Almost three dozen hungey folks joined fthe first cruelty free Heritage Day braai held in Vredehoek on a sunny day, to enjoy delicious yet compassionate food, finished with chocolate cupcakes topped with almond cream.!
Deer Park have confirmed this will be an annual Heritage Day event. A % of the proceeds was donated to BWC. To join their mailing list list for updates on their monthly, great value, wednesday evening buffets mail deerparkcafe@tiscali.co.za
RECIPES
We often have requests for pancake recipes, here's a mouthwatering version, with stuffed peppers as a main!
SILK CRUELTY FOLLOW UP
Dr Mike Picker, Entomologist in Zoology Dept., UCT chatted with me about the silk issue and he explained that insects have a very diff.erent nervous system to vertebrates, and indications are that they do not show the same behavioural features associated with the pain response as do vertebrates. If they lose a leg they do not even seem to notice, and just carry on feeding or walking.
This means then the same principle applies to honey.
So in essence, silk may not be cruel, however vegans would usually avoid silk (and honey) on the basis that we now have man made alternatives and therefore we need not exploit any living being.
TALK
Beauty Without Cruelty addressed a few students at Stellenbosch University the other evening, at their invitation, on the issue of Meat Free Mondays, veganism and compassionate living. We watched the BWC 'Living without Cruelty' film and a presentation on the lives of chickens and had a Q&A time thereafter , while nibbling on (vegan) snacks and dips and sipping an excellent Chardonnay.
I am told that there was further lively debate after I left and that serious thought has gone into the very real issue of making changes toward a more consciously compassionate life.
JOHANNESBURG
Anne van Vliet hosted a BWC table at the Midrand Urban Market 3 October as part of the World Animal Day promotion along with other animal related groups, to promote awareness of animal abuse in all its forms.
There was also an Animal Blessing service at North Rand Methodist which is an annual event started there about 5 years ago, by Anne of BWC.
WORLD VEGAN DAY
The 4th annual World GO VEGAN Week is taking place this year from October 25 to 31st, culminating in World Vegan Day on the 1st November. This week is a celebration of compassion and a time to take action for animals, the environment and your well-being.
To mark the occasion, Beauty Without Cruelty has collaborated with a few restaurants in the Westen Cape, Gauteng and KZN to offer discounts on their strict vegetarian offerings from Monday 26th to Friday 30th October.
Please support their efforts and use this week as an excellent opportunity to sample food you may not usually have tried!
The purpose of the campaign is to encourage people to consider the effects of factory farming on humans, animals and the environment.
World Go Vegan week is also about celebrating what it means to be vegan.
Veganism enables people to live in balance with all on earth and to promote freedom from exploitation for animals as part of their everyday lives. We encourage people to become conscious of what - and who - they are eating, the effect it has on the world, and that a non-violent alternative exists.
A VEGAN IN A NON-VEGAN WORLD A recent letter sent to me by Angela Tucson makes good reading.
"A part of the reason I AM a vegan is that I believe in the ‘live and let live’ policy. I feel wearied by proselytizers and wouldn’t want to be one.
At a lunch out with friends earlier this year, one of my dearest friends snippily told me that I’m a missionary, imposing my view on others, who are tired of it. I felt instantly defensive because… I hadn’t said anything! I’d asked the waiter if they had soya milk and if he could leave the honey out of the dressing. Obviously this had annoyed my friend or put some kind of last straw into place" . Read More
ANIMAL RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL
The 3rd Annual Beauty Withut Cruelty Animal Rights Film Festival is to be held in during the course of February next year, due to logistics.
DIWALI AND THE FIREWORKS
In Cape Town, BWC managed to have the requested one hour firweorks display reduced to 15 minutes. The display was held at Ratanga Junction, right next to a bird sancuary and wetland!
For the animals and birdlife the reduction in time means nothing, as the damage is done with the first explosion, especially as it sounded as though they detonated all the fireworks they intended to use in the hour, in fifteen minutes!
Diwali is a festival of light, intended to bring happiness, love ,sweetness and peace to all, and environmentally unfriendly, unhealthy, (especially for asthmatics) dangerous and terrifying percussive fireworks have no place here.
We urge you please, don't buy firweworks this Guy Fawkes. Write to your local papers and councillors about the hazards of fireworks to alland keep your animals safe! Petcalm and Rescue Remedy are excellent calming remedies.
THE NEW FOUR FOOD GROUPS
Recommended by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, 1991, this no-cholesterol, low-fat plan supplies all of an average adult’s daily nutritional requirements, including substantial amounts of fiber.
Be sure to include a good source of vitamin B12, such as fortified cereals, Marmite, Nutritional Yeast or vitamin supplements.
Nutritional Yeast flakes (Health Connection Wholefoods) contains 18 amino acids, making it a complete protein, as well as 15 different minerals. Yeast is rich in B-complex vitamins, the most common vitamin deficiencies, which among other great benefits, help to regulate mood.
AND THE WINNERS ARE...
Congratulations to the following winners of the Membership Drive draw: 2 NIGHT STAY @ OUDRIF (www.oudrif.co.za) Robyn Ratzer
Hamper Mediterranean Delicacies C Hochfelder
Hamper Mediterranean Delicacies Mrs H Christensen
Hamper WW Earth Friendly Household products Mrs Y Mostert
Case Stellar Organic Faitrade Wines Margi McAlpine
BWC Teeshirt Diane Pitro
QUOTES OF THE MONTH
Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are like us."
Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are not like us." Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction.
Charles R. Magel
If you love animals called pets, why do you eat animals called dinner?
k d Lang
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