I’m replacing my leather stuff with other things, bit by bit.



Not that I’ve been buying lots of leather the last couple of years while being vegetarian, but still. I have my winter shoes, my bag and jacket I never use anyway.

The jacket is going to be sold, it’s used once.
The shoes will have do their duty this winter, I’m not buying another pair of winter shoes right now, I can’t justify it.
But the bag is going today.
I went to the fair trade shop in town and got this (in solidarity with kamodsja). I’m definitly going there again, not only are the things tehy sell there fair trade, but I liked them for the design and the quality of materials used in the sweaters and the like. After all, I’m a knitter and somewhat crafty, good quality in fibers make me happy.

And in case anyone is wondering, yes, the bag is made out of laminated newspapers, with foreign letters.

Tags: leather, vegan, vegetarian

I’m a bookish kind of girl. So that I today spent 50 GBP (quids? I have a lousy lapotop keyboard without the pound sign) on books.

• Alternative Vegan by Dino Sarma I allready own a copy of this, this is a gift. I love this book.
• The joy of vegan baking by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau For my sweetie. He’s started baking a lot after we vent vegan. And I really want to encourage him at that. I love his baked goods.
• Veganomicon by Isa Chandra Moskowitz for me…
• Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog by Gary Francione because I’ve listened to the interviews with Francione over at VeganFreak Radio and wanted a bit more. I’ll get the rest of his books later.
• EAT, DRINK & BE VEGAN by Dreena Burton this is also the VeganFreak Radio’s fault, they had her on in the most recent show (nr 81), and I started lusting after the book. That was what started the book binge in the first place.

I’m turning into a cookbook whore! The problem is just that I find that vegan cooking is so much fun! I enjoy it, I never used to enjoy cooking before and now I love doing it. And being an obsessive researcher I get books on the subject

Tags: animal rights, Books, cooking, podcast, vegan

Today’s post, “glaring fish eyes”, could just as easyily be called “Why I dislike living with omnivores“.

I came home today, feeling a bit like shite after yesterday (alcohol tends to do that to me), went into the kitchen to get a glass of water, and felt something staring at me from the sink.

Fish, four of them, defrosting, with dead eyes staring out into nothingness…

Sometimes I want to move, just to avoid shit like this. My sweetie and me live with his family, because we’re too poor to do anything else. The plus side of things is that we can afford it, the downside is smelling cooking flesh, having dead eyes looking at you, and not being able to adopt a cat.

I hope hope hope we can get a place of our own soon, especially at days like this (I know I sound overly sensitive, but sometimes, living with omnis suck).

Tags: fish

Bob Torres’ new book “Making a killing” is out now. He’s one of the authours of a book I just finished reading “Veganfreak” and a part of the podcast duo over at Veganfreak radio podcast.

He and Jenna over at the podcast makes a really good show, the kind I enjoy listening to, and I recomend it to everyone, even if you just want to check out what all the crazy vegan stuff is about.

The new book, which I’m ordering in a day or two, is for the people on the left (politically) and for animal rights people alike. The companion site to the book probably talks about why you should read this a lot better than I can before I have the chance to pick it up. But as I see it, it’s talking about issues that really needs to be talked about.
Animal Rights questions and the way capital controls our world is soo deeply interlinked that any movement that dosen’t consider both of them, is a weaker movement by far.

Every form of suppersion is related, this is pretty evident when you start to read books on topics such as feminism, capitalism, war, propaganda, poverty and social justice. If you start questioning one you have a hard time not going further. And the way I see it, if you want to change the world you need to get the big picture, if not your going to be less effective as well as actually harming the causes your working for. I’ll rant about this more in a day or two. Right now I’ll just recomend that you go and check out the book, or at least the podcast. Ok? Give it a try, you might just challange some views, or at least consider some new ideas.
Challanging yourself is almost as good for you as spinach

Tags: activists, podcast, vegan

I found something today that made me really happy (I hope this doesn’t sound too sad).

I haven’t had candy in about a month, mostly because I haven’t wanted any, but also because the amount of crap that’s in them (milk, egg, gelatin).

This chocolate on the other hand is not only vegan, but it’s not even processed in the same plant as anything dairy. As an added bonus it’s organic as well.
And it tastes good.

It’s a plamil foods product, but distributed here by Alternativ Mat, the same people I get my rice milk (with almond flavor) from it seems like.

Small things like finding that in the store today makes me happy It’s the first time I’ve seen the Vegan stamp on something as well..

Tags: milk, vegan