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Press release 18 November 2011
Recently the Vegan Society NSW celebrated 30 years of spreading the vegan message of animal rights, compassion, sustainability and health to Sydney and across NSW.
"In the 30 years of the Vegan Society NSW, we have achieved a lot.
We've held six highly successful annual Vegan Expos, held hundreds
of vegan social and education events and carried out vegan
outreach at festivals and stalls across the state. It's been a
real pleasure to witness not just the growth of the Society over
these years, but the growing acceptance of veganism by the general
community," said Greg McFarlane, President of the Vegan Society
NSW.
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In its
submission on a National Food Plan,
the Vegan Society NSW has called for the transition to a sustainable,
compassionate, vegan diet to be a priority for Australian food policy.
The submission recommends that the National Food Plan aim to:
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Vegan AustraliaThere is currently a growing movement to create a strong, active national vegan organisation in Australia. The committee of the Vegan Society NSW has recognised the need for a national body to better represent vegans and to promote veganism in Australia. Its main goal would be to bring the vegan message to the broader Australian public.More ... |
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Live animal exportReaction to Four Corners program shows widespread compassion towards animalsThe horrific treatment of animals shown on Four Corners recently has shocked many people. The compassion they feel for the animals clearly shows that people include animals in their ethical system. Most people understand that animals feel emotions such as pleasure, pain and fear. Anyone who has the good fortune to live with a companion animal knows that animals have fun playing games, they get pleasure from touch and they enjoy the company of human and non-human animals. On the program, farmers expressed positive feelings for the animals they raise for slaughter, some even praising the animals for their intelligence and other traits. Gone are the days when animals were assumed to be unfeeling machines. Both common sense and science demonstrate the rich emotional lives of animals. More ... This article is available as a printable pamphlet - print double sided and cut down the middle. You can hand this out at rallies, meetings, etc. |
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Understanding NeocarnismYou've heard meat eaters defend their habit by proclaiming the virtues of eating "humane" meat or "sustainable" meat, or insisting that it is nutritionally necessary to eat meat. Exasperated vegans wonder why, despite years of seemingly successful campaigning to raise awareness about the impact of animal agriculture on animals, the environment, and human health, these same concerns would actually be used to defend meat eating.In her new article, Understanding Neocarnism: How Vegan Advocates Can Appreciate and Respond to "Happy Meat", Locavorism, and "Paleo Dieting", Melanie Joy describes how the new wave of pro-meat arguments is in part an attempt to defend the weakened meat-eating establishment against the very real threat posed by an increasingly powerful vegan movement. |
