Getting in Hot Chocolate, Vegan Style
As any good revolutionary knows, never mind mother or marketing man, them with the best cakes will win. “Make Cakes, not War” … and if you don’t have cake, at least make sure you have chocolate. From time to time the vegan movement tends to have its own, seemingly obscure and obsessive to non-vegans, storms [...]
How Many Vegans are There?
Various estimates of the numbers of vegan exist. These extend from 0.2% to 1.4% of various populations. If the world population is around 6.8 billion that would mean there could be approximately 13,000,000 to 95,000,000 vegans in the world according to my arithmetic. Personally, I think those numbers are far too high and are based [...]
Vegan Metaphysics: is Veganism a Religion?
Donald Watson, the founder with his wife Dorothy of the Vegan Movement, called himself an atheist. An atheist but also a pacifist and an anti-war, conscientious objector. Is the movement he left behind him, Veganism, a religion? The simple answer is … no. There is no “God of the Vegae“. There are no vegan priests. [...]
You Can Choose Your Friends but …
There is a saying in English, “you can choose your friends but you cannot choose your family“. When you become a vegan, that changes to, “You can choose your friends but …you cannot choose your vegans“ Why are there so many angry or aggressive vegans? How can the two states exist together? Well, they sure do. I [...]
The Oldest Vegans in the World?
In many ways, Japan is heaven for vegans … but a heaven which other people have left broken glass scattered about, hidden, in the grass. That “broken glass” is bonito. Katsuo dashi fish stock. It is in ‘everything’. Trust me. Everything. Wandering through the subterranean food floors of metropolitan market stores, there are so many [...]
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