Did you know that May is Get Caught Reading month? Reading is a great way to relax, to take your mind off whatever’s worrying you, or to lose yourself in adventure without leaving your armchair, deckchair or bathtub. I mean, one of the joys of reading is that you can do it pretty much anywhere, no power source required. Well, we’ve got a lot of reading suggestions for you.
If you’re looking for comics and stories of adventure, or ghost stories or fairy tales or hilarious naughtiness, we’ve got you covered! On the other hand, maybe you’d like the picture book about an alien with a funny name, or the one about a furry friend who bakes a cake, or the one about two little piglets on the run. Look no further – we’ve got the best selection of vegan-friendly storybooks around!
Even the seagulls love our books! š
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Violetās Vegan Comics – creating funny, enlightening and sometimes action-packed vegan storybooks for readers of all ages, since 2012
Beans on Toast #3 ā the comic for 21st century kids ā is finally here!
The third issue of this wonderful vegan childrenās comic begins just like the first two, with a Marvellous Mildred adventure. This time, in āThe Terror of Toby Teardropā Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins rescue poor little trout, Toby, from another of the Flat-Capped Menaceās dastardly schemes.
Thereās also another chapter from the charming diary of a nine year old home-schooler ā What me and Jude did while everyone else was at school. And of course thereās an episode of Sherman and Geynes: pretend detectives. This time the imaginative detectives are hot on the trail of a missing book š®
Of course, no self-respecting vegan comic is complete without a few puzzles and this oneās got a word search, a word scramble, and a challenge to spot the identical fish! But thatās notā¦
We are proud to be supportingĀ LUV4ALL: UgandaĀ who are building a vegan school in Kassanda DistrictĀ but we desperately need your help.
Government funded schools in Uganda are few and far between, and their frequently-absent teachers provide poor education.Ā LUV4ALL: Uganda, led by Pastor Musisi Mike, is therefore raising the money to build an independent vegan primary school and provide full-time, good quality, compassionate education to the children of Kassanda District. We believe, as we witness world crises which are completely avoidable, we have to teach our children a better way forward.
Farmed animals in Uganda are completely unprotected. Grazing on whatever they can find in the forests, they are often injured by wild animals and bitten by snakes. Many are so neglected they are almost starved. The cruelty used when taking these animals to slaughter is abhorrent. Cows tied to trucks by their tails on their 67km journey to the abattoir; pigs killed with axes or stabbed through their ears with spears; chickens thrown alive into boiling water to make them easier to pluck. These barbaric and soul-destroying jobs are done by people who have never been to school.
The human population in Uganda suffers many infections from eating and producing animal products. Tape worms are common in children; and zoonotic pathogens like brucellosis frequently infect people. Then thereās bird flu every year, cholera, and sleeping sickness caused by the insects which farmed animals attract.
LUV4ALL:UgandaĀ intends to break this cycle of extreme cruelty, abuse and disease, and teach a new generation of Ugandan children that there is a better way. Our new school will teach children that plant-based diets, which do not offend nature, are the only healthy option. Crops are plentiful and cheap since most African families are growers, and they have no health complications. As well as literacy and numeracy, we will teach the children how to grow their own fruits and vegetables and make healthy meals.
LUV4ALL: Uganda sharing delicious, healthy food with the children in Kassanda
To save children from employment in animal factories and abattoirs, we will also be giving them vocational skills training such as arts and crafts ā learning woodwork, basketry, pottery, needlework and so much more.
Atlas vegan school has been operating since 2018 in rented premises but the landowner evicted us this year so the only way we can keep the school open is to build our own. We have so far raised enough money to buy the land and some of the building materials, but we still have a long way to go. We hope that you will donate whatever you can afford to help us provide a better future for our children, our human community, and the beautiful animals with whom we share this world.
The children are being asked what is their favourite fruit, and they reply ‘jackfruit’.
This money will fund the construction of classrooms, teachersā quarters, compost toilets and a school office, as well as school supplies such as stationery. Our need is urgent because the children have nowhere to learn next term until we have built it. We will provide complete transparency by updating our donors of our progress with photographs and videos, and are happy to answer any questions you may have.
From the bottom of our hearts we thank you for your kind donations. God bless you.
With love from Mike and the team at LUV4ALL: Uganda
They canāt do this without you so please donate and share this fantastic appeal to make it happen.
For the animals ⤠For the children ⤠For the future of this planet ⤠Make it happen! š
Jania contacted me recently and asked if we would share her vegan children’s book about a little girl with selective mutism.
With beautiful illustrations by Olin Tri Djasfar, this delightful little rhyming story explains how hard it is for Luna to talk to people outside her own family. Except cows. She feels relaxed and happy, talking to cows.
But when she witnesses the heart-breaking scene of a baby being wrenched from his mother, she determines to find the courage to speak out and tell all her friends about the horror of the dairy industry.
This is such a beautiful story of empathy and courage which shows that, with kindness, everybody wins.
Luna’s Voice is available in paperback on Amazon but you can also read it for free right here š
Here is a guest post I wrote in support of Shira Dest’s Project Do Better. My mental capacity is not equal to Shira’s so I find it a lot to take in and have to absorb it slowly. What I do know is this: whatever our abilities, we all have things we can contribute to Shira’s plan. Please do whatever you do well to make the world a safe place for children and animals.
This is the fundamental pillar of Project Do Better.Ā I asked Violet for her thoughts on this topic, and about her childrenās books: Violetās Vegan Comics.Ā She was kind enough to share these thoughts:
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Project Do Better
Shira Dest is an ambitious woman and she has an ambitious plan. Ā Some might say an over-ambitious plan. Ā Some might call it impossible. Ā But why should it be impossible? Ā Because most people are uncaring? Ā No. Ā Most people care. Ā Most people would prevent the suffering of a child if they could. Ā So whatās the problem? Ā Why arenāt all children safe? Ā The problem is a society and education system that conditions children to turn a blind eye to the suffering of other animals.
The moral code by which āgoodā people raise their children is inconsistent. Ā Its contradictions require that children are taught to apply the rules selectivelyā¦
Pastor Mike of LUV4ALL: Uganda, as well as inspiring compassion for animals, is also working hard to raise money for a much-needed local school.
Atlas community school is registered and under Free Born Foundation Uganda and they need your support. The school sponsor marginalized children in remote areas of Kassanda district Uganda so they are fundraising to give their children their own school.
They need to fund its day to day activities, as well as provide for other needs of the children such as food, reusable pads for girls, and sponsoring the welfare of the children and teachers.
If you can make a donation, however small, towards their $1000 goal, it will be very gratefully received.
The early episodes of vegan superhero (sort of), Reflecto Girl have been revamped so let’s see how her story began. Watch it unfold day by day or read it all at once on the Reflecto Girl page š
Now that’s my kind of inheritance! I wish I had one š Come back tomorrow to find out what it’s capable of š
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Violetās Vegan Comics creates funny, enlightening and sometimes action packed vegan childrenās books for readers of all ages.
We are members of the WE LOVE TURKEYS* committee, and we want to wish you a happy holiday without including dead birds.Ā We would like it if you loved turkeys when they were alive, like we do.Ā They make great friends and they can gobble very well.Ā They do a lot of other things too, and they are fun to be around.
So we are thankful for our turkey friends and out piggy friends and all of our other living friends and we would like you to be happy that their hearts are beating and that feel joy and love.
Thank you, from Danny, Spice and Sofie.
*If you arenāt sure what a turkey looks like, because youāve only seen dead onesā¦please see the picture above our feathered heads.
Today,Ā 1.56 million childrenĀ are harvesting beans on cocoa plantations of Cote DāIvoire and Ghana, the origin of more than 70% of the cocoa sold by big brands. Local traditions in which youths move among extended family circles have been exploited to facilitate human trafficking. And theā¦
“We have great news! Government report confirms decapods can feel pain
A year ago, in response to our campaigning, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) commissioned an independent piece of work, looking into whether or not animals like crabs, lobsters and prawns (decapod crustaceans) are sentient animals and can feel pain. After numerous delays, and much chasing by Crustacean Compassion and our wonderful supporters – the report has finally been published! We may have waited a year… but the findings are well worth it! An expert team of scientists, led by Dr Jonathan Birch, at London School of Economics (LSE) reviewed all available evidence, and concluded that decapods are capable of feeling pain and must be protected. The wealth of scientific evidence confirmed what we knew already ā these animals are sentient beings! Hereās a quote from the report: āWe recommend that all cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans be regarded as sentient animals for the purposes of UK animal welfare law. They should be counted as āanimalsā for the purposes of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and included in the scope of any future legislation relating to animal sentienceāThe governmentās plan to protect decapods.
In light of this, the UK Government are planning to amend the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill to protect decapod crustaceans alongside vertebrates. The inclusion of decapods in this legislation is ground breaking! The legal recognition of their sentience means their welfare must be considered in policy making decisions and will influence how they are handled and treated. At the moment, decapods have no more protection than vegetables. They are boiled alive, chopped up alive, sent live in the post… This legal protection is long overdue! What happens next?
The Sentience Bill is due to continue its passage through parliament to become law. The next step is Report Stage in the House of Lords, taking place Tuesday 30th November. On this day, we expect the governmentās amendment to include decapods to be confirmed and put into print! Make sure to stay tuned as weāll be sharing updates on our social media, website and by email. Thank you!
It has taken us years of work to get to this point, and we couldnāt have done it without you all. Every action taken has brought us one step closer to protecting these vulnerable and overlooked animals. Thanks to all of you, we are changing animal welfare history. Thank you for your ongoing support.”
Maisie, Claire, Jules, Laura, Ann Crustacean Compassion
Thank you so much to everyone who signed the petition, shared the campaign, wrote to their representatives, and helped make this happen. Thank you so so much. xxxxx
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Violetās Vegan Comics creates funny, enlightening and sometimes action packed vegan childrenās books for readers of all ages, which are free to read online.
“We’d like to thank you for sending in your wonderful selfiesā¦We received hundreds!
By signing our petition and writing to your MPs, as thousands of you have, the government have heard your voices. But we wanted to go one step further and provide the opportunity to show your faces too.
We wanted to use your faces to demonstrate visually how much support there is for the legal protection of vulnerable animals like crabs, prawns and lobsters. To do this, weāve used every selfie to create a āwelfare mosaicsā; images of these overlooked animals, made-up by the faces of the people standing up for them:
We have been sharing this mosaic all over social media and are continuously reminding Defra of the deadline they have promised to ensure the review of decapod sentience is published before the Sentience Billās next step through parliament. We expect this to come very soon and will keep you updated!
Show your face and show your support.
In the meantime, let’s get the message out there. Join Michaela Strachan and our other amazing supporters by sharing our mosaic far and wide on social media! Don’t forget to tag @Defra too if you can!”
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I’m sure, like us, you would like to take a sledgehammer to the doors of all seafood restaurants and rescue the still living sentient beings who are yet to endure horrific abuse. But we would not likely get away with that for long and even if we were successful for a while, those rescued animals would simply be replaced with other victims. Crustacean Compassion’s campaign is our best hope of permanently preventing the unimaginable cruelty suffered by crustaceans. Please share their work on social media, whether you’re from the UK or not, and inspire some morality amongst the decision-makers.
Thank you.
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Violetās Vegan Comics creates funny, enlightening and sometimes action packed vegan childrenās books for readers of all ages.
Oh that is a relief! I hope they’ll all be safe now.
Come back soon to see what happens next!
If you like vegan children’s stories and comics, you’ve come to the right place. But you don’t have to be a child to read them, they are all delightful, thrilling or exciting no matter how old a vegan you are.
Vegan stories with vegan characters having vegan adventures.
Whatās a vegan storybook? you may ask. Well, basically, itās like any other storybook except the central characters ā the heroes ā are vegan š
How many times have you had your enjoyment of a good story spoilt when the heroes ā the people you liked, the people you were rooting for ā ate meat or went fishing or bought a leather jacket?
When these things happen in childrenās stories they send a message ā they tell the child that itās okay to do these things. The good guys do it so it must be okay. Itās normal.
Well, vegan storybooks do not pretend itās okay to use, abuse and consume animals. Vegan storybooks create a new normal.
So a vegan storybook is not necessarily about veganism. It is simply a story in which animal exploitation is not normalised.
If you browse the front page you will see we have all sorts of vegan childrenās books.
There are picture books and rhyming stories for little ones ā one about an alien visitor to Earth, another about making a birthday cake, another about two little pigs trying to get home, another about a panda trying to find the right food and, yes, one about what it means to be vegan. ā¤
We have some exciting series of vegan adventure comics for readers aged 8 and up. For example, Reflecto Girl who holds an ancient magic mirror in front of wrong-doers to give them a taste of their own medicine. Venus Aqueous is a champion swimmer who develops the supernatural power to hear and understand the marine animals who call for her help. Megan & Flos are telepathic eco-warriors and one of them is not of this world. Sherman and Geynes are pretend detectives who investigate mysteries of their own invention. The English Family Anderson are a nomadic family who meet an angry ghost. And Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins are fearless, and funny, animal rescuers.
For those who prefer their stories in prose we have the funny short stories of Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er ā a rebellious eight year old boy who sticks up for animals at every opportunity, regardless of the trouble he gets into with parents and teachers. And thereās the thoughtful diary of a nine year old home-schooler.
Thereās even a collection of fairy tales!
All our books are printed by lulu.com on demand to avoid waste, and the paper used is Forest Council Certified. None of the materials used for printing are animal by-products or animal-tested.
We hope you enjoy these stories as much as we do ā you can read them all for free here at Violetās Vegan Comics ā and keep coming back because weāre adding more all the time. We just canāt help ourselves!
āNot here,ā said Mr Beardsley, āor they might get eaten. Put them on my desk behind the screen.ā
The boys did as they were told and made their way through small huddles of various royalty, warriors and poets, a couple of Shakespeares and a Jesus. No sooner had they placed the food on the desk than Mr Beardsley asked Joe to give him the treacle scones and string so that he could set up the game. They would be starting in about ten minutes he told them. Music was already playing and a few people danced self-consciously in the middle of the room.
āThis oneās for you Joe,ā came a familiar voice through the speaker when the record changed.
Luke and Joe looked around to see Simon Butler behind a turntable across the room, dressed in a short blonde beard; a gold fitted jacket zipped up to his neck; short gold trousers fastened below the knee; long socks and large-buckled shoes. He thought he was so cool because Mr Beardsley had let him be the DJ. The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum by Fun Boy Three filled the room and Butler laughed excessively at his own joke. Luke and Joe paid him a visit.
āSo glad you took my advice Joe,ā he said privately, āyou look even more like a loon than usual!ā
āIām Pythagoras,ā said Joe, holding up the right-angled triangle heād made out of three rulers.
āOh, yeah, I know you think so, lunatics often think theyāre somebody famous,ā he chuckled smugly.
āIām not a lunatic! I am Pythagā¦ā
āWhat are you sāposed to be anyway?ā Luke interrupted their pointless argument to draw attention to Butlerās ridiculous ensemble.
āSir Walter Raleigh,ā Butler confessed without shame.
Luke cast his best contemptuous glance at his arch enemy and said nothing.
āOkay, switch the music off now Simon, itās time for the games to begin,ā Mr Beardsley called across the room.
Mr Beardsley and Thomas had put out four small tables at intervals around the room. They were set up with different traditional Halloween games.
āTake it in turns to play the games at each table,ā Blackbeard instructed, āhave fun!ā He was the kind of teacher who didnāt believe in too much control. He liked to give the children enough room to find their own way and, since heād already explained the games in class, he chose not to recap. āYou can put the music back on now Simon,ā he added.
āThis table is for apple bobbing,ā said Thomas who, unlike his colleague, preferred to make sure things were being done properly. āOne at a time. Katia ā you go first.ā
Luke and Joe decided to come back later for apples and wandered over to see what was on the next table. Joeās treacle-covered scones, with long lengths of string tied to them, were suspended above the table and dangled at different heights. Queen Elizabeth I and Boudicca were already tucking in. With hands held behind their backs, Tania and Isabel tried to bite the scones and every time they got a nibble, the sticky pendulums swung away and then back, bumping their noses, their chins, their cheeks and their hair. Boudicca, being less concerned about her appearance than the Queen, finished her scone first and bowed her grinning, sticky head in gratitude for the applause of her peers. Queen Liz, dignified in defeat, shook her opponentās hand and went to the sink to wash her face.
āUs next!ā said Luke, standing beside the table and leaning forward. āGo!ā he shouted before Joe was ready, and tried to grab an untouched scone in his teeth.
Joe hurried to join in but found himself at a disadvantage when one scone stuck to his thick beard, just below his bottom lip, and prevented him from getting close to any other. Thomas laughed and reminded Joe that he couldnāt use his hands but he neednāt have said anything because Joe was not a cheater. Luke was the clear victor, finishing his scone in just four bites, and afterwards Joe was allowed to manually detach his scone from his beard and eat it normally. There were less hairs on it than one might expect.
At the next table were small plates with chunks of barm brack on them, cut from the fruit breads that Luke and a couple of other people had made.
āIāve got a coin!ā said Isabel as she broke up her piece with a fork, āthat means Iām going to be rich!ā
āI think youāre sāposed to just bite it,ā said Joe, āit might not work if you pull it apart like that.ā
āPlus itās dirty,ā added Tania, āmoneyās really dirty you know. Just think how many people have touched it without washing their hands.ā
Joe had already bitten into his chunk of barmbrack and discovered that he too had a coin. He spat it quickly into his hand.
āItās not dirty,ā Luke assured him, ādonāt ya think I washed āem before I put āem in?ā
āIs this the one that you made?ā Joe asked, a little relieved.
āYeah,ā said Luke confidently, āwell, it looks ā¦, yeah, definitely.ā
Luke bit into his piece of bread and found only currants and orange peel.
At the next table were three large dishes of colcannon, accompanied by a stack of small bowls and spoons. The game was the same. If you found a coin it meant you would be rich; if you found a ring it meant you would find true love. Luke hadnāt had any rings to put into his baking, and heād put all his spare coins into his barm brack, so he loaded his bowl from the colcannon heād made himself, knowing that the only thing he was in danger of finding was a pile of delicious grub. Thoughtful as always, he didnāt spoil the game for the others by telling them that.
A few minutes later, Luke, Joe, Tania and Isabel, all happy in spite of finding nothing but cabbage in their mash, found their newly stimulated appetites craved more and made their way to the long table. It was a good job they hadnāt left it any longer as many of the other children were already digging in and the good stuff was going fast. Luke took a large paper plate from the pile and filled it with roasted sweetcorn, monkey nuts, roasted pumpkin seeds, bonfire toffee and ⦠oh no, Joe got the last toffee apple.
āOh, do you want it?ā Joe offered when his hand reached it just before Lukeās.
āNah,ā said Luke, trying to sound casual, āitās yours.ā
āWeāll share it,ā Joe decided.
Luke smiled.
āOkay.ā This was a good party.
Then he noticed something bad on the table. Something not in keeping with the celebration. Something odious. Something which was in shockingly bad taste: Scotch eggs.
āHey! They canāt have them on Halloween! Who brought them?ā he asked, pointing with disgust at the flesh food and surveying the faces around the table.
āWhatās wrong?ā asked Isabel.
Luke didnāt hear her. He angrily snatched the plate from the buffet, intending to dispose of the offending items.
āMr Beardsley said itās a Halloween tradition to be vegetarian,ā Joe explained to Isabel, āso Luke is cross that somebodyās not doinā it right.ā
āSo I see,ā said Isabel as she watched Luke trying to move through the crowd holding the large plate of Scotch eggs above his head with both hands.
āHey! Where you going with those?ā Butler asked as Luke passed the music centre on his way to the toilets.
āGettinā rid of āem!ā said Luke, ātheyāre not Halloween.ā
āHey! Bring them back! My mum made them! Bring them back!ā
Luke hurried through the cloakroom door with Butler close behind him. The music stopped and everyone could hear the two boys arguing loudly on the other side of the door.
Mr Beardsley hurried after them.
āDonāt come any nearer or Iāll drop āem,ā Luke threatened, forcing Butler to back off.
āYouāve got no right to throw away other peopleās stuff!ā he shouted angrily, āyou think youāre better than everybody else! You think youāre so good but youāre not ā youāre a thief! Give them back!ā
āItās no meat for Halloween!ā Luke asserted, ādint your teacher tell you that?!ā
āWe donāt have to do what you say! Some of us want to eat meat ā most of us actually ā coz it tastes good! Mmm, Iād love a nice bacon buttie right now, or a nice bit of fish and chips, or a big juicy burger.ā
His infuriating smirk pushed Luke to the limit and he lunged for the toilet door.
āStop!ā The boom of Mr Beardsleyās voice did not encourage disobedience.
Luke froze, plate in hand, his back to his teacher and his adversary.
āCould someone please tell me what on Earth is going on here?ā Mr Beardsley asked more calmly.
Both boys talked at once: āHeās throwing my mumās food in the toiletā / āMeatās not allowed on Halloween!ā
āStop!ā their teacher said again, āLuke, what are you doing out here with that plate of Scotch eggs?ā
āThey shouldnāt be here! You said people dint eat meat on Halloween! Itās tradition!ā
āYes, thatās true, I did, it is traditional not to eat meat on All Hallowsā Eve.ā
āBut my mum made them! Heās got no right to throw them away!ā
āSimon!ā Mr Beardsley quieted him, āno oneās going to throw away your motherās food. Go back in to the party please and get the music going again.ā
Simon reluctantly did as he was told and Mr Beardsley turned back to Luke.
āGive me the plate please,ā he instructed.
āBut theyāre not ā¦ā
āLuke, now please.ā
Luke handed him the plate.
āBut youāre not gonna put āem back on the table are you? Theyāre not sāposed to be ā¦ā
āLuke, I know you feel strongly about this and I respect that but you canāt force your beliefs on other people. Everyone has to be free to make their own choices.ā
āYeah right! Tell that to the chickens and pigs theyāre made out of! If theyād had free choice they wouldāve said NO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, I DONāT WANT TO BE A SCOTCH EGG!ā
āYes, alright Luke youāve made your point. Now kindly return to the party and stay away from Simon Butler.ā
Back in the classroom Luke found his plate and his friends and told them the whole story.
āYouāre right,ā said Tania, āSimon knew he was supposed to make something from the traditional vegetarian recipes Mr Beardsley gave us. He shouldāve been reprimanded for not doing it right.ā
āTypical!ā added Isabel, ālook at that, Beardsleyās just putting the scotch eggs back on the table. That flies in the face of everything he taught us! Whatās the point of teaching us about historical tradition and saying you want to have a traditional party if youāre just going to let people be inauthentic?ā
āYeah! Itās fraudulent!ā Tania concurred.
Luke hungrily polished off his sweetcorn while he listened to the impressive but unfamiliar vocabulary being employed by the girls and was in no doubt that they agreed with him.
āI think we should boycott this party!ā Isabel declared.
āWhaddaya mean?ā asked Joe.
āOn the grounds that itās a sham.ā
āWhat?ā said Luke and Joe at the same time.
āShe means itās bogus,ā Tania explained, āspurious, phoney, false, fake.ā
āOh, yeah, itās fake alright,ā said Luke, catching up, āheās ruined it. Itās not thentick at all now!ā
āIf we want a truly educational, authentic, realistic, traditional Halloween experience, weāll have to do it ourselves,ā Isabel went on, āwe should go now and play the other game he told us about. The one he said we couldnāt play.ā
The others gasped and then grinned.
āThatās ezzactly what we should do,ā said Luke.
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A noisy, activity-filled party with only two adults in attendance was easy to sneak away from. It hadnāt even been difficult to get the matches from Mr Beardsleyās desk drawer. Fortunately there had been no rain for a couple of weeks so it didnāt take long to find ample dry twigs and fir cones in the churchyard over the road. Now all they needed was a big stone each and that would be no problem either because Luke remembered seeing some different coloured pebbles, curiously arranged in the shape of a fish, close to the church entrance. Theyād just been left there. No one was using them.
It was just after nine oāclock and very dark in the churchyard. Two owls hooted back and forth. Every so often bats flew overhead between the bell tower and the vicarage. Now it really felt like Halloween. The children made themselves comfortable on the ground near the oldest gravestones they could find. Covered in lichen, the writing on them was almost illegible.
Making sure there was nothing flammable nearby, Luke built a small fire with the twigs and fir cones on the crumbling horizontal stone base of one of the graves. He had no trouble getting it going with the few scraps of paper found in Mr Beardsleyās desk drawer earlier.
As their teacher had told them, the game was simple. On Halloween night, participants made a fire and when the fire burnt out they placed a ring of stones in the ashes, one for each person. The following morning they would check the circle and if they found any stone displaced, it was said that the person it represented would die before the year ended.
Luke drew a circle in the ash with another stick. Their pebbles were easy to distinguish from each other. Lukeās was the biggest and the darkest. He put it in the twelve oāclock position, closest to the gravestone. Joeās was a little smaller and had a notch on one side. He placed it at nine oāclock. Isabelās looked like it had a nose, hers was placed at six oāclock and Taniaās, the smallest of them all, was placed at three oāclock.
āWhat was that?ā Isabel turned suddenly to look behind her.
āJust a rabbit probāly,ā said Luke, āor a badger.ā
āOr a fox,ā added Joe.
The boys looked around eagerly, hoping to see some majestic nocturnal wildlife. They werenāt so lucky.
āWeād better get back,ā said Tania, looking at her watch, āitās nearly five to ten.ā
āWait!ā whispered Luke as he ducked behind a tree, āthatās my dad!ā
The churchyard was a short-cut between the school and Lukeās road so he might have known his dad would come this way to meet him. Everyone laid low until heād passed.
āMy mumās probably at the school by now too,ā said Tania.
āTheyāll all be there, waiting outside the classroom for us,ā said Isabel anxiously, āhow will we get back in without them seeing us?ā
Luke and Joe smiled at each other. For seasoned outlaws like them, this wasnāt going to be a problem.
āFollow us,ā said Joe, and they led the girls to a little known entrance to the school which was always left open when the caretaker was around so that he could duck out quickly for a smoke without going past the kitchens or the offices. The door led to the school hall which had a connecting door to Mrs Tebbutās classroom which shared a cloakroom with Class 5A.
āDonāt tell anyone about this,ā Joe added as an afterthought.
Without raising suspicion all four of them rejoined the rest of their class as they emerged from the party. They parted with a secret promise to meet early Saturday morning and check on the fire circle. Each agreed to wait until they were all together before they looked.
When all children had been collected Mr Beardsley and Thomas returned to the classroom to clear up the mess. They were tired but it had been fun; they were glad theyād done it.
āExcuse me,ā Mrs Butler put her head round the door.
āOh, hello,ā said Mr Beardsley, āare you looking for your plate? Itās in a stack in the sink. Iāll wash it up and send it home with Simon on Monday.ā
āEr, thank you, no, Iām looking for Simon. Did he leave with someone else?ā
Mr Beardsleyās jaw dropped. Filled with dread he looked at Thomas. Thomas shook his head. At that moment the classroom door opened again and Simon walked in.
āSimon! Where have you been?ā his mum asked, awash with relief.
āLooking for you,ā he lied, āshall we go?ā
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Ooh, – if you didn’t read the beginning of this vegan Halloween story, you won’t understand the ending š
Fancy some more vegan children’s stories? There’s plenty to choose from here š
Fridayās party was eagerly anticipated by everyone. It was going to be historical. They were going to play traditional games and eat traditional food ā which they would have to make from scratch over the next couple of days. Mr Beardsley had given them recipes to take home. And they needed costumes. There was a lot to do and very little time in which to do it. Luke and Joe talked about it while they put on their coats and boots at the end of the day.
āIām going to be a pirate,ā said Joe.
āYou canāt be a pirate, itās not historical.ā
āIsnāt it?ā
āNo, itās made up. Like in Peter Pan.ā
āPirates are real,ā Isabel couldnāt help pointing out when she overheard their conversation.
āNot Long John Silver, or Captain Hook, or someone with a parrot on āis shoulder,ā Luke clarified.
āWhat are you cominā as then?ā asked Joe.
āWilliam Wilberforceās ghost,ā said Luke proudly.
āOoh, good one,ā said Tania as she returned to Isabel the scarf sheād borrowed.
āIām coming as Queen Elizabeth I,ā she added, shaking her auburn curls.
āWho can I be?ā Isabel wondered aloud. The girls walked away in deep discussion. Luke and Joe were not far behind. Joe was disappointed that he couldnāt go as a pirate.
āWhat can I go as then?ā he asked his friend.
āGo as a lunatic from one of those old asylums,ā suggested Simon Butler whoād appeared from nowhere, āthen you wouldnāt need a costume!ā And he laughed so loud on his way out that Mrs Tebbut shouted āPIPE DOWN OUT THERE!ā from the classroom next door.
Luke scowled.
āIdiot Butler! Not even sāposed to be in this cloakroom,ā he hissed under his breath. āDonāt worry,ā he told Joe, āyouāll be somethinā betterān āim!ā
***
āNot Mr Darcy! Mr Wilberforce!ā Luke insisted. āI donāt want to look like some posh bloke from Priden Precipice!ā
Mrs Walker pulled the black trousers, white ruffled shirt and long black coat from The Village Playersā costume trunk.
āWilliam Wilberforce would have dressed like Mr Darcy Luke, these will be just the thing,ā she assured him, āIāll just give them an iron.ā
āOkay,ā Luke tentatively agreed, ābut what about Joe? Is there anythinā in there that Joe can wear?ā
Lukeās mum set up the board and plugged in the iron.
āWhoās he going as?ā she asked.
āDepends what costumes youāve got,ā said Luke, keeping an open mind.
Mum had only recently joined the local amateur dramatics group so she wasnāt sure what costumes theyād got. Most of them were a bit worse for wear but they were lucky to be allowed to use them.
āSee for yourself,ā she suggested, āhave a rummage and see if anything captures your imagination.ā
Luke rummaged. Pink tights, brown tights, knickerbockers, caterpillar costume, spider costume, Cheshire Cat costume, blue dress with white pinafore. So far not so good. Red ball gown, green ball gown, yellow ball gown, purple tutu, red clown shoes. Really not good.
āRubbish!ā said Luke ungratefully, āitās all rubbish!ā
Mum sighed and switched off the iron.
āLuke ā donāt just throw them around like that! Youāre lucky weāve been allowed to borrow these,ā she said, exasperated.
Luke was sorry. He just wanted to find something good for Joe to shut Butler up. He helped Mum pick up the costumes and re-fold them.
āSorry,ā he said.
She pressed her lips tight together and looked him in the eye.
āThatās alright,ā she said. Then, just as she was about to put the folded pile back in the trunk, she noticed a couple of things Luke had missed.
āWhat about these?ā she said.
āA nightgown and a Father Christmas beard?ā said Luke, unimpressed.
āNot a nightgown, a robe,ā she explained, āmen used to wear these in the olden days, especially in hot countries.ā
Lukeās blank expression indicated he needed another clue.
āWhoās that maths guy you like?ā
Still blank.
āVegetarian? Triangles?ā
āPythagoras!ā
āYes!ā Mum smiled, āI bet he would have worn something like this. And he probably had a long white beard when he got old.ā
āYeah!ā Now Luke was excited, āWeāll both be veggietareun people from history! Joe can be Pythagoras and Iāll be William Wilberforceās ghost!ā
āWhy not just William Wilberforce? Why do you have to be his ghost?ā
āCoz itās a Halloween party. Ya know: Ha-llow-een. Itās all about ghosts and scary stuff.ā He thought his mum would have known that.
āYes, but youāre all going as people from history.ā
āYes.ā
āSo theyāre all dead.ā
āYeah.ā There really was nothing confusing here.
āSo why doesnāt Joe go as Pythagorasās ghost?ā
āItās supposed to be someone whoās dead. So heās Pythagoras. The man.ā
āYes, I see, so why arenāt you the man?ā
āIām going to be William Wilberforceās ghost.ā
āNot man?ā
āNo.ā
āBut if youāre a ghost why isnāt Joe going to be a ghost. Or if heās the man, why arenāt you the manā¦?ā She caught sight of her own reflection in the mirror and paused, wondering why she kept asking questions to which there could be no satisfactory answer.
āCan you iron this one as well please?ā her son asked, handing back the white robe, āIām goinā to phone Joe and tell āim.ā
***
On Friday 31st of October at 7.08 pm, Luke and Joe said goodbye to Lukeās dad at the school gate and walked towards the classroom carrying their contributions to the party food. Luke had followed the Halloween recipes given to him by Mr Beardsley for barm brack (a kind of fruit bread) and colcannon (mashed potatoes mixed with cabbage). Mum had helped a bit. Joe brought the treacle-covered scones heād made with Janetās assistance, using another of their teacherās traditional recipes. Heād also remembered the string.
Mr Beardsleyās classroom was almost unrecognisable.
Hanging from the ceiling were two large imitation crystal chandeliers, covered in cobwebs and emitting a very dim, creamy light. Long dark-purple velvet curtains replaced the Venetian blinds that usually hung in the windows, the bottoms of which sat in folds on the floor around large pumpkins carved with grotesque gargoyle faces.
The boys approached a long table at one end of the room. It was draped in a ragged, dark red table cloth whose dusty hem skimmed the dusty parquet. On it fifteen white candles stood tall on three candelabra, complete with realistic-looking orange and yellow tissue paper flames and untidily littered with long drips of dry wax. Various plates and bowls of food, brought by the children, were set upon the table. Luke and Joe added theirs.
āNo, not on there boys,ā Mr Beardsley startled them, suddenly appearing as he did. āThose are for the games, remember?ā
Luke and Joe looked at their teacher and then at each other and laughed. Mr Beardsley had really pulled out all the stops for this party. His already lofty frame appeared even taller than usual, and his apparently-severed head rested in front of his chest, supported by his left arm. Atop the severed head sat an enviable black hat, with wide upturned brim and a sinister-looking white skull and cross-bones on the front.
āWho are you supposed to be?ā asked Luke.
āCanāt you guess?ā teased his teacher, rubbing his brand new coal-black beard.
āNo,ā said Luke. Joe also shook his head.
Mr Beardsley tutted.
āBoys, boys boys,ā he said, shaking his head, ādonāt you ever listen to my lessons?ā he asked rhetorically. āIām Blackbeard. Remember? The famous pirate who was beheaded in 1718?ā
āPirate?ā said Joe, looking daggers at Luke.
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Come back tomorrow for the conclusion of this vegan childrenās story,
And so we will tell a vegan Halloween story over three days. You may have heard it before:
Luke Walker and the Halloween Party
Luke, Joe, Isabel and Tania looked at the circle and gasped.Ā They hadnāt believed it could happen.Ā Now that it had, they were scared.
āThatās it then,ā said Luke eventually, āIāll probāly be dead by Christmas.ā
***
Three days earlier everything had seemed so ordinary. Boringly so. Class 5A were doing History. History was sometimes interesting, sometimes exciting and often-times boring. This particular lesson seemed like it was going to fit into the last category. Mr Beardsley was talking whilst writing on the board, which meant he had his back to the class, which meant very few people were even pretending to listen.
ā⦠historians believe that many of these traditions originate from Celtic harvest festivals, but others are of the opinion that it has always been a Christian ā¦.ā
āT,ā whispered Luke.
āNo,ā said Joe, as he drew a diagonal support on the gallows.
āF,ā
āYes,ā said Joe and filled in the Fs.
āOoh, two Fs! Is it coffee?ā
āNo,ā and he drew the noose.
Mr Beardsley rambled on and Luke found it disturbed his concentration. He felt sure he was close. There couldnāt be that many words with double F. Then the teacher said something that caught his attention.
ā⦠Christians historically abstained from meat on All Hallowsā Eve, which is why it was traditional to eat certain vegetarian foods on this special day. In particular they ate apples, potato pancakes, and soul cakes.ā
āWhatās he talkinā about?ā Luke asked Joe. Joe looked at him blankly. Isabel Jessop tapped him on the shoulder and passed him a note which said āHalloweenā.
Luke nodded a thank you to her. He pushed the note across to Joe.
āHalloween is a veggietareun day! Weād better listen coz he might want us to explain things to the others.ā
Joe nodded and smiled uncomfortably. Heād never been called upon to explain anything to anyone and the idea didnāt appeal to him. However, realising that if any explanations were needed his friend would certainly provide them, he regained his composure. The boys watched their teacher and listened.
āAll Hallowsā Eve, otherwise known as All Saints Eve, Allhalloween or, nowadays, just Halloween, begins the three days of Allhallowtide during which people remembered saints and martyrs and other dead people.ā
āOh my gosh!ā thought Luke, āit seemed like it was gettinā intārestinā so we stopped playinā anā now itās borinā again!ā
ā⦠such as roasted sweetcorn, roasted pumpkin seeds, toffee apples,ā¦ā
āToffee! Is it toffee?ā
āNo,ā said Joe, drawing the condemned manās circular head.
ā⦠and they would enjoy these foods at Halloween parties where theyād also play some fun games.ā
Mr Beardsley had their attention again.
āSo I thought we could have a Year 5 Halloween party. Weāll invite class 5B and play some of these traditional games.ā
A buzz of excitement filled the room.
āWhen?ā someone shouted.
āOn the 31st of October of course. The day after tomorrow. Friday.ā
āWhere?ā
āHere. At seven oāclock ātil ten. Iāll send a note home to your parents today.ā
Mr Beardsley was so disorganised. Luke liked that about him.
āWill it be fancy dress?ā
āIndeed it will, but stop shouting out and let me finish. Iāll answer any questions you still have at the end of the lesson.ā
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Come back tomorrow for the next part of this vegan children’s story,
“We have now shown that until 1847 all uses the word ‘vegetarian’ came from people associated with Alcott House School, on Ham Common, south west of London. And they used it to mean a 100% plant food diet – a ‘vegetarian’ was simply someone who lived on vegetation. There were, of course, many other people following variations of the ‘vegetable diet’, most of them adding eggs/dairy products. But we can find no indication of any of them using the word ‘vegetarian’ before 1847.”
Whatās a vegan storybook? you may ask. Well, basically, itās like any other storybook except the central characters ā the heroes ā are vegan š
How many times have you had your enjoyment of a good story spoilt when the heroes ā the people you liked, the people you were rooting for ā ate meat or went fishing or bought a leather jacket?
When these things happen in childrenās stories they send a message ā they tell the child that itās okay to do these things. The good guys do it so it must be okay. Itās normal.
Well, vegan storybooks do not pretend itās okay to use, abuse and consume animals. Vegan storybooks create a new normal.
So a vegan storybook is not necessarily about veganism. It is simply a story in which animal exploitation is not normalised.
If you browse the front page you will see we have all sorts of vegan childrenās books.
There are picture books and rhyming stories for little ones ā one about an alien visitor to Earth, another about making a birthday cake, another about two little pigs trying to get home, another about a panda trying to find the right food and, yes, one about what it means to be vegan. ā¤
We have some exciting series of vegan adventure comics for readers aged 8 and up. For example, Reflecto Girl who holds an ancient magic mirror in front of wrong-doers to give them a taste of their own medicine. Venus Aqueous is a champion swimmer who develops the supernatural power to hear and understand the marine animals who call for her help. Megan & Flos are telepathic eco-warriors and one of them is not of this world. Sherman and Geynes are pretend detectives who investigate mysteries of their own invention. The English Family Anderson are a nomadic family who meet an angry ghost. And Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins are fearless, and funny, animal rescuers.
For those who prefer their stories in prose we have the funny short stories of Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er ā a rebellious eight year old boy who sticks up for animals at every opportunity, regardless of the trouble he gets into with parents and teachers. And thereās the thoughtful diary of a nine year old home-schooler.
Thereās even a collection of fairy tales!
All our books are printed by lulu.com on demand to avoid waste, and the paper used is Forest Council Certified. None of the materials used for printing are animal by-products or animal-tested.
We hope you enjoy these stories as much as we do ā you can read them all for free here at Violetās Vegan Comics ā and keep coming back because weāre adding more all the time. We just canāt help ourselves!
Great, he’s gone. That’s a relief! Gertie’s not wrong, so we’d better hope Mildred’s right.
Come back tomorrow to see what happens next.
If you like vegan children’s stories and comics, you’ve come to the right place. But you don’t have to be a child to read them, they are all delightful, thrilling or exciting no matter how old a vegan you are.
Vegan stories with vegan characters having vegan adventures.
Whatās a vegan storybook? you may ask. Well, basically, itās like any other storybook except the central characters ā the heroes ā are vegan š
How many times have you had your enjoyment of a good story spoilt when the heroes ā the people you liked, the people you were rooting for ā ate meat or went fishing or bought a leather jacket?
When these things happen in childrenās stories they send a message ā they tell the child that itās okay to do these things. The good guys do it so it must be okay. Itās normal.
Well, vegan storybooks do not pretend itās okay to use, abuse and consume animals. Vegan storybooks create a new normal.
So a vegan storybook is not necessarily about veganism. It is simply a story in which animal exploitation is not normalised.
If you browse the front page you will see we have all sorts of vegan childrenās books.
There are picture books and rhyming stories for little ones ā one about an alien visitor to Earth, another about making a birthday cake, another about two little pigs trying to get home, another about a panda trying to find the right food and, yes, one about what it means to be vegan. ā¤
We have some exciting series of vegan adventure comics for readers aged 8 and up. For example, Reflecto Girl who holds an ancient magic mirror in front of wrong-doers to give them a taste of their own medicine. Venus Aqueous is a champion swimmer who develops the supernatural power to hear and understand the marine animals who call for her help. Megan & Flos are telepathic eco-warriors and one of them is not of this world. Sherman and Geynes are pretend detectives who investigate mysteries of their own invention. The English Family Anderson are a nomadic family who meet an angry ghost. And Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins are fearless, and funny, animal rescuers.
For those who prefer their stories in prose we have the funny short stories of Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er ā a rebellious eight year old boy who sticks up for animals at every opportunity, regardless of the trouble he gets into with parents and teachers. And thereās the thoughtful diary of a nine year old home-schooler.
Thereās even a collection of fairy tales!
All our books are printed by lulu.com on demand to avoid waste, and the paper used is Forest Council Certified. None of the materials used for printing are animal by-products or animal-tested.
We hope you enjoy these stories as much as we do ā you can read them all for free here at Violetās Vegan Comics ā and keep coming back because weāre adding more all the time. We just canāt help ourselves!
Whatās a vegan storybook? you may ask. Well, basically, itās like any other storybook except the central characters ā the heroes ā are vegan š
How many times have you had your enjoyment of a good story spoilt when the heroes ā the people you liked, the people you were rooting for ā ate meat or went fishing or bought a leather jacket?
When these things happen in childrenās stories they send a message ā they tell the child that itās okay to do these things. The good guys do it so it must be okay. Itās normal.
Well, vegan storybooks do not pretend itās okay to use, abuse and consume animals. Vegan storybooks create a new normal.
So a vegan storybook is not necessarily about veganism. It is simply a story in which animal exploitation is not normalised.
If you browse the front page you will see we have all sorts of vegan childrenās books.
There are picture books and rhyming stories for little ones ā one about an alien visitor to Earth, another about making a birthday cake, another about two little pigs trying to get home, another about a panda trying to find the right food and, yes, one about what it means to be vegan. ā¤
We have some exciting series of vegan adventure comics for readers aged 8 and up. For example, Reflecto Girl who holds an ancient magic mirror in front of wrong-doers to give them a taste of their own medicine. Venus Aqueous is a champion swimmer who develops the supernatural power to hear and understand the marine animals who call for her help. Megan & Flos are telepathic eco-warriors and one of them is not of this world. Sherman and Geynes are pretend detectives who investigate mysteries of their own invention. The English Family Anderson are a nomadic family who meet an angry ghost. And Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins are fearless, and funny, animal rescuers.
For those who prefer their stories in prose we have the funny short stories of Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er ā a rebellious eight year old boy who sticks up for animals at every opportunity, regardless of the trouble he gets into with parents and teachers. And thereās the thoughtful diary of a nine year old home-schooler.
Thereās even a collection of fairy tales!
All our books are printed by lulu.com on demand to avoid waste, and the paper used is Forest Council Certified. None of the materials used for printing are animal by-products or animal-tested.
We hope you enjoy these stories as much as we do ā you can read them all for free here at Violetās Vegan Comics ā and keep coming back because weāre adding more all the time. We just canāt help ourselves!
If you like vegan children’s stories and comics, you’ve come to the right place. But you don’t have to be a child to read them, they are all delightful, thrilling or exciting no matter how old a vegan you are.
Vegan stories with vegan characters having vegan adventures.
Whatās a vegan storybook? you may ask. Well, basically, itās like any other storybook except the central characters ā the heroes ā are vegan š
How many times have you had your enjoyment of a good story spoilt when the heroes ā the people you liked, the people you were rooting for ā ate meat or went fishing or bought a leather jacket?
When these things happen in childrenās stories they send a message ā they tell the child that itās okay to do these things. The good guys do it so it must be okay. Itās normal.
Well, vegan storybooks do not pretend itās okay to use, abuse and consume animals. Vegan storybooks create a new normal.
So a vegan storybook is not necessarily about veganism. It is simply a story in which animal exploitation is not normalised.
If you browse the front page you will see we have all sorts of vegan childrenās books.
There are picture books and rhyming stories for little ones ā one about an alien visitor to Earth, another about making a birthday cake, another about two little pigs trying to get home, another about a panda trying to find the right food and, yes, one about what it means to be vegan. ā¤
We have some exciting series of vegan adventure comics for readers aged 8 and up. For example, Reflecto Girl who holds an ancient magic mirror in front of wrong-doers to give them a taste of their own medicine. Venus Aqueous is a champion swimmer who develops the supernatural power to hear and understand the marine animals who call for her help. Megan & Flos are telepathic eco-warriors and one of them is not of this world. Sherman and Geynes are pretend detectives who investigate mysteries of their own invention. The English Family Anderson are a nomadic family who meet an angry ghost. And Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins are fearless, and funny, animal rescuers.
For those who prefer their stories in prose we have the funny short stories of Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er ā a rebellious eight year old boy who sticks up for animals at every opportunity, regardless of the trouble he gets into with parents and teachers. And thereās the thoughtful diary of a nine year old home-schooler.
Thereās even a collection of fairy tales!
All our books are printed by lulu.com on demand to avoid waste, and the paper used is Forest Council Certified. None of the materials used for printing are animal by-products or animal-tested.
We hope you enjoy these stories as much as we do ā you can read them all for free here at Violetās Vegan Comics ā and keep coming back because weāre adding more all the time. We just canāt help ourselves!
Whatās a vegan storybook? you may ask. Well, basically, itās like any other storybook except the central characters ā the heroes ā are vegan š
How many times have you had your enjoyment of a good story spoilt when the heroes ā the people you liked, the people you were rooting for ā ate meat or went fishing or bought a leather jacket?
When these things happen in childrenās stories they send a message ā they tell the child that itās okay to do these things. The good guys do it so it must be okay. Itās normal.
Well, vegan storybooks do not pretend itās okay to use, abuse and consume animals. Vegan storybooks create a new normal.
So a vegan storybook is not necessarily about veganism. It is simply a story in which animal exploitation is not normalised.
If you browse the front page you will see we have all sorts of vegan childrenās books.
There are picture books and rhyming stories for little ones ā one about an alien visitor to Earth, another about making a birthday cake, another about two little pigs trying to get home, another about a panda trying to find the right food and, yes, one about what it means to be vegan. ā¤
We have some exciting series of vegan adventure comics for readers aged 8 and up. For example, Reflecto Girl who holds an ancient magic mirror in front of wrong-doers to give them a taste of their own medicine. Venus Aqueous is a champion swimmer who develops the supernatural power to hear and understand the marine animals who call for her help. Megan & Flos are telepathic eco-warriors and one of them is not of this world. Sherman and Geynes are pretend detectives who investigate mysteries of their own invention. The English Family Anderson are a nomadic family who meet an angry ghost. And Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins are fearless, and funny, animal rescuers.
For those who prefer their stories in prose we have the funny short stories of Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er ā a rebellious eight year old boy who sticks up for animals at every opportunity, regardless of the trouble he gets into with parents and teachers. And thereās the thoughtful diary of a nine year old home-schooler.
Thereās even a collection of fairy tales!
All our books are printed by lulu.com on demand to avoid waste, and the paper used is Forest Council Certified. None of the materials used for printing are animal by-products or animal-tested.
We hope you enjoy these stories as much as we do ā you can read them all for free here at Violetās Vegan Comics ā and keep coming back because weāre adding more all the time. We just canāt help ourselves!
Hold on Toby and Trevor, Mildred and the gang are coming to save you! Again.
Come back tomorrow to find out what happens next.
If you like vegan children’s stories and comics, you’ve come to the right place. But you don’t have to be a child to read them, they are all delightful, thrilling or exciting no matter how old a vegan you are.
Vegan stories with vegan characters having vegan adventures.
Whatās a vegan storybook? you may ask. Well, basically, itās like any other storybook except the central characters ā the heroes ā are vegan š
How many times have you had your enjoyment of a good story spoilt when the heroes ā the people you liked, the people you were rooting for ā ate meat or went fishing or bought a leather jacket?
When these things happen in childrenās stories they send a message ā they tell the child that itās okay to do these things. The good guys do it so it must be okay. Itās normal.
Well, vegan storybooks do not pretend itās okay to use, abuse and consume animals. Vegan storybooks create a new normal.
So a vegan storybook is not necessarily about veganism. It is simply a story in which animal exploitation is not normalised.
If you browse the front page you will see we have all sorts of vegan childrenās books.
There are picture books and rhyming stories for little ones ā one about an alien visitor to Earth, another about making a birthday cake, another about two little pigs trying to get home, another about a panda trying to find the right food and, yes, one about what it means to be vegan. ā¤
We have some exciting series of vegan adventure comics for readers aged 8 and up. For example, Reflecto Girl who holds an ancient magic mirror in front of wrong-doers to give them a taste of their own medicine. Venus Aqueous is a champion swimmer who develops the supernatural power to hear and understand the marine animals who call for her help. Megan & Flos are telepathic eco-warriors and one of them is not of this world. Sherman and Geynes are pretend detectives who investigate mysteries of their own invention. The English Family Anderson are a nomadic family who meet an angry ghost. And Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins are fearless, and funny, animal rescuers.
For those who prefer their stories in prose we have the funny short stories of Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er ā a rebellious eight year old boy who sticks up for animals at every opportunity, regardless of the trouble he gets into with parents and teachers. And thereās the thoughtful diary of a nine year old home-schooler.
Thereās even a collection of fairy tales!
All our books are printed by lulu.com on demand to avoid waste, and the paper used is Forest Council Certified. None of the materials used for printing are animal by-products or animal-tested.
We hope you enjoy these stories as much as we do ā you can read them all for free here at Violetās Vegan Comics ā and keep coming back because weāre adding more all the time. We just canāt help ourselves!
It’s not over until it’s over, just when you think everything is fine and dandy, an automatic contraption goes haywire! It’s up to Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout twins, our vegan children’s story heroes, to save the day and stop it before it’s too late! Hurry, hurry, hurry!
Come back tomorrow to find out what happens next.
If you like vegan children’s stories and comics, you’ve come to the right place. But you don’t have to be a child to read them, they are all delightful, thrilling or exciting no matter how old a vegan you are.
Vegan stories with vegan characters having vegan adventures.
Oh what a relief! Let’s hope Mildred and the twins can get finished before the Flat-Capped Menace returns! Come back tomorrow to find out what happens next.
Whatās a vegan storybook? you may ask. Well, basically, itās like any other storybook except the central characters ā the heroes ā are vegan š
How many times have you had your enjoyment of a good story spoilt when the heroes ā the people you liked, the people you were rooting for ā ate meat or went fishing or bought a leather jacket?
When these things happen in childrenās stories they send a message ā they tell the child that itās okay to do these things. The good guys do it so it must be okay. Itās normal.
Well, vegan storybooks do not pretend itās okay to use, abuse and consume animals. Vegan storybooks create a new normal.
So a vegan storybook is not necessarily about veganism. It is simply a story in which animal exploitation is not normalised.
If you browse the front page you will see we have all sorts of vegan childrenās books.
There are picture books and rhyming stories for little ones ā one about an alien visitor to Earth, another about making a birthday cake, another about two little pigs trying to get home, another about a panda trying to find the right food and, yes, one about what it means to be vegan. ā¤
We have some exciting series of vegan adventure comics for readers aged 8 and up. For example, Reflecto Girl who holds an ancient magic mirror in front of wrong-doers to give them a taste of their own medicine. Venus Aqueous is a champion swimmer who develops the supernatural power to hear and understand the marine animals who call for her help. Megan & Flos are telepathic eco-warriors and one of them is not of this world. Sherman and Geynes are pretend detectives who investigate mysteries of their own invention. The English Family Anderson are a nomadic family who meet an angry ghost. And Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins are fearless, and funny, animal rescuers.
For those who prefer their stories in prose we have the funny short stories of Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er ā a rebellious eight year old boy who sticks up for animals at every opportunity, regardless of the trouble he gets into with parents and teachers. And thereās the thoughtful diary of a nine year old home-schooler.
Thereās even a collection of fairy tales!
All our books are printed by lulu.com on demand to avoid waste, and the paper used is Forest Council Certified. None of the materials used for printing are animal by-products or animal-tested.
We hope you enjoy these stories as much as we do ā you can read them all for free here at Violetās Vegan Comics ā and keep coming back because weāre adding more all the time. We just canāt help ourselves!
Whatās a vegan storybook? you may ask. Well, basically, itās like any other storybook except the central characters ā the heroes ā are vegan š
How many times have you had your enjoyment of a good story spoilt when the heroes ā the people you liked, the people you were rooting for ā ate meat or went fishing or bought a leather jacket?
When these things happen in childrenās stories they send a message ā they tell the child that itās okay to do these things. The good guys do it so it must be okay. Itās normal.
Well, vegan storybooks do not pretend itās okay to use, abuse and consume animals. Vegan storybooks create a new normal.
So a vegan storybook is not necessarily about veganism. It is simply a story in which animal exploitation is not normalised.
If you browse the front page you will see we have all sorts of vegan childrenās books.
There are picture books and rhyming stories for little ones ā one about an alien visitor to Earth, another about making a birthday cake, another about two little pigs trying to get home, another about a panda trying to find the right food and, yes, one about what it means to be vegan. ā¤
We have some exciting series of vegan adventure comics for readers aged 8 and up. For example, Reflecto Girl who holds an ancient magic mirror in front of wrong-doers to give them a taste of their own medicine. Venus Aqueous is a champion swimmer who develops the supernatural power to hear and understand the marine animals who call for her help. Megan & Flos are telepathic eco-warriors and one of them is not of this world. Sherman and Geynes are pretend detectives who investigate mysteries of their own invention. The English Family Anderson are a nomadic family who meet an angry ghost. And Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins are fearless, and funny, animal rescuers.
For those who prefer their stories in prose we have the funny short stories of Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er ā a rebellious eight year old boy who sticks up for animals at every opportunity, regardless of the trouble he gets into with parents and teachers. And thereās the thoughtful diary of a nine year old home-schooler.
Thereās even a collection of fairy tales!
All our books are printed by lulu.com on demand to avoid waste, and the paper used is Forest Council Certified. None of the materials used for printing are animal by-products or animal-tested.
We hope you enjoy these stories as much as we do ā you can read them all for free here at Violetās Vegan Comics ā and keep coming back because weāre adding more all the time. We just canāt help ourselves!
Goodness me! Will he make it? I’m glad our vegan heroes Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins are on the case. Come back tomorrow to see what happens next.
Whatās a vegan storybook? you may ask. Well, basically, itās like any other storybook except the central characters ā the heroes ā are vegan š
How many times have you had your enjoyment of a good story spoilt when the heroes ā the people you liked, the people you were rooting for ā ate meat or went fishing or bought a leather jacket?
When these things happen in childrenās stories they send a message ā they tell the child that itās okay to do these things. The good guys do it so it must be okay. Itās normal.
Well, vegan storybooks do not pretend itās okay to use, abuse and consume animals. Vegan storybooks create a new normal.
So a vegan storybook is not necessarily about veganism. It is simply a story in which animal exploitation is not normalised.
If you browse the front page you will see we have all sorts of vegan childrenās books.
There are picture books and rhyming stories for little ones ā one about an alien visitor to Earth, another about making a birthday cake, another about two little pigs trying to get home, another about a panda trying to find the right food and, yes, one about what it means to be vegan. ā¤
We have some exciting series of vegan adventure comics for readers aged 8 and up. For example, Reflecto Girl who holds an ancient magic mirror in front of wrong-doers to give them a taste of their own medicine. Venus Aqueous is a champion swimmer who develops the supernatural power to hear and understand the marine animals who call for her help. Megan & Flos are telepathic eco-warriors and one of them is not of this world. Sherman and Geynes are pretend detectives who investigate mysteries of their own invention. The English Family Anderson are a nomadic family who meet an angry ghost. And Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins are fearless, and funny, animal rescuers.
For those who prefer their stories in prose we have the funny short stories of Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er ā a rebellious eight year old boy who sticks up for animals at every opportunity, regardless of the trouble he gets into with parents and teachers. And thereās the thoughtful diary of a nine year old home-schooler.
Thereās even a collection of fairy tales!
All our books are printed by lulu.com on demand to avoid waste, and the paper used is Forest Council Certified. None of the materials used for printing are animal by-products or animal-tested.
We hope you enjoy these stories as much as we do ā you can read them all for free here at Violetās Vegan Comics ā and keep coming back because weāre adding more all the time. We just canāt help ourselves!
Whatās a vegan storybook? you may ask. Well, basically, itās like any other storybook except the central characters ā the heroes ā are vegan š
How many times have you had your enjoyment of a good story spoilt when the heroes ā the people you liked, the people you were rooting for ā ate meat or went fishing or bought a leather jacket?
When these things happen in childrenās stories they send a message ā they tell the child that itās okay to do these things. The good guys do it so it must be okay. Itās normal.
Well, vegan storybooks do not pretend itās okay to use, abuse and consume animals. Vegan storybooks create a new normal.
So a vegan storybook is not necessarily about veganism. It is simply a story in which animal exploitation is not normalised.
If you browse the front page you will see we have all sorts of vegan childrenās books.
There are picture books and rhyming stories for little ones ā one about an alien visitor to Earth, another about making a birthday cake, another about two little pigs trying to get home, another about a panda trying to find the right food and, yes, one about what it means to be vegan. ā¤
We have some exciting series of vegan adventure comics for readers aged 8 and up. For example, Reflecto Girl who holds an ancient magic mirror in front of wrong-doers to give them a taste of their own medicine. Venus Aqueous is a champion swimmer who develops the supernatural power to hear and understand the marine animals who call for her help. Megan & Flos are telepathic eco-warriors and one of them is not of this world. Sherman and Geynes are pretend detectives who investigate mysteries of their own invention. The English Family Anderson are a nomadic family who meet an angry ghost. And Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins are fearless, and funny, animal rescuers.
For those who prefer their stories in prose we have the funny short stories of Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er ā a rebellious eight year old boy who sticks up for animals at every opportunity, regardless of the trouble he gets into with parents and teachers. And thereās the thoughtful diary of a nine year old home-schooler.
Thereās even a collection of fairy tales!
All our books are printed by lulu.com on demand to avoid waste, and the paper used is Forest Council Certified. None of the materials used for printing are animal by-products or animal-tested.
We hope you enjoy these stories as much as we do ā you can read them all for free here at Violetās Vegan Comics ā and keep coming back because weāre adding more all the time. We just canāt help ourselves!
Oh what a darstardly villain he is! It’s a good job Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins are onto him. Come back tomorrow to find out what happens next.
Whatās a vegan storybook? you may ask. Well, basically, itās like any other storybook except the central characters ā the heroes ā are vegan š
How many times have you had your enjoyment of a good story spoilt when the heroes ā the people you liked, the people you were rooting for ā ate meat or went fishing or bought a leather jacket?
When these things happen in childrenās stories they send a message ā they tell the child that itās okay to do these things. The good guys do it so it must be okay. Itās normal.
Well, vegan storybooks do not pretend itās okay to use, abuse and consume animals. Vegan storybooks create a new normal.
So a vegan storybook is not necessarily about veganism. It is simply a story in which animal exploitation is not normalised.
If you browse the front page you will see we have all sorts of vegan childrenās books.
There are picture books and rhyming stories for little ones ā one about an alien visitor to Earth, another about making a birthday cake, another about two little pigs trying to get home, another about a panda trying to find the right food and, yes, one about what it means to be vegan. ā¤
We have some exciting series of vegan adventure comics for readers aged 8 and up. For example, Reflecto Girl who holds an ancient magic mirror in front of wrong-doers to give them a taste of their own medicine. Venus Aqueous is a champion swimmer who develops the supernatural power to hear and understand the marine animals who call for her help. Megan & Flos are telepathic eco-warriors and one of them is not of this world. Sherman and Geynes are pretend detectives who investigate mysteries of their own invention. The English Family Anderson are a nomadic family who meet an angry ghost. And Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins are fearless, and funny, animal rescuers.
For those who prefer their stories in prose we have the funny short stories of Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er ā a rebellious eight year old boy who sticks up for animals at every opportunity, regardless of the trouble he gets into with parents and teachers. And thereās the thoughtful diary of a nine year old home-schooler.
Thereās even a collection of fairy tales!
All our books are printed by lulu.com on demand to avoid waste, and the paper used is Forest Council Certified. None of the materials used for printing are animal by-products or animal-tested.
We hope you enjoy these stories as much as we do ā you can read them all for free here at Violetās Vegan Comics ā and keep coming back because weāre adding more all the time. We just canāt help ourselves!
Whatās a vegan storybook? you may ask. Well, basically, itās like any other storybook except the central characters ā the heroes ā are vegan š
How many times have you had your enjoyment of a good story spoilt when the heroes ā the people you liked, the people you were rooting for ā ate meat or went fishing or bought a leather jacket?
When these things happen in childrenās stories they send a message ā they tell the child that itās okay to do these things. The good guys do it so it must be okay. Itās normal.
Well, vegan storybooks do not pretend itās okay to use, abuse and consume animals. Vegan storybooks create a new normal.
So a vegan storybook is not necessarily about veganism. It is simply a story in which animal exploitation is not normalised.
If you browse the front page you will see we have all sorts of vegan childrenās books.
There are picture books and rhyming stories for little ones ā one about an alien visitor to Earth, another about making a birthday cake, another about two little pigs trying to get home, another about a panda trying to find the right food and, yes, one about what it means to be vegan. ā¤
We have some exciting series of vegan adventure comics for readers aged 8 and up. For example, Reflecto Girl who holds an ancient magic mirror in front of wrong-doers to give them a taste of their own medicine. Venus Aqueous is a champion swimmer who develops the supernatural power to hear and understand the marine animals who call for her help. Megan & Flos are telepathic eco-warriors and one of them is not of this world. Sherman and Geynes are pretend detectives who investigate mysteries of their own invention. The English Family Anderson are a nomadic family who meet an angry ghost. And Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins are fearless, and funny, animal rescuers.
For those who prefer their stories in prose we have the funny short stories of Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er ā a rebellious eight year old boy who sticks up for animals at every opportunity, regardless of the trouble he gets into with parents and teachers. And thereās the thoughtful diary of a nine year old home-schooler.
Thereās even a collection of fairy tales!
All our books are printed by lulu.com on demand to avoid waste, and the paper used is Forest Council Certified. None of the materials used for printing are animal by-products or animal-tested.
We hope you enjoy these stories as much as we do ā you can read them all for free here at Violetās Vegan Comics ā and keep coming back because weāre adding more all the time. We just canāt help ourselves!
Marvellous Mildred’s third vegan adventure comic starts today! If you haven’t read any of the Marvellous Mildred stories before, you might like to click here read her first two vegan children’s comics.
Oh no, watch out Toby and Trevor! What has the Flat-Capped Menace got up his sleeve? And where are Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins when you need them? Come back tomorrow to find out.
Whatās a vegan storybook? you may ask. Well, basically, itās like any other storybook except the central characters ā the heroes ā are vegan š
How many times have you had your enjoyment of a good story spoilt when the heroes ā the people you liked, the people you were rooting for ā ate meat or went fishing or bought a leather jacket?
When these things happen in childrenās stories they send a message ā they tell the child that itās okay to do these things. The good guys do it so it must be okay. Itās normal.
Well, vegan storybooks do not pretend itās okay to use, abuse and consume animals. Vegan storybooks create a new normal.
So a vegan storybook is not necessarily about veganism. It is simply a story in which animal exploitation is not normalised.
If you browse the front page you will see we have all sorts of vegan childrenās books.
There are picture books and rhyming stories for little ones ā one about an alien visitor to Earth, another about making a birthday cake, another about two little pigs trying to get home, another about a panda trying to find the right food and, yes, one about what it means to be vegan. ā¤
We have some exciting series of vegan adventure comics for readers aged 8 and up. For example, Reflecto Girl who holds an ancient magic mirror in front of wrong-doers to give them a taste of their own medicine. Venus Aqueous is a champion swimmer who develops the supernatural power to hear and understand the marine animals who call for her help. Megan & Flos are telepathic eco-warriors and one of them is not of this world. Sherman and Geynes are pretend detectives who investigate mysteries of their own invention. The English Family Anderson are a nomadic family who meet an angry ghost. And Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins are fearless, and funny, animal rescuers.
For those who prefer their stories in prose we have the funny short stories of Luke Walker: animal stick up for-er ā a rebellious eight year old boy who sticks up for animals at every opportunity, regardless of the trouble he gets into with parents and teachers. And thereās the thoughtful diary of a nine year old home-schooler.
Thereās even a collection of fairy tales!
All our books are printed by lulu.com on demand to avoid waste, and the paper used is Forest Council Certified. None of the materials used for printing are animal by-products or animal-tested.
We hope you enjoy these stories as much as we do ā you can read them all for free here at Violetās Vegan Comics ā and keep coming back because weāre adding more all the time. We just canāt help ourselves!
Balloons Blow is dedicated to educating people about the danger and destruction that released balloons can cause.
“Balloons Blowā¦Donāt Let Them Go!Ā Thatās the message weāre trying to get out. When we first started cleaning Floridaās beaches over 20 years ago with our parents, we would never find balloons. As the years went on we would find a few more here & there. Now, both in our 20ās, we continue our weekly beach cleanups & every year we find more & more balloons. Of course we collect much more washed up plastic than ever, which has caused us to eliminate wasteful plastic from our lives & try to encourage others to do so as well. But the disturbing thing about balloon pollution is that it isĀ ācelebrating by littering.ā
We have collected thousands of balloons since we started keeping track in 2011. Although the Mylar balloons are more visible, we find many more latex balloons, perhaps becauseĀ the balloon industry spends millions of dollars falsely marketing latex balloons as ābiodegradable,ā āenvironmentally friendlyā and āsafe to release.ā However, it is these latex balloons that are especially deadly as their burst remnants actually mimic the food of many creatures.”
“It is very alarming, the amount of trash that gets washed ashore on our beaches, but it is particularly troubling that people release balloons on purpose to celebrate, to honor loved ones, or to just mindlessly watch it float away. This is the reason we had to createĀ thisĀ website. It is dedicated to educating people about the danger and destruction that released balloons can cause.
Animals ā marine & terrestrial, wild & domestic ā commonly mistake them for food causing intestinal blockage, or get entangled in any attached strings, both leading to a slow and agonizing death.
Dangerous & costly power outages caused by Mylar balloons contacting electrical power lines effect hundreds of thousands of people each year. Helium is a nonrenewable resource critical in the science & medical fields.
There are countless websites & Facebook pages promoting balloon releases. Balloon sellers actively continue to deceive the public, pushing the sale and release of this wasteful, single-use product ā resulting in the intentional release of millions of balloons. The industry falsely claims that balloons are harmless in the environment, but we show proof their claims are not true:Ā Balloons Blow photo gallery.”
“There are laws prohibiting balloon releases in several states in the U.S. and many countries around the world, yet many unknowing celebrators, grieving groups, and others, are arranging balloon releases worldwide. Honoring a loved one or celebrating by releasing balloons is irresponsible ā like littering, it should be discouraged (including sky lanterns).
We are hopeful people will begin to understand the hazards and get creative & Earth-friendly with their celebrations, like theseĀ environmentally friendly alternatives, and we will keep trying to get the word out that:Ā Balloons Blowā¦Donāt Let Them Go!“
If you know of anyone planning a balloon release, or if they’re intending to buy balloons at all, get over to Balloons Blow for advice on how to persuade the organisers to choose an environmentally-friendly alternative, (I will put a permanent link to them in our sidebar). Most people who do these things have absolutely no idea of the damage they’re causing, so be gentle, be kind, and hopefully when they know the truth they will do the right thing.
Humanity and the environment are under massive assault by global warming caused by human activities.
The new Intergovernmental Panelon Climate Change (IPCC) report released August 9, 2021āthe first of four that make up the IPCCās Sixth Assessment reportāreiterates in scientific language (it deals with the physical science basis of global warming) what we have already known for quite some time from scores of previous studies: humanity faces a climate emergency, global warming is human driven, major climate changes are irreversible, and time is running out to avoid a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions.
It is, nonetheless, an extremely valuable report because a damning indictment of humanityās wholly destructive actions towards all life on Earth now carries the stamp of approval by the worldās most authoritative voice on climate science. And, ironically enough, the new IPCCās 6th Assessment climate report is also approved by the very same entitiesā195 member governmentsālargely responsibleā¦
Stop lobsters, crabs and other shellfish being boiled alive by uploading a selfie to show the government you support Crustacean Compassionās campaign.
The government is still undecided about including crustaceans in the new Sentience Bill, so please, no matter where youāre from, upload a selfie to tell the British government to do the right thing. This is an opportunity weāve never had before. Thanks to Crustacean Compassion we are closer than ever to getting some protection for these horrifically abused animals. Donāt let it slip through our fingers. Add your picture to Crustacean Compassionās selfie wall now!
I haven’t posted in a few weeks – still working on The English Family Anderson Chapter 4 which is not ready yet – but right now I want to share something I just read at the Tamera Peace Research and Education Centre. It was written in January this year and is filled with truth and rationality – something very hard to find in the current climate. I thought it would interest you too.
You can read the whole article here. [NB The grey text above the top photo and below the bottom one are from me. The black text in between is all Tamera š ]
For a year, Covid-19 has held the world in suspense. The infection with SARS-CoV-2 is evidently mild in most cases, but unfortunately not in all. … At the same time, we observe millions of cases of human suffering which arenāt caused by the virus, but precisely by the measures taken to contain it: The elderly, the vulnerable and the sick, who in many places become lonely, desperate and often enough have to die alone; the traumatization of an entire generation of children and young people, who are being inculcated with the fear of other people and the guilt of being themselves a danger to others and loved ones; an increase in psychological distress, mental illness and domestic violence, a rising suicide rate; and the medical undersupply of millions of people, because hospitals, medical practices and examination institutes cannot work as they used to, due to imposed Corona measures.
In addition, there are the unmistakable socio-economic consequences of the prevailing Corona policies. We are seeing an economic crisis and redistribution of wealth that has been unparalleled since the 1920s: countless small and medium-sized businesses have been driven into insolvency, while the super-rich reap unprecedented profits. While hundreds of millions of people become unemployed, while hunger and homelessness skyrocket around the world, large corporations are recording all-time high profits, especially in the digital and pharmaceutical sectors. Stock markets have flourished. Between April and July 2020 alone, in just four months, the wealth of billionairesĀ grewĀ by 27.5%, or US $10.2 trillion.
The economic and humanitarian consequences of the lockdowns have been particularly devastating in much of the Global South. In many countries, almost the entire informal sector came to a standstill virtually overnight, pushing hundreds of millions into extreme poverty, hunger and misery. The UN currently estimates that the number of people starving worldwide will increase by 83 million to 132 million as a result of the Corona measures alone. Last summer, the aid agency Oxfam predicted that by the end of 2020, up to 12,000 additional people would starve to death every day as a result of the measures alone.
Today, we know that the early hypothetical model calculations for Corona deaths, which moved governments in many countries to impose lockdowns and other drastic measures, were inflated. At the same time, many experts have voiced doubts over determining infection numbers by PCR tests alone, over the effectiveness of lockdowns, social distancing and mask-wearing and over the hastily approved new vaccines and their associated risks. Yet, to date, very few diverse expert committees have been able to review the effectiveness and proportionality of the measures taken.
The Corona virus has often been portrayed by the media and politicians as an unprecedented new phenomenon. Nevertheless, as with any disease, the same principle applies: Treatment measures must not cause more harm than the disease itself.
Fear has been the principle that governments and media in many countries have followed in responding to the Corona crisis from the beginning. Instead of providing prudent information, many governments fomented fear of disease and death ā sometimes deliberately, as can be seen, for example, in an internal strategy paper of the German government, to āachieve the desired shock effectā and make people comply with the measures. Fear, however, is rarely a good advisor when it comes to managing crises. Unconscious fear causes polarization, disrupts communication and makes it hard to assess events in a rational manner. Fear often leads to protective measures that only intensify danger or even conjure it up.
The Covid-19 measures are resulting in deep societal divisions, and meaningful communication between the different camps hardly seems possible. On the one hand, governments are trying to curb the spread of the virus with extensive information campaigns and restrictions, while on the other hand, thousands of renowned doctors, scientists and experts critical of the way Covid-19 is being managed are ignored by politicians, defamed by mass media and censored on social media.
A new vaccine that was approved within just a few months is proposed for billions of people, even though it normally takes 5ā10 years to complete the necessary studies and testing phases to assess the extent of harmful side effects of new vaccines. With this, the pharmacologist Prof. Stefan Hockertz warns of āhuman experimentation.ā Already now, there are more and more reports of side effects, some of them severe, from various countries. However, it is still unclear as to what extent the vaccine may actually contain infections. On December 29, WHO lead scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan admitted, āI donāt believe we have the evidence on any of the vaccines to be confident that itās going to prevent people from actually getting the infection and therefore being able to pass it on. So I think we need to assume that people who have been vaccinated also need to take the same precautions.ā
The Covid-19 measures raise deep ethical and social questions. In his essay, āThe Coronation,ā the author and visionary Charles Eisenstein writes, āWhat world shall we live in? How much of life do we want to sacrifice at the altar of security? If it keeps us safer, do we want to live in a world where human beings never congregate? ⦠Are we willing to accept the medicalization of life in general, handing over final sovereignty over our bodies to medical authorities (as selected by political ones)? How much are we willing to live in fear?ā
If you don’t trust pharmaceutical companies, or politicians, why would you believe anything they tell you about this or anything else? I’m not saying this isn’t a crisis, but I haven’t heard anyone in the mainstream talk about ending animal farming to prevent future crises; or teaching people that whole food plant-based nutrition will strengthen their immune system while an animal-based diet will compromise it. I wonder if that’s because pharmaceutical companies make nearly all their money from the medications they sell for the chronic diseases caused by consumption of animal products; the medications they sell to tackle the avoidable infectious zoonotic diseases* like covid which emerge from the way humans treat animals; and the medications they produce for the farmed animals themselves**.
The World Health Organisation, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, and the World Organisation for Animal Health got together to uncover the key underlying causes of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. They came up with four main risk factors. These include the exotic pet trade, and bush meat, but number one on their list was the increasing demand for animal protein the world over. They blame the emergence of COVID-19, H5N1, SARS, Nipah virus, all these new deadly viruses, on over-consumption of animal products. [From a youtube video by Dr Michael Greger]
It’s worth bearing in mind that covid 19 has a mortality rate below 1%. What if the next highly infectious disease has the mortality rate of H5N1 bird flu (60%)?
I said I would do this every year until Raystede went vegan, but last year I didnāt because it was lockdown, Raystede was closed to the public, and I thought Iād give them some breathing space in the hope that theyād come to their senses. Sadly they havenāt so we begin again.
I promised to publish photos of dairy babies every year for the duration of this campaign because these gentle souls are usually forgotten in the consumption of milk, butter, cheese and ice cream. They deserve to be remembered.
These adorable tots have only been in this field for a few days now but they might remain here for a few months. The ones from last year did. And the ones before that. And the ones before that. Their brief motherless lives will end after that, unless theyāre female and required by the farmer to provide milk like theirā¦