tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72275490657345792652020-02-28T05:54:00.500+06:00Ahimsa Paramo Dharmaha! Non-violence supersedes all other duties!Vegan India!http://www.blogger.com/profile/05078836991302931310noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7227549065734579265.post-78491003898782023772016-08-12T23:28:00.001+06:002018-12-06T20:24:46.940+06:00

Indhrivanam: A Vegan Homestay in Kerala, and An Interview with the Host  Morten Aagren Article by Dr. Arun Rangasamy and Uthra In June this year, we were looking for a vegan-friendly homestay not very far from Bangalore to spend a weekend peacefully, and when we found Indhrivanam in Kumily, Kerala, we were a bit surprised to know that the meals served in the cottage is vegetarian, and the

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The “Living Free” Campaign – An Exclusive Report of an Ongoing Nation-wide Animal Rights Campaign! Report by Richa Thapliyal, “Living Free” Campaign Manager How many of you have heard about Mr. Jon Camp, the vegan outreach volunteer who reached out to one million people with educational booklets over a period of eleven years?! In his many interviews, Mr. Camp has described the feeling of

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A Visit to Karuna Society and an Interview with Clementien Pauws, President Article by Dr. Arun Rangasamy and Uthra For many animal welfarists (and perhaps some vegans) in India, Karuna Society for Animals and Nature needs no introduction, thanks to the Plastic Cow Project(1). As one would expect, the Plastic Cow Project is one among the list of impressive projects implemented by Karuna

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Today is International Day of Non-Violence, a day marked to respect possibly the greatest crusaders of non-violence in the modern world: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, fondly known as Bapu. Bapu continues to inspire the world; in fact, interest in the Gandhian way of life continues to grow more than 60 years after his assassination. While prayer meetings are being held in memory of Bapu in

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Recently we asked one of our young readers what he would like to see on the blog. The 16 year old replied instantly, “Publish more interviews.” Around the same time, a big noise was brewing in the world media about the demise of an infant born to vegan parents in France, in 2011. Why it was being made such a big deal about after two years could be anybody's guess. Expectedly, opinions were

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Click this link for Goodie No. 1. ~ Part I: Everything that glitters is not good ~ Have you ever wondered what goes into the making of a commercial dish wash? If you read the tiny notes on the labels of say the top Indian dish wash brands, you will be surprised to find they have been rather noncommittal about their ingredients. So how do we know what these dish washes contain? Curiosity

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Saving Life or the Environment... What Do We Need?, an article by Ankita Mukhopadhyay Ankita Mukhopadhyay is a former Delhi University (DU) student who has recently completed her Under Graduation in History (Honours) from Lady Shri Ram College. While at college, Ankita has been a correspondent for DU Beat, an independent Delhi University student newspaper, where she has written articles

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Our Relationship with Food is Dysfunctional, an article by Manasa Rajan Manasa Rajan is the Co-founder and Vegan Nutrition Coach at “Cure Yourself With Food”. Cure Yourself With Food promotes healthy food choices to help enhance energy levels, feel and look fresh, and prevent diseases and effects of ageing. Manasa has been an ethical vegetarian for most of her life as an expression of her

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In thinking about plant foods, many of us seem to don culturally-and-market- driven blinkers. We hear people repeat things such as plant-based foods are not exciting, tasty, diverse, and cool enough. As we deny more, these ideas grow on us and exercise more power on us. However, the truth is quite contrary. Let us consider the diverse wonders that Nature has provisioned for us in the form of

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From a few designs to an impressive men’s collection, from launching a ladies’ collection to laboring towards the collection to grow, from educating about animal-free leather to acquiring a PETA-approved cruelty-free certification, this blog has followed ‘Senso Vegetarian Shoes’ journey and seen them achieve new heights by sheer commitment to a cause. It all started in 2012 from a single store

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It's official. India's first vegan cookbook, The Vegan Kitchen: Bollywood Style!, is out. This is a treasure at a time when India is waking up to the many disturbing realities of food production. Food binds. It has always been a central part of everything we do – whether it be ceremonies or festivals or events or meetings or travel. Food sustains. It gives us what we need to live. And the

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Some of us choose to be vegan because we feel kinship with nonhuman animals; we can relate empathically with them and therefore, we feel committed to unfolding the layers in their behavior, emotions, and language. From this drive emerges a body of knowledge that helps us construct their inner world. This body of knowledge thus accumulated, and when documented, told, and retold, becomes the

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One prominent myth around veganism is that it is a lifestyle of “deprivation” – a lifestyle that involves “giving up” one’s favorite food, articles of clothing, way of living, and so on. Even though while leading a vegan lifestyle one does affect a number of changes, the “giving up” is not equivalent to “deprivation”. It is simply the formation of new habits and ideas in place of the old or

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Yada Yada Hi Dharmasya, Glanirva Bhavathi Bharatha,Abhyuthanam Adharmaysya, Tadatmanam Srijami Aham. (Whenever there is decay of dharma [righteousness] O! Bharatha, And a rise of adharma [unrighteousness], then I [the good and divine] manifest Myself!) ~From The Bhagawad Gita, Chap. 4, Shloka 7~ The battlefields are warming up. For the war against apathy, selfishness, silence,

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The opening The story on our gentle fellow Earthling, The Goat comes in the wake of the declaration at the recent Francis Crick Memorial Conference entitled, Consciousness in Human and Non-Human Animals in Cambridge, UK. This declaration signed by the cognitive scientists, neuropharmacologists, neurophysiologists, neuroanatomists, and computational neuroscientists present at the conference

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  Changing the Way We Think About Eating Animals carnism.com Dr. Melanie Joy Announces Launch of Groundbreaking Organization It is with great enthusiasm that I announce the launch of Carnism Awareness and Action Network (CAAN). CAAN’s mission is to raise awareness of and challenge carnism, the invisible belief system that conditions people to eat certain animals, and it will act

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To Alice So many times Choosing, buying, basting, seasoning, chewing, swallowing Pieces of those like you Here you come walking right to me You come for comfort and company Imagine that After all those like me treated you cruelly You still carry your hefty body to me You reach out to me You wriggle close to me You wrap your head around my neck You fall asleep in my arms

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I. Foreword by Amruta Ubale, vegan and animal rights activist from India. I have been on a quest to find experts from various fields to highlight the benefits of a vegan lifestyle. A nutritionist explaining the health benefits of a vegan diet was in order. During my research, I came across the Macrobiotic approach that entails the use of plant-based foods for healthy living. My research

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I. Foreword by Amruta Ubale, vegan and animal rights activist from India. In India, there are people who eat chickens but not eat cows, people who eat cows but not pigs, animal lovers who eat chickens or goats but loathe the thought of eating dogs or cats. I too belonged to one of these categories but one day I had an epiphany and quit eating meat. That followed with quitting all products

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There has been a lot of emphasis on silk and leather in our culture and many new and prospective vegans among us wonder about the vegan options available to us while planning our party wear. You would be surprised that after a little research we were able to find a range of ethical fabrics and materials in the market with regard to clothes, shoes, and jewelry. What’s more, most are light on

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You will be impressed how some kitchen appliances can help you “discover” the marvel of plant foods and also help you transition into a conscious, compassionate eater, aka, a vegan. Investment in these appliances, in the long run, is bound to reduce your medicine bills or even eliminate them! No, these are not flimsy claims; this is exactly what has been happening to healthy vegan eaters all

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For more vegan-friendly restaurants in Bangalore reviewed in this blog, you can click this link. We have opined on previous occasions that for a vegetarian restaurant to be “vegan-friendly”, the most important ingredient is the attitude of the service staff. A large number of vegetarian dishes are vegan anyway; yet, as vegans we want to ensure that our food is free from animal milk and its

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~ Part I: Remembering ~ Recently, a friend S was visiting her grandmother in the countryside after many long years. One day as Grandma and S sat in the courtyard exchanging news, a couple of women walked in carrying a huge drum of something that S thought looked very familiar. “Gran, what are those? I remember seeing them…. uhmmm.... didn’t Mummy wash our clothes with them when we were

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Vegans, primarily those for ethical reasons, are naturally concerned about how to proliferate the demand for fair and compassionate consumership. This is a healthy trend that holds the key to save the Planet from imminent doom. All over the world, however small, there has been a rise in the demand for vegan products. The reasons for this demand could be manifold: personal health,

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 Well, little Shine knows what she is talking about and to know what Mummy told little Shine, you can click this link to find out. In India, despite published investigation reports confirming the contaminants in animal milk (check The Times of India) and published studies confirming that animal milk predisposes the human system to a plethora of health conditions and diseases such as of

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