July 2015 – VEGAN ANNIE

Kadatz Evasive in CBC Interview about 4 Horses Dead at The Calgary Stampede!

The idea for my post about The Calgary Stampede came from my friend and fellow vegan, Karen Messier. She is a passionate supporter of the rights of nonhuman animals and she becomes particularly and justifiably indignant when it comes to other species being used for the supposed entertainment of humans. She calls it a rant and it is here that I beg to differ with her. Depending on the online dictionary one chooses to check, a rant can be classified …

The Calgary Stampede: Abject Cruelty and Death

I would hazard a guess that most Canadians have at least heard of The Calgary Stampede. What little kid did not imagine being a cowboy or cowgirl(if you were raised in the fifties as I was) wearing a ten gallon hat, sporting spurs, chaps, a toy gun filled holster, pretending to ride a horse, rope a cow, kill bandits, while whistling along to Roy Rogers singing “Happy Trails to You”? Sound familiar? I don’t even know if today’s kids aspire …

Beans and Rice versus Ground Beef (A Veganic View)

This is the second in a series of articles written by my good friend and veganic farmer, Jimmy Videle. He has much to teach us about the farming practices associated with and the benefits of eating a whole food, plant based diet. Enjoy!

This Meal or That Meal? Beans & Rice vs. Red Meat

Author, Jimmy Videle, La Ferme de l’Aube

In my travels around the world over the last five years I discovered an interesting constant. In …

Answering the question, “Why are you vegan?”.

I always have a few ideas floating around in my head at any given time, ideas about tolerance, love, power, cruelty, disconnectedness and how these all relate to and often fuel our treatment (mistreatment) of other species for our wants, not needs. Of course this way of thinking and seeing the world is new to me because for most of my life, I have been an uninformed, willing consumer of other beings. And even after my daughter started speaking to …