Buckwheat Brown and White Cookies

By Violet's Vegan Comics

I’ve recently discovered buckwheat which is naturally gluten free as it is not actually a grain – it’s a fruit seed. Buckwheat is related to rhubarb and the flour has a subtle sweet fruity taste to it which means you don’t need so much sugar. This organic Doves Farm pack is not certified gluten free because it wasn’t bagged in a totally gluten-free environment, but I have been told they do do a certified gluten-free version for those who are highly sensitive. My recipe is very simple:

8 ounces organic buckwheat flour

3 ounces organic fair trade sugar

100 ml organic sunflower oil

4 tablespoons of water

organic fair trade cocoa

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First pre-heat the oven to 180°c. Weigh out half of your dry ingredients (ie 4 oz flour and 1.5 oz sugar) and place in a mixing bowl with a dessert spoon or two of sieved cocoa. Mix well and then add half the wet ingredients (50 ml oil and 2 tablespoons of water). You might need a dribble or two more of water to compensate for the cocoa and make a soft, moist cookie mixture.

(Bear in mind that I had doubled the recipe the day I photographed it so you won’t have this much mixture unless you do the same). Put the chocolatey mixture to one side and mix up the other half of ingredients (minus the cocoa) in another bowl.

Then spoon teaspoons full of ‘white’ mixture onto ungreased baking trays. Flatten with the back of a spoon. (These look quite big because I had doubled the recipe that day)

Then add another teaspoon of chocolate brown mixture to each cookie and press it on like so:

Bake for 20 minutes and then remove to a cooling tray. There is no need to double the mixture, the 8 oz mixture makes 20 to 24 cute little cookies, but if you want big fat ones like these you know what to do! Oh, and if you do double it they’ll need cooking a bit longer – say 30 mins at 170° in a fan oven.

These are so yummy that I forgot to take any pictures of them after they came out of the oven. When they’ve cooled they’re kind of hard, like a ginger nut, but a little bit chewy on the inside.

Maddicts Countdown: Day 3

By Violet's Vegan Comics

If you want to win a copy of Maddicts you’ve only got two more days left! Comment on this or Monday’s post to put your name in the hat and you could be the lucky winner of this exciting vegan graphic novel (for teens and up) when we make the draw on Friday.

Want to read it now? Why not. Here it is 😀

But if you want a paperback copy to read in bed, enter the prize draw or splash out on Amazon 😉

Home Grown Apple Trees – Look at them now!

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Remember a couple of years ago we started growing apple trees from seed?

FLASH BACK: this is how they looked in February 2014

Well, we’ve kept on with it, sprouting seed after seed, growing seedling after seedling, and we have quite a few in different sized pots around the garden. Some of them didn’t make it, sadly, but that’s the way it goes, and we just keep on going. (I say ‘we’ but really it’s Miranda who does all the work. I help with watering 😉 )

If you look over here you will see what our oldest ones looked like a year ago – nice strong, woody stems, but still tiny.

But now the tallest one is about four feet tall! I’ve photographed it next to a garden chair to give you some idea of scale:

How fantastic is that?!!!

It seems like no time since we sprouted those first seeds.

We have planted a few in the wild and intend to keep doing that, inconspicuously near public footpaths, in the hope of providing free food for the future, but most of them are still in pots for now.

We love our little trees 😀

If you want to do this yourself, go to the original post to see how 🙂

This Week’s Giveaway: Maddicts

By Violet's Vegan Comics

This week’s giveaway is a copy of Maddicts and you’ve got until Friday to enter.

Maddicts is not for young children. We don’t recommend it for under 12s. It’s a vegan graphic novel; a dark satire; a piece of self-indulgent wishful thinking (on my part); it is humorous speculation about what might happen if the natural world fought back and all the animals simultaneously turned on their oppressors and escaped.

Of course you are free to read it in full here, but if you’d like your own copy, comment on this post and your name will be entered into Friday’s draw.

The clock is ticking my friends. Good luck 😀

Come with us if you want to live.

By Miranda's Vegan Comics

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We do our best to inspire people towards veganism but are very careful not to push too hard. We don’t want to frighten people away so we take the gently, gently approach with stories and colourful pictures and poems.

But after watching Cowspiracy in full yesterday I realise there isn’t actually time to do it gently.

If this planet and all its inhabitants have any chance of survival, the entire human population must make the transition to veganism NOW. And when I say transition I don’t mean gradually, one meat-free day a week. I mean now. I mean overnight. There’s no more time for gently gently. Everyone needs to know about the urgency; about the crisis we are in.

World leaders and leading charities have shamefully kept quiet about the devastation caused by animal agriculture. The destruction of the rainforests, the dead zones in the oceans, the pollution of the…

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Come with us if you want to live.

By Violet's Vegan Comics

We do our best to inspire people towards veganism but are very careful not to push too hard. We don’t want to frighten people away so we take the gently, gently approach with stories and colourful pictures and poems.

But after watching Cowspiracy in full yesterday I realise there isn’t actually time to do it gently.

If this planet and all its inhabitants have any chance of survival, the entire human population must make the transition to veganism NOW. And when I say transition I don’t mean gradually, one meat-free day a week. I mean now. I mean overnight. There’s no more time for gently gently. Everyone needs to know about the urgency; about the crisis we are in.

World leaders and leading charities have shamefully kept quiet about the devastation caused by animal agriculture. The destruction of the rainforests, the dead zones in the oceans, the pollution of the rivers; the greenhouse gases, land degradation, soil erosion, human starvation, species extinction – all caused by animal agriculture. They distract people with worrying about CO2; encourage them to drive and fly less and use low-energy light bulbs. But CO2 is a minor problem compared to the huge huge one caused by animal farming.

Why do you think they keep quiet about that?

It’s not a human’s right to choose to eat meat, eggs and dairy. No one should be allowed to choose something that is so harmful – so completely devastating – to everyone and everything else. They made it illegal to smoke inside in public places because second hand smoke is harmful to others. Animal agriculture is a billion times more harmful, and not just to others in the immediate vicinity.

And it could be stopped. Without legislation. Without waiting for the slow machine of politics to get around to it (which it won’t). It could be stopped by us. By all of us, ordinary people, just refusing to buy its products.

Tell the world, tell everyone you know that they can have their cars and their holidays abroad. They don’t have to cycle anywhere if they don’t want to. They just need to go vegan. It’s the only way. And it needs to happen now. It isn’t hard. It’s actually very pleasant.

Watch Cowspiracy (it’s on Netflix and if you don’t subscribe to Netflix you can sign up for a month’s free trial to watch it.) The trailer’s great but you need to watch the whole thing. Everyone does. Please watch it. Thank you.

Come with us if you want to live.

And we have a winner!

By Violet's Vegan Comics

It was tense and silent as we drew a name from the hat, and with hard-to-contain excitement we unfolded the paper. And the winner is ….

Congratulations Lira, you have won a copy of “Why are you a vegan?” and other wacky verse for kids. We hope you enjoy it 😀

Thank you to everyone who entered, and for those who weren’t lucky this time don’t be disheartened, it’s available on Amazon 🙂

Plus, there are going to be plenty more opportunities to win as there are many more giveaways to come.

Watch this space!

YRUA Vegan? Giveaway Countdown: Day 7

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Day 7: you’ve got ONE day left to enter the prize draw for a chance to win a copy of “Why are you a vegan?” and other wacky verse for kids.

The winner will be drawn on Wednesday, the 11th of May: TOMORROW!

Comment on this post to put your name in the hat

Funny rhymes with messages on vegan lifestyle, sounds difficult to combine but the authors have put a brilliant effort in creating this work. This is a book consisting of poems and picture stories. What is interesting about this book is,the drawings are hand drawn which makes this book a special one because children can actually connect to the drawings and the simple poems and learn in more than one way. Very beautiful illustrations and amazing writing.

A very sweet read. Would recommend it for every kid.

Goodreads review

For more vegan books for children, go home

YRUA Vegan? Giveaway Countdown: Day 6

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Day 6: you’ve got two days left to enter the prize draw for a chance to win a copy of “Why are you a vegan?” and other wacky verse for kids.

The winner will be drawn on Wednesday, the 11th of May.

Comment on this post to put your name in the hat

Funny rhymes with messages on vegan lifestyle,sounds difficult to combine but the authors have put a brilliant effort in creating this work. This is a book consisting of poems and picture stories. What is interesting about this book is,the drawings are hand drawn which makes this book a special one because children can actually connect to the drawings and the simple poems and learn in more than one way. Very beautiful illustrations and amazing writing.

A very sweet read. Would recommend it for every kid.

Goodreads review

For more vegan books for children, go home

Y R U A Vegan? Giveaway Countdown: Day 3

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Day 3: you’ve got five days left to enter the prize draw for a chance to win a copy of “Why are you a vegan?” and other wacky verse for kids.

The winner will be drawn next Wednesday, the 11th of May.

Comment on this post to put your name in the hat

Funny rhymes with messages on vegan lifestyle,sounds difficult to combine but the authors have put a brilliant effort in creating this work. This is a book consisting of poems and picture stories. What is interesting about this book is,the drawings are hand drawn which makes this book a special one because children can actually connect to the drawings and the simple poems and learn in more than one way. Very beautiful illustrations and amazing writing.

A very sweet read. Would recommend it for every kid.

Goodreads review

For more vegan books for children, go home 🙂

No Milk Please!

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Being diabetic myself, I was very interested many years ago when I read that, through clinical observation at a children’s hospital in Canada (in the 1980s I think it was), they had discovered that type 1 diabetes is actually caused by an immune reaction to dairy milk protein because the immune system mistakes cells of the pancreas for milk protein and attacks them. I was surprised, since this had been discovered some years before my diagnosis, that I had never been told about it by any of my diabetic specialist doctors and nurses. In fact, in the 1990s, my GP pleaded with me to give my baby dairy foods after I became vegan because he said “babies need dairy for at least their first five years”! And even today the UK charity that gives advice for diabetics, Diabetes UK, does not advise avoiding dairy – it’s included in their suggested meal plans! I actually wrote to them about that and they said, “oh, thank you for telling us,” but of course nothing changed.

Anyway, the following is a brilliant short video by a doctor who really knows what he’s talking about, and he explains really well how dairy causes diabetes. Well worth a watch if you’ve got a spare 8 minutes 🙂

The Giveaway Countdown Starts Here

By Violet's Vegan Comics

To celebrate the launch of our new Vegan Books For Children page we are going to have some giveaways of some of the lovely books on it.

First up is “Why are you a vegan?” and other wacky verse for kids

It’s been over a year since this one came out in January 2015 – unbelievable!

You can read more about it here in the post about the earlier giveaway, when it was published, and if you’re still not sure you’re interested, look at this lovely review we just found on Goodreads:

Funny rhymes with messages on vegan lifestyle,sounds difficult to combine but the authors have put a brilliant effort in creating this work. This is a book consisting of poems and picture stories. What is interesting about this book is,the drawings are hand drawn which makes this book a special one because children can actually connect to the drawings and the simple poems and learn in more than one way. Very beautiful illustrations and amazing writing.

A very sweet read. Would recommend it for every kid.

So, if you would like to win a copy of this colourful, happy vegan children’s book, just comment on this post and let us know. You’ve got seven days to do so – next Wednesday, the 11th of May 2016, we will draw a name from our ‘hat’ to select the winner. Open to everyone, worldwide.

Look forward to hearing from you 😀

Recommended Reading: Grandpa Wollemi’s Birthday

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Here’s another big colourful story book from Edward Benn (of Wibbolywub fame), this time beautifully illustrated by Cynthia Barnett: Grandpa Wollemi’s Birthday.

It’s a happy, friendly story about children getting ready for their Grandpa’s birthday.

Kauri and Myrtle have made presents for Grandpa but Cedro, who can’t get the hang of sewing or making things with paper, doesn’t know what to give him.

That is, until he remembers that Grandpa is no stranger to the cookie jar and would probably really like a birthday cake.

So he makes him one.

And the story explains how he does it, incorporating the simple, egg-free vegan recipe naturally. The colourful, naïve illustrations make this book charming.

It is clearly designed to be read to young children, a lovely bedtime (or daytime) story but is, in addition, a vegan birthday cake recipe book which will enable little ones (with adult supervision of course) to make a delicious cake of their own with ordinary ingredients likely to be found in everyone’s kitchens.

Another lovely idea from Honestly Books.

Get your copy here 😀

New from Edward Benn: Grandpa Wollemi’s Birthday

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Luke Walker’s notebook – get yerself a copy!

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Get it here 😀

Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er – NEW BOOK OUT NOW!

By Violet's Vegan Comics

The new Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er book is out now!

Those who have read the first two episodes on this website (Luke Walker and the damsons and Luke Walker AWOL) will know what a lovable rascal Luke is.

He is an eight year old to be reckoned with.

A constant trial to his parents and teachers.

He is naughty and brave; defiant and outspoken.

A resourceful, muddy, sticky advocate for animals.

And now you can read the first eight chapters in prose:

Lots of fun. Lots of mischief. Lots of Luke – our very own vegan Just William.

Look inside the book on Amazon (Also available on Amazon US , Amazon Canada and Amazon Europe)

For more great vegan children’s books go to veganbooksforchildren.com

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Amelia Meyer’s Take Care of the World Day

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Prepare to be inspired. Prepare to be in awe. Prepare to have your heart lifted and your eyes moistened 🙂

Eight year old Amelia Meyer, who was granted a wish by The Make-a-Wish Foundation because she suffers from brain cancer, wished that she could clean up all the litter in her local park.

“She chose to clean her local Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri because she wanted it to look nicer for her friends and neighbors. “Another reason is because [litter] can stay dirty and it can get animals sick,” she added.

Fortunately, Make-A-Wish didn’t just hand Amelia a trash bag and wish her well on her endeavors. Instead, the foundation organized hundreds of people to participate in the cleanup, with everyone from local business employees, the Kansas City Fire and Police departments and schoolchildren getting in on the action. Amelia said she was surprised at just how many people showed up to help.

Watch video here

Sly James, the mayor of Kansas City, attended the event at Swope Park to congratulate Amelia on being selfless and an all-around “really neat kid.” He then proclaimed February 27 “Amelia Meyer’s Take Care of the World Day” throughout the city.

Amelia’s story didn’t just motivate people in her own community, but people in other parts of the state and even the world. As word of her wish spread on social media, other people organized cleanups in their own areas, tagging photographs of their efforts with #AmeliasWish.

Though Amelia’s wish is unconventional, it seemed to bring her no less joy than another child’s trip to Disneyland might. Throughout the day, she ran around collecting trash with a big smile on her face. Jill Meyer, Amelia’s mother, said that the night before the cleanup, Amelia expressed she was “so excited” for the litter patrol. When Jill asked her why, she responded, “Because I get to pick up trash!”

It’s hard not to feel inspired by Amelia’s caring attitude. She clearly hasn’t let her age or life-threatening illness stop her from doing her part to make the world a better place. May her selfless wish serve as an inspiration to people who come from more fortunate circumstances.

Meanwhile, my wish is that Amelia overcome her battle with cancer because we absolutely need more people like her in this world.”

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/this-amazing-girls-make-a-wish-dream-was-to-clean-up-litter.html#ixzz41rivfDYj

Recommended Reading: FRUITS – A Caribbean counting poem

February 29, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

We love this book!

It’s so perfect! Full of vibrant colour and light.

Valerie Bloom’s happy, funny poem is gorgeously illustrated by David Axtell.

Every page is full of delicious mischief and tasty, sweet, juicy fruit.

The rhyming story is told in the first person from the point of view of a delightfully naughty little girl who loves fruit and eats as much as she can get her hands on while teaching little sis how to get it without getting caught.

The written-in Caribbean accent naturally adds sunshine to the words and you really feel like you’re inside the head of big sis; which makes you as eager as she to taste all those juicy fruits.

I probably shouldn’t show any more, wouldn’t want to spoil the ending 😉 You really should get down to the library and borrow this wonderful book (or get your own copy) – especially if you’ve got a little one who’s learning to count.

Highly highly recommended 😀

The BIG one! OUT NOW!

February 22, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

This great big beautiful comic book, being over 400 pages long, has ended up being rather expensive at £32 on Amazon, so why not cut out the middle man and get it directly from us? Come over here where we can offer you a much better deal 😀

New Book from Amy Fibbitts

February 16, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

A Trees notebook! I love it 😀

Me and My Pal

February 15, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

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He’s acts gruff and I’m so dainty

But we seem to get on quite well.

He pretends to be tough but he’s soft really

And he likes me, I can tell.

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He likes his space and I like to snuggle –

He lets me, not often, but sometimes.

I wouldn’t go so far as to give him a cuddle

But he’s my best pal for all times.

Bodie and Duster (3)

Megan & Flos Book 1 (Brave Girls Volume 3) OUT NOW!

February 12, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

It’s in the Book Shoppe 😀

PLANT FOOD Sudoku answers

February 9, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Here’s the answers to yesterday’s puzzle 😀

Plant Food Sudoku

February 8, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Due to the popularity of the Fruit Sudoku I thought I’d make another one – for people who love puzzles but hate numbers!

This one is a PLANT FOOD sudoku which means you must make sure there is one, and only one, of each letter in each of the nine 9-square boxes whilst at the same time ensuring there is one of each in every vertical and horizontal line 🙂

P L A N T F O O D

To save you having to print it out, just save the picture on your computer and then open it in ‘Paint’ or another picture editing program where you can fill in the missing letters.

Here’s the answers!

Great news!

February 5, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

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Here is a post I found yesterday on the Mercy for Animals website:

Ontario Legally Recognises Ethical Veganism

“In December, the Ontario Human Rights Commission redefined creed to include non-religious beliefs that like religion, substantially influence a person’s identity, world-view, and way of life. Because ethical veganism is a way of life, it falls under this definition.

So what does this all mean? The code sets guidelines for service providers on respectful treatment and accommodation of people with creed-based requirements. Camille Labchuk, executive director of Animal Justice, the animal rights group that worked tirelessly to ensure the code was updated, said, “The policy recommends that a person in a hospital facility who has a creed-based need for vegetarian food be provided with appropriate food by the facility.”

Labchuk also noted that the new code protects vegan students from participating in dissections, and vegan employees from wearing work uniforms that contain fur or leather.

We applaud Animal Justice and others who pressed for the updated code, as this truly sets an important precedent.

Click here for delicious recipes, tips on making the transition, and more!”

See original post here.

Sound Advice? Think twice!

February 4, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Always think for yourself 😀

New Book Shop

February 3, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

We’ve got a new book shop! And I decided to call it a Book Shoppe just for the fun of it.

We’ve just published a few new books, which I’ll tell you about in the coming days, so I thought I’d set up a pretty little book shoppe to show them off. See the picture of a Book Shoppe in the side bar to your right? Why not click on that? Go on, it’s nice in there 😀

Please come in and browse 😀

Historic Dairy Farm Becomes a Sanctuary and Serves up Vegan Ice Cream! | One Green Planet

February 2, 2016

By Miranda's Vegan Comics

Knowing the horror animals go through in the meat and dairy industry makes us want to rescue them all from such an existence … and that’s exactly what one community did.

The historic Lewis Oliver Farm located on the North Shore of Long Island was once home to a popular dairy farm. The farm is estimated to date back to the 1890s and at its peak held 63 cows on the milking line. After a successful run, the owner decided to retire and sold the cows and the farm in 1953, when it was turned into a petting zoo. However, when he decided to sell the property about 10 years ago, local residents, led by Pamela Veitch, banded together to save the remaining animals. Together, the community created the non-profit, Friends of the Farm, a 501c-3 nonprofit organization made up entirely of volunteers.

Under the volunteer leadership, this former dairy has not only…

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Children have good instincts

February 1, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

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Meet Ilana Kadonoff, owner of the Canadian vegan company Sweets From The Earth.

She says:

“It all began with a rabbit.

Yes, the cute fluffy little animal is in a way responsible for Sweets From The Earth. It was the mid-70s, and my dad went out hunting with a neighbor. The next day, the neighbor came over with rabbit stew, and as a 7 year-old animal lover, I was horrified. It was then I declared myself a vegetarian. I began fending for myself in the kitchen amongst my meat-eating family, and learned to love cooking and then…baking.

My passion for food meant that years later when I adopted a vegan lifestyle, I didn’t think for an instant of giving up my love of luscious, decadent desserts. Instead, I decided to learn the craft and science of baking in pastry school, and soon enough discovered that no animals or animal by-products need be used in the making of sweet delicious things. I began whipping up the kind of scrumptious cookies, cakes and treats that dessert lovers everywhere dream about, and in 2002, Sweets From The Earth was born.

Today, Sweets From The Earth makes a full line of original recipe, egg and dairy-free baked goods, which are made all the more delectable by using only the best all natural, 100% plant-based, GMO-free ingredients.
Bonus: You don’t have to be vegan or have dietary restrictions to love these desserts – any old sweet tooth will do. They’re a healthier alternative to your run-of-the-mill baked goods, and you’ll never miss what’s missing from them!

And where is all this yumminess created? In two separate facilities: One dedicated dairy, egg, peanut and nut-free, the other dairy, egg wheat and gluten-free.”

This is a great story of a child trusting their natural good instincts and not being swayed by grown-ups – she reminds me a little of Luke Walker for whom it also began with a rabbit 😀

And look at these for a happy ending:

gluten-free, fair trade, espresso cheese cake

gf flourless cashew cookies

gluten free flourless cashew cookies

nut-free vanilla cupcake

nut-free vanilla cupcake

And those are just a little taster. Get over to Sweets From The Earth and see what else they’ve got!

VVeC Productions Presents: Luke Walker and the Hypothetical Question

January 29, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

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From Why are you a vegan? and other wacky verse for kids

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Marigold Marigold

January 28, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

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Marigold Marigold

Calendula Officinalis,

I planted you for bees,

But for me you have uses.

In salad for food

Or poultice for sting

I welcome the positive

Stuff that you bring 🙂

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James Cameron’s Vegan Challenge to people of conscience

January 26, 2016

By Miranda's Vegan Comics

Violet's Vegan Comics

James Cameron is still a vegan — and he picked a massive celebration to remind the world.

The 58-year-old film-maker and ocean explorer was honored on June 13 during the National Geographic Society’s 125th anniversary gala with “Explorer of the Year” for his successful solo dive last year to the deepest point of the Pacific Ocean. During his speech, Cameron urged the packed house of scientists and explorers to consider dropping animal products and reap the benefits.

“I’ve had an epiphany recently,” Cameron said. “I want to challenge all of you as people of deep conscience, people who are environment stewards of the earth and oceans … By changing what you eat, you will change the entire contract between the human species and the natural world.”

Cameron, who announced he’d gone vegan in October last year, told the crowd that the switch had a huge impact on him. “I felt like…

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Purezza pizza!

January 25, 2016

By Miranda's Vegan Comics

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Yesterday I went with a friend to visit Purezza, the UK’s only plant-based pizzeria! All their food is vegan, organic and environmentally friendly. I had a brilliant time there! The food was delicious! I was blown away by the fantastic selection to choose from – I can’t wait to go back and try all the pizzas. I had the Marinara pizza, which is tomato sauce, with garlic, oregano and basil, while my friend had the Margherita pizza, which is tomato sauce with cheese and basil. They were absolutely gorgeous!! Phenomenal flavours.

Purezza vegan plant based pizza delicious and wonderful for everyone!

Here you can see the starters and specials – I was very tempted by the garlic bread, I definitely want to get some of that next time! I’d also like to try the Hoisin pizza, and the Nacho pizza!

Here they are! I was so excited by the arrival of my pizza that I forgot to take a picture of it before I started eating! This is the Marinara:

And this is the Margherita:

Here is a slice of mine – it’s really perfect pizza, so thin and soft and crunchy all at the same time.

Once we had finished our pizzas we could not resist the dessert menu! I was just so thrilled by the selection! I was very tempted by the Apple Pie Calzone, the Chocolate Brownie and the Cheesecake, especially as they all come with a scoop of ice cream! But when we came to order, the waiter recommended the Chocolate Calzone, so I had that!

And I was very glad that I did! The Chocolate Calzone is heavenly! It’s a folded pizza with Italian chocolate spread, walnuts and pistachios!!! And I chose to have it with chocolate ice cream. Isn’t it beautiful? It’s a work of art! And it tastes so good too!

It was delicious! I recommend it to you all.

As soon as I got home I wanted to go back. I can’t wait to go back and try everything else on the menu! I hope you can visit them too, and see how wonderful it all is! The staff were really friendly and helpful, checking on us a few times to see that everything was great. The music was lovely too.

Look what I’ve found!

January 22, 2016

By Miranda's Vegan Comics

Check out this website! It’s choc full of recipes and information 😀

“But I could never go vegan!” Book Trailer

January 21, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

… The joy a cow experiences…

January 20, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Harold Brown from http://www.nonhumanslavery.com/reflections-from-a-former-animal-farmer-turned-vegan

Harold Brown from: http://www.humanemyth.org/haroldbrown.htm

Kids’ Ocean Day

January 19, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

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Kirk and Crew Save The Whales!

January 18, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home – the best Star Trek movie ever! We love this film and watched it again last night. If you haven’t seen it, or even if you have, you should watch it at your first opportunity and witness Kirk, Spock, Bones, Scotty, Chekov, Uhura and Sulu go back in time in a Klingon vessel (complete with cloaking device) to save the whales. In spite of its serious message it is full of humour and is a fast-paced, entertaining, well-told story. Highly, highly recommended 😀

Cow Proves Animals Love, Think, And Act

January 14, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

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Photo Credit: Joan Bryden Photography http://www.wildcardwalks.co.uk/photo-galleries-farm-cattle.html

I just found a story here, on the globalanimal.org website, which is a wake up call for all animal lovers who still use dairy. Just like Deidra, the mother in this story demonstrated not only the love she had for her calf, but the complicated thought process she used in her attempt to save him:

By Holly Cheever DVM:

I would like to tell you a story that is as true as it is heartbreaking. When I first graduated from Cornell’s School of Veterinary Medicine, I went into a busy dairy practice in Cortland County. I became a very popular practitioner due to my gentle handling of the dairy cows. One of my clients called me one day with a puzzling mystery: his Brown Swiss cow, having delivered her fifth calf naturally on pasture the night before, brought the new baby to the…

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Plant trees, Save the beavers and Prevent flooding! PETITION

January 13, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

THE PETITION STATES:

Britain has been struck by a succession of Atlantic storms accompanied by very heavy rain. In early December Storm Desmond saw 5,000 people flooded out of their homes in Carlisle in spite of £38 million of flood defences recently installed by the Environment Agency. More recently, Storm Frank has caused similar havoc in the Southwest, Lancashire, Yorkshire, the Scottish borders and Northern Ireland.

We demand that a major national tree planting effort is implemented, to build our national resilience to future flood events, and that the shooting of beavers is halted immediately!

The key to reducing the risk of more floods is to realise that conventional ‘flood defence’ can never provide security against the ever more extreme weather events that global warming will bring. The storm waters must be held back into the moors, bogs, fields and headwaters, so that they are given the chance to replenish soils and aquifers, and are released only slowly into the main streams and rivers.

We need more trees: it’s no secret that just having trees in the landscape helps rainwater to infiltrate into soils.

Sign the petition for tree planting to prevent floods!

Next, beavers: trees are food for beavers, and beavers use them to build their dams. And that’s absolutely key to restoring landscapes and making them water retentive. We should select water–loving tree species that are palatable to beavers — like poplars, willows, sallows and alders — and establish them along watercourses, ditches, streams, ponds and eroded upland gullies.

Sign the petition for beaver–friendly tree planting, to encourage the return of beavers across the UK!

Unfortunately, beavers are actually being shot in Scotland. Scotland needs its beavers as much as England does – and for exactly the same reasons.

Sign the petition to stop beavers being killed in Scotland!

By: Oliver Tickell

Editor of The Ecologist

To: DEFRA

The REX Files

January 13, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

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Once Upon A Forest – UK trailer

January 12, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Snow White and Rose Red remembered.

January 11, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Once upon a time there were two beautiful girls called Snow White and Rose Red. They were very unhappy because they were imprisoned in a large windowless shed with thousands of others like them. They were cramped and miserable; they never saw daylight or felt the wind on their faces; and the prison guards were rough and cruel. Then one night, everything changed.

As the wind blew and the rain poured down, someone came and lifted them out of their prison and carried them out into the night.

The beautiful girls were scared at first. They tried to shelter their heads from the wind and rain, instinctively ducking under the chin of the person carrying them. What was this cold, dark, wet outside world? They had never seen it before and didn’t know what to think.

After hours and hours of jostling and jolting in the wind and rain; after feeling cold and wet and very very nervous; they arrived somewhere. Somewhere new. Somewhere unfamiliar.

They explored with care. They didn’t know what to make of it. They didn’t know who to trust. But they were curious. They weren’t so desperate to get away anymore. They started to wonder if this was, after all, something good.

As they settled in to their new surroundings they were approached by other individuals. One of whom in particular, Mrs Teapot, became their devoted friend.

And so they lived happily ever after 😀

Food Wordsearch

January 8, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Search for the following food items and draw a line through them – they might be forwards, backwards, vertical, upside down or diagonal. And you don’t have to print it out if you don’t want to – just click on the pic, then right click and save it to your computer, then open it in ‘paint’, or whatever picture editing program you’ve got, and you can draw the lines on there 🙂

APPLE POMEGRANATE DATES FIGS LENTILS TOFU BEANS

POTATOES SPINACH KALE SQUASH PORRIDGE PEAR OATS

CABBAGE LETTUCE TOMATO PEAS APRICOT PLUM LEEK

BROCCOLI CUCUMBER CAVOLO NERO CHERRY ORANGE RAISINS

PARSNIP TURNIP WALNUTS BANANA CARROT ONION GARLIC

PEPPERS CASHEWS GRAPES

New Fully Raw Kristina Book!

January 7, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Ode to Spike Milligan

January 6, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

Silly Verse FOR KIDS by Spike Milligan was one of my favourites as a child (I saved up for it with my pocket money and bought it from the village shop) and I still love it. So I decided to make something similar, full of funny, quirky poems: HUMANS ARE NOT OMNIVORES [poems your teacher might not like] (I decided not to beat around the bush with the title!)

Spike Milligan was a brilliantly irreverent vegetarian comedian and author who died in 2002 at the age of 83. He campaigned against factory farming and vivisection and was once thrown out of Harrods for trying to stuff 28lb of spaghetti down the mouth of the food hall manager because they sold pate de foie gras.

“I told him it might give him some idea of how a goose feels being force-fed maize” he said.

I modelled our new book on his, making it the same size and the same layout, so it’s only a little one – just 11cm x 18cm.

His is a Puffin book, published by Penguin. Ours is a Little Chicken book, published by Violet’s Vegan Comics 😉

And both are full of quirky, eccentric, funny poems for kids like ‘Mary Pugh’, above or a selection from Wacky Verse, examples below 😀

I hope Spike would have liked it. I hope you like it too.

All you kids who are sick of being told at school that humans are omnivores – this one is for you! 😀 😀 😀

THE ONE DECISION: GO VEGAN

January 5, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

COWSPIRACY: Official Trailer

January 4, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

New Year’s Resolution

January 1, 2016

By Violet's Vegan Comics

I’ve a New Year’s resolution

Which may just be the solution

To the puzzle I’ve been puzzling in my head.

It’s a daring proposition

Which will suit my disposition

When I’m tired I’ll simply go early to bed.

Be Happy And Well

December 31, 2015

By Violet's Vegan Comics

You’ve a right to be angry

But it won’t do no good

To shout at the man

Who eats animal food.

***

He may just laugh at you

Or shout at you back

But it won’t stop him eating

Of the wee piglet’s back.

Try to be friendly,

Smile and be warm.

Let him see your food,

Inspire reform.

Vegan food’s tasty,

Delicious and yum.

With no pus and no blood

It’s good for your tum.

***

So live by example,

Be happy and well.

It results in more progress

Than damning him to hell.