Open the Bubbly, We’re Dining Out…
It’s the beginning of National Vegetarian Week in the United Kingdom and if there was ever a perfect opportunity to encourage your friends and family to ditch the ‘drumsticks’ and make the transition to a plant-based lifestyle, it’s now! Even if they only want to honour the meat-free diet until Sunday, it’s still marks a positive step for vegetarians and vegans alike.
Whilst, I highly doubt my family would even attempt the challenge, I will make it my mission to remind them of the occasion and offer an assortment of vegan/vegetarian meal suggestions throughout the week.
April Showers Bring May Flowers…
Surrounded by a sea of golden-yellow rape and basked in rays of sunlight soaring across an azure blue sky. The setting on this particular May weekend (12-13th) was simply picturesque as we made our way across the fields of our hometown.
As a matter of fact, you’d find it hard to believe that just three days prior to this, the skies were completely masked in grey cloud, with winds piercing through us at tremendous speeds.
The Power of Good Film…
“Making the Connection – Chapter 7″ – a truly remarkable and persuasive insight into veganism brought to us by the Vegan Society and notable poet & author, Benjamin Zephaniah.
Despite hearing about ‘Making the Connection’ last year, I have only just seen this video today.
A Word to the ‘Wise’…
This was something I wrote a few months ago in response to somebody’s blog that suggested all vegetarians and vegans were “pasty, pale, anaemic and protein-deficient eccentrics, who chose to deliberately deprive themselves of good health”. Obviously, I responded and I like to think I presented an honest and dignified rebuttal, based on fact. I just wanted to share this post with my readers before I delete the document, whilst carrying out my dreaded ‘computer spring clean’.
Having studied nutrition in quite some depth, I can tell you that the idea of vegetarianism or veganism devitalising and prohibiting an individual from living a healthy lifestyle, is utterly ridiculous.
A Lengthy Explanation…
Sometimes, life can bring you to breaking point. You feel as though everything has turned pear-shaped and you’re not quite sure what you’re doing or we’re your heading…
A little over a year ago, everything had its place. There was a plan, a passion, a fret, a prospect, a smile-setter, a tear-jerker. Whereas, throughout 2011, these once vivid emotions had congealed into a mass of uncertainty, vacancy and disconcertion…
Lest We Forget…
This post could potentially be a little controversial, but nonetheless, I feel the need to publish it…
This was something I wrote last year, but never got round to publishing and has been sitting in my ‘drafts’ folder ever since (like quite a lot of posts actually). To be honest, I was a little nervous about the response it may get, but now that some of the major animal charities have brought light on this matter, it gives me every reason to reinforce the point!
