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I’m currently working my way through Louis Fischer’s “Life of Mahatma Gandhi”. I say “working my way through” because it is impossible to simply read about such a life without being forced to look long and hard at one’s own. One of the many things that strikes me about Gandhi’s life is his unending experimentation. [...]
Filed under: Books, Inspiration | Tagged: Books, Creativity, Food, Lifestyle, Reading, Spirituality, Vegetarianism | 7 Comments »
Before we got rid of our TV, I was becoming weary of the amount of hours dedicated to cookery programs which encourage people to “fetishize” food and slaver over exotic culinary preparations. Historically, an unhealthy fascination with gourmandise seems to have proliferated in civilisations on the cusp of decline and I think we are no [...]
Filed under: Contemporary Culture, Inspiration, Vegan, Vegetarian | Tagged: Cooking, Food, Lifestyle, Veganism, Vegetarianism | 10 Comments »
I tend to get the blues every October. It sneaks up on me. I’m half way through the month and wondering why my energy levels are shot and I’m going round in circles feeling quite miserable and unmotivated. Then I remember: it’s just October. Usually I’ve pulled things around come November. However, this year I [...]
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This afternoon I got a postcard … from myself. About seven weeks ago, I was embarking on the four days of heady alternative reality that was Greenbelt 2011. The good folk of the Feig community based at Gloucester Cathedral held a Communion service in the midst of a lavish feast for what looked like about [...]
Filed under: Art, Inspiration, Miscellanea | Tagged: Arts, Creativity, Food, Journaling, Postcard, Spirituality | 2 Comments »
I thought for this Milk Monday I’d share a couple of YouTube clips depicting the life of a dairy cow. Thanks to YouTube and the work of a number of animal advocacy groups, there is no excuse for ignorance about where milk and cheese come from and what the animals that provide it have to [...]
Filed under: Milk Monday, Vegan | Tagged: Agriculture, Animal welfare, Dairy, Farming, Food, Veganism | 4 Comments »
Last week was interesting … For a start, the Daily Mail published a story about a deformed calf being taken from its mother and shot on a farm in the Bristol area that supplies milk to Cadbury’s. It was just one of the many cruel details uncovered by a Viva! investigation. This was “shocking” enough [...]
Filed under: Environment, Milk Monday, Vegan, Vegetarian | Tagged: Agriculture, Animal welfare, Dairy, Farming, Food, Greening, Lifestyle, Veganism | 3 Comments »
