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IWVV Update
IWVV Update
5th
November 2011
For details of meeting venues, please contact the e-mail
address
given on the registration
web page of the IWVV website
Thursday, 17th
November
Annual Gathering
7.30pm
Our informal AGM!
Saturday, 17th
December
Christmas/Solstice Meal
Numbers limited so please book your place as soon as
possible!
Please phone Sally and Dave on 868261
6.00pm for 6.30pm meal
£7.50 per person, profits to Hillside Animal Sanctuary
Thursday, 19th
January
Business Meeting
7.30pm
Thursday, 16th
February
Social Meeting
7.30pm
VIVA! BADGER CAMPAIGN
Viva! has launched a national boycott of English dairy products to show consumers the true price of their daily pint of milk.
Viva! have condemned the Government’s plans to kill badgers in two trial areas as a cynical and cowardly move to placate a farming industry
that refuses to face up to a mess of its own making. It is a move that will condemn thousands of badgers
to a violent and inhumane – not to mention needless – death by shooting.
Viva! says “Don’t let them get away with it. Dump dairy for badgers and sign our petitions against English and Welsh dairy!”.
To find out more about the campaign and the real reason badgers are being persecuted, see www.viva.org.uk/badgers
“I ask people why they have deer heads on their
walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal.
There you
go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of
her.” ~Ellen DeGeneres
VEGFAM’S 2011
PROJECTS
In 2011, Vegfam funding is supporting six long-term food production/water projects in five countries (Bangladesh, India, DR Congo, Kenya and Brazil).
The project funding period will run until between October 2011 and January 2013; after which time the projects should be sustainable and self-supporting.
The total number of long-term beneficiaries from the Vegfam funded projects
above (not including those in 2010 short-term
emergency feeding programmes) is 44,296. In addition, a further 66,905 people should also benefit as
a result of: seed exchanges, donated food (to school meal schemes) and the increased
availability and diversity of affordable, fresh, locally grown food directly within their communities.
Funding seeds, tools, fruit trees, community land, seed/food storage and food
processing equipment will improve
the health, nutritional status, livelihoods and income generation potential of the beneficiaries. Water resources – irrigation,
collection/storage facilities and an arsenic removal water filter plant will provide supplies of safe, clean water for households'
use and to irrigate the thousands of acres of crops that shall be grown as a result of the
Vegfam funding. Training and skills sharing are also important parts of these projects.
Many more vital projects are currently being considered by Vegfam Trustees.
Vegfam funding for projects
(and therefore the
amount of people the we can help) is wholly dependent upon the level of support
(donations)
that we receive
throughout the year. Everything that we achieve is as a result of private
donations, fundraising
efforts and the help from our volunteers. It is only
because of this that we are able
to continue helping people who ask us to fund their
projects.
VEGFAM, c/o Cwm Cottage, Cwmynys, Cilycwm, Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, SA20 OEU
GOOD NEWS
Following contact by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and members of the public,
Ocado, an online grocer, has agreed to end the sale of foie gras.
Stock-free
farming gives MPs food for thought
Whilst almost 1 billion humans go to bed hungry each night, MPs asked this week, “Why is food enough for 3.5 billion
human beings still being wasted in the global animal farming industry?” During the World Vegan Day Adjournment Speech,
Kerry McCarthy MP also exposed the shocking fact that animal farming consumes seven times more grain than biofuels.
In the debate on Tuesday 1st November 2011, the question was put, “Would it not be better to use the
food that we produce more efficiently by feeding it directly to human beings?”
Kerry McCarthy MP, who has been vegan for 20 years, said, “Meat consumption is an incredibly inefficient way to feed
the planet.… We hear a lot about biofuels and deforestation, but whereas in 2009 about 100 million tonnes of crops
were being diverted to create biofuels, around 760 million tonnes were being used to feed animals. As Raj Patel wrote
in his excellent book Stuffed and Starved, ‘The amount of grains fed to US livestock would be
enough to feed 840 million people on a plant-based diet’.”
James Paice (Minister of State [Agriculture and Food], Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) responded to Kerry McCarthy’s
speech, “There is no doubt that, as the Foresight report made clear, the current food system is consuming the world’s
natural resources at an unsustainable rate. I agree with the hon. Lady about that. At this rate we will continue to degrade
our environment, compromise the world’s capacity to produce food in the future, and contribute to climate change and further
destruction of our biodiversity. The status quo is not an option, which is why we in DEFRA have put the importance
of sustainable food and farming at the forefront of what we are doing.”
From the news pages at www.vegansociety.com
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