ap-peared in the "Vegan". Alternatively, it could be that I do not yet know of the food, so do keep reading the labels and writing.

Please do not be mislead by the term "contains vegetable fat". This does

not mean that the food contains only vegetable fat: In fact the quantity of veg-

etable oil added to the animal fat could be relatively quite small.

Non-Food Products

Several members have been expressing concern about toiletries being tested on

animals. In most cases they are, of course, but some Ingredients have been

harmlessly in use for many years and these do not have to be "tested" (in this

country) while others may have been so tested at one time, but not for a mini-

mum of ten years. This latter probably applies to perming lotions and the like,

but still hairdressers should be asked about this - as well as shampoos of

course. If in doubt about shampoos one can always take along one's own; most

hairdressers are quite happy to co-operate.

Alberto ALL PRODUCTS except "Get Set" which contains lanolin.

Ashe Laboratories EUGENE PERMING LOTIONS and NEUTRALISERS.

Boots Own Brand Toiletries None have been tested on animals for "the last

few years" but the only items which contain no animal ingredients whatever

are: WAVE SETS, SHAMPOOS (except cream shampoos), TALCUM AND BODY

POWDERS, AEROSOL DEODORANTS AND ANTI-PERSPIRANTS. (Boots'list

includes Perfumes but I feel this should be questioned further in case they have

overlooked animal-derived "fixing agents" (civet, musk, etc.)

Briton (Tuf & Gluv shoes). TRAINING SHOES Nos. V854/5 and V856/7 only.

Nylon and rubber. All others contain leather or suede. 'TUF" WEATHERMAN.

All six styles in this range for boys; sizes ll-5i.

Eyelure LASHFK.

Janco LIQUID CONCENTRATE. This versatile, biodegradable pro3uct, based

on coconut oil, can be used for all purposes from Bubble Baths and Hand Washed

Clothes (harmless to elastic) to Washing Up and Heavy Duty Cleaning, i. e.,

Paint, Floors, etc. Dilute as required. Direct from Janco Sales, 11 Seymour

Road, Hampton Hill, Middx., TW12 1DD.

Nairn Floors all LINOLEUMS, including CUSHIONED VINYL FLOORING.

Queen Cosmetics ASTRINGENT LOTION, MUSCLE OIL, FACE POWDERS,

EYELASH CREAM, SHAMPOOS, SKIN FRESHENER. (All other lines contain

either stearic acid, lanolin or beeswax.) NOTHING IS ANIMAL TESTED.

Supa Klogs Garden Shoes SUPA KLOGS.

Weleda HERBAL TOOTHPASTE. PLANT GEL TOOTHPASTE. Previously

only the glycerine content kept these toothpastes out of our vegan lists but now

Weleda are only using vegetable glycerine. Add these items to the Weleda

range in your Products List for Autumn 1980.

Photographic film is still coated with animal glycerine but this is not used in

video equipment although components used in electronic products may have

wax coatings which will probably be animal based. _ _ ..

D V E R T I S E M E N T S

Please send to the Assistant Secretary, 9 Mawddwy Terrace, Minllyn, near

Dinas Mawddwy, Gwynedd, Wales, by Aug.l 1981, for the next issue. Ad-

vertisers are asked to note that we shall be unable to deal with box numbers

in future. Rate: 5p a word.

WALK THE MAINROUTES! A Wiltshire Way, A Somerset Way, A South

Wessex Way, A Bristol Countryway, King Alfred's Way and A South Coast Way.

Each costs £1.05 including postage and "Backpacking the Vegan Way" leaflet

from: The Vegan Society, 9 Mawddwy Terrace, Minllyn, near Dinas Mawddwy,

Gwynedd, Wales.

DEVON. For sale, exceptionally attractive 3-bed modernised house (one of

four), double-glazed, feature fireplace. Secluded patio, large productive gar-

den, orchard, panoramic views south. S. A .E . details: 1 Olga Terrace,

Lympstone, Exmouth, EX8 5LR. Tel. 03952-70244 (evenings).

LIQUID CONCENTRATE produced by JANCO SALES is a biodegradable liquid

soap derived from coconut oil, which Is free from animal products and animal

testing. LIQUID CONCENTRATE can be diluted to serve many purposes, pleas-

ant in use as a bubble bath or hand wash, perfect for washing woollens and fine

fabrics, ideal as a washing up liquid or to cope with heavier cleaning tasks

such as washing walls and floors. Full details by return on receipt of S. A. E.

direct from: JANCO SALES, 11 SEYMOUR itOAD, HAMPTON HILL,

MIDDLESEX, TW12 1DD.

articles on various topics including Natural Family Planning, Veganism and

Other Isms, Science and Ethics, Science Fiction and our Message, as well

as the usual recipes, letters and animal welfare pages.

W costs 40p a copy or £1.20 for a subscription of three issues; prices in-

clude postage. Vegan Views, Igincroft Lane, Edenfield, Ramsbottom, Bury,

Lanes, BL0 0JW.

New subscribers will be placed on our regular Contacts List unless they

wish otherwise."

The 25th issue of

Continued overleaf

will feature readers'

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HEREFORDSHIRE. Beechwood vegetarian guesthouse has catered for vegans

for the last 21 years. Organic garden produce. D. B. B . , S. A. E. ,

Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. Tel. 0989 2504.

PENZANCE. Self-catering accommodation or vegan/vegetarian meals by

arrangement in home two miles from Penzance with large garden, sea and

country views. Car shelter. Tel. Penzance 2242.

ACTIVITY HOLIDAYS WITH CAER (Centre for Alternative Education and Re-

search), Rosemerryn, Lamorna, Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 6BN. Tel. 073

672 530.

INFORMAL SUMMER COURSES on Art & Craft; Yoga, Dance, Music &

Massage; Cycling, etc. Vegetarian wholefood, vegan meals by arrangement.

S.A.E. Lower Shaw Farm, Shaw, Swindon, Wilts. Tel. 0793 771080.

THE WELLBEING CENTRE, Old School House, Churchtown, Illogan, Redruth,

Cornwall. Telephone Portreath 842999 for details of activities.

BELHAVEN House Hotel welcomes all. Vegans, vegetarians and other special

diets catered for along with our regular guests. Recommended by vegans from

the Midlands to Madras, but advance notice of arrival is requested where pos-

sible - 29 Hamilton Terrace, Milford Haven (tel. 06462-5983).

BOOST YOUR HEALTH! EASTBOURNE HEALTH HOTEL

Sauna, solarium, etc. Vegan

full or slimming menus

17 Burlington Place, Eastbourne, BN21 4AR

Tel. (0323) 23604

'Once or twice a year we all need true relaxation

to eaBe away stress'

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RAW FOOD COMPENDIUM

Its value as a substantial part of diet

Practical Hints, Principles,

Extracts from Medical Opinions

£3.50 post free, from

VIGIL EX PUBLICATIONS

18 Bar Street,

Scarborough,

YOll 2HT

GREENWAYS GUESTHOUSE

24 Marian Ave. Mablethorpe, Lines

(Tel. 7508)

Chris & Chris Phillips members of

Vegan Society welcome vegans. Home

baking, wholefoods, safe sandy beach.

Send S A E for brochure.

CORNWALL WHY NOT GET AWAY FROM IT ALL and spend a few days with us in the re-

laxed atmosphere of the West Country? We cannot always guarantee the weather

but you are assured of an IMAGINATIVE CUISINE PLUS GOOD OLD FASHIONED

SERVICE at a price you can afford!

Woodcote overlooks the TIDAL ESTUARY AND BIRD SANCTUARY of Hayle.

Also available SELF-CATERING CHALET, sleeps four. S. A. E. for brochure.

John & Pamela Barrett, Woodcote Vegetarian Hotel, The Saltings, Lelant,

St. Ives, Cornwall, TR26 3DL. Tel. 0736 75147.

T O R Q U A Y

Member Vegan Society. Brookesby Hall Hotel. Member Vegetarian Society (U. K.)

Meadfoot Beach. Tel. 0803 22194

Peacefully situated among the trees in the loveliest part of Torquay and overlooking thi

sea towards Brixham and Berry Head, the hotel offers wholefood Vegan and Vegetariar

meals which are interesting, satisfying and well balanced. The town centre is two bus

stops away and Meadfoot Beach 350 yards. Some rooms private showers. Full central

heating. Open all year (including Christmas). Colour brochure from Res. Props.

Mr. & Mrs. E. D. Baker.

V E G A N HOLIDAYS

with Brian & Wendy Burnett on yacht 'XIM' .

Late Summer. We still have vacancies on our cruises

in the Western Isles. No experience necessary.

Autumn. A two-week, 700-mile passage from Oban to

Southampton, calling at ports in Ireland, Isle of Man and

Wales. Also, a weekend in the Solent for those who

would like to try 'Xim' for a short time.

October. A 500-mile, 4-week cruise from Southampton

to the Mediterranean through the French Canals-

Winter. Cruises in the Mediterranean.

Xmas. Special Xmas period with vegan fare.

Prices from £70-£120 per week.

Please Bend stamp for details to: Brian & Wendy Burnett,

c /o SI Main Road, Kinnerton, Chester, CH4 9AJ.

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WELCOMES VEGANS

Lakeland's strictly Vegetarian Guest House offers a warm and hospitable welcome to Vegans. Come to us to relax, to walk and climb, to absorb the tranquility of Orchard House and the Lake District. We have a peaceful garden, a warm and comfortable home, delicious and different food and we are situated in superb Lake District country. We ask yegans to give us a week's notice if possible.

Brochure from Monty Alge and Keong Wee, (Stamp appreciated) Orchard House,

Borrowdale Road, Keswick on Derwentwater, Cumbria Tel.(0596) 72830

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It's 100% vegetable ... made from the soya bean and packed with protein and goodness. Its production involves no exploitation of animals. The flavour is quite delicious^—all the family, particularly the children will love it. You can drink it on its own as a super health drink or use it on breakfast cereals, in coffee or tea

or in dishes such as milk puddings and custards. What's more it will keep in tue can just as long as you want to keep it. A wonderfully versatile and nutritious food ... Golden Archer Beanmilk by Itona. It's at your health food store.

GSiAMIMllILGC The Milk That's 100% Non-Animal

CRANKS HeALTH FOODS

William Blake House, Marshall Street, London W1

CRANKS at Heal's, 196 Tottenham Court Road, W.1 CRANKS at Shinners Bridge, Dartington, Devon CRANKS at Peter Robinson, Oxford Circus, W.1 CRANKS at The Market, Covent Garden, W.C.2 CRANKS at 35 Hiah Street Totnes. Devon

PLAMIL SOYA PLANTMILK-

not to be used instead of breastmilk but as part of a varied diet. Provides important nutrients in easily digestible form. High in polyunsaturates and with added B12 but no synthetics.

All Plamil products are guaranteed exclusively vegan. List and recipes (SAE please) from Plamil Foods Ltd. Plamil House, Bowles Well Gardens, Folkestone.