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No. 116 November - December - January - February 2016

CONTENTS01. The Centenary Celebration Continues02.VON Report04. Plants for a Future Report06. Lancashire Forest Gardeners Report07. Intensive Farming12. Gleanings15. Mindfulness18. From Kathleen Jannaway19. Tyn Y Nant20. Book Review: Tread Softly Because

You Tread On My Dreams21. Letters22. MCL Addresses22. Adverts

NEW LEAVESis the journal of the Movement for Compassionate Living (MCL).

MCL promotes:• a way of life that is free of the exploitation and slaughter of sentient beings,that is possible for all the world's people and that is sustainable within theresources of the planet.

• lifestyles that depend as much as possible on locally produced goods, thusavoiding the resource wastage and pollution of unnecessary transport andpackaging.

• Vegan­organic methods of horticulture and agriculture that use no animals oranimal by­products and are free from artificial fertilisers, pesticides andherbicides.

• the planting of trees, especially on the land freed from livestock farming.

Trees absorb CO2 and store the carbon as wood, thus checking global warming;ruminant livestock (cattle, sheep, goats) emit methane, a far more powerfulgreenhouse gas than CO2.

Mature trees of appropriate species produce maximum food per acre.

Wood from trees can be used for many constructive and productive purposes.

Woodland industries can provide livestock farmers with alternative sustainableincomes.

Global warming and nuclear war threaten the survival of all life. Politicians mayhave the sense to avoid nuclear war but they cannot stop global warming unlesspeople change their lifestyles.

Our herbivorous ancestors turned predators aeons ago when the forests dried up andthey lost their food supply. The forests grew again but humans remained victims oftheir killing habits. Now vegans have proved that we do not need to kill animals forfood. Land should go back to the trees.

The Movement for Compassionate Living - the Vegan Wayfounded in 1985 by Kathleen and Jack Jannaway

New Leaves is produced and distributed in March, July and November.The Editors do not necessarily agree with articles published.

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THE CENTENARY CELEBRATION CONTINUES

I am writing this in a very chaotic house. It has been like this for a while now as Iam having central heating installed with a pellet boiler. For a while I thought I willnot get this issue done. But here I am with a little over a page to fill.

All this happened rather suddenly. I had been planning this to happen next year. Dueto the special sale on these kinds of boilers and the fact that the government isreducing the environmental heat incentive in January I decided to plunge ahead now.All the renewables are taking a battering from our present government whereas thefossil fuel subsidies stay. In fact the UK is the only one of the G7 groupthat is “significantly increasing its support for the fossil fuel industry”.(http://www.euractiv.com/sections/energy/fossil­fuel­subsidies­reach­452bn­year­study­says­319393)

This issue is the last one of our centenary celebration issues. I have received nopersonal memories of Kathleen for this issue. It was suggested that I writesomething. My interactions with Kathleen were very personal. When I advertised inNew Leaves that I wanted some surrogate family members as mine were so far awayand I always felt a lack of close connections, Kathleen offered to fill one such role.My youngest benefited from that connection and I had much support from Kathleenwhen I went through some difficulties in my life. I miss that connection. I missKathleen.

Kathleen's booklet Self­reliant Tree­based Autonomous Vegan Villages has beenmuch in my mind as I have been observing what is happening in the world today. Asso much of her writing this one is very relevant to us now.

However, since humans are genetically determined gregarious animals,autonomy must be sought in co­operation with others. Hence the need fortrue democracy … Such democracy can only succeed on a small scale, withautonomous villages working in co­operation with neighbouring villages andwith decisions arrived at by consensus reaching.

There is overwhelming evidence that true democracy cannot function on thescale of the large modern state with central government. In the so calleddemocracies of today the good of all the people is certainly not achieved. Onthe contrary the gap between the rich and poor grows even greater.

Consensus reaching requires the self disciplined listening to the views of alluntil it becomes obvious how the good of the whole can be best served. It canbe truly educational and achieve willing and active co­operation. (pp. 4 & 5)

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REPORTS FROM MCL FUNDED PROJECTS

VEGAN ORGANIC NETWORK

VON is co­operating with the Vegan Society’s ‘Grow Green’ campaign to tackleclimate change through plant protein agriculture. The Grow Green report can bedownloaded from their website www.vegansociety.com and they are urging membersto email a copy to their MP through a link given there. In the New Year they areplanning to send Defra a joint letter with other NGOs and groups, including VON.

VON and Iain Tolhurst were part of the consultative team that helped with thereport, and VON member Chloe Ward (from the Centre for Alternative Technology)features prominently with her contribution Stockfree farming – a sustainable future.

VON and the Vegan Society will jointly email the Grow Green report to the UKstockfree organic farms that we list. The proposed strategy over the next 12 monthsis to:

Encourage a debate about a transition, especially among key decision makers andinfluential NGOs. Currently there isn’t a real political debate about the huge impactthat the livestock sector has. Raise awareness about our solution­driven campaign proposal, e.g. (1) “Wecould encourage new markets for more low GHG (greenhouse gas) proteinalternatives in the UK” (2) “We can grow more low GHG crops in this country” (3)“There are alternative methodologies such as stockfree”. (For strategic reasons thisis not a campaign against the livestock sector but a campaign for morecompassionate, healthier and low GHG alternatives to meat.)

I recently read an article of this kind of democracy in action now inSyria. ( h t t p : / / w w w. f t . c o m / c m s / s / 2 / 5 0 1 0 2 2 9 4 ­ 7 7 f d ­ 11 e 5 ­ a 9 5 a ­2 7 d 3 6 8 e 1 d d f 7 . h t m l # a x z z 3 r N S 5 p v M q ). The article ends with the words“Rojava may seem exotic and its democratic experiment radical, but that wordmeans a return to the root, and that is exactly what is happening in this remotecorner of Syria: rule by the people; democracy returning to its roots.”

As there is only one issue after this before our next AGM I need to ask all those whoare planning to come here to Wales to let me know which date in May will suit youbest. For the next issue we will choose a date from those suggested and let youknow when the AGM is going to happen.

Season's Greetings to you all,Ireene­Sointu

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Start creating a wider movement which supports the transition (or some of theideas proposed). The Vegan Society’s Andrea Speranza, who produced the report, iscurrently talking to different NGOs (e.g. Friends of the Earth, Bioregional, Bondetc) to find ways of working collaboratively. She says it’s crucial that VON helpswith the engagement process with the farmer community and is particularlyinterested in focusing on young farmers.

With Jeremy Corbyn (leader of the Labour Party) being vegetarian, and KerryMcCarthy (Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)being vegan, this appears to be an opportune time to present our ethical andpragmatic farming system as powerfully as we can. Who knows, in a few years timevegan organics may form part of the government’s policy, with subsidies going tothe farms where they belong, and the health of the nation (both physical and mental)on the road to recovery. If this doesn’t come to pass climate change could take careof us all.

New stockfree growers

On Saturday 7th November VON, together with Jenny Hall, organised a briefingmeeting for potential farm inspectors at Fir Tree Farm Community Growers. Theobjective of these inspections is to check that farms adhere to the stockfree organicstandards. We would be pleased to send you a copy of the forms that the farmer hasto complete – and which the inspector needs to verify as correct. Inspectors areurgently needed, and we would be more than pleased if you were interested in beingan inspector ­ let us know!

New growers have recently joined our farmers lists – Shumei Natural Agriculture inWiltshire, OrganicLea in Chingford in north London, and La Ferme de L’Aube inQuebec, Canada. Encouragingly we are also getting more queries from newstockfree growers looking for advice or certification, and for growers looking fortraining.

OrganicLea is a workers’ co­operative growing food on London’s edge in the LeaValley. They produce and distribute food and plants locally, grow stockfreeorganically, and inspire and support others to do the same. They bring peopletogether to take action towards a more just and sustainable society through foodgrowing, a box scheme, a market stall and café, and various training projects. Theyare just in the process of setting up a FarmStart project to provide land and trainingto new growers, after visiting the Kindling Trust in Manchester: seewww.organiclea.org.uk

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PLANTS FOR A FUTURE

After a rather long stagnant period with it being impossible to do any more work onthe shed, we have been given limited amounts of funding by a family member inorder to continue the work of upgrading the shed, and making it a more accessibleand comfortable venue for visitors.

We decided that the next priority was to get electricity on site. Although we wouldhave much preferred to install solar panels and a wind generator, our limited fundinghas precluded this for the time being. Instead we have connected up to the nationalgrid, with the intention of installing solar and wind power when funding allows. Wewere able to further reduce the cost of connecting by doing much of the workourselves, particularly in hiring a digger to dig, and then fill in, the trench thatbrings the power from the nearest pole some 85 metres from the shed. We also tookadvantage of the digger to install a water pipe to the polytunnel and a power cable toprovide electricity to two caravans.

We did the wiring ourselves inside the shed and now, 26 years after buying the land,we actually have electricity there. This was made use of by our very helpful Dutch

Shumei Natural Agriculture demonstration site is based in Yatesbury, Wiltshire.Shumei describe their approach to farming as placing health, beauty and love at thecore of their practices ­ explaining that Natural Agriculture applies: ”no Chemicals,no Pesticides, no Fertilizers, and no Animal manure. Rather, through carefulobservation, growing crops that are suited to the local soil, and creating a balancedeco­system in which all elements co­exist, and the soil is nurtured into a state of fullhealth. Using seeds from the crops grown in this soil produces strong, vigorousplants which, over time, can withstand harmful insects, diseases and adverseweather conditions. The overall result is life­affirming, health­enhancing vegetableswhich taste rich and full of goodness.” http://shumei.eu/yatesbury

La Ferme de L’Aube is a small scale bio intensive stockfree farm in Canada. “Weseek to establish a place of love, peace and compassion for all beings where wenourish the earth, the body and the spirits. We can take volunteers in the growingseason.”

There will be articles on all three of the above in the winter issue of VON’smagazine Growing Green International (out in January). Plus an interview withAndrea Speranza about the Grow Green report.

Website: www.veganorganic.net (or see notice on back page of this New Leaves).

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volunteer who stayed with us for three weeks in October – and who was actuallyable to recharge her mobile phone there! We are intending to install internetfacilities soon, allowing both ourselves and visitors to access emails etc.

We have had an amazing apple harvest this year, which our volunteer has helped usto pick. We have over 100 different varieties of apple, ranging from very early tovery late, and all stages in between, in order to help ensure a continual supply offresh fruit.

Our busy schedule has meant that we have not been able to do a ‘monthly walk’article for every month. The project is still ongoing and we hope to complete themas we go through 2016 – the material for most of them has been collected and theywill, hopefully, be completed in the winter when there is more time for non­landwork.

In addition to installing electricity, work is taking place on the cellar – the drainagesystem has been installed and the base should soon be completed.

We also took advantage of the digger hire to mass clear an area of land that had beencompletely taken over by brambles and other difficult weeds. This was part of thefirst area we worked on when we first bought the land and we are intending to put ina new woodland garden there starting this winter.

We have also prepared the base of a new compost toilet that is going to be built nearthe shed.

With the improvement in facilities taking place, we very much want to start runningcourses on the land. I’m not sure how it will work out in the short term – until thecellar, lean­to and rest of the shed are built we have to cram everything into thelimited shed area that we currently have. This means that what will become theclassroom is currently a storage area for apples, tools and machinery as well asserving as an office, kitchen and restroom. However, we have a friend who hasoffered to do vegan catering for any courses we run and we also have contact with afairly local lady who is a permaculture teacher and would like to be involved inrunning courses on the land. So things are slowly coming together.

We intend to continue working on the shed, completing it gradually as financesallow and doing as much of the work ourselves as possible in order to cut downcosts. If there is anyone with skills who might like to help us with this process thenplease get in touch.

Addy

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LANCASHIRE FOREST GARDENERS

The forest garden has been a little crazy. The funding from BIFFA for the trees hasrun from January to December and the rabbit fencing was only completed bySeptember. Most of the trees we are buying are bare rooted, and because dormancyis getting later because of the mild weather basically all the trees are going to comemid December and will need to be in the ground by the end of December. This issuch a difficult time to get volunteers to help. I asked for a planting extension andthe answer was negative. So it will be £5k worth of trees and shrubs planted in aweek. I have the kids going to their Suffolk family. I am not entirely sure if it is allpossible. That said we are going to turf all the planting holes ahead and do the mapsand marking.

It feels incredibly exciting. We have the St Helens mayor coming on Thursday 3rdDecember at 1pm to plant a tree and pose for press photos. Today we have beenliming after the whole site was subsoiled. Then we will start planting the pioneerwindbreak of leylandii. They grow at one metre a year and then they will bechopped down in five years time, and as they don't sucker that will be the end ofthem. The five year lead in time allows the second layer windbreak of ediblenitrogen­fixing plants (predominantly) like elaeagnus species, sea buckthorn andSiberian pea shrub to establish. The nitrogen fixation will also continue into thefield with planting of Italian alders after an upper canopy layer. They will be highpruned so as not to interfere with light to the fruit tree and berry layer. So will keepbeavering away with the site. It is so great to see years of work finally comingtogether.

Jenny HallVolunteer coordinator and director

Fir Tree Community Growers, St Helens, MerseysideMarket Garden Britain Awards

Both projects of Climate Friendly Food, a not­for­profit social enterprise

Web: www.facebook.com/FirTreeCommunityGrowersCropshareEmail: climatefriendlyfood@gmail.comPhone: 07419 373181

Market gardening using organic techniques can be carried out on small patches ofland as well as large farms. If it becomes widespread it addresses obesity, climatechange, biodiversity and social justice, especially providing jobs to young people.

We are supporting the development of participatory certification, apprenticeships,training and advisory services to support the next generation of market gardens.

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INTENSIVE FARMINGWHEN ANTIBIOTICS BECOME AUTOMATIC

The original article in French appeared in Alternatives végétariennes N°119Élevages Intensifs, Quand les antibiotiques deviennent automatiques

by Isabelle RichaudTranslated by Nicole Troclet

Antibiotics, by destroying bacteria or by cutting out their multiplication, havemade it possible to bring to a stop numerous deadly diseases.

However their abusive usage renders them less and less efficient, withpotentially dramatic consequences to the health of animals and humans. Beingthe main users of antibiotics in the world, industrial farmers carry their shareof responsibility for this phenomenon.

“Antibiotics, it’s not automatic”: this slogan, henceforth well integrated with thepractices of human medication, surprisingly doesn’t seem to apply to farmedanimals. About half of the antibiotics produced in the world are destined for farmedanimals. In the United States, this part amounts to 80%. Most of these antibiotics arenot used punctually to cure sick animals but in a massive way, and nearlycontinuously, to prevent illnesses and to promote the growth of animals.

The preventive use of antibiotics has become indispensable in industrial farming,where proximity, and the difficult conditions of life in which the animals are farmed,increases the risks of contagion and weakens their immune systems. Whereasfarming of the organic type generates theoretically less risks of infection andcontagion, and resorting to antibiotic treatments is more limited.

When a disease appears in an intensive farm, or when a bacteria with a risk ofdevelopment is detected, the vet treats the whole group, even though most of theanimals haven’t developed any symptoms at all because, due to the proximity, therisk of contagion is huge.

Chicken, pigs and cows fed with antibiotics

Hens and pigs, who are the most common to be farmed intensively, are crammedand penned up, and are logically the two species in the world who undergoantibiotic treatments most frequently. A recent study in the UK observed that batteryhens are six times more susceptible than any other type of farm animals to beinfected by the salmonella strain which is the one most associated with foodpoisoning.

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In natural conditions a sow weans her young at least three months after birth,leaving time to fully develop their immune system. In systems of intensiveproduction the piglets are generally weaned at four weeks of age – the minimumweaning age imposed by the European Union, which allows the sow to rapidlyproduce another litter. Pigs that are weaned at barely a month are very vulnerable toinfections such as porcine dysentery. That’s why the farmers generally start theantibiotic treatment on pigs as soon as they are weaned.

As for dairy cows, they receive regular doses of antibiotics, especially to preventinflammation of their udders – called mastitis. Most dairy cows undergo twoantibiotic treatments a year, one to prevent and the other one to treat theinflammation.

Doping the growth of animals

Antibiotics are not only used for healing and to prevent illnesses, but also, and thishappens worldwide, to accelerate their growth and their fattening at a lesser cost. Bymodifying their intestinal flora, antibiotics create indeed a better assimilation ofnutrients and a more vigorous growth of the animals. Pigs that are under antibiotictreatment therefore need 10 to 15% less food than non medicated pigs to reachtheir commercial weight.

The European Union has banned the use of antibiotics since 2006 for the purpose ofimproving the growth of farming animals. However this practice is still quitecommon, often under the cover of being a preventative treatment for illnesses, somuch so that the use of antibiotics in Europe has not significantly diminished since2006. This use is still authorised in the United States and in most countries in theworld.

In developing countries the use of antibiotics is massive and rarely submitted to anycontrol or regulation whatsoever. In China it is estimated that more than 100,000tons of antibiotics are administered to farm animals every year. This number wasmounting to 13,000 tons in the United States in 2009, and 8,500 tons in the 25countries of the European Union in 2011.

Cause of bacterial resistance

While “normal” antibiotic treatment, that is with a curative intent, implies theadministration of antibiotics at strong doses during a very short period, thepreventative or facilitating of growth treatment consists in giving the animals smalldoses of antibiotics via their daily drink or food, and this during a great part of their

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life. By way of an example, the agency monitoring the use of antibiotics in theNetherlands has calculated in its 2008 report that a pig was treated with antibioticsduring 20% of its 191 days of life.

The frequent and prolonged use of weak doses of antibiotics is the main cause of thedevelopment of bacterial resistance to antibiotics. In fact, in response to thepresence of antibiotics, especially at weak doses, the sensitive bacteria willdisappear and the resistant bacteria will persist, multiply and become dominant. It ishow more and more pathogenic bacteria, such as Escherichia coli, Campylobacterand Salmonella, infecting just as many farmed animals as human beings, havebecome “multidrug resistant bacteria”, ­ i.e. resistant to several antibiotics, sogenerating diseases very difficult to treat.

There exist around 20 families of antibiotics, each family being characterised byrelated chemical components and the same mode of action. When a bacteriumdevelops a resistance to a precise antibiotic, it is then susceptible to becomingresistant to all the other antibiotics of the same family. It so happens that in humanmedicine and in veterinary medicine, the same family of antibiotics are used. Somuch so that the bacterial reaction given rise to by the use of antibiotics in farmingrenders problematic the treatment of those bacteria in humans.

A diffused pollution

Bacteria that have become resistant colonise farm animals and can be transmittedthrough direct contact to people working in farming (professional diseases).Animal/human contamination is created by the consumption of products stemmingfrom those animals (meat, milk, eggs, fish), then can carry on propagating fromperson to person. Bacteria can also spread in the environment via air, and especiallythrough the manure of contaminated animals. Manure contributes in this way tospreading a great part of the antibiotics ingested by the animals. Antibiotics andresistant bacteria then propagate progressively, via manure, into the run­off watersand underground water tables, in the soils and via insects. Bacteria can alsotransmit their capacity of antibiotic resistance to other bacteria through aphenomenon of transfer of genetic material called “jumping gene”.

“Post­Antibiotic Era”

The development of resistance of bacteria to antibiotics has become a majorpreoccupation because it reduces – even annihilates ­ the possibilities of treatment incase of infection of animals as well as humans. While the number of resistantbacteria does not cease to grow, the discovery of new antibiotics is running dry,leading to the prediction of an increasing number of incurable diseases.

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The CEO of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr. Margaret Chan, shared,during World Health Day in 2011, her fears of seeing a veritable “post­antibiotic erain which numerous common infections will find no more treatment and will startagain killing without restriction”. Among these infections: typhus, tuberculosis,pneumonia, tetanus, diphtheria, syphilis and meningitis could become incurablediseases by showing resistance to a wider and wider spectrum of antibiotics.

Within the European Union, 25,000 people die each year from infections due tobacteria which are multi­resistant to antibiotics. These infections generate healthcosts, and losses of productivity, estimated at more than 1.5 billion euros annually.In the United States two million people are infected every year by bacteria resistantto antibiotics and 23,000 of them die.

Confronted by these very worrying evolutions, national and international strategiesare progressively being put in place in an attempt to reduce the consumption ofantibiotics. In France, thanks to plans to rationalise prescriptions, and campaigns toraise public awareness, human consumption of these medicines fell by 16% between2000 and 2009. “The necessity to act also on the farming front has only lately beenthe object of political will, with the objective adopted in 2011 to reduce by 25% theuse of veterinary antibiotics between 2012 and 2017.” The exposure of animals toantibiotics in France nevertheless decreased 5.5% between 1999 and 2013, takingall species together, but increased notably for bovines (+14.7%) and poultry(+30%).

The difficulties in reducing the veterinary usage of antibiotics is due to the not verynatural practices of intensive farms, which are very conducive to the development ofdiseases. This is why a drastic reduction of the consumption of meat and otheranimal products will allow the evolution of farming methods where respect for theanimals’well­being will become automatic.

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<www.ciwf.fr/impacts­elevage­industriel/menace­sur­la­sante>.4. Kathrin Birkel, 2014. De funestes antibiotiques. Dans : L'Atlas de la viande.Heinrich Böll Foundation, Friends of the Earth Europe. Kathrin Birkel, 2014.Antibiotics: breading superbugs, in The Meat Atlas. Heinrich Böll Foundation,Friends of the Earth Europe. Voir <www.amisdelaterre.org/atlasviande.html><www.foeeurope.org/sites/default/files/publications/foee_hbf_meatatlas_jan2014.pdf>.5. D.J. Mevius et al, 2008. Monitoring of antimicrobial resistance and antibioticusage in animals in the Netherlands in 2008, in Robin Maynard, 2011. Ibid.<www.ciwf.fr/media/42128/case_study_of_a_health_crisis_a_report_for_the_alliance_to_save_our_antibiotics.pdf>.6. European Centre for disease prevention and control, 2009. The bacterialchallenge – Time to react. Technical report.<www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications/Publications/0909_TER_The_Bacterial_Challenge_Time_to_React.pdf>7. Centres of Disease Control, 2013. Drug Resistance Report. Dans : Books. Le vraiscandale de la viande, nº58. Octobre 2014.8. Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM), 2013.Résistance aux antibiotiques. Dossier réalisé en collaboration avec le Pr LaurentGutmann, service de microbiologie de l'hôpital européen Georges Pompidou, unité872 Inserm/UPMC/Université Paris Descartes.<www.inserm.fr/thematiques/microbiologie­et­maladies­infectieuses/dossiers­d­information/resistance­aux­antibiotiques>.9. Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et dutravail (ANSES), 2014. Suivi des ventes de médicaments vétérinaires contenant desantibiotiques en France en 2013.<www.anses.fr/sites/default/files/documents/ANMV­Ra­Antibiotiques2013.pdf>

Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to ourforefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know­it­all to feed everybody, clotheeverybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we couldnever have known before ­­ that we now have the option for all humanity to makeit successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivionwill be a touch­and­go relay race right up to the final moment.

Buckminster Fuller, www.doonething.org/quotes/utopian­quotes.htm

Chapter 13: Cancer: Fleshing Out the Protein Connectionby Garth Davis, MD on October 28, 2015In response to the huge amount of media attention – and confusion –around the World Health Organization’s report linking meat, andespecially processed meat, to cancer, I’ve decided to make chapter13 of Proteinaholic publicly available. Find the link to it here:http://proteinaholic.com/cancer/

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GLEANINGS (extracts from fuller articles)

The 2015 Food Sovereignty Gathering ­ another food system is possibleThe UK's food sovereignty movement is growing faster than ever, with

hundreds of projects thriving across the country. To share progress made and planfor the future, a Food Sovereignty Gathering was held in Hebden Bridge.

The gathering was organised by a group of volunteers from the broad foodsovereignty movement including Community Centred Knowledge, CommunityFood Growers Network, Food Sovereignty Sussex, Global Justice Now, IncredibleEdible Todmorden, the Land Workers’Alliance, the UK Food Group, War on Want,Wild Heart Permaculture and the Workers' Educational Association.

Among the workshops"Whoever controls seeds, controls the food system." A series of workshops

covered a range of subjects, including seed politics in the food sovereigntymovement. And the Landworkers' Alliance hosted a workshop looking at nationalfood policy.

Heidi Chow, 26 October 2015http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/blog/2015/oct/26/four­things­i­learned­about­uk­

food­system

Hungry for Change: A Call to Action on Food and PovertyFinal report from the Fabian Commission on Food and Poverty.

Today sees the publication and launch in the House of Commons ofHungry for Change, an in­depth report on the links between food and poverty in theUK.

The year­long study has been undertaken by the Fabian Commission onFood and Poverty, which is made up of experts in food policy and related fieldsincluding health, social policy, the environment, poverty and education.

The report focuses on the issue of 'household food insecurity', which theCommission defines as ‘the inability to acquire or consume an adequate quality orsufficient quantity of food in socially acceptable ways, or the uncertainty that onewill be able to do so.’

The Commission has been hosted by the Fabian Society and is notaffiliated to any political party. The cross­party nature of the Commission's work isin recognition of the need to achieve the political consensus needed to put in placethe long­term co­ordinated government actions required to address this issue.

The commissioners’ recommendations include: A pilot tax on sugary drinks so that the efficacy of taxes on unhealthy food anddrink can be assessed

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A review of current advertising codes to identify where existing rules are beingflouted and children are being bombarded by unhealthy promotions A new cross­departmental minister with responsibility for eliminating householdfood insecurity in the UKAction to reduce acute household food insecurity caused by social security benefitsanctions, delays and errors An inquiry to identify effective ways of removing poverty premiums for keyliving costs including food, utilities, housing, household appliances, and transportLocal authorities establish food access plans that will address any physical barriersto affordable, nutritious food in their area

In his preface to the report, Geoff Tansey, Commission Chair, lays out theirvision for the UK's food system:

'As a Commission, we want to see a country where your income no longerdictates how much nutritious food you have access to, or how likely you are to eatfoods that are high in fat, salt, and sugar. We want to see a country where childrenare not bombarded by unhealthy food marketing; but are equipped to make theirown food choices by an understanding of where food comes from and what is in thefood they eat. We want to see a food system where everybody can easily acquirenutritious food they can afford without causing dire consequences for theenvironment, and for producers and workers both in the UK and around the worldinvolved in food provisioning.'

Ethical Consumer, 28/10/2015http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/latestnews/entryid/1891/hungry­for­change­a­call­

to­action­on­food­and­poverty.aspx

UK Food Sovereignty: another food system is possibleReport back from the second UK Food Sovereignty gathering

The global Food Sovereignty movement provides a coherent grassrootschallenge to today's industrialised food system and aims to re­empower the manyworkers in this country and around the world who grow our food. It aims to placethe voice of those who grow and eat food at the heart of decision making, ratherthan leaving it to the market and large profit­driven multinationals.

The international Food Sovereignty movement has developed six definingprinciples: [which] focuses on food for people values food providers localises food systems rejects corporate control builds knowledge and skills works with nature

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The gathering also marked the small but significant steps taken since thelast UK food sovereignty gathering in 2012. Recent years have seen the creation ofthe Land Workers Alliance to represent smallholder farmers that were previouslyunrepresented in the UK.

The Whole Food Action Network has also been launched, bringing togetherindependent wholefood shops who are working to improve our food system.

Whilst the movement is growing, delegates were all too aware of the taskahead of them. Here in the UK we import around 40% of our food, a figure that isforecast to rise to over 50% in a generation. Much of the food that we take forgranted in the UK is produced by a global workforce that are often underpaid,unrepresented, and all too frequently suffer from the health effects of over­exposureto pesticides.

Sharing experienceWith over 40 workshops, film screenings, debates and site visits the event

underlined the progress that is being made by ordinary people to transform the foodsystem.

Communities doing it for themselvesDuring the opening plenary participants were treated to the inspirational

story of Incredible Edible, by Pam Warhurst, co­founder and chair of the group thatwas one of the first in the UK to plant up public green space with vegetables forlocal benefit.

Supporting the growth of local foodOn the other side of the Pennines the work of the Kindling Trust provided

hard evidence of how the local food economy is being supported and nurturedthrough training and support for first­time commercial vegetable growers. Theorganisation also highlighted the creation of a new co­operative vegetable boxscheme linking growers and consumers.

Encouragingly the Kindling Trust's secondary school dinners pilot projectdemonstrated how fresh, organic, local food can be introduced to school menus forno additional overall cost, with overwhelmingly positive feedback from students!Highlighting the link between food and poverty

The viral growth in the UK of community supported bakeries andagriculture projects, seed­saving co­operatives, community gardens, campaigns tosupport fast food workers, agro­ecology research and the collaborations sproutingbetween academics and food practitioners looks set to continue.

Ethical Consumer, 30/10/2015http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/latestnews/entryid/1896/uk­food­sovereignty­

another­food­system­is­possible.aspx

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MINDFULNESS

Mindfulness may be coming of age in the west, but is it inevitably bringing uscloser to age­old eastern perspectives on our true nature?

A report on mindfulness launched this October by an all­party group of WestminsterMPs appears to have set the seal of approval on a meditation practice which recentlyand very rapidly has been gaining mainstream acceptance as a valuable aid tomental health.

For many long­standing practitioners and advocates of meditation – for decadesconsidered an esoteric, if not dubious activity – this has no doubt been a cause forcelebration or at least for reflection, a pivotal moment to stop, take a breath andwonder where this “explosion of interest” (to quote the report) is taking us.

In Mindful Nation UK, the first document of its kind to be published by a westernParliament, MPs have recommended that mindfulness training should be offered infour areas of public policy – health, education, business and the criminal justicesystem – and they want more teachers to be trained to deliver mindfulness courses.

The report, which follows years of research and enquiry, takes on board theexperiences of members of both Houses of Parliament (nearly 200 so far), who haveundertaken training in mindfulness.

“It’s quite extraordinary that a government body has done this,” said Jon Kabat­Zinn, the Massachusetts­based Professor of Medicine and mindfulness pioneer, whowrote the foreword to the report. Kabat­Zinn was speaking at the end of a liveonline Mindfulness Summit, which took place every day during October, attractingsome 250,000 participants.

The Summit concluded with a worldwide meditationsession, in which Kabat­Zinn led participants through theseemingly simple breathing and awareness techniqueswhich characterise mindfulness, and which encouragepractitioners to pay attention to what is happening in thepresent moment with an attitude of acceptance andcompassion.

Although the UK report describes mindfulness as “animportant innovation in mental health”, it is nearly 40 years since Kabat­Zinninitiated Mindfulness­Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) courses in the US to help

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patients cope with chronic pain. At around the same time – the mid­1970s – writingsby the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh were starting to gain traction inthe west, including his best­selling book The Miracle of Mindfulness.

Thich Nhat Hanh, now 88 and regarded by many as the father of mindfulness in thewest, went on to found the community of monks and nuns who until November 8thcelebrated the 40th anniversary of the book’s publication with a ‘Miracle ofMindfulness Tour’ across the US.

While the UK report briefly acknowledges that meditation practices have long beenimportant to eastern wisdom traditions, especially Buddhism, the language of thereport is secular and practical throughout, drawing attention to Kabat­Zinn’scomparison of mindfulness with jogging. Once an activity practised by few people,jogging is now widely accepted as beneficial to physical health. “Mindfulness couldplay that role as a popular, effective way for people to keep their mind healthy,” thereport suggests.

Asked during the Summit whether the term secular tends to “strip mindfulness ofsacredness”, Kabat­Zinn said he preferred the word “mainstream” to “secular”, andagreed that mindfulness has deeper dimensions which enable people to connect with“who they really are”.

“Interest in mindfulness has only recently exploded, but it’s driven by factors set inplay a long time ago. The world has been starving for this wisdom, but it couldn’tcome in traditional forms – it would have been rejected. We have had to generatenew vehicles for this wisdom, a new vocabulary.”

Retired senior social workers Joan and Mel, who both have 40 years experience ofmeditation and run a weekly meditation group for social workers at their SouthWales home, are among those who welcome the way mindfulness is bringing people“gently” to meditation, by using today’s vocabulary and avoiding religious content.

“Nobody wants to touch religion,” says Joan, 71, who has always eschewed putting”labels” on her own practice. While neither she nor Mel have adopted a specificpath, they acknowledge the inspirational influence of teachers such as Thich NhatHanh and the Indian teacher Nisargadatta Maharaj, whose 1973 publication I AmThat brought him wide recognition in the west.

Mel, 70, goes on: “There is a major strand missing which you won’t find in themedia or in science – it’s that we are not ‘a person’, we are not the body, we are noteven the mind. We are something that transcends these. The core of it is that the

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answers are all within, they are not outside us, and meditation naturally andgradually leads you towards this.”

Anna, a mother­of­two in her forties, who runs meditation classes in and aroundSwansea, says that mindfulness “is such a fantastic way to introduce people tomeditation because it’s really accessible. It can definitely lead people towards adeeper practice.”

Anna bases her practice on the teachings of 20th century sage Ramana Maharshi,whose own teaching arose from the 5000­year­old Hindu texts the Upanishads. “Iwent through several preliminary stages before coming to a practice which focusesmore specifically on big subjects like ego, illusion and self­realisation,” says Anna.

“I just felt so supported by the fact that this practice is embedded in an ancienttradition that has been tried and tested. The sages who wrote so beautifully thenwere asking the same questions as we are now: is there anything more enduring thanwhat appears in front of our eyes?”

West Wales writer Tim Sime, whose 2005 book The Flow of Consciousness is basedon question and answer sessions he has conducted with the contemporary Indianteacher Shree Shivkrupanand Swami, agrees that opinion about meditation seems tohave changed radically in the last two years, though he believes that ultimatelymeditation is not something that can be approached superficially.

“I think that seeing things from an eastern perspective can itself be very positive,calming – therapeutic if you like. It’s good for you, though it is subtle … It givesyou a perspective on the eternal dimension, whereas in the west we seem to havebeen stuck in a linear, finite, materialistic way of looking at things.”

Elizabeth Griffiths

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FROM KATHLEEN JANNAWAY

This booklet is an attempt to provide a vision, an alternative to the present moneydominated, profit motivated, competitive world disorder that could lead to racesuicide and the destruction of the planet. Doubtless it will be judged too idealistic,but as Buckminster Fuller said: “The world is now too dangerous for anything lessthan Utopia.”

On a practical level there are no difficulties which cannot be overcome with thepresent level of human knowledge and technical skills. There will be:

Plenty of land available for the village communities and their forests if animalfarming is phased out.

Plenty of water and fertile soil if the forest is restored.

Plenty of time for the necessary labour if everybody does their share inproducing what is needed, especially as there will be no animal slaves to tend,slaughter and process.

Plenty of resources from the forests and from the careful recycling of allmaterials.

The difficulties lie in the human minds that are caught in the money net. Mostpeople find it impossible to imagine a world without money, yet its dominance isresponsible for most of the mess the world is in. Its power is comparatively recentand quite unnecessary.

An interim measure, while money has such power, lies in 'Trusteeship', this wasfavoured by Gandhi and is being promoted by the Scott Bader Trust. People withmore money than they need to buy essentials for themselves should use it to helpothers. Just giving money to the poor is not enough, it damages their self respect. Ibelieve that it should be used to buy land, and that secure tenure of plots of the landshould be given to those who will use it wisely, to meet needs sustainably, not forprofit.

The money system could collapse suddenly through stock market gambling orenvironmental catastrophe. The more ideas of growing our own, of land being freedfor local production for local consumption, are spread, the easier will it be forpeople to survive.

Self­reliant Tree­based Autonomous Vegan Villages, October 1997, pp. 18­19

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TYN Y NANT “FFERM FRWYTHAU” AT LLANFIHANGEL GLYN MYFYR

Gardd y Goedwig a Berllan GymunedolA Forest Garden & Community Orchard

Creating Welhealth is developing seven acres of food forest with plans forcommunity supported stockfree agriculture within it. It is a cooperative communityproject transitioning to a Gift Economy moneyless shared resource for the local andwider community at Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr.

The aim of the co­op is to have all the basics of life’s needs – land, warmth andshelter, water and food, totally free, increasing moneyless commons land and liferesources for more people. It is off grid, all wastes are composted, water is fromspring, stream and land drain. The site uses renewable energy ­ wood, wind andsolar. Materials used are sustainable: renewable, re­used and importantly durable, ofthe highest longevity, and vegan.

Why Moneyless? Money is the currency of the exchange of shortage. We do notexchange abundance! And the basic needs of life are not short. We therefore need toprovision our lives by a different economy. Provision for all.

News and Opportunities for 2016

Volunteers: We are a Wwoof host, open March to October, also looking for longerterm volunteers.

Camping: Singles, couples and groups are welcome to camp, and we are lookingfor someone to take charge of camping, organising it and marketing it.

Projects: We have plans to create a free cafe, a shop, and sitting out area. We arecurrently working on a “Garden Centre”. A centre of the garden to chill in, store thegarden tools and have teas and coffees.

From February to November we hold two cropshare days a month, getting togetherto work as one large allotment group. All are welcome.

Forest Garden Nursery: The nursery grows up to 40 different varieties per year.We have developed five brand new varieties of Sweet Yellow Welsh Pear and sixnew varieties of Sweet Welsh Apple. Among the trees and plants we grow are somevery special local varieties. Please come and get plants – all free. Please also askabout growing with us if you wish to come and stay and help us.

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Skill­sharing Courses Offered Free: We are holding regular two day skill­sharingcourses on forest garden plant propagation, and small low impact wind and solarelectricity. The wind/solar course is for anyone planning to go off grid or those whoare off grid who wish to learn more about small wind and solar electric systems thatthey can install, use, and maintain themselves. Participants can also use our sharedresource workshop facilities to make their own lights and battery regulators.

Opportunity for two stockfree farmers / forest gardeners:

1. To develop the stockfree market garden of an acre plus.2. To develop various willow plantations and extensive forest gardens covering thewhole 7 acre site.3. To develop wood, herb, clothes materials, general craft workshops and storesfacilities for processing ­ bottling, pickling, brewing, drying, fermenting, preservingand processing of foods, medicines, dyes and varied forest garden products.

The farmers would comply with the co­op’s transition timeline to moneyless OnePlanet living resource­based vegan economy. Situated in the centre of North Wales,the whole customer base stretches from Bangor at one side to Wrexham/Deeside onthe other, with all of the North Wales seaside resort towns, Snowdonia, and Balaclose by, and Llangollen to the south ­ all within 35 miles distance.

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BOOK REVIEWTREAD SOFTLY BECAUSE YOU TREAD ON MY DREAMS

by M L RooksbyThis is a very interesting story of the nine year journey of a vegetarian couple,Maureen and Phil, from North Yorkshire to Andalucia in Southern Spain. Along theway they met and befriended many different people, learning to live amongGalicians in Northern Spain and Portuguese in Portugal before finally finding theirhome in Andalucia. Here they bought a tiny house with two and a half hectares ofland. The house needed a lot of work, which was done while Maureen and Phil livedin a tent on site, and for water they needed a borehole. After all this was done theycould settle and begin “the business of living” their new simple life, growing foodcrops and making things to sell on local markets.

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LETTERS

Despite the Leaping Bunny and its claims, Ecover have confirmed just today (9October) that they are still testing on animals, so I should be grateful if you couldpublish a paragraph to that effect in the next issue of the magazine. Unfortunatelythey base their claims on the fact that Daphnia are not classed as animals by the EU.The Vegan Society thinks differently, which is why Ecover lost its registration withthe Society when the truth emerged in 2007. (I use Bio­D, which is not only notimported all the way from Belgium but is made in our very own Kingston­upon­'ull.)

Best wishesPatricia Tricker

Many thanks once again for sending a copy of the latest NL, which I treasure.However it was lacking just one thing, and that was a review of my wife Maureen’sbook (Tread Softly Because You Tread On My Dreams), which was sad. Especiallygiven the book review you did choose to include (NL 115 pages 12­13), particularlythe final sentence quoted from that publication. A sentiment both Maureen and Itotally disagree with. It is not diet that will save our tattered eco­system fromoblivion but money, or to be precise, the ridding of it from our culture. Currentlyvegans are as much to blame (as anyone else) for environmental suicide, as well asunnecessary cruelty to animals. Why? Because you can veganise as much of yourlife as you like, but if you spend money that is what ends up doing the damage.Maureen (and I continue with her work) spent her life showing there is another way,one where you can live in harmony with the planet, without money. That is whatMCL should have at the top of its list of promoting.

Phil RooksbyFinca El Pocito

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