OXVeg Online News, 2/11/2008
Dear Member, I hope that you had an enjoyable World Vegan Day last Saturday 1 November. To mark the day I set up a display in Oxford Central Library from Monday 27 October to Saturday 1 November, and I was pleased to see that all the leaflets that I had put in the leaflet tray on the Monday morning had gone by Wednesday morning (which rather took me by surprise, but my wife Galina was able to replenish the tray on Thursday morning). I don't know whether any local eating places marked the day, but the Riverside Garden Centre Cafe in Bristol, where we had lunch on Saturday, put on a special World Vegan Day menu (this vegetarian cafe in the only co-operative garden centre in the country is well worth a visit if you're in the Southville area of Bristol - details at www.riversidegardencentre.com). And to complete a good weekend for vegans, vegan singer and Strictly Come Dancing contestant Heather Small survived her third dance-off of the competition to make it through to next Saturday's show. Hooray! (If you're ever stuck for a vegan recipe you can find more than 3000 in a variety of languages on the Recipes from Around the World section of the International Vegetarian Union website: http://www.ivu.org/recipes .) ====================================================== FORTHCOMING EVENTS (* denotes events organised by OxVeg) Thursday 6 November, 5pm. Talk by Andrew Knight, Director of Animal Consultants International, Seminar Room East, Mansfield College, Mansfield Road, Oxford. Organised by VERO (Voice for Ethical Research at Oxford; www.vero.org.uk). Admission free, refreshments available. Saturday 15 November, 10am-4.30pm. One World Fair, Town Hall, St Aldate's, Oxford. We are running a stall at this event organised by Oxford Oxfam Group (event details from Naveed Chaudhri on 01865 473144). Thursday 20 November, 5pm. Talk by Dan Lyons, Director of Uncaged Campaigns, Seminar Room East, Mansfield College, Mansfield Road, Oxford. Organised by VERO (Voice for Ethical Research at Oxford; www.vero.org.uk). Admission free, refreshments available. Sunday 30 November, 10am-5pm. Animal Aid's Christmas Without Cruelty Fayre, Kensington Town Hall, Hornton Street, London W8. More than 85 stalls, food, talks & videos, live auction of celebrity memorabilia, web clinic, children's workshop & creche, press-ups competition, etc. The venue is only 10-15 minutes walk from the Oxford Tube stop at Notting Hill Gate. Admission £2 (under 11s free). Organised by Animal Aid (www.animalaid.org.uk). Thursday 4 December, 5pm. Talk by Revd Andrew Linzey, Director, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, Seminar Room East, Mansfield College, Mansfield Road, Oxford. Organised by VERO (Voice for Ethical Research at Oxford; www.vero.org.uk). Admission free, refreshments available. Saturday 13 December, 10.30am-4.30pm. Winter Green Fair, Town Hall, St Aldate's, Oxford. We are running a stall at this event organised by Oxfordshire Green Party (event details from Holly on 07929 424055). Saturday 20 December, 3.30pm. Candlelit Vigil to mourn the deaths of millions of animals for food, clothing, research, sport &c over the course of the year. Martyrs' Memorial, St Giles, Oxford. Please wear black and bring a candle. Organised by Oxford Animal Protection. ====================================================== Animal Rights course at Ruskin College, March 2009 Historian and author Hilda Kean and animal advocate Kim Stallwood will teach the course, Animal Rights: past and present, at Ruskin College, Oxford on March 16 - 20, 2009. Please make a note of the date now if you would like to attend and participate in this unique educational opportunity. For hundreds of years people have campaigned against the ill treatment of animals. Some activists have described this as animal rights, others as animal welfare, or animal advocacy. In this week long course we will analyse various past - and present - attitudes toward animals. We will also consider the different ways in which animals are treated and respected. Dr Hilda Kean is a tutor in History, Humanities co-ordinator and acting dean at Ruskin College. She runs Ruskin's pioneering MA in Public History and organises public history conferences and the Ruskin public history discussion group. She researches and publishes in public and cultural history and the cultural position of animals. She is the author of Animal Rights. Kim Stallwood a veteran animal advocate who has held leadership positions for some of the world's foremost animal welfare organizations in the United Kingdom and United States (e.g., CIWF, BUAV, PETA). He is an independent author, scholar and advisor on animal welfare and related matters. He became a vegetarian in 1974 when as a student he worked in a chicken slaughterhouse. He has been a vegan since 1976. ====================================================== Kangaroos faced with extinction Decimation of an Icon, a report by the Australian Society for Kangaroos, shows that hunted kangaroo populations are on the brink of extinction despite Australian government assurances. In fact, the government's own kangaroo warning levels have already been met; yet the commercial slaughter of the national icon is allowed to continue. Over three million kangaroos will be killed this year alone, in a brutal practice which sees kangaroos chased through the night and shot, often inaccurately, leading to slow and painful deaths. Add to this the deaths of countless joeys who are clubbed round the head or decapitated as 'waste products', or left to starve to death in the outback and it is no wonder this is described as the world's largest wildlife massacre. Help stop the plunder by signing the petition calling for an immediate moratorium on kangaroo killing http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/kangaroo-extinction.html. View the report Decimation of an Icon at: http://www.kangaroo-protection-coalition.com/kangaroo-extinction.html. ====================================================== Catering at The Magic Cafe The Magic Cafe (110 Magdalen Road, Oxford) one of the few exclusively vegetarian eating places in Oxfordshire, changed hands in September. The new owners, Jui Xiam Ben and Patrizia Bassini, are hoping to introduce Friday evening opening in the near future (the current opening hours are 10am-6pm Monday to Saturday). They are also offering catering services to private parties at the cafe on other week day evenings. Telephone 01865 794604 during opening hours for further details. (Thanks to OxVeg member Derek Sherwood for this information.) ====================================================== Replacing Primates in Medical Research A new report on replacing the use of non-human primates in medical research has just been published. Written and produced by scientists from the Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research, FRAME and the St Andrew Animal Fund (member organisations of Focus on Alternatives), Replacing Primates in Medical Research fills important scientific, technical and science policy gaps in the controversial area of primate research. The report focuses on five areas of medical research into important human conditions - malaria, cognition, stroke, AIDS and hepatitis C - which have used significant numbers of primates and yet have had very limited success in translating to human benefits. These case studies illustrate where notable progress has already been made in replacing primate experiments with non-animal techniques; and where greater progress is achievable using advanced non-animal alternatives such as cell and molecular methods, computer simulations and ethical studies with human volunteers. We invite you to read our report at www.focusonalternatives.org.uk/availableinformation.htm. A two-page summary is also available from the same website. ====================================================== Worth watching/listening? Friday 7th November, 7.35pm, Channel 4, Unreported World - Paraguay's Painful Harvest. "Reporter Tanya Datta reveals how the European demand for meat is driving the industrial farming of soya to epic proportions." Also, a recent issue of BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme which asked the question "Can Britain Feed Itself?" can be heard online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/foodprogramme_20081019.shtml Noted futurist, Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends and author of "Beyond Beef", delivered a keynote address on the devastating role factory farms are playing in the climate change crisis at Harvard Law School in March 2007. You can watch the talk online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpym5AZ0Ac8 Chef Bryan Au - http://www.RawInTen.com - author of Raw in 10 Minutes, is distributing his Vegetarian Raw Organic tv show for free. You can download the full 29-minute show with Bryan's permission to distribute it, copy it and give it away: http://www.mediafire.com/?3y3enp4dtlt or http://www.sendspace.com/file/sjqwts If the download doesn't work, write to Bryan at Protected email address and he'll help. ====================================================== And finally ... Off the Hoof is a new quarterly magazine "with a focus on the best of the veggie vegan lifestyle". Published by Yaoh, organisers of the hugely successful Bristol Vegan Fayre, the first issue, priced at £3-95 including postage, is available now (a 4-issue subscription costs £15 including postage). Further details from www.yaoh.co.uk and www.offthehoof.co.uk . Best wishes, Paul Appleby OxVeg Online News editor
Author: Paul Appleby
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