Vol. 31 No 3 Autumn 1984

CONTENTS

Shortening the Time of Troubles

Mouths Open: Eyes Closed

Avenues of Service

Veganism and World Peace

Marathon Runners

Shopping with Sandra

Recipes, Reports etc.

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VEGAN SOCIETY LIMITED President: S. Coles

Vice-Presidents: E. Batt, J. Dinshah, C. Nimmo, W. Simmons, M. Simmons.

Council:

Hon. Treasurer:

Secretary:

Asst. Secretary:

D. Barrett, S. Coles, V. Dawson, C. Hall, K. Jannaway, T. Key, K. Manners, L. Munn, R. Dawson, G. Smith, K. Stallwood, A. Torgut.

J. Cummins

B.Kew, c/o 47 Highlands Road, Leatherhead, Surrey.

L. Main, , Wales

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EDITOR of 'THE VEGAN' the quarterly journal : K. Jannaway, who does not necessarily agree with all opinions expressed or endorse advertisements.

PUBLISHED: 21st March, June, September, December COPY REQUIRED: 1st of preceding month

The Vegan Society was formed in 1944 by vegetarians who became aware of the suffering inseparable from the dairy industry, and decided to omit all animal products from their diet. Its advantages as regards human health and the wise use of resources are now being recognised. In 1964 it was granted Charity status and, in 1979, became a Company Limited by Guarantee. Its declared object is 'to further knowledge of, and interest in, sound nutrition in veganism, and the ve^n method of agriculture.'

Veganism is defined as a way of living on the products of the plant kingdom, to the exclusion of flesh, fish, fowl, eggs, animal milk and its derivatives, (the taking of honey being left to individual conscience). It encourages the study and use of alternatives from all commodities normally derived wholly or partly from animals. Free from commitment to any religious, political, philosophical, social, dietary or medical group, the Vegan Society challenges all those who preach compassion, but still base their lives on the cruel practises inseparable from meat and milk production. It endeavours to co-operate with all those who work for a more compassionate world.

Full information in return for s .a.e. to Secretary, at the above address.

Shortening the Time of Troubles " Only by shifting our collective attention to the basic biological aspects

of the human situation can we hope to mitigate and shorten the time of troubles into which we are now moving "

Aldous Huxley

The most basic biological aspect of our situation surely concerns food . Do not feeding habits more than any other factor correspond with the differences between species, in their physical structure, their physiology, their behaviour patterns and their relationships with the environment ? If humans can re-est-ablish their feeding habits in accordance with the laws of nature instead of the manoeuvres of the food industries, the time of troubles may well be shortened.

Throughout the forty years of its existence leading members of the Vegan Soc-iety have been aware of the tremendous implications of the way of life that they were pioneering. A trend to veganism can do much to shorten the time of troub-les. As well as freeing animals from cruel exploitation, it has contributions to make to human health, to the right use of resources in face of a rapidly increas-ing world population and to conservation of the environment. It can also help to nurture the type of human who can use responsibly the awesome powers un-leashed by science. Articles on every one of these subjects have appeared reg-ularly in 'The Vegan'. Many of them have been written by Jack Sanderson, the pioneer probably best known to the present membership. His death at this crit-ical period of the Society's growth was a great loss. It has been suggested that a selection of his articles and editorials should be published in a booklet. If you would like this please do let me know and perhaps you might like to indicate articles that you would like included.

In this issue of 'The Vegan', I have tried to cover a similar spread. The article on "Veganism and World Peace." argues that a change in the diet of the affluent could have repercussions for world peace. Barry Kew's article on the agricul-tural scene high lights the importance of looking beyond the super-market shelves to the way in which food, including vegan food, is produced. Michael Green and Gavin Jones give cheering corroboration of the health giving properties of vegan food. Laurence Main's article "Avenues of Service" points to the deeper ethic-al implications of the vegan way of life. It also draws attention to the area in which he has been working with such energy and commitment - the running of the Society as a network of volunteers active in their own localities. It is here that there are great opportunites for growth, especially if good relationships can be established with the local press, media, schools and colleges.

'THE FOOD SCANDAL' C.Walker & G. Cannon (Century, 11.6. '84, £7.95) gives in readable form the findings of the National Advisory Council on Nutrition. (Caroline Walker served on the Council.) These findings are nothing new. They echo those of the Mc Govern Report published in America in 1977 which has had such an effect there that the 25% drop in deaths from heart disease has been at-tributed to it. The Report recommends that people eat a lot more wholemeal bread and cereals,fresh vegetables and fruit, and halve consumption of animal

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fats, sugar and salt. Please note it does not recommend veganism I The book explains why and how the food industries have got away with promoting a diet that " is the main single cause of the diseases from which most of us eventually suffer and d i e . " The effect is to make many people question their diet and search for new light. Vegans must be ready to take advantage of this - but they must make sure that their own diet reaches the required standard. They also must avoid highly processed foods, excess sugar and fat and aim at eating " a wide variety of plant foods, as fresh and unprocessed as possible, and a source of B12."

PLANT - MILK COUPONS NOW ? I t i s n o t o n l y t h e g e n era l public that is being affected by the Nacne Report. The Medical and other professions are being aroused. I have room to quote only one authorative figure, Sir Douglas Black, President of the British Medical Association. Asked for his view on heart dis-ease prevention, he is quoted in the 'T imes ' , June 12th as saying "Milk is a major kil ler. It is nonsense to give it to children in schools. " This is the opp-ortunity that vegan parents have been waiting for. Please renew pressure on the D. H. S. S., Alexander Fleming House, Elephant & Castle, London, to grant help with the cost of plantmilks.

THE NEW F ILM is now ready. It is not an animal rights f i lm. It updates the old f i lm and deals mainly with the health and ecology case for veganism. Shown in America at the recent IVU Congress it aroused great interest so that four repeats were given and the copy sold. Please get it shown in your localities to groups of many kinds and in schools and colleges. It lasts 30 minutes and will be available as a 16mm fi lm or on video.

WORLD FOOD DAY - October 16th & 'One World Week'October 21st-28th. One of the saddest effects of the misguided policies of the industrialised world is the way in which they spread to the developing countries with devastating effects on the poor. There is now a gratifying swing towards the ideas of se l f -sufficiency which articles in 'The Vegan' have been advocating. I hope that the 140 display packs that I sent out last year will be used again. I can supply more given time to get them photo-copied.

GOOD - BYE. This is the last 'Vegan' that I will edit. I much appreciate the opportunities that I have been given to work for ' a shortening of the time of the troubles' and wish you all similar joy.

Kathleen Jannaway.

'At the birth of consciousness we became onlookers and were separated from Nature, and left the Garden to create a world of our own apart from Nature. Our next step is a further extension of consciousness when we shall realise the unity of l i fe on a higher plane of understanding. Having tasted of that tree of knowledge we shall enter the Garden of Eden once more, and Paradise shall be regained.' J o h n a e w a r t C o l l l s .

Sent in by L. Main "The Worm Forgives the Plough"

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Mouths Open, Eyes Closed The United Nations estimated recently that the world population will more than double over the next century, even though malnutrition has reached epidemic proportions and millions of children are starving to death every year.

Balance against this tragedy the disgrace of EEC food aid running at only 2% of its £16000m budget and we see a wider picture wherein the Community (?) by artificial, expensive and callous means - fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides, drugs, hormones, subsidies, grants, funds - props up an inefficient system of agriculture to produce mountains of health-risk foods that people do not want, cannot afford or which are inappropriate to a starving world.

Fortunately it seems that at least part of this picture is being seen by Brussels which would like now to phase out regular food aid and replace it with cash and technical help to launch schemes to promote agriculture in the barren lands where hunger is rife. So far so good, but let us beware. Because the food aid business does not help the EEC out of its own blind alley the latest proposals will necessarily carry with it another hunger - one for profit. Will not the technical consultants be once again the battery farm boys promising high out-put?

Government myopia is worsened by the glaring light of rapid returns, and the high powered lobbying by agro-business will try to obscure from view the only sensible method of land use in feeding hungry mouths. After all, aren't we, in England, even with an extravagant agriculture, a well-fed people? Is there not already enough food produced worldwide to feed everyone and the capacity yet to feed 10 times the present numbers ? Resting easy on these assumptions makes difficult a proper perception of the starvation problem exacerbated not only by the madness of feeding animals to feed humans but by the structures built up arqund the whole wasteful, wasting process. The politics of plenty promote the pursuit of profit not the production of proper food by efficient means. The smashing of eggs in order to advertise them is symptomatic of this disease, the benign face of which sends a tonne to Africa (about 100 tonnes So far our of a predicted crop of 23 million). This is known of course as doing our bit, but it is nowhere near enough nor can it ever be, given present arrangements.

However the increasing appetite for healthier food is of course gratifying. It is a move towards veganism whether or not it is perceived as such by people taking a more selective approach to their diet.

What has brought about such a trend is in part the growing publicity of certain foods' dangers and more widely a greater concern over the poisoning of the land about which warnings have been signalled now for many years; we could take Rachel Carson's Silent Spring as the vanguard. More recently we have seen not only such warnings repeated but the added dimension of economics, profitability and conservation that can only serve to coax agriculture away from its high input/high output lunacy.

In 1978 Dr. Sicco Mansholt, former EEC Commissioner and Minister of Agri-culture for the Netherlands warned that due to the high cost of producing nitrogen fertiliser - 1 tonne requiring 1-2 tonnes of oil - high nitrogen applic-ation would in 30 years be economically unjustified. In June this year Josef Ertl, former Minister of Agriculture for W. Germany stated that progress does not have to be necessarily associated with increased production but more with new possibilities and better quality. Link to these statements the results of work done by Herr Manfred Wenz and Prof. W. Scuphan where although the yields of biological agricultural systems are lower by 20% the biological values are on average greater, and undesirable elements in crops on average less. If it is true, as Dr. Mansholt suggested that "Chemical aids and artificials breed dullness in farmers" it will be interesting to note how they react to recent (Aug/ Sept) wheat prices which show inorganic wheat at approx. £125 tonne and organ-ically grown at £165 tonne (£200 for May/June 85). Remembering of course that, this is still not vegan production it is nevertheless good to see such organic profitability and moreover the beginnings of a positive move towards more food being grown for direct human consumption as a result of consumer demand. Add to this the growing number of dairy farmers seeking a new enterprise to replace losses incurred by the quotas and we may well have evidence of market forces working on our side.

Similar optimism may be gained from other recent developments and the reactions to them made by the meat and dairy industries which indeed seem to be on a slippery slope. The NACNE Report, suppressed of course by Govern-ment for 2g years, the DHSS Report on Diet and Heart Disease, the COMA Report, the disclosures of hormone and antibiotic abuse, of tapeworm cysts in sheeps livers together with BBC TVs Vegetarian Kitchen, plus the book of the series and "The Food Scandal", both best sellers, have caused a certain panic. Knowing the power of advertising over nutritional sense Dr Basil Larman, beef specialist at the East of Scotland College of Agriculture urged : -

"We must get to the public first before there is a media scare. " But the scare is on and its for real. The Meat Promotion Executive's director Jim Munday realised that "the acceptability of meat among the young is not as high as it should be The main opportunities to strengthen the red meat market were by exploiting the younger age group. " When one form of exploitation fails:, try another.

There's also a rash of advertising already and more planned: Milk and newly packaged 'low fat1 milk and spreads at around £15000 an advertisement in the Sunday press. A multi million pound campaign by the Meat Promotion Executive, (British Sugar too spooning out £2m on publicity).

In an attempt to calm things down and reassure the public the Mieat and Live-stock Commission, now recruiting a top nutritionist and a leading chemist to convince the public that its product is vital'to a balanced diet., called the Vegetarian Society's allegations of hormonised meat "predictably sensational" and "inaccurate". The response itself is predictable as is the claim that

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procedures are monitored and that the Commission had already recommended a national inspection service. We all know what that means and, moreover, what all of this signifies - that the proper extension of recent agricultural and consumer developments leads towards a vegan conclusion. More and more people are now only keeping one meal ahead of this knowledge.

For 40 years this Society has striven to prove that a vegan diet is nutritionally sound; this is now beyond question. It has sought also to promote the imple-mentation of an ecologically economical agriculture based on commonsense and compassion. But as with other types of alternative proposal, e. g. to vivisection, energy sources, etc, it is demanded by the champions of outdated methods that any new ways be at least 200% effective to win favour. Huge sums of money for research and production are normally given only to agencies straining to extend existing methods so that by ever more artificial means some kind of dubious improvements can be seen to be achieved.

Yet the centuries have shown that any great radical proposal travels through the three stages of ridicule, discussion and adoption. Inevitably, the historical process is pushing veganism well into the second stage; we must speed it on its way for the sake of the starving, the animals, ourselves, the planet as a whole and let the politics of hunger belong only to the past.

Barry Kew.

A.C.M.1984 The 5th Annual General Meeting of the Vegan Society Ltd. (following the 35 AGMs of the previous Vegan Society) will be held at the Friends Meeting House, 52 St. Martin's Lane, Westminster, London, at 2 pm on Saturday, November 10th, 1984.

Proposals for major RESOLUTIONS should have reached the Society's Reg-istered Office, 47 Highlands Road, Leatherhead, Surrey, by August 1st 1984.

Proposals for general resolutions should be in to the same office by November 1st 1984. Proposals for members to serve on the Council and as officers of the Society must be sent not less than 3 days and not more than 21 days before the AGM.

Refreshments. Food will be available but feel free to bring along your own and/or some to share.

A creche will be provided. Volunteers to help run it will be welcomed.

After tea the new film will be shown - see page 2- and other items are being considered.

It is hoped that on Saturday morning there will be a local vegan contacts meet-ing as at Liverpool last year. Details will be given in the "Vegan Server. "

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AVENUES OF SERVICE "When we develop our heads and our hearts in a balanced way, we see our-selves and the universe in a different way. A process of transformation takes place. From being apathetic, or self-seekers, we begin to see ourselves as part of a greater whole, and begin to work for the good of the whole. Avenues of service formerly obscured open up to us - our family, friends, neighbours and those whom we meet, or hear of, have need of us. Our awareness grows and we find that the animals, the plants and the earth itself have need of us . "

Many readers will remember reading the above lines by our late-president Jack Sanderson in the Winter, 1977, "Vegan". Many more will have started reading our journal since that date. The muehrooming growth in our member-ship in the last few years is a tribute to the work of the vegan pioneers of whom Jack Sanderson was a prime example. The vegan way of l i fe is indeed one way of serving and thereby bringing about real progress. Whereas many turn their energies to protesting about rights, vegans have tended to conform with the idea of Gandhi when he said "In my experience it is more important to have a charter of human duties". By living the vegan way we make the best practical demonstration of how cruelty to animals, disease caused by wrong feeding, poverty caused by waste and environmental destruction caused by the mis-use of our land can be obviated.

The vegan movement has always had a broad appeal, as each edition of "The Vegan" reminded its readers up to 1972: "Veganism remembers man's res-ponsibilities to the earth and its resources and seeks to bring about a healthy soil and plant kingdom and a proper use of the materials of the earth". Recently, we have made strides in this direction by sponsoring the Bio-Fuels project at the National Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth, to show how land now used for rough grazing (and the MAJORITY of our land is deemed fit only for grazing) could be profitably returned to deciduous forest and that if land (and tax-payers' money) were switched to producing bio-fuels we could not only relieve enormous animal suffering but also reduce the need for nuclear and fossil fuels whilst improving soil fertility, the area available for wildlife and the human life of the countryside. We are happy to report that the Scottish Highlands Development Board and some M. P. s are now taking an interest in this joint Vegan Society/N. C. A .T . project, from which the Vegan Society has gained valuable publicity (its display board at the site and its leaflets being seen by 60,000 tourists a year).

Such opportunities will increase now that C. A. P. has at last seen the light as regards imposing dairy quotas. While many, especially the farmers, feel confused, our role is to provide evidence of a new, better, way of life, and to promote positive alternatives. As Jack Sanderson was moved to write in that same (Winter, 1977) "Vegan" :

"Our adversaries and those who ill-treat others and other kingdoms have need of us - and we have need of all of them. If we express the "caring-for"

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principle with wisdom and gentleness, we shall join with hosts of other positive beings and become co-creators of the new order Truth is revealed to each according to his present understanding, and that is why we should be neither unduly critical of our own thoughts and experiences, nor of our brother's which may differ from our own If we truly adopt a vegan way of life with balance between head and heart development, we shall become aware of a gradual transformation within ourselves from life as a predator to life as a server."

It is our own inner attitude, that of server or predator, that therefore will determine most whether or not the New Age, of which the vegan movement is an integral part, will dawn. Jack Sanderson lived to see his faith in the growth of the vegan movement justified. As Jack concluded his aforesaid article: "Let us each unfold the wings of our heart and fly forth without fear, trusting the inner voice as a bird does which migrates over continents".

We exist as a network of volunteers. Our strength is in co-operation, not in centralisation. Each one of us can serve. One way is to volunteer as either a local vegan contact (if there is none near you) or to assist your local vegan contact (if you do live near one).The map - page 23- shows the current distrib-ution of L. V. C. s. Some areas are well provided for, whilst others are neglec-ted. Some L. V. C. s are very active, whilst others are just bearing our banner until stronger help arrives to unfurl it.

Every group is, of course, its own education centre and much can be achieved by you locally. Local vegan groups also have a social role to play, especially as regards the inexperienced, the isolated and the uncertain. The Vegan Society started out as such a group. Now we have clusters of small, friendly, groups around the country. By encouraging them we can maintain the pioneering spirit and give all our members everywhere an opportunity to serve.

L. V. G. s have done a lot to increase the sales of "The Vegan" and of our other literature. They have also helped organise lectures for experienced national speakers, with or without our film. I look forward to even more co-operation in this respect, starting with this Autumn term. I have secured speaking/film show dates with schools and groups around the country. These have been arranged into short tours to save transport costs. Anybody who can find addit-ional venues to fit into my tour schedules is invited to contact me as soon as possible (telephone 06504 255 or write to me at

W). I would also be very grateful for offers of overnight accommodation (just sleeping-bag space will do). Contact me for full tour details, but please note the following general programme until December - October 17-19th Sussex; October 29-31st Cheshire/Greater Manchester; November 7-9th East Anglia; November 14-16th Lancashire and Cumbria; November 19-22nd Mid-Wales and Shropshire; November 28-30th North-East England; December 4-6th Greater London.

Laurence Main.

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Veganism & World Peace Extracts from the paper read by Serena Coles to the International Vegetarian Union Congress held at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, U.S.A.

Two dangers threaten the survival of our species - nuclear war and the gather-ing momentum of environmental destruction and pollution. Throaghout history former enemies have united when they have recognized a common danger. If we can arouse people world-wide to the extreme seriousness of the environ-mental crisis, they will recognize their common enemy - Predatory Man - and will unite against him and use their material and spiritual resources to trans-form him completely Nothing less will save our endangered planet.

The way of life researched and pioneered by the Vegan Society during the last 40 years has a very important contribution to make. Materially it is the life style most truly economical, and spiritually it can do much to nurture the type of human being most capable of being a responsible steward of planet earth.

The different animal and plant species are more or less adjusted to each other so that supply and demand are balanced. Each species has its ecological niche and although some animals prey on others for food, they do not war with each other. However within species there is competition for food and individuals will fight off their own kind to defend the territorial base of their food supply. This is the biologically justified aggression that in humans developed into war making.

Shortage of food is at present being played down; we are assured that enough grain is now produced to nourish adequately all the world population, including the 485 million judged to be seriously undernourished. It is said that their hunger is caused by the fact that the grain is not distributed properly and that it is not distributed properly because the poor lack purchasing power. The often suggested solution is the industrialization of the Third World to the degree that the poor can earn enough money to buy the food they need. It is agreed that at present more than a third of the grain grown world wide is fed to meat produc-ing animals, who also eat large amounts of other plant products. Seldom is it pointed out that if the poor are enabled to buy the food they need, either the rich will have to give up their meat or more plant products will have to be grown.

The earth may be able to feed on plant products the present world population, or even the 6 billion expected by the turn of the century, but it cannot possibly grow all the extra plant food that would be necessary to feed all the extra millions of animals that would have to be reared to feed everybody on a West-ern type animal product diet. It is only slowly dawning on people (partly as a result of Vegan Society teaching) that farm animals are competitors with humans for food - and for other essential resources. Much is made of the human population explosion, not yet reached its height, but people are slow to realise that there is a second population explosion, that of deliberately bred animals, that competes with us for land and other scarce resources. It is

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this double explosion that has to be reckoned with. It is not human demand for fair shares of adequate plant food that cannot be satisfied within the confines of a finite planet, but those demands plus the demands of animal slaves; Figures vary as t.o the amount of land that is or can be made available for growing food, as to how much is being lost through erosion and desertification, but no-one can pretend that there will ever be enough to feed an expanding world popu-lation on a Western type diet. If all the millions who are at the moment vegan, or nearly vegan because they cannot afford to be anything else, were enabled to demand animal products like the affluent elite, 8 times as much land - and many other scarce resources - would be needed to satisfy them.

How are we going to discriminate between a meat eating elite and vegan masses ? Throughout the ages the rich and the powerful have tended to feed on meat and the poor have had to content themselves mainly with grains and beans. This has lent a great, though falsely based, prestige to flesh eating. Rising stand-ards of living are equated with the ability to buy more animal products. The successful in the developing world are eating more meat - even some of traditionally vegetarian cultures are aping the dominant Westerners in their eating habits. Attempts to reserve prestigious animal products to the few will be regarded as unjust and will contribute to social unrest and war. Attempts to satisfy growing demand for meat will in due course place an intolerable strain on the whole environment, will lead to the destruction of the remaining wild life areas, and will lessen the plant foods available to an extreme degree and thus contribute to social unrest and war.

Competition for oil and coal, non-renewable resources can, like competition for food, escalate to conflict. Change to a vegan diet would release vast acreage from livestock rearing to biofuel crops - preferably mixed species of trees that yield many important materials and benefit the environment in many ways.

Meanwhile, daily, it is becoming more impossible to ignore the extreme gravity of our situation. The late Henry Bailey Stevens, known personally to many of you, linking as he did the two forms of blood violence, war and slaughter for food, described our situation in unforgettable terms. He wrote : -

" Man operates two major forms of blood violence, the larger of which is the steady day-by-day outflow of the Abattoir. Now with a thermonuclear arsenal he is alarmed to see the potential kill of War swell to comparable size. He lives under a continuing "balance of terror" with bombers constantly loaded in the air. He himself has no place to run or hide. Trapped, he chases along the fence, desperately seeking some other exit than the terrible gate. His wealth of complex language provides no words better to fit his plight than does the animal bleat. To any cosmic ear his cry reaches stockyard dimensions in volume and tone. The denoue-ment will tell whether War has been only an erratic episode in his long evolution or the lurid climax of his career. "

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Too many people still react to the situation with fear and its offspring hate, and add ever more horrific weapons to the pile that threatens to annihilate us. A growing number are realising that the only forces that can save us are love and compassion and a faith that the creative power of the universe is akin to those very emotions of love and compassion that we experience in our own hearts.

All humans, in common with all vertebrates, demonstrate to a greater or lesser degree the ability to sacrifice themselves for their young, their present for Life's future. We have to fan the glimmer of that primitive love until it becomes a consuming fire that will burn away all our weaknesses, indigencies, hesitances - our very selves. We can only do this if we give full rein to the imaginative sensitivity and the compassion for helpless creatures that are the hallmarks of ethical vegetarianism.

We must not be ashamed of our sensitivity and active imaginations. So many of us in the past have felt that we were odd because while others could enjoy watching lambs skipping in the fields, running to their mothers for protection at the least alarm, we experienced in imagination the coming of the slaughter house lorries and the lambs bleating in vain as they were herded for the throat cutting. What could be more innocent seeming than a bottle of milk or a jar of yoghurt ? The vegan sees mirrored therein the imprisoned veal calf and the mother cow searching frantically for her baby. In the past we, like very many sensitive and imaginative people, have suppressed our feelings because we felt that slaughter was necessary. Now we know that it is not; We were told that we would die if we did not kill to eat. Now we know that the opposite is true -that when we banish slaughterhouses, we will also banish famine from the earth.

The success of the vegan experiment has removed all plea of necessity from the slaughterhouse. In many, knowledge of this has generated a remarkable up-surge of faith in Love as the mainspring of the Universe. This upsurge of faith must now be channelled directly into the area of peace and war. It Is becoming all too clear that if we do not end war, war will end us.

When the atom bomb fell on Hiroshima, Gandhi said "Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind."

Gandhi meant far more than self control on demonstrations! He meant the positive exertion of the force of Truth and Love. It can only be successful if it springs from the conviction that in every human heart lies the power to respond to the Creative Love that lies behind the appearance of things.

It can only be successful if it springs from lives devoted at every level to the practice of Lao Tses three principles, "Pity, Frugality, Refusal to be foremost".

This same message has been delivered through the ages by saints and seers in many parts of the world. There have been answering echoes in millions of hearts but practice has fallen short of the preached ideal. Now, at this moment of human history, it has become a matter of sheer survival, of biological nec-essity, to practise what we preach!

K. Jannaway.

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MARATHON RUNNING I've been running fairly regularly now for about fifteen years, since I was intro-duced to the art of cross-country runs at secondary school. Though I was not running from choice I found it far more enjoyable than other sports, maybe because it was an exercise I could take my own time over, and in which I could be alone with my thoughts. I was not an exceptional runner, and neither am I so now, so you are not reading the wise words of a high-class athlete, but simply the experience of any ordinary person (albeit vegan!) who enjoys running.

Until two years ago I was content to run three miles a couple of times per week. This was enough to keep me healthy and as for running a marathon - well, I'd often dreamed of such a thing but was under the impression that it was an event reserved for superhumans. Then came the great success of the 1981 London Marathon and in its wake Northampton decided to hold its own run in 1982. Urged on by friends I decided to enter, though I'd only allowed myself four months training and was doubtful that this would be sufficient. Incidentally, I found no difficulty in equipping myself with vegan footwear. Many varieties are composed entirely of man-made materials nowadays, largely because this makes them much lighter.

My training schedule, at first quite comfortable, became much harder as I passed the twelve-mile mark. For runs of this distance and longer it is Important to drink en route to avoid dehydration, and the body's energy reserves begin to be seriously tested. But one thing I definitely was not lacking was motivation - I was determined that I would run every step of those 26.2 miles. I broke most of the 'rules' of marathon training; running only every other day, building up my distance too quickly, and completing my final 'dry run' (a very apt phrasei) of 22 miles only ten days before the actual event. All of this proves that there are really no rules. Each runner should' run as far and as often as their body tells them they can cope with.

Eventually the big day arrived and I and a vegetarian friend ran every stride together, finishing 82/83rd out of 700 in 3 hours 27 minutes. I've run two more marathons since, but this is still my best time, I think because I ran the others alone, and over the last five miles, as each step becomes an effort, its so difficult to keep going without mutual encouragement.

You may wonder why on earth anyone should devote so much time to training when the end product can be a form of torture. Well, in the first place there is the sense of achievement in itself. Crossing that finishing line the first time was one of the great moments of my life. Secondly, physical fitness gives you a wonderful feeling of well-being, of Confidence in your own body, and everyday life requires so much less effort. But, more important, running isn't just a matter of fitness. It can also be an ecstatic experience. There are times when everything is just right and I seem to flow across the gorund without using any energy at all. The regular rhythm of breath and stride can also induce a state

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of meditation. Running is a marvellous way of clearing the mind and lifting depression. And there is a joy to be found in simply feeling the air moving against your body, be it crisp with Winter or warmed by the Summer sun. It helps me to remember that I am part of nature, not a detached observer of it. Not that running is always like this, of course. Sometimes it is just very hard work, but that is rewarding too. It often seems to me to be the whole of l i fe in microcosm - sometimes ecstacy, sometimes agony, but always worth-while. However you feel at any given moment the important thing is to keep running.

So far I have said nothing about diet. Before I became vegan early in 1981 I had never run really long distances, so I can't directly compare my perform-ances, but I can tell you how I feel . Within a month I noticed that my limbs and joints felt different, and the word that comes to mind is ' looser ' . It was as if something had been 'clogging up the works' and was now removed. Whether this was partly psychological I don't know, and in any case It 's irrelevant - I feel f reer and cleaner inside now and that's that. Interestingly enough there was no corresponding change when I became vegetarian in 1979.

As for exactly what I eat, it is much the same whether lam approaching a mara-thon or simply running six miles twice per week. I simply eat more if I run more. I have a large breakfast of muesli, toast, banana and fruit juice. Lunch is either a couple of slices of bread and an apple, or home-made soup. Main meal may be a curry, salad, chilli, nut roast, stew, bean pie, s t i r - f ry followed by fruit. I find that I need a lot of potatoes, pasta and the like for energy. However, each person must discover what suits them, and certainly my own diet is continually evolving. For one thing, I know that I should eat salad more often than two or three times per week. Also I should drink more water - Its amazing how such an obvious thing as drinking water can be over-looked! During the Summer I try to eat nothing but fruit for one day per week, and also plan to fast one day each month from now on.

Michael Green. VEGAN MARATHON GROUP ? David Bibby and Ann Taylor would like to hear from other marathon runners. Their address is

f.

We have just heard from Neil Robinson, professional footballer - Swansea City, that he has been vegan for three years.

COMMODITIES SECRETARIES We are very pleased to welcome Sandra Hood, our new commodities secretary. She gives evidence of both enthusiasm and efficiency. She is fortunate to have the help of Eva Batt who did the time -con-suming work with such thoroughness for so many years.

We express our thanks to Linda Emptage who also worked hard and efficiently until she found that all her time was going in supporting and organising local animal rights activities. We were delighted to hear that her group had a remark-able success recently in getting a local ban on the export of l ive calves.

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I Don't be a Bad Sport

One cry that all vegans hear from time to time from non-vegans is, "How do you get enough protein?" - concerned because they know protein to be vital for the repair and replacement of body tissues.

True, we do consume less protein than those who follow a conventional diet, but by getting all we need from vegetable sources (made up of the eight essential amino acids) it does mean we cut down drastically on other evils such as sat-urated fats and cholesterol, found in animal-based foods. And it's not a case of what we lose on the swings, we win on the roundabouts - we seem to be winning all the time. There is mounting evidence that we, or rather "they", eat more protein than is really necessary - too much exhausting the body's • mineral reserves and creating a superfluity of toxic waste.

We could perhaps be forgiven for feeling just a little smug when we read in Alan Lewis's new book "The Natural Athlete" - published by Century Publish-ing/Newman Turner at £2.95 - an athlete's guide to nutrition. He cites the results of tests

1 (a) American physiologists, Irving Fischer and Russell Chittenden, showed that athletes performed much better on a protein diet which oonsisted of up to 50 grams a day (many athletes have a target of over four times that amount). Fitness was also shown to be im-proved still further when protein intake was reduced even more.

t (b) At Yale University, Russell Chittenden, found that over long test

periods, energy levels kept on increasing: as the body became more efficient it became more used to handling unrefined carbohydrates.

(c) At. Loughborough College and Edinburgh University it has been found that more raw foods and less high-fat foods ha.ve improved performance by more than 5%. The reason being that a low-pTOtein diet which is also low in fat leaves the body in a healthier state.

Somehow all this strikes a cord. As Alan Lewis says, "The irony for the present-day athlete is that although the message is only now beginning to get through, it has been established as fact for over eightyyears ! "Indeed, the latest recommendations being made for Olympic athletes, in a diet sheet issued in January 1983 through the Sports Council, stressed that complex un-refined carbohydrates should replace the higher protein food in their diet. This was done in the belief that it would provide better quality, energy and endurance in a whole range of athletes. Fresh fruit and vegetables increase the potential of the cells and improve the way the oxygen is used. "

It would seem, therefore, that vegan athletes have been one step ahead of the rest for quite some time. Those who follow a diet which consists of a good variety of fresh fruit and vegetables, low in salt and sugar Content, cannot fail but to be on the road to success. As for the rest of us, surely a diet that's good enough for Olympic champions is good, enough for us too:

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PLEASE NOTE ! LIABILITY The Vegan Society Ltd and its Council and Officers cannot be held legally or financially, or in anyway, liable for any act, word or publication made by a member or local group unless written, signed authority has been given them by the Secretary or Chairman acting on behalf of the Council.

CALLERS Please do not call upon any officers or employees of the Society without prior arrangement. Laurence Main, his wife and family, had 200 unexpected callers last summer, fifteen in one day! The spirit is very willing but

SUBSCRIPTIONS Have you paid your subscription due in January each year, regardless of when you joined? ? If not, a reminder slip is enclosed. Please send soon or we will, regretfully, have to remove your name from our lists.

BANKERS ORDERS (forms from the Leatherhead Office) help but we have to tell people that Bank Charges of 60p are now made on every transaction! So please send extra to cover these if you can.

BEQUESTS Please remember THE VEGAN SOCIETY LIMITED in your will. When drafting your Will, if you choose to leave property (real estate) to the Society, please add a clause to your Will bequeathing a sum of money to the Society in the event that you have to dispose of the property/real estate during your lifetime. Please consult your solicitor on this. Many thanks indeed.

VITAMIN B12 We have an obligation to remind readers of the importance of this vitamin, especially for women of child bearing age. On average 3 micro-grams need to be taken daily, regularly. This can be provided by one teaspoon-ful of Barmene or Tastex yeast extract taken daily. Vegevit tablets from the Health Stores or through the post from R. Lane, Slssion Road, Gloucester are vegan. Spirulina, a dried algie, is now obtainable in, this country, it is rich in B12. Write Same Ford, . Plamil, and some other soya milks have small amounts of B12 and also some TVP products.

VEGAN RESTAURANT IN LONDON recommended by Gill Langley - Country Life, 123 Regent Street (01 434 2922).

RESTAURANT CATERING COURSE Beverley Chipp is trying to prove demand for this. Please write to her

S .C.A.R. - Student Campaign for Animal Rights, c/o 16a Crane Grove, Islington, London N7. The organization is designed to be a co-ordinating body for the 1.2 million students in Britain who are members of the National Union of Students. As approximately 25% of all vivisection is performed at Univer-sities/Polytechnics the student area of campaigning is obviously one of great importance to the Movement. Additionally, as one of the largest Unions in Britain, a boycott of, say, battery eggs or animal tested cosmetics, etc., by Student Union shops would be a significant achievement.

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NEW GENERAL SECRETARY - Barry Kew took over from Kathleen Jannaway on August 1st. Until premises for a new registered office are secured mail can continue to be sent to 47 Highlands Road, whence it will be forwarded to Barry Kew or to Laurence Main according to its nature.

LONDON MEETINGS- These need and deserve much more support. Please write to Gavin Jones, about future plans.

WORLD FARM ANIMALS DAY October 2nd - Gandhi's birthday - contact Compassion in World Farming, 20 Lavant. Street, Petersfield, Hants, for details.

SLAUGHTER HOUSE DEMO There will be a symbolic linking of hands round the slaughter house in Monier Road, London, E3, on Saturday, September 29th at 1.30 pm. Transport provided. Ring after 6.30 pm.

ANIMAL WELFARE BAZAAR Saturday November 10th, 11 am - 4 pm, Isle-worth Public Hall, South Street, Isleworth, near Syon Park.

VEGAN FOSTERING SERVICE. It has been suggested that such a service might prove to be useful for vegan parents finding themselves unable to look after their children and who would feel happier knowing that other vegans were caring for them. If you are interested in pursuing this idea then please contact Marilyn Harrison,

GLEANINGS SELF SUFFICIENCY BEST ?

"Tanzania's economy is one of the most battered in Africa.:"There is not enough money in some instances to repair roads and vehicles so villagers cannot get their produce to market, it stays in the villages- they eat it themselves. So families eat better because of the economic crisis. Over 80% of people in Tanazania live in villages. " UNICEF'S Urban Jonsson,quoted by John Madely, 'New Scientist' August 2nd '84. John Madely adds "because farmers cannot get their coffee beans to market, they are shifting to maize. This again means more food for families.

CALCIUM UTILISATION

A study in America by Dr. Josephins Latz showed that an increase in protein intake significantly increased the loss of calcium in urination. This is of interest to vegans whose calcium intake tends to be lower than recommended levels yet they do not seem to show calcium deficiency symptoms more than other people. Other reports show protein to cause demineralisation especially in elderly women. Fractures of bones in the elderly have reached epidemic proportions in Western Society. J o u r n a l A u _ M e d_ J u n e 1 9 8 4 -

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HfCIPfS from "What Else is Cooking?" by Eva Batt, sequel to "What's Cooking

1 Banana (3 oz skinned) 2 oz apricots (weighed before soaking) 1 oz ground almonds

Soak the apricots as necessary, cut up the banana and whizz all in the blender adding a little of the water in which the apricots were soaked and the almonds. Pour into individual small dishes and serve with undiluted Plamil - original or sugar-free - or sprinkle with grated Plamil chocolate.

POTATO SALAD

Dice a new potato into quite small pieces and lightly cook in slightly salted water and a dash of lemon juice. Strain while still firm then add a little black pepper, capers if handy, and some soya mayonnaise while still warm.

A QUICK SCONE-TYPE PIZZA BASE

4 oz self raising flour pinch of salt (optional) 1 level tsp baking powder oil for frying

Mix the flour, baking powder and salt, stir in a little water, enough to give a fairly soft dough. Roll out into a circle - about 7" - and quickly fry in oil for 5-6 minutes. Turn, spread with a topping already prepared and continue to fry for another 5-6 minutes. For a crisper top place under a hot grill for a minute or two.

CREAMED SPLIT PEA SOUP

2 oz split green peas less than i tsp yeast extract l | pints of stock or water 1 heaped tsp chopped fresh mint A piece of celery black pepper to taste Small Carrot and onion 2 tbs oil 1 tsp soft brown sugar

Simmer split peas in stock for 30-40 minutes (add a little oil to the water to minimise the 'frothing up'). Meanwhile cook the chopped vegetables gently in the oil to soften only. When peas are soft add the other vegetables, yeast extract, mint and sugar and liquidise (or rub through a sieve). Reheat and, after removing from heat, stir in some undiluted Plamil to taste. Serve with wholemeal toast spread with a vegan margai'

SUGARLESS APRICOT FLDPP See page 25.

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FRUIT & NUTTY BUNS

For 12 little cakes

2 oz Vegan margarine (not a spread) 1 oz small seedless raisins 2 oz soft brown sugar J-l oz chopped walnuts 4 oz 81% self raising flour 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

Heat cooker to 375°F, 190°C, Gas 5. Brush 12-cake tray with oil if not non-stick. Beat together the margarine and sugar gradually adding the flour, fruit, nuts and a little water until the mixture has a soft dropping consistency. Dissolve the bicarbonate in a tsp of water and beat this in vigourously and quickly. Fill the trays and get into the centre of the oven without, delay. Bake for 10-15 minutes.

CURRIED BUTTER BEANS (Any cooked pulse can be substituted)

Overnight soak 2 oz dry weight of butter beans in plenty of water. Next day strain, rub off the skins, cover with plenty of fresh water, bring to the boil and boil for 10 minutes. Then allow to simmer until soft, this will probably take about, an hour.. Meanwhile prepare the curry sauce : -

3 tbs oil 3 washed and pitted prunes 1 medium onion 2 rounded tsp tomato puree 1 apple 2 tsp lemon juice 1 tsp curry powder small tsp Barmene

(2 tsp if using the mild kind)

Optional: a little garlic, \ oz creamed coconut, bay leaf, 1 tsp soya flour, a little brown sugar or molasses.

Chop the onion and cook in 1 tbs of the oil, do not allow to brown. Add the rest of the oil, chopped apple and the other ingredients. Simmer very gently for 15-20 minutes, turning frequently to avoid sticking. Then stir in the cooked beans, remove bayleaf and keep hot until required. Serve surrounded with cooked whole rice and any green vegetable in season.

ECONOMY HINTS FOR CHILD RENS' PARTIES

If dates are stuffed with peanut butter they are every bit as acceptable as those with almonds, and much cheaper.

If potatoes have been scrubbed and skinned (whoever does that these days 1), keep the peelings, put dry and deep fry in hot oil for 1 minute for a real potato crisp. Children love them.

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LETTERS PET FOODS I I will take this opportunity of saying how much I appreciate most of the contents of "The Vegan" every quarter. One topic that I've never seen mentioned is the "pet food" industry, which, I suspect, is a major keeper or user of non-carni-verous animals - rabbits, chickens, turkeys etc. (as examination of any can of "Kit-e-Kat" etc will reveal) reared in battery or other intensive rearing con-ditions. Perhaps the historical association of vegetarianism with the "animal loving" (i. e. cat and dog loving) strand of thought and action is responsible for a certain reluctance to discuss this potentially explosive topic. Any ideas among your editorial staff or usual contributors, I wonder?

G. Farmer.

CAN ANY READER HELP?

Since coming here, I have met several smallholders who have drifted into sheep husbandry simply because there seems no alternative. These are people who have bought a few acres in rural Wales on a dream of the self-sufficient good life, purchasing with their last pounds 20-50 acres of marginal land which no Welsh farmer would want. They must make some money to eat, so on the advice of neighbours, acquire a flock of indifferent sheep and scratch a pre-carious living on EEC subsidies and the wife's B & B in summer.

Having bought their sheep, they really have nothing left, so to supplement a poor diet, they accept a goat (goats are given away here to anybody who will take one) and probably a hen or two. Far from looking after themselves, these all need feeding, and the immigrants teeter on the edge of bankruptcy, unable now to pull out, also unable to go on. In spring, when all should be little lambs and wool crop coming, they discover the heartbreak of sending loved, bottle-fed lambs to the market and killing the 3 month old kids for meat.

Left to itself, the land they 'farm', between 700' and 900' above sea level, would revert to bracken. It is mostly boulder-strewn with some 3" of acid top soil at best, plus an added problem of acid rain on the tops. We seem usually to live in the wettest area of the U. K., and have frosts as late as mid June and early as mid August. An alternative to sheep would need to exclude any land work which requires a tractor because there is no money with which to buy or hire one. The people themselves display signs of malnutrition so probably have no surplus energy for hard labour.

Given a practical alternative, I know at least three couples who would be glad to sell their sheep tomorrow, but in my ignorance, I have no alternative. Has anyone?

K. Topple.

CHILDREN'S PEN CLUB. I am trying to start a pen pal club for all the interested children who are vegans or have vegan parents and are under 16 years of age. Would all persons who would like to belong send me the following details to the ; address given below.

AGE NAME SEX HOBBIES and any other interests and I will compile a sheet of names to send out to each person so that they may choose someone to write to. Thank you. Karen Williams,

EXPLOITED HUMANS. I noticed in "The Vegan" Summer 1984, an advertisement for vegan boots made in Malaysia.

Recently the press and television have drawn attention to the bad pay, long hours and poor working conditions of Asians in the rag trade etc, and last year whilst on a visit to Malaysia I witnessed some of these exploitations particularly in the rubber industry, where women work long hours for a pittance in conditions I can only describe as horrific. I was struck by the hopelessness in their eyes.

I would be interested to know how readers see the balance between this and animal exploitation.

I am not a vegan but do have vegan sympathies. Tebby.

MILK MARKETING BOARD

A recent advertisement promoting ice cream with dairy cream prompted me to write to their freepost address for more information. They advertise their milk and cream as 'quality' foods. If you too are concerned about the un-healthy aspects of milk, please take advantage of their FREEPOST address and write to them at MMB Information Centre, Freepost, London SW19 7BR.

At a peak viewing time on a Monday in June, Plamil soya milk (both the stand-ard version and the sugar-free one) was featured on the TVS network for a few fleeting minutes, as a result of Jean Wilcox from St. Mary's Bay (an associate member of the Vegan Society) writing to TVS in response to the Airmail mag-azine programme showing a pregnant cow being stunned and collapsing. A number of letters had been sent to the TVS complaining that such a distress-ing picture should not have been screened but Jean congratulated TVS on pres-senting.the grim realities of dairy farming. Her letter was read out in full on a subsequent programme, which led us to write to TVS to advise viewers that there is an alternative "milk" to the dairy pinta. As a result TVS telephoned for samples to display in the following week's programme. The moral of all this is for readers to seize any and every opportunity to expound the vegan

Sandra Hood.

Plamil Foods Ltd., Bowles Well Green, Folkestone, Kent.

cause. Arthur Ling

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BOOKS FOR SALE : With W O R L D F O O D D A Y in mind; BE WELL INFORMED

"Plant Foods for Human Health with special reference to the diseases of affluence and the needs of the developing world", J. W. Dlckerson, Professor Human Nutrition, University of Surrey. 35p

"The Role of Plant Foods in Feeding Mankind" by Arnold Bender, Professor Nutrition and Dietetics, University of London. 45p

"Food: Need, Greed and Myopia" G. Yates, Review of World Food Situation. Many useful facts and figures. £1.75p

"Food for a Future" comprehensive case for vegetarianism and veganism vividly expressed with facts figures and tables by Jon Wynne Tyson.

, , £1.75p For your general information

WHAT ELSE IS COOKING? by Eva Batt (sequel to What's Cooking) seepage 25. £3.95p

THE VEGAN WAY Why? and How? by 10 very different vegans. 60p

PIONEERS (reprint) Reminiscences of 12 early vegans. 60p

INTRODUCTION to Practical Veganism by K. Jannaway with recipes and section on The Vegan Dairy by L. Main. 60p

FIRST HAND : FIRST RATE 60 simple recipes for economical living largely on home produced foods plus gardening hints. No sugar or hard fats. 65p

VEGAN NUTRITION by Frey Ellis M.D. , FRC. & T . Sanders Ph.D. (Nutr) Scientific assessment of the diet based on research. 90p

VEGAN MOTHERS & CHILDREN by 10 vegan mothers plus reports of recent research on vegan pregnancy, lactation and health of under fives. 65p

SALADINGS from garden and hedgerow by Mabel Cluer 90p

STAND & DELIVER by Kenneth Brown. Invaluable guide to public £2. 20 speaking. Clear and amusing.

WHAT'S COOKING? Members will be delighted to hear that next year Thorsons will be publishing a new edition of "What's Cooking?" thus making it available to a wider reader-ship. There are a few copies only remaining of the Vegan Society edition, price £3.50 from The Vegan Shop, 1 Orrin Close, Tilehurst, Reading. Cheques made out to 'The Vegan Shop'. The Vegan Shop also sells all public-ations of the Vegan Society, all the books listed above, other books relevant to veganism, and also cruelty free toiletries and other items. Please send a stamped addressed envelope for full lists. All cheques should be made out to 'The Vegan Shop' and sent to L . & S. Shiner, 1 Orrin Close, Tilehurst, Reading,

Berks. RG3 4DB

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MEETINGS ^ LOCAL VEGAN CONTACTS MEETING IN WALES

Many local contacts and other vegans met in Dinas Mawddwy, Wales,for a Spring Bank Holiday Gathering from 26th May to 28th May, 1984

Most people arrived around tea-time on Saturday, checking in at the Youth Hostel where they enjoyed a surprise buffet organised by Joan Bryan. After settling in and chatting to old and new friends, LVCs gathered together for a lecture on public speaking given by Kenneth Brown, author of 'Stand and Deliver'. Following this enlightening talk, many of those present took the opportunity to present a short speech, which was then given a critical appraisal by Kenneth.

On Sunday morning we assembled in the Village Hall for a discussion on all aspects of the role and work of Local Vegan Contacts and the Vegan Society. Some of the topics covered included local group fund-raising, communication between the Council and LVCs, publicity, and the structure of the Society. This meeting also gave us the opportunity to meet Barry Kew, the new General Secretary, who also proved to be an excellent chairperson. The general atmosphere was positive and encouraging, conducive to a friendly exchange of ideas.

After a break for lunch, Timothy Key spoke on Vegan Nutrition; his lecture thoroughly covered all aspects of our dietary requirements, including some new findings from recent research.

In the evening the doors were thrown open to the public, who packed into the Village Hall to browse around the various stalls, including The Bean Machine, who were selling various vegan soya products, the Hunger Project, Veganic Gardening, Plamil Products, the Vegan Self-Sufficiency Network, Plaid Cymru, Concord Books, Wholefoods, the Ecology Party, and the Welsh Anti-Nuclear Alliance. Later the Powys Male Voice Choir entertained from the stages

The weekend closed with a group visit to the National Centre for Alternative Technology, with a specially arranged demonstration of the Vegan Society sponsored biofuels project.

We would like to extend our thanks to Laurence Main for the great deal of time and work it must have taken organising such a full weekend, and also to the many friendly local people who went to such lengths- to make us feel welcome, especially the staffs of the Old Station Restaurant and NCAT for preparing such a delicious range of vegan food.

Alan & Elaine Garrett, LVCs Portsmouth. I.V.U. CONGRESS August 1984

Serena Coles,just back from America where she represented the Society at the 27th Congress of the International Vegetarian Union, reports great interest aroused by her talks and the new film - see page 2. She was grateful for the help and support she enjoyed from the Gunn King family from Northern Ireland.

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Qm<> mm Additions to list of Local Vegan Contacts:

Our new L.V.C. for Greater Manchester, George Walker, is arranging a Bonfire Gathering in November. The venue will be either Edenfield or Harpurhey. Please 'phone between October 20th and 28th for details.

Not to be outdone, our new L. V,C. for Lancashire, Rod Singleton, has arranged a programme of monthly meetings starting at 7.30 p. m. on the fourth Tuesday of each month at the United Reformed Church Lounge, Duckworth Street, Darwen. "Hot Food" Is the subject of September 25th's meeting, followed by "Animal Rights" on October 23rd, "Acupuncture" on 27th November, a Christmas meal in December and a study of organic growing in the New Year.

Our Qxon L.V.C. (Paul Appleby, is arranging a talk by Philip Stewart, from the Oxford University Department of Forestry, on "Food from Trees", to mark World Food Day on Tuesday, 16th October, at 8.00 p.m. in the Whole Meal Cafe, 35 Cowley Road, Oxford. This is followed by the Animals Fair in Oxford Town Hall on Saturday, 3rd November, a "Words and Music Evening" at 36 Franklin Road, Headington, Oxford, at 7.30 p.m. on Saturday, 24th November, and a Christmas Dinner in St. Matthew's Church Hall, Marlborough Road, Oxford, at 7.15 p.m. on Saturday, 8th December.

Our Surrey L.V.C. Richard Savage , is holding bi-monthly meetings on the first Wednesday of October and December at 8.00 p. m. at 37 Ardington Road, Surbiton.

Our L.V.C. in Northern Ireland, Margaret Gunn-King (tel. Broughshane 861202) is holding open days at her vegpanic garden, which has been written about in "A Comprehensive Guide - Herbs and Herb Gardens of Britain" pub-lished in association with the Herb Society by Elizabeth and Reginald Peplow.

A VEGETARIAN BOY FROM SPAIN would like to visit England, perhaps to work. If you can help, please contact: Paco Vigo Peraoaula,

Spain.

Nicola Stonelake, our West Glamorgan L. V. C., has organised a vegan lunch for Sunday, 7th October, starting at 12.30 p. m. at her home at

Please buy your tickets in advance (£2 adults, £ 1 children). There will be a chance to relax afterwards with a stroll in the park.

Laurence Main.

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Shopping with Sandra Please send all information and enquiries re food and other commodities to Sandra Hood, . See page 12 and page 18.

Introduction

Linda has passed on a number of your letters for reply and I would like to thank members for all the interesting and useful information. I would be grateful though if, when writing with news on vegan or non-vegan products, you could send me copies of your replies. It is so pleasing to get letters from manufac-turers who have pre-typed lists of vegan foods as this shows they are familiar with a vegan diet. Please keep the pressure up, particularly to encourage clearer ingredient markings on foods.

Cosmetics

NATURE'S SECRETS cosmetics are vegan. Available from health stores or direct from Beech Trees, Charcoal Road, Bowdon, Cheshire.

Perms - We have had a number of enquiries about the possibility of there being a vegan perming lotion but to date, we regret we know of none.

Footwear

ROHAN WINTER BOOTS cost £30 in sizes 5-9s. Grey colour with foam insul-ation which is fast drying and warm enough for outdoors and comfortable enough for inside. Available from Rohan,

Foods

Heinz SLIMWAY LOW CALORIE VEGETABLE SOUP, VEGETABLE SOUP, SLIMWAY LOW CALORIE SPRING VEGETABLE SOUP, GOLDEN VEGETABLE SOUP, CURRIED BEANS WITH SULTANAS, BAKED BEANS and BARBEQUED BEANS.

Princes' Foods TREX COOKING FAT,.

Bejam FROZEN PUFF PASTRY, BAKED BEANS .

Golden Wonder HP CHOCOLATE DESSERT SAUCE, BEANS, SPAGHETTI IN TOMATO SAUCE.

Sunwheel Foods PEANUT BUTTER, SUNFLOWER SPREAD, SESAME SPREAD, PEAR 'N' APPLE SPREAD, BARLEY MALT SYRUP, SOYA SAUCE and MUESLI.

Waitrose CUSTARD POWDER, DRINKING CHOCOLATE.

Provamel SOYA MILK is available without sugar. They also have CHOCOLATE SOYA DRINK and CHOCOLATE and VANILLA DESSERTS.

Plamil Foods Ltd. Unsweetened PLAMIL-blue label now available.

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Confectionery

Although we do not wish to encourage people to eat sweets, we would mention that the following are vegan:-

Plamil Foods Ltd. PLAMIL CHOCOLATE Itona NOOT BAR and BEANMILK CHUNKY BAR Rowntree Mackintosh AFTER EIGHT MINTS, FOX'S GLACIER FRUITS, FRUIT GUMS and POLO FRUITS

No Longer Vegan

Mars plain chocolate bounty bars Peak Freans Neopolitan Wafers Co-op Slimmers Spread Van de Burgh - Tomor - now contains vitamin D produced from lanolin starter Allied Bakers Sunblest Rayner & Pennycook Ltd - B12 tablets because the coating is derived from an

insect!

Vitamin B12

For those wishing to take B12 in tablet form, we would recommend VEGEVIT tablets by G. R. Lane Health Products. (At the present time it seems likely that other B12 supplements in tablet form have non-vegan coating.)

Vegan Shoppers Guides for 1983 are still available and I am in the process of producing a new guide to be out before the end of the year. The cost of the 1983 Shoppers Guide is 25p (to cover printing and postage). I have also had a few enquiries regarding additives and their origin. If any member would like a list interpreting the food additive numbers (which is handy to carry around when on a shopping trip), please send a s.a. e. and I will send a list. Sandra Hood.

WHAT ELSE IS COOKING ? FURTHER ADVENTURES IN COOKING WITH COMPASSION

After 'What's Cooking?' What Else has EVA BATT to say about Good Eating? A great deal! - the results of nine years experimenting with new vegfin dishes. With a couple of notable, essential exceptions, all the recipes - for soups, salads, savouries, desserts, cakes and biscuits, are new. In addition, there is a chapter on 'In Place of Dairy Products' and a considerable amount of help-ful information on food values, and personal tips, nutritionally sound, for preparing delicious meals and snacks for everyone.

With this book Eva lays to rest once and for all the myth that vegans must endure a Spartan diet of nut cutlets and bean broth. They can live well on a varied diet of luscious fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and grains, prepared with imagination and spiced with thought and care for others.

There is a convenient index and sugar free and uncooked items are clearly marked. £3.95 inclusive of packing & postage from The Vegan Shop, 1 Orrin

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A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

Please send to the Assistant Secretary, , by October 21st 1984, for the

next issue. Rate lOp a word. Advertisers are asked to note that we are unable to deal with box numbers. PLEASE NOTE the following advertisements have been accepted in good faith and the Vegan Society cannot take responsibility in the event of any complaint. Editors reserve the right to refuse advertisements without giving explanations.

PORTABLE folding tables for osteopathy, massage, acupuncture, Alexander Technique etc. Strongly constructed from timber with padded top covered with Vinyl. £130. Please send s.a. e. to Dave Gee,

THE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGY isn't just an award-winning tourist attraction. We sell books through the post too. Please ask for our mail order booklist (35p & s.a. e.), details of our courses and a leaflet for tourists to visit us. Write now to N. C. A. T . , Llwyngwern Quarry, Machynlleth, Powys, Wales.

THE SPROUTLETTER - a newsletter of useful and unusual information on sprouts, raw foods and nutrition. Send $14 (U. S. dollars) for an airmail sub-scription to the U. K. or $3 (U. S. dollars) for sample copy of this bi-monthly journal to: The Sproutletter, P.O. Box 62, Ashland, OR97520, U.S.A.

ZAN LIGHT INFORMATION SERVICE supplies interested individuals with the addresses/leaflets of Animal Rights/Conservation Societies. The service is FREE but a S.A. E. is ESSENTIAL. Alex NIelson, Zan Light Information Service,

PEACE NEWS is part of the movement to remove nuclear arms, and the oppressions which cause violence. "A ray of joy and hope" - Ronnie Lee (animal liberationism. 40p fortnightly. £12/year. Trial subscription £2. "Peace News", 8 Elm Avenue, Nottingham.

THE LEY HUNTER - leading international magazine of ley-lines and other Earth Mysteries. £1.25 sample copy to TLH, P.O. Box 13, Welshpool, Powys.

AHIMSA-quarterly magazine of the American Vegan Society. Veganism, Natural Living, Reverence for Li fe, Calendar year subscription $8 or £5. Address: 501 Old Harding, Highway, Malaga, N.J. 08328, U.S.A.

"Y FIGAN CYMREIG/THE WELSH VEGAN" is the new bi-lingual quarterly journal for Welsh vegans. Send £1 sub. to the Vegan Society Ltd, 9 Mawddwy Cottages, Minllyn, Dinas Mawddwy, Machynlleth, SY20 9LW.

NATURE CURE CLINIC A. G. M. November 24th Saturday. Institute of Comple-mentary Medicine, 21 Portland Place, London Wl .

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DO YOU BELIEVE ANIMALS HAVE RIGHTS? THEN SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THEM BY WEARING AND DISPLAYING THE INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RIGHTS SYMBOL. CAR STICKERS, ENVELOPE STICKERS, BADGES ETC. SAE FOR DETAILS. SARA, THE SHELLING, BOGSIDE, BY ALLOA, FK10 3QD.

VEGAN PARTY CATERING, DELICIOUS DISHES. PATRICK, (01) 720 3750.

EXETER: Vegan female seeks accommodation, September onwards,

FEMALE VEGAN 34, LIKE TO MEET VEGANS WOLVERHAMPTON AREA, CYCLING, WALKING, THEATRE, ETC. SYLVIA LING, WOLVERHAMPTON 773163.

PRACTICAL ALTERNATIVES lights the way to a conserver economy. S. A. E. for details: Practical Alternatives, Tirmorgan, Pontyberem, Dyfed SE15 4HP.

YOUNG COUPLE with 2-year old baby girl is looking for au-pair girl or woman (her own baby and pet welcome tool) to share work of house, vegtable garden, etc. during husband's frequent journeys. Must be a non-smoking, teetotaller - nature and hardwork-loving person. We can only offer accomm-odation in large country house, food and some pocket money - Please write to

- photo and details appreciated, thank you.

ACCOMMODATION in return for odd jobs, house/grounds, edge Dartmoor. The Sanctuary, Nr. Lydford, Okehampton, EX20 4AL. Tel. 082 282 203.

TOWARDS TOTAL HEALTH. Vegan grain or gluten.free, mostly raw food diet for both allergies and those needing a total regeneration programme. Lecture and demonstration at Nature Cure Clinic, 15 Oldbury Place, LondonWl, behind Marylebone Church, near Baker Street Station. Details from Lily Latham,

Also personal counselling in the diet and other therapies for those seekiner new approaches to cancer and other life threatening diseases. .See bottom page 28.

VEGAN TIMES Articles on spiritual growth/healing, personal and planetary; ecology; animal rights; food/recipes; letters; ads., etc. A non-violent Green magazine. Sample copy 50p or 4 12|p stamps. Subscription £2 for 4 issues inclusive of postage. All cheques/POs made payable to Alpay Torgut, 25 Tabley Road, London N7 0NA.

is a magazine, created by vegans for vegans (and sympathisers) in

1 - G l l M C R P F T LANE-EDITNFtELD which readers share their views R A M S B O T T O M - B U K Y - l k n c s ; a n d i d e a s -

£2.40 for a four issue subscription. 50p a sample copy. (Stamps welcomed).

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LIVE ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION,slaughtering of baby seals, wild animals torn to pieces by hounds, Innocent animals suffering In factory- farm systems. "Flesh and Blood" magazine shows how you can help stop these atrocities. To subscribe send £3.40 U . K . , £4.50 overseas, to Caroline Publications, Dept " V " , P .O . Box 32, Stevenage, Herts SGI 3SD.

SEND S .A .E . to Unit A l , Chapman's Yard, Waterhouse Lane, Scarborough, Y O l l , 1DP, for f ree leaflets on "RAW FOOD DIET" and/or " TAO" , the Great Philosophy of Ancient China, still thriving.

LIQUID CONCENTRATE is the biodegradable liquid soap derived from coconut oil, which is f ree from animal products and animal testing. S .A .E . for details: Dept EV, JANCO SALES, 11 Seymour Road, Hampton Hill, Middlesex, TW12 1DD.

VEGFAM feeds the hungry via plant-based foodstuffs, leaf protein, seeds, irrigation etc. The Sanctuary, Lydford, Okehampton, Devon EX20 4A1 (Tel. Lydford 203).

CONTACT CENTRE is a friendship agency, quite different from all others. It enables you to choose your friend(s) f rom detailed advertisements or to write an advertisement yourself without disclosing your name and address. CONTACT CENTRE gives you full scope; you don't even have to complete a form. CONTACT CENTRE now operates a Vegan Service in addition to the Vegetarian/ Vegan Service and the International Pen-friend Service without hidden charges and with many of fers for a nominal fee, or even free. As we cannot tell all in this advertisement, please find out how you too can benefit by the range of flexible services by requesting f ree details from CONTACT CENTRE, BCM Cuddle, London WC1V 6XX. Full translational services from and into German, French and Dutch.

SPIRULINA - the ideal light and energising food for you. Highest protein and natural B12 source, rich in minerals and trace elements. Introductory offer of Maurice Hanssen's book, 'Spirulina' with 100 tablets L i f e Source Spirulina -£4. 75. 4oz. tub pure Spirulina powder - £4. 95. 100 x 500 mg tablets - £3. 95. 'Imprisoned Light' £1.15. 'Rejuvenating the Body' £1.75 p&p on all orders 50p. Cheques etc. to Sam Ford,

WHOLISTIC RESEARCH COMPANY stock Juicers & Juice Presses, Water Distil lers, Aerobic Bouncers, Air Ionizers, Enema Kits, Tip-U-Up's, Herbal Tablet Makers, Reflex Foot Rollers and much more, plus a hand-picked range of Books on Natural Health. Send 6 x 16p or £1 for our very full catalogue/ booklet to WHOLISTIC RESEARCH COMPANY, DEPT. VE. BRIGHT HAVEN, ROBIN'S LANE, LOLWORTH, CAMBRIDGE. Tel : Crafts Hill (0954) 81074.

VEGAN PERFUMES in a wide range of fragrances. Please send stamp for details: James Payne, .

VEGAN/ GLUTEN-FREE cookery demonstration, Thursday, November 1st at the Nature Cure Clinic, 15 Oldbury Place, London, W l . Behind Marylebone Church, near Baker Street Underground. Tickets £1.50 from the Clinic. (Food included.)

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LONDON BIORHYTHM COMPANY. We sell charts and d.i.y. kits, publish an International Newsletter and undertake research* Details 25p in stamps. Box 413, London SW7 2PT.

VEGETARIAN MATCHMAKERS: Discreet, inexpensive, postal introduction service exclusively for unattached adult vegetarians/vegans, n ationwide. (Clients from diverse walks of life- ages from 18 to sunset years). Dreams could become reality for you too, by requesting details today from V. M. M., Dept VQ, 131 Sirdar Road, London N22.

AROMATIC, essential Oil massage to relax, warm and soothe.

CEREAL STONE GRINDING MILLS. Send 50p.

EARTHLINES - Welsh Border earth mysteries magazine. Ancient sites, leys, forlklore, strange phenomena, etc. Send £1.00 for sample copy to'Earthlines', 7 Brookfield, Strichley, Telford, Shropshire.

"THE VEGAN SHOP" sells only vegan non-animal tested products, plus all Vegan Society publications. We are offering 5% discount to Vegan Society members (except on books). Please support an all-vegan enterprise, and help us to expand into shop premises. For our mail order price lists, write to: enclosing S. A. E.

VILLAGE LIFE. A country magazine for the town-bound agrarian and land-owning country-dweller, the cottager, the gardener, the smallholder, the self-sufficient, the fruit-case and the nut-cake, Old Uncle Tom Cobley If your, idea of fun involves dirty wellies you'll love VILLAGE LIFE. S. A. E. for details.

FRUIT FOR FITNESS: S. A. E. for free literature to

HELP FOR FRAIL ELDERLY VEGETARIANS/VEGANS. THE BEULAH TRUST, registered with the Charity Commission, aims at setting up a spiritually-caring Home for vegetarians/vegans too frail to care for themselves. Your help is needed. Further information from Secretary*

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LA VEDA, 164 Cherry Orchard Road, East Croydon, Surrey 681 3402. Many dishes on our menu are vegan. Please phone for details of opening hours.

URGENTLY NEEDED. Someone, irrespective of age, to help with typing/ filing etc. Free accommodation and food. Please write with full details to VEGANIC CULTURE, 36 Granes End, Great Linford, Milton Keynes MK14 5DX or Telephone 0908 605059.

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HOLIDAYS Please remember to inform L. Main of hotels & restaurants that cater for vegans by November 1st for next year's directory. A few of last year's edition is still available, at half price - 25p. We have had 300 establishments request our sunflower symbol.

WALES: Vegan B&B £6at Gwallia, Cemaes, Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 9PU (Tel. 06502 377). National Centre for Alternative Technology 7 miles by road.

PENZANCE: Self-catering accommodation for 3/4. Two miles from Penzance with large garden, sea and country views. Occasional vegan meals available Tel. 0736 2242.

BEXHILL-ON-SEA: Small private house offering vegetarian or vegan bed and breakfast for £5. Evening meal if required. Guests welcome all the year.

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THE 1984 DIRECTORY OF PLACES CATERING FOR VEGANS is on sale now at 65p (inc. p&p) from the Vegan Society Ltd, 9 Mawddwy Cottages, Minllyn, Dinas Mawddwy, Machynlleth SY20 9LW.

FREE: leaflets on Backpacking and Hostelling the Vegan Way when you order a Mainroutes guide-book to one of the following long-distance paths; A Somer-set Way (via Glastonbury Tor); A Bristol Way (via Cheddar Gorge); A South Wessex Way (via Breamore Mizmaze); A Wiltshire Way (via Stonehenge); King Alfred's Way (via Winchester Cathedral) and a South Coast Way (via Shakespeare Cliff). £1.08 each inc. p&p (or any 3 for £3) from: The Vegan Society Ltd, 9 Mawddwy Cottages, Minllyn, Dinas Mawddwy, Machynlleth SY20 9LW.

BRIGHTON: Wholefood vegetarian or vegan bed and breakfast in a very attractive, quiet private house in Regency Kempton, near the sea, the Marina, wholefood restaurants, good shopping. Brighton is a very good centre for places of interest and beautiful walks over the Downs or along the coast. Tel: 0273 683819.

ISLE OF WIGHT: Small private hotel in peaceful West Wight. Near National Trust downland and Tennyson Heritage Coast. Comfortable accommodation with central heating. Excellent home cooking by vegetarian proprietor. Wholefoods, vegetarian or vegan. Open Easter until October. Also self catering holiday flat.

NEW IN TORQUAY, homely vegan/vegetarian guest house. Central heating, near beaches/town. Nature/travel slides some evenings. Bird lovers welcome. B&B £6.50, with EM £11.00.

LINCOLNSHIRE: Vegan D. B. & B. Lincoln, Wolds, Viking Way. Children welcome. No smoking, dogs. Crompton, Lapwings, Apley, LN3 5JQ, tel. Wragby 858101.

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THE HOLIDAY FELLOWSHIP are including "Vegan Weeks" on their Special Interest holidays programme. Laurence Main will talk and lead walks, Joan Bryan will demonstrate cooking at Llandudno from 6th October 1984, and at Selworthy in Somerset from 23rd March 1985. Write for full details to: HF Holidays Ltd, 142-144 Great North Way, London NW4 1EG.

SOUTH FRANCE. Cycling, hiking, swimming, lazing. Alternative comm-unities. Mediaeval towns. AT centres. Sunshine. Vegetarians, Vegans, catered for. Camping, 2 and 3' week trips £197 inclusive. Tel. 0206 35575.

MOORHAYES VEGAN/VEGETARIAN COUNTRY FARMHOUSE HOTEL and the 'COUNTRY TABLE ' VEGAN/VEGETARIAN WHOLEFOOD RESTAURANT, Talaton, East Devon, tel.Whimple (0404) 822895. Moorhayes is a typical 17th century Devon Longhouse with a South facing courtyard. We offer com-fortable caring service in a relaxed peaceful atmosphere with accommodation of 7 bedrooms, 4 en suite. The house is full of antiquity and character with dining room and lounge inglenook fireplaces. Beautiful rural surroundings. 10 miles from coast. Gardens, indoor and outdoor games. Limited space for caravans. Ample parking. We cater with the vegan in mind. Always 75% vegan menu. For inquiry and brochure please write or phone

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Bookings taken now for 23-25 Nov. at Preston Montford Field Centre, Montford Bridge, Shrewsbury, inc. meals and accommodation £43.50.

Demonstrations of meatless savouries; alternatives to dairy cream & cheese using non-choles-terol-forming fats; pastry & cakes using 100% wholemeal flour; no-sugar desserts; a talk on nutrition; and a film by Joan Bryan (L. V. C. Cwent)

Bookings to Preston Montford Field Centre.

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Surrounded by the lochs end heather-clad hills of the Trossachs, Scotland's longest establirfied, whole-food vegetarian and vegan guest house offers you a centre for relaxation and revitalisa-tion.

In large, peaceful grounds, our spacious and elegant Victorian house commands magnificent views.

Callander, famous as the Tannochbrae of Dr. F inlay's Casebook, is an ideal centre for touring, walking and sporting activities and is within easy reach of Stirling, Edinburgh and Glen Eagles.

Central Heating. Easy Motorway Access. High Standard of comfort and cuisine.

T H E S C O T T I S H E P I S O D E S OF 'THE C O U N T R Y D I A R Y OF A N E D W A R D I A N L A D Y ' were filmed at B R O O K L INN.

Stamp appreciated for brochure from:-

Marilyn and Ian Roberts Brook Linn Country House

A V A I L A B L E B Y M A I L O R D E R !

' C B ' W A L K I N G B O O T Strong upper with soft ankle rolls, sewn-in tongue, soft insole with the ecologically approved 'klets' sole unit. £26.95 plus £1.50 p&p Sizes 4 - 1 1 No half sizes

' F E L L W A L K A ' W A L K I N G B O O T Very similar to the ' C B ' but made of lighter weight synthetic materials. Ideal for casual walking and rambling. £18.99 plus £1.50 p&p S i z e s 4 - 1 1 No half sizes

' S E G E R V A R O R ' W A L K I N G S O C K S Comfy loop-lined vegan walking socks with no wool content. Navy only. Calf length. All sizes £2.99 per pair. No carriage charges.

Available from:-Westsports, 17 Fleet Street, Swindon Tel. (0793) 32588 14 day approval against prepayment

TORQUAY ( Queen of the English Riviera )

BROOKESBY H A L L H O T E L

Exclus ive ly Vegetar ian.

Hesketh Road. TQ1 2LN

350 yards f r o m Meadfoot Beach, enjoying g lor ious sea v iews across To rbay , the hotel is situated in the exclusive L incombe Conservation area , genera l ly considered to be the love l iest part of Torquay . We o f f e r rest ful holidays in beautiful surroundings coupled with imagin-at ive and del ic ious Vegan and V e g -etarian meals . Some rooms have pr ivate showers . Ful ly central ly heated. Ful l detai ls f r o m the

Vegan P ropr i e t r e ss Mrs . Hilda Baker

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" Mloodcate" The Sa l t ings . Lelant

Tel. ( 0 7 3 6 ) 7 5 3 1 4 7

W H Y not visit Britain's oldest established Vegan /Vegetarian Hotel and for once experience a truly relaxing holiday?

Woodcote is a small family-owned hotel standing in its own grounds overlooking the beautiful tidal estuary and bird sanct-uary of Hayle. It is within easy reach of many fine beaches and coastal walks and is the ideal centre from which to explore and discover the beauty of Cornwall.

On a personal note, our cuisine is both varied and imaginative and for good measure is supported by an abundance of old-fashioned personal service — the ingredient so often overlooked in these material times.

For further information and brochure please contact:

J o h n or Pame la Barrett (stamp appreciated)

A l s o available (May-Sept), self catering chalet, s leeps four.

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VEGANS WELCOME

Lakeland's strictly Vegetarian Guest House offers a warm and hospitable welcome to Vegans. Come to us to relax, to walk and climb, to absorb the tranquility of Orchard House and the Lake District. We have a peaceful garden, a warm and comfortable home, delicious and different food, and we are situated in superb La-ke District country.

A truly fine STR ICTLY V E G E T A R I A N RESTAURANT. offering a wide range of both Western and Eastern dishes.

Varying opening hours: Mid March to Spring Bank Holiday and again later on Mid September to Mid October -11.45 until last orders at 7.30. Restaurant closed on Tuesdays.

Longer hours: Easter School Holiday time and then Spring Bank Holiday until Mid September and all Saturdays and Sundays -10 until last orders at 8.30. Restaurant open 7 days a week.

We serve really delicious and different main meals, afternoon teas, light or substantial snacks with V E G A N S in mind.

Do come and enjoy I

B rochu re f r o m : ( s tamp appreciated)

Orchard House, Borrowdale Road, Keswick on Derwentwater, Cumbria Te lephone : ( 0 5 9 6 ) 7 2 8 3 0 .

Restaurant just round the corner and next to Fishers at: 31 Lake Road, Keswick.

§ 0 1 8 1 2 3 5 H i g h F ib re B i s c u i t s "Granny Ann" High Fibre Biscuits give 5g of fibre in each biscuit. According to a recently published comparison this is at least four times the fibre content of any other bran biscuit. And what's more the fibre in "Granny Ann" biscuits is special too. It's soya which is twice as effective as ordinary wheat bran. Add to this the fact that other ingredients are wholemeal flour, ginger, molasses and raw sugar and

you've got a very special biscuit. Wholesome, effective S v and a most convenient way of taking daily bran. At home

You can buy "Granny Ann" High Fibre Biscuits at all health food shops. If you would like a leaflet telling you more about "Granny Ann" High Fibre Biscuits and the other speciality dairy replacement foods currently available, send a SAE to:

ITONA PRODUCTS LIMITED, LEYLAND MILL LANE, WIG AN

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