Alternative Vegan Festival Update
The Alternative Vegan Festival will be going ahead as planned in a new, amazing venue in Leytonstone, North London.
This event is DIY, and anyone is welcome to get involved.
The Alternative Vegan Festival will be going ahead as planned in a new, amazing venue in Leytonstone, North London.
This event is DIY, and anyone is welcome to get involved.
Here are a list of the current workshops:
Optimising Vegan Diet
Vegan Companion Animal Diets
Vegan Nutrition
Permaculture
Freegansim
Vegan Nutrition in Pregnancy
Animal First Aid
Vaccines
Cake Baking
Making Stuff out of Junk
Eco-feminism
Skipping
Wine Making
Beer Brewing
Squatting
Raw Food Cooking Demos
Veganism and Pacifism
Genetically Modified Food
From the Establishment of Carnism to the Abolition of Veganism
There will also be DIY cooking, films, kids space, outdoor area...
To find the exact location in Leytonstone, join our mailing list (
info@altvegfest.org.uk) or call/text 07756 160263 on the day.
Optimising Vegan Diet
Vegan Companion Animal Diets
Vegan Nutrition
Permaculture
Freegansim
Vegan Nutrition in Pregnancy
Animal First Aid
Vaccines
Cake Baking
Making Stuff out of Junk
Eco-feminism
Skipping
Wine Making
Beer Brewing
Squatting
Raw Food Cooking Demos
Veganism and Pacifism
Genetically Modified Food
From the Establishment of Carnism to the Abolition of Veganism
There will also be DIY cooking, films, kids space, outdoor area...
To find the exact location in Leytonstone, join our mailing list (
info@altvegfest.org.uk) or call/text 07756 160263 on the day.
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Why? (explain the moral issues please)
01.11.2010 21:36
If you feel there would be something wrong with your interacting with non vegan food for your companion animal then don't choose a for companion animal species that are predators and for whom "dead animal" is NORMAL food. Stick to pet bunnies, gerbils, and the like.
Whether it is wrong for YOU to kill and eat another animal is a very diffrent moral question from whether it is wrong for a dog to kill and eat another animal or for a cat to kill and eat another animal, maybe playing with a bit first.
PLEASE --- I am NOT saying you are wrong but want you to face what you are choosing to believe. If animals that eat grass are better/more moral than animals that kill and eat other animals you are in effect saying that Nature is evil. Immoral and not just amoral.
This isn't a question about whether your dog or cat can survive on a vegan diet but SHOULD THEY HAVE TO. In what way is THEIR refraining from eating meat making them better dogs or better cats.
MDN
Come to the workshop and ask questiosn to the person doing it
02.11.2010 01:08
Bonnie
Can't you move it to..
02.11.2010 08:51
Greg
I've never seen pussy cats eating cows, sheep or pigs in the wild...
02.11.2010 11:29
just sayin'. Face it, being a "pet" is an unnatural state for an animal. Its lifestyle and its diet are going to be unnatural no matter what.
anon
Really?
02.11.2010 20:06
But this was dogs and cats? Maybe a yorkshire terrier size dog has to stick to prey no larger than a rat but even mid size dogs will prey on sheep. Large ones might tackle a calf if momma cow isn't nearby. Ask any sheep and they will tell you "dogs are wolves". And at least over here the meat in many (if not most) commercial cat foods is chicken. A grown chicken of the larger breeds can put up too much of a fight for a cat but they'll take young chickens, ducklings, etc. Even goslings if the parent geese aren't nearby.
Again consider the moral question "is a vegetarian dog (or cat) better than one that eats meat?". If you answer yes to that then "is a vegetarian species better than an onmivorous or carnivorous species?" Do you like the road you are now travelling? Does it still makes sense to you?
MDN