Do you eat carrots? VI Press Release
Where to get vegan shoes.
Beware of fur trims..
Vegan Ireland Articles.
Do you eat carrots?
Friday 6th January 2012.
Vegan Ireland asks Matt Cooper and Joe Duffy to go vegan.
Recently both popular presenters made surprising statements about veganism on their radio shows (Joe Duffy Show on www.rte.ie and Matt Cooper on the Last Word show on todayfm.com).
For example, during discussions last Tuesday (3/1/12) about the recent Rachel Allen shooting pheasants issue, Matt stated that if he were a vegan he would be starving, while Joe asked a vegan if he ate carrots and whether he would be happy then if pheasants were captured and killed humanely. Discovering that vegans did not have milk from cows in their tea, Joe said, "Ah, mother of God, how do you survive?"
Vegan Ireland calls on its members, supporters and the general public to contact Matt and Joe requesting that they respond to the two-week vegan challenge.
Press Officer for Vegan Ireland Dr. Roger Yates said, "We would like to help open both Joe and Matt's eyes to the exciting world of Veganism. With this in mind, we ask them to live vegan for two weeks, following the detailed meal plans here: www.pcrm.org.
"Vegan Ireland do outreach events every week, and veganism seems no longer to be a mystery to many of the public, so obviously we are anxious to bring Matt and Joe up to speed on this issue."
Contact Joe Duffy at joe@rte.ie and Matt Cooper at thelastword@todayfm.com. See sample email or text below.
Dear [insert Matt or Joe],
What's this I hear about you being mystified about veganism? Ah, Mother of God, not knowing about vegans in the 21st century! I see that Vegan Ireland [ www.veganireland.org ] have asked you to live vegan for two weeks. Being vegan would be good for you, good for the environment, but most of all good for the animals. Wonderful vegan food is only a mouse click away: www.pcrm.org
Yours Faithfully,
Your name.
Where to get vegan shoes
Sunday November 5 2011
The shop Vegetarian Shoes is located in Brighton but sells shoes all over the world. They also have an online shop.
There was a time when vegans had to wear shoes made out of plastic in order to avoid the ones made of animal skin. That is no longer the case. In fact, it is now quite the opposite, thanks to new materials which have flooded the market. These materials which are made of a mixture of polyester, polyurethane and cotton, among others, not only act like the animal based materials but also look like them. They are strong, resistant, breathable and comfortable.
The most common material is called Microfibre. It is made from polyester and polyurethane. It is comfortable and breathable. Another material is called Vegetan Active, which is made of polyurethane and cotton. From this material is derived Vegetan Bucky, which is like supple leather. There is also Vegetan Suede, which is basically fake suede.
Vegan shoes come in all forms, for all tastes. They cover all styles of fashion, from the sports look to the glamourous look. The only problem you will have as a vegan is that people will believe you are wearing leather shoes. Fortunately, the shoes from Vegetarian Shoes have their own brand sewn to the shoes.
Vegetarian Shoes are not the only provider of vegan shoes, there are lots of companies which sell vegan shoes. Boheme Bourgeois, from the UK, is also a company specialised in vegan shoes.
Beware of fur trims
Wednesday November 2 2011
How to recognise man-made fur from animal fur.
Mislabeling of animal fur is a real problem. The fur industry has a habit of misinforming the general public through various practices and techniques to disguise that the trim on a coat or fur on a purse is not synthetic but is actual animal fur.
For example, the Fur industry will dye the colour of the fur, or cut the shape of the fur to fool people into believing that the fur is fake.
But the fur industry does not stop there. They have been caught time and time again selling animal fur while labelling it as fake or faux fur. They will change the name of the species of animal, or they will use a foreign word to describe the fur or they will not label it at all.
Popular brand names like the now fur free Tommy Hilfiger have been duped into selling real dog fur. They advertised it as "fake fur".
Bloomingsdale's and Macy's were also found to be mislabeling to name a few. In one study conducted, it was found that 24 out of 25 real animal fur items tested were in fact mislabled or misadvertised.
The good news is that there are ways to tell animal fur from synthetic and these ways are easy to learn.
The quickest and most fool proof way is by taking some hairs from the garment and setting it on fire. If it smells like burning hair then it is real animal fur. Because that is after all what fur is, the hair and skin of a once living animal.