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The Vegan Society Ltd 7 Battle Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex TN37 7AA Tel. and Fax. 0424 427393 Registered Charity No. 279228 Company Registration No. 1468880 VAT Registration No. 448 5973 95 President: Arthur Ling Deputy President: Amy Austin Vice-Presidents: Serena Coles, Freya Dinshah, Jay Dinshah, Cor Nouws, Donald Watson Council: Harold Atkinson, Amy Austin, Terry Bevis, Harry Bonnie, Lance Cruse, Clive Forest, Adrian Ling, Arthur Ling, Tim Powell, Rick Savage (Chair) Joint Hon. Treasurers: Harold Atkinson Terry Bevis

General Secretary: Richard Farhall Office Manager: Amanda Rofe Administrative Assistant: Kathy McCormack Hospital Liaison Officer:* Tim Powell Prison Liaison Officer:* Sandra Battram Local Contacts Co-ordinator:* Clive Forest * Denotes voluntary posts Veganism may be defined as a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as possible and practical, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose.

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

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Contents

Chairsay Further thoughts from the Chair

News

Contact News Local Contacts announced

Dear Janet 19 More queries answered

A Vegan in the Family 19 Superfit Megan

Growsense 21 Plant health

A Vegan Barbecue 6 Making the impossible possible

KEYnotes on Nutrition 8 Myth debunking

Healthwise — Biotin, Carnitine & Osteoporosis 9 Little-known nutrients

Media Monitoring: Studying the Grand Illusion 10 Introducing a monitoring project

Shoparound 12 With Annie Brosnan

Young Vegans 14 Not so entertaining

Diet & Spirituality The connection explained

Postbag Readers write . .

Reviews

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Publications & Promotional Goods 28

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Noticeboard

Information

Classified

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Vegans in Hospital 16 Little joy

How to use . . . Creamed Coconut 18 Janet Hunt advises

Illustrations by Juliet Breese, Amanda Rofe and Suzanne Whitelock

Cover by Jane Brougham-Cole


Chairsay...

(Man is what he eats)

Ludwig Feuerbach

A simple sentence that conveys a profound truth; the same senti-ment that was expressed as long ago as the sixth century BC by Pythagoras. The majority of people rarely consider that when they eat another animal or its produce, they are really eating pain, suffering and death and by doing so will never know the liberation that a plant-based diet brings — not just to the hapless

animals but to one's own life as well. Freed at last from viewing the world through a slaughter-house, one can find harmony with the world — on 'Spaceship Earth', as one TV programme imaginatively calls our small planet.

The Society is working hard to free more people from the lies — meat provides first class protein or milk is 'natural' food — and delusions which enslave them to an animal-based diet. Despite tight finances, the Society has once again funded a survey of manufacturers and suppliers to ascertain which of their goods are vegan; this infor-mation has been compiled into a new pocket-size shopping guide — the Animal-Free Shopper — which was published at the beginning of June, price £4.50. The Animal-Free Shopper addresses itself to the needs of

vegans; vegetarians seeking to move further along their ethical path, the dairy product intol-erant; and those who recognize the environmental and resource consequences of animal rearing or who wish to reduce their dependence on animal exploita-tion. You could ensure the success of this enterprise by purchasing a Shopper for your-self and those you know — friends or relatives — who might find it useful. For further details see the inside front cover.

Just as we are what we eat, the Society is only as strong as its membership and its Finances. So I would urge everyone to renew their membership, and wherever possible, encourage others to join (remember, asso-ciate membership is open to those who are unable to adhere to a vegan diet but agree with it) — a £1 a month is a small price set against the very worthy aims of the Society and the wealth of the opposition it faces. Fundraising is also vital to the

survival of the Society, so keep saving those pennies in your Supporter's Money Boxes, sell as many raffle tickets as you can, send a donation or persuade your local animal rights group to purchase our leaflets. The Council for its part is making strenuous efforts to restart the Local Vegan Contact Network; a list of those of you recognized as Local Contacts for the Society appears on page 16. If a Local Contact is near you, make yourself known to them and offer what support you can. When I was a Local Contact, cookery demonstrations and tasting sessions were particu-larly popular.

Many people nowadays — disenchanted with ever acquiring things — are searching for some meaning to their life, let us together show them that advancing from a bar-baric to a compassionate diet is the first and most important step in that quest.

Rick Savage

News

Quick A b o u t Turn Researchers at the Medical Research Council's epidemi-ology unit at Llandough hospital caused a furore in February by announcing that men who drink more than a pint of milk each day are eight times less likely to suffer a heart attack than those who do not drink milk. The 10-year study of 2,500 men also found that those who eat polyun-saturated margarine are twice as likely to develop heart disease as those who eat butter.

For a few weeks Christmas

had come early for the Milk Marketing Board, National Dairy Council ("This study bears out what we have been saying for years — milk is good for you"), farming press and those journal-ists and 'personalities' who seize every opportunity to run down "dogmatists of diet". But the euphoria was short lived: Government scientists and the British Heart Foundation urged people to be wary of the results of the study, the Medical Research Council distanced itself from its own unit, and finally the head of the study, Dr Peter Elwood retracted his claims saying that people should not change their eating habits until his findings had been confirmed by others.

Apparently the results of the study failed to take into account other factors (besides diet) believed to contribute to heart disease, and also the medical his-tories and lifestyles of the sub-jects.

Convoluted Logic Researchers at Hammersmith Hospital have discovered that one of the dietary factors which contribute to cancers are chemi-cals called amines which are generated in meat by certain cooking methods. When the amines are ingested and absorbed into the blood stream, the liver changes them into toxin which may cause cancer. The Cancer Research Campaign has

made a donation of £96,000 to allow the researchers to deter-mine whether other foods — such as vegetables — help prevent the conversion of the amines to toxins! Hammersmith & Fulham Guardian 15 J.91

Dramatic Vegans It was vegan fare only at the March press preview of the BBC's three-part drama For The Greater Good — "a chilling picture of how government reacts to the crisis of Aids, prison riots and the threat of a police state" (Radio Times). The writer, Vegan Society member Gordon F Newman, and the leading actor, Martin Shaw (he of Professionals fame) are both vegans.

Toxic Food More than 55,000 cases of food poisoning were reported in 1990 — almost four times the number eight years ago. But the actual incidence of food poisoning is generally reckoned to be at least 10 times the number of reported cases, taking the total to about half a million a year.

Nearly half of all uncooked chickens contain salmonella — a decrease! Ten years ago it was 80%.

McDonald's has decided to slighdy lengthen cooking times for its hamburgers following an investigation by the Public

Health Laboratories Service which found a "highly signifi-cant association" between nine cases of E. coli 0157 food poi-soning (rare but potentially lethal) and visits by victims to the Preston McDonald's. The incident precipitated a warning by Donald Acheson, Chief Medical Officer, for meat-eaters to thoroughly cook their burgers to ensure there were no (poten-tially kidney damaging) "pink bits inside".

In February, dairy farmer John Speak was ordered to pay £33,000 damages after the deaths of six pensioners and a baby who were infected by unpasteurized green top milk. The Milk Marketing Board advised the 400,000 green top drinkers — who include the Queen and the Prince of Wales — to switch to pasteurized for their own safety.

According to a survey con-ducted by the Consumers' Association, more than half the samples of seafood, such as cockles, mussels, prawns and shrimps, bought from street stalls and vendors' vans, contain high levels of bacteria. Financial Times 16.2.91 Daily Telegraph 15.2.91, 9.4.91, 16.4.91 & 19.4.91 The Times 2.2.91

'Mad C a l f In March the Ministry of Agriculture announced the first case of "mad calf ' disease, involving a young dairy cow

M i c r o B r e a k t h r o u g h s Two independent microbi-ology laboratories — the Microbiological Laboratory and Microbiological Consultant Services — have developed completely animal-free stage one microbiological tests (see 'News', Winter 1990) for use in detecting the presence of contaminants in most toiletry and cosmetic products. A number of compa-nies have expressed interest in these tests but consumer pres-sure is required to encourage greater take-up. Further infor-mation about the tests is avail-able from the Society.


thought to have caught the fatal BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) brain disorder from its mother.

The number of confirmed BSE cases has risen from two in 1976 to 25,826 by 18.3.91. In 1990, more than 26,700 hours were spent in BSE research at veterinary investigation centres in England and Wales. Guardian 283.91 Meat Trades Journal 11.4.91

Soya Decimation In February, the Brazilian Environment Minister Jose Lutzenberger accused the EEC of being partly responsible for the destruction of 154,000 square miles of tropical rainforest. When the EEC decided to promote its cattle industry and encourage imports of cattle feed, the Brazilian government responded by promoting massive cash crops, particularly soya beans. Small farmers migrated to the forest and cleared trees in search of more land. Guardian 18.2.91

More Protection In addition to cabbage (see 'News', Spring 1991), soya and whole grains may protect women against breast cancer. According to Professor Herman Aldercreutz, head of clinical chemistry at Helsinki University, Finland, consumption of wheat grain and soya can be correlated with a low incidence of breast cancer, low levels of oestrogen in the urine, and high levels of seemingly protective hormones.

Scientists at the University of Singapore studying the diets of 200 women with breast cancer and 420 without found that there was a decreased risk of breast cancer in those who had high intakes of polyunsaturated fatty acids, beta-carotene, soya pro-teins and total soya products. Pulse 27.4.91 Guardian 185.91

TM Update The latest business to be granted use of the Vegan Society Trade Mark is Stargazer — a company spe-cializing in cosmetics and hair products.

Banned The European Commission's panel of experts on veterinary products has concluded that the hormone Somatech, a genetically engineered version of bovine

somatotrophin (BST), designed to increase milk yields [and so aggravate milk surpluses! — see 'In Brief], is safe. However, doubts remain over BST's pos-sible effects on a cow's health; its use is banned in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and some Canadian provinces.

Manifesto The 'Manifesto for Animals' — political proposals on animal experimentation, intensive farming and fur — has been launched by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, Compassion in World Farming and LYNX. Further information: Clare Lothian, Press Coordi-nator, BUAV, 16a Crane Grove, London N7 8LB. 071 700 4888.

Fastest Congratulations to vegan runner Sally Eastall, third British woman home in the 1991 ADT London Marathon, described by one TV commentator as: "Britain's fastest vegan"!

Self-Shedders Australian scientists are close to perfecting a technique which causes sheep to shear them-selves. The system, known as 'biological wool harvesting' involves injecting sheep with a protein, epidermal growth factor (EGF), found in the salivary glands of male mice. The protein causes the sheep to "shed on cue" — but it can also produce abortions in pregnant ewes. New Scientist 23.3.91

'Peasant Diet1

A recently-published World Health Organisation report, which sets worldwide nutrition guidelines, recommends a return to a "peasant diet" based on simple, less refined foods with strong emphasis on fruits, veg-etables, bread, potatoes, rice, pasta and pulses. The Guardian reports: "The lower limit for cholesterol is set at zero, which means that vegan diets without meat, eggs and dairy products can be healthy." An odd state-ment but who cares? — it's not often 'the' vegan diet is pre-sented in a positive light. Guardian 19.4.91

Royal Jelly Hype Despite annual sales in Britain of £17 million, and use by the likes of Cliff Richard, Barbara Cartland and Millwall football

team, the Consumers' Association has failed to find any clear evidence that royal jelly — the food of queen bees — has any medical benefits. "A 30g bowl of cornflakes provides 30 times more thiamin and riboflavin; 90 times more niacin, and nearly 400 times more folic acid than a 500mg dose of royal jelly. And the cornflakes are much cheaper." Guardian 9.4.91

Vote f o r the Rabbit A £3,500 6 feet tall Spitting Image laboratory rabbit called 'Vanity' is touring the country on an 'election campaign' as part of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection's cam-paign to end cosmetic testing in the EEC.

Gift Members and associates will find a gift from Plamil enclosed with this Vegan. Healthy Vegan Infants/Children is a useful booklet covering infant nutrition and includes case studies. An additional copy is available from the company for 50p plus a C5 stamped addressed envelope.

In Brief • Hypothermia accounts for one third of post-lambing deaths and claims more than five lambs in every 100 bom. Farmers Weekly 25.1.91

• Over £25 million will be spent advertising and promoting meat this year. Meat Trades Journal 25.4.91

• In March, British dairy farmers poured an estimated seven million gallons of milk over fields to escape EEC fines for exceeding their annual quotas. It is illegal to pour it down drains because it is highly toxic to fish. Italy has begun to slaughter

100,000 dairy cows to cut milk production to EEC quota levels. Today 253.91 Farmers Weekly 19.4.91

• A Ministry of Agriculture investigation into causes of abor-tion in dairy cattle claims that the annual rate may be three times higher than the farmer-reported figure of 0.2%. The most common cause of abortion was found to be bovine virus diarrhoea (BVD). Farmers Weekly 21.12.90

• Up to 5% of British goats are infected with caprine arthritis encephalitis (CAE) — a progres-sive disease affecting joints, brain, spinal cord, lungs and udder. Farmers Weekly 22.2.91

• In April, Unigate Dairies was fined £17,500 after fruit fly eggs, cement, algae and a seven-inch plant were found in bottles at its Hanworth, London bottling factory. Daily Star 30.4.91

• Also in April, Campbells Frozen Foods was fined £1,000 after a batch of 1,000 vegetable burgers were returned by retailers after customers com-plained that they contained meat. Campbells admitted confusing meat and vegetable mixes at its Norwich plant. Independent 19.4.91

• The European Commission has only 13 inspectors to police some 80,000 EC abattoirs and enforce animal welfare law. Farmers Weekly 8.3.91

• More than £550,000 in com-pensation has been paid out to producers for poultry compulso-rily slaughtered as a result of salmonella infection. A total of 49 'flocks' comprising 507,733 birds have been killed. Meat Trades Journal 13.12.90


A VEGAN BARBECUE Sarah Butterworth experiments and

discovers that the seemingly impossible is possible after all

Finding myself in a position of a arranging a get-together for rather more people than I could comfortably accommodate

indoors I had this mad idea of making it a garden party and having a barbecue.

As a relatively new vegan, I really didn ' t know if a vegan barbecue was feasible — or a contradiction in terms. But I was determined to try, encouraged by my mate, Don, who isn ' t a vegan

himself but was quite interested in the experiment and was prepared to cook and serve the vegan food whilst holding a few dead-animal burgers and sausages in the freezer to bail me out if necessary!

For the hot food I was relying on Protoveg mixes, especially Sosmix, which I consider makes the most deli-cious sausages in the whole, wide world! I used to use these mixes before becoming vegan, and always added an

egg because otherwise the shapes, par-ticularly burgers, would break up when cooking — a disaster for a barbecue. But I'd by now discovered the secret was to make the shapes then cook them in a microwave until firm. Once cold they can be handled and grilled without struc-tural failure occuring (they freeze better like this too, thawing as individual pieces rather than reforming into one big lump).

S o m e o f t h e balls tended t o spin a r o u n d on t h e s k e w e r s when t h e

kebabs w e r e t u r n e d

Kebabs I set out to make the shapes the previous night, and with four basins in front of me containing Sosmix, Sosmix with Herbs, Burgamix and Sizzles it occurred to me that some kebabs would be nice. So I made up about twenty little balls, about the size of ping pong balls, from each bowl of mix and after microwaving slipped them on skewers, using one ball of each variety interspersed with (raw) chunks of red and green capsicum peppers and onion to each skewer. This turned out to be the most popular item on the menu. They grilled up well, with the pepper and onion chunks effectively frying in the fat oozing from the mix balls. The only small problem encoun-tered in cooking them was that some of the balls tended to spin around on the skewers when the kebabs were turned, so that only one side of that ball got cooked if you weren't careful. This was probably because I hadn't put the skewers exactly through the centre of gravity of all the balls, working at nearly midnight! No doubt they'd have stuck to the skewers if I'd put them on before microwaving, but I'd not done that as I didn't think it would do the the peppers and onions a lot of good to be pre-microwaved. Had I not wanted to use the bits of veg. then just pressing the mix directly onto the skewers would prob-ably have been most successful, and in particluar the Sizzles mix would have come out as a quite 'traditional' kebab sausage.

This is a speciality o f mine and only f o r t h e b r a v e

P i z z a s As it's quite impossible to buy ready-made pizzas without cheese I've discov-ered how easy it is to make your own. Our local supermarket has Goldenfry pizza base mix [Ed. See also the


Animal-Free Shopper/ which is so enthusiastic about rising that if you mix two packets at once you need to make three pizzas out of it! I used a 'cook-in sauce' to spread over the base. Unable to find a vegan frankfurter I used Sizzles 'salame'. I rolled up a packet of Sizzles

i mix into a fat sausage, about three inches in diameter, microwaved it, then sliced it into rounds. It did tend to break up a bit, but that doesn't really matter when it's going flat on a pizza. If you do the same with Sosmix you can slice it a lot thinner.

To go with the burgers I made some hot onion relish. This is a speciality of mine and only for the brave. If you want to risk it, this is the way it's done: Cover the bottom of a wok with olive oil and make very hot. Grate three large green chilli peppers — including the seeds — and a whole garlic and fry in the hot oil. Add two pounds of chopped onions and fry until brown. Turn down the heat, add a can of chopped tomatoes and then simmer for hours, stirring occasionally. Serve hot when you taste it and your eyes water!

The only other hot food I served was baked potatoes, which to my surprise nobody really wanted. Perhaps they'd have been more popular had I dressed them up rather than serving them whole in a bowl for people to fill themselves from the 'salad bar'.

Salads Salads would seem to be an easy choice for a vegan spread but in fact it was the

coleslaw which caused me the most trouble. In the end we settled on a mixture of tarragon vinegar, tofu, salt, paprika, and carraway seeds for the dressing, which was acceptable but not very special, so research work continues.

With t h e exception o f t h e oldest person p r e s e n t everyone

accepted t h e food as quite n o r m a l

The potato salad was no problem, just cold, boiled new potatoes, a tin of pro-cessed peas, and a jar of Life Mayonnaise. A mixture of cucumber, celery and tomatoes cut into large chunks with (raw) whole button mush-rooms I left undressed. I felt my salad bar wouldn't be complete without a rice salad and a pasta salad. For the pasta salad I boiled pasta shells and just before they were cooked added in small pieces of onion, celery and red pepper. I thought it was nice but I don't think anyone else tried it! I also made up some Amazing Grains cous cous salad which nobody touched.

However, the rice salad was a dif-ferent story, as for this I made kedgeree. It's always annoyed me that people in this country ruin this traditionally vege-tarian dish by adding fish to it. Made properly it 's a treasure to grace any feast, served hot or cold. The best way

to make it is thus: Cook one cup of basmati rice in two-and-a-half cups of salted water, and in a separate pan cook one cup of red lentils in one-and-a-half cups of water with a teaspoon of turmeric but no salt. Don't stir either at all. Let both go completely cold in the pans. Then cover the bottom of a wok in olive oil, add a teaspoon of salt and fry two large chopped onions until soft. Add a handful of sultanas and fry for a few more minutes. Stir the cold rice to separate the grains and add to the pan, mixing well without mashing the rice. When well mixed add the lentils. It freezes well — if you can make enough to get it that far!

I couldn't start cooking until the night before, as a garden party in April could easily have had to be called off at the last moment due to bad weather. But in fact, sandwiched between gales the pre-vious week and snow two days later we had marvellous weather — I needed to use the old Yankie trick of keeping all the canned drinks cool in a tub of water and crushed ice. Cider, Kiri apple juice and fresh orange juice were the most popular drinks.

With the exception of the oldest person present everyone accepted the food as quite normal — possibly some didn't even realize it was 'different'!

So now I've established that a vegan barbecue is not only possible but highly successful I just can't wait to have another! If I can just get that coleslaw dressing sorted o u t . . .


E ^ f NOTES ON NUTRITION

DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS & NUTRITIONAL THERAPIES

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Tim Key debunks a few myths

If you take an interest in nutrition and start lis-tening to reports in the media and reading arti-

cles in magazines and other health food literature, the only thing that rapidly becomes clear is that nutri-tional advice can be con-fusing and contradictory. In fact, established knowledge is fairly simple and consistent, but there is a plethora of mis-leading reports based either on an inadequate under-standing of nutrition or on unsubstantiated beliefs.

Who N e e d s S u p p l e m e n t s ? Extreme views on nutritional supplements are often encoun-tered. Some people are strongly opposed to the use of supple-ments, regarding them perhaps as "unnatural" or as a slur on the adequacy of their diet, while other people are enthusiasts and take all sorts of supplements. Both views may be unwise.

There is nothing wrong with using nutritional supplements if they are needed. About 200 million people in the world have an undesirably low intake of iodine, which can cause both goitre and cretinism. Their iodine intake is low because they live in areas with little iodine in the soil. Perhaps the 'natural ' way to raise their iodine intake

would be to supply them with sea fish or seaweed to eat, but this is logistically impossible — and not really 'na tura l ' for people living far from the sea. Countries which have success-fully reduced their incidence of iodine deficiency diseases have acheived this by various means, including iodine injection, iodine fortified bread, iodized salt, and — in Britain — as a largely for-tuitous result of the supplementa-tion of cattle feed with iodine. The sensible approach is obvi-ously to use the knowledge gained by hard scientific research to determine whether a supplement is necessary and, if it is, to use it.

For vegans, I believe that it is worth repeating the advice that a supplement of vitamin B1 2 is necessary. Since I discussed this issue in the Winter 1990 Vegan, another paper has been published showing that the so-called vitamin B12 in algae such as nori (a seaweed) and spirulina is not available to the body as vitamin B1 2 . Tablets containing B1 2 or foods fort if ied with real B1 2 should therefore be used regu-larly. The daily intake of Bj 2 recommended by the World Health Organisation is 2 micro-grams.

D o w n t h e Drain? It is easy to find literature recom-mending supplements of almost every known nutrient — plus some unknown nutrients! — for

the promotion of health or the treatment of diseases ranging from minor ailments to cancer. These claims should be consid-ered with great caution. There is very little hard evidence that taking nutrients in excess of the basic requirement has any bene-fits, so that, unless your diet is inadequate in a nutrient, buying supplements is probably money down the drain — money which could be put to better use sup-porting veganism.

Having said that, there is still considerable uncertainty about the optimum intake of some nutrients in terms of effects on long term health. It is possible that higher than 'adequate' intakes of vitamin C and carotene may reduce the risk for some cancers, but the best way to raise intakes of these nutrients is to eat more fresh vegetables and fruit.

T r e a t i n g Disease w i t h Diet There is probably more rubbish printed about the treatment of disease with diet than on any other aspect of nutrition. Diet is the principal treatment for some disorders, such as obesity and non-insulin dependent diabetes; for both these conditions, the diet should be. calorie controlled, rich in slowly digested complex car-bohydrates (whole cereals, pulses, vegetables and fruits), and low in sugar and in fatty foods. For many other diseases, especially chronic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis which fluctuates in severity, many claims have been made but few substantiated.

For most diseases, the best dietary advice that can be given is that a normal, varied, nutri-tious diet should be chosen, as for healthy people. It is only

recently that many orthodox medical treatments have been subjected to rigorous testing to show whether or not they really are better than a placebo. For alternative treatments our knowl-edge is much less, and while some may help there is usually no proof of this. So you should think twice before adding an expensive food or supplement to your diet, or before excluding a nutritious food. Allergies to foods do occur, but allergies are notoriously hard to study, and there are probably a lot if people who are needlessly restricting their diets.

Fish Oil o r Snake-Oil? Fish oil has been widely publi-cized recently as an agent to prevent heart attacks, as a treat-ment for some other disorders (arthritis, psoriasis), and even as an essential nutrient. Fish oil is obviously unacceptable to vegans, so are they missing out?

In contrast with many nutri-tional remedies, extensive research has been done on fish oil. This has shown that fish oil increases the time taken for blood to clot, which may reduce the risk of thrombosis, and has other potentially beneficial effects on blood fats and some types of inflammation. These effects can help some people, but the major effect on blood clot-ting is probably of little concern to vegans because their low blood cholesterol levels should put them at very low risk for heart attacks. There is no evi-dence that fish is essential — many populations have lived for generations without it, and vegans can obtain moderate amounts of fats of the same type as in fish oil from soya, walnuts, whole grains, leafy vegetables, and rapeseed oil.

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HEALTHWISE

BIOTIN, CARNITINE & OSTEOPOROSIS

Gill Langley, author of Vegan Nutrition—A Survey of Research (now into its second reprint),

highlights some little-known nutrients

Some vegans seem to believe that whatever they eat — as long as it's vegan — they will

stay healthy, as though a clear conscience will guar-antee good health. Would that it could! Although nutri-tional science is still in its infancy, we owe it to our-selves and to veganism to keep up with developments so that we can make informed decisions about our diets.

O x f o r d S t u d y I've been trawling the scientific literature again and the news is more positive than in the last 'Healthwise' (Winter 1990). Margaret Thorogood heads a 10-year study of vegetarianism and health at Oxford University, comparing four dietary groups: vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters and meat-eaters. Some of you may be part of the vegan contin-gent, which is the largest group

of vegans ever to be monitored. A report in the British Medical Journal1 last year summarized the findings on fat and heart disease. The vegan men ate least saturated fat (6% of their total calorie intake), while vegetarian and meat-eating women ate the most (14%) — although still less than the national average. Polyunsaturated fat intake was quite high.

Vegans had lower levels of cholesterol in their blood than meat-eaters, consistent with the suggestion that they are at less risk of heart disease. Low blood cholesterol was related to the proportion of polyunsaturated to saturated fats in the diet, the ratio being 1.85 in vegans but only 0.56 in meat-eaters. The researchers are also collecting information about illness and causes of death among the 11,000 volunteers, which may provide revealing evidence of the health effects of veganism.

'New' N u t r i e n t Every so often scientists dis-

cover or rediscover a nutrient which appears to be in short supply in plant foods. Biotin is a vitamin found mainly in animal products, but is also available in smaller amounts in whole grains, fruit, vegetables and soya flour. It is thought that biotin from plant sources is not so well assimilated by the body, and lack of the vitamin leads to dermatitis and alopecia (hair loss), as well as damage to the nervous system.

American scientists Kenneth Lombard and Donald Mock compared the levels of biotin in the blood of vegan, vegetarian and meat-eating adults and chil-dren2 — blood levels reflect the balance of a nutrient in the body. They suspected that vegans might be low'in biotin, but in their 1989 report were surprised to find that vegans seemed to have the highest amounts in their bloodstream. The reason isn't yet known.

Carnitine Kenneth Lombard and his col-league also decided to see if their vegan and vegetarian volunteers were low in carnitine3. Carnitine allows fats to be metabolized to release energy, and most people eat more than they need, as it occurs primarily in meat and dairy products. Plant foods contain 5% or less of the amounts found in meat. Carnitine can also be made in the body from building blocks avail-able in food, and it is effectively conserved; even so, low blood levels have been found in certain individuals whose diet contained little. The results showed that although vegans and veggies had a little less carnitine in their blood than meat-eaters, it was well in the normal range. They excreted much less carnitine than the omnivores, suggesting that their bodies adapted to lower levels in food by carefully con-serving what was available.

Osteoporosis Finally, the interesting question of diet and osteoporosis again. Osteoporosis — a condition of bone fragility — is a serious public health problem, especially in post-menopausal women. Risk factors include lack of exercise, reduced level of oestrogen, low calcium in the diet and cigarette smoking. Excessive meat con-sumption has also been linked with osteoporosis, a risk obvi-ously not run by vegans; but on the other hand, some vegans obtain less that average calcium from their diets. One or two studies have suggested that

among older women, there is less osteoporosis in vegetarians than in omnivores. Very little research had been done with vegans.

A 1989 report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition4 compared bone mineral content and bone width in post-menopausal vegetarian and meat-eating women, and looked for effects of levels of protein and calcium in the diet among other things. There were 290 volunteers, of whom 16 were vegans. No obvious differ-ences were found in bone width and mineral content between meat-eaters, veggies and vegans, even though the latter two groups consumed less calcium.

The results failed to confirm that vegetarians are at less risk of osteoporosis. It's good news that a new study is to be launched at University College and Middlesex School of Medicine in London, which will look at the effects of vegan and vegetarian diets on hormone levels and osteoporosis [Ed. See 'Notice-board']. Over two years each volunteer will have bone scans to check the density of their bones. Their diets will be analysed by means of a diet diary, which involves the weighing and noting of every morsel of food that passes their lips during a repre-sentative seven-day period. More research with volunteers is the best way of discovering the intri-cacies of diet and health.

References 1 M Thorogood, L Roe, K McPherson & J Mann (1990). Dietary intake and plasma lipid levels: lessons from a study of the diet of health conscious groups. British Medical Journal 300: 1297-1301. 2 K A Lombard & D M Mock (1989). Biotin nutritional status of vegans, lacto-ovo-vegetarians, and non-vegetar-ians. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 50: 486-490. 3 K A Lombard, A Olson, S E Nelson & C J Rebouche (1989). Carnitine status of lacto-ovo-vegetarians and strict vegetarian adults and children. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 50:301-306. 4 I F Hunt, N J Murphy, C Henderson, V A Clark, R M Jacobs, P K Johnson & A H Coulson (1989). Bone mineral content in postmenopausal women: comparison of omni-vores and vegetarians. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 50: 517-523.


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MEDIA MONITORING Studying the Grand Illusion

Does animal liberation get a raw deal in the media?

Jim Blaxter proposes a monitoring project

Every animal liberationist will have been incensed at some time or another by media treatment of animal rights. That animal

abusers will seek to defend their prac-tices with bogus arguments is only to be expected, but what is more disturbing is that the issues are routinely presented by others in an illusory manner.

Familiar aspects of the Grand Illusion are: that institutionalized animal abuse is acceptable; that there is no such animal abuse; that if there is any it's happening abroad; that if it is happening here then all that's needed is modification of a par-ticularly outrageous form (which even the Illusion cannot disguise), or for some species to be afforded a higher welfare

status (some should not be in zoos, cir-cuses, labs); that only animal welfare is respectable; that rights should be extended to other races and sexes but not to other species. Maintaining these is the appointed task of many who perform on, in or for the media, and their works may be categorized into several distinct groups as outlined below, with exam-ples.

Dolphin-friendly t u n a w a s p r o -m o t e d b u t t u n a - f r i e n d l y people

w e r e not

The Misguided

One notices here TV programmes dealing with 'green' issues, where attempts are made to promote conserva-tion with hardly a passing concern for the individual animal. Obvious charac-ters in this camp are media favourites Princes Philip and Charles, David Bellamy and Gerald Durrell who believe it acceptable or even de rigueur to shoot, hunt, farm and collect animals. The trademark is usually one of omission. • On 10 May last year, BBC2's Nature programme urged our government to follow the Dutch battery cage phase-out, but no mention was made of the contin-uing chickicide of day-old males. Dolphin-friendly tuna was also pro-moted but tuna-friendly people were not. • Remember Comic Relief's purblind notion of sending goats to starving Africa?

TV fiction has generally c a s t a c t i v i s t s in t h e role o f i m m a t u r e

idiots, thugs o r r i f f - r a f f

The Misleaders

The media's knee-jerk response to animal rights activities encourages a negative image of compassion. • TV fiction (e.g. BBC's Bergerac and Howard Wakelin's The Final Frame, Channel 4, 12.4.90) has generally cast activists in the role of immature idiots, thugs or riff-raff, and St Elsewhere has given us the ludicrous spectacle of a vivisector mourning the death of his research tool ewe at the hands of animal activists.

News programmes reinforce the preju-dice. We usually hear about animal rights only when the term can be applied to a shadowy group rather than a concept. And society's confused ideas about animals are maintained by using them in jokey reports.


• BBC Scotland News (September 1989) story of a policeman being surprised at finding lions abandoned in a beast wagon in a Scottish lay-by. • BBC2 News View (8.12.90) story of an escaped circus elephant marauding in a private garden.

News and documentaries also often feature the human health risks of animal food production, but willingness to cover the stories rests on the crass con-viction that fine-tuning will bring the existing system to perfection. • Rad io 4 ' s Food Programme on 23 February 1990 featured a Grampian poultry and pig farmer stating that his industry would continue "to look for more humane methods of intensive rearing".

Hitler w a s a vegetarian but he w a s n ' t a vegan

The misleaders club also has as members those of the so-called health press with its routine misinformation, referring to animal-free diets as "strict" or "deficient" and to "abstaining" vegans. So, animal rights people are at once both puritans and, if they can in any way be connected with the "extreme", "firebombing" activities of the ALF, terrorists. Animal rights equals sackcloths, balaclavas and ashes. Other cliches culminate with the ultimate, "Hitler was a vegetarian" (yes, but he wasn't a vegan, and wasn't Himmler a chicken farmer?).

When serious animal issues are con-sidered newsworthy, how often is it that a spokesperson from an animal rights organization is brought on primarily to condemn the activities of a sister organi-zation or to speak from a welfare view-point? Other examples: • On the 6 o'clock News of 12.6.90, the BBC (not scientists) stated, in a report on the "animal rights car bombing" which injured a baby, that in some areas of research animal tests are still essen-tial. The BBC failed to announce that the ALF denied responsibility for the bomb. • On 4.4.91, BBC TV News ran a con-demnatory piece (aren't they supposed to be unbiased?) on the squalid Thai trade in endangered species, and fol-lowed it without irony, with a celebra-tion of the Queen Mother's Grand National credentials. Two days later the same news team covered the race itself, referring to the fences which "are daunting for the men who have to get the horses over them". • The 1990 Kiley-Worthington Report on circuses saw media coverage concen-

trate on its pro-circus conclusions but ignore its outrageous findings.

Returning to specific terminology, the media ran into serious difficulties when reporting on the threatened closure of London Zoo, announced in April this year. The derogatory term "animal lovers" could no longer be applied to animal rights campaigners but to those who, "for the sake of our children" wanted the Zoo kept open.

The Disingenuous

Schooled in avoidance techniques, these goalpost-movers are behind or take part in discussions and debates and, being unable to counter an animal rights ethic, deliberately misrepresent or misunder-stand it, switch tack or take refuge in the peripheral. • One must recall, as something of a classic, BBC2's 1990 Arena debate, 'That the Animal Kingdom Needs a Bill of Rights', when Mary Warnock and Germaine Greer failed to catch Tom Regan's drift, leading in the end to the exasperated American philosopher asking where these people had been. They displayed no knowledge let alone understanding of the works of Regan himself, Singer, Clark or Rollin. Prior to the debate a preview in The Times pic-tured Regan's other, vivisectionist oppo-nent Stephen Rose with a pet cat on his shoulder.

Another form of the tactic is to feature controversial topics as if there was no preceding controversy or, indeed, UK legislation. For example: • Bronco. A programme celebrating the rodeo. Channel 4, 4.4.91. • Angling programmes, such as the series currently running on BBC Scotland. • 7 Uses for a dead zoo animal. The Guardian 12.4.91.

The Trapped

Locked into a particular mind-set, pos-sibly unaware of outside interests or of their own psychology, the down-trodden and the insecure either fail to recognize victims of another oppression or else subconsciously oppress another group. Though not exactly something for which one can blame the media, it 's worth mentioning here (at risk of sounding racist/sexist) that • Nelson Mandela's release in February last year was marked, grotesquely, by the ostentatious donning of black leather — a favourite of the Nazis — by those on the celebration podium. • Feminists (remember Germaine Greer?) have in the main failed to

empathize with the long-suffering dairy cow. Isn't milk a feminist issue?

In the insecure group we find furred-up Hollywood stars desperate not to appear unattractive, and vegetarian pop singers whose leather uniform compulsion will be "taken care of by my karma". Sadly, we need also include here the anti-animal jokes of alternative, anti-racist, anti-sexist comedians. • Clive Anderson Talks Back (is tha t alternative or just smart-Alec?) on Channel 4, 27 April 1990, brought animals into the studio-light glare to ridicule an animal psychic; featured jokes about smoking beagles and cows "bursting for a milk"; and satirized a humane pest remover. Perhaps it was just coincidence that the show also fea-tured green "guru" David Bellamy. Other examples include Hale & Pace's microwaved kitten and Rita Rudner's "I think cats are a waste of fur." • In the earlier days (1983) of alternative comedy, London Weekend Television ran a showcase series called Stomping on the Cat.

The milk c a r t o n a n d copious m i l k - q u a f f i n g w e r e b l a n t a n t l y t o

t h e f o r e

Placement

This insidious, almost subliminal adver-tising whereby products are 'placed' in films and TV shows is most often found in US exports. • In Kate & Allie, Channel 4, 4.4.91, the emphasis was on milk. One of the char-acters had "Gone out for more milk" and on his return the milk carton and copious milk-quaffing were blatantly to the fore. "Want some more milk?"; "I want to pay you back for the milk"; "I like milk best". This was made all the worse as the programme was also at pains to promote concern for retarded people.

As this whole area of bias and illusion-maintenance has not hitherto been studied in any organized manner, a one-month trial TV monitoring project (not forgetting the positive) will be estab-lished under the auspices of Ambridge Animal Aid (see Media Watch in The Vegan, Spring 1991, page 30). Anyone interested in taking part in a major way — a disciplined month-long viewing of evening fiction or factual programmes on one channel — or in a smaller manner — sending in details of one-off programmes, should contact Alan Kirkham at the address below for a briefing sheet (SAE please). Ambridge Animal Aid, 53 The Tythings, Worcester WR1 1JT.


S h o p a i o u n d Annie Brosnan surveys the latest vegan products

v t c , a n f a r e

is on

The shopping place is becoming ever more diverse for the vegan with some money to

spend and an appetite for the latest animal-free nibbles and potions.

H a n d y Goodlife Foods has combined handiness with goodness in a new range of organic conve-nience foods. Four out of the six are vegan — the organic Vegetable Pillau Mix, Organic Falafel Mix, Organic French Farmhouse Soup Mix and the Organic Vegetable Cous Cous with Lentils. Goodlife's new Organic Vegetable Tikkas are also vegan.

Another new boxed goody is available from Haldane under the Granose label: Vegetable Grills come in boxes of four boasting the encour-aging phrase 'Suitable for the vegan diet'.

T V P - O K ! A range of TVP products has emerged in response to the recent bouts of meat-centred food scares. With these prod-ucts more likely bearing retailers' labels rather than their own, the manufacturers, Milton Wholefoods, will be pleased to direct people to their nearest stockists. They can be reached on 0686 625768.

S h o p a r o u n d t h e World For those desiring something of a continental flavour at their meal times, BN French Toasts with organic wheat from BN Biscuits and Foods should be just the thing.

From the land of surf, sun and the Beach Boys comes a selection of brown rice break-fast cereals. IGC Products Ltd., under the evocative name of Perky's, has brought out three types of Crispy Brown Rice, plus Nutty Rice; and not only are they vegan but gluten free as well. Have a nice day!

GG Oatbran Crispbread, from Trustin Foods, is now available in an oatbran variety.

Ugo F i r s t Some exciting things are hap-pening in the realms of Ugo's Pasta. Vegans can now enjoy noodles like the rest of the population. Made from 100% organic durum flour and nothing else, Ugo's Wholewheat Fresh Noodles are available in two widths — fine and medium. There are murmurings from the Ugo camp of a new ravioli with delicious vegan filling I await with bated taste buds . . . If your interest is in home baking, then Dove's Farm Organic White Flours,

both plain and self-raising, will come as welcome addi-tions to the range.

Everything is going organic just now, and Whole Earth is not to be left out, having extended its assort-ment of organic no-sugar-added jams. The two new flavours are Raspberry and Apricot. Anything with the Whole Earth label on is guar-anteed vegan.

F a i r Deal Equal Exchanges is a co-operative establishing direct and fair trading links with small farmers in countries such as Nicaragua and Mexico. Pecan Nut Butter is an entirely pure vegan product from co-ops in Peru. Purchasing it helps Equal Exchange to continue its valu-able work in the international marketplace. For further infor-mation contact it at: 29 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh EH8 9BX.031 667 0905.

Hider Food Imports has introduced a range of baby food that is wholly vegan, under the name of BioBim Organic Instant Baby Foods. In the sweeties line, Hider has also brought out Nature's Fayre Real Fruit Pops in four flavours and Licoritz — made from organic wholewheat flour.

Look out for the new pack-aging on Plamil's 500ml Concentrated Sugar-Free Soya Milk, bringing it in line with the colourful 1 litre carton.

So much for stuffing your stomach — now to feed your face!

Feed Your Face Beauty Without Cruelty has added Coconut & Palm Oil to its range of soaps.

Faith in Nature announces three new prod-ucts that are suitable for vegans — Essential Face Wash, Essential Foot Lotion and Aloe Vera Eye Gel.

Why not try Weleda's range of five toothpastes? Now you can buy them all in trial sizes to see which one works best for you. Weleda's Lemon and Melissa Shampoo has had a face lift and is now repackaged in a 250ml plastic bottle.

Go Green What's small, green and makes the nutritional value of soya beans look like that of an ice cube? Well, it's not quite that good, but Chlorella does carry a string of wonder-provoking claims in its wake. I'd be here all day if I listed them all, but Chlorella Health from Chlorella Health Ltd., is the most concentrated source of chlorophyll known, and appar-ently that makes it really special. It comes in tablet form. For more information contact Chlorella Health at: 28 Nottingham Place, London W1M3FD. 071 4875665.

Britannia Health Products has developed a completely non-animal capsule (actually derived from sea plants) for vitamin and food supplements. The Capsules for Ecology range has begun with Vitamin E and is set to expand in due course.

Natural Flow Ltd., has once again addressed itself to the eternal problem of PMT, and has come up with the PM Comfort Mouth Spray.

Gome Clean For the vegan house, Ecover has just developed a new Concentrated Toilet Cleaner which is five times more con-centrated then the old one. There is also a wholly new All-Purpose Household Cleaner that is useful on cars too! In addition, the Liquid Clothes Wash is now available in a two litre container.

Tailpiece Finally, a warning and a thought. The warning concerns Healthcraft's much-publicized Vitachieve supplements. The labels claim they are suitable for vegans — but they contain D3!

The thought comes from my visit to this year's Helfex (a large health food exhibition) in Brighton. There were so many pills and supplements on show that one wonders about the faith these people actually have in the nutritional value of a 'healthy' diet. . . (Or does one wonder about the commercial potential of the supplements trade?)

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Animals & 'Entertainment'

Thousands of animals are used in the entertainment

business, both in this country and abroad.

Sadly, there are far too many examples for me to

list here. There are certainly

some very bizarre shows around. For example, in

America, mules are made to high dive off platforms into tiny pools of water. In one State you can pop a coin in a slot and watch a live chicken 'dance' — due to it receiving electric shocks. Rodeos which are so popular there are now making their way to the UK. Many animals are used in films. They are hired from circuses or those who make their living from supplying

animals for film and tele-vision.

B l e a k e s t S h o w on E a r t h There is increasing public disquiet about the use of animals in circuses. Animals used include pigs, polar bears, brown bears, zebras, pandas, gorillas, giraffes, orang-utans, kangaroos, ostriches, mink, sharks and snakes — as well as the usual

dogs, horses, doves, ele-phants, big cats and chim-panzees. These animals, kept in cramped conditions, are constantly moved from town to town and then made to perform degrading tricks in front of bright lights. There is no doubt that circuses cannot keep animals in conditions which are even remotely similar to their natural envi-ronments. In fact, should a zoo keep animals in such conditions it would be refused a licence. Even the 'better' zoos which try to landscape their cages to suit the animals' natural habitat cannot match the wild envi-ronment for space or interac-tion with other species.

The Moscow State Circus (shortly to tour the UK), has a woman in a fur coat who, after the crack of a pistol, releases dozens of live mink into the ring. Walter Zapashny who trains big cats for another Moscow circus says about the cats: "I do believe they suffer. They live longer than they would in the wild, but their conditions are not natural."

The Circus Medrano based in Italy use eight ele-phants in one act. They stand on their hind legs and pick up sequined girls on their trunks. The Observer magazine recently reported the trainer holding a whip and wooden stick with a spike protruding from the end.

The Apollo Circus in India has a brown bear riding a two stroke motorbike. Bears are common in circuses around the world. It has been known for young bears caught in India to have their claws and teeth removed and a hole drilled through their palate through which a training rope is inserted.

In this country circuses are still using animals but the sit-uation is improving. Constant campaigning by animal rights groups has stopped animals performing at Blackpool

Tower Circus. However, the owner is now threatening to move the animals down the road to Blackpool Pleasure Beach which is near a noisy fairground. A campaign against this is being launched by the International Animal Welfare Alliance. For details, including petitions, contact: I AW A, 163 Marsden Rd, Blackpool FY4 3DT. Animal rights campaigners now picket animal circuses coun-trywide, help local authorities prosecute for illegal fly-posting, and generally make people aware of the way animals are treated.

The Big Scream When an animal is in a pre-carious situation in a film most people are convinced it is not being ill-treated. However, we can never be sure that the animals used in films are not distressed, hurt or in some cases even killed. During the making of the film Antarctica by United Artists, a seal was attacked by a pack of dogs, a dog fell from a cliff and another was caught under a sled runner.

In the Warner Brothers film Young Einstein, kittens were dumped into a pie

Corporation's Cannibal Holocaust, an opossum was slit with a knife and a tortoise and monkey were decapi-tated.

The orang-utan which was used in the film Every Which Way But Loose was report-edly cruelly beaten by her owner Bobby Berosini. Rumours of ill-treatment of 'Popi' and other orang-utans Berosini owned were rife among showbusiness folk and he was finally secretly filmed before a performance in a Las Vegas show. He and his helpers repeatedly beat them with fists, hit them with a bar and pulled their hair.

Anthropologist Dr Jane Goodall says that most animals used in the entertain-ment industry are "horribly abused". Next time you feel uncomfortable about the use of animals in a film, write to the film-makers and com-plain.

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You can get our message across by working locally with other vegans. The Society can supply information about fundraising, media liaison and publicity events. Periodically there will also be a Contacts mail out which will comprise mate-rial sent in from local groups — information about events, actions, views and ideas.

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If you see a Contact listed for your area please get in touch with him/her and get involved. If there is no Contact listed and you are a full Vegan Society member why not consider putting yourself forward? For an informal application form write to me, Clive Forest, Local Contacts Co-ordinator at: The Vegan Society, 7 Battle Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex TN37 7AA.

Bristol Vegan & Vegetarian Society needs help on its stalls at the Bristol Charities Fayre, 13-14 July and the Bristol Community Festival at the end of July. If you can help telephone 0272 555221 after 6pm.

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VEGANS IN HOSPITAL

The Society's Hospital Liaison Officer Tim Powell finds little cause for celebration

It would have been nice to report that since writing briefly about the problems experienced by vegans

whilst in hospital and similar places in the Autumn 1990 Vegan, hospitals the length and breadth of the country had got their collective act together and made themselves aware of (at least) the basics of vegan catering, thus enabling hospital-ized vegans to avoid a double dose of trauma — the actual reason for the visit to hospital sometimes seeming quite minor compared to the anxiety experi-enced over trying to remain vegan whilst incapacitated!

Hot Water Sadly, the situation would appear much as before — you might be lucky, you might not. Unless the individuals involved in catering provision at the unit you find yourself in are at all bothered and/or aware of what it means to be vegan the outlook is not very bright. It certainly wasn't for Joan Causer, who continues to receive poor provision at Bradford Royal Infirmary. Joan was a mite surprised to read an article in her local paper in which the catering manager at the BRI was bemoaning patients failing to

take up the healthy food he and his department were trying to provide. Having had first hand experience of this new-found awareness herself (a lone tinned tomato sitting on an otherwise empty plate for breakfast!) Joan was incensed and wrote to the paper to say how difficult it was

proving for her to get anything resembling vegan food. Joan had been advised to adopt a vegan diet for the sake of her health, yet when she visits the BRI for treat-ment she has to take in her own food and drink, including herbal tea. The catering department does manage to provide her with

some hot water, but that's it!

Encouraging However, deserving credit for responding positively to vegan visitors are: Southmead Hospital (Bristol), Queen's Medical Centre (Nottingham), and Yeovil District Hospital — which pro-vided Amanda Tabor with "lovely vegan dishes which were far more imaginative than the standard meals". Bristol & Weston Health Authority is shortly to introduce a vegan menu throughout its hospitals.

One particularly promising development has been the publica-tion of a vegan catering informa-tion pack, produced by Einir Roberts who is a health promotion officer in Bristol. Einir's pack contains much useful information, clearly and attractively presented, about catering for vegans. The Society is actively considering the best way of utlilizing it.

I would welcome more members' experiences — good or bad — of hospital catering for vegans. Much more remains to be done in this field. If you are unfortunate enough to find your-self in hospital, please use the opportunity to help spread aware-ness, thereby making it easier for vegans who might follow.


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SPICED LENTIL SOUP

6 oz (170g) brown lentils, soaked overnight

2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 large onion, sliced 1 red pepper, sliced

li/2 pints (850ml) vegetable stock or water

1-2 tablespoons mild or hot curry paste (to taste)

1 lemon 4 oz (115g) creamed coconut, grated

Cook the lentils until beginning to soften.

In a separate pan, heat the oil and gently fry the onion and pepper for 5 minutes. Add the stock, curry paste and juice of the lemon. If liked you can also add some chopped lemon peel. When the stock is hot, stir in the coconut and con-tinue heating gently until it has dis-solved. Add the drained lentils and cook until tender. Adjust seasoning if neces-sary. Serve hot.

COCONUT VEGETABLE RICE

8 oz (225g) brown rice 3 spring onions, chopped

8 oz (225g) green beans, trimmed and sliced

i/2 head cauliflower, broken into large florets

approx. 3/4 pint (425ml) hot vegetable stock

2 oz (55g) creamed coconut, grated 1 tablespoon fresh herbs, chopped

seasoning to taste 3 medium tomatoes, chopped

Soak the rice in hot water for an hour, then drain. Put it into a saucepan with the pre-pared vegetables and most of the stock. Dissolve the coconut in the remaining stock and add it to the rice with the herbs and seasoning. Bring to a boil then cover the pan, lower the heat, and cook until the rice and vegetables are just cooked. Check that the mixture doesn't go dry, though if necessary only add the minimum liquid, and when everything is cooked drain off any excess. Stir in the chopped tomatoes and serve at once.

Good as an accompani-ment with such dishes as nut roast. Or turn it into a com-plete meal by sprinkling with nuts and serving with a salad.

How to use . . .

CREAMED COCONUT Coconuts are the fruits of palm trees, the crisp white flesh being protected by a tough fibrous shell. Inside fresh coconuts you will find a sweet milky

liquid that can be drunk as it is, or used in cooking. Creamed coconut is

a commercially made product that results from reducing the flesh to a

hard dry texture that is then packed in slabs. To use it, grate finely with a

sharp knife or cheese grater and add boiling water before mixing well to

make a smooth cream.

Buying/Storing

Creamed coconut is available from most health and wholefood stores as well as speciality shops. It is usually found in a chilled cabinet, and is best

kept in the fridge once you get it home. If you use only a portion of it, wrap the rest before returning to the cool — this will keep it from drying

out, and will also prevent it from absorbing other flavours. Stored this

way creamed coconut will stay usable for months. Janet Hunt

TROPICAL GRANOLA

»/3 pint (200ml) hot water 3 oz (85g) creamed coconut, grated

3 tablespoons syrup 3 tablespoons vegetable oil

1 lb (455g) rolled oats or mixed grains 2 oz (55g) coconut flakes

banana chips dried pineapple pieces

Stir together the hot water and coconut. When the coconut has completely dis-solved, add the syrup and vegetable oil, then the oats or mixed grains, stirring well so that they are evenly moistened.

Lightly oil one or two shallow baking tins and spread the mixture over them. Bake at 300 °F/150 °C (Gas Mark 2) for 30 minutes, stirring every now and again. Add the coconut flakes and cook for 10 minutes more, or until dry and crisp (but not overcooked). Stir in banana chips and chopped dried pineapple pieces to taste. Leave to cool completely before storing in a screw top jar.

Eat with soya milk as a breakfast cereal, or sprinkle over such dessert dishes as fruit salad, water ices, dried fruit purges. Also good as a nibble.

CAROB COCONUT CREAM

4 oz (115g) creamed coconut, grated approx. '/4 pint (140ml) boiling water 2-4 tablespoons Plamil Carob Spread

(sweetened) Plamil concentrated soya milk

(optional)

Stir the coconut into the hot water until you have a thick smooth cream. Add the

carob spread and use a wooden spoon to mix the ingredients together thor-oughly. Transfer the mixture to a small jar if not using it at once.

This quick-to-make cream can be used as a spread — delicious with toast or muffins. However, as the coconut will give it a firm texture, it is also ideal for use to sandwich together biscuits, or as an icing for a chocolate or plain cake.

Adjust the taste as neces-sary by using different amounts of the carob spread (using less will, of course, allow the coconut flavour to

come through more strongly). For a creamier, more subtle tasting spread, add a few

spoonfuls of concen-trated soya milk.

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D E A R J A N E T . . . 'Caring Cook'Janet Hunt answers more of your cooking queries

f t One of the mainstays of IL the vegan diet seems to

be beans. Though I know they're nutritious and excel-lent value for money, I have to admit I find them boring, indi-gestible — and they take forever to cook. Any sugges-tions?

• It's true that beans take a A, time to prepare and cook.

All of them should first be soaked for at least 6 hours, preferably overnight, to help inhibit the action of substances that are detrimental to the diges-tion as well as to make them quicker to cook. They should then be drained, put into fresh water, and boiled steadily for 10 minutes before you lower the heat and leave diem to simmer until tender. This can take any-thing from approximately 30 minutes (for mung beans) to 3 hours (for soya beans) — the exact time will depend on a number of things including how fresh the beans are when you use them.

One way you can save time is to use a pressure cooker, well worth investing in once you get

the bean habit! Another is to cook large quantities at one time and then store the excess either in the fridge (in which case they should be used within a week or so), or in the freezer.

As for interesting recipes, try looking up some of the many books giving traditional dishes from around the world. Beans in one form or another have long been the basic food for just about everywhere — even books giving recipes containing meat will give you ideas (just leave out the meat, maybe adding veg-etables instead). Many tradi-tional techniques also take into account the fact that beans can be difficult to digest, and combat this with the use of spices such as ginger, with ingredients such as fennel, and herbs such as mint. Also note that the beans are usually used in combination with other ingredients — a large plate of just beans is likely to tax the most efficient digestive system!

f | What is the difference Ui between agar agar and

carrageen?

• Agar agar comes as a A. powder or flakes and is

made from the dried puri-fied stems of kelp. It has long been used in Japan as a setting agent, and much of it is still imported from there. Carrageen is also a powder made from seaweed, this one coming from Ireland (hence its other name, Irish Moss).

Though they are interchange-able in recipes, agar agar does have exceptionally strong setting properties that make it ideal for use in such dishes as moulded jellies. Carrageen, when used to set food, gives a lighter more mousse-like texture. It can be used to thicken sauces and soups — just add a spoonful or two.

Both are excellent sources of various minerals including iodine.

a I have recently become a vegan and am enjoying it except that I can't find

the calorie content on many products. As I constantly have to watch my weight I hope I won't have to write to every individual manufacturer. Has nobody ever thought of com-piling a book with the calorie content of brand vegan prod-ucts?

a No, not as far as I know. A b There are some books

giving calorie counts of branded products that just happen to include some items

vegans may eat (such as baked beans and crisps), but none com-piled specifically for vegans. As so many animal-free products are coming on to the market these days, that does seem rather a shame — though the oversight may well be based on the assumption that vegans never need to diet!

I can only suggest that you write to a couple of manufac-turers (in fact, a number of prod-ucts may well come from a single manufacturer) and put together your own list. Reducing your consumption of obviously high-calorie ingredients (such as nuts and anything high in sugar), and using plenty of low-calorie grains, pulses, fruits and vegeta-bles should also help.

It might also be worth consid-ering the fact that many experts consider counting calories to be a waste of time. The body adapts to using whatever it is given, which means that — by lowering your calorie intake — you are making it super efficient. As a result of this, you have only to eat fractionally more than usual and your slowed up metabolism will make sure none of it goes to waste, and you may well find the pounds coming back on again. This is why, as soon as you go off a diet, the weight returns. Amazing as it may seem, by increasing your calories you may well speed up your metabolism. Think of those thin people all of us know who eat heartily and never put on an ounce!

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GROWSENSE A Healthy Tradition

Professional horticulturalist Julie Walsh continues her regular column

Recent trends in horticulture seem to be bringing back old values, sadly, many are taken advantage of by the garden centres as a 'marketing opportu-nity'. However, the philosophy of the 'room outside' concept is a good one. The opportunity of every individual to 'grow' some-thing adds dimension to the

metaphysical nature of the garden. That sense of well-being and harmony achieved, has been observed by many medical prac-titioners as therapeutic to both mind and body.

The urban garden dates back to ancient China. Being spiritual and philosophical towards their piece of earth, the Chinese laid

down basic rule's that have virtu-ally remained constant throughout the ages. The Chinese laid down that the garden must have privacy and be such that its owner could commune with nature and con-verse with his friends. Here, in the garden, man can escape and return to the rhythms of nature for which his perceptive faculties were originally fashioned. Such a garden is fundamental to a modern democratic society; it occupies so little space that with forethought and considered plan-ning every unit could have a small garden. There are already tens of thousands of such gardens in London alone. The extension to the home is basi-cally geometrical, sometimes nature is pruned and tamed, sometimes allowed to grow free. Such an area may be no more than a back-yard but never-the-less a personal piece of nature.

Because of our mulitiplicity of needs our gardens are mostly eclectic in their approach. Sitting space provided via a lawn or terrace, growing space with a raised bed, container or veg-etable plot, utility space with a compost heap, rubbish area etc., and then the opportunity to be creative and personalize the space — e.g. the use of trees shrubs, flowers, statues, seats.

This multiplicity then needs to be managed. The sensitivity with which it was created needs to be harnessed towards main-taining its balance for future enjoyment.

Plant Health We have looked previously at soil care and the use of mulches. Being now fully into the growing season, it is essential to take a look at the health of the plant.

The care of plants is synony-mous with that of humans, in that the best defence is healthy growth. The best defence against pests are vigorous healthy plants. Slugs prefer decaying matter to a healthy lettuce! Aphids are espe-cially partial to the lush, but unhealthy foliage encouraged by inorganic nitrogen fertilizers.

A varied garden rich in flowers, herbs, trees and shrubs and welcoming wildlife, birds, hedgehogs, toads, (create a pond if possible) can be relied on to shrug off the nasties. Still, pests you will have and pests you will have to deal with. Chemical sprays will not only kill off the invasion of aphids and other such pests, but they will also kill off aphid predators such as lady-birds (in a few weeks their larvae get through vast numbers of aphids) and hoverflies, laying up

compounded troubles for tomorrow. Thus once you stop spraying you give the predators a chance to do their job.

Flowers in the garden help nurture friendly insects. Find room for a few rows of marigold and convolvulus tricolor around the vegetables. Among the wildlife, ground beetles, toads, hedgehogs are all on your side against the ubiquitous slug. Blue tits are avid consumers of greenfly eggs over the winter months.

A healthy plant nurtured by the soil is an even more impor-tant antidote against diseases. Good garden practice such as avoiding sowing and planting in poor conditions while the soil is still cold and wet, should be the vegan grower's preferred way. Buying virus resistant varieties can help the fight against disease. The fungal attacks on plants can be dealt with using fungicide-types such as Bordeaux mixture if all else fails.

The basic rule remains: Prevention is better than cure.

• The next issue will deal with managing a conservation or wildlife garden and the author would be delighte^ to hear the experiences of readers on this subject and equally delighted to offer advice on particular problems ecountered with this type of garden. • In the Winter Vegan I shall be examining companion and complementary planting.

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DIET AND SPIRITUALITY What is spirituality? For some,

spirituality expresses itself as a search to connect with God or a higher intelligent force. For

others it is a movement towards a quieter, more peaceful existence away from worldly ambitions and goals and into appreciation of the present moment. For some spirtuality expresses itself as a desire to find inner clarity and wisdom. For others it is a confrontation with death and a search for that which exists beyond time. Some people express their search for spirituality through prayer or meditation. Some try to reach a higher place of existence by isolating them-selves from the larger community; others

Roberta Lurie examines the

relationship between that which we

consume and spiritual advancement

plunge into the community, trying to make themselves useful to the outside world. In general, it might be said that the spiritual life is a life in which we

seek harmony within ourselves and our environment. For many, the way of the spirit is not a search for anything new but rather an uncovering of something within us which has always been there.

Finding an a p p r o p r i a t e diet f o r ourselves is o f p r i m a r y

i m p o r t a n c e

Awareness Awareness is the first requisite to dis-covering our spirituality. To find a way towards inner peace we must examine


our lives and the world around us. In examining our lives it is important that we look at our health, our habits, our body. It is only through physical and mental health that we are able to develop our lives to their maximum potential. Finding an appropriate diet for ourselves is of primary importance. This is always a personal, individual matter and requires both awareness and flexibility.

The great twentieth century mystic, Ramana Maharshi, once said that the most important thing in spiritual life, in addition to meditation, is to eat cor-rectly. And, indeed, there has been an examination of the effects of diet on spiritual development from the teachings of the ancient Chinese, from Buddha, Mohammed, Jesus, Lao, Tzu, Yoga, Hinduism, the Pythagoreans and from the Jewish Essenes and Jewish dietary laws. Although an entire book could easily be written on this fascinating subject, in a brief article such as this only a few aspects can be examined. Ultimately, however, diet is a most per-sonal aspect of life, one which requires self-examination, experimentation, flexi-bility, compassion (for ourselves) and good humour.

Dynamic Force Traditional cultures have long seen the functioning of the mind and spirit as almost transparent results of food and environment. According to the ancient Indian science of yoga and Ayurvedic medicine, for example, there is a subtle life energy both in the human body and in the food we eat which is termed 'prana'. In Chinese medicine it is called Chi; in Japan Ki; Mana in Hawaii; Tumo in Tibet; and orgone energy by Reich. In these systems food isn't seen merely as calories, proteins, fats or carbohydrates. Rather than seeing food as mere material form, as it is seen in our Western culture, food is seen as a dynamic force which interacts with us on the physical body level, the mind-emotional level and also the energetic spiritual level. The energetics of food are now also being studied in the modern Western world.

The detrimental effects of eating diets rich in m e a t and

d a i r y produce have been universally linked t o many

modern ailments

Connections In order to study the linkage between food and spirituality we must look at the effect food has upon our minds. Indeed, without a balanced mind, spiritual life

becomes very difficult. Slowly, modem Western science and culture has begun to acknowledge the intimate linkages food has with health and behaviour. Every day we hear of new connections between food and disease, both physical and mental. Modem science notices that people with a poor diet tend to age more quickly. The detrimental effects of eating diets rich in meat and dairy produce have been universally linked to many modern ailments, especially cancer. There is also increasing acknowledgement that diet affects our mental and therefore spiritual func-tioning as well: hypoglycemia, depres-sion, PMT, hyperactivity, learning disabilities and even schizophrenic symptoms have all found treatments through changes in diet. Criminal behaviour has also been connected with poor diet. Food allergies and pollutants also alter behaviour. The general public is becoming increasingly aware of these facts. Simple self-experiments coupled with observation and attention can provide us with intimate information as to how a diet affects our own minds, moods and behaviour.

Although the 'discovery' of linkage between diet and both physical and mental changes and disease takes the form of 'break-throughs' in the Western press, traditional religions have long known of these connections. For example, the ancient Yogic science of Ayurvedic medicine has, for thousands of years, studied the effects food has on all aspects of the human being. It has long known that every thing we eat affects our body, mind and spirit. Ayurvedic medicine identifies three basic states of mind: (1) Sattva, which is the mind's natural state in which it dis-criminates accurately. Sattva also has the qualities of inward and upward motion which brings about awakening and development of the soul; (2) Rajas, or motion, a state of excessive mental activity and weakened discrimination. Rajas also possesses the qualities of dis-traction, turbulence outward motion and self-seeking; and (3) Tamas, or inertia, a state of insufficient mental activity which also weakens discrimination. Tamas is also represented by darkness, dullness and inertia.

Interestingly, in Ayurvedic medicine, food is categorized identically with mind states since food is seen, along with spe-cific mental, physical and spiritual prac-tices, to directly create the mind. Rajasic food is high in protein and includes meat and meat products. Gourmet foods would also be in this category: spicy, cooked foods which include butter, cheese, sugar and eggs. These foods tend to lead us away from inwardness and towards worldliness. Coffee, tea and tobacco would also be placed in this cat-

egory. These foods stimulate us to be busy and active but this activity can also turn into agitation and restlessness.

Tamasic food has been overly refined, preserved or fermented. Since they have no life force and take a great deal of energy to digest, tamasic foods actually steal our life force from us. They cause a lethargic state and make it very difficult for us to feel in harmony with ourselves or our environment. Tamasic foods include alcohol, most meats found in the markets (only flesh from recently killed animals can be con-sidered rajasic) and the highly refined packaged and prepared foods so preva-lent in our culture.

Sattvic food tends to include whole grains, fruit and vegetables. (In the Indian tradition, milk is considered to be sattvic food when referring to raw milk which is taken from the cow with respect.)

Our diet choices r e f l e c t , and help t o c r e a t e , o u r s t a t e o f

being

Our diet choices reflect, and help to create, our state of being. A tamasic diet

t is basically degenerative and accounts for much of the increase in degenerative disease, both physical and mental, in our culture. A rajasic diet would be the choice of a warrior, business executive, or one who wished the stimulation to acheive many worldly activities. A sattvic diet would be the choice of someone on a spiritual path who sought, above all, inner peace and harmony.

Yin-Yang Another ancient study of food comes from the Chinese philosophy of yin-yang, the study of opposites. Its goal is the unification of opposites and the achievement of balance and harmony. These principles have been adapted in modem times by George Ohsawa and the science of macrobiotics which classi-fies food into relative stages of yin-ness (expansiveness) and yang-ness (contrac-tiveness). Alcohol, sugar, and fruits are seen as exteme yin while meat and salt are seen as extreme yang. This science has observed diets throughout the world and sees that balance is always sought in the diet throughout all cultures. For example, people with diets rich in meat (yang) tend to eat potates, tomatoes, coffee and sugar (yin) to balance it. More balanced grain-based diets tend to stay in the middle spectrum, eating grains, beans, vegetables and fruits. Eating these foods creates a more bal-anced physical state and does not require


extremes for balance. Grains, and specif-ically brown rice, are placed in the middle as being the most balanced food. Looking at food this way can help us to balance our diet and state of mind. Since food either expands or contracts us, heats or cools us, acidifies or alkalinizes, we <;an become adept at finding our own balance. As with the sattvic diet in Ayurvedic science, the macrobiotic diet, whose goal is inner peace and harmony, is close to a vegan diet.

in fact, is the oldest, most universal means of healing the body. Animals and children will naturally stop eating when they are taken ill. This illustrates the fact that our body is a self-healing organism — we must listen carefully to what it is saying. From a spiritual standpoint, fasting has been observed by all reli-gions of the world throughout history. Fasting allows the body to assimilate 'pranic' or spiritual energy rather than physical energy — but this is the topic for another article.

be especially careful to eat whole and nutritious foods. White flour products and, particularly, refined sugar must be avoided. Whereas sugar consumption (yin) might be balanced physiologically by meat-eaters (yang), the vegan who is eating neither extreme can be completely thrown out of balance from the intake of the smallest amount of sugar. Hypoglycemia is a common result as is lack of concentration and depression. From a spiritual standpoint, sugar in this instance can bring about feelings of sep-arateness and even alienation.

Diet in itself is no g u a r a n t e e o f spiritual a d v a n c e m e n t

Finally, we must remind ourselves that diet in itself is no guarantee of spiri-tual advancement. Diet is the basic ground upon which we function but foremost in our life is our behaviour and attitudes. Taking a self-righteous attitude towards diet, condemning others who do not follow our way of life is no way towards harmony with ourselves or others. But when combined with right action, diet is one of the most important practices which aids in total body-mind-spirit transformation.

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Another important factor to mention, regardless of what type of diet you are on, is the fact that quantity is as impor-tant as quality. Even healthy, vegan-organic food can become harmful if eaten in excess. In keeping with yin-yang philosophy both excess and defi-ciency can cause harm and imbalance to the body. For the healthy person who is careful with his foods, undereating is one of the basic rules to good health.

According to the theory of yin-yang, the way to remedy the extreme of over-eating would be to go on a fast. Fasting,

T h e Vegan Diet From a spiritual standpoint, a wholefood vegan diet not only helps to create health and harmony for the body and mind but it also helps us to create peace with our environment. Frances Moore Lappe, in her book Diet for a Small Planet, notes that twenty vegans can live off the same water and land supply required to sustain one meat eater. When 'correct' eating is seen from an ethical standpoint, a diet which doesn't require the killing or exploitation of animals naturally brings one more in harmony with the earth and her creatures. It has often been pointed out that the practice of killing animals for fun and food comes from the same attitude that helps to create war.

The quality of our food is of the utmost importance and the vegan must

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Welcome Relief While agreeing with most points in Stuart Reid's letter on infant formulae (The Vegan, Spring 1991) I must clarify that for vegan parents in the UK, there is sadly no choice. To find even OsterSoy on the supermarket shelf was to me, an ethically 'informed' mum, a most welcome relief. Ultimately the desire to feed my baby only vegan milk must come first.

Whilst not wishing to promote pharmaceutical compa-nies and recognizing that "breast is best", I do think that useful product information should be made available to readers through your pages.

How about some health food or vegan companies helping us out a bit and coming up with a formula we can buy with a clear conscience? I'd certainly love to have started my baby on — maybe — Plamil products even earlier! • Ginny Perkins, London

Eco Vandalism I noticed with interest that in your Winter 1990 issue you ran an article entitled 'Vegans Must Be Green' by K Jannaway. Whilst reafforestation, the subject of part of the article is a central part of the Scottish Green

Party policy and philosophy, I must strongly object to the state-ment: "with proper care even the natural grasslands could grow trees".

If being green stands for any-thing it stands for respect for life and biological diversity. Planting trees on natural grassland is as much an act of ecological van-dalism as chopping down the rain forest. Trees have their place over much of the earth's land mass but not in natural grassland. Communities of plants and animals have evolved over millions of years to popu-late all parts of the planet. Is it right that they should die to correct one of man's mistakes? • Peter Cheer, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Speaker, Scottish Green Party

Best Way Recently, Sir Richard Body's Pig Husbandry Bill, which if passed would have resulted in the phasing out of sow tethers and stalls in five years, was sabo-taged by just three MPs who made sure it ran out of parlia-mentary time by making long speeches on an earlier bill on the transport of radioactive mate-rials.

In the event, if the Government keeps its word (am I the only sceptic?), sow tethers

and stalls will be phased out within eight years. However, this incident does serve to highlight the futility of campaigning groups — in this case Compassion in World Farming and the RSPCA — spending thousands of pounds in their attempts to successfully influ-ence a grossly undemocratic political system that allows three individuals (out of a population of 55 million) to wreck legisla-tion which, let's face it, would have resulted only in a minor improvement in the welfare of some farm animals.

The Vegan Society has the right idea. It pleases me that it does not — presumably because of its charitable status — urge us to write to 'our' MPs and MEPs. There are very few campaigning groups with the resources to match the millions of pounds spent annually by the animal abuse industries lobbying politi-cians — and for what? A few measly 'welfare' improvements? A bit of tinkering here and there? Once again CIWF and the RSPCA have frittered away their resources. However, sadly they're not alone — for example, despite an expensive high-profile campaign the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection has, unsurprisingly, got absolutely nowhere in its attempt to per-suade the European Commission to ban the use of animals for the testing of cosmetics.

Now I read that CIWF, BUAV and Lynx are, under a joint banner, urging political parties to adopt their 'Manifesto For Animals'. When will parlia-mentary campaigning groups stop wasting their supporters' money and recognize that of the legal methods available the edu-cational way is best — i.e. hacking away at the roots of animal abuse by encouraging people to change their exploita-tive lifestyles? These 'converts' will in turn influence their friends, relatives and work col-leagues and so the demand for animal products drops. Goodbye animal abuse, good riddance 'democracy'! • Peter Norris, Suffolk

Flagging Are there any fruitarian readers of your magazine? My health has benefitted enormously since going on this diet and I'd be very interested in corresponding with others on this diet as I find my willpower flagging. I'd love moral support. • Ann James,

Isolated I thought I would just drop you a line from this side of the water. If vegans feel isolated in Britain they would feel much better if they came here for a while and then went home again. It is like it was ten or fifteen years ago in Britain. You feel very isolated, especially in these rural areas.

Every rural household keeps rabbits, chickens and ducks to eat and they think you very peculiar if you do not do the same. They do not know what a vegetarian is let alone a vegan. There are wholefood shops but as there is a tax on all food the prices are so high you cannot afford to buy anything in them because you are, or course, only receiving rural wages — if you can manage to find work at all that is. The price of just a jar of peanut butter is £3.00.

I would be extremely grateful if you could mention whenever and wherever possible that all visitors would be welcome to visit here. We would welcome staying visitors if they can put up with very basic living conditions. I greatly enjoyed the last Vegan magazine. I love the very bright and cheerful cover and the aspects of humour in it as we can tend to get a little too serious over things, which I feel puts people off. • Karen Williams,

Appeal Though harrowing and dis-tressing it was good to see Channel 4 once again showing The Animals Film, this time as part of its 'Banned' season. A number of meat-eaters I have met saw it and I am glad to report that it has made a lasting impression on them. At last people are beginning to make connections between the many and obscene ways in which we oppress our animal brothers and sisters.

I have heard that at least two animal rights campaigners have taken their own lives this year. This is two too many. I appeal to any other young people, over-come with despair and severely depressed, to consider that they are more use to those they wish to protect alive. There is so much to be positive about. Public awareness is high, animals are being rescued from their tormen-tors and the oppressors are in retreat. • Dorothy Cunningham, Cornwall


Reviews

S e c r e t S u f f e r i n g Sarah Kite BUAV £4.95 Pbk, 80pp

Sarah Kite has written a book which is a must for all who support the right of other animals to exist alongside our species, the right to triumph or fail on the evolutionary journey that life offers us all. Secret Suffering is first hand knowledge of what some members of the scientific community are doing to the various species they have locked away in so called 'laboratories', knowledge that because of the secrecy that surrounds their activities is very hard to come by.

Sarah Kite has given a thought provoking account of \yhat takes place in one of the leading commercial Belsens on this planet. It takes a very special type of courage to witness the suffering of innocent creatures in order to expose the inhumanity of our species when dealing with different life forms.

So detailed in words and pic-tures is her description of what researchers and technicians are up to that I feel like bursting in on their coffee break and inflicting some pain and suf-fering on them for a change. At the end of the book is a section listing some of the substances tested on the animals and their uses.

All experiments on animals are in our name, that makes us all responsible for their suffering. Are we really more important than the animals Sarah Kite has written about? Only God knows, but he did give us a conscience to sense that which is right from that which is wrong. • Vegan Lampman

T h e V e g e t a r i a n T r a v e l l e r Andrew Sanger Grafton Books £4.99 Pbk, 290pp

For those who did not encounter the earlier edition of this book: it is not a guide to vegetarian restaurants but a guide to finding meatless meals in ordinary restaurants throughout Europe. Well, it is more than that actu-ally, for it describes eating habits and conventions and attitudes, providing enormous insight into what to expect in other countries. (Admittedly the author does have his blindspots: in the chapter on Britain for vegetarian visitors he describes the division between 'North' and 'South' in a way which shows he was only thinking of England, completely forgetting about Scotland and Wales.)

Andrew Sanger is a profes-sional travel writer, and his book is a great pleasure to read, even though it may be depressing for vegans. It is divided into three parts: Part One is entitled 'No Meat and Two Veg', covering northern Europe; Part Two is 'The Olive and the Grape', cov-ering the Mediterranean; and part Three is '1001 Beans', covering the Middle East and North Africa.

In Part One it is rare to find a vegetarian dish described that does not contain dairy products and eggs though, as be indicates, most of these countries have a good choice of vegetarian restau-rants. France spans the line between north and south — it is easy to find vegan food in the south, very difficult in the north — though he points out that though they may think you are mad the French "do understand that when it comes to food you want what you want and nothing

else will do". I found this to be true on a recent ski holiday in France (the chef at our hotel could think of nothing but salads and cooked vegetables to give me, but they were the most deli-cious salads and cooked vegeta-bles I have ever eaten).

The Mediterranean countries are obviously easier for a vegan to visit, and the Middle-Eastern ones easier still. Unfortunately this is the scantiest part of the book; I found many more suit-able dishes in restaurants in Egypt than he began to mention.

The sections on vocabularly and what dishes to look for on menus are particulalry useful, though less so for a vegan since his descriptions do not always make clear whether a dish con-tains eggs or some other non-vegan ingredient.

I would have no hesitation in recommending this book very highly to lacto-vegetarian trav-ellers but would I recommend it to vegans? We only get the occa-sional mention, and the lack of a vegan perspective is frustrating (albeit understandable as he is a lacto-vegetarian writing for a lacto-vegetarian readership), but there is such a wealth of infor-mation on the habits and cuisine of these countries — available in no other book — that I think serious vegan travellers would still find it invaluable. • Leah Leneman

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The Driving Force: Food, Evolution a n d the F u t u r e Michael Crawford & David Marsh Mandarin £5.99 Pbk, 298pp

Dr Michael Crawford's claim in 1972 that by eating non-animal protein "we could end up breeding a race of morons"

(,Sunday Times, 5.11.72) drew a heated and informed response in the press, and deep chagrin in vegan and vegetarian circles. Now, virtually twenty years later, we have The Driving Force which tells of the real harm resulting from eating animals, but not without distasteful passing references to vivisection. However, the book's declared main aim is "to argue the case that nutrition has played a major part in shaping human history" with its integral aggression.

Nutrition has been overlooked by science as a factor of evolu-tion, and here a new theory of evolution is propounded. Evolution is put into chemical context whereby Darwin's chance becomes cause and effect. Our affinity with plants is even elucidated: the haemoglobin which passes oxygen through our blood-streams is "almost identical" to the chlorophyll in plants!

We are given a very credible theory of the origin of life and advent of oxygen. "The dramatic change that took place when the algae produced the right amount of oxygen led to the emergence of air-breathing multicellular animal systems." Those air-breathing life forms consumed plant products which used the sun's energy "to build up pyrophosphates, then used them to make sugars, celluloses, pro-teins and fats." Our chemical energy comes "from eating plants and breaking down plant sugars and fats." Carnivores get it second-hand in animals.

We are what we have eaten or taken in since conception, the book explains, and diseases which hit people in middle life will have been a lifelong process. Animal eating is con-nected with heart disease, stroke, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, breast and colon cancers" as well as "constipation and a host of other diseases which are all related to stagnant food passing through the intestine at a rate far slower than nature intended."

Because of the lack of scien-tific evaluation the book does not go beyond inference to suggest that animal eating gives rise to an aggressive nature. But aggres-siveness in decision makers would seem to follow if only because of the discomfort and pain affecting behaviour. Certainly it would explain Columbus' otherwise inexpli-cable slaughter of natives after having first eulogized them, two hundred years ago.

It may be only coincidence, but of all the non-aggressive people I've met in peace organi-zations they are to a person


either vegan or vegetarian. Evolution is an evolutionary

force. Since this book appeared it has been asserted that a vegan diet increases the power of con-centration — which is an evolu-tionary necessity! • Rodney Aitchtey

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The Vegetarian Guide t o t h e Scottish Highlands and Islands Compiled and published by Janey Clarke £1.75 + 25p p&p Pbk, 22pp*

Many vegans are attracted by the more remote parts of the British Isles, where it is possible to get away from the crowds and enjoy solitude and beauty; the problem in the past has been finding places like that which catered for vegans. Of course, camping and self-catering have always been options, but for those for whom a holiday includes enjoying meals prepared by others the choices have been limited.

Janey Clarke has produced three editions of her guide pre-vious to this one, and each time the choices have grown and grown. Part of this is simply that she has spread her net even wider — in this edition there are places to stay and eat not only in the central and western Highlands but in the Inner and Outer Hebrides, and in Shetland and Orkney as well — and part of it has been the increasing awareness amongst restauran-teurs, hoteliers etc. of the dietary needs of those who do not eat animal products.

There are 72 establishments listed in the 1991 Guide, of which I counted 26 'Vegan A's — catering for vegans without advance notice — and 28 'Vegan B's —catering for vegans with advance notice. That seems to me a remarkable proportion and opens up a lot of places for vegans to visit.

Janey Clarke does not operate any kind of quality control in her publication; she merely lists the information provided by the owners, including sample menus. This seems justifiable in the cir-cumstances since in an area where there may be nowhere for a vegan to eat within a hundred miles one is grateful for proper vegan food, even if it isn't neces-sarily haute cuisine. Amongst the places I have stayed or eaten at listed in the Guide, while some have been better than others, none have been bad enough for me to discourage others from going there: anyone who has the dedication to set up restaurants or B&Bs catering for vegans in these areas tends to know what they are doing.

Many of the establishments listed in the Guide are not listed anywhere else, so it is an abso-lute must for anyone planning a trip to the Highlands and,Islands of Scotland. • Leah Leneman * Available from:

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Replenish t h e E a r t h — A H i s t o r y o f Organized Religion's T r e a t m e n t o f Animals a n d N a t u r e Lewes G Regenstein SCM Press £9.95 Hdbk, 304pp

I care not for a man's religion whose dog or cat are not the better for it

Abraham Lincoln

The world's great religions have promulgated lofty principles on man's relationship with animals, but, as Lewis Regenstein shows in this fascinating book, fine words never yet helped a tor-tured animal.

Mr Regenstein is anxious to

motivate the religious communi-ties by demonstrating that their holy books, leaders and saints have spoken strongly about animals. But he is not afraid to contrast fine statements with poor practice, for example: "In Judaism, one who does not treat animals with compassion cannot be regarded as a righteous indi-vidual" (Dr R Schwartz), and the appalling conditions in America's kosher slaughter-houses; "He who does not will-ingly cause the pain of confinement and death to living beings, but desires the good of all, obtains endless bliss" (The Code ofManu, Hindu), and the pitiful conditions endured by animals on India's streets and in her slaughterhouses; "Life is as dear to a mute animal as it is to any human being" (The Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist) and the painful lack of concern for animal welfare displayed in Asian Bhuddist countries; "He who takes pity even on a sparrow and spares its life, God will be merciful to him on the Day of Judgement" (The Qur'an, Muslim), and the day to day bru-tality shown to horses in North Africa and the Middle East. Christianity receives the author's most profound criticism. The kindlier practices of the early Christians contrast strangely with later philosophers' claims that animals cannot feel pain, or

it doesn't matter if we cause pain to them, as they have no souls.

It is encouraging to note the many examples of radical re-thinking by some (definitely not all) of the world's religious leaders. Perhaps we shall see a reawakening of conscience and consciousness where animals and the natural world are con-cerned. If it is not too late for Isaiah's vision: "The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid . . . they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord." (Isaiah 11:6-9.) • Joyce D'Silva

Reviewers Rodney Aitchtey is writing a book for 8-12 year olds about classical figures' vegetarianism Joyce D'Silva is director of Compassion in World Farming Vegan Lampman (a CB handle) supports the rescue of animals from any establishment in which they are abused, including homes of uncaring people Leah Leneman is author of The Single Vegan and Soya Foods Cookery

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D i a r y D a t e s 14—16 June National Living Without Cruelty Exhibition, Kensington Town Hall, Homton Street, London. Organized by Animal Aid. 0732 364546. 16-20 June National Anti-Angling Week. Organized by the Campaign for the Abolition of Angling. Contact: CAA, PO Box 130, Sevenoaks, Kent TN14 5NR. 22 June Living Without Cruelty Exhibition, Ecumenical Centre, Kingfisher Shopping Centre, Redditch, Worcs, 10am-4.30pm. Organized by South Midlands Animal Aid. Tel: 0527 73793. 3 July Chinese vegan cookery demonstration by Andrew Rea, Quaker Centre, Alexandra Grove, London N12. Contact: Mark French. 081 202 0585.

Talk by Phil Lymbery of CIWF, Golden Cross Hotel, High Street, Bromsgrove, Worcs, 7.30pm 6 July March against proposed circus at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Meet at the Solarium, South Promenade, Blackpool, lpm. Organized by the International Animal Welfare Alliance. Tel: 0253 65072. 13-20 July Land's End to John o'Groats Motorcylce Ride Against Vivisection. Organized by Huntingdon Animal Concern. Contact: HAC, 92 Thrapston Road, Brampton, Huntingdon, Cambs PE18 8TD. 14 July VSUK Open Day & Garden Party, Parkdale, Dunham Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, 11 am—5pm. See the veganic garden! Details: 061 926 9182. 20-26 July German Vegan Week, Bringhaussen, nr Kassel, Germany. Theme: 'Living in Harmony with Nature without Exploiting Animals'. Contact:

25 July-4 Aug 11th Vegan Camp, Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales.

27 July-1 Aug European Vegetarian CongrCollege. Details:

Aug Dutch Vegan Camp.

3 Aug Cow Action Day. Organized by Action for Animals. Tel: 071 2411362. 4-11 Aug Vegan camp at veganic farm on the Danish

29 Sept BUAV's Walk for Laboratory Animals. Details: 071 7004888. 2 Oct World Farm Animals Day. 5 Oct National demonstration against the fur trade. Assemble Northbridge Leisure Centre Car Park, Halifax, lpm. March moves 1.30pm for Ovenden Wood Arctic fox farm. Organized by the Animal Protection Foundation. Tel: 0222 569914.

6 Oct National Fun Run, Hyde Park, London. More vegan

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Derby DE7 3JL. 19 Oct Vegan Society AGM, Westminster Room, Methodist Central HaU, Storey's Gate, Westminster, London SW1H 9NV.

AGM Proposals Proposals for resolution to go on the 1991 AGM agenda must be received at the Society's regis-tered office (7 Battle Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex TN37 7AA) no later than Friday 26 July. Proposals must: • in the interests of economy and clarity, not exceed 100 words; • propose some form of action; • not conflict with the Articles of Association or a statute; • propose one single action — i.e. they cannot be composite proposals; • not simply comprise a state-ment of opinion; • be proposed and seconded by paid-up full (i.e. not associate) members.

Proposers are requested to limit their proposals to two.

Animal Lib Animaliberation is a new group launched at World Day for Laboratory Animals. It supports non-violent lawful direct action and intends to hold regular meet-ings and workshops. Its first demo, which delayed the start of the 1991 Grand National by 10 minutes, was seen live on televi-sion by millions of people throughout the world. It is able to supply a wide range of cam-paigning materials including 'Boycott Boots' material, pho-tographs of rescued animals, copies of 'leaked' documents and a video of the recent ALF raid at Lancashire Polytechnic. Further information: Animaliberation, PO Box 87, Rochdale, Lanes OL16 1AA.

Week of Action The Campaign for the Abolition of Angling is the only organiza-tion dedicated solely to publi-cizing the cruelty inherent in the neglected bloodsport of angling. After a quiet period, the CAA is now pursuing a number of pro-jects and two new Information Sheets are available on Commercial Fishing and Fish Farming. Its main event this year is National Anti-Angling Week, 16-22 June. Groups around the country are urged to organize local events. Further informa-tion: CAA, PO Box 130, Sevenoaks, Kent TN14 5NR.

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Brittle Bone S t u d y Vegan and vegetarian women are invited to take part in a study on diet and osteoporosis, conducted at University College, London, in collaboration with the Vegetarian Society and funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF).

Prospective volunteers are advised that the clinical element of the study, in common with much clinical research not involving live animals — including that eliciting useful information on the nutritional/ health status of vegans — is likely to involve the use of at least one substance of animal origin. Further information:

SAE Please When writing to Harry Bonnie for a list of vegan blood donors please remember to enclose a stamped addressed envelope. Contact:

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Any Offers? Leo Thiers, Vegans International Contact for Belgium, is inter-ested in participating in local animal rights activities and seeks cheap UK accommodati for the summer. Offers to:

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Local Groups

The Vegan Society's 13th F r e y Ellis Memorial Lecture

THE NECESSITY FOR COMPASSION

by Kathleen Jannaway, a Co-ordinator of Movement for Compassionate Living (The Vegan Way)

and former Vegan Society Hon. Secretary

will be at 6pm on Saturday 15 June 1991 at the 5th Living Without Cruelty Exhibition,

Kensington Town Hall, Horton Street, London W8

Information Vegan Magazines. In addition to The Vegan — the official organ of the Vegan Society — the following independent pub-lications may be of interest:

Vegan Views 6 Hayes Avenue, Bournemouth BH7 7AD. An informal quarterly with arti-cles, interviews, news, reviews, letters, cartoon strip. Subscription rate for four issues: £2.40 (Europe and surface mail overseas: £2.80).

New Leaves 47 Highlands Road, Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 8NQ. Quarterly journal of the Movement for Compassionate Living — The Vegan Way (see below). Annual subscription: £3.00. Cheques/POs payable to: 'Movement for Compassionate Living'.

Y Figan Cymreig (The Wales Vegan)

Montpelier, Llandrindod, Powys, Wales. Bilingual quar-terly. Annual subscription: £1.50.

The Vegan Bikers Association aims to promote veganism amongst motorcy-clists and set up a fund for the purchase and distribution of alternatives to leather. Enquiries:

The Vegan Business Connection Full membership is open to vegan businesses with at least one vegan propri-etor. Associate membership is open to strict vegetarian busi-nesses with at least one vegan proprietor. For a copy of the con mps to:

The Vegan Community Project exists to form a contact network between people who are interested in living in a vegan community and to estab-lish one or more such commu-nities. While some of its members seek merely to live close to other vegans, others wish to establish a vegan land project or centre for the promo-tion of a vegan lifestyle. Newsletter subscription (4 issues): £2.00. Cont Bob H

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

The Movement for Compassionate Living — the Vegan Way seeks to spread compassionate understanding and to simplify lifestyles by promoting awareness of the connections between the way we live and the way others suffer, and between develop-ment, consumption and the destruction of the planet. Co-

Vegans International co-ordi-nates the promotion of veg-anism, encourages the formation of new organiza-tions, and organizes an a ual vegan festival. Contact:

Vegan Contacts Abroad. For a listing, send an SAE to the Vegan Society marked 'Vegan Contacts Abroad'.


ACCOMMODATION H O U S I N G CO-OP. Shrops/Wales border. 7 acres, run down mansion needing total renovation. Expanding/improving gardens. Veganic/organic methods. Ecological/envi-ronment conscious. Vegan wholefoods. Home education. Aims: self suffiency in food. Market garden, workers co-ops. Alternative energy and sanitation. Visitors welcome, new members wanted. Loans/investment sought (not required for membership). Contact: Earthworm Co-op, Wheatstone, Leintwardine, Nr. Craven Arms, Salop SY7 OLH. SAE appreciated.

ACCOMMODATION WANTED

ACTIVITY HOLIDAYS SAIL T H E ESSEX COAST aboard a comfortable catamaran. Regular weekend cruises throughout the summer. Vegetarian/vegan food. Tel. (0727) 836051.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

CATERING F R O M PRIVATE DINNER parties to weddings, A&D catering will provide excellent service with vegan food. Will quote for all areas. Celebration cakes to your requirements. A&D Catering, 48 Hampstead Road, Birmingham B19 lDB.Tel 021 554 2349.

4Vs O R G A N I C VEGAN muffins/cakes. London deliveries available. Tel. (071) 388 9414.

COURSES

P L O U G H S H A R E S F O O D S presents

R e s i d e n t i a l D i p l o m a C o u r s e in D o m e s t i c a n d C o m m e r c i a l

Vegan C u i s i n e Instruction in Dairy, Sugar and

Gluten-free Cakes and Savouries and the production of Tofu, Tempeh

and Leaf Protein. Glas tonbury 0458 -31182

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION

3 MILES F R O M Snowdon and near Anglesey's sandy beaches. Beautiful Victorian stone farmhouse. Exclusively wholefood vegetarian/vegan gourmet cui-sine. Home-baking including bread. Non-smoking. SAE:

ALPUJARRAS. 2/3 bedroom farmhouse, sleeps 5, swimming pool, unspoilt views, secluded spaces, 1/2 hour beach, wonderful mountain walks, villages. Self-catering, £100pw or B&B + meals vegetarian, vegan. Write:

BODMIN 3 MILES. Vegan B&B accom-modation in charming restored cottage, en suite facilities, TV, 'kettle' all rooms, country location, central all coasts, moors, nature reserves. (0208) 872316.

LAKE DISTRICT luxury accomodation in 18C vicarage. We are 100% vegetarian and provide excellent vegan breakfast and dinner dishes. Beautiful walks from the door. Modest tariff. Beech Tree, Coniston. (05394) 41717.

LIGHTHOUSE ACCOMODATION in Gwent with water bed room & flotation tank. Perfect for romantic weekend breaks. Coastal walks, very relaxing. Resident Esoteric Astrologer. Tel. 0633 810126.

LUXURY B&B APARTMENT in local beauty spot, optional EM, packed lunch, £10.50. Cilhendre Cottage, Wemddu, Alltwen, Pontardawe, Swansea, SA8 3HY. 0792 830586.

MID WALES. Staylittle (Machynlleth 12 miles). Vegan/vegetarian B&B for non-smokers. B&B £10.00 per person per night. Optional evening meal £6. Tel. (05516)425.

NORTH PENNINES. Wholefood vege-tarian/vegan B&B/EMs. Overlooking quiet village. Licensed. No Smoking. Open all year. 1 crown.

PENZANCE. Self-catering accomodation for 3-4. Two miles from Penzance with large garden, sea and country views. Occasional vegan meals available. Tel. 0736 62242.

PORTSMOUTH. Vegan/vegetarian wholefood B&B, optional evening meal, near ferries and historic ships. Phone

ST IVES, Cornwall. Exclusively vegetari-an/vegan guest-house overlooking St Ives Bay. Close to beach and scenic coastline. Central heating. Children welcome. Brochure:

SHROPSHIRE. Bentley House. 18C house in unspoilt countryside, close Ludlow, Strettons, Ironbridge. Exclusively vegetarian/vegan wholefood. Vegan pro-

* Breathtaking mountain scenery * Highly acclaimed vegan fare

* Free use of bicycles & tandem * 10% discount for Vegan Society

members B+B £13, E.M. £8. No smoking

Tel (03397) 55759for details or write to 11 Bridge Square. Ballater AB35 5QJ

in rhet hidhl*n&g n n i e : < s c t o U A o

"Seapoint" Upwiy, Poriock, Somerset, TA248QE • Spacious Edwardian House

overlooking Porlock Bay • Open log fires

• Coastal/moorland walk • Trad/vegetarian/vegan meals

• Special diets

8622S9

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The Saltings, Ulant St lv»s, Cornwall T«l (0736) 753147

Quiet Country Hotel overlooking beautiful tidalestuary and bird sanctuary Britain's oldest vegetarian and vegan hotel is fam-ily owned and stands in its own grounds dose to beaches and unspoilt coastal walks. Superb cuisine and friendly personal service. Some rooms witn shower/wc en suite

For further information and brochure please contact

LAKE DISTRICT

BEECHMOUNT Hear Sawrey, Ambleside,

Cumbria, LA22 0LB Vegetanan/wgan 84 B excellent country house accommodation. Situated in OmIiix Putter's

picturesque village of Ntar Sawrey with its Okie mnHiIe IMN O — f. n m. I l ^ . i . , 1 a I —I— wonoe inn, i miles irofTi nawxsneao, u u Windermere (car terry) 2 miles. Delightful

bedrooms with tea/coffee, TV, etc., and lovely views over Esthwaite Water. Ideal centre for

lakes, tarns, fells and Gruedale Forest. Ambleside, Coniston, and Bowness only a short

drive away.

09666 356

Oran Na Mc ara Breathtaking views from this, warm and wel-coming non-smoking guest house set amongst the finest scenery in Bntain. Ideally situated on the coast of Wester Ross, we offer spacious accommodation, delicious vegan and vegetari-an food and lovely views across Lock Ewe from every room. Perfect for touring, walking, bird

books. watching or just r

Self catering flat also available. Of

For details please write to:

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SHROPSHIRE. Exclusively vegan B&B. E. Meals optional. Home-grown veganic fruit n ' veg. Lovely peaceful location, adjacent Long-Mynd. Superb scenery, lovely walks. Children and pets most wel-come. NO SMOKING. From £10.50 p.p. Telephone 0588 61417.

SOMERSET. Exclusively vegetarian guest house. All meals vegan. Bordering Devon and Dorset. It is an ideal base for touring, walking or relaxing in our 16th century house. Crewkeme 0460 73112.

SOMERSET. Vegetarian/vegan/whole-food B&B. A place to relax — Chestnut Farmhouse, Meare, Glastonbury, BA6 9TH. Contact:

VEGAN B&B. 4 miles south of Kendal. Strictly no smoking. Children welcome. Packed lunches & evening meals avail-able. Tel:

Cumbria LA8 OJP.

VEGAN/VEGETARIAN English run small select farmhouse guesthouse, unsuit-able children. Pool. Beaches 10 miles. Brochure, Casa Primavera, Cruz Da Assumada, 8100 Louie, Algarve, Portugal. 010 351 89 413791.

WEST CORK. Vegan self-catering and B&B, with en suite facilities. 8km from Bantry in peaceful wooded surroundings. Ideal for touring, cycling and walking. Beautiful garden. Safe play area for chil-dren.

WESTON-SUPER-MARE. Comfortable accomodation in small guest house near sea. Delicious vegan meals. Details:

WHITBY, N. YORKS. 'Twixt sea and moors'. B&B. £10. Vegan/Vegetarian. Quiet area. 7 minutes walk from harbour and town centre. Street parking. Tel. 0947 603507.

M A I L O R D E R

prietors. Central heating. No smoking. B&B, EM, packed lunches. Tel. 05887 255.

ANIMAL RIGHTS T-shirts. Exclusive designs. For catalogue send SAE to: Pink Pig Designs, 137 Fosse Road South, Leicester LE3 0FW.

HIGH QUALITY Vegan perfumes, body, hair & skin preparations based on herbal extracts, floral waters, pure vegetable and essential oils. For full information send SAE to DOLMA, 19 Royce Avenue, Hucknall, Nottingham. NG15 6FU. Trade enquiries welcome.

LIQUID CONCENTRATE is the biodegradable liquid soap derived from coconut oil, which is free of animal prod-ucts and animal testing. SAE for details: Dept EV, Janco Sales, 11 Seymour Road, Hampton Hill, Middlesex TW12 1DD.


V E G A N H I K I N G B O O T S

Blue cardiiWsynthetic suede uppers, CambrelJe linings. Ideal for hiking, mountain biking, leisure etc. £40.00

incl. Sizes 34 to 46

Designer Wares, 31S Heaton Road, Heaton, Bradford 9, W. Yorks.

TeL-0274 483390.

NURSING HOMES

siidyl's V^ V X o

/ ^ A R L 0 2 3 wholesale retail g t h i c a l l y M b available SOUNP ATT IRS I P [WJUtSt.

•H 0736 793BB7

THOMPSON VITAMINS The only range registered by

the Vegan Society

Choose from our comprehensive range of unique multivitamin and mineral formulations. Made from the purest allergen-free ingredients.

Multiplex (A balanced formulation for optimum health) 50 tablets £2.99 Super Mulitiplex (Help for coping with stress) 30 tablets £5.99 Kiddiplex (Nice tasting and chewy for children) 30 tablets £4.69 Prices indude post and packing. Please stale your requirements Cheques/POs to be made payable to Natures World Or send an SAE for details and prices of the complete range.

Natures World, Creetlng Road, Stowmarket, Suffolk IP14 SAY.

MISCELLANEOUS

PRAYER AND AFFIRMATION

14th to 16th June

THE LIFE IMMORTAL 27th to 29th September

To be held at

The Order of the Cross Snelsmore House

Nr Newbury Berks

RG16 9BG Tel: 0635-41266

BETHANY VEGETARIAN Nursing Home caters exclusively for vegetarians and vegans with wholistic therapy. 7/9 Oak Park Villas, Dawlish, Devon EX7 ODE. Telephone 0626 862794.

ALL WALKS vegetarian/vegan walking club, medium distance and pace, 9 The Woodlands, London SE13 6TZ. 081 698 5803.

FOURTH ANNUAL vegan barbecue, 3rd August, Medway area. Phone for details. 0634 251448.

THE CUSTODIANS believe in God and speak for the animals. Details fro

PERSONAL

^ v z c o r e / t o - - Ifeaid Vtegetarian/Vegan Introductions 1 7

A nationwide introduction service for vegetarians, vegans and others who lead a healthy lifestyle. Run by a member of the Vegan Society, who puts you before the Porsche! Concordia-Vegis is the hon-est and (genuinely) alternative introduc-tion service. No holidays abroad, free offers, gimmicks . . . just a package of genuine caring for like minded people

seeking new friends. For no 'hype', non-glossy, recycled free

details write to: Concorda-Vegls, PO Box 4,

Bakewell, Derbyshire You 'll b» glad you did!

\h mm ' BE HAPPY MEETING NEW P E O P L E > WHO ARE ALSO VEGAN/VEGETARIAN

AND UNATTACHED.

Lots of choice - make friends, pair off, go on holiday, socialize, whatever you like. For all ages from teens to sunset years, countrywide. Always hundreds of participating members. Comprehensive and unique service -designed especially for youl

Do write to at VMM, 43 Trinity House,

Heather Park Drive, Wembley HAO1SX ^ or ring 081 -348 5229 now! J

CONTACT CE^TKJL

CONTACT CENTRE is a friendship agency, quite different from all others catering for vegans and vegetarians both in Britain and abroad, for any purposes. CONTACT CENTRE is inexpensive and enables you to choose your friend(s) from detailed adverts and/or to write an advert yourself without disclosing your name and address. CONTACT CENTRE gives you full scope, you don't even have to complete a form. Instead a friendly ear is lent to every member. As we cannot tell all in this advertisment, please write for membership details from:

CONTACT BCM Cuddle, LONDON WC1V 6XX.

Final copy date for AUTUMN 1991: 1 August 1991

PUBLICATIONS AHIMSA. Quarterly magazine of the American Vegan Society. Veganism, Natural Living, Reverence for Life. Calendar Year subscription $15. Address: 501 Old Harding Highway, Malaga, NJ 08328, USA.

SITUATIONS VACANT TWO CREW REQUIRED. (One deck hand, one steward/stewardess) for 18 metre motor boat in the South of France. Some boating experience preferable but not essential must be enthusiastic and hard working, willing to work long hours. Starting Mid May for Summer season. Must be vegan and non-smoking. Please send CV and recent photo to Box no. 180.

VOLUNTARY HELP NEEDED for ani mal sanctuary, run on animal rights princi-ples. Accomodation available. Rural loca-tion between Liverpool/Southport. Telephone 051 931 1604. Freshfields Animal Rescue Centre.

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Lineage Commercial: £6.00 for 20 words (mini-mum) Additional words: 35p each Non-commercial: £4.50 for 20 words (minimum) Additional words: 25p each

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PAYMENT Pre-payment please by cheque or postal order made payable to 'The Vegan Society Ltd' and sent to: Eire and overseas: Payment must be by sterling cheque drawn on an English bank or by international money order.

PUBLICATION DATES March, June, September, December.

COPY DATES First of preceding month.

CONDITIONS OF ACCEPTANCE

Advertisements are accepted subject to their satisfying the condition that the products advertised are entirely free from ingredients derived from animals; that neither products nor ingredients have been tested on animals; and that the content of such ads does not pro-mote, or appear to promote, the use of non-vegan commodities. Books, records, tapes etc. mentioned in advertisements should not con-tain any material contrary to vegan principles. Advertisements may be accepted from cater-ing establishments that are not run on exclusively vegan lines, provided that vegan meals are available and that the wording of such ads reflects this.

The submission of an advertisement is deemed to warrant that the advertisement does not contravene any Act of Parliament, nor is it in any other way illegal or defamatory or an infringement of any other party's rights or an infringement of the British Code of Advertising Practice.

The Vegan Society reserves the right to refuse or withdraw any advertisement.

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

IMPORTANT Display and semi-display advertising is now dealt with by Steve Hack at: Eco Projects, Queen Anne House, Charlotte Street. Bath Avon BAI 2NE. Tel. 0225 332567.

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Return to: The Advertising Manager, The Vegan Society, 7 Battle Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex TN37 7AA. (Tel. 0424 427393)

CALLING AUTHORS & ARTISTS

The Editor invites authors, artists and cartoonists to submit material for possible publication in The Vegan. Negotiable fees

payable for work of suitable quality. Please write to:

The Editor, The Vegan, 7 Battle Road, St Leonards-on-Sea,

East Sussex, TN37 7AA. MSS or other original work submitted to be accompanied by an SAE.

DESMOND PYE PARTNERSHIP

We undertake most types of legal work within the U.K., and particularly welcome instruc-tions from new vegan clients.

Contact: Ivan Sanders, Partner, D.P.P., 256 New Cross Road, London SE14 5PL

Tel: 071-358 1271 • Fax: 071-358 1104

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F o r information about animal rights campaigns, news about actions of animal liberation and protection, inspiring ideas and constructive advice on how t o help animals, interesting articles by animal rights campaigners and lively debate and comments f r o m all points o f view in t h e animal move-ment, a round up of victories large and small, and a positive, united approach t o all f o r m s of activity t o help animals ... ARKANGEL is the magazine.

A year's subscription is £6. F o r a f r e e sample back issue j u s t send a 38p s t a m p .

If you're p r o animal, you'll be glad you subscribed t o ARKANGEL

ARKANGEL, BCM 9240,

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Deed of Covenant

A Deed of Covenant substantially increases your gift or subscrip-tion to the Vegan Society at no extra cost to yourself, because the Society is able to claim the income tax that you have paid. Provided you are a taxpayer, the Society can claim an additional 33p (at current tax rates) for every pound you covenant. The Deed need only apply for four years, assuring the Society of a regular income so that it can plan for the future. It is easy to complete and once made you only have to sign a claim form which we send you in the first year.

HOW YOUR CONTRIBUTION GROWS Here are some examples:

Annual Amounts

£ 10.00 50.00 75.00

Tax Rebate

£ 3.33

16.66 25.00

Benefits over 4 years

£ 53.22

266.64 400.00

If you wish to make a single donation, the Society can gain the same tax benefit if you use a Deposit Covenant. For futher information, please contact: The Office Manager. Vegan Society, 7 Battle Road. St Leonards-on-Sea. East Sussex TN37 7AA.

There must be many readers who would like to offer financial support to the Vegan Society in its unique work but have limited means at their disposal. There is, however, an easy way of helping regardless of present circumstances—by including a legacy to the Society in your Will. Great or small, such legacies can make a real and enduring contribution to the promotion of vegan ideals.

For those who would like to make a bequest to the Society the following form of words is suggested:

"I bequeath to the Vegan Society Ltd, Registered Charity no. 279228, presently at 7 Battle Road, St Leonards-on-Sea. East Sussex TN37 7AA, the sum of £ , and declare that the receipt of the Treasurer or other authorized officer of the said Society shall be good and sufficient discharge of such legacy."

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

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t 65% PROTEIN t HIGH IRON/CALCIUM t OVER 20 VITAMINS

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These substances in their correct ba lance are thought by nutritionists to aid in b l o o d oxygenat ion and product ion o f red b lood cells, maintenance o f the i m m u n e and nervous s y s t e m s , bone maintenance , metabol i sm, fat m o b i l i s a t i o n , mainta in healthy cholestrol levels, regeneration of t i ssues & cells, restorat ion o f health and as protectors against disease .

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C hlorella has been researched by N A S A as a f o o d for astronauts and as a so lu t ion to world hunger . It is eminent ly suitable for vegetarians and vegans and r e n o w n e d as a t o x i n absorber.

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From:

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Poster 'Blood Curdling' poster by Paul Evans. Recycled paper. I • 75p P I

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S O C I I I T

Promoting a diet free from all animal produce and a more compassionate way of living that

seeks to avoid exploiting animals for any purpose

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION Block letters please

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Signature Tick as appropriate: • I am interested in veganism and enclose a large SAE for an Information Pack • I adhere to a vegan diet and wish to become a Vegan Society member. I undertake to abide by the Society's Memorandum and Articles of Association (£2 or may be viewed without charge at the Society's office) • Although not a vegan I support tfie Society's aims and wish to become an associate member • Individual £12 • Family/Joint £15 • Unwaged individual £8 • Unwaged family/joint £10 • Junior (under 18) £6 • Life £250 • Donation I enclose cheque/PO payable to The Vegan Society' for £ (£ membership + £ donation).

Re tu rn to: The Vegan Society, 7 Battle Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex TN37 7AA

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