tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80575751904077106132024-03-03T07:47:47.750+13:00Coexisting With Nonhuman AnimalsCoexisting With Nonhuman Animals is where I discuss topical news stories relating to Veganism and Animal Rights. I generally include media clips in my episodes.
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http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=334206335JayWontdarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17594795233431726222noreply@blogger.comBlogger399125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8057575190407710613.post-64294907258115236112013-12-08T18:55:00.001+13:002013-12-08T18:55:32.576+13:00Sorry for the lack of updates!<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 18px;">Sorry for the long delay! I will eventually release a final episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals one day. We are so busy with a new house and Invercargill Vegan Society events, the podcast will come to a close. As I say at the end </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; display: inline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 18px;">of each show, "thank YOU for listening", it's nice to know someone is! :-) </span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 18px;">You can stay in touch with what we are up to on Facebook :-)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/INVSOC">https://www.facebook.com/INVSOC</a></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 18px;">I just received this email TODAY, from an Australian listener. I was outside building a box to protect our strawberries from visiting birds :-)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 18px;">"Ciao Jordan, what a sweet boy you seem. I love your gentle sense of humour and your strange rolling 'r's. </span></span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 18px;">I have just discovered your podcasts - coexisting with non-human animals - and while I am watering garden I listen to you on my ipod and often laugh aloud.</span></span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 18px;">I am a vegan after being a vegetarian for many years. At 60 years old I decided to learn italian and live more ethically. Both plans going very well so far.</span></span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 18px;">Thanks very much for your generous sharing.</span></span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 18px;">kind thoughts,</span></span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 18px;">Lesley"</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 18px;">You can follow what we do for INVSOC on our Facebook page, and our website. Here is our latest event, marching in the Southland Santa Parade. We also have some vegan friendly chocolate santas to give away on the street :-)</span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.invsoc.org.nz/southland-santa-parade-2013/">www.invsoc.org.nz/southland-santa-parade-2013/</a></span>JayWontdarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17594795233431726222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8057575190407710613.post-46538390803050976382013-08-11T02:45:00.003+12:002013-08-11T17:29:42.241+12:00Sorry for the lack of updates! :-)<span style="font-size: large;">I've been busy with the Invercargill Vegan Society. Check us out at the Aotearoa New Zealand National Animal Rights Conference 2013 :-)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.invsoc.org.nz/aotearoa-animal-rights-2013/">http://www.invsoc.org.nz/aotearoa-animal-rights-2013/</a><br /><br />You can stay up to date with the Invercargill Vegan Society on our Facebook group, please join us :-)<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/INVSOC">https://www.facebook.com/INVSOC</a></span>JayWontdarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17594795233431726222noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8057575190407710613.post-92074706447479630602013-06-14T00:11:00.001+12:002013-06-19T16:41:32.988+12:00Episode 93 Vegan Wrath with Ruby Roth! (Soymilk on the Streets)<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The Invercargill Vegan Society had a lovely time giving out soymilk on the street, and this episode we're joined by author Ruby Roth!</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">18m Fonterra tries to buy off Invercargill Mayor Tim Shadbolt….but Vegans got there first!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This episode, Jen and I travelled north to the city of Dunedin. Three times the size of Invercargill, there are vegan friendly businesses as far as the eye can see! Doubly so if you're near sighted and situated right in front of "The Joyful Vegan" :-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And speaking of vocal lesbians! Last night New Zealand voted to be the thirteenth country in the world to have equal marriage rights. I'm thrilled for all my gay and lesbian friends, honestly, I'll never forget where I was at the moment Parliament gave equal marriage rights to all New Zealanders, Heterosexual and Homosexual alike. I was in bed with Jen…….. eating Indian takeaway food (Chana Masala and Onion Bhaji with rice) while watching The Breakfast Club. Its a great story to tell our children. "You see son, on that historic night, your old ma and pa were in bed watching a movie from the 1980's! The Breakfast Club, with Molly Ringwald! And you know who else was huge in the 80's? Yes, Michael Jackson, wow!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So tell me about that nasty rash Julie, you have a WHAT on your WHERE? A nasty boil on your bottom, that needs to be lanced? UGH! Why are you sharing this with us Julie? Huh, you've got a top secret crush on Tom at your work? Well, I better stop this one sided conversation right now, before you tell us your Facebook password is "pimple bum julie loves tom", all hyphenated! Tricky to type out on a phone, but probably more secure than my Facebook password, jordan1234!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And thank YOU, yes you, be you Julie Gun or someone very special who I haven't met yet, thank YOU for listening :-) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thank you for listening, I hope to to visit Dunedin with you one day, or perhaps I'll see you at the Animal Rights Conference in late July!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today has been a big day! I've moved a grand piano with the help of a high school rugby team, sanded back and restored a table, and suffered the crushing blow of my computer destroying itself!<br /><br />But overall, I'll remember the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite#2012.E2.80.9313_New_Zealand_Marmite_shortage">20th of March 2013 as the day Marmite was brought back from the dead! </a><br /><br />By 8am this morning, I was in line at Invercargill Pak n Save. As soon as the door opened, eager Marmite fans walked through the self scanning checkouts and to the jam/canned fruit aisle. I edged out ahead and got the first jar of Marmite from the store :-)<br /></span><a href="http://www.invsoc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/IMG_3243.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbtT9ZVXH565tETk570y0pAQgmRhr11gkqou6pnG6yqqIRaWSPR2F2PwjeB9y2EsVlF5DBuvcm_1mfSp7Of_3S8b66deuBp9EaZQ6x1971bB-g7JA1Vap-A-Tv_cCdapcgtaUbogJL-kc/s1600/IMG_3243s.jpg" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">During a Quaker meeting, we all sat silently for an hour. Meditating? Praying? Counting the threads in a rug and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Shake_(meme)">imagining everyone else would burst into the Harlem Shake</a>? It was nice to have a break from checking Facebook and planning animal rights campaigns :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Scenes from "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Fastest_Indian">The Worlds Fastest Indian</a>" were shot here, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Munro">some old guy</a> used to drive his motorbike along the beach too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A couple exercise class leaders came out and did "Zumba" dance moves or something, trying to get us to warm up. We made fools of ourselves kicking and stepping and clapping along. And then these no doubt fit people jumped into a red BMW afterwards and drove past the running/cycling/walking crowds of thousands of people.....back to their gym no doubt, because they have to stay in shape you know!<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.invsoc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/IMG_1220.jpg" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKy1VehO2TtZvUNRfbdF_hyUok2gsOPao8TrdImlmuxEQadrmOcTwbDdb0j8EfYTCQf9DtSSO3BsiokDkHBbWlzjbgXqJcTwMsG3MlkOEjYST8DZ5rtLZ-cJJ2qLLfwhnlDKmO8ob8C80/s1600/IMG_1220s.jpg" /></span></a><br /><br />Jen and Jordan at Oreti Beach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />We entered in the Walking section, knowing we would jog through the funrun :-)<br /><br />Cyclists first, going carefully so they dont stumble and end up killing one another. There was some kind of medical emergency before the start of the race, the radio DJ guy playing announcer asked "are there any doctors here?".<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/o2V8E2qFD-I" width="640"></iframe><br /><br />Here are the Runners section, just after the cyclists</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Where we found a sign advertising the blinking Rodeo! "Relax at the rodeo!"?!?!?!? WHAT! Among all the carnage?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />The rodeo setup. Animals tied to vehicles, some of which were stocktrucks used at slaughterhouses. The <a href="http://www.coexisting.co.nz/2013/02/race-horse-slaughterhouse-in-gore.html">Invercargill Vegan Society recently investigated a horse slaughterhouse which sells "horse meat"</a>. Quite possibly some of the injured horses (and other animals!) would end up being slaughtered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />The Invercargill Vegan Society <a href="http://www.invsoc.org.nz/eating-out/">chose to support our friends at Pita Pit.</a> They are fantastic, really Vegan friendly! <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />This is to certify that the Invercargill Vegan Society completed the event, Surf to City 2013! Well done everyone, Jen, Jordan, Christina and Steph :-)<br /></span><br />
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RIGHT, having had enough of Ronald McDonald and the absolute brainwashing of captive youth, we went somewhere where there were absolutely, positively, 100% NO other CLOWNS!<br /><br />The Carnival! Yes, like last year, the carnival was in town, coinciding with Surf to City :-)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.invsoc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/IMG_1296.jpg" style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjq5tqVv68PTV9_dvS3-eAQ40v5txxBgvGHMreUwixkZAXNzWZqfrl919_lXEUmKG2I3rtxxYMi6F3xUCxkgUPRfzzFRwooSUVZoX0tiS0v5CeKQHDCemPPrTh6qMyw8lRUUYLl8s4SLw/s1600/IMG_1297s.jpg" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Heres to Surf to City 2014! Well done Invercargill Vegan Society :-)</span>JayWontdarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17594795233431726222noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8057575190407710613.post-76980717270365617042013-02-07T00:41:00.000+13:002013-02-07T01:01:40.386+13:00Episode 90 A New Beginning<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our first potluck of the new year, celebrated in the new INVSOC HQ :-) Quinoa Salad, Lentil burgers, Spring Rolls, White Chocolate cookies, TVP Larb Gai Thai.......potluck picnic leftovers at The Southland Buskers Festival 2013 with the legend of "El Gleno Grande"!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jen frying the patties, raw to cooked :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A whole picnic tablet suspended in the air, athletes doing flips and twirls down from it, with one riding a 2 metre high unicycle to take non vegan sausages (?) from a flaming BBQ to other members who would lean down and grab them, still flaming.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Massive highlight was the incomprable <a href="http://www.horseguy.com/">"El Gleno Grande"</a>, no relation to Ms Barbara DeGrande of <a href="http://arrnt.wordpress.com/">Animal Rights and Rescue of North Texas</a> :-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Absolutely fantastic, unbelievably polished act! Gleno, AKA Glenn Singer (no relation to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer">Peter Singer!</a>) spoke with Jordan and Jen after his amazing performance. We gave him an Invercargill Vegan Society, thanking him for mentioning in the booklet that he felt sorry for animals in zoos. Great guy, <a href="http://friendsofglennsinger.com/">he even ran for a West Virginia house of delegates seat! </a> Glenn was highly motivated to prevent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing">fracking</a> in his area, and NEARLY won, missing by just a couple hundred votes! A busker who nearly beat a lawyer, the legend of El Gleno Grande grows every day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The blue dot shows the location of the famous Trout statue, celebrating the quote "World Capital of Brown Trout Fishing". Fish-killing is big in Gore.<br /><br />The red dot shows the "Clover Exports" horse slaughterhouse. To the right of the roundabout before the bridge, and just follow aptly named "River street".<br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tribute near a "racetrack" by Gore to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardigan_Bay_(horse)">"Cardigan Bay"</a>, the first Standardbred horse in the world to earn (for the "owner" of course!) a million dollars total money. An Alliance slaughterhouse is in the background, with the Gore Racetrack not far north, the <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1+river+street+gore+new+zealand&hl=en&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=51.355924,122.783203&t=h&hnear=1+River+St,+Gore+9710,+Southland,+New+Zealand&z=16">Horse slaughterhouse for "human consumption" being only a couple kilometres north.</a> I took this photo while visiting the <a href="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=ece92e3a-e083-4241-b99e-d2ef7cdfa09a">"Million Dollar Pacer" geocache</a> dedicated to Cardigan Bay.<br /><br /></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, the racing organisation is considering supporting a new charity, Thoroughbreds Continued, that seeks to find new homes for retired racehorses, in order to save them from the knacker's yard.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>As part of a three-month investigation, the Herald on Sunday has spoken to six transport operators who truck thoroughbreds to the </i><b style="font-style: italic;">Clover Export Ltd abattoir in Gore. Clover is the only licensed meatworks exporting horse meat for human consumption."</b><br /><br />The Invercargill Vegan Society had to see this for ourselves, what a horrible find, one of the many slaughterhouses from here in Invercargill to Gore. <br /><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The last free air the horses will see while alive. They are driven up this chute, up the spiral ramp and into the captive bolt stunning area. They are killed, and then dismembered, taken to pieces.<br /><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Executive offices above the horses spiral ramp, up the metal stairs. Notice the brand new couch!<br /><br /></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Some operators are taking thoroughbreds all the way from Waikato to Southland in cattle trucks shared with sheep and goats. The trips can take days or weeks with stopovers in Tirau, Foxton, Bulls or Christchurch.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bernie Hutton, a South Island-based horse transporter for 40 years, said he and others in the trade had been taking more thoroughbreds to Gore than ever before.</span></i><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Yes, they are often slaughtered very young due to the nature of the industry - but the other side of that is that young thoroughbreds do provide excellent meat for export," he said. "And frankly, the way some of them are neglected, it seems a better fate for them."</span></b></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"In the last three months I've transported more thoroughbreds to Clover than I had done in three years."</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We took a video outside the horses holding paddock, showing the muddy track directly to the slaughterhouse killing floor. The horses were curious, and they stayed with us to say hello.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Horse hoof prints in the mud. Their final walk, from the paddock holding area to the slaughterhouse chute, where they will be horrifically killed.<br /><br /></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />"You know, I'm glad to hear someone else talk about that," Curtin said. "Thoroughbreds used to be in the minority, but the 'giveaways' on thoroughbreds in the last three to six months is staggering. It's made me wonder what's going on."</span></i><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"But let's not forget that the reason some owners and trainers choose the road to Gore rather than selling on or re-homing, is that they've shelled out $10,000, $20,000 or $30,000 on a young horse, trying in vain to get it to be a winner. They don't want anyone else to get it later and reap the rewards.""</span></b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>"A knacker that is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Equines">named, perversely, Clover</a> Export Ltd." </i><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm">George Orwell's great story "Animal Farm" </a>has a clever horse named "Clover". You can read a <a href="http://www.invsoc.org.nz/vegan-faq/">sample passage from Animal Farm on the Invercargill Vegan Society (INVSOC) website</a>. Its a great example of why we are Vegan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"When breeders like the Moores talk of putting a horse to clover, they never meant having it slaughtered with a bolt between the eyes, butchered, frozen and shipped to Belgium or Russia for the restaurant trade.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"No, no," Angenita exclaims, turning to her husband in shock "They don't do that in New Zealand."</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Horse flesh being sold in Gore Countdown as "Economy" non Vegan cat food by the "Jimbos" brand. Also available at supermarkets across New Zealand, horses are frequently killed for "cat/dog food", but only the slaughterhouse in Gore sells for "human consumption".<br /><br />The Horse flesh is sold especially cheap. Does horse flesh look any different than "beef", cows flesh? As people in the United Kingdom recently found out, nope! <a href="http://animalrightsireland.blogspot.ie/2013/01/horse-burger-media.html">Vegan Ireland radio interview with spokesperson Dr Roger Yates</a> on the recent "horse meat" scandals in Ireland.<br /><br />Burger King finds quote </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jan/31/burger-king-horsemeat">"'very small trace levels' of horse DNA in its products" in its burgers!</a><br /><br />Tesco supermarket <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/9836211/Tesco-accuses-Irish-meat-processor-of-breach-of-trust-over-horse-meat.html">"accuses Irish meat producer of breach of trust"!</a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"But the pastoral idyll of a quiet retirement for New Zealand thoroughbreds is no longer, as cash-strapped owners - often mum-and-dad investors or syndicates - discover they can no longer afford to keep underperforming horses. And with a waning demand for hot-blooded former racehorses, the grim road trip to Gore is becoming increasingly common.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Eventually, David 'fesses up. Filly 7/8 was born at Soliloquy as the 7th foal in 2008. She was sired by Russian Hero, out of broodmare mum Heatherton, and she looked fine as a baby. But as she matured, it became clear her legs were "bent".</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"So we kept her for more than two years to see if she would mature, if the legs would straighten," he says. "And when it was clear she wouldn't improve, we tried to get some trainers to take her. But the reality is that no one wants a racehorse like that, unfortunately.</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>"The feed and stable bills keep coming in and this becomes too expensive to support really . . . So we sold her directly from here to Clover." He hadn't realised Clover was exporting the meat for human consumption; he thought it was for pet food. He recalls, they were paid "about a couple of hundred bucks"."</i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br /><br />Text from <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10802226">NZ Herald Article on killing horses for human consumption at the "Clover Exports" slaughterhouse in Gore.</a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br /><br />While we were in Gore, we saw posters all over the town for the "Interislander Summer Festival Gore Races". You are promised "free childrens entertainment", "racing action" and "quality family time". The horses injured at this race and in the barbaric industry in general will quite likely end up at slaughterhouses like "Clover Exports Limited" in Gore.<br /><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />The trout statue on your left, bridge crossing the river in front of you. A simple right turn at the roundabout will take you right to the horse slaughterhouse. Its really THAT close.<br /><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />In late 2006 I decided to be Vegetarian for my 2007 New Years Resolution. I first tried being Vegetarian in November 2006, and it felt right. Its good to set goals and to achieve them, to see forward progress towards an ultimate end.<br /><br />For 2013, I would like to work towards seeing more Vegan Societies spread across New Zealand, for every city to be well represented by Vegan spokespersons and to feel a real sense of a Vegan Movement in New Zealand. Local groups supported by the <a href="http://www.vegansociety.co.nz/">New Zealand Vegan Society</a>, what could be better? :-)<br /><br />Veganism is currently strongest in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/186066166694/">Auckland</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/177709666455/?fref=ts">Wellington</a> in the North Island, <a href="http://www.vegetarianchristchurch.org.nz/">Christchurch</a> and <a href="http://www.invsoc.org.nz/">Invercargill</a> in the South Island. I would love to see this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carta_marina">Here Be Dragons map</a> become tofu-ed out over the coming year, to have more local groups become strongly represented both in their area and nationally. </span></div>
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JayWontdarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17594795233431726222noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8057575190407710613.post-84897886506683804772012-12-12T22:06:00.000+13:002012-12-24T14:15:33.148+13:00Published Letters To The Southland Times, Eggs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Southland Times editor <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/opinion/8057056/Editorial-Battery-cages-begone">recently wrote about ending "battery cages"</a>. Notice the number of "egg producers", meaning the 47 different farms in all of New Zealand, and NOT the actual female Hens who PRODUCE their EGGS inside their bodies! :-) They're just "livestock" you know, thousands of birds at each farm, property of "THE Egg Producer" :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Notice also the "Meat-filled Christmas" reply to Jennys letter. "Humane Killing", two words which cancel one another out. Euthanasia, certainly, but killing someone healthy because we want to eat their body as part of a religious tradition? No thank you.<br /><br />I've written a reply to Annette, informing her of the wonderful Vegan meals that are possible, sharing details of and a <a href="http://www.invsoc.org.nz/potluck/">link to our Invercargill Vegan Society potlucks</a> as example.<br /><br /><br />My letter was abridged, my best jokes were taken out! :-) I wished the our friends the Guyton family well, three Guyton Jr's, <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/8057057/Family-celebrates-its-trio-of-duxes">and each graduated top of their year, well done!</a><br /><br />My full letter, bold text was removed from the printed selection:<br /><br />"<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Yesterday's editorial stated there are a whopping 47 New Zealand "egg producers". A closer figure was also stated, of over 3 million egg producers in this country, female birds.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Eggs are the product of the female reproductive cycle. Whether deposited internally or externally, they are equally unappetizing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I came home from our monthly vegan potluck last night and checked my Hen Friends were ok. I heard a noise exactly like a kettle boiling itself dry. <b> Obviously the correct batteries had been been installed! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"<wbr></wbr>HSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssss<wbr></wbr>s". Home Hen finished laying an egg, a painful and upsetting process which involves a hard white shell filled with fatty cholesterol oils being squeezed from her ovary and out of her bottom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's rather easy to live without eating Hens eggs, just as we somehow manage without gulping down Thrush, Kiwi and Tuatara eggs :-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Try the egg free recipes on our website, and support businesses who provide animal friendly Vegan options, like Waxy O'shea's, Zookeepers (the best kind of zoo, in name only), Pita Pit, Hell and Subway. Ask your favorite restaurant what culinary delights the chefs can prepare that do not involve animals, and prepare to be delighted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>P.S Well done Guyton family on your achievements, this letter is about respecting Hens, but Dux should be congratulated too!"</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #222222;">About the abridged note</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">""At the risk of stating the obvious, the 47 egg producers we cited were businesses, rather than individual hens - Editor"</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">Theres nothing "obvious" about the millions of Hens in New Zealand, 3 million being the figure stated. These Hens are the true "producers" of eggs, the eggs entirely belong to the birds, they come from inside their ovaries, they pass through their bottoms, they are Hens eggs, not "humans eggs" :-)<br /><br />I've written a second letter, trying to be fit in the ~200 maximum word limit. Given more space, I'd mention that "Egg Farmers" are no golden goose, they produce no eggs themselves, caring only for pooping out gold, taking our money" etc.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">Lets see if my second letter is included tomorrow :-)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br /><br />"What animal products at the supermarket show how they are actually "made"? Cheerful cows, peaceful pigs and happy hens are shown, the last often surrounded by her chicks! <br /><br /><br />The lions share seen as batteries, Hens are linked together in parallel fashion, wire above and below.<br /><br />Hen Friends are A+, not AA. <br /><br />She'll never have been "allowed to keep" her eggs, and a laying hen will never see daylight, much less a male bird in her man made miserable life.<br /><br />Jenny Moxham has a great suggestion for Annette Gunther - try a Vegan holiday feast :-). The religious reason for the season is to celebrate life, correct? So why horrifically kill and butcher other animals?<br /><br />Do you care for Cats and Dogs? Are they possessions to fence and cage, an "it", or do you respect and recognize them as a "he" or "she"? A member of the family, or an ingredient in the feast?<br /><br />The Invercargill Vegan Society is having an animal friendly celebration, similar to our monthy potlucks<br /><br /><a href="http://www.invsoc.org.nz/potluck/">http://www.invsoc.org.nz/potluck/</a><br /><br />Cranberry cashew loaf, pecan and pumpkin pies, lasagne, calzone...... and great friends. It'll be superb.<br /><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/images/cleardot.gif" /><br /><br />Jordan Wyatt<br />INVERCARGILL VEGAN SOCIETY"<br /><br />***UPDATE Second letter published as well :-)***</span></div>
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<br />JayWontdarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17594795233431726222noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8057575190407710613.post-66762262344081367522012-12-09T23:09:00.002+13:002013-06-18T17:38:18.989+12:00December 2012 Adventist INVSOC Potluck<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />For our December 2012 potluck, we joined with the <a href="http://www.invsoc.org.nz/events">Adventist Cooking Class</a> end of year potluck. I *would* say it was an unholy aligning of the planets to create the mother of all potlucks......well actually, that would be selling it short, there were over sixty people and THREE cheesecakes!!! When <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon">the world ends in a few days</a>, blame this gargantuan potluck :-)<br /><br /><br />The Seventh Day Adventists explain why they are Vegan or Vegetarian, and we test to see if they can make more Marmite :-)<br /><br /> <audio controls="controls"><source src="http://www.invsoc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Adventist-Cooking-Class-edit-out-question-at-the-end-woman-doesnt-know-what-it-is.m4a"></source>If you cannot see the audio controls, <a href="http://www.invsoc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Adventist-Cooking-Class-edit-out-question-at-the-end-woman-doesnt-know-what-it-is.m4a">listen/download the audio file here</a></audio>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />Thank you to everyone involved with the Wicklow Street Seventh Day Adventist Church Vegan Cooking Lessons, and the Invercargill Vegan Society. We look forward to future weekly Vegan cooking lessons starting in 2013 - if the presence of THREE cheesecakes within three metres of each other hasnt <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Core">knocked out the planets soft passionfruit-y inner core</a>! :-)<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/foAyvN6mVwQ" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><br />Noelle's Pecan Pie recipe</span><br />
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2 tablespoons flour<br />
4 tablespoons nondairy milk (I use soy or almond)<br />
2 egg substitutes (I use flax eggs, see recipe below)<br />
8 tablespoons vegan butter, melted (I use Olivani Avocado Margarine)<br />
1 teaspoon vanilla<br />
1 cup pecans<br />
1 9" unbaked pie crust<br />
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1. Preheat oven to 190 degrees. Mix ingredients, except for pecans, which you layer on top. Mix comes out watery.<br />
2. Pour into the pie shell. Place on a cookie sheet and put into the oven for 20 minutes.<br />
3. Reduce oven temperature to 135 degrees. Bake for 20 minutes or longer.<br />
4. Check, center should be slightly soft, but if it seems too watery, bake for 20 more minutes.<br />
Preparation Time: 10 minutes<br />
Cooking time: 40-60 minutes<br />
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Use this one for the pie<br />
1 egg = 1 tablespoon ground flax seed + 3 tablespoons hot water (let stand 10 minutes)<br />
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1 egg = 3 tablespoons ground flaxseed + 1/8 teaspoon baking powder + 3 tablespoons water<br />
(let stand 10 minutes; use: leavening)"<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />See also Mr Rooster as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear_(weapon)">Metal Gear robot</a> :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can hear my interview with journalist Venetia Sherson here, while looking through the pages from the magazine :-) The article and the interview are about the sometimes hassle of Vegans eating out, and how we feel about Other Animals growing up in a non Vegan world</span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Vegan is becoming the new normal, writes Venetia Sherson. So could chefs please offer us more than lettuce leaves and lentils?<br /><br />I beckoned the waitress over. “I’m a vegan,” I whispered, hoping the buzz at the table would not suddenly cease. Coming out at a dinner for journalists is not wise. The waitress looked momentarily startled. I wondered if she thought I’d said I was a virgin. Then she said, “Me, too. Let me see what the kitchen can do.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Here’s what they did: delicate fresh spring rolls filled with oyster mushrooms, edamame beans and pickled radish served with coriander lime and chilli salsa, followed by roasted baby vegetables, smoked eggplant puree, wilted spinach and toasted almonds. Oh, and fresh figs with honey for pudding if I chose. I did.<br /><br />All off-menu. All at short notice. No fuss; no rolled eyes; no muttered oaths. As I left Shed 5 on Wellington’s waterfront, the waitress gave me a complicit smile and a nod. A conspiracy of carrot crunchers.<br /><br />Not all experiences are the same. At an international hotel in the same city, the kitchen dished up a stack of wilted veges that appeared to have been recycled from other diners’ plates. At a restaurant near Auckland International Airport, someone had carefully removed the feta from the top of my pasta – but left the cheese beneath. The waiter’s mood was a tad below tetchy when I asked for a replacement. At a roadside West Coast café, I was momentarily excited by the promise of a “gourmet tofu burger” only to be disappointed by a soggy bun stuffed with a blob of tasteless blancmange and a slice of canned beetroot.<br /><br /><br />At the age of 64, I’m still getting used to this vegan lark. I was brought up as a carnivore. I have always liked meat. I used to lick my plate to show my gratitude for gravy. As a child, I even hunted hares on horseback. I am no poster girl for animal rights.<br /><br />I went vegan this year for dietary not ethical reasons. What that means is, I no longer eat meat, eggs and dairy - anything with a mother or a face – for the good of my health. Some people think that’s simply nutty; others think it’s dangerous, especially at my age. What about calcium, they say? Won’t your bones crumble? What about Vitamin B12? Surely you can have a slice of camembert?<br /><br />It’s tough to be a dietary vegan. Ethical vegans have a cause: a love and respect for animals. They can also cite environmental concerns and quote statistics such as: the world’s cattle consume food equal to the needs of 8.7 billion people; and the global warming effect from eating a kilo of beef is about the same as using 10 litres of petrol.<br /><br />We dietary vegans can plead only that a plant-based diet is better for our health, which – in a country where beef, butter and milk are dietary staples – is tantamount to treason. Even some ethical vegans find us hard to fathom. In a column in Britain’s The Guardian, vegan Sali Owen piously wrote that people who go vegan to lower their cholesterol level or lose weight are doing it for all the wrong reasons. “They know how many calories there are in a raisin, but don’t know or care that bobby calves are killed at birth.” I didn’t know the calorific count of raisins until I looked it up (350 per ounce or 1238 kilojoules per 100g). But I have always known the fate of bobby calves.<br /><br />To be fair, Sali Owen is not representative of most vegans, who will happily claim any new recruits. And several people took her to task over her holier-than-you attitude. The carnivores also dined out. “I think it’s appalling the way you people exploit those poor beans,” wrote Bristol Boy. “Anyway, don’t vegans fart more than carnivores, and add more to global warming?”<br /><br />Doctrinal differences aside, what I have discovered is that it is still difficult to get a decent vegan meal outside my own kitchen – or those of sympathetic friends. Excluding Asian eateries and some very good alternative cafes, the choices are limited. At a posh new restaurant on Auckland’s Wynyard Quarter recently, I could have eaten only three dishes – two of them desserts. Some chefs regard veganism as fringe; others as an insult to their trade. “Vegans are an affront to everything I stand for,” said a chef who did not want to be named. “But I’ll happily find a few green leaves and grilled aubergine and charge them $20 for the trouble.”<br /><br />He may have to revise his view. Veganism is no longer niche. In California, where things often happen first, it is becoming the new norm. While there are only around 5000 vegans (and around 86,000 vegetarians) in New Zealand, numbers are growing. In the UK the figure has spiraled from an estimated 100,000 in 1993 to around 1 million today. In the US, the figure is around 8 million or 2.5 per cent of the population – double that of 2009. Kim Painter, writing in USA Today says the increase has been fuelled by a range of best-selling books and by high profile vegans such as Natalie Portman, Ellen DeGeneres and Gwyneth Paltrow. Michelle Pfeiffer, 54, this year came out as a vegan, saying she wanted to live a healthier life.<br /><br />The western world also took note when former US President Bill Clinton switched to plants for health reasons. Clinton, who was previously known for his love of junk food, adopted veganism to clean up some arterial blockage after quadruple bypass surgery in 2004. It also helped him lose weight for his vegan daughter, Chelsea’s wedding.<br /><br />Clinton’s guru, and the man many people credit with the rise in plant-based diets in the western world is Caldwell Esselstyn, a US doctor, who conducted a 20-year nutritional study of seriously ill coronary artery disease patients. On the basis of his research he developed a diet with no meat, eggs, dairy food and oils, which produced remarkable success. “We’ve eaten ourselves into a problem and we can eat ourselves out of it,” he says. His research, documented in his book, Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease, has won some powerful allies including Colin Campbell, author of The China Study, which examines the relationship between the consumption of animal products and illness and disease.<br /><br />There was another spike in interest in veganism recently when attention was drawn to the plight of Maria Alekhina of the Russian feminist punk rock ban Pussy Riot. Alekhina is a vegan but when she and her fellow band members were jailed this year for “hooliganism” she had no access to her dietary requirements. Vegans worldwide united in their condemnation. In an open letter to President Vladimir Putin, vegan film actor Alicia Silverstone (Clueless, Cher), asked Putin to ensure the singer got her daily dose of veges. There has been no word as to whether he obliged.<br /><br />Veganism has also taken on in some unusual quarters. Portland, Oregon, which claims to be the most vegan-friendly city in the US, has opened the first vegan strip club. Owner Johnny Diablo says half his dancers are vegetarian or vegan and they serve their clients dairy-free chilli cheese fries and mushroom burgers. The irony of treating women like meat appears to have escaped him.<br /><br />My own conversion to a plant-based diet has thus far been positive, although I am a reasonably recent convert. I am fitter, trimmer and healthier and – despite the concerns of many people – I eat exceedingly well. I start the day with home-made Bircher muesli made with rolled oats, raisins, grated apple and nutmeg topped with oat milk. Pulses, grains and rice are dietary staples. In summer, I eat salads and loads of quinoa; in winter, tasty vegetable casseroles, curries and soups with crusty bread. Last night’s dinner was a vegetable bean risotto with aubergine, capsicum and lima beans laced with fresh coriander (see recipe below).<br /><br /><br /><br />However, eating out still presents a problem and attitudes are hard to shift. The New Zealand Vegan Society says it has been battling for some time to get soy milk on Air NZ flights. “You’d think I was asking for gold-leafed wafers,” says marketing co-coordinator Amanda Sorrenson.<br /><br />Sorrenson, an ethical vegan who works fulltime for SAFE (Save Animals from Exploitation), says while she doesn’t eat out much, she believes more food outlets are now providing options for vegans. She’ll often phone ahead to give the café a heads-up. “I’d prefer to go easy-peasy rather than being a trouble-maker. You don’t want to appear like a weirdo. I try to make being a vegan a positive thing.”<br /><br /><br />Surprisingly, one of the best dine-out experiences she has had was at a steak house; where they produced - without fuss - a range of beautiful vegetable platters.<br /><br /><br />Some cafes are ahead of the pack. Auckland’s Heritage Hotel offers a vegan and vegetarian menu including vegan wine. Cibo in Parnell, where I will celebrate a friend’s birthday this month, has a good range of vegan-friendly dishes. Cosset Café in Parnell is an exclusively vegan and vegetarian cafe. Towns with large alternative communities always have good pickings. Raglan Vegan Fest has been running for about five years. For other vegan-friendly cafes check out <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.happycow.net%2Faustralia%2Fnew_zealand%2F&h=sAQG0KWNP&s=1">http://www.happycow.net/australia/new_zealand/</a>)<br /><br /><br />This week, another good sign. At one of my watering holes in Hamilton, I asked the counter staff whether the bruschetta could be served without feta. She replied, “Sorry, but feta is a part of the dish.” I began my refrain, a bit like a recovering alcoholic. “I’m a vegan, so I wonder what options you have for me.” A passing chef was within range. “We have a wonderful (non-dairy) parsley pesto with heaps of garlic and chilli,” she said. “It’s one of my favourites.”<br /><br />I gave her a complicit smile and a nod.<br /><br /><br /><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The vegan movement was started in 1944 by English woodwork teacher Donald Watson out of a desire to improve animal welfare. He died in 2005 aged 95.<br /><br />Vegans eat all the food meat eaters eat except meat, poultry, fish, cow’s milk, yoghurt, cheese and honey. Ethical vegans also eschew wearing leather, bone, ivory, feathers and mother of pearl.<br /><br /><br />Vegan diets are healthy, according to followers. The only vitamin from animals that cannot be replicated elsewhere is B12 – important for the nervous system and preventing iron deficiency. Many vegans take Vitamin B supplements<br /><br />Many health food shops, supermarkets and Asian food outlets stock foods suitable for vegans. Worldwide vegan food is estimated to be growing by 15 per cent a year.<br /><br />For more information, go to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vegansociety.co.nz&h=nAQGEiEmX&s=1">www.vegansociety.co.nz</a><br /><br /> <br /><br />Pip and Sorrel’s Vegetable and Bean Risotto<br /><br />1 tbsp olive oil<br /><br />1 tsp poppy seeds<br /><br />1 tsp mustard seeds<br /><br />1 cup long grain rice<br /><br />¼ tsp chilli powder<br /><br />1 tsp ground turmeric<br /><br />1 tsp ground cumin<br /><br />1 tsp ground coriander<br /><br />1 cup water<br /><br />1 aubergine (eggplant) cut into 5mm cubes<br /><br />½ red capsicum<br /><br />315g tin lima or butter beans, drained and rinsed<br /><br />1 ½ cups tomato puree<br /><br />1 ½ cups vegetable stock<br /><br />½ cup coconut milk<br /><br />1 tsp fresh coriander or parsley<br /><br />Freshly ground black pepper<br /><br />Heat oil in a large frying pan, add poppy and mustard seeds and cook<br /><br />until the begin to pop. Add rice and cook, stirring for 5 minutes<br /><br />Place chilli powder, turmeric, cumin, ground coriander and a little water<br /><br />in small bowl and mix to form a paste. Stir spice mixture, aubergine,<br /><br />red capsicum and beans into rice mixture and cook, stirring 5 minutes<br /><br />Place remaining water, tomato puree, stock and coconut milk in a bowl<br /><br />and whisk to combine. Add to rice mixture, bring to simmering and<br /><br />simmer for 30-40 minutes or until most of the liquid is absorbed and<br /><br />rice is cooked. Stir in fresh coriander or parsley, and black pepper to<br /><br />taste. Serve."</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br /><br />Thank you Venetia for writing an article about Veganism, and allowing me to interview you :-)</span>JayWontdarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17594795233431726222noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8057575190407710613.post-42632969282807139962012-11-28T20:53:00.001+13:002012-11-28T20:53:30.091+13:00Southland Times Newspaper On Eating TESTICLES!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/life-style/7938931/Try-the-rocky-mountain-way">The Southland Times newspaper on eating freaking TESTICLES!!!</a> You can't write this stuff folks, Go Vegan! :-)<br /><br />"I had the occasion to present a "Lunch with a Difference" to a group of management for the Alliance Group recently.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />The dishes presented included lambs fry, kidneys, tripe, sweetbreads, hearts and lamb's testicles, not too often seen on the butcher's shelf.<br /><br />Often referred to as the "nasty bits" they are also known as mountain oysters, rocky mountain oysters, man oysters and lamb "fries". The singular of testicles is testis, meaning "witness" in Latin from ancient Roman times when a man would put his hand on his testicle when taking the oath in court.<br /><br />Testicles as such are not a common culinary item in this country, whether they be lamb, beef, veal or duck.<br /><br />Most of our millions of lambs are castrated reasonably young, removing the opportunity for people to enjoy the delicacy, unlike in Spain, France and even Canada where they are more easily obtainable. They are also not quite so uncommon in the Asian butcheries of Auckland.<br /><br />In the United States several "fairs" are held annually where crumbed and fried "fries" are served with the perception they are an aphrodisiac. I am not sure how factual that perception is but they are a power pack, with somewhere around 140 calories, 25 grams of protein, 3g of fat, 1g carbohydrate and 375mg of cholesterol per 100g. They also contain useful amounts of potassium and sodium.<br /><br />I did read about a couple of roughneck shepherds who were part of a team of a dozen or so tasked with castrating 1600 lambs over a few days. The story goes that these two tough guys decided to perform the castration by using their teeth. In my view they deserved the discomfort they endured for the few days following.<br /><br />Like most testicles, lambs' can be cooked by simply barbecuing or poaching then crumbing and pan-frying them.<br /><br />They are also useful sauteed in a little butter with lemon juice and parsley or battered like sweetbreads.<br /><br />I recall a scene from a Chevy Chase movie where Chevy and his wife were trying to adjust to life in a new part of the country.<br /><br />They were out enjoying an evening meal at a local cafe.<br /><br />The cafe had a record of someone eating more than 25 or so lamb "fries" in one session and Chevy being Chevy decided he could easily beat that so started to enjoy them with gusto. He managed to beat the record but things weren't so good when he was told by their wait staffer just what the "fries" really were.<br /><br />Finding a reliable source for the testicles will be as simple as chatting with your butcher (who should be able to source them through Alliance).<br /><br /><br />Have your butcher remove the outer membrane for you so all you are receiving is the clean, edible portion which will have a fresh lamb aroma. Allow one testicle per person.<br /><br />PAN-FRIED MOUNTAIN OYSTERS WITH GREEN PEPPERCORN SAUCE (for 4 people)<br /><br />4 lambs' testicles, membrane removed<br /><br />1 free range egg<br /><br />cup milk<br /><br />1 cup seasoned flour<br /><br />2 cups panko crumbs (dried breadcrumbs will suffice)<br /><br />1 Tbsp oil and butter<br /><br />2 tsp green peppercorns<br /><br />1 Tbsp brandy<br /><br />cup cream<br /><br />sea salt and black pepper<br /><br />Method: Cut each testicle into 4 slices.<br /><br />Beat the egg and milk together.<br /><br />Pass the slices of testicle through the seasoned flour then the egg mixture and finally through the breadcrumbs.<br /><br />Heat a tablespoon oil and butter in a heavy-based pan and cook until nicely browned on the first side, turning over and continuing to cook until brown and crisp on the second side. Drain and rest on absorbent paper.<br /><br />Continue until all 16 slices have been cooked and are resting.<br /><br />Lightly rinse the pan with a little water to clear away any breadcrumbs and place the pan back on the heat.<br /><br />Add the peppercorns with the brandy and ignite to flame very quickly then add the cream.<br /><br />Allow to cook for about a minute until the cream thickens.<br /><br />Season the sauce with sea salt and fresh black pepper.<br /><br />Pour the sauce alongside your mountain oysters and enjoy.<br /><br />- © Fairfax NZ News"</span>JayWontdarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17594795233431726222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8057575190407710613.post-12968216260679208712012-11-28T00:28:00.001+13:002012-11-28T01:08:16.412+13:00Wearable Arts Preserved Possums Bra, Thriller Jacket<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />A recent issue of the Southland Express featured the winner of the World of Wearable Arts "Bizarre Bra" category: "Lunar Duo". Two killed, preserved possums placed, joined together with rubber from a car tyre. This is meant to be a dark joke about how Possums are run over by cars, but is it creative fashion?<br /><br />I helped a friend with her WOW Bizarre Bra, all the while keeping my KILLER idea to myself. You'll see a mockup at the bottom of this blogpost... :-)<br /><br />Apologies to Australian readers, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Brushtail_Possum_(New_Zealand)">who love their native Possum friends.</a> We <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Brushtail_Possum_(New_Zealand)">New Zealanders foolishly "introduced" Possums to our country</a>, to kill for their fur....and they've proceded to chew through every native New Zealand tree they could, as well as possibly spreading disease to our precious "dairy" industry cows. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Theres a bizarre disconect in New Zealand, where we're told that possums (which WE brought here deliberately, to kill them as an industry!) are some kind of EVIL animal : "notorious invaders", "plague proportions", "stripping native forests and carrying disease"....pictures hissing and trying to scratch your eyes out! <br /><br />This historical sign on top of Bluff Hill really can't help itself, "unwanted immigrants" who were DELIBERATELY set loose here!!! Its not like they swam over from Australia, we *WANTED* them, in the past tense, in a lack of common sense.<br /></span><a href="http://www.invsoc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/IMG_6310.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieiiLaS2ak3WecVRTRnDNusZlLcDIhNuAlPRvv12bUVgsJnmf-2ixvVvXi054b0cplBZzjywvNKvsVxvLa60lVb3GBoGld9NTZ0q5pQPfakoqriK1P5pBEnsZeMwPGSF8Tw-0nIPi0aSo/s1600/IMG_6310s.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />Imagine if this bra featured two ran over CATS! There would be outrage, tears and anger! Talk of introducing "the death penalty"! Possums are really no different from cats, small furry animals who are great at climbing trees and see in the dark. If anything, possums are actually less harmful in being somewhat "vegetarian".<br /><br />In their native land, Australia, the possum is beloved, they are actually protected! The next country over though, we New Zealanders are told to HATE the "pests"! We actually love the idea of killing them, and consider this bra made from their preserved corpses "funny"!<br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Well! I think I can one-up this "Bizarre Bra", and do it in an animal friendly way too!<br /><br />As a Vegan, I do not like the idea of wearing someone elses skin, "leather". While <a href="http://www.coexistingwithnonhumananimals.co.nz/2011/02/professional-use-of-synthetics-for.html">professional use of animal skin is waning</a>, we're still wearing preserved animals as "fashion".<br /><br />You may happen to know that my favourite musician is Michael Jackson. For a long time now, I've wanted a high quality non animal skin version of his Thriller jacket :-) While MJ was a dietary "vegetarian" at the time of Thriller, the biggest album in the world, he obviously wore animal skin. He was not Vegan, but this creation of mine wil be :-)<br /><br />Presenting to you a future entry idea for the Wearable Arts "Bizarre Bra" section: a Thriller jacket made from preserved orange peel!</span><br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goku">Looks a little like Goku,</a> eh? :-) Illustration of Michael Jackson in Thriller from <a href="http://www.dragoart.com/tuts/9698/1/1/how-to-draw-michael-jackson-thriller,-thriller-michael-jackson.htm">"How To Draw Michael Jackson"</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, a small minority of people (Russell apparently included) will think this is a stupid idea, "you're going to dry out a whole bunch of carefully removed orange skins? And then sew them over top of a cheap, thin jacket as an outer shell, having dyed some black for the distinctive lines? Thats STUPID! And its not even a freaking BRA, you're entering some preserved orange skin JACKET based on a 1980's music video into the BRA section!!!!"<br /><br />Lucky for the gene pool, these people are few and far between.<br /><br />Lets face it: a Thriller jacket? The most <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haute_couture">haute of all couture</a>! Why, I'd win by default, for all eternity! They'd just give me the Wearable Arts "Bizarre Bra" trophy engraved with "Jordan Wyatt, 2013 to infinity and beyond"! What could possibly beat a Thriller jacket made from oranges?<br /><br />Look at the undeniable logic: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />*</span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_jacket" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> "Yellow Jackets"</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> are an American term for "wasp". This would be an "orange" Jacket - literally! :-) Orange skin sort of resembles the pitted texture of skin.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* Fruit is squeezed out into dried treats, called "fruit leathers". All New Zealand 90's kids will remember <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_Roll-Ups"> the "roll up"</a> :-)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.invsoc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/MJ-Orange-Thriller-Jacket.jpg" style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfdeEM6n_9XqUS2h_RIMpoN3Y0oAtUSyv7b_t0EJoCtSgToOI9tPtR6iFs6-gaOTN_qm2gVE6aPzMicoGI7tLif9HT8maLMzRsAYFWL7w2unlSHt9acZQ4O87_AZuS0aKR8NzPgRLE1cA/s1600/MJ+Orange+Thriller+Jackets.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson's_Thriller">Thriller is the greatest music video ever made</a>, and will remain so in perpetuity. Don't you DARE mention that infernal <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangnam_Style">"Gangnam Style"</a> video in the same sentence as Thriller! <br /><br />"Ooh, look at me, I'm Psy, a pudgy South Korean in dark sunglasses whose only hit has "G-A-N-G" in the title! Oh yeah? Well MJ not only lead his gang of zombies to beat up his date, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Brown_(American_entertainer)#Domestic_violence_case">Chris Brown</a>/<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ike_Turner#Relationships">Ike Turner </a>style, proved himself quite <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRdxUFDoQe0">capable of ending gang violence in "Beat It"</a> and THEN later leading yet another gang of dancers in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL5Kd2GxkE8">"Bad" (including Wesley Snipes, a Japanese guy in a Japanese bandanna and a dude with freaking rollerskates!)</a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sOnqjkJTMaA" width="480"></iframe></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(album)">Thriller is the best album of all time,</a> not only in terms of musical genius but in raw sales figures, well over a hundred million copies sold!!! Its gonna take a hell of a lot better than Justin Bieber or whoever the kids are listening to these days to top that!</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGzECQGlAw5u_dbqcguM3ZdY2PjzjP50dESF9QS7WnFz1wpToPSPruZ68webCTBGF0egc5OpvjB9Nar5e7n6Yj5mys1Z9lpvvcOkG1qDJEHEfZb-aDEv0xwrDNjww4TeJy6Z7m6rNOHwY/s1600/a,good,album,animation,bart,simpson,cartoon,fine,art,michael,jackson,fan,mjj,mjj,fan,music,reference,simpsons,the,simpsons-67e5e70871ade28e366c25b60b66a536_m.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="545" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGzECQGlAw5u_dbqcguM3ZdY2PjzjP50dESF9QS7WnFz1wpToPSPruZ68webCTBGF0egc5OpvjB9Nar5e7n6Yj5mys1Z9lpvvcOkG1qDJEHEfZb-aDEv0xwrDNjww4TeJy6Z7m6rNOHwY/s640/a,good,album,animation,bart,simpson,cartoon,fine,art,michael,jackson,fan,mjj,mjj,fan,music,reference,simpsons,the,simpsons-67e5e70871ade28e366c25b60b66a536_m.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* Whole Hen (on my leg, Curious Hen on ground) proves that a marmalade like patchwork of orange can be gorgeous :-)</span><a href="http://www.invsoc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Whole-Fire-Curious-Ice.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ub0UHMtI1Fs5jHJiMPNq91p9LRkEAfDUSQwVcvLDSoVfZ1qAFjNLtBt55ZgGNFkVi80MrMegdmqQNiIvkGehO9xKLUktXg6vqG5n_PufcMH80jSPZGbBj9s8GiOuXS6jC9WxK83ABJw/s1600/Whole+Fire+Curious+Ices.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_and_the_Amazing_Technicolor_Dreamcoat">Jordan's Amazing Filmed in Technicolour jacket!</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Usually I'm accused of committing "fashion crimes", well, in this jacket made of dried orange skins, I'd be one heck of a "smooth criminal" :-)<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sFvENQBc-F8" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />With this jacket, the World of Wearable Arts "Bizarre Bra" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHp0s2wKajw">award is mine!</a></span>JayWontdarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17594795233431726222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8057575190407710613.post-16522831377956069572012-11-21T23:10:00.001+13:002012-12-13T21:22:42.573+13:00Closeup:Fonterra Free Cows Milk Not Popular VIDEO<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">***UPDATE***<br />13/12/12<br /><a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/8076103/Free-milk-next-year">Cows milk will be promoted and given away in New Zealand schools nationwide next year</a> :<br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Research conducted by the University of Auckland has shown that children's milk consumption in the Northland community, both at school and at home, has significantly increased since the pilot began.<br /><br />"We know that getting Kiwis drinking more milk is not an overnight job but we are committed to helping improve the health of our kids," said (Fonterra CEO) Mr Spierings."</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />UGH!<br /><br /><br />Similar to that lovable scamp <a href="http://www.coexisting.co.nz/2012/09/new-beef-and-lamb-ads-on-way-featuring.html">"Iron Brion", a singing dancing minimum wage guy in a suit telling New Zealand school children they MUST eat New Zealand killed Cows and Sheep,</a> our cows milk empire wants a crack at "get 'em while they're young" too! <br /><br />Some great quotes in the video, from the children themselves not wanting the cows milk ("be more entertaining for the kids, put a bit of food colouring init, maybe a little more flavour?") and the principals themselves not drinking the free product! "no, because I'm not a milk drinker!" and "it DOES taste like long life milk, because its long life milk." And presumably long life milk doesnt taste all that great.<br /><br />"Can I ask you why are you doing it, is it out of the goodness of your hearts, or is it a PR move by Fonterra to get everyone in the country drinking more milk?"<br /><br />Fonterra PR "no, we want to....ITS HEALTHY FOR KIDS! Look, its WONDERFUL for kids, its nutritious...(PRACTICED PR SPIN!) Secondly, we want to see New Zealand as the dairy capital of the world. We're the biggest exporter of milk products in the world, and at home, people arnt drinking as much milk as they used to. And we're starting with kids, because its a long term play".<br /><br />To get them hooked into adulthood! :-)<br /><br />"We cant force people to drink milk" "you'd like to!" "I would like to!" "...where we've been running this pilot, already amongst the kids who've been drinking this milk, we've already seen a 20% increase in the amount of milk they're consuming out of school, so it seems to be having a really good impact."</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WtKBFyaF23M" width="640"></iframe><br /><br />Closeup November 21st 2012 <a href="http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/fonterra-committed-milk-in-schools-despite-drop-5231038">"Fonterra Committed To Milk In Schools Despite Drop"</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The New Zealand "Dairy" industry has come under fire for the shocking state of New Zealands environment, contributing greatly to pollution in our nation. Many New Zealanders also feel that cows milk is too expensive, so this example of suddenly giving free cows milk away to young children in schools can be seen as a PR stunt, kissing babies almost :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.coexisting.co.nz/2012/10/new-zealand-schoolchildren-reject-free.html">I've written before about this current schoolmilk stunt</a>:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br />"After an enthusiastic take-up, some schools have seen nearly a 90 per cent decline in the number of kids receiving milk each day, with many blaming the taste of the ultra heat treated (UHT) milk.<br /><br />"The kids wrote letters to Fonterra thanking them for the milk, but fewer were drinking it because of the taste it left in their mouth," said Dave Bradley, Wellsford School principal."</b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br /><br />Fonterra's campaign website <a href="https://www.fonterramilkforschools.com/">"Fonterra Milk For Schools"</a>:</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b><br />"Angela Berrill, Nutritionist & Director of ABC Nutrition Ltd says:<br /><br />“Milk provides a unique combination of nutrients which are essential for a child’s growth and development. The natural nutrition of milk gives children calcium for building bones and the nutrients they need for sustained energy, concentration and learning in the classroom.” " </b><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The milk itself is "essential"? If the milk in question is Fonterra *Cows Milk*, Rubbish! <a href="http://www.coexisting.co.nz/2012/07/fonterra-forced-to-drop-dairy-is.html">We've challenged Fonterra before on this, and won! They cannot claim cows milk is "essential" for New Zealanders</a>, and I'd be pretty sure they're not allowed to run quotes claiming its "essential" either.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"The complainant said five claims on Fonterra's website about the nutritional benefits of dairy products were factually untrue - including that dairy is an "essential part of a balanced diet" and "we all need it".<br /><br />The complainant referred to the Ministry of Health's nutrition guidelines, which said all essential nutrients could be obtained from a well-planned vegan diet involving no dairy products.<br /><br />"Therefore dairy is not needed at any age, and is not essential or vital to a balanced, nutritious diet as claimed," they wrote.<br /><br />The complainant also disputed Fonterra's claims that milk is the richest dietary source of calcium, and that no other source of calcium can be absorbed as well as dairy, pointing to green vegetables with more absorbable calcium.<br /><br />Fonterra responded to the complaint, saying it would change four of its online claims - including to say dairy was "important", rather than "essential"."</b></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We can certainly get the nutrients which growing children need from a plant based diet :-)</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An interesting saga! :-)</span></span>JayWontdarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17594795233431726222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8057575190407710613.post-88911345702932370242012-11-17T21:26:00.000+13:002013-02-16T20:09:18.195+13:00"The Vegg" Reviewed - A Vegan Egg! :-) PHOTOS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://thevegg.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The Vegg"</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> is a Vegan egg substitute. I learnt about The Vegg (and photography) through my friend Diana Fleischman of </span><a href="http://theveganoption.org/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Vegan Option</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRrIE_AyG4rCU3O6MmFlBEVLS0KDW1YenBNbX7LUF-TCY2WXNlGeqqWKz2CMyzYReymf14H3vt4rLuGG0D1hnka-nv-lqBOELzUE4P2-gOvAZ5AtPaDQ8C-kGMQvdBjIHbRnzL4IOCi6k/s1600/diana-iphone-lick-moustache.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRrIE_AyG4rCU3O6MmFlBEVLS0KDW1YenBNbX7LUF-TCY2WXNlGeqqWKz2CMyzYReymf14H3vt4rLuGG0D1hnka-nv-lqBOELzUE4P2-gOvAZ5AtPaDQ8C-kGMQvdBjIHbRnzL4IOCi6k/s640/diana-iphone-lick-moustache.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />When Rocky the inventor of <a href="http://thevegg.com/">The Vegg</a> contacted me about reviewing his product on my blog, how could I refuse? As someone who looks after Rescued Hen Friends, giving them a real life away from those horrible animal farms, the more Vegan products available the better! Hens eggs are for the Hens, if we feel like eating their eggs, why not try "The Vegg" instead? :-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />My Hen Friends always like to see my mail, and I like to take photos of them, its win/win :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />The Vegg comes in silver packaging. Its essentially a yellow powder made from nutritional yeast and all kinds of wonderful ingredients, which you add water and soymilk to and blend to form a liquid. The recipe included is for "Vegg French Toast".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />To transform <a href="http://thevegg.com/">The Vegg</a> from powder to "yolks", you take a teaspoon of Vegg, and add a quarter of a cup of water into a blender. Mixing by hand is not recommended. The powder smells a little like nutritional yeast and rock salt, the ingredients contain "black salt"<br /><br />To follow the included French Toast recipe, you add 4 teaspoons of Vegg powder to one and a half cups of soymilk, and one and a half cups of water. Add cinnamon powder. Blend well, pour into a bowl, and dip thick bread in the mixture for ten seconds each side.<br /><br />I used toast bread, the thicker the bread the better though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />She reminds me of her father Mr Rooster, who excitedly shared Falafel with the Hens :-) Roosters naturally share food with the rest of their family like proper gentlemen, although Hens usually squabble a little and try to be selfish :-) It was amazing watching him pass food from his beak to theirs, and call them over when he found food. You can observe his head bobbing gesture, up and down while he talks, his way of calling them to food he's found :-) The black hen is Ms Hen, Yellow Hens mother.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-sjLbUUtxWg" width="640"></iframe></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Thank you Rocky, and everyone who works to give the world <a href="http://thevegg.com/">"The Vegg"</a> Vegan egg substitute :-)<br /><br />Try <a href="http://thevegg.com/">The Vegg</a> today :-) Its currently not available in New Zealand, but we can order from Australian stores listed online on Rocky's website. I've suggested some New Zealand stores who could carry The Vegg, and Rocky has contacted them, so we'll see if New Zealand has a Veggy future :-)<br /><br />Other reviews of The Vegg<br /><br /><a href="http://vegancrunk.blogspot.co.nz/2012/03/vegan-egg-yolk.html">Vegan Crunk</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.veganurbanite.com/2012/07/02/vegg-french-toast/">Vegan Urbanite</a><br /><br />Other <a href="http://www.thevegg.com/recipes.html">official Vegg recipes</a> to try :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tonights potluck celebrated Dr Luke graduating, after many years of hard work to become a medical professional. We've loved having you here Luke, and wish you well for your work in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gisborne,_New_Zealand">Gisborne</a> :-)<br /></span><a href="http://www.invsoc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/IMG_6765.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh76xTtW6QxzmoTm3RBieg0vBXMBwWgYblssuZfb_ZDe1Giqz85y-_lU41qx1nWEw4WvdiDzUgyIVytmvColFItvXsEfqPms9v1sCGh3h-ANepwyivUVviqkpGqCX6d-cZhWXGBUezGvM/s1600/IMG_6765s.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />We've doctors *and* nurses in the Invercargill Vegan Society :-)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After we destroyed the pie crust's integrity, like an earthquake swallowing up the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Sign">Hollywood sign</a>!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Take care Dr Luke! Best wishes from all your friends at the Invercargill Vegan Society, we hope to see you again soon :-)<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jen came down from Queenstown, although soon she'll be living in and doing fantastic Vegan work in Dunedin :-)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreti_Beach">Oreti Beach</a> on a gorgeous day, setting of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Fastest_Indian">The World's Fastest Indian</a> (See also <a href="http://www.coexisting.co.nz/2012/09/two-little-boys-movie-familiar-names.html">recent movie "Two Little Boys</a>")</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just before I took this photo of Jen, there were two Indonesian tourists who'd travelled the entire length of New Zealand. Its always a little sad to see tourists having to take a photo of one another, one posing, the other taking the photo. I'll offer to take a photo of them posing together, and they usually are quite grateful. As "the camera" was passed to me, I realised it was an iPhone 5, oooh, the first time I'd fully used one. I joked about "slumming it" with my beloved iPhone 4 :-)<br /><br />Bluff Hill, with the Tiwai point Aluminium Smelter in the background, makers of "the finest Aluminium in the world". Local metal is used in the wings of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380">Airbus A380</a>. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluff,_New_Zealand">Wikipedia entry on Bluff shows a fantastic photo taken from space</a> showing the peninsula , awesome to say "hey, thats exactly where we are!" :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Chocolate mousse wasnt as nice, its a single serving of chocolate powder and water mixed together. I whisked by hand which left it heavier, if I'd used an electric blender and/or beaten longer, it would have fluffed up more. As shown, its more of an "instant pudding" :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thank you to Jen for bringing down Vegan cheese, while its not quite to my taste (at least yet!), I love the <a href="http://www.invsoc.org.nz/breakfast-muesli-with-soy-yoghurt/">Kingland brand's soy yoghurt which is easily found in Invercargill supermarkets</a>, and it can only be a good thing if vegan cheese is available in Invercargill supermarkets soon :-)</span><br />
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