Urge Council to Stop Bullying Man and Sheep

Vu Ho and Baa. Pho­to: Ben Swin­n­er­ton / Her­ald Sun

Last year the Dan­de­nong Ci­ty coun­cil fined lo­cal resi­dent Vu Ho for hav­ing a sheep, Baa, on his sub­ur­ban prop­er­ty. Coun­cil told Mr Ho he could not cont­in­ue pro­vid­ing a home to Baa as she was con­sid­ered live­s­tock, and or­dered her re­moved from her home.

Mr Ho re­gards Baa as “a mem­ber of my fam­i­ly” who has lived with him peace­ful­ly for eleven years, and said “I have to help her un­til the end of all of my ca­pac­i­ty”. He has so far racked up over $150,000 in le­gal fees try­ing to fight the coun­cil’s bul­ly­ing tac­tics.

If a lo­cal coun­cil or­dered a rate­pay­er to re­move a fam­i­ly dog or cat from their home we would be ou­t­raged, and we should be no less ou­t­raged in this in­s­tance. Baa is a beloved fam­i­ly mem­ber who by all ac­counts is al­so a loved mem­ber of the street – she used to spend her days peace­ful­ly eat­ing grass                                                    

and the treats pro­vid­ed to her by Mr Ho. Sheep and other so called ‘live­s­tock’ have rich emo­tio­n­al lives and feel sad­ness, love, fear and other emo­tions just as do dogs and cats.

YOU CAN HELP

We can­not let the Ci­ty of Greater Dan­de­nong Coun­cil get away with this bul­ly­ing and dis­re­gard for the rights of an­i­mals. Please call the coun­cil on (03) 9239 5100 or send a short e-mail to coun­cil@cgd.vic.gov.au and ask them to please stop wast­ing rate­pay­er mon­ey, and re­v­erse their cru­el de­ci­sion to or­der Baa out of her home where she has lived peace­ful­ly for eleven years.

Vegan Body Building

The Strongest To­fu Tanks In Town at the 2012 Sus­tain­able Liv­ing Fes­ti­val, proud­ly pre­sent­ed by Up­roar and An­i­mal Lib­er­a­tion Vic­to­ria

UP­DATE: Thanks to ev­ery­one who came along and helped make the event such a huge suc­cess. Please vis­it our face­book gallery to view pho­tos from the event

Fea­tur­ing Mr Na­t­u­ral Uni­verse 2009 Bil­ly Sim­monds, cham­pi­on body­builder Joel Kirk­ilis, and gold-me­dal her­bi­vore heavy­weight Noah Han­ni­bal.

Host­ed by Tri­ple J’s Lind­say “The Doc­tor” Mc­Dou­gall.

Come along and watch our an­ti-beef bee­f­cakes smash stereo­types of the ve­g­an weak­ling and wow you with their pecs, packs and body-build­ing prowess!

FREE EVENT!

Vegan Bus Tours in Melbourne

Mel­bourne Ve­g­an Bus Tours are a great way for any­one new to ve­g­an­ism to be­come fa­miliar with where to shop, get the in­side scoop on what prod­ucts are ve­g­an at your lo­cal stores, eat fab­u­lous food and en­joy a fun day out with like-mind­ed peo­ple.

The next Ve­g­an Bus tour is on TBD.
                                                   

Please note the Sun­day Fe­bruary 26 Bus tour has been can­celled due to un­for­tu­nate un­forseen cir­cum­s­tances.                                                    

We will be an­nounc­ing the date of the next bus tour short­ly

Book­ings are Es­sen­tial

Cost: $60 per per­son. The tour in­cludes a val­ue packed ve­g­an show bag and lunch.

Email Tanya by Fri­day Feb 24 (or un­til seats sell out) – tanya@liv­ingve­g­an.com.au

Check out our pho­tos on face­book

The Sche­d­ule

The tour will kick off at An­i­mal Lib­er­a­tion Vic­to­ria’s Ur­ban An­i­mal Sanc­tuary in El­wood for com­pli­men­tary tea/cof­fee and to meet some of the beau­ti­ful                                                    

Vegan Easy Market Day

Sa­t­ur­day, Novem­ber 26, 2011
10:00am un­til 3:00pm

55A Bless­ing­ton Street
Port Phil­lip Eco Cen­tre (next to St.Kil­da Bo­tan­i­cal Gar­dens)

Ve­g­an Easy Mar­ket Day

Ev­ery­one is wel­come to come along to this fun, fam­i­ly day! There’ll be a range of ac­tiv­i­ties in­clud­ing stalls, de­li­cious ve­g­an food, talks and cook­ing de­mon­s­tra­tions AND a ve­g­an sausage siz­zle.

Talks

10:30am – 10:45am .. Ve­g­an Easy Team
                                                   

Wel­come & About the 30 Day Ve­g­an Easy Chal­lenge

10:45am – 11:40am .. Paul Ma­hony (ALV mem­ber & BCCAG)
The enor­mous cli­mate change im­pact of an­i­mal agri­cul­ture

11:45am – 12:10pm .. Hei­di Meri­ka (Con­s­cious Nu­tri­tion)
Ve­g­an nu­tri­tion

1:15pm – 2:15pm .. Pat­ty Mark (Foun­der ALV) and Fe­lic­i­ty An­dersen
The best way to help save an­i­mals and live more com­pas­sio­nate lives

Food De­mon­s­tra­tions

11:00am – 11:20am .. Ivan Zovko (Mel­bourne Ve­g­an Strength & ZOV-CORE)
How to make ve­g­an yo­ghurt

11:30am – 12:00pm .. Meghan Street (Ve­g­an Rev­o­lu­tion)
Easy to make: Raw cho­co­late co­conut pie

12:15pm – 1:10pm .. Hei­di Meri­ka
How to make piz­za with ve­g­an cheese

Stalls

* Up­roar
* An­i­mal Lib­er­a­tion Vic­to­ria
* Mis­ter Nice Guy cup­cakes
* Ve­g­an Elite (Viet­namese in­spired cui­sine)
                                                   

* Lu­na Mare Ve­g­an Cho­co­lates
* Ve­g­an Rev­o­lu­tion
* Supreme Mas­ter TV
* Cruisin Cup­pa (for cof­fee & tea)
* Ve­g­an Sausage siz­zle by ALV & Up­roar

How To Get There

Mel­ways MEL 58 B11

Trams: 64, 67 (St Kil­da Rd, from the ci­ty), 78, 79 (Prahran, Chapel St), 96 (light rail from the ci­ty)

Train: Bal­a­cla­va Sta­tion (San­dring­ham line) and walk for 10 min­utes west, over St Kil­da Rd than via the bo­tan­ic gar­dens.

Bus: 600, 922, 923, 246

Street park­ing avai­l­able around perime­ter of St Kil­da Bo­tan­i­cal Gar­dens (All-day park­ing)

Living Vegan Magazine

We are proud to pre­sent the first is­sue of Liv­ing Ve­g­an mag­azine!

Launched on Novem­ber 1, World Ve­g­an Day, Liv­ing Ve­g­an mag­azine aims to pro­vide en­ter­tain­ing, in­for­ma­tive and in­no­va­tive ar­ti­cles that ap­peal to both ve­g­ans and to those “just brows­ing”, and in the pro­cess ad­vance ve­g­an­ism as the com­pas­sio­nate, ra­tio­n­al and healthy lifestyle that it is.

You can view some sam­ple pages on our liv­ingve­g­an.com.au web­site

Liv­ing Ve­g­an is a not for pro­f­it publi­ca­tion and the mon­ey from di­rect sub­scrip­tions will go to Up­roar Inc., the pub­lish­ers of Liv­ing Ve­g­an, to sup­port ve­g­an ed­u­ca­tion cam­paigns.

Purchase a copy or sub­scrip­tion of Liv­ing Ve­g­an

Vis­it the Liv­ing Ve­g­an Web­site »

You can al­so purchase the cur­rent is­sue of the mag­azine from our
Up­roar Ve­g­an Store »

Myth Busters. Big, Strong… and Vegetarian

The cov­er sto­ry in the cur­rent edi­tion of The Big Is­sue mag­azine fea­tures Up­roar’s ve­g­an tank Noah Han­ni­bal talk­ing about his strength train­ing in an ar­ti­cle that busts some of the big myths about veg­e­tarians and ve­g­ans.

The fea­ture by Re­bec­ca But­ter­worth starts out:

“It’s inau­ga­ra­tion day in the US, 2001. It’s cold and wet. The pho­to­graph shows Noah Han­ni­bal, a young Aus­tralian, wear­ing noth­ing but box­ers, flanked by dozens of Amer­i­can po­lice of­fi­cers in full ri­ot gear, be­ing led away from Presi­dent Bush and his wife. Han­ni­bal got three steps from Lau­ra Bush be­fore the Se­cret Ser­vice buried                                                    

him.

What re­al­ly stands out, though, are Han­ni­bal’s legs. Thick, hard mus­cles bulge from his knees and dis­ap­pear in­to his stars and stripes satin shorts. His calves are solid lumps of meat. Even among the tough­est cops, Han­ni­bal is the clos­est thing to Su­per­man in that pic­ture.

Noah Han­ni­bal is the reign­ing Aus­tralian Bench Press Heavy­weight cham­pi­on, a com­mitt­ed ve­g­an and an an­i­mal-rights ac­tivist. His protest was about Lau­ra Bush’s fur stole. Han­ni­bal is one of many peo­ple help­ing to bust pop­u­lar myths about veg­e­tarians and ve­g­ans. And if you want­ed a myth bust­ed – or any­thing else, for that mat­ter – Han­ni­bal is your guy.

Myth Num­ber One: Veg­e­tarians are weak­lings. Bust­ed.”

The five page fea­ture goes on to tack­le and busts a num­ber of myths in­clud­ing that ‘all an­i­mals grown for food live on sun­ny, grassy farms’, that ‘ve­g­ans can’t get enough pro­tein’ and that ‘free range is free range’. It’s a great read and a very worth­while publi­ca­tion, grab your copy now!