If you haven’t already you’ve got to try Prodigy chocolates! There is no bad here. They are delicious – my favourites are the coconut one and the peanut butter one – they are recommended on the Food Empowerment Project‘s ethical chocolate list and they are PLASTIC-FREE!!!!
Nuf said, right? Help the planet, help the animals (yes, of course they’re vegan), help the cocoa growers, and help yourself! You won’t regret it 😀
So what are you waiting for?! Get yourself a Taster Box, or a Family Bundle, or Value Bundle, or a big box of chocolate biscuits or …. you get the idea with that: there’s a lot to choose from 😀
Prodigy – Chocolate, only better
Oh, I almost forgot – they don’t contain refined sugar either!
Make the world a better place with plastic-free chocolate ❤
ps We’re not getting anything for this you know, so you can trust us. We say it because we mean it 🙂
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Violet’s Vegan Comics – making funny, exciting and always entertaining vegan-friendly children’s books since 2012.
How many times have so many of us said it – stop littering! End plastic!? So many websites and well known organisations have shown photos and footage of the devastating suffering caused by litter and fishing paraphernalia, for so many years. And, though many good people work hard to campaign, educate and do the actual cleaning up, there is no change in the practice of producing more single-use plastic. The government has made no effort to actually stem the tide of new plastic production. Our plastic waste, collected by people with good intentions, continues to cross the globe for recycling, regardless of the discovery years ago that much of it will end up in the ocean. Why isn’t the government forcing snack companies to stop using plastic? Why isn’t the government setting up recycling facilities in this country so that we can deal safely deal with our own waste? What hope is there for wildlife if they don’t?
“Steve Jobs once said the most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. Abraham Lincoln credited Harriet Stowe when she wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin – this powerful story inspired millions to rise up and fight against slavery,” said Jim Caviezel. “I think we can make Sound of Freedom the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of 21st century slavery.”
I was very apprehensive when I went to see the film last night but I know that, as with slaughterhouses and animal abuse, unless people open their eyes to things they don’t want to look at, nothing will change. This is a powerful film that every decent person must see. Brilliantly written and acted, Sound of Freedom will keep you gripped from beginning to end. I was riveted. The entire two hours and ten minutes went by in what seemed like a fraction of that time. If there is to be an end to slavery and sex trafficking (a multi-billion dollar industry) we all have to face it head on.
This film was actually made five years ago but it has faced every possible road-block to getting it in the theatres because, as we might realise from the fact that this abominable trade has not been shut down, there must be some extremely powerful people involved in or profiting from it.
Please go and see it so that you can share its message – watch to the end of the credits for a powerful plea from Jim Caviezel who says that there are more humans kept in slavery than at any other time in history, including when slavery was legal, and millions of them are children.
Even if you can’t afford a cinema ticket, you can claim a free ticket from the Angel film studios who have persuaded those who can afford it to buy a ticket for someone else by paying it forward. Go to angel.com/freedom
Please don’t look the other way. Watch Sound of Freedom.
Have you read them yet? 😀 Why not read them for the Summer Reading Challenge? You can sign up to the challenge for free!
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On their website you can earn badges and rewards as you read books, and the more books you read, the better! You can read our books for the challenge, just enter the titles manually. If you do read our books for the challenge we would love to know. Keep in touch with us and share your progress!
What will you read next? There are tonnes of vegan children’s stories, with lovely vegan characters, to choose from on our stories and comics page. Read them for free, any time you like. 😀
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Violet’s Vegan Comics – making fun and colourful comics and storybooks for vegan children since 2012.
Continuing our vegan detective story from yesterday: Sherman and Geynes (pretend detectives) and the ghost of the wall that didn’t have a door in it anymore:
Come back tomorrow for the next part of the story!
Or, if you don’t want to wait, you can read the whole story here, right now. 😀
Continuing our vegan detective story from yesterday: Sherman and Geynes (pretend detectives) and the ghost of the wall that didn’t have a door in it anymore:
Come back tomorrow for the next part of the story!
Or, if you don’t want to wait, you can read the whole story here, right now. 😀
Continuing our vegan detective story from yesterday: Sherman and Geynes (pretend detectives) and the ghost of the wall that didn’t have a door in it anymore:
Come back tomorrow for the next part of the story!
Or, if you don’t want to wait, you can read the whole story here, right now. 😀
Continuing our vegan detective story from yesterday: Sherman and Geynes (pretend detectives) and the ghost of the wall that didn’t have a door in it anymore:
Come back tomorrow for the next part of the story!
Or, if you don’t want to wait, you can read the whole story here, right now. 😀
Continuing our vegan detective story from yesterday: Sherman and Geynes (pretend detectives) and the ghost of the wall that didn’t have a door in it anymore:
Come back tomorrow for the next part of the story!
Or, if you don’t want to wait, you can read the whole story here, right now. 😀
Continuing our vegan detective story from yesterday: Sherman and Geynes (pretend detectives) and the ghost of the wall that didn’t have a door in it anymore:
Come back tomorrow for the next part of the story!
Or, if you don’t want to wait, you can read the whole story here, right now. 😀
Continuing our vegan detective story from yesterday: Sherman and Geynes (pretend detectives) and the ghost of the wall that didn’t have a door in it anymore:
Come back tomorrow for the next part of the story!
Or, if you don’t want to wait, you can read the whole story here, right now. 😀
Continuing our vegan detective story from yesterday: Sherman and Geynes (pretend detectives) and the ghost of the wall that didn’t have a door in it anymore:
Come back tomorrow for the next part of the story!
Or, if you don’t want to wait, you can read the whole story here, right now. 😀
Continuing our vegan detective story from Friday: Sherman and Geynes (pretend detectives) and the ghost of the wall that didn’t have a door in it anymore:
Come back tomorrow for the next part of the story!
Or, if you don’t want to wait, you can read the whole story here, right now. 😀
Continuing our vegan detective story from yesterday: Sherman and Geynes (pretend detectives) and the ghost of the wall that didn’t have a door in it anymore:
Come back on Monday for the next part of the story!
Or, if you don’t want to wait, you can read the whole story here, right now. 😀
Continuing our vegan detective story from yesterday: Sherman and Geynes (pretend detectives) and the ghost of the wall that didn’t have a door in it anymore:
Come back tomorrow for the next part of the story!
Or, if you don’t want to wait, you can read the whole story here, right now. 😀
Continuing our vegan detective story from yesterday: Sherman and Geynes (pretend detectives) and the ghost of the wall that didn’t have a door in it anymore:
Come back tomorrow for the next part of the story!
Or, if you don’t want to wait, you can read the whole story here, right now. 😀
Continuing our vegan detective story from yesterday: Sherman and Geynes (pretend detectives) and the ghost of the wall that didn’t have a door in it anymore:
Come back tomorrow for the next part of the story!
Or, if you don’t want to wait, you can read the whole story here, right now. 😀
Georganics emailed this morning to tell us that landfills are made up of all kinds of trash, and much of the burden placed on landfills is not necessary. In the UK alone 300 million plastic toothbrushes end up in a landfill, every year.
But –
The Zero To Landfill (ZTL) scheme allows Georganics customers to return more than 250,000 used Beechwood and 25,000 Sonic Toothbrush heads. All of these items are then recycled with TerraCycle.
How it works
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1 Collect a minimum of 5 used heads. These can be from our Beechwood Toothbrush, Tonguebrush, Interdental Brushes or Sonic Toothbrush.
2 Put everything into an envelope, a used one is fine. On it, write Free-post Georganics Oral Care Ltd. [That’s all they wrote but if you feel safer putting their whole address on the envelope, this is it: Unit 3-4 Hooklands Farm Barns, Lewes Rd, Haywards Heath RH17 7NG]
3 Drop it off at Post Office® or in a postbox. THIS SERVICE IS FREE, SO MAKE SURE YOU DON’T GET CHARGED! Once we receive them, the heads will be bulked and sent to Terracycle for recycling each component.
Brand new vegan comic: Sherman and Geynes #6: The ghost in the wall that didn’t have a door in it anymore starts on Monday! In this delightful new episode our pretend detectives go looking for ghosts, along the way they meet lots of interesting people.
If you fancy making a vegan comic hero doll, it might help you to know that Miranda adapted a Jean Greenhowe pattern for the Venus doll and a Sue Stratford knitted cat pattern for Marvellous Mildred.
Welcome all the lovely new members of Violet’s Vegan Comics Club! Many of you joined in May and June and we were thrilled to receive photos of your membership cards – thank you! We’ve shared them all on the Club page so pop over there now to see them 😀
Now, the moment you’ve been waiting for – the winner of the monthly club draw is Kirsty Buxton!
Congratulations Kirsty! You are the lucky winner of the book of your choice from our shop!
Just let us know where to send it by emailing us at vegans-are-awesome@violetsvegancomics.com
And if you’d like to be in with a chance of winning next month’s club prize draw, all you’ve got to do is join the club. Nothing could be easier! 😀
So, one Saturday afternoon, we were playing Star Trek Top Trumps, like you do, and we thought – it would be great to have a Violet’s Vegan Comics Top Trumps game. I’m sure you can guess the rest but I’m going to tell you anyway 😀 We looked online and, lo and behold, found a wonderful website called Personalised Playing Cards dot com. We were so excited!
For the next two or three weekends we eagerly drew head a shoulder portraits of our story characters – heroes and villains – and then ummed and ahhed about what the categories should be and what score each one should get. We changed them repeatedly, and I’m still not sure we got it right, but then I don’t think the makers of the Star Trek cards did either. I mean – I love Neelix but how can he have a higher ‘To Boldly Go’ score than Spock?!
We had to draw 40 characters from our stories, many of them regulars, some of them only occasional or one-offs, and added their series title to the side.
It was a lot of fun and I wouldn’t be surprised if we make some more cards to add to our pack 😀
Wait – there’s more! 😀
And that’s the lot for now 😀 Why not make some yourself? So much fun! You can either make them yourself on card – cut up an old cereal box or something – or upload your drawings to the Personalised Playing Cards website like we did 😀
If you’d like the pictures of VVC characters we used, just contact us and we’ll email them to you.
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Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating vegan children’s books and vegan things to make and do since 2012.
The winner of our first Last of the Month Prize Draw, exclusively for Violet’s Vegan Comics club members, is James Appleyard!
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Congratulations James, a copy of Vegan Rascals #1 will be on its way to you very soon 😀 Keep an eye on your inbox, and your SPAM folder, for an email from us.
Welcome to all the new members of Violet’s Vegan Comics club. We absolutely love your home-made membership cards and have added you to the Members’ Page 😀 If anyone else wants to enter our Last of the Month Club Members’ Prize Draw for a chance to win a new comic book, it’s easy to join – all you need to do is make yourself a membership card and show it to us. Go to the club page to find out how! But don’t wait too long – the last of the month is only four days away and the prize is a copy of the brand new Vegan Rascals comic!
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Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating funny, exciting, and always entertaining vegan children’s books since 2012.
The first issue of Vegan Rascals is finally here and we love it! A proper old-fashioned comic with multiple stories, a fact file, a puzzle page and a yummy chip butty recipe. And as if that wasn’t enough – there’s a board game on the back! Not bad for under a fiver eh?! 😀
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Of course all the stories are free to read here, but if you’d rather read a proper paper book, this is it! 😀
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Vegan Rascals #1
Pages: 57 Binding: Paperback Interior: Colour Dimensions: US Letter (8.5 x 11 in / 216 x 279 mm)
Anyone who has read Venus Aqueous episode 4 will know how we feel about wildlife carnage caused by wind turbines, so when I got an email today from Greenpeace, asking me to write to my MP and get them to tell Michael Gove to end the UK’s ban on land-based windfarms, I was very concerned indeed. Not because I am against renewable energy you understand, only methods of generating it which maim and kill.
There is much information, at the bottom of the Venus #4 page, about alternative technology which generates wind energy without bird-and-bat-bashing blades, some of it invented more than ten years ago, and yet all the big energy companies are ignoring them and sticking with turbines. Now the government, encouraged by Greenpeace, is thinking about doing the same, but anyone who believes that the potential consequences for all life on Earth should be considered before anything is built or installed should read this article by Whit Gibbons, and then write to their MP and ask them to tell Michael Gove NOT to lift the ban on new UK wind farms.
This planet does not belong to us.
“Although viewed as a clean and sustainable energy source, wind power is not without environmental costs and hazards that should be acknowledged and addressed. Unequivocal documentation exists that windmills kill more than 300,000 birds each year, especially species that fly at night [as well as bats]. …. However, another aspect of wind turbines also needs to be considered. How does wind energy development and operation on a commercial scale affect nonflying wildlife? An article in Applied Energy by Jeff Lovich (U.S. Geological Survey) and Josh Ennen (Renewable Energy Wildlife Institute) provides important perspectives on environmental impacts of windfarms. Wind power is a promising source of renewable energy and has gained popularity among advocates in recent years. Wind is widely seen as an alternative to fossil fuels. However, the costs as well as the benefits need to be considered when adopting windmills or any other energy source.
Lovich and Ennen conducted an exhaustive scientific literature survey of research addressing environmental consequences from all aspects of windmill energy production. Their findings reveal some of the downsides of giant windmill farms other than whacking birds and bats out of the sky with enormous spinning blades. Power companies, regulators and politicians advocating wind turbines need to pay attention to the findings.
Following are factors, other than killing flying creatures, that should be considered when assessing the pros and cons of wind as an energy source.
Environmental impacts of destruction and modification of habitat at the windmill site: Roads are never environmentally friendly, and the permanent presence of those needed for windmill construction and maintenance can cause lasting ecological damage to animals that must travel between habitats. During construction, heavy machinery may cause soil compaction and erosion that can kill subterranean animals. Wind turbines sit on enormous concrete pads that eliminate native habitat from use by plants and animals.
Effects due to air and ground vibration, constant noise, shadow flicker from propellers during the day: Although more research is needed, these disturbances may have negative impacts on ground-dwelling animals. The droning noise of propellers and the near-imperceptible but ever-present vibrations could also be a problem for people living nearby.
Offsite impacts related to acquiring, processing and transporting construction materials: Building a wind turbine and moving it to the site requires considerable expenditure of energy before the windfarm itself begins to offer a positive return.
Microclimate changes downwind: Natural climate regimes can be altered as far away as 14 miles downwind of a large windfarm. One finding showed that ground level temperatures were higher at night, but lower than normal later in the day. Such changes may be small but they create conditions that native plants and animals have not previously experienced. More studies are necessary to determine if downwind impacts have long-term effects on wildlife.
Hang on a minute – the Alpha311 addresses all these problems!
“While our turbines can be placed anywhere, the optimal location is next to a highway, where they can be fitted on to existing infrastructure. There’s no need to dig anything up, as they can attach to the lighting columns that are already there and use the existing cabling to feed directly into the grid. The footprint is small, and motorways aren’t exactly beauty spots.”
Mike Shaw, a spokesperson for the company.
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Now that’s what I’m talking about! Why are they still installing bird-bashers?! These babies generate energy from the whoosh of passing traffic. Tell that to Michael Gove!
And the most popular story for 12 and up – Maddicts
Have you read them yet?
What will you read next? There are tonnes of vegan children’s stories, with lovely vegan characters, to choose from on our stories and comics page. Read them for free, any time you like. 😀
The story continues from yesterday but, if you missed the beginning, you can read the whole vegan comic here 😀
Woohoo! Don’t you just love a happy ending? 😀
If you’d like to read more funny and exciting stories, go home, and don’t forget to FOLLOW so that you don’t miss new stories when they come out (for email followers, it’s that white button in the sidebar with a white word you can’t read. I’ve tried to change the colour of the text but nothing I’ve done works. Anybody know how? 😀 )
Have a great weekend! ❤
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Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating funny, exciting and always entertaining vegan children’s books since 2012.
I’m sorry the penultimate instalment of our current story has had to be postponed until tomorrow, due to unfinished artwork which Miranda is – as we speak – hurrying to complete. If you haven’t been following it, or you’ve missed any of it, you can read what’s happened so far in this exciting vegan comic, 😀 and while you’re waiting for its conclusion, enjoy this commercial break 😀
Go on – you know you want some 😉
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Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating funny, exciting and always entertaining vegan children’s books since 2012.
Desperate to rescue Sindy Snowdrop from the evil Flat-Capped Menace are Marvellous Mildred and her friends, the Girl Scout Twins. The story continues from yesterday and you can read the whole vegan comic here 😀
😮 Oh Sindy! Just keep chewing! Hurry Mildred, hurry!
Don’t miss what happens next, tomorrow!
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Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating funny, exciting and always entertaining vegan children’s books since 2012.
Hot on the trail of the evil Flat-Capped Menace are Marvellous Mildred and her friends, the Girl Scout Twins. The story continues from yesterday but if you missed the earlier instalments of Marvellous Mildred #4, you can read the whole vegan comic here 😀
I’m holding my breath – and I hope they are too! Good luck girls, I hope you make it. Find out tomorrow if they do 😀
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Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating funny, exciting and always entertaining vegan children’s books since 2012.