IamJen
November 2nd, 2008, 05:19 PM
The local IVU group in Oxford is undergoing some changes in these last few months of the year, including a name change, from "Oxford Vegetarians" to "OxVeg - Oxfordshire Vegetarians and Vegans". There are (it seems) some more vegan members than the last time we attended, and well, it looks pretty exciting. They have all sorts of info on their website, but I thought I'd copy/paste a chunk of the newsletter here, since much of what it contains is not Oxfordshire specific.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS (* denotes events organised by OxVeg)
Thursday 6 November, 5pm. Talk by Andrew Knight, Director of Animal
Consultants International, Seminar Room East, Mansfield College, Mansfield
Road, Oxford.
Organised by VERO (Voice for Ethical Research at Oxford; www.vero.org.uk).
Admission free, refreshments available.
Saturday 15 November, 10am-4.30pm. One World Fair, Town Hall, St Aldate's,
Oxford.
We are running a stall at this event organised by Oxford Oxfam Group (event
details from Naveed Chaudhri on 01865 473144).
Thursday 20 November, 5pm. Talk by Dan Lyons, Director of Uncaged Campaigns,
Seminar Room East, Mansfield College, Mansfield Road, Oxford.
Organised by VERO (Voice for Ethical Research at Oxford; www.vero.org.uk).
Admission free, refreshments available.
Sunday 30 November, 10am-5pm. Animal Aid's Christmas Without Cruelty Fayre,
Kensington Town Hall, Hornton Street, London W8.
More than 85 stalls, food, talks & videos, live auction of celebrity
memorabilia, web clinic, children's workshop & creche, press-ups
competition, etc. The venue is only 10-15 minutes walk from the Oxford Tube
stop at Notting Hill Gate. Admission £2 (under 11s free). Organised by
Animal Aid (www.animalaid.org.uk).
Thursday 4 December, 5pm. Talk by Revd Andrew Linzey, Director, Oxford
Centre for Animal Ethics, Seminar Room East, Mansfield College, Mansfield
Road, Oxford.
Organised by VERO (Voice for Ethical Research at Oxford; www.vero.org.uk).
Admission free, refreshments available.
Saturday 13 December, 10.30am-4.30pm. Winter Green Fair, Town Hall, St
Aldate's, Oxford.
We are running a stall at this event organised by
Oxfordshire Green Party (event details from Holly on 07929 424055).
Saturday 20 December, 3.30pm. Candlelit Vigil to mourn the deaths of
millions of animals for food, clothing, research, sport &c over the course
of the year. Martyrs' Memorial, St Giles, Oxford. Please wear black and
bring a candle. Organised by Oxford Animal Protection.
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Animal Rights course at Ruskin College, March 2009
Historian and author Hilda Kean and animal advocate Kim Stallwood will teach
the course, Animal Rights: past and present, at Ruskin College, Oxford on
March 16 - 20, 2009. Please make a note of the date now if you would like to
attend and participate in this unique educational opportunity.
For hundreds of years people have campaigned against the ill treatment of
animals. Some activists have described this as animal rights, others as
animal welfare, or animal advocacy. In this week long course we will analyse
various past - and present - attitudes toward animals. We will also consider
the different ways in which animals are treated and respected.
Dr Hilda Kean is a tutor in History, Humanities co-ordinator and acting dean
at Ruskin College. She runs Ruskin's pioneering MA in Public History and
organises public history conferences and the Ruskin public history
discussion group. She researches and publishes in public and cultural
history and the cultural position of animals. She is the author of Animal
Rights.
Kim Stallwood a veteran animal advocate who has held leadership positions
for some of the world's foremost animal welfare organizations in the United
Kingdom and United States (e.g., CIWF, BUAV, PETA). He is an independent
author, scholar and advisor on animal welfare and related matters. He became
a vegetarian in 1974 when as a student he worked in a chicken
slaughterhouse. He has been a vegan since 1976.
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Kangaroos faced with extinction
Decimation of an Icon, a report by the Australian Society for Kangaroos,
shows that hunted kangaroo populations are on the brink of extinction
despite Australian government assurances. In fact, the government's own
kangaroo warning levels have already been met; yet the commercial slaughter
of the national icon is allowed to continue. Over three million kangaroos
will be killed this year alone, in a brutal practice which sees kangaroos
chased through the night and shot, often inaccurately, leading to slow and
painful deaths. Add to this the deaths of countless joeys who are clubbed
round the head or decapitated as 'waste products', or left to starve to
death in the outback and it is no wonder this is described as the world's
largest wildlife massacre.
Help stop the plunder by signing the petition calling for an immediate
moratorium on kangaroo killing
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/kangaroo-extinction.html.
View the report Decimation of an Icon at:
http://www.kangaroo-protection-coalition.com/kangaroo-extinction.html.
================================================== ====
Catering at The Magic Cafe
The Magic Cafe (110 Magdalen Road, Oxford) one of the few exclusively
vegetarian eating places in Oxfordshire, changed hands in September. The
new owners, Jui Xiam Ben and Patrizia Bassini, are hoping to introduce
Friday evening opening in the near future (the current opening hours are
10am-6pm Monday to Saturday). They are also offering catering services to
private parties at the cafe on other week day evenings. Telephone 01865
794604 during opening hours for further details. (Thanks to OxVeg member
Derek Sherwood for this information.)
================================================== ====
Replacing Primates in Medical Research
A new report on replacing the use of non-human primates in medical research
has just been published.
Written and produced by scientists from the Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane
Research, FRAME and the St Andrew Animal Fund (member organisations of Focus
on Alternatives), Replacing Primates in Medical Research fills important
scientific, technical and science policy gaps in the controversial area of
primate research.
The report focuses on five areas of medical research into important human
conditions - malaria, cognition, stroke, AIDS and hepatitis C - which have
used significant numbers of primates and yet have had very limited success
in translating to human benefits. These case studies illustrate where
notable progress has already been made in replacing primate experiments with
non-animal techniques; and where greater progress is achievable using
advanced non-animal alternatives such as cell and molecular methods,
computer simulations and ethical studies with human volunteers.
We invite you to read our report at
www.focusonalternatives.org.uk/availableinformation.htm. A two-page summary
is also available from the same website.
================================================== ====
Worth watching/listening?
Friday 7th November, 7.35pm, Channel 4, Unreported World - Paraguay's
Painful Harvest.
"Reporter Tanya Datta reveals how the European demand for meat is driving
the industrial farming of soya to epic proportions."
Also, a recent issue of BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme which asked the
question "Can Britain Feed Itself?" can be heard online at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/foodprogramme_20081019.shtml
Noted futurist, Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic
Trends and author of "Beyond Beef", delivered a keynote address on the
devastating role factory farms are playing in the climate change crisis at
Harvard Law School in March 2007. You can watch the talk online at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpym5AZ0Ac8
Chef Bryan Au - http://www.RawInTen.com - author of Raw in 10 Minutes, is
distributing his Vegetarian Raw Organic tv show for free. You can download
the full 29-minute show with Bryan's permission to distribute it, copy it
and give it away: http://www.mediafire.com/?3y3enp4dtlt or
http://www.sendspace.com/file/sjqwts If the download doesn't work, write to
Bryan at RawBryan@hotmail.com and he'll help.
================================================== ====
And finally ...
Off the Hoof is a new quarterly magazine "with a focus on the best of the
veggie vegan lifestyle". Published by Yaoh, organisers of the hugely
successful Bristol Vegan Fayre, the first issue, priced at £3-95 including
postage, is available now (a 4-issue subscription costs £15 including
postage). Further details from www.yaoh.co.uk and www.offthehoof.co.uk .
Web site: http://www.ivu.org/oxveg/ Email: ov{at}ivu.org
FORTHCOMING EVENTS (* denotes events organised by OxVeg)
Thursday 6 November, 5pm. Talk by Andrew Knight, Director of Animal
Consultants International, Seminar Room East, Mansfield College, Mansfield
Road, Oxford.
Organised by VERO (Voice for Ethical Research at Oxford; www.vero.org.uk).
Admission free, refreshments available.
Saturday 15 November, 10am-4.30pm. One World Fair, Town Hall, St Aldate's,
Oxford.
We are running a stall at this event organised by Oxford Oxfam Group (event
details from Naveed Chaudhri on 01865 473144).
Thursday 20 November, 5pm. Talk by Dan Lyons, Director of Uncaged Campaigns,
Seminar Room East, Mansfield College, Mansfield Road, Oxford.
Organised by VERO (Voice for Ethical Research at Oxford; www.vero.org.uk).
Admission free, refreshments available.
Sunday 30 November, 10am-5pm. Animal Aid's Christmas Without Cruelty Fayre,
Kensington Town Hall, Hornton Street, London W8.
More than 85 stalls, food, talks & videos, live auction of celebrity
memorabilia, web clinic, children's workshop & creche, press-ups
competition, etc. The venue is only 10-15 minutes walk from the Oxford Tube
stop at Notting Hill Gate. Admission £2 (under 11s free). Organised by
Animal Aid (www.animalaid.org.uk).
Thursday 4 December, 5pm. Talk by Revd Andrew Linzey, Director, Oxford
Centre for Animal Ethics, Seminar Room East, Mansfield College, Mansfield
Road, Oxford.
Organised by VERO (Voice for Ethical Research at Oxford; www.vero.org.uk).
Admission free, refreshments available.
Saturday 13 December, 10.30am-4.30pm. Winter Green Fair, Town Hall, St
Aldate's, Oxford.
We are running a stall at this event organised by
Oxfordshire Green Party (event details from Holly on 07929 424055).
Saturday 20 December, 3.30pm. Candlelit Vigil to mourn the deaths of
millions of animals for food, clothing, research, sport &c over the course
of the year. Martyrs' Memorial, St Giles, Oxford. Please wear black and
bring a candle. Organised by Oxford Animal Protection.
================================================== ====
Animal Rights course at Ruskin College, March 2009
Historian and author Hilda Kean and animal advocate Kim Stallwood will teach
the course, Animal Rights: past and present, at Ruskin College, Oxford on
March 16 - 20, 2009. Please make a note of the date now if you would like to
attend and participate in this unique educational opportunity.
For hundreds of years people have campaigned against the ill treatment of
animals. Some activists have described this as animal rights, others as
animal welfare, or animal advocacy. In this week long course we will analyse
various past - and present - attitudes toward animals. We will also consider
the different ways in which animals are treated and respected.
Dr Hilda Kean is a tutor in History, Humanities co-ordinator and acting dean
at Ruskin College. She runs Ruskin's pioneering MA in Public History and
organises public history conferences and the Ruskin public history
discussion group. She researches and publishes in public and cultural
history and the cultural position of animals. She is the author of Animal
Rights.
Kim Stallwood a veteran animal advocate who has held leadership positions
for some of the world's foremost animal welfare organizations in the United
Kingdom and United States (e.g., CIWF, BUAV, PETA). He is an independent
author, scholar and advisor on animal welfare and related matters. He became
a vegetarian in 1974 when as a student he worked in a chicken
slaughterhouse. He has been a vegan since 1976.
================================================== ====
Kangaroos faced with extinction
Decimation of an Icon, a report by the Australian Society for Kangaroos,
shows that hunted kangaroo populations are on the brink of extinction
despite Australian government assurances. In fact, the government's own
kangaroo warning levels have already been met; yet the commercial slaughter
of the national icon is allowed to continue. Over three million kangaroos
will be killed this year alone, in a brutal practice which sees kangaroos
chased through the night and shot, often inaccurately, leading to slow and
painful deaths. Add to this the deaths of countless joeys who are clubbed
round the head or decapitated as 'waste products', or left to starve to
death in the outback and it is no wonder this is described as the world's
largest wildlife massacre.
Help stop the plunder by signing the petition calling for an immediate
moratorium on kangaroo killing
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/kangaroo-extinction.html.
View the report Decimation of an Icon at:
http://www.kangaroo-protection-coalition.com/kangaroo-extinction.html.
================================================== ====
Catering at The Magic Cafe
The Magic Cafe (110 Magdalen Road, Oxford) one of the few exclusively
vegetarian eating places in Oxfordshire, changed hands in September. The
new owners, Jui Xiam Ben and Patrizia Bassini, are hoping to introduce
Friday evening opening in the near future (the current opening hours are
10am-6pm Monday to Saturday). They are also offering catering services to
private parties at the cafe on other week day evenings. Telephone 01865
794604 during opening hours for further details. (Thanks to OxVeg member
Derek Sherwood for this information.)
================================================== ====
Replacing Primates in Medical Research
A new report on replacing the use of non-human primates in medical research
has just been published.
Written and produced by scientists from the Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane
Research, FRAME and the St Andrew Animal Fund (member organisations of Focus
on Alternatives), Replacing Primates in Medical Research fills important
scientific, technical and science policy gaps in the controversial area of
primate research.
The report focuses on five areas of medical research into important human
conditions - malaria, cognition, stroke, AIDS and hepatitis C - which have
used significant numbers of primates and yet have had very limited success
in translating to human benefits. These case studies illustrate where
notable progress has already been made in replacing primate experiments with
non-animal techniques; and where greater progress is achievable using
advanced non-animal alternatives such as cell and molecular methods,
computer simulations and ethical studies with human volunteers.
We invite you to read our report at
www.focusonalternatives.org.uk/availableinformation.htm. A two-page summary
is also available from the same website.
================================================== ====
Worth watching/listening?
Friday 7th November, 7.35pm, Channel 4, Unreported World - Paraguay's
Painful Harvest.
"Reporter Tanya Datta reveals how the European demand for meat is driving
the industrial farming of soya to epic proportions."
Also, a recent issue of BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme which asked the
question "Can Britain Feed Itself?" can be heard online at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/foodprogramme_20081019.shtml
Noted futurist, Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic
Trends and author of "Beyond Beef", delivered a keynote address on the
devastating role factory farms are playing in the climate change crisis at
Harvard Law School in March 2007. You can watch the talk online at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpym5AZ0Ac8
Chef Bryan Au - http://www.RawInTen.com - author of Raw in 10 Minutes, is
distributing his Vegetarian Raw Organic tv show for free. You can download
the full 29-minute show with Bryan's permission to distribute it, copy it
and give it away: http://www.mediafire.com/?3y3enp4dtlt or
http://www.sendspace.com/file/sjqwts If the download doesn't work, write to
Bryan at RawBryan@hotmail.com and he'll help.
================================================== ====
And finally ...
Off the Hoof is a new quarterly magazine "with a focus on the best of the
veggie vegan lifestyle". Published by Yaoh, organisers of the hugely
successful Bristol Vegan Fayre, the first issue, priced at £3-95 including
postage, is available now (a 4-issue subscription costs £15 including
postage). Further details from www.yaoh.co.uk and www.offthehoof.co.uk .
Web site: http://www.ivu.org/oxveg/ Email: ov{at}ivu.org