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“… you who live now, what madness, what frenzy drives you to the pollution of shedding blood, you who have such a superfluity of necessities?” |
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“The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by man [sic] for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation”
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Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1813, A Vindication of Natural Diet
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“You don’t motivate people to become more compassionate toward animals by
showing a lack of compassion toward humans in hard times.”
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Tom Regan, 2004, Empty Cages
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Diary
This page contains notifications of forthcoming events:
- Major updates to the Vegatopia website
- Academic papers, conferences, seminars or workshops with relevance to veganism
- Other major events in the vegan calendar
Please contact us to alert us to a forthcoming vegan event, a paper that you are giving, or anything else you think will be of interest to Vegatopia visitors.
Latest Diary
- Sunday September 7th 2008
London Vegan Festival
Kensington Town Hall, Hornton St, W8
£1 adults, under 16s free!
NB Vegatopia will be at the LVF, please come along to say hello at our Food Survey stand, and fill in our questionnaire while you are there.
http://www.vegancampaigns.org.uk/festival/
Old Diary Entries
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Saturday April 19th 2008, 12 noon
Meeting at Oxpens Park, Oxpens Road, Oxford for World Day for Laboratory Animals: a United Nations recognized day of international commemoration of the suffering and killing of millions of innocent sentient beings in laboratories throughout the world.
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Saturday April 19th 2008, 7.30 till late.
SPEAK benefit gig taking place after the national demo listed above
Venue: North Oxford Rugby Club, North Hinksey, Oxford, OX2 The GeriPatricks Irish Band £7.50 (with food included) More information at: http://www.speakcampaigns.org/diary.php/#tsp
- April 20th - 26th, 2008
World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week
http://www.all-creatures.org/wlalw/index.html
Also called World Week for Animals in Laboratories
http://www.wwail.org/
- Saturday April 26th, 2-5pm
‘Party for the Animals’ in Kennington Park, London:
An afternoon of speeches and debates in support of the Animals Count election campaign: Jasmijn de Boo, leader of the new political party Animals Count will run in the Greater London Assembly Elections on 1st May as a candidate for the constituency of Southwark and Lambeth. Vegan food will also be available.
- May 1st 2008 - NOTE: UPDATE DELAYED UNTIL END OF THIS WEEK
Vegatopia website update due. Expect substantial additions to the bibliography and media archive pages, including updated pdf files. Confirmation of the updates will appear on the news page.
- Saturday May 31st - Sunday June 1st
Bristol Vegan Fayre ’08, UK
NB Vegatopia will be at the BVF, please come along to say hello at our Food Survey stand, and fill in our questionnaire while you are there.
http://www.bristolveganfayre.co.uk/home.htm
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