September 20th 2012 INVSOC Potluck

Tonights Invercargill Vegan Society potluck had Katharine, Russell, Dan, Jordan, Steve, Amber and a brief Kerri Kameo :-)  Non Vegan friend Emily joined us too :-)

Whole Hen :-)





Listen to what we each brought while you look through the photos :-)

Lasagne, made using tortilla style wraps for each layer.  Alternating layers of pasta/quinoa/tvp with a little tomato paste, followed by mashed pumpkin and kumara (sweet potato).  Topped off by a couple basil leaves.

Spring rolls, bought from Pak n Save and served fried.

Korma by Katharine.  We're told she listened to "Killboy Powerhead" by Offspring while cook-ering.  It didnt *taste* angry though! :-)

Curry Puffs (Samosas) from Countdown along with spring rolls, chilli.

Kerri's Vegan meatballs, bloody fantastic!  TVP, Gluten and all other kinds of goodness.

Lasagne

Deserts, the "mallowpuff" looking item bottom right is an Oreo Truffle, fantastic!

Pecan Pie by Amber and Steve

Chocolate Peanut Butter brownies by Dan

After a big meal, its cleanup time!

These dishes are not going to clean themselves, but with the new Deadmau5 album resounding from my headphones, they'll be taken care of soon enough :-)  Literally came out on iTunes New Zealand just as our potluck finished up :-)

Thank you all for a lovely night :-)




See other Invercargill Vegan Society potlucks on our new website section :-)

Curious Hen Vet Trip

Curious Hen was ill this morning, when I opened the Hen House door, she was still perched up high, she hadnt flown down to the floor.  Barely moving, just standing still by herself, I gave her some of my emergency supply of antibiotics, made sure she was ok, and left for work.

Coming home, she was better, outside with the other hens, but not eating.  She wouldnt move much.  My friend Desmond gave me a ride to Vetsouth, Curious Hen in a box used for carrying bananas to supermarkets :-)

At the Vet clinic, she was very well behaved, even while sick.  Look how lovely she looks here, as shes being weighed to calculate antibiotic dose.  Tracey the vet mentioned how large she was, 2.4 kilograms :-)

She had an injection, and was sent home to recover.  I walked home from Yarrow Street with her in the box, plenty of air coming in for her, as she looked out through one of the handle holds.

The Hens like to be in the dark of a closed box, it keeps them calm being in a small, dim space.  Imagine how big the world would seem to you if you'd lived the first ~18 months of your life away from your mother and father, growing from an egg in an incubator, then kept in a cage with a few other strange Hens.

From there, after being rescued, you'd spent your whole life in the backyard of a friendly local Vegan.  Curious Hen wouldnt be used to cars, to bikes and traffic signals and people talking on their cellphones as they walk past.  She preferred to stay in a corner of the closed box, able to look out through a hole when she felt like it.

Without the antibiotics this morning, Curious Hen would have stayed on her perch, not able to move.  Presumably she would have closed her eyes, become paralyzed and died.  The antibiotics in the morning meant she stayed alert, eyes open, but she was barely moving.  When I came home today, and gave them all some oats, she hobbled towards the food along with the other Hens, but wouldnt eat when she was there.  Instinct and habit, she wanted to eat, but couldnt.

Taking her to the vet, Curious Hen wanted to stand still, and not move.   She received a direct injection (the vet told her "its just a tick", I asked, concerned if she actually had lice, and was told that the vet tells ALL nonhuman animals that "its just a big flea, its ok darling" etc to hopefully keep them calm, or their caregivers calm :-)  Curious Hen is pest free.)

Stopping on the way home so she could have a rest from being moved, I took her to the Otepuni Gardens.


Where she got to meet the Invercargill Vegan Society World Vegan Day 2011 tree! :-)

She barely moved in these photos, she walked about a metre in total.  Alert, eyes open, but she is still recovering, thanks to the antibiotics.

Curious Hen is safe at home, and she should be recovering well.

***Two Days Later, Curious Hen is fine :-) ***

Whole Hen Defends Other Hens From Cats VIDEO

Whole Hen keeps the other Hen Friends safe from cats, who've killed previous Bantam Chickens before.  One white cat in particular tries to stalk my Hen Friends, sneaking through bushes, but whenever Whole Hen spots him, which she inevitably will, she runs straight at him, no fear.


If anything, "she's got steam shooting out her nostrils", as she snaps her beak at the cats fur, tearing out clumps.  If they even remotely try to stand their ground, much less fight back, she KICKBOXES, like a Rooster would!  (Video of a Rooster jumping and kicking a womans shoes, shes not h
urt, laughing throughout it while yelling a little from surprise) 

Here we see Whole Hen has cornered Jasper the cat behind a chair inside our house, as he looked at the Hens, Whole Hen ran through the cat flap inside and pushed him back.  He wasnt touched at all by her, just frightened off.   

You can see she watches him continuously, his every small movement gets a reaction from her, until he leaps onto our washing machine, where hes (mostly) safe from her.  Its easier for a cat to jump that high than for a Chicken to fly there, but she *could* follow him if she wanted.



The cats are safe, shes never hurt them as they've hurt and killed Hens, so I guess in a way its good that she looks after Yellow Hen.  The only bruises are of the "alpha predator" cat egos being crushed by this protective bird.

Another of my Chicken Friends, Curious Hen is highest up the Hens social order, yet she never keeps cats back.  Curious Hen happily sleeps on my lap, or even rests on my shoe! :-)

"Hi Tech Route To Perfect Venison (Deer flesh) Cuts"

The Southland Times "Hi Tech Route To Perfect Venison (Deer flesh) Cuts"


""Just say we're large scale, intense farmers."

The Wilkins family run one of the largest agri-businesses in Southland, with a deer, sheep and crop farm in Wendonside, a deer and crop farm in Athol, and a dairy farm at Five Rivers.

The large fire engine sitting in the tractor shed is an indicator of the scale of the operation.

Of the deer on his farms about 10 per cent are bred for velvet and trophy, the rest for meat, he said.

And for the past decade, Mr Wilkins has sent in 100 deer for slaughter at Makarewa venison plant, near Invercargill, two or three times a year.

Usually the whole carcass gets weighed once but Mr Wilkins gets each muscle group individually measured, like the depth and width of the loin, he said.

When the euro was stronger, Europeans paid $54 per kilogram for loin and the difference between a good and a bad loin could be 1.1kg, he said.

"If an animal is yielding $50 more for a cut, then you want more of that one . . . you have to find out what they are buying most of and produce it."

The individual cuts could be traced back to the hind and sires so he can identify the genetics to breed high value animals.

The 100 deer come from about 10 different sires so the detailed yield information would mean genetic gains could be made quicker, he said."

"The daily kill at the venison plant is 185 because that has the chillers at capacity.

Meatworkers at Makarewa are paid to work from 6am to 2pm, but when they've filled the chillers they can knock off early.

But now a new piece of technology called VIAscan installed at the end of the slaughterboard in February means Mr Wilkins can bypass the bottleshop on the way to Makarewa.

VIAscan shines a beam of light across the carcass and captures its image.

The image is analysed and compared to the shape and colours of carcasses from a large database of results of boning trials to measure the meat, less the fat and bone of three areas - the leg, middle and shoulder."



"The low grass growth during Southland winters made it difficult to keep deer in good condition so farmers sometimes sent them in earlier, or later, than when they were needed for market, he said.

To get more deer, Alliance paid farmers more, but the incentive of an extra $60 to $70 per carcass was not enough to attract enough stock, he said.

Ideally there would be enough deer to warrant starting up the night shift now, but that started in October when more stock was available, he said.

Despite the cold southern conditions about 80 per cent of deer farming in New Zealand took place south of Christchurch and Alliance processed for about 300 farmers in the South Island in their Makarewa and Timaru plants.

Most of the carcasses were red deer, then wapiti/red cross and some wapiti, though the payout for the farmers was the same for each breed, he said.

Alliance Group venison production manager Marty Donnelly said the ideal deer for farmers to focus on genetically was one that grew fast, had about 26 per cent muscle confirmation with a total meat yield of about 70 per cent."

The Southland Times "Hi Tech Route To Perfect Venison (Deer flesh) Cuts"

Nice Hens with Tofu, Chocolate Soymilk

I've updated the New World supermarket page on the Invercargill Vegan Society website, including this photo.

top: Home Hen (once called Hurt Hen before she healed of her wounds) middle: Whole Hen (first two Rescued Hens), bottom: Curious Hen.

To the right, mostly out of view is Geiger Hen.  The first two are orange, Home Hen a kind of marmalade, Whole Hen a blazing flame orange, Curious Hen is more coffee and soymilk mixing :-)  Geiger is a little darker overall, less light colours.

Nice Hens :-)

INVSOC Quiz Team Wins! :-)

Tonight Invercargill Vegan Society members Steve, Kerri, their son Jess, Katharine and Jordan entered a quiz at the Glengarry tavern* and we cleaned up! :-)

The charity quiz was to help a Middle School girl who had had an eye operation, to help pay for her surgeries.
"Mr Baird and his wife Tina both went to the quiz night ''but we didn't do that well''.

''That last round was a killer. It was a great night out, though,'' Mr Baird said.

Ruby was adjusting to things like getting into the routine of wearing protective glasses and sunglasses well, he said.

''She's pretty robust. She just bounces around.''

Middle School assistant principal Louise Dickson said the quiz night, held at the Eastern Suburbs Tavern on Thursday night, attracted more than 200 people.

She was pleased with ''the fact that people opened their wallets with their hearts''.

It raised more than $7000 for the Baird family and more was also expected to come in through silent auctions the school was holding for Ruby, Ms Dickson said."
The Southland Times "Thanks Not Enough"
* or "Eastern Suburbs Tavern"

The name picked for out team was the "Vegitators"

It had already been a great day, on my walk home from work I found a Bumblebee on the footpath.  He or she was in the shade, unable to fly while cold.  I scooped them up and carried them home, to rest on one of the sunny flowers in our backyard.

From the second round on, the "Vegitators" shot to the top of the charts :-)

One of the questions was about the current mars rover, "whats it called?"  Well, if I messed up the answer "Curiosity", then my Hen Friend named Curious Hen would have been really let down!!! :-)

Kerri and I knew the answer though, Curiosity! :-)  Curious Hen could hold her head high in pride :-)

We were pretty sure we were safely ahead in the last round.....having stumbled on some earlier sports statistic questions.....but we should never count our Chicken Friends before they've hatched! :-)

Ms Hen and Black Chick, hours after the chicks had hatched :-)

This audio clip was recorded as the answers for the last round were announced....we had some answers wrong....at least a couple were my fault, but the end result?


We won :-)  As you hear during the clip, we were given a painting by artist Daryl Smith, who's overcome being abused by religious leaders as a child, to be creative through his paintings.

It was wonderful to enter a quiz with an all Vegan team, well done Steve, Kerri, their son Jess and Katharine :-)  All throughout the quiz, raffles were won for "one of 9 lambs legs", "salmon meat", "killed Sooty Shearwater" ("Muttonbirds") and a non Vegan cheese selection.  I would have been game for the others to have run for the door, while I told everyone we were an all Vegan team, and that its great to be Vegan, to look after the birds and the bees! :-)

Bret McKenzie at Two Little Boys film Premier in Invercargill!

***UPDATE  I've since seen the movie, which features the work of TWO Invercargill Vegan Society members! :-) ***

Tonight I attended the red carpet premier event for "Two Little Boys", a new movie which was recorded in Invercargill.  It stars Bret McKenzie from Flight of the Conchords and Lord of the Rings alongside Australian celebrity Hamish Blake, of the Hamish and Andy Show.



I attended the *red carpet event*, I didnt attend the premier of the movie inside :-)

Held in the majestic Civic Theatre, where earlier we Vegans attended Men in Tutus with our friend Justin from Hellhound Hotdogs, it was a superb night.

Well, superb as far as excitement and entertainment, the weather had fluctuated all day from pure blue skies one minute, to HAIL and chilling winds soon after!  Bizarre. (NZ classic "Four Seasons in One Day" music video by Crowded House)

Inside "the world leader in dog and cat nutrition" trailer played the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra!

 

 I recognized many of Invercargill's rich and powerful, like Caleb here, who I went to high school with.  Hi Caleb!

Giant banners for both stars, Hamish Blake...

And Bret McKenzie.

As seen in the trailer, the movie is about the troubles surrounding an accidental death of a Norwegian tourist visiting New Zealand.  A daily occurrence!  (I'm *joking* Nor-we-gish readers, *please* come and spend your money in safe, secure, live-able nation of New Zealand!!!)



Actors wandered about the red carpet line as "Norwegian Tourists", asking where their friend Jeurgen ("yur-gen") was........I didnt have the heart to tell them, but I *did* explain that based on the trailer, they should stay away from Brets character "Nige"! :-)  
A civic celebration which I could commandeer?  Cripes son, I'll be there with a sign saying GO VEGAN! (or more accurately "go Vegan".

When "The Norwegian Tourists" approached me for the third time in twenty minutes, "where is Jeurgen?  Do you know where Tuatara Backpackers is?", I asked if I could take a photo with them.  I gave them the *sign that I'd hastily made*, and told them "...as you already know, being from Norway, "Vegan" is a great holiday town, by the Tahitian border....right?".

 They were fine posing with my crappy sign :-)

 Old bangers....sorry, "classic cars" from the movie.

Oh heck....here comes Bret.........ok Jordan, time for one blurry photo.....get it all out of your system........

and then its showtime!

"Figwit Lives", whaaaa?

Figwit is a fan favourite character from The Lord of The Rings series, Bret McKenzies first movie role.  (Wikipedia)  According to Know Your Meme:

"The name “Figwit” was first conceived in early 2002, when an Israeli college student named Iris Hadad noticed McKenzie in the background of the Council of Elrond scene. She described him as “perfect, pouty and gorgeous” and dubbed him Figwit, a made-up acronym for “Frodo Is Grea… Who Is THAT?!” which is meant to convey the swoons of viewers upon seeing his face in the film."

"When Frodo says “I will take it!”, we are so impressed we start to think “Frodo is great!" But before we finish, the camera pans and we see Figwit, smoldering enigmatically in the background. All other thoughts are whisked away by that elf – who is THAT?! He’s gorgeous!

In March 2002, Hadad and her friend Sherry de Andres launched the fan site Figwit :Lives for McKenzie’s character, which featured a variety of fanart and songs about the mysterious elf character."

"Figwit Lives" could fit the "Frodo Lives" saying from decades past.

3 News explain the meme:




I could either go there with no sign, a crummy sign saying "go Vegan" or a poorly made sign that combined an Animal Rights message AND a mostly forgotten Internet Meme :-)  I chose the latter.

Bret recognized the name and was happy to pose for a photo with it.  As far as I know, after all the fan art and official autograph cards and even Lego figures (Google Images), its the first time Bret McKenzie has been photographed directly connected to the Meme :-)



Television interviews with the three main stars, the bald headed security guard blurring his way from the right was later yelled at by a camera operator.  I believe it was the TVNZ camera guy, as they set up a camera shot for an interview, the poor Allied Security employee must have been SLIGHTLY visible in the perfect camera view.  The camera guy *screamed* and lunged forward from his equipment: "GET OUT!!!" in an incredibly rude fashion.  Truly Christian Bale incident or Alec Baldwin Voicemail for his daughter level anger.  How rude!  It happened a further down from this no doubt lovely camera crew, as I stood next to the other, screaming camera guy.

It was lovely to attend the *red carpet event* for a movie premier :-)  I kept the especially crappy "go Vegan" side of the sign to myself.  There was an astonishing number of women wearing animals fur, including whole animal bodies, draped around their necks.  Surely it cant be *that* common to own animal furs in Invercargill?  Are they hired for the event, "oh daaaaaaaaaarling, I'm going to the Two Little Boys premier behind the City Council building, I simply MUST wear the hair attached skin of another species of animal around my neck!" ?  I wasn't going to angrily confront them, because as a Vegan, holding the Invercargill Vegan Societies motto "all animals are equal" to be self evident, I'd also have to angrily chase anyone wearing hairless animal skin ("leather") down the red carpet too, anyone Non Vegan :-)

I was happy mostly showing the Figwit Lives sign, to puzzled smiles.

The TVNZ "microwave link", how live tv is "sent back to the studio from location".

3 News also had red carpet coverage video

Apparently after the camera guy had screamed at a security guard in the way, he STILL wasn't satisfied, so TVNZ had video from inside, out of the cold.

The Southland Times newspaper live blogged the event.  You can see my big ugly back against the curved banner, the dark shadowy figure is yours truly's :-)



"7pm: Fans have created signs for their favourite actors from the movie but there could be some sign envy for Bret McKenzie.

McKenzie is possibly feeling a little deflated given the fact his pen-drawn sign is simply his name scrawled on a small piece of paper while Hamish Blake has been treated to a large, colourful specimen."




I guess my Internet Meme reference whooshed over the newspapers knowledge of obscure pop culture - I *had* made a sign for single t'd Bret :-)




A New Zealand icon who's appeared on The Simpsons, been honoured by the Queen of England, won an Oscar award for his songs in the latest Muppet movie and co starred in the fantastic HBO tv series "Flight of the Conchords" - with a sign I made from spare hardboard and green spray paint outlined by black Vivid marker pen :-)

As Ice Cube would say, it was a good day :-)


Video from my place along the red carpet




A wet and windy night, but it was worth it to be part of spreading the good news: Figwit lives! :-)

***UPDATE  I've since seen the movie, which features the work of TWO Invercargill Vegan Society members! :-) ***

New "Beef and Lamb" Ads On The Way, Featuring Olympic Athletes

3 News: new "Beef and Lamb" ads on the way, September 2012.
Iron Brion, the mascot for our "Meat Council" has been covered before, on Episode 64

Video from the roadshow which primary school children are shown

"New Zealand collected one of its largest ever medal hauls at the London Olympics last month, and now the sponsors are starting to respond.


It has some of our Olympians entering unfamiliar territory.

After a 12-month hiatus, Beef and Lamb ads will soon be back on our screens with a couple of new faces.

They're best known for their sporting successes, but it turns out Sarah Walker and Lisa Carrington can "bust a move or two".

“After I won my medal I did a little bit of boogying, but in front of a camera is a different story,” says Walker.

Beef and Lamb New Zealand says the pair, originally from the Bay of Plenty, "epitomise" what means to be a Kiwi.

“They mix well,” says Beef and Lamb chief executive Rod Slater. “They've got good personalities and they come from heartland New Zealand."

"“Part of their contract is they're available for us,” says Mr Slater. “I think it's two days for filming advertisement. It's not onerous.”

The money's good for two days’ work, plus the odd promotional engagement. Sources have told 3 News they could each net between $50,000 and $75,000 a year, and they've signed up for four years.

“Nice,” says Walker. “I need to go back to them!”"

A recent study rated Sarah Walker the second most likeable Kiwi athlete at the Olympics behind rower Mahe Drysdale, and among the most recognised faces too.

A previous ad from "Beef and Lamb" featuring female athletes

 

Dairy Industry Poop Problems Solved....by breeding TONNES of worms?!?

Wanna see a photo of a farmer holding up a bunch of cow "effluent" (?) crawling with worms eating it?  Then The Southland Times article "Spreading The Word For Worms" is just what you're looking for!

As if introducing creepy ass Australian Dung Beetles wasnt crazy enough!
"A Cromwell tiger worm farmer wants more such farms scattered around the south to add value to dairy effluent by creating a nutrient rich fertiliser.

Central Wormworkz owner Robbie Dick said a tiger worm could eat its own bodyweight in waste and turn sloppy, stinky cow effluent into a dry, odourless matter with the consistency of sand.

The fertiliser would mean dairy farmers would need to use less urea and nitrates, he said.

"Nobody can do it safer than nature does."

Ideally, worm farms would be scattered across the province, with each servicing up to 20 dairy farms, he said.

Time-poor dairy farmers often neglected worm farms so a third party to run the farm was necessary, he said.

Running a worm farm would be ideal for retired farmers and the worm stock would double every month if there was enough food made available, he said.

The worms stopped populating if food became scarce.

"They have more brains than we do."

Each worm farm would need three or four tonnes of worms which could eat their weight in effluent every 10 days, he said."


"Soil Foodweb institute owner Cherryle Prew said she examined the biology of soils and the soil structure on farms where raw effluent was spread pugged easily and required urea for grass growth.

Valuable nutrients and minerals were added by composting the effluent with worms, she said.

And the grass grown was more palatable and nutritious for stock.

Environment Minister Amy Adams wrote to Mr Dick encouraging him to submit an application for funding from the ministry's Waste Minimisation Fund and to apply for the Primary Industry Ministry's Sustainable Farming Fund.

Mr Dick said he sent tiger worms to plumbers across New Zealand to put in environmental-friendly toilets.

The toilet separated the urine from the faeces for the waiting worms below, he said.

He had also sent worms to be working crew members in a toilet on a boat in the Doubtful Sounds."


Perhaps farmers could be introducing Genetically Engineered Dung Beetles and Worms to eat up nuclear waste too?  Would sure help out containing Chernobyl !




The Southland Times article "Spreading The Word For Worms" 

Episode 85 Radio INVSOC

Episode 85 Radio INVSOC

4m Julie Gunn of radio show "Animal Rights and Wrongs" visits the Invercargill Vegan Society

6m Queenstown guests Jenny and Jane drive down especially for our second vegan potluck, with Alison of Tauranga

15m Julie and Jordan visit the World Vegan Day 2011 INVSOC memorial tree in the Otepuni Gardens

20m Julie and Jordan tour Queens Park, occasionally breaking into song

33m radio call in to Newstalk ZB about Veganism

Listen now by downloading directly from here or, better yet, subscribe in iTunes to get each episode automagically!

Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals iTunes link

http://itunes.apple.com/nz/podcast/coexisting-with-nonhuman-animals/id334206335

Hello and welcome to Episode 85 of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals, Radio INVSOC.  This episode is all about the wonderful medium of Radio.  And what song springs to mind?  

And as the On Human Nonhuman Relations-like classic hits music fades down, hi to Chanel who listens in Australia, and Veroni-quu too, who likes my Hen Friend videos.

Also, a  big hello to honorary INVSOC members Clarke and Kate, who are expecting their daughter to soon be joined by a son!  I'd gladly offer my help in naming him……….. how about………. "Curious Boy" or ……."Geiger Son"?   Pretty good huh?   No? ………. Ok.

August was a very busy month for the Invercargill Vegan Society.  TWO potlucks in one month, the first for Justin of Hellhound Hotdogs which you'll hear on the last episode, and now, a second for a whole bunch of guests to our fine city!

Vegan Julie Gunn of the radio show "Animal Rights and Wrongs" stopped by with her brother, down from Wellington, in the North Island.  While she was down, I showed her the bright lights of Invers, which you'll hear later on in this episode.  

Alison also visited from the North Island, she came down for a meeting.

There was also Jane and Jenny, who drove a couple hundred kilometers down from Queenstown just to attend our potluck!  What commitment! 

I needed commitment to get used to all the names!  Jordan, Julie, Jane, Jenny and on the same day I'd been talking to a Gemma.  As you heard from my suggestions to Clarke and Kate….I'm terrible with names!

You can find photos and audio of our potlucks on the Invercargill Vegan Society website, www.invsoc.org.nz

Julie recorded audio clips on her phone during her visit.  When she returned to Wellington, she used them on her radio show, Animal Rights and Wrongs.  You can find her weekly show in my shownotes for this episode….but I'm also going to use clips I've taken from *her* clips now :-)  Julie's co-hosting this episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals, from the bottom of the North Island, while I cohost from the bottom of the South Island :-)

Now sounds like a good time to include my recording of our second August potluck!

And now I'll splice in my interview with Julie as we stood at our World Vegan Day 2011 memorial tree!

Back to Julie, co-hosting from her radio show:

Hey Julie, word on the street is, that we wandered around Invercargill, can you confirm or deny these allegations?

Tuatara are sort of like lizards, but closer related to crocodiles and birds. T-u-a    t-a-r-a.  You can find a link in shownotes.  Tuatara are an incredibly ancient animal, they live for over a hundred years.  They basically refuse to move, their whole bodies work slowly, and they seem to live forever.  If you're lucky, you'll see one blink, I swear!  The Southland Museum has an enclosure where you can see a few adults, such as Henry, who at over a hundred years old became a father after apparently showing very little interest in the birds and the bees for the first double digits of his life!

For the first years of their life, they are about the size of a gecko, and at THIS stage you see them moving like any other lizard, its very bizarre, because by adulthood, they are mossy green, grey rock statues, about the length of a cat when fully grown.  :-)

Its always very sad to see ANY animal in captivity, slow moving to the point you're unsure if they're still alive, or otherwise.

well its the majority of my show, fretting and complaining!  theres usually a couple Michael Jackson references and sometimes a little impromptu singing while we walk through a crowded place too.  You cant take me anywhere, for fear of these outpouring outbursts.

One last clip recorded from a radio show.  Kerre Woodham is a well known New Zealander, she reviews books, writes articles in newspapers and magazines, and hosts a radio show…… and they'll let ANYONE call in!

I figured out that Kerre was closing my phone line off, waiting a little so I wouldn't speak over her, "…could I share our website…." but I'd already been muted, the next call was then included!  Ha!

Heres a taste of New Zealand radio, complaining about people one the benefit (welfare), and a woman who claims she loves a Dog, she's the womans best friend, and that the dog could NEVER be vegetarian (or Vegan), because she's ALLERGIC to everything!

I wrote into the radio host Kerre Woodham about vegan dogwood, and that surely there would be a kind that this little dog wouldn't be "allergic" to :-) 

Thank you for listening to Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals.

You can find the script for this episode, as well as downloads for every episode of Coexisting With Nonhuman Animals at  www.coexisting.co.nz

If you want to contact me, I'd really love to hear from YOU, please send me an email to info@invsoc.org.nz

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Thank you for listening.

Sources

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Julie's weekly radio show broadcast from Wellington, available worldwide online "Animal Rights and Wrongs"

www.accessradio.org.nz/animal_rights_and_wrongs.html

Invercargill Vegan Society second August 2012 potluck photos with Julie, Willie Gunn, Alison, Jenny and Jane :-)

http://www.coexisting.co.nz/2012/08/august-17th-2012-invsoc-potluck.html 

Potluck guests visited from Tauranga (Alison

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauranga

and Queenstown (Jenny, Jane)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenstown,_New_Zealand

Invercargill Vegan Society website 

http://www.invsoc.org.nz

World Vegan Day 2011 Invercargill Vegan Society memorial tree, as mentioned by Julie when we visited it in the Otepuni Gardens :-)

http://www.coexisting.co.nz/2011/11/happy-world-vegan-day-2011.html

Tuatara, New Zealand animals who live forever :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara

Queens Park, Invercargill

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen's_Park,_Invercargill

Geocache we found in Queens Park, "Peaceful Glen", as heard during our recording as we walked following GPS directions on my iPhone, while Julie recorded the interview using her Samsung Galaxy S II Android phone.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=1c9e4f24-fc70-440f-9e24-2146cf64dc0f

Otepuni Gardens, Invercargill

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otepuni_Gardens

Lisa Viger's "Raw On $10" recipe website, as mentioned on the radio call

http://www.rawon10.blogspot.com

"Radio Ga Ga" Queen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t63_HRwdAgk

"If You Don't Know Me By Now" Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p65sBNxoLbA

"Video Killed The Radio Star" The Buggles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ

Rescued Hens Bask In Sunlight VIDEO

Nice Hens in the sun, staying clean :-)

Curious Hen On My Foot VIDEO

Curious Hen is, well, curious!  She likes to explore and figure out how things work.

Recently, she's started jumping onto my shoe as I sit outside, and walking up my leg to get onto my lap.  Its easier, and "more fun" than leaping straight onto my lap.

Very confusing for me when I'm reading or drawing outside, to suddenly feel this "woomph" as a large bird lands on my shoe though!  Being hollow boned, despite her large size, Curious Hen is very light, half, a third what a similar sized cat would weigh.

Part One

 

Part Two, where she walks up my leg :-)  After this video she fell asleep on my lap while I listened to audiobooks :-)



Go Vegan :-)