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This Week’s Giveaway: Maddicts
Originally posted on 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…
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Buckwheat Brown and White Cookies
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…
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Maddicts Countdown: Day 3
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…
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Home Grown Apple Trees – Look at them now!
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…
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This Week’s Giveaway: Maddicts
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…
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Come with us if you want to live.
Originally posted on 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…
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Come with us if you want to live.
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…
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And we have a winner!
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…
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YRUA Vegan? Giveaway Countdown: Day 7
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…
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YRUA Vegan? Giveaway Countdown: Day 6
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…
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Y R U A Vegan? Giveaway Countdown: Day 3
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…
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No Milk Please!
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…
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The Giveaway Countdown Starts Here
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 –…
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Recommended Reading: Grandpa Wollemi’s Birthday
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…
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New from Edward Benn: Grandpa Wollemi’s Birthday
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Luke Walker’s notebook – get yerself a copy!
Get it here 😀
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Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er – NEW BOOK OUT NOW!
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…
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Amelia Meyer’s Take Care of the World Day
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…
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Recommended Reading: FRUITS – A Caribbean counting poem
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…
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The BIG one! OUT NOW!
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 😀
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New Book from Amy Fibbitts
A Trees notebook! I love it 😀
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Me and My Pal
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. **** He likes his space and I like to snuggle – He lets me, not often, but sometimes. I wouldn’t go so far as…
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Megan & Flos Book 1 (Brave Girls Volume 3) OUT NOW!
It’s in the Book Shoppe 😀
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PLANT FOOD Sudoku answers
Here’s the answers to yesterday’s puzzle 😀
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Plant Food Sudoku
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…
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Great news!
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…
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Sound Advice? Think twice!
Always think for yourself 😀
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New Book Shop
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…
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Historic Dairy Farm Becomes a Sanctuary and Serves up Vegan Ice Cream! | One Green Planet
Originally posted on Life or Lunch?: 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…
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Children have good instincts
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…
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VVeC Productions Presents: Luke Walker and the Hypothetical Question
Originally posted on Violet's Vegan Comics: From Why are you a vegan? and other wacky verse for kids
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Marigold Marigold
Originally posted on Violet's Vegan Comics: 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
Originally posted on 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…
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Purezza pizza!
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…
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Look what I’ve found!
Check out this website! It’s choc full of recipes and information 😀
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“But I could never go vegan!” Book Trailer
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… The joy a cow experiences…
Harold Brown from: http://www.humanemyth.org/haroldbrown.htm
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Kids’ Ocean Day
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Kirk and Crew Save The Whales!
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…
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Cow Proves Animals Love, Think, And Act
Originally posted on Violet's Vegan Comics: 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…
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Plant trees, Save the beavers and Prevent flooding! PETITION
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…
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The REX Files
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Once Upon A Forest – UK trailer
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Snow White and Rose Red remembered.
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…
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Food Wordsearch
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…
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New Fully Raw Kristina Book!
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Ode to Spike Milligan
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…
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THE ONE DECISION: GO VEGAN
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COWSPIRACY: Official Trailer
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New Year’s Resolution
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.
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