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Veganism excludes all forms of animal exploitation and cruelty. Abstaining from flesh, fish, fowl, eggs, dairy, honey or other animal ingredients, encouraging the use of alternatives for commodities derived wholly, or in part, from animals.

There are 4,200+ vegan Volentians.

Location: Lifestyle
Members: 722
Latest Activity: May 16

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Find vegan alternatives to your favourite foods/products before changing, it'll make life easier, with less chance of failure; often people try several times before it sticks. Do use the Oh do I miss that! group, and the dairy, cheese and egg alternatives groups.

The term ‘vegan’ was coined by Donald Watson in 1944 and adopted by The Vegan Society of England, founded later that year. Their definition of veganism, accepted as the decisive standard worldwide, is...

“…a way of living which excludes all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, the animal kingdom, and includes a reverence for life. It applies to the practice of living on the products of the plant kingdom to the exclusion of flesh, fish, fowl, eggs, honey, animal milk and its derivatives, and encourages the use of alternatives for all commodities derived wholly or in part from animals.”

People who call themselves ‘vegetarian’ but eat fish, or ‘vegan’ but eat honey, are ‘pescetarians’ and ‘vegetarians’ respectively, and should please stop muddying the water for the rest of us.

Some other groups, taken from the Groups Index-

Vegan - Abolitionist, Arrogant, From Birth, Under 18, Fun, Havenheed Nation, Honey Free, Lonely, Raw (Men), Sexual

Vegan Products - Beauty, Clothing (Plantnoms), Fashion, Shoes, Sweeteners

For links to almost 2,000 other vegan-related websites, see Vegan Chat Room

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine's 21-Day Vegan Kickstart programme

In, near, or visiting London, England? Do check out London Vegan Meetup

See C-A-L-F UK's Easy Vegan advice page and their Vegan UK map

First issue of The Vegan News (and first use of the term 'vegan') by Donald Watson, November 1944

Discussion Forum

Charter for Compassion -- needs vegan stories!

Started by Cathy Ⓥ. Last reply by Wendy Jul 7, 2012. 1 Reply

Vegan for Health

Started by Saravanan. Last reply by Richard Ⓥ Molyneux Mar 6, 2012. 11 Replies

Added Protein

Started by Tony Bishop-Weston Aug 15, 2011. 0 Replies

Social Media: Friending Each Other (and Linking) all over the Internet

Started by Maynard S. Clark. Last reply by Forest Greeny Dec 28, 2010. 1 Reply

24 Hour Vegan TV

Started by Havenheed Outpost. Last reply by Richard Ⓥ Molyneux Jul 10, 2012. 10 Replies

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Comment by Miriam Swallow-Adler on September 10, 2012 at 6:00am

Ergh, I live in a region where they produce foie gras. It's horrible. Everyone's like, "yeahhh it's ick and bleh and cruel... but it's more YUM!!! It's so yummy." Just wanna bash their heads together :@ 

Comment by Gawain Beste on September 10, 2012 at 3:55am

Please 'like' the anti-fur Facebook page 'Beyond Retro •• Shame on You'.

Many thanks, C.A.F.T. (Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade)

Comment by Richard Ⓥ Molyneux on August 7, 2012 at 11:49am

First issue of The Vegan News (and first use of the term 'vegan') by Donald Watson, November 1944!

Comment by Richard Ⓥ Molyneux on July 31, 2012 at 5:28am

Foie gras fast food.... geesh! That's so sad, and shows how much they must be producing... poor geese.

Comment by Cab Suza on July 31, 2012 at 4:17am

It is disgusting, but it is a symbol of the french food. Almost every family eat foie gras at Christmas. I remember when i was very young it was a luxury and very rare, but now you can find foie gras in a fast food burger (e.g. Quick).

Comment by Wendy on July 31, 2012 at 3:22am

Cab,

Done! Thanks for the link. I must say it's early here in the US and when I went to that site and saw that photograph I nearly barfed. The stuff looks disgusting. It's amazing the crap people will eat!

Comment by Cab Suza on July 29, 2012 at 5:43am


Hello,

  there is some debate on the internet about Foie Gras in France.
The problem is that many fencer of cruelty are using some tricks like using many browsers to vote many times (it can be done by using Firefox and next Chrome and next Explorer, or with TorBrowser by changing IP many times).

Maybe like me, you have a low confidence about petitions and about laws.
I think we need efficient plans.
To push the question on the political range is the first step of every efficient fight against cruelty.
We shall not provide peace to cruelty.

For now, advocates of foie gras won the vote (2000 votes against 1600).
To push the question, it is better "winning" this poll.
Say : "Oui" : we shall forbid the foie gras.
If peoples and medias see that many others are against cruelty so it will change a little their mind.

It is the same rules that on TV. When people watching TV; they just believe TV because they know that millions people had seen what is said in TV.
French president accuse advocates of animal rights lobby.
(he want to prevent this law to be applied in the world.)

A part of what you can do is to say Yes (OUI) we shall forbid the foie gras.
http://www.newsring.fr/societe/114-faut-il-interdire-le-foie-gras#u...

Comment by Midlands Vegan Campaigns on July 17, 2012 at 9:19pm

West Midlands Vegan Festival - Saturday 27th October 2012

Bigger than ever before - now in 2 huge halls!!

There will be 100+ stalls offering lots of delicious food, clothing, toiletries, cosmetics, campaign info etc, and also speakers, films, cookery demos, live music, an all vegan bar, kids activities, raffles, competitions, free food samples and so much more...!!

The festival is open from 11am - 6pm. Admission is just £1 (under 16's free), payable at the door.

http://www.volentia.com/events/west-midlands-vegan-festival-2012

http://www.midlandsveganfestival.org.uk/

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Comment by ⓋCascadianⓋ on April 9, 2012 at 9:42am

Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale: Portland Edition!
April 22 (11:00 AM - 4:00 PM)

It's the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale! April 21-29, all around the world, folks are baking to raise money for nonprofits. It's bake-tivism, baby. Be a part of it. All funds raised will go to Portland Animal Welfare, Friends of Trees, and Team Rubicon Disaster Relief.

Be an even keener shade of green and bring your own to-go container. Impress your friends! The bake sale will be at the Mississippi Marketplace (the carts at N. Skidmore and N. Mississippi).

 

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