Christmas everywhere.

And presents! As a civilization-tested, urban Westerner, it’s good manners to find all this actually quite terrifying. Dictatorship of commerce, commerce madness instead of charity, ect.

With our vegan last-minute gift ideas, we definitely confess: we love gifts and giving each other presents!

Unfortunately, many people have lost the art of good gift-giving due to a sense of duty and Christmas stress. However, we have a few good last-minute ideas for you so that it doesn’t degenerate into a loveless Christmas consumer terror: Our gift-giving philosophy has three main aspects: Give something sustainable, give something non-violent (
ahimsa
), and best of all, give the gift of life by not eating meat at Christmas.

First Christmas gift idea

Give away an
animal sponsorship
from one of the sanctuaries* here in Switzerland. At the Tierlignadenhof in Kaisten, for example, you can sponsor deer, oxen, foxes, dogs and donkeys to support these animals all year round.

An animal sponsorship at Tierlignadenhof starts at CHF 30 per month for a cat, for example, and goes up to CHF 60 per month. for larger animals that need more food and recover expensive vet bills. Many sweet and lovely animals are longing for a godmother and/or godfather. As a sponsor, you will receive mail from your protégé twice a year. The great thing is that the sponsored child can be visited at any time. A nice trip to the farm in Kaisten included! Animal sponsorships can be made by e-mail to info@tierlignadenhof.ch or by telephone: 062 874 24 70 just before Christmas.

Or an
animal sponsorship
at the “Lebenshof” at Güetlistrasse 45 in Hinteregg and give it as a gift? At Hofnarr, you can sponsor goats, pigs, horses, ducks and many more animals and give them to your loved ones for Christmas.

The jester himself: “Some people call what we do a ‘farm of mercy’. We don’t just do this out of sentimentality. No, we NARREN are convinced that animals are part of our moral sphere. It is not just membership of a species that makes a being worthy of protection, but also its capacity for feeling and suffering. ” With this in mind, the vegan kitchen warmly recommends visiting this great farm, or calling them today ( 043 558 25 41) or emailing zukunft@hof-narr.ch and becoming a sponsor!

http://www.hof-narr.ch/warum-tiere/

Second (fashion) Christmas gift idea

The trip to Sihlcity to the Sanikai pop-up store would certainly be worthwhile for a nice fashion gift: A Sanikai Blooming Bay College Denim Jacket (available in women’s sizes S to L // men’s sizes S to XL) is, in addition to an animal sponsorship, our vegan kitchen dream Christmas present!

Incidentally, these jackets were sewn in Switzerland, are made from 100% cotton denim (leftover fabric from a Swiss producer), as well as the inner fabric, 100% organic cotton from Turkey, environmentally friendly digital print, vegan finish!

With the help of this voucher you can save CHF 25 until tomorrow evening (23.12.2016) and shop in the largest vegan online store in Switzerland
V-Angle
find a fashionable Christmas present for your loved ones? By the way, Swiss Post is still delivering until Thursday morning!

You can find everything here: V ANGLE the vegan Onlineshop

Third and final Christmas gift ideas

Why not give away a tried and tested gift voucher again? But not just any one, but one to feast on!

A voucher for a vegan brunch with Sandra from Vlowers in GZ Wipkingen, redeemable all year round on Sundays, Njam, Njam.

And this is how it works, just send an email to: info@vlowers.ch

Or how about a tried-and-tested voucher for a little beauty feeling and feel-good factor?

Then give Pretty an Pure a call (+41 43 535 94 07), send an e-mail or drop by in person(right in the center of Zurich) and ask for a voucher for make-up styling, pedicures, manicures, facials, home-made products and much more!

Pretty and Pure

*Wikipediaexplanation of the term Gnadenhof: A Gnadenhof sometimes also referred to as a life farm or animal shelter, is a facility where pets, wild animals or farm animals are cared for by humans for an indefinite period of time. In contrast to an animal shelter, a sanctuary does not pass on animals it has taken in, but sees itself as a permanent sanctuary. Sanctuaries do not serve any commercial purpose. Their self-image is based on animal protection or animal rights positions. The first cases of facilities in which animals were cared for until the end of their lives are known from the beginning of the 20th century. The writer and small farmer Christian Wagner gave all the animals on his farm a reprieve and bought additional animals to save them from being slaughtered.