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Go vegan!” against cruelty [to] animals.” what I was eating

By opening this guide, you’ve just taken the first exciting step towards one of the best choices and the life of the
Bill Clinton Russell Brand animals and all
that you can make for yourself, animals and the planet. The pages that follow are packed with “I like the vegetables, the fruits, the “I became that kind of stuff.”
important information, easy tips and scrumptious recipes to help you establish eating habits beans, the stuff I eat now. … All my vegetarian
that you’ll feel great about. It’s easy to live and let live, and this guide will show you how. blood tests are good, at 14. … Isabel Lucas
and my vital signs I’ve never “[Being
are good, and I feel regretted it. vegetarian is] a
good, and I also I’m incredibly simple small step I
have, believe it or sentimental can take. … [I]t works
• Sylvie Guillem, Vegan and Vegetarian Athletes not, more energy.” about well for my body, and I
ballet icon animals.” also feel more in tune.”
Why are vegan athletes always at the top of their game? One reason is that
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 ich Roll, plant foods provide athletes with all the nutrients that they need to stay healthy,
ultra-endurance athlete competitive and strong – minus the saturated fat, cholesterol and other Missy Higgins
contaminants found in meat and dairy products that could slow them down. Carl Stella McCartney “I looked into the
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 ave Rastovich, “It is wrong to eat dead ethical side of
Lewis, perhaps the greatest Olympic athlete ever, says, “[M]y best year of track
surfing sensation animals on many levels: [eating meat]
competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet”.
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 manda Beard, it is destructive for the even more and I
seven-time Olympic medallist Local vegan and vegetarian champions include Peter Siddle, Robert de Castella, environment, it is not realized that I really
in swimming Ruth Heidrich (New Zealand Ironman title winner) and surfer Dave Rastovich. ethical, it has been just didn’t approve
World-class mixed martial arts athletes – including proven to be damaging to of the way animals are
•B
 rendan Brazier,
Jake Shields, Nate and Nick Diaz and Mac Danzig – your health,and, spiritually, treated in factory farms.”
endurance athlete and
also stay strong while avoiding animal-derived foods. you should love and live with
Ironman
your fellow creatures, not kill them!”
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 hris Evert, Vegan and vegetarians receive optimal nutrition from Ruby Rose
tennis champion plant foods and weigh less, on average, than meat- “I eat so much
eaters. They also have better cardiovascular health Hugo Weaving amazing food
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 obert de Castella,
and more stamina. All these things help athletes “Both my children Pamela Anderson …. I’m plant based
marathon runner
perform at their peak potential. Physician and author are vegetarians. … “Chickens, pigs and other animals? and stupidly healthy.”
• J ake Shields, Dr Neal Barnard explains that “a healthy vegan diet The more I started They are interesting individuals with

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mixed martial arts champion gives important advantages over a meaty diet, which thinking about it, personalities and intelligence. What
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 eter Siddle, is why many Olympic and professional athletes are the more I thought people need to understand is that
fast bowler vegetarians”. A study involving the Australian Institute my son’s natural, if they’re eating animals, they are
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childish reaction promoting cruelty to animals.” Bryan Adams

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of Sport found that “many successful endurance
athletes are vegetarians”. was spot on.” “[T]he moment I began to understand

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what was going on with the treatment of
animals, it led me more and more in the
Xavier Rudd way of the path I am [on] now, which is
Paul McCartney Joaquin Phoenix James Cameron Peter Dinklage “When I realised how animals have to a complete vegan.”
“I am a vegetarian “Animal rights is a part “It’s not a “I decided to become suffer in the meat industry, I decided
because I realise that of my everyday life. requirement to a vegetarian when I never to eat meat again. The industry’s
even little chickens When you live eat animals, we was in my teens…. anonymity and the treatment of animals
suffer pain and fear, by example, just choose I have continued to as worthless beings used only for
experience a range of you create to do it, so stay with it out of production really
feelings and emotions, a certain it becomes my great respect for annoyed me.”
and are as intelligent level of a moral choice animals…. Any form
as mammals, including awareness.” and one that is of animal abuse is
dogs, cats and even having a huge impact on the pretty upsetting to
some primates.” planet, using up resources and me.”
destroying the biosphere.”

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 Q   &  A
Eating for Life Ask the Experts
“What do you think of ‘low-
carb’, meat-based diets?”
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Leading health experts agree that a vegetarian diet provides optimal nutrition for both children I call them “the ‘make yourself sick’ diets” because they
and adults. The Australian Medical Association warns of the health risks of meat-heavy diets. cause the body to go into ketosis – a state that occurs
when we are seriously ill. I also use that designation
Nutrition Australia says, “There is a substantial body of evidence supporting the belief that because the very foods recommended – meat, chicken,
vegetarians in Western countries experience significantly less cancer, less heart disease, fewer bacon, eggs and cheeses – are the foods the [American]
Heart Association and the [American] Cancer Society say
strokes and generally live longer than omnivores”.
cause our most dreaded diseases. ... There is only one way
to fully satisfy your appetite with delicious foods and stay
trim and healthy for a lifetime – that’s a low-fat vegetarian
Vegetable Spring Rolls diet with fruits and vegetables and a bit of exercise.

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According to Dr T Colin Campbell, Dr John McDougall, medical director of the McDougall Program
nutritional researcher at Cornell
University and director of the largest   &
epidemiological study in history,
Ask the Experts Savoury Faux-Chicken Pot Pie
“[T]he vast majority … of all cancers,
cardiovascular diseases and other forms
of degenerative illness can be prevented
“Isn’t fish a health food?”
… simply by adopting a plant-based diet”. Anyone who eats fish for health reasons should think again:
fish can accumulate toxins up to 9 million times as concentrated
The Victorian Government’s Better as those in the waters they inhabit, and the flesh of some sea
Health Channel reports, “A well-balanced animals, such as shrimp and scallops, contains more cholesterol
vegetarian or vegan diet can provide than beef. Farmed fish are also fed antibiotics that are passed
many health benefits, such as a reduced along to humans, impairing the immune system. A woman
risk of chronic diseases, including obesity, who eats just one can of tuna per week will be 30 per cent
coronary artery disease, hypertension over the US Environmental Protection Agency cutoff for
(high blood pressure), diabetes [and] safe mercury levels. Plant foods such as walnuts and
some types of cancer. Vegetarians and flaxseeds and vegetarian DHA capsules contain
vegans also have lower rates of illness the essential fatty acids that we need without the
and death from a number of degenerative harmful toxins found in fish flesh.
diseases”. Dr Neal Barnard, author of Foods That Fight Pain

Scientists have found that vegetarians

have stronger immune systems than
What About Protein, Iron and Vitamin B12? What’s Wrong With found that eating an egg every day can practice creates strains of bacteria
meat-eaters; this means that they are less According to medical authorities, you need from the plant world – broccoli, Milk and Eggs? increase the risk of type 2 diabetes by that are resistant to antibiotic
susceptible to everyday illnesses like the vegetarians get plenty of protein without beans, many leafy green vegetables, 60 per cent. Eggs have also been linked treatment and makes humans
flu. Vegetarians are also far less likely to having to pay particular attention to their almonds, soy milk, tofu, calcium-fortified No species naturally drinks milk beyond to salmonella infections. According to and animals more susceptible
be overweight. diets. Healthy vegetarian protein sources orange juice, soy yoghurt, figs, almond the age of weaning, and no species would the European Food Safety Authority, to untreatable infections, such
include whole grains, oats, beans, peanut butter and tempeh are all great sources. naturally drink the milk of a different nearly a quarter of hens in Europe carry as avian flu. Food Standards
Meat, dairy products and eggs are butter, brown rice, peas, lentils, tofu, soy species. For humans, drinking cows’ milk salmonella pathogens. In Australia, eggs Australia New Zealand
completely devoid of fibre and complex milk, nuts, seeds, mushrooms and mock Fifty years ago, most people got their has been linked to heart disease, cancer, are responsible for more than one-third reports, “No poultry
carbohydrates, the nutrients that we’re meats, such as vegetarian hot dogs and vitamin B12 from bacteria in their water or diabetes and even osteoporosis, the very of all food-borne salmonella outbreaks. producing country has
supposed to consume more of for good burgers. By contrast, consuming too much on fruits and vegetables. Now that water disease that the dairy industry claims been able to eliminate
health. They’re also loaded with saturated animal protein has been scientifically is purified and produce is so clean, good its products are supposed to prevent. The Hazards of Salmonella and
Eating Chicken
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fat and cholesterol, which can make us linked to osteoporosis. According to a sources of B12 include fortified foods, such The high animal-protein content of milk Campylobacter from

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overweight and tired in the short term US Department of Agriculture report, as breakfast cereals and soy milk, as well actually causes calcium to be leached raw poultry”. Men’s Health
and lead to clogged arteries and heart vegetarian women have stronger bones as vitamin supplements. In fact, the B12 from the body. Chickens on factory farms in Australia magazine ranked chicken as
attacks in the long term. than women who eat meat. in supplement form and fortified foods is and New Zealand are routinely fed the number one food you should
actually much easier to absorb than that One egg contains a staggering 227 antibiotics to make them grow faster never eat because of its high rate
You can get all the calcium and iron that found in animal products. milligrams of cholesterol. A recent study and prevent infection. However, this of bacterial contamination.

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Raising Weight Loss

Vegan Kids by Deborah Wilson, MD

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Obesity is one of the most pressing health problems and
by Shelly Davis will likely soon become Australia’s and New Zealand’s
leading cause of preventable death. According to Cancer
Council Australia, at least 60 per cent of adults and 30 per

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Although I’ve given my kids a better start mother’s breast milk if she eats
cent of children are now overweight or obese.
in life than the majority of children get, these products. Plant foods have
I confess that I had moments of doubt much less contamination, even if they are
in the beginning. I had been a vegan for not organically grown”. Research reported in the journal Ziti With Sun-Dried Tomato ‘Cream’
years, but were children different? Obesity compared a low-fat vegan diet
The Journal of Pediatric Health Care with a general low-fat diet and found
The Davis Family I was fortunate to have the full support agrees, stating, “Well-planned vegetarian that “[a] vegan diet was associated
of my paediatrician, who confirmed that diets can satisfy the nutritional needs and with significantly greater weight loss
kids not only don’t need any animal promote normal growth of infants and than the (low-fat) diet at 1 and 2
When you replace meat, dairy products products but also are much better off children”. years”. The Medical Journal of Australia
and eggs in your children’s diet with without them, and they can easily get all states that “a higher intake of protein,
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healthy plant-based foods, you are the protein, iron and calcium that they Much of the meat in our supermarkets particularly animal protein, in infants
starting them off with a significant health need by eating plant foods. He gave today is loaded with antibiotics, artificial and early childhood may increase
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advantage, lowering their risk for a host me confidence and some high-powered hormones, heavy metals and a host of the risk of overweight and obesity
of adult diseases that have been linked backup by referring me to the seventh other toxins – none of which are found in in later life”. Many vegan foods are
to animal products, including heart edition of the world-famous Baby and any plant-based foods. Even pesticides naturally low in fat, so quantity and
disease, obesity, diabetes and several Child Care, in which Dr. Benjamin Spock and herbicides, the only two classes of kilojoule restrictions are unnecessary.
types of cancer. Animal products are also wrote, “Children who grow up getting chemicals found in plant foods, are far My colleague Dr Dean Ornish calls it
linked to many of the ailments that tend their nutrition from plant foods rather more concentrated in meat and dairy the “eat more, weigh less” diet (and
to affect children. When my daughter than meats have a tremendous health products, because farmed animals eat he even wrote a wonderful book with
Lilly was a baby, she never had colic, advantage”. He also wrote, “Animals contaminated plant foods and then that title).
ear infections, flu or any serious illness. tend to concentrate pesticides and other the pesticides and herbicides become
My younger daughter, Hailey, is now chemicals in their meat and milk. Traces concentrated in their flesh. These It’s no surprise that population
following her example. of these chemicals can easily end up in a contaminants are bad enough for adults, studies show that meat-eaters have
but they can be especially harmful to three times the obesity rate of vegetarians the foremost epidemiologist in the world, Weight-Loss Book
Quinoa-Stuffed Avocado children, whose bodies are small and and nine times the obesity rate of vegans. states, “Quite simply, the more you Recommendations
still developing. It’s possible to be an overweight or obese substitute plant foods for animal foods, • Eat More, Weigh Less
vegan, of course, just as it’s possible to the healthier you are likely to be. I now by Dr Dean Ornish
Lilly is now 4 years old. She can identify be a thin meat-eater, but adult vegans are, consider veganism to be the ideal diet. • The McDougall Program for Women
dozens of dinosaurs, was taking on average, 5 to 10 kilos lighter than adult A vegan diet – particularly one that is low by Dr John McDougall
gymnastics and dance classes at the age meat-eaters. in fat – will substantially reduce disease
of 3 and has never had bronchitis or strep • Skinny Bitch
by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
throat. Her baby sister, who is growing A vegan diet – particularly one that is low in fat – will
at a rate that astounds her doctors,
was speaking clearly at 10 months and substantially reduce disease risks.
was performing somersaults in her
gymnastics class at only 18 months of Adopting a vegan diet won’t just help risks. Plus, we’ve seen no disadvantages
age. Best of all, I don’t have any trouble you slim down, it will also help you fight from veganism. In every respect, vegans
convincing my girls to eat their veggies – an array of ailments, including heart appear to enjoy equal or better health
Lilly’s favourite dish is tofu and broccoli disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis and in comparison to both vegetarians and
– which makes the parents of the girls’ many degenerative diseases. Dr T Colin non-vegetarians”. I couldn’t have said it
friends green with envy! Campbell of Cornell University, arguably better myself.

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More than 600 million animals (not including marine animals) in Australia alone languish in
horrific conditions and are slaughtered by the meat industry each year – in ways that would
horrify any compassionate person and that would be illegal if cats or dogs were the victims.
Hens are crammed by the tens of thousands into filthy sheds,
with five to 11 hens per cage – the cages are so small that the
Egg farmers slice off the ends of hens’ What Happens to examined contained some bacterial
birds can’t spread even one wing.
beaks when the birds are just babies. Chickens? contamination, ranging from low to
More chickens are raised and killed “gross”, largely because of the filthy
for food than every other farmed land conditions in the sheds in which they are Birds raised for their eggs are packed into states that each time he touches a bird, Turkeys and chickens have their wings and legs
animal combined, yet there is not one raised. After six weeks in these horrible cages so small that they don’t have room he feels a bone break. The birds’ bodies broken when they are shoved into transport
enforceable law in place to protect conditions, the birds are thrown into to spread even one wing. Their wings are left so battered and emaciated that trucks, and they are shipped through all
chickens from abuse. crates that are stacked on the back of a and legs atrophy from disuse, and their they can only be used for soup or food for weather extremes with no food or water.
truck – often breaking bones as a result legs and feet become deformed from dogs and cats.
Each year, more than 590 million chickens of this rough handling. They are then standing on slanted cage bottoms. Most
in Australia and 80 million chickens in trucked through all weather extremes to are featherless, either from ill health or Male chicks are
New Zealand are raised and killed for the slaughterhouse. from rubbing on the cages. The tips of worthless to the egg
their flesh. These sentient birds spend the hens’ sensitive beaks are cut off with industry – they don’t lay Chickens are
their entire lives in filthy, faeces-laden At slaughter, workers violently grab the a hot blade when they are just days old eggs, and their breed is genetically
sheds with tens of thousands of other chickens out of the trucks, hang them in order to discourage the birds from too small to be raised manipulated and
birds. They are bred to grow so large so upside down and shackle them by their pecking each other in frustration. After for flesh. The egg dosed with antibiotics
fast that many become horribly crippled legs. The birds are then dragged through about two years of confinement, the industry kills millions to make them grow
under their own weight and often suffer an electrified water bath that is meant hens are violently pulled from their cages of newly hatched so large so quickly
from organ failure and respiratory to stun them. However, workers report and sent to slaughter. In undercover male chicks every year that they become
disease. Industry standards allow each that some birds hold their heads in such video footage taken at a hen farm in the by gassing them or crippled under their
chicken only the space equivalent to a way as to escape the electrified water. Australian Capital Territory, a worker grinding them up alive. own weight.
an A4 piece of paper on which to live These birds are fully conscious when their
– a space so small that they are driven throats are slit. Next, their beaten bodies
to peck out each other’s feathers in are dragged through tanks of scalding- “Farmed animals today Amazing Animals: “Don’t animals have to
frustration. hot water to remove their feathers. Birds are sick – these are sick and Chickens be treated well in order
who managed to elude the stun bath and for them to ‘produce’?”
A report commissioned by the Australian the throat-cutting machine are scalded to diseased chickens, pigs, Research has shown that chickens are
government stated that all the chickens death. Sadly, this happens far too often. fish and cows, producing as smart as dogs, cats and even some Clearly not! Factory-farmed animals are
primates. They can understand cause and stressed and diseased, but the meat
diseased and bacteria-laden effect and can learn to self-medicate. The industry works on the assumption that
Ammonia levels on chicken
Most small farms have been replaced by massive,
farms are so high that the flesh and pus-filled milk that late Dr Chris Evans, who was an animal the money saved by keeping these
corporate-run “factory farms”, where chickens, behaviourist at Macquarie University, animals in crowded and filthy conditions
pigs, turkeys and cows are treated like machines
corrosive substance burns even industry standards call recounted, “As a trick at conferences, I outweighs the financial costs
the birds’ lungs and skin.
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instead of living, feeling individuals. These days, ‘unhealthful’.” sometimes list these attributes, without incurred when some of
virtually all the meat, eggs and dairy products mentioning chickens, and people think them die. Explaining
purchased in supermarkets and – Michael Greger, MD I’m talking about monkeys”. In a natural why the egg industry
restaurants come from animals setting, a mother hen begins to teach her crowds birds so tightly
raised on such farms. The giant chicks various calls before they even hatch into cages, causing
corporations that profit from – she clucks softly to them while sitting many to die and all
factory farming spend millions on the eggs, and they chirp back to her to suffer miserably
on advertising, trying to obscure and to each other from inside their shells. for their entire lives,
reality with images of animals Chickens on factory farms are hatched in distinguished professor
living peacefully on an idyllic farm. massive incubation machines and never Dr Bernard Rollin says
Unfortunately, this pretty picture meet their mothers. that “chickens are cheap,
couldn’t be further from the truth. cages are expensive”.

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The True Story of One Anonymous
Pig Born Into the Meat Industry
by Alistair Currie
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What Happens to Pigs?
Pigs on factory farms are castrated and A few years ago, a friend and I Because pigs are bred to put
have chunks of flesh cut from their ears, visited a pig farm. It was early on weight, they are huge,
bits of their teeth cut off with wire cutters on a spring morning. The birds unnaturally heavy animals.
and their tails chopped off – squealing in were just waking and beginning They are slaughtered for their
pain all the while because these “routine” to sing. We crossed a freshly meat just before they fully
procedures are often done without any ploughed field between budding mature, so they don’t normally
painkillers. “Breeding” sows on factory fruit trees to reach the farm. The have to carry that much weight
farms are artificially impregnated several farm was a large breeding unit, for very long. Breeding sows,
times a year during their short lives and where hundreds of sows are kept however, live for several years.
confined to stalls or farrowing crates in concrete pens, churning out Most spend their entire lives
that are barely any larger than their own of kilometres in cramped conditions litter after litter of piglets. From on hard concrete or metal
bodies; they can literally go insane from to saleyards. Once there, the sheep are the main sheds festooned with floors, and the result is chronic
being unable to turn around. Farrowing roughly driven or dragged from the trucks. cobwebs and stinking of waste lameness. This old sow had
crates have been banned in several What Happens to Sheep? It is not uncommon to see sheep being to the farrowing units, where to ease herself up painfully,
countries, and the RSPCA has stated its Sheep are smart. Reports in New Scientist made to walk with badly broken limbs or sows were lined up in row after unsteadily, one foot at a time.
objection to both sow stalls and farrowing indicate that sheep can learn and open wounds. Animals who are too sick row of metal cages, it was a filthy, When she finally got up, she
crates on cruelty grounds. recognise objects in ways that previously to be sold are thrown into a pile, the living decrepit and squalid sight, the crossed the couple of metres
only primates were thought capable of. and the dead together. kind of sight that makes you between us slowly, limping
The noise in these sheds is so intolerable ashamed of what humans are with every step. As she got
that workers wear earplugs. The Sheep make up a huge portion of Sheep and lambs are driven into killing capable of. close, the marks on her back
accumulation of filth, faeces and urine Australia’s and New Zealand’s domestic stalls, surrounded by the stench of suddenly made sense: in blue
in the sheds causes many pigs to suffer and export meat trade. Each year, about blood and the cries of their frightened In every shed, we came across spray-paint across her old
from diseases such as pneumonia. 6 million sheep and 18 million lambs companions, to be electrocuted and dead and dying piglets, some body, someone had scrawled
in Australia and 8 million sheep and have their throats cut. Many animals just tossed into piles in the the word “CULL”. After years of
The sheer number of animals killed 25 million lambs in New Zealand are who are electrically stunned will regain corner like broken toys. In being treated like a machine,
makes it impossible for them to be given slaughtered. full consciousness within one minute sad contrast was the bright churning out litter after litter
“She was … facing away from us in a darkened area, and we
humane, painless deaths. Because of and experience the terror and pain of the enthusiasm of the surviving of piglets for market, never

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could just barely make out some strange blue lines on her skin.”
improper stunning, many pigs drown They are transported often thousands butcher’s knife. piglets: they rushed up to the seeing the sunlight or feeling
or are scalded to death when they are gates of their pens, bundles the earth beneath her feet,
dumped into tanks of hot water that are of energy, eager to investigate cold shed, the pigs’ “home”. In nature, she had finally stopped being
intended to soften their skin and remove Every time they give birth, the us with all the curiosity of puppies. pigs forage and root, finding a rich buffet “productive”, and so she was off to the
their hair to make their bodies ready for majority of pregnant sows are Inquisitive and bright-eyed, these piglets of everything from fallen fruit to truffles. slaughterhouse. She would be processed
processing. would be removed from their mothers at Here, a wheelbarrow at the entrance into cheap meat pies, the very last penny
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forced for an entire month into

farrowing crates so small that the ripe old age of 3 weeks and sent off to contained the dry pelleted food that was to be squeezed out of her broken body.
they can’t even turn around. be fattened up before being slaughtered all these pigs would ever eat. We walked Yet still she came up to investigate us,
for meat. down the corridor to find a sequence of to nuzzle our hands and look us in the
barren pens, each about three metres eye, even though it was humans like us
As for their mothers, within days of square. In the first few were small groups who had done this to her and who would,
losing their babies, they would be re- of young pigs lying on the cold, bare within days, cut her throat. As we were
impregnated and forced back into metal concrete, without even a scrap of straw leaving, my friend said, “I wish we’d
cages, where the cycle would begin again. bedding. In the third pen was a lone sow. brought an apple with us, so just once
In these cages, the pregnant females are She was lying at the back, facing away in her life she could taste something
Pigs do not receive denied even the room to turn around or from us in a darkened area, and we could fresh and sweet”. Sadly, we had nothing
any pain relief take more than a step in any direction. just barely make out some strange blue to give her, but if telling her story causes
when they have lines on her skin. Hearing our footsteps, one person to stop eating others like her,
Many pigs go insane from extremely crowded
the ends of their We crossed a muddy corridor and opened she turned to look at us and slowly rose some good will have come from our visit.
conditions on factory farms and compulsively
teeth cut off with a sliding door which led to another damp, to her feet.
chew on the bars of their pens.
wirecutters.

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 Q   &  A
Now that commercial fishing has Ask the Experts

What Happens
basically emptied the oceans of
“target” fish, the seafood industry
“Aren’t there laws that
to Fish? has turned to raising fish in protect farmed animals?”

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Like other animals, fish feel pain and contained fish farms, a practice In the main, animal welfare is governed by state-based laws which do little
experience fear. Dr Donald Broom, animal known as “aquaculture”. The fish are packed so to adequately protect farmed animals. The laws exempt most of the cruel
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welfare advisor to the British government, says, tightly together that they constantly bump into treatment inflicted on farmed animals by deferring to voluntary codes
Many cows spend their lives in “Anatomically, physiologically and biologically, each other and the walls of the enclosure, causing of practice or industry-produced standards intended to guide farmers.
What Happens to cramped sheds and fenced-in the pain system in fish is virtually the same as painful sores and damage to their fins. The These codes permit cruel procedures such as tail-docking, teeth-clipping,
‘Dairy Cows’? enclosures, mired in mud and in birds and mammals”. When they are dragged enormous amount of faeces in the enclosures leads castration, dehorning, branding, tagging and debeaking – usually without
The corporate-owned dairy factories their own waste. from the ocean depths, fish undergo excruciating to rampant outbreaks of parasites and disease. pain relief. The majority of farmed animals are taken away from their
that have replaced most small farms decompression – the rapid pressure change In order to keep the fish alive in such unhealthy mothers shortly after birth, kept in an artificially lit environment, prevented
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produce milk for the same reason that their eyes and pushes their stomachs through chemicals are poured into the water. When the unnatural diet to make them grow at abnormally fast rates and prematurely
humans do: to nourish their babies. their mouths. Then they’re tossed onboard ships, fish are fully grown, they are killed by having their slaughtered. Many will endure disease, broken limbs, frustration, boredom,
They also carry their babies for nine where many slowly suffocate or are crushed to stomachs cut open, or they die of suffocation when bullying, fear, depression, pain and stress. The life of a farmed animal in
months – just like we do. In order to death. Others are still alive when their throats the water in their tank is simply drained away. Australia is grim and torturous – and for the most part, it is legal.
produce milk, cows must first be made and bellies are cut open.
Ruth Hatten, policy adviser for the Barristers Animal Welfare Panel

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pregnant. This is usually done via
artificial insemination. Many calves are
deliberately aborted or are traumatically
Amazing Animals:
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hours after birth – causing the mother
Cows
cows to bellow in distress for days.
Female calves are added back into the Scientists in the United Kingdom “But fish aren’t like dogs
dairy herd or are slaughtered for the
discovered that cows enjoy solving or cats, are they?”
rennet in their stomachs (rennet is an
enzyme that is used to make cheese – it problems and even experience Fish are our fellow citizens with scales and fins … I would never eat anyone

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I know personally. I wouldn’t deliberately eat a grouper any more than I’d
is described as “rennet” or “enzyme”
“Eureka!” moments (in which eat a cocker spaniel. They’re so good-natured, so curious. You know, fish are
on food labels). Male and many female
calves are packed into trucks and What Happens to their heart rate speeds up, their sensitive, they have personalities, they hurt when they’re wounded.
transported to slaughter. The natural ‘Beef Cattle’? adrenaline flows and they jump) Sylvia Earle, PhD, former chief scientist, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric
life span of a cow is about 20 years. Many Australian and New Zealand Administration
In Australia, cows on dairy farms are “beef cattle” spend most of their when they are successful – just
like humans. Cows also interact
Eating Meat
killed, on average, at age 7. In New lives on extremely crowded feedlots.

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Zealand, they are killed at age 6. When Large corporations are taking over
their milk production wanes, the cows farming, and they have found that they in socially complex ways. A herd
of cows is very much like a pack
Harms the Planet
are slaughtered and ground up to make can maximise profits by giving each
burgers. steer only about 6 square metres of legacy of
living space. Steer undergo painful of wolves, with alpha animals pollution”.
The Link Between Dairy procedures, such as branding, castration and intricate social dynamics, Runoff from
Products and Veal and dehorning, without pain relief. Water from local to global. The massive amount farms causes the
Every year, approximately 1 million They can die of pneumonia, dehydration including friendships that develop A combined study carried out by the of animal faeces produced on factory farms growth of toxic blue-green
unwanted calves (known as “bobby or heat exhaustion from spending over time. University of Melbourne’s School of is the largest source of airborne methane. algae and other algal blooms, which kill
calves”) – including almost all the males long periods without food or water in Social and Environmental Enquiry and its The Worldwatch Institute reports that a fish, damage local rivers and lakes and
and about 75 per cent of the females crowded trucks while being transported Department of Civil and Environmental staggering 51 per cent or more of global make waterways unusable by humans.
– are separated from their mothers to feedlots or slaughterhouses. Cattle Engineering found that “[a] vegetarian diet greenhouse-gas emissions are caused by
immediately after birth and condemned are routinely given large doses of can save households up to 35 per cent of animal agriculture. Soil Erosion
to slaughter. Most are killed when they antibiotics in their feed (75 per cent of their total water usage”. Hard-hoofed animals, such as cattle and
are just 5 days old. Those destined for the antibiotics consumed in Australia Pollution sheep, grazing on New Zealand’s and
Climate Change
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veal farms are killed when they are only and New Zealand are used in livestock The Australian dairy industry alone Australia’s fragile topsoil causes the thin
14 weeks old. They spend their short feed), creating antibiotic-resistant The United Nations has concluded that produces almost 65,000 tonnes of effluent layer of fertile soil to be erode d and lost,
lives within the limited confines of a bacteria which may severely threaten factory farming is one of the biggest every day. In New South Wales, the eventually making the land unusable for
shed, the only “home” they’ll ever know. human health. contributors to the most serious government has said that the now-closed any agriculture and unable to support
environmental problems at every level – Homebush Bay abattoirs left “an appalling any life.

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 Making Try These Easy
the Transition Substitutes!
Fruits and nuts: © Tatyana Vychegzhanina/Dreamstime.com

There’s no mystery to creating deliciously satisfying vegan and vegetarian meals. Tasty Then Now

Recipe photos: © Steve Lee Studios

Fruit, vegetable and nuts photos: © Tatyana Vychegzhanina/Dreamstime.com
alternatives to the animal-derived ingredients that you may be cooking with are easier to find Meat Redwood, Fry’s, Gardein, Australian Eatwell and Zoglos offer everything from vegetarian schnitzel
to sausages. The varieties are extensive and easy to find. Many Buddhist and other vegetarian
than ever – many are as close as your local supermarket. restaurants serve scrumptiously prepared faux-meat dishes. Asian supermarkets often have a range
of excellent frozen faux meats.
plant protein and low in saturated fat, add whatever catches your fancy, such as
and they contain zero cholesterol. Some avocados, fresh salad or crunchy snow Milk Try the many vegan options – including soy, rice, almond and oat milk – available in supermarkets.
of the “meatiest” choices can be found peas, for a quick and tasty sandwich. In Use them in any way that you’d use cows’ milk.
at major supermarkets: look for the wintertime, toast with jam or Vegemite
Sanitarium and Fry’s brands of vegetarian and a soy hot chocolate will warm you up. Butter Many margarines, such as Nuttelex, are vegan. Try olive or flaxseed oil on sandwiches instead
BBQ sausages, tender fillets, kebabs and For an easy snack, try delicious soy yogurt of butter.
burger patties. Asian grocers often have a from Kingland, Soy Life or Soyganic.
wonderful range of mock-meat products Ice Cream The So Good brand offers a range of many rich and creamy choices – from luscious chocolate

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in the freezer section. See the list to delicate mango and coconut flavours. Other options include Tofutti’s dairy-free desserts, Weis’

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Explore the many vegetarian foods that
of suggestions at the end of this kit. lemon and Italian red orange sorbets and CocoLuscious’ delicious coconut milk ice cream.
have been popular in other countries
for years, such as hummus, vegetable
Purchase a vegan cookbook or borrow curries and falafel with tabouli salad and
Cheese Try Daiya “cheddar” shreds, Biocheese vegan cheeses, Kingland soy cheese, Tofutti “cream cheese”
and Cheezly non-dairy mozzarella. To spice up pasta dishes, sprinkle on some Parmazano.
one from the library. There are cookbooks your choice of sauce. Enjoy Mexican-
for people who don’t like to spend style beans-and-rice dishes, Japanese
Cream DeliSoy and Blue Lotus Foods offer delicious dairy-free sour cream options, or try
more than 10 minutes preparing dinner, vegetarian sushi with avocado and
Tofutti Sour Supreme. For dessert “cream”, try Soytoo! spray whipping cream,
and there are cookbooks for gourmet cucumber and Thai and Indian curries.
also available in a Tetra Pak.

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If you’re just getting started, it’s easy to chefs. CrueltyFreeShop.com.au and
simply try “vegging up” some of your VeganPerfection.com.au offer a range
Eggs Look for egg replacers, such as Orgran’s No Egg, in the health-food section
favourite recipes by replacing the meat. of vegan cookbooks. Or search the of your local supermarket. Bananas and applesauce can also

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internet for vegan cooking tips, blogs and

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Replace the mince in burritos with beans, be used in place of eggs in baked goods. For breakfast, try
grilled veggies and/or vegetarian mince
(soy mince or Vegemeal burger mix).
thousands of recipes. scrambling some firm tofu with spices as an alternative to
scrambled eggs.
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Top baked potatoes with soy bacon bits,
avocado, salsa or a dairy-free margarine Always eating on the run? Check Snacks Check the ingredient lists of snacks like chips
such as Nuttelex. Make homemade pizza out the increasing variety of and biscuits – you’ll be surprised at how “Where can I get vegan
with soy cheese, sliced vegan sausages vegan microwavable meals, many are vegan. Arnott’s has a wide
foods in my town?”

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and vegetable toppings. Many canned pasta toppings and soups, variety of vegan crackers and biscuits,
soup flavours that you probably already easily available from most including Cruskits and Choc Ripple. It’s easier than you think! If you live close to a larger town, city or
love are vegetarian. Try minestrone, supermarkets in the Leda’s brand, which is available rural centre, you can find veggie burgers and other mock meats
tomato, vegetable or pumpkin soups. refrigerated and frozen at many supermarkets, makes as well as soy milk, soy cheese and egg replacer in supermarkets
Have spaghetti Bolognese with vegetarian sections. Look for vegan chocolate biscuits similar like Coles, Woolworths, Countdown (New Zealand), New World

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mince. delicious vegan Funky to Tim Tams and Mint Slices. (New Zealand) and IGA as well as health-food shops. If you don’t
Pies at your favourite Other biscuits are available see a certain product at your local shop, just ask – managers want
stockist, or order them from online vegan stores. Be suggestions from their customers. Of course, a large percentage of
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Try the ever-growing line-up of mock- online. Or grab some sure to browse through the the foods that you already eat are vegan, including many biscuits,
meat products, including veggie burgers, vegan sandwich slices health-food section of your chips, breads, pastries, cereals, soups and confectionery, along
veggie pies, “hot dogs”, “sausages”, (such as Cheatin’ local supermarket; you’ll usually with staples like pasta, oats, beans, nuts, vegetables, rice, fruit and
Check out the list of
“chicken” patties and faux-meat sandwich Chicken Style Slices) or find a variety of dairy-free and peanut butter. Even if you live in a small community, you will still
Australian and New
slices and rolls. Not only are mock meats soy cheese (try Cheezly egg-free chocolates, cookies and be able to find a health-food shop which stocks vegan products,
Zealand resources at
delicious, they’re also high in healthy cheddar or Edam) and other snacks. from fresh to frozen foods.
the end of this kit.

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 Recipes for Life
Nuts and vegetables: © Tatyana Vychegzhanina/Dreamstime.com

Eating vegan is easy once you know how. Here are recipes, tips and ideas to get you started.

Breakfast Blueberry Pancakes Tofu Scramble

Eating breakfast out? Try a bowl of 150 g whole-wheat flour 1 Tbsp vegetable oil
oatmeal, hash browns, a fruit salad or a 150 g unbleached all-purpose flour 50 g green pepper, chopped
bagel or toast with jam. Take along your 3 Tbsp sugar 50 g onion, chopped
own dairy-free margarine or a cream 3 Tbsp baking powder 50 g fresh mushrooms, sliced
cheese substitute. For breakfast at 1 tsp sea salt 2 cloves garlic, minced
home, try these ideas: 500 ml soy milk 1 pkg firm tofu, drained and crumbled
• Fry up some sliced boiled potatoes 3 Tbsp vegetable oil ¼ tsp turmeric
and onions for homemade hash 100 g fresh or frozen blueberries Salt and pepper, to taste
browns. Serve them with soy bacon
or sausage. • Combine the dry ingredients in a • Heat the oil in a large non-stick
• Search the internet for vegan recipes bowl and sift together. Add the soy skillet over medium-high heat.
for French toast, Spanish omelettes milk and oil and mix until smooth. Add the green pepper, onion,
and even crêpes. Fold in the blueberries. mushrooms and garlic and cook
• Try a toasted bagel with Tofutti’s • Ladle onto a hot, oiled skillet. Cook until softened. Add the tofu, Lunch or Dinner Shepherd’s Pie Wild-Mushroom
Better Than Cream Cheese. for 2 to 3 minutes on each side, until turmeric, salt and pepper and cook Stroganoff
• You can find vegan cereal anywhere lightly browned. for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Recipe food photos: © Steve Lee Studios, except fruit salad © Ingrid Balabanova/Dreamstime.com and tofu scramble © iStockphoto.com Jason Lugo
Dining out for lunch or dinner is a 4 medium potatoes, diced
– just serve it with soy or rice milk. breeze. Most restaurants serve at least 2 Tbsp vegan margarine (try Nuttelex) 1 Tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
• Check packages of pancake and Makes 4 to 6 servings Makes 4 servings one vegetarian meal, and many will 150 ml soy milk 1 medium onion, diced
waffle mixes – many are vegan – adapt an existing dish for you. Look Salt and pepper, to taste 100 g quartered baby portobello
and just add soy milk and/or for rice, pasta and noodle dishes with 450 g ground beef substitute (try mushrooms
egg replacer. vegetables or a meat-free tomato sauce; Sanitarium Vegie Mince) 100 g quartered shiitake mushrooms
• Some Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts (without Thai and Indian curries; bean burritos; 300 ml mushroom gravy (try Orgran 100 g quartered button mushrooms
icing) are vegan. falafel; and pizza with lots of roasted Natural Vegan Gravy Mix) 1 Tbsp whole-wheat flour
vegetable toppings but no cheese. If 1 small tin mixed peas and carrots, 400 ml mushroom gravy (try Orgran
you’re attending a catered event, ask drained Natural Vegan Gravy Mix)
your hosts in advance if the chefs Garlic powder and cayenne pepper, 250 ml vegetable stock (try Massel
can prepare a vegan option. If you’re to taste brand)
travelling through rural towns, you can 150 g soy sour cream (try Tofutti brand)
usually find a Chinese or Thai restaurant • Preheat the oven to 180ºC. 1 Tbsp ground mustard
where you can get a delicious stir-fry for • Boil the potatoes for 15 minutes, or
dinner – just ask them to hold the fish until tender. Drain and mash with • Heat the oil in a large pan over
sauce. the vegan margarine and soy milk. medium heat. Add the onion and
Season with salt and pepper. mushrooms and sauté until soft.
• In a medium bowl, mix together the Sprinkle in the flour and stir until
ground beef substitute, gravy, peas, the vegetables are coated. Add the
carrots and spices. Pour the mixture gravy and the vegetable stock and
into a large baking dish. Top with simmer for 20 minutes.
the potatoes, spreading them to the • Add the sour cream and mustard
edges of the tin. and heat through.
• Bake for 30 minutes, or until the • Serve over rice or pasta.
potatoes are browned.
Makes 4 servings
Makes 4 servings

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 Curried Chickpeas Sweet-and-Sour Vegan Pâté
and Dahl ‘Meatballs’ en Croûte
2 Tbsp vegetable oil 500 g ground beef substitute (try 1 onion, minced
1 medium onion, finely chopped Sanitarium Vegie Mince) 2 Tbsp vegan margarine
1 red capsicum, minced ½ green capsicum, finely chopped 1200 g minced mushrooms
1 green capsicum, minced 1 small onion, finely chopped 4 cloves garlic, minced
2 large celery stalks, chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced 2 Tbsp fresh parsley, minced
1 Tbsp minced garlic 2 slices white bread, crumbled 2 Tbsp fresh rosemary, minced
1½ tsp ginger Egg replacer equivalent of 2 eggs 2 Tbsp lemon juice
220 g water Salt and pepper, to taste 250 g dried bread crumbs
1 450-g can whole peeled tomatoes, Hearty ‘Beef ’ Cassoulet 2 Tbsp vegetable oil 1 pkg frozen puff pastry sheets
with liquid 175 ml chili sauce Lasagne
1 450-g can chickpeas (garbanzo beans), 3 Tbsp olive oil 150 ml red currant jelly • In a large pot, sauté the onion in the
with liquid 6 cloves garlic, minced 1 pkg lasagne noodles margarine over medium heat for a
1½ cups uncooked red lentils 1 large onion, finely chopped • In a large bowl, mix together all the 500 g soft tofu few minutes.
3 oz orange juice 1 Tbsp dried thyme ingredients except the oil, chili sauce 500 g firm tofu • Add the mushrooms and garlic and
1½ tsp curry powder 3 bay leaves and jelly until thoroughly combined. 1 Tbsp sugar sauté for 20 to 30 more minutes,
1½ tsp cumin ½ tsp marjoram Form into small balls. 100 ml soy milk until the liquid has evaporated. The
½ tsp ground chilli, or to taste 1 tsp dried rosemary • Heat the oil in a large skillet ½ tsp garlic powder mixture should be somewhat dry.
½ tsp dried coriander or 2 Tbsp 100 ml red wine over medium-high heat. Add the 2 Tbsp lemon juice • Add the parsley, rosemary, lemon
fresh minced coriander 2 large carrots, peeled and sliced “meatballs” and fry until browned. 3 tsp minced fresh basil juice and bread crumbs and mix
2 stalks celery, chopped • In a small saucepan, heat the chili 2 tsp salt well, forming a sticky ball. Allow
1 large potato, cubed sauce and jelly over low heat and stir 150 g frozen peas to cool slightly or store in the
1 small can diced tomatoes, with liquid until smooth. Add the “meatballs” 150 g canned artichokes, chopped refrigerator overnight.
200 g cubed seitan or mock duck and stir gently to coat. Simmer over 750 g tomato sauce • Thaw the puff pasty sheets for 30
2 Tbsp molasses low heat for 5 minutes. minutes.
2 Tbsp Dijon mustard • Cook the lasagne noodles according • Preheat the oven to 230°C.
1 420-g can kidney beans, drained Makes approximately 20 balls to the package directions. Drain and • Place one sheet of dough on a
1 420-g can navy beans, drained set aside. floured board and roll out into a
Sea salt and black pepper, to taste • Preheat the oven to 200°C. large square. Spread half of the
100 g whole-wheat bread crumbs mixed • Place the tofu, sugar, soy milk, garlic mushroom mixture over half of
with 3 Tbsp olive oil powder, lemon juice, basil and salt the dough, leaving a 1-inch space
in a food processor or blender and along the edges. Fold the other half
• Preheat the oven to 180°C. blend until smooth. Stir in the peas of the dough over the half with the Creamy Potato Salad
• Heat the olive oil in a large pot over and artichokes. mushroom mixture, pressing the
medium-high heat. Add the garlic, • Cover the bottom of a baking dish edges together with your fingers, 6 medium potatoes, cut into cubes
onions, thyme, bay leaves, marjoram with a thin layer of the tomato then crimp with a fork to seal. Make 150 ml eggless mayonnaise
and rosemary and sauté for 2 sauce, then a layer of noodles (using three slits on top, then place on an 3 Tbsp yellow mustard
• Heat the oil in a large pot over minutes. about one-third of the noodles). ungreased cookie sheet and put into 2 Tbsp distilled white vinegar
medium-high heat. Add the onion, • Add the wine, cover and simmer for Follow with half of the tofu filling. the refrigerator. ½ onion, chopped
capsicum, celery, garlic and ginger 5 minutes. Continue in the same order, using • Prepare the other sheet of dough 2 stalks celery, chopped
and sauté until soft. • Add the carrots, celery, potato half of the remaining tomato sauce in the same manner, using the Salt and pepper, to taste
• Add the remaining ingredients, stir and tomatoes and simmer for 10 and noodles and all of the remaining remaining mushroom mixture. Put
well and bring to a boil. Reduce the minutes. tofu filling. End with the remaining on the same or another cookie sheet • Cook the potatoes in boiling water
heat, cover and let simmer, stirring • Add the seitan, molasses, mustard noodles, covered by the remaining and refrigerate for 30 minutes. for 20 minutes. Drain and let cool
Recipe photos: © Steve Lee Studios

occasionally, until the lentils are soft and beans. Season with salt and tomato sauce. • Bake for 20 minutes, or until the completely.
and the liquid is absorbed, about pepper and heat through. • Bake, covered, for 20 minutes, then dough is puffed and golden. • In a large bowl, combine the
45 minutes. • Transfer to an oiled casserole dish. uncovered for 10 to 15 minutes. potatoes with the remaining
• Serve over basmati rice or with Top with the bread crumb mixture, Makes 8 to 12 servings ingredients. Refrigerate until cold.
Indian bread, if desired. cover and bake for 45 minutes. Makes 6 to 8 servings
Makes 4 to 6 servings
Makes 6 servings Makes 4 to 6 servings

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 Dessert Fudge Mint Brownies
Baking is easy with vegan egg replacer
(available in supermarkets and health- 225 g sugar
food stores). Use soy or rice milk in 170 g + 3 Tbsp vegan margarine
place of cows’ milk in your favourite 256 g flour
cakes and desserts. ½ tsp salt
450 ml chocolate syrup
1 tsp vanilla
125 g icing sugar
2 Tbsp green crème de menthe
175 g chocolate chips

• Preheat the oven to 180°C.

• In a large bowl, using an electric
mixer, cream together the sugar
and 100 g of the margarine. Mix
in the flour and salt, then add the
chocolate syrup and vanilla and mix
until thoroughly combined.
• Spread into a large greased pan and
bake for 30 minutes. Allow to cool Sandwiches Quick-and-Easy Snacks Pizza Toppings
completely.
• Mix together the icing sugar, 70 g of Sandwich fillings can be just about • Microwave tortillas and fill them Pizza toppings are limited only by your
the margarine (melted and cooled) anything that you have on hand: with canned refried beans, salsa, imagination. Here are some quick ideas:
and the crème de menthe. Spread • Stuff a baguette with lettuce, tomato guacamole and corn for easy burritos. • Chop up whatever veggies are on
over the cooled cake. and non-dairy cheese slices. • Zap a veggie burger in the microwave hand and drizzle some olive oil over
• Melt together the remaining 3 Chocolate Mousse • Fill a pita with faux tuna or chicken and put it on a bun with your them.
Strawberry-Mango Crisp tablespoonfuls of margarine and the salad. Try some of the mock meat favourite condiments and toppings. • Try new ideas for toppings, like sun-
chocolate chips and cool slightly. 500 g firm silken tofu sandwich fillings from Cheatin’ • Heat sliced veggie hot dogs and dried tomatoes, beans, spinach or
For the Fruit Mixture: Spread over the crème de menthe 175 g dark chocolate chips, melted or Sanitarium, and mix with vegan canned vegetarian-style baked beans even corn.
250 g quartered strawberries mixture. mayonnaise and fresh salad mix in the microwave for fast “franks” • Add different sauces, like pesto or
250 g diced mango • Refrigerate until set, then cut into • In a blender, purée the tofu until or celery. and beans. red-pepper-and-garlic purée.
225 g sugar squares. Chill thoroughly again smooth. Add the melted chocolate • Make a grilled “cheese” sandwich • Make an easy pasta salad by mixing • Get creative with mock meats – top
128 g flour before serving. and blend thoroughly. Pour into with soy cheese. Add tomatoes, pesto your pizza with tempeh or veggie
dessert bowls and chill for 2 hours. or olives for an added kick. versions of bacon, ham or chicken.
For the Topping: Makes 6 to 8 servings • Dress up a bagel with avocado and • Try sprinkling with nutritional
128 g flour Makes 6 servings fresh salad mix. yeast flakes or soy Parmesan for a
½ cup rolled oats traditional cheesy taste.
200 g brown sugar Appetisers • For a Mexican pizza flavour, try
4 Tbsp vegan margarine refried beans, tomatoes, soy cheese
Appetisers can be as simple as chips and and salsa. Try these brands of
• Preheat the oven to 200°C. dip or as elegant as a vegan pâté. Here vegan cheeses: Biocheese, Cheezly,
• Mix the ingredients for the fruit are some ideas for quick-and-easy hors Kingland or Sheese.
mixture together in a large bowl. d’œuvres: • For a ricotta-like topping, try
Spread evenly into a baking dish. Set • A platter with dolmades, stuffed crumbling tofu and mixing it with
aside. olives, antipasto and crunchy lemon juice, basil, garlic powder
• Mix the dry ingredients for the sliced carrots and cucumber can be and salt.
topping together in a medium combined with vegan dips like pesto • Top a cooked pizza crust with
bowl. Cut in the margarine until or sun-dried tomato tapenade. hummus, olive oil and chopped fresh
Recipe photos: © Steve Lee Studios

the mixture resembles small peas. • Whip up a seven-layer Mexican dip cooked spiral pasta with chopped cucumbers, tomatoes, red onions,
Spread evenly over the fruit mixture. using refried beans, black olives, broccoli, carrots, green pepper, black olives and pickled peppers.
Bake for 35 to 45 minutes, or until salsa, shredded soy cheese, soy sour corn, red onion and your favourite • Make a sweet pizza by brushing
bubbly. Serve warm with non-dairy cream, sliced spring onions and vinaigrette. melted margarine over pizza dough
ice cream. jalapeños. and sprinkling with sugar and
cinnamon. Add chopped walnuts,
Makes 6 servings if desired.

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Respect animals. Don’t eat them. Go vegan.

We are not “nuggets”.
We are not “drumsticks”.

We are living beings like you.

We have feelings like yours.