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Vegfest Tampere, 2016 Finland – Insider Tips

Team HappyCow finishes the HappyCow European speaking tour with this video shot at Vegfest Tampere, 2016 Finland. Below is our video containing vegan insider impressions & tips, shot at VegFest Tampere on May 21, 22, 2016 in Tampere, Finland. Join HappyCow’s Ken Spector as he interviews an attendee of the event, and he speaks with Sari Komulainen, the founder and organizer of Vegfest Tampere. For more information see: vegfest.net Watch…

September 7, 2016 By Ken Spector

Animal Rights/ General/ vegan history

Superb Art For Animals

Ernest Bell Library item – From the cover of a 1994 issue of Arkangel magazine – Number 12 – online copies can be read – here. Artist unknown – please share with us if you know who drew this. No copyright was claimed. DIRECT ACTION – RALLIES-PICKETS FLIP 90 DEGREES SANCTUARIES – VEGANISM FLIP 90 DEGREES FUNDRAISING – HUNT SABOTAGE FLIP 90 DEGREES HEALING-HOMING – CAMPAIGNING …… HIGHER RESOLUTION ………

September 6, 2016 By John Edmundson

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Kyiv Vegan Boom – HappyCow Hits Kiev Vegan Event in Ukraine

Team HappyCow was recently in on a European vegan speaking tour, and one of the destinations was Kyiv, Ukraine – a city that is relatively new to the vegan scene, but growing. Kiev Vegan Boom! Below is our video containing vegan insider impressions, tips and restaurant picks shot in Kiev, Ukraine on May 14th and 15, 2016 at an event HappyCow co-promoted with Rudolf Krajewski (Vegano Hooligano) and his team…

August 26, 2016 By Ken Spector

Animal Rights/ General/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

Adri Pieck: Tiny Art For Animals

Vegetarisme is eerbied voor het leven. Vegetarianism is reverence for life. An item in our Ernest Bell Library – A cinderella stamp – from the Netherlands by the artist Adrianua Jacoba (‘Adri’) Pieck (1894 – 1982). 38mm diameter – 3 color screen printing – hand cut. Circa 1920 / 1930 – unused In philately, a cinderella stamp is “virtually anything resembling a postage stamp, but not issued for postal purposes by…

August 8, 2016 (Last Updated: August 9, 2016) By John Edmundson

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Vegan Around Annapurna

Vegan around Annapurna – what can you expect? Frankly, I had no idea what to expect. Travelling as a vegan has been hard at times, but I started to get the hang of it I guess. Without any reseach I embarked on a bus trip towards to unknown. My decision to do a hike had been made 2 days before, and I only briefly found time to go to the supermarket and stock up on snacks.…

August 4, 2016 By Marie Neren

General/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

Donald Watson: In His Own Words: Part One

Today, I will share a discussion between George D Rodger – a former CEO of the Vegan Society UK & Donald Watson – a co-founder of the Vegan Society. It shows the reader Donald Watson’s views of his friends, of the Society, and of wider animal rights issues. It is in our Ernest Bell Library as a typed transcript. Without changing any words, I have done my best to punctuate…

July 22, 2016 (Last Updated: July 28, 2016) By John Edmundson

General/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

Donald Watson: In His Own Words: Part Two

INTERVIEW WITH DONALD WATSON SUNDAY 15 DECEMBER 2002 Part Two (find Part One here) Recorded by George D Rodger GDR: Do you feel that all food production should be grown organically? DW: Well, ideally, yes. I think in a vegan world, of course, there wouldn’t be any animal manure on the scale that we have it now. I suppose we could always have a few animals, oh it would be…

July 22, 2016 (Last Updated: May 15, 2017) By John Edmundson

General/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

Socialism: Vegetarianism: Animal Rights: Some History

A blog post intended primarily for friends in the UK & the US who identify with Democratic Socialism. Jeremy Corbyn, a Democratic Socialist, an animal rights supporter & a vegetarian, is under attack in the UK by right-wingers posing as socialists. Bernie Sanders has brought Democratic Socialism to the fore in the US. …… Here is Henry S. Salt, reflecting in 1923 on the anti-socialism prevalent at Eton College and King’s…

July 19, 2016 By John Edmundson

General/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

Should The Vegetarian Movement Be Reformed? Donald Watson

Donald Watson Reads 1st copy of Vegan News – later to become The Vegan. Picture by Joseph Connolly. “The great need is for the movement to accept a logical and consistent objective to which all can aim, and then use its energies to make the realisation of the objective possible, easy, and safe.” – Donald Watson Today, we are sharing an article by Donald Watson. It dates from early 1948.…

July 19, 2016 (Last Updated: July 25, 2016) By John Edmundson

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Oslo, Norway Vegetarfestival 2016 – Vegan Tips & Highlights

Watch our highlight video of the Oslo Vegetarfestival 2016 at the DOGA/Kulturkirken Jacob in Oslo, Norway. Interviews by HappyCow’s Ken Spector. The 2 day annual event took place on May 7 and 8, 2016. Ken interviews the event’s co-founder, Heidi Røneid, and a local talks about Oslo’s favorite vegan restaurants and other vegan tips. Watch our video highlights here: For more info see: http://www.oslovegetarfestival.no/…

July 18, 2016 (Last Updated: July 19, 2016) By Ken Spector

Celebrity Interviews/ General/ Health/ Interview/ vegan history

Why Doctors Don’t Recommend Veganism: Dr Michael Greger

Dr Michael Greger – talking very sensibly in the UK – with Klaus Mitchell of Plant Based News. This qualifies as Vegan History! Early in the conversation, Dr Greger mentions Dr. Scott Stoll, who co-founded the International Plant Based Nutrition Healthcare Conference after recognizing the urgent need to educate and motivate healthcare professionals to use whole, plant-based foods as a foundation for healing and disease prevention. – here. …… Extra bonus footage…

July 15, 2016 (Last Updated: October 24, 2016) By John Edmundson

General/ Veganism

The Rochester River School: Promoting A Vegan Ethic While Educating Generations Of Solutionaries

Rochester, New York, has a litany of shocking statistics. Rochester has the highest rate of extreme poverty in the U.S. for a similarly-sized city. The Rochester City School District’s student graduation rates for African American males (9%) and Latino males (10%) are routinely the lowest in the United States, while overall high school graduation rates are the worst in New York. According to recent studies, Rochester-born “babies are dying at a rate…

July 12, 2016 (Last Updated: August 8, 2016) By helf0010

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Baking Without Animal Products Is Easier Than You Think

For those with a mighty sweet tooth, eating an entirely plant-based diet can seem like a daunting task, even for the sake of the animals, the environment, and personal health. After all, animal products like eggs, milk, and butter are so commonly found in baked goods that it seems hard to believe that the cakes and cookies we crave could ever be made without them. Is the vegan, then, condemned…

July 11, 2016 By EvelynWagaman

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