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V E G A N D E M O N T I M E S
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issue 1 * august 1989
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Main Arm (Mullumbimby), New South Wales, Australia
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Vegan Feasts at Kohinur
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On Friday July 21st we put on our first Vegan Feast at Kohinur Hall.
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There was pumpkin soup, dhal and rice and a selection of home-made
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cakes, with chai and fruit punch to drink. Most of the music was
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from tapes, but later on in the evening some members of Earth Reggae
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turned up and played us a few songs.
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We lit a big fire outside, and inside the atmosphere was more like a
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cafe than the usual Kohinur hall feel. And all this for just three
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dollars!
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These vegan feasts will be happening on the nearest Friday to every
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full moon, with the next one on the 18th of August. That will be a
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special Rainforest night and we'll be showing a video on the fight
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to save the forests of the Penan, called "Blowpipes and Bulldozers."
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Why Vegan Food?
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You might think it's pretty weird that we're serving up food with no
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animal products in it. But we believe that in our society it's not
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possible to justify eating animal products, for two main reasons:
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Firstly, the earth cannot support a diet based on animal products.
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It's pretty obvious that using vegetables to feed animals is a
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really inefficient way of getting that vegetable protein into our
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bodies. So vast areas of land are destroyed to breed animals for us
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to eat. If that land was used for producing vegetable protein, only
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a fraction of it would be needed to produce the same ammount of food.
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Secondly, we look at the disgusting abuses of living beings that are
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used to make food. Battery hens squeezed into a space not much
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bigger than their bodies and fed on chemical shit in
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artificially-lit factories is just one example out of many. How can
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eggs that have been produced under these conditions possibly do any
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good to the person eating them?
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Politics of non-exploitation MUST include animals. And you can't
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fight environmental destruction while you continue to eat meat or
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dairy products. If you really want to change the world, you have to
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start with your own diet. It's easy!
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@ @ @
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Vegan Food at Dance Theatre Show
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Kids Off The Streets put on two performances of the Aboriginal and
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Islander Dance Theatre at the Civic Centre in Mullumbimby. It was a
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great performance, with hundreds of people coming along to the
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afternoon and evening sessions.
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But we reckon the biggest achievement was the food. KOTS Catering
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provided a great selection of snacks and meals. And it was all vegan!
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The menu included lasagne, pizza, falafel rolls, samosas and Terry's
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amazing cakes. It all went down really well, with lots of good
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feedback. "Most people probably didn't realise they were eating
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vegan food." said one of the caterers, "But we proved there's no
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need to use animal products for anything - ever!"
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DON'T FORGET
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Vegan Feast at Upper Main Arm Community Hall (Kohinur).
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Friday 18th August 6pm $4=
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Good food..............Video..............Entertainment
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V E G A N R E C I P E S
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Vegetable Lasagne
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Tomatoes mushrooms spinach or
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onions capsicum silver beet
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kidney beans zucchinis mixed herbs
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garlic lasagne sheets
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Quantities don't matter much - just do it by feel, or according to
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what you've got.
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Fry onions, garlic and herbs. Add tomatoes and cooked (or tinned)
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kidney beans and cook a bit more. Combine this with the vegetables
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and lasagne sheets in layers in a baking tray. (Don't forget to boil
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the lasagne if it's not the instant stuff - it's not very nice
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crunchy!)
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Oops, almost forgot the seed cheese! The ingredients and method of
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making this follows, but you put some of it in each layer and a lot
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on the top.
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Put it in a fairly hot oven and cook till it's ready.
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Seed Cheese
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ground sunflower seeds tofu
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soya milk turmeric tahini
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avocado mustard seeds lemon juice
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Mix together all the ingredients except the soya milk. Then add
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equal quantities of soya milk and hot water until you get a thick,
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creamy texture. Then use it in the lasagne recipe above or anywhere
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else you'd normally use that horrible congealed cow mucus.
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If you make this and it tastes horrible, come to one of our Vegan
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Feasts and try the real thing!
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