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)

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 »

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.

Update

The first tour was an awesome day of fun, food and friends. E-mail veganbus@uproar.org.au for information on the next Uproar/ALV Vegan Bus Tour. 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 rescued animals. We will also visit the Uproar/ALV vegan store and vegan style shoes

The group will then travel to Camberwell to visit Priceline then head to Abbotsford for Natio to check out cruelty-free, vegan cosmetics at both.

Next will be La Panella bakery in Preston for their amazing ‘I can’t believe they’re vegan’ pies and pasties.

We’ll stop to enjoy a delicious lunch at the wonderful Las Vegan Cafe in Collingwood, then head to Kew for grocery shopping at Leo’s and Safeway.

The group will then visit Vincent’s Veg Foods in Footscray for their huge range of vegan products.

The icing on the cake will be a nice relaxing afternoon tea at Mister Nice Guy’s cupcakes in Prahran to finish the tour.

FREE ShowBag!

Each person on the bus tour will receive a Vegan Bus Tour show bag full of vegan goodies! These are some of the goodies that participants will receive in their showbags.

Bookings are Essential

Cost: $60 per person

Email Tanya by Wednesday Nov 16 – tanya@livingvegan.com.au

Thanks to our Sponsors

Big thanks to the following businesses that have donated items for the show bags:

Humane Research, Natio, GAIA, Thursday Plantation, Vegan Pet, Organic Formulations, Vitality Brands Worldwide (Well Naturally bars), Leda.

Thanks also to Las Vegan Bakery, Mister Nice Guy Cupcakes and La Panella Bakery.

Brought to you by Uproar and Animal Liberation Victoria

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!

Victoria’s annual duck shooting season yet again opened with horrific injuries and suffering for countless birds.

This is the 25th year that animal activists have been busy on the wetlands doing all they can to rescue the injured and distract the shooters from their deadly ‘recreation’. UPROAR and ALV organised rescue teams to help cover the Kerang area, a highly popular shooting spot while the Coalition Against Duck Shooting (CADS) organised the main rescue with 150 activists at Lake Buloke where they were pitted against 2,000 shooters. One of the brave rescue team members, Julie Symons was shot in the face by a 14 year old shooter who was illegally shooting birds on the water. She suffered facial injuries, lost teeth and pellets embedded in her skin.

The beauty and tranquility just before the killing starts

10 Uproar and ALV rescuers gathered at Macdonalds Swamp and were pitted against several hundred shooters. The guns started blazing shortly after 7am and it was young birds who dropped out of the sky. The majority of dead and injured birds collected by the rescue team were young juveniles, some only a couple months old.

A duck rescuer looks for signs of life in this bird who was just blasted out of the sky.

Sadly this bird didn't survive

The heavy rains and flooding in the Kerang area made for a longer breeding season and these young birds were literally caught in the hail of pellets. It is unforgivable that the Liberal Government not only allowed a duck season this year but they extended the shooting time to three months. Not only did these young birds have no chance, but many who did survive are now orphans and unable to fend for themselves and will die a slow death from starvation and/or predation unprotected by their mothers.

Hunters laughing as the bird (below) paddles in a daze after taking a pellet shot to the head

She paddled into thick reeds where we were unable to retrieve her and get her to veterinary care.

A hunter carrying a pile of dead corpses that he has shot so far this morning. Under the law shooters can only kill ten native game birds per day, but the reality is that more are shot with many birds abandoned floating dead on the water

We found corpses on the water all morning, birds that had been shot and abandoned by hunters.

A rescuer bringing in a wounded bird retrieved by our kayak team

The Police and DSE kept a close guard on the alv/uproar basecamp and at the end of the morning confiscated all the dead birds we had collected. Three badly injured birds were brought in by our kayak teams and two of these died shortly after. One young bird was found dazed sitting on a log amidst all the mayhem and loud shooting. She was brought in and put in a warm dry hospital ‘pen’ and then taken to a vet. Sadly, though she appeared alert and sitting fully conscious an examination showed she suffered extensive injuries.

Dr. Jason Wright found that this wounded bird had a massive bloody hole under one wing and her leg on that same side had been shattered by pellets and some of the pellets remained embedded in her skin. He said there was no alternative but to euthanise her. She was only the size of a small pigeon and the vet put her age at 3 months.