The Wonderful Vegan society
Happy Birthday – The Vegan Society The Vegan Society is celebrating its 65th anniversary on November 1st – World Vegan Day. Off The Hoof extends a warm and fluffy birthday greetings to this venerable outfit that has consistently pumped out information, support and advice about the Vegan Lifestyle to millions over the years.You can join the Vegan Society for not a lot of money to help support their work and you will also receive a copy of their highly informative magazine The Vegan – go to www.vegansociety.com for more information
This coming year The Vegan Society is focusing on the developing world, starvation and how livestock farming plays a crucial part in depriving many indigenous people from being able to grow enough food for themselves.
One billion of us will go to bed hungry tonight, mostly in the developing world. Meanwhile, the United Nations say that over three billion people could live on the grain fed to farmed animals. Yet, the United Nations Environment Programme recently calculated that the calories currently lost by feeding grain to livestock represents the annual calorie needs of more than 3.5 billion people Human animal farming now threatens global food supplies. The Earth's capacity to feed us is being strained to the limit by growing human and farmed animal populations. There is not enough land and water to feed us all with meat and dairy based diets. Animal farming is also in the top three human contributions to global climate change, another threat to global food security. Plant-based diets make better use of land and water to grow nutritious food suitable for people of all ages. Stock-free farming - plant agriculture, without captive animals - can help to reduce world hunger. The Vegan Society is calling for an urgent stock-free farming revolution. We are talking to farmers, policy-makers and international development workers. Please see our Web site, www.vegansociety.com or email info@vegansociety.com or phone 0121 523 1730 to find out more.We offer free booklets on stock-free farming, nutrition and recipes, and scientifically referenced fact sheets on the benefits of UK and worldwide stock-free farming for global food security.
Slim T, the editor of Off The Hoof, would very much like to take this opportunity to say a deep and heartfelt thankyou to everyone with the Society who has supported his ventures with so many contributions in so many different ways over the last 7 years. You have been superb. xxxbigluvslimt2009
