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Farm Sanctuary
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New Release: What’s Good For The Goose Is Not Good For The Panda
Source: New Release: What’s Good For The Goose Is Not Good For The Panda
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Wild and Fruity
Originally posted on Violet's Vegan Comics: Remember the No Bake Blueberry Flapjacks? Well, I didn’t have any blueberries so I decided to improvise with something wild – the blackberries are ready! So many blackberries and we only needed a few so we left plenty for others 🙂 And we saw plenty of others enjoying them. I…
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S is for Sturgeon
Sturgeon noun Oxford Dictionary definition: large edible fish yielding caviar. Our definition: Sturgeons are native to subtropical, temperate and sub-Arctic rivers, lakes and coastlines of Eurasia and North America. They are distinctive for their elongated bodies, lack of scales, and occasional great size: sturgeons ranging from 7–12 feet (2-3½ m) in length are common,…
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R is for Rat
Rat noun Oxford Dictionary definition: 1. large mouselike rodent. 2. colloquial unpleasant or treacherous person. verb 1. hunt or kill rats. 2. colloquial inform on. Our definition: Rats take care of injured and sick rats in their group. Without companionship rats tend to become lonely and depressed. Rats have excellent memories. Once they learn…
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P is for Pig
Pig noun Oxford Dictionary definition: 1. Wild or domesticated animal with broad snout and stout bristly body. 2. colloquial greedy, dirty, obstinate or annoying person. Our definition: For the rest of the Ps, click the Pps, for the whole dictionary, click here
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O is for omelette
Omelette noun Oxford Dictionary definition: beaten eggs fried and often folded over filling. Our definition: Omelettes are made from eggs laid by birds (usually chickens) kept in unnatural, confined conditions, more often than not in over-crowded barns with no access to the outside and no natural light or fresh air. Their miserable lives are…
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N is for Nutria
Nutria noun Oxford Dictionary definition: coypu fur Our definition: Nutria (also called coypu) are large, rodents who are more agile in the water than on land. They live in burrows, or nests, never far from the water. Nutria may inhabit a riverbank or lakeshore, or dwell in the midst of wetlands. They are strong swimmers…
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Join the club!
Originally posted on Violet's Vegan Comics: VVC membership card Want to join the Violet’s Vegan Comics Club? Just make one of these cards and then send us a photo of it with your name – or your secret alias 😉
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Unlimited Culture: Vegetarian Food
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Free Postcards!
Babs wanted you to know that we’ve got some postcards up for grabs, although they’re disappearing fast! If you like sending postcards through the mail, or if you like this website and would like to share it with others by leaving them in library books or some such, then drop us a line using the…
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Henry David Thoreau
‘One farmer says to me, “You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;” and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw materials of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him…
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What they don’t tell you at school about Leonardo da Vinci
Originally posted on Violet's Vegan Comics: WHAT THEY WILL TELL YOU: Leonardo da Vinci is perhaps best known as a painter, with his legendary works including the Mona Lisa, the Vitruvian Man and the Last Supper, among others. Leonardo da Vinci wasn’t just an incredible artist, he was an inventor, scientist, mathematician, engineer, writer, musician…
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Vegan Story Time #6: How many friends could a Bibbolybob make if a Bibbolybob came to Earth?
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What they don’t tell you at school about Pythagoras
Originally posted on Violet's Vegan Comics: They’ll tell you a lot of stuff about Pythagoras at school, like: He worked out that in a right angled triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides: that’s Pythagorean Theorem Pythagoras is often referred to as the first pure…
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Recommended Reading: Wibbolywub and the Earthlings
Most enlightened people have become that way only after working hard to un-learn “facts” that they were taught as children, such as ‘humans are omnivores’. That’s why it is so wonderful to find an early learning book which tells the truth. How many friends could a Bibbolybob make if a Bibbolybob came to Earth? (aka…
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What they don’t tell you at school about William Wilberforce
Originally posted on Violet's Vegan Comics: What they will tell you: William Wilberforce (1759-1833) is one of the best known British abolitionists. He was a Parliamentarian, writer and social reformer. He was a close friend of William Pitt, the youngest Prime Minister in British history. Wilberforce campaigned for health care, educational and prison reform and legislation…
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Three Simple Rules
“Thou shalt not steal!” Said Sam to Neil, “You should not lie,” Said Jane to Si. “It’s wrong to kill,” Said all to Jill As she ate her big pork pie. *** “I’d never steal!” Replied cross Neil, “I do not lie!” Outraged was Si, “I would not kill!” Snapped back young Jill As she…
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NO NETS PLEASE # 4: Hedgehog
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NO NETS PLEASE # 3: Another Fox Cub
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NO NETS PLEASE #2: Pigeon
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NO NETS PLEASE # 1: Fox Cub
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Who are the Wildlife Aid Foundation?
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64 minutes later …
For the story so far, click here The End ….. for now 😉
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The Consequences
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Gasp!
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Don’t shoot!
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Oh no!
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Bert! Julius! What are you doing?!
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Meanwhile ….
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Pleased to meet you
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Uh oh …
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What’s the rush?
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Watch out for the watcher!
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Private Property
Reflecto Girl episode 4 continues (see yesterday’s post for the start). For episodes 1, 2 and 3 go to the 8 years and up shelf 🙂 To be continued ….
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Reflecto Girl #4 … and so it begins
For the story so far, go to the age 8 and up shelf for episodes 1, 2 and 3 To be continued ….
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If you go down to the woods today …
To the tune of Teddy Bears’ Picnic, All together now 😉 If you go down to the woods today You’d better not take your gun. If you go down to the woods today You won’t have your usual fun. *** For there’s a girl, like no other was Who’ll follow you there for certain because…
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**Farm Pigs Haven** Help make a difference!
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Greenpeace Petition
This Government is mad! PLEASE sign the Greenpeace petition here Thank you 😀
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Salad Ballad
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Hero Dog Saves His friend
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Steven the Vegan by Dan Bodenstein and Ron Robrahn
Steven the Vegan – a picture book by Dan Bodenstein and Ron Robrahn about Steven’s school trip to a farm sanctuary and the questions it naturally inspires from his classmates 😀
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V is for Vegan: The ABCs of Being Kind by Ruby Roth
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Recommended Reading: Ladybird’s Remarkable Relaxation
Here is another lovely yoga book for children from Michael Chissick and Sarah Peacock. This one is designed to be used by teachers and parents to help children use yoga relaxation to cope with stress, grief, bullying and lack of confidence. The book begins with guidance for teachers and parents, explaining the aims of the…
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Vegan Children’s Book – Arktel: The Planet Only Children Could Save
Originally posted on Violet's Vegan Comics: Arktel: The planet only children could save is a beautifully illustrated book by Menkit Prince. It’s about three planets: Tarjez, Arktel and Earth. On planet Tarjez, we fast forward to what could happen if we keep going the way we are on Earth i.e. total destruction. Children from Arktel…
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Recommended Reading: Frog’s Breathtaking Speech
Frog’s Breathtaking Speech is a gorgeous book for children – and teachers, and parents – to help them cope with tension and stress. Michael Chissick is a children’s yoga teacher and Sarah Peacock is a primary school teacher and they have both found the frog’s story very useful when helping children to relax. This beautifully…
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The World’s First Bee Highway.
Originally posted on Jardin: This is the sort of urban initiative that we all dream about but is actually being achieved in Norway. The Oslo Garden Society, working with the municipal government, individuals, schools and private companies, has created the world’s first bee highway – a network of feeding stations and shelter every 250 metres…
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And we have a winner!
Thank you to everyone who entered our prize draw to give a home to our cute but nameless bunny. The winner is Suzie Peron who came up with the name Cornball. So let me know your address through our contact form Suzie, Cornball can’t wait to meet you 😀
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Only a few hours left to enter the prize draw!
If you live in the UK and you’d like to adopt this little cutie, just think of a name for him or her and let me know in a comment on this or that post. All suggested names (with name of suggester) will be put into a box tomorrow morning and one will be drawn…
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We Love Potatoes
We love potatoes! Steamed, baked, crispy roasted, Oven chipped or mashed and toasted, Now that we have grown our own In muddy plot, quite overgrown, We get excited, dig deep down And pull our food out of the ground.
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