It’s that time again and this month’s lucky winner of the VVC Club prize draw is Abi Cloud!
Congratulations Abi!
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Abi has chosen The Two Little Pigs and a cow 🙂 Good choice Abi! The beautiful hardback book – featuring the stories ‘The Two Little Pigs’ AND ‘Where are you going Deidra?’ – has been ordered and will be with you just as soon as the lovely people at BookVault can print and deliver it (in a week or two) 😀
When Crustacean Compassion began back in 2016, it was with an aim to protect these fragile animals from pain and suffering. They began their campaign to get them included in the animal welfare legislation, and since then over 65,000 AMAZING supporters have joined them and signed their petition calling on the UK government to include decapod crustaceans in the Animal Welfare Act 2006 (England and Wales).
Will a new government mean new protections?
The last UK government legally recognised that decapods could feel pain, and historically included them in the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022 but… that is where they stopped. So Crustacean Compassion are calling on you again, to tell the new Labour government to act now and protect decapods. With this new government we have an excellent chance of getting decapods the protection they deserve, but we need your help.
This is amazing – diver rescues baby dolphin trapped in the rocks, only to discover that the baby was trying to get help for her mum who was caught in a fishing net.
See – this is why Reflecto Girl isn’t included in the Vegan Rascals Collection – she’s got a 150-page book of her own! 😀
For the uninitiated, Reflecto Girl has an ancient mystical mirror (the Dounto) that reflects people’s misdeeds back onto them. When reflected, whatever a person is trying to do to someone else, happens to them instead. Together with her sidekick – Distracto Boy – Reflecto Girl is an equalizer for the animals.
This bumper comic-book contains the first nine exciting episodes of Reflecto Girl, together with a few puzzles and fact files, and is published by Little Chicken. Available in paperback from all good bookshops, these stories can be read for free right here!
Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating fun and exciting vegan children’s stories since 2012
OUT NOW! Fun and exciting vegan children’s comics – 17 of them! – all under one cover! Megan & Flos episodes 1 to 7; Venus Aqueous episodes 1 to 6; and The English Family Anderson episodes 1 to 4. And also included are the fact files that were in the original comics, plus detailed story sources at the back!
Of course these stories will always be free to read here but if you’d rather hold an actual book in your hands, you can get the Vegan Rascals Collection from all good bookshops, but you’ll get a better deal at ours 😀
ps I know what you’re thinking – why hasn’t Reflecto Girl been included in this awesome comic-book collection? I’ll tell you tomorrow 😉
Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating funny, exciting and always entertaining vegan children’s stories since 2012
How cool is this! 😀 I can’t wait to try this out – a toy car that you build yourself with a working engine that’s powered by compressed air! No poisonous batteries!
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As the manufacturer points out (above) –
“Gasoline is currently the fuel of choice, but petroleum used to make it is becoming increasingly difficult to find and is contributing to environmental issues and worldwide problems. Automobile manufacturers know this and are spending tremendous amounts of money to develop alternative fuel for the future. Let us introduce you to another alternative fuel and eco-friendly vehicle – Air Power Engine Car. Air is available 24/7, does not run out and it’s free. By golly, we might have something here!”
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Miranda was lucky to stumble across this in a charity shop, and if you google it you can find it for sale on various websites but unfortunately the company who makes them, The Source Wholesale, seems to have removed it from their Construct & Create range. I hope they’ll bring it back!
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Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating fun vegan stories, poems and things-to-make-and-do since 2012
We haven’t properly published Grandpa Wollemi’s Birthday as it’s actually just a simple vegan cake recipe made into a picture book, but it is available in print from our little shop. Or you can read it here for free 😀
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Violet’s Vegan Comics – making fun, happy, colourful vegan children’s stories since 2012
Remember Deidra, the wandering dairy cow? She’s been with us practically since we began, but now she is sharing a beautiful hardback book with some much newer friends – The Two Little Pigs. Check it out! 😀
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The Two Little Pigs, and a cow, is available from all good bookshops ❤
Violet’s Vegan Comics – making funny, exciting and always entertaining vegan children’s stories since 2012
Let the dogs out is a graphic novel that tells the story of a laboratory beagle’s escape, in his own words. The images are all hand-painted and, while the story is at times distressing, it is suitable for readers aged 12 and up.
It is based on insider accounts of conditions inside a laboratory breeding facility and comes complete with detailed sources and information on how to help laboratory animals.
Let the dogs out is available from all good bookshops and can be read for free here.
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Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating funny, exciting and often enlightening vegan children’s stories since 2012
Earthing: ” the practice of connecting the body with earth by touching skin to a conductive material such as grass (preferably wet), wet sand, a river, lake or sea. …… When the body loses contact with the earth it can carry a positive voltage relative to the Earth. Some people believe this is not good for health and wellbeing. Earthing the body returns the voltage to zero “
It’s that time again and this month’s lucky winner of the VVC Club prize draw is Angela Jane Glizzard!
Congratulations Angela – a copy of the fantastic Vegan Rascals Collection bumper comic book – 277 pages of exciting Megan & Flos, The English Family Anderson and Venus Aqueous stories (good choice by the way) – is on its way to you! 😀
“Climate change has led to altered rainfall patterns and increased temperatures, resulting in periods of drought and reduced water availability for many donkeys, and cattle in communities where LAWCS works in Guinea. The animals are now suffering from heat stress, food insecurity including fresh water and healthcare issues. LAWCS continues to respond to the needs of working animals in Guinea by educating the population and providing free veterinary care along with foods and fresh water for animals in need.”
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“Promoting animal protection through education and providing plant-based foods for school kids is a holistic approach to instilling values of compassion, kindness, sustainability, and health. By integrating animal welfare education into school curriculums, students can learn about the ethical considerations surrounding animal treatment and the environmental impact of animal agriculture. Additionally, offering plant-based food options in schools not only supports these values but also encourages healthier eating habits and reduces the demand for animal products, thereby contributing to the welfare of animals. This is a dual strategy that educates children about the importance of treating animals with kindness while providing practical choices that align with these values. Every week, LAWCS serves over 300 school children with delicious plant-based foods.”
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You can go to their website to find out more about LAWCS’ vital work and/or you can download their latest newsletter here:
First – the answers to yesterday’s science fiction puzzle as promised:
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Now, this next one’s a bit trickier. See if you can recognise these ocean-dwellers from their descriptions. Click on the pics and save them so that you can do the puzzle in Paint on your pc, or print out the puzzle and do it with a pencil – one way or another, enjoy this watery puzzle 😀
If you’ve read the Megan & Flos stories you will know how much Megan loved science fiction even before it became fact for her 😀 so here’s a few questions about her favourite science fiction series – easy, if you know which one it is 😀
You can save the puzzle picture and open it in Paint so that you can fill it in on your PC, or you can print it and do it the old fashioned way – with a pencil 🙂
Find all the yummy chocolates in the word search – you can save the image and complete the puzzle on your PC by opening it in Paint, or you can print it and do it the old fashioned way, with a pencil 😀
Find these tree lovers in the wordsearch! Just like yesterday you can save the puzzle jpg and open it in Paint to complete it on your pc, or print it and solve it with pencil 🙂
Enjoy learning about dolphins and then find the red words in the wordsearch!
You can click on the picture above to save it and then open it in Paint to complete it on your pc or print it and do it the old-fashioned way with a pencil 🙂
Alternatively, you can download and/or print the pdf file here:
What does the General Election mean for Crustacean Compassion?
On Wednesday May 22, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak surprised everyone by announcing that a General Election will be held on Thursday 04 July. In doing so, he fired the starting pistol on a six-week campaign where politicians will criss-cross the country vying for your votes.
Animal welfare always ranks high in the list of priorities for voters, and Crustacean Compassion will be working hard to ensure that the voice of decapods is heard throughout. These special animals were recognised as sentient in UK law over two years ago, but since then progress on increasing their legal protections and improving their treatment in the food industry has stalled.
What happens next? Crustacean Compassion has already written to the political party leaders to seek their support and next week will be contacting all the candidates directly to ask them to support these pledges.
But they need your help. Watch out for updates on their social media channels for details on how you can help us reach as many candidates as possible and make sure that decapods have the strongest possible voice in the new parliament.
They’ll also be sharing more information about how you can get involved with this campaign in your local area.
Their new campaign to ban live sales They’ve launched this new petition to show the new government that decent people in the UK support a full ban on the live decapods being sold as food. Every day in the UK animals like crabs, lobsters, prawns and crayfish are sold alive to the untrained public to be killed and cooked at home. This causes EXTREME pain and suffering to these fragile, sentient animals.
There are certain things that we’ve always been able to get without plastic. Yes, it takes a bit more time, a bit more effort, but you find the time and you make the effort because you care. I’m talking bread in a paper bag from the bakery, and loose fruit and veg from the market. But there were some things that have made it very difficult to live completely plastic-free. Not anymore 😀
Okay, this is it, quick and easy – where to get all the plastic-free everyday stuff you need:
Cleaning supplies
Mack! Keep it Mack with vegan, plastic-free sachets (biopods) of soluble detergents to which you add water. Everything you need to clean toilets, sinks, floors, hard surfaces, drains and to get rid of limescale. No need to buy any more plastic bottles BUT save the ones you’ve already got for refilling with these lifesavers! Also these products smell great and they’re easy on your wallet.
Washing up POWDER
Add a heaped teaspoon of this citrus-smelling powder to hot running water et voila! Your dishes will shine in no time without hurting the planet or any of its inhabitants. Available from Planet Detox 🙂
Plastic-Free Margarine
Actually, it’s not margarine, it’s vegan butter! Mergulo Plant-Based Butter that comes in a cardboard box! This is a life-changer! For a long time now I’ve had to simply go without margarine, substituting peanut butter or simply straight on with jam. Which was ok. But not as good as a slice of hot toast with delicious melting fatty goodness!
Made with coconut oil and cashews, this is absolutely scrummy and we found it at Holland & Barrett! Google a supplier near you.
But if you can’t find any Mergulo near you, all is not lost because Flora have come out with not one but two vegan butters: salted and unsalted. Find these at your local supermarket and here’s a tip – the unsalted one is just as delicious as the salted so don’t be afraid to give your heart a break 😀 They’re wrapped in plastic-free biodegradable grease-proof paper.
So get yourself an old-fashioned butter dish – these aren’t spreadable from the fridge 🙂
Dental Hygiene
Simple: Go to Georganics 🙂 a one-stop online store for all your dental needs. Or – if you’d rather shop locally, it’s not too difficult nowadays to get toothpaste tablets in glass jars, and bamboo toothbrushes at supermarkets, health food shops and chemists. But my favourite tooth-tabs (and the cheapest I’ve found actually) are Denttabs which you can get from anythingbutplastic 😀
Rice? Pasta? No problem!
You can get pasta in paper bags from the Northern Pasta Co. – they’ll tell you where you can buy it online and in actual shops.
And you can buy rice in paper bags from Marks & Spencer’s!
I’m sure you can find other manufacturers and retailers but these are just two examples I found easily.
And last but absolutely not least – Chocolate!
You can’t go wrong with Prodigy, Plamil and Vego for vegan, organic, fair trade delicious chocolate that’s NOT WRAPPED IN PLASTIC. Available in health food shops, some supermarkets and online. Click on the pics! 😀
Just stumbled across this great article from The Guardian website. It’s very inspiring and uplifting so I had to share it with you because I know you’ll love it too. If you don’t have time to read the whole thing right now (it’s not very long actually), here’s a few quotes from Ellen Miles:
“Guerrilla gardening is the practice of planting in public spaces in your neighbourhood” she says on a humid summer afternoon, walking between outlaw flower beds in Hackney, east London.
“And that’s how I define it … because, for me, it’s all about community ownership and belonging, and I think we have a right to cultivate these spaces in the areas we call home – and a responsibility to, as well.
“So-called public spaces have been really privatised, and communities actually don’t get a chance to interact with them often. So I think we do have a right to do that in the places we put down our roots, where we live.
“… for me guerrilla gardening is the Trojan horse into anarchist ideals.
“It’s wholesome, but that’s the thing: [anarchism] is not about violence and hate, it can be wholesome. And it’s fundamentally about bringing people together to shape the places we live. We shouldn’t be prevented from improving our neighbourhoods by powers that don’t really live here or care.”
Photo by David Levene/The Guardian
“Guerrilla gardening is like the ground up, grassroots way to make neighbourhoods greener and connect people to nature, and thenature is a human rightcampaign is the long-term, top-down way to do it,”
“I see it all as fighting for the same kind of thing really: a world where human habitats are more filled with nature than they are deprived of it, and where there’s equitable access to nature.”
“I do think there is an issue in society at the moment with the lack of agency and autonomy for people,” she says. “Guerrilla gardening, even if it is just sowing something in a tree bed, it might not change the world – you might help some bees, you might bring joy to someone walking down the street – but you’re also reminding people, or awakening something that is like ‘Maybe this is how it should be.’
“We know now that we can’t trust the government to do this stuff. We have to take it into our own hands.”
Reflecto #9 concludes (you can read the whole story here) 😀
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I hope you enjoyed the ninth episode of Reflecto Girl 🙂 if you did, check out episodes 1 to 8! And don’t forget to FOLLOW – see the button in the sidebar – so that you don’t miss new vegan-friendly stories when they arrive 😀
Next up – new Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins!
When we left Reflecto Girl on Friday she had just reflected the slaughterhouse office manager with the Dounto (click here for the story so far). Now the story continues:
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Gasp! Come back tomorrow to see what happens when Reflecto Girl steps inside the house of horrors 😮
Congratulations Daniel Simmons who won the October club members’ prize draw! He chose the fabulous Beans on Toast #1 as his prize – good choice Dan!
November VVC Club prize draw
And now, we can show you this month’s draw – filmed live only moments ago:
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Congratulations Thomas!
Email us at vegans-are-awesome @violetsvegancomics.com to let us know your real name and address, and which book you’d like us to send you. You can browse them all here 😀
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Would you like to win a vegan children’s book? It’s as free and easy as joining the club! Click here to find out more 😀 Go on – you know you want to 😉
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The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is the second-largest living shark and fish, after the whale shark, and one of three plankton-eating shark species, along with the whale shark and megamouth shark. Adults typically reach 7.9 m (26 ft) in length. They are usually greyish-brown, with mottled skin, with the inside of the mouth being white in colour. Click here to find out more about them.
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