That's great. I'm lacto ovo vegetarian but I'm slowly veganising like you are. :D I now have vegan chips instead of normal chips and have vegan biscuits. Woolworths has such a wonderful range of yummy vegan foods. :) I know that I'm gonna have to start cooking my own meals more often, as my mum has always done it for me. *blush* lol.

Thats great Lisa! If you ever want any advice or recipes let me know. Cooking is fantastic, I don't really buy processed food and I spend most of my weekend cooking. I love it!

Four Corners (http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/netw/200805/programs/NC0704H035D26052008T203000.htm) on Monday (26th May) is about dog fighting.
'For 18-months BBC's investigative Panorama programme went undercover alongside hard-core dog-fighting gangs in the UK and Europe, capturing on camera the savagery of organised dog-fights.'

Thats great Lisa! If you ever want any advice or recipes let me know. Cooking is fantastic, I don't really buy processed food and I spend most of my weekend cooking. I love it!

Thanks a lot, Erin!! :sunny:

That's great that you don't really buy processed food... :D The more I go into veganism, the less I'll be buying some Sanitarium meals... the vegetarian "schnitzels" have milk in it. Grrr. lol. I'm wanting to try to find out how I can make vegan caramel slices. lol.

Dog-fighting... so wrong. :wall:

I think everyone should move to melbourne!

haha whys that? ive been to Melbourne once ;)

Hey guys, I just thought I would say hello, I joined the forums today.

:)

:hi: Erin I'm from across the ditch in NZ ....Just thought I would would say :hi: and get my old mate Bof going. Don't shift to Queensland Erin ...it was ruled by a New Zealand once .

Don't shift to Queensland Erin ...it was ruled by a New Zealander once .

If all Kiwis are nutters like Jo Bejelke Petersen was, it would explain a lot! :yes:

:hi: Erin I'm from across the ditch in NZ ....Just thought I would would say :hi: and get my old mate Bof going. Don't shift to Queensland Erin ...it was ruled by a New Zealand once .

Hi! Have no fear, I will most certainly not be shifting to QLD ... ever. I'd like to go back to Adelaide but then I would never see my beloved Swannies play ... so I think if I left Sydney it would have to be to Melbourne!

I've been to the north island of NZ, and I'm hoping to get back and go to the southern island at some point but I get the most insane plane/fuel use guilt so I am not sure if it will happen.

If all Kiwis are nutters like Jo Bejelke Petersen was, it would explain a lot! :yes:

:lol: Well Bof , it seems he was quite a good bloke until he went across the ditch :confused: we don't know what you guys done to him :)

Hi! Have no fear, I will most certainly not be shifting to QLD ... ever. I'd like to go back to Adelaide but then I would never see my beloved Swannies play ... so I think if I left Sydney it would have to be to Melbourne!

I've been to the north island of NZ, and I'm hoping to get back and go to the southern island at some point but I get the most insane plane/fuel use guilt so I am not sure if it will happen.

South island is just so cool , it really is Lord of the Rings stuff . So easy , just drive up one side of the Island and then up the other side :rainbow::rainbow::rainbow:.

Well you could get boat passage , there are plenty of Richy's that float across the ditch on there yachts that want staff and you get free passage and sometimes some money .

Well you could get boat passage , there are plenty of Richy's that float across the ditch on there yachts that want staff and you get free passage and sometimes some money .

They're known as 'drug smugglers!'

They're known as 'drug smugglers!'

Sound like an interesting bunch ... might have to endear myself to a few!

I'd love to visit the city of churches... :love:

At an awards ceremony at the Sydney Opera House last Thursday night a unique SaveBabe.com advertising initiative to highlight the plight of pigs in factory farms won the inaugural Avant Card Postcard of the Year!
More here (http://www.animalsaustralia.org/features/avant_card_design_award.php).

Victory! Investigation Leads to
Closure of Horror Slaughterhouse.
More here (http://www.animalsaustralia.org/features/jordanian_horror_slaughterhouse_closed.php)

I just heard about Dick Smith's matches - Dickheads. (http://www.dicksmithfoods.com.au/?d=main&p=matches)
I've never seen them in the shops though.
Only in Australia. :up:

go savebabe!!!!!!!!!!

Ads target meat-eaters on greenhouse

Australians tucking into a juicy steak in front of the tele are being asked to consider how their meal impacts on climate change.

Meat-eaters are the focus of a $400,000 television, print and billboard advertising campaign launched today linking methane emissions from cows to global warming.

The Supreme Master Ching Hai Association - which describes itself as a non-profit spiritual and humanitarian organisation - is funding the campaign through hundreds of individual contributions.

It will urge people to do three things to save the planet: reduce power consumption, reduce transport emissions and reduce meat consumption.

Going vegetarian will have the largest impact in the shortest period of times, campaign spokesman Gerry Bisshop said.

"That's a bit surprising for some people because they don't realise that nearly a third of our greenhouse emissions come from cows," he said.

"They eat all day and burp all day. Not much out the other end but they burp a lot."

Mr Bisshop said there are more cows in Australia than people and each one produces 300 litres of methane every day.

Methane is 25 times more potent as a greenhouse gas pollutant than carbon dioxide, he said.

"So you can be a vegetarian and drive a Hummer and you're still more eco-friendly than a meat-eater on a bicycle," Mr Bisshop said.

"We're just urging people to cut down."

And as would be expected from a spiritualist, Mr Bisshop isn't blaming farmers or the meat industry for pushing the product onto our plates.

Instead, he said people are individually irresponsible.

"They produce what we eat," Mr Bisshop said.

"If we change our eating habits the farmers will change. The meat industry is not the enemy."

The Supreme Master Ching Hai's askmorenow.com.au campaign runs for three weeks from today.

Source: Heraldsun

"So you can be a vegetarian and drive a Hummer and you're still more eco-friendly than a meat-eater on a bicycle," Mr Bisshop said.


That's going into my quotes collection! :yes:

LOL same here ;)

i saw one of those "askmorenow.com.au" ads on tv but had no idea what it was about. I meant to look it up and forgot. Now I don't have to!

LOL saves time ;) hehe i havent seen it yet :( lol

Hi guys,

I'm pretty new here on this forum, was just looking around tonight and found you all, I'm a vegan from QLD. Great to meet you!