Category: Snapshot

The vegan tea party

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Staged for your children!

A small vegan tea party needs a lot of doll crockery, which can be found at
En Soie
or
Ikea
(
imitation glass
& real
ceramic
). Lots of soft toys are also a must at a vegan tea party: Exactly this peaceful
piggy mommy
with her
three baby pigs
or rabbits like the one on the far left in the picture can be found
here
and here. Incidentally, we found the two wooden chairs on the street here in Zurich. The small round table is from a second-hand store. By the way, cake is a must with tea, or would you prefer a muffin? You can find several types of cake in the fabric version
here
. A delicious zucchini muffin recipe with lemon curd from our Kathryn from New York is attached below (just click on the recipe to enlarge the text).

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If you live in Zurich or the surrounding area and can’t find the time to bake our fantastic zucchini muffins, then simply order the mini cupcakes from Michellés Cupcakes here.

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And finally: Confetti and garlands you can easily make them yourselfSnowflakes garland instructions can be found here. More inspiration for a vegan kids’ tea party for a birthday can be found you.

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The vegan kitchen wishes you a happy vegan tea party!

 

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Donations with savings from the Cumulus card or air miles

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Cumulus points to the
solidarity card
for refugees,
here
.

And this is how it works:

You already have a Cumulus card and would like to donate your points to the Soli card? To do this, you need to set up a donation order on the Cumulus homepage , print out the form, fill it in and return it to Migros (Cumulus-Infoline, Hardturmstrasse 101, 8005 Zurich).

You only have to do this once, after which your points are automatically transferred to your Soli card account.

Or

Have you by any chance started collecting air miles and don’t really know what to do with them?

Why not help the SOS Children’s Villages worldwide by giving abandoned children a home again and also strengthening poor families to prevent them from falling apart.

Miles & More flight miles can be used to support SOS Children’s Villages in Russia, Africa and Asia, here is all the information.

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Last minute Christmas gift ideas

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

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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.

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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

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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!

 

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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

 

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Third and final Christmas gift ideas

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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

 

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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.

Your privilege, what’s up with that?

Asks
M.I.A. in Borders
her
latest song
in the direction of bourgeois indifference. Look, it’s so easy to sing cleverly and cool about police violence, poverty and the refugee crisis. It’s that easy to create images that couldn’t come from an aid organization’s promotional video and are impressive for that very reason. But “Borders”, the title of the British rapper’s song released last week, doesn’t just have to hurt other artists. But first and foremost: us: the fact that we simply accept what is happening in the world without anger or courage is an issue and should challenge us. Source
Süddeutsche Zeitung

What you can do:
here.

Where you should go:
here.

 

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Lyrics
/ Lyrics/
whole song
/
music video
:

Freedom
I don’t need ’em
Where’s your rhythm?
This world needs a brand new rhythm
We done the key
We done them key them to lie
Let’s beat ’em
We them smartphones done beat ’em

Borders
What’s up with that?
Politics
What’s up with that?
Police shots
What’s up with that?
Identities
What’s up with that?
Your privilege
What’s up with that?
Broke people
What’s up with that?
Boat people
What’s up with that?
The realness
What’s up with that?
The new world
What’s up with that?
I’m gonna keep up on all that

Guns blow doors to the system
Yeah f*ck ’em when we say we’re not with them
We’re solid and we don’t need to kick them
This is North, South, East and Western

Guns blow doors to the system
Yeah f*ck ’em when we say we’re not with them
We’re solid and we don’t need to kick them
This is North, South, East and Western

Queen
What’s up with that?
Killin’ it
What’s up with that?
Slayin’ it
What’s up with that?
Your goals
What’s up with that?
Leg’ bae
What’s up with that?
Makin’ money
What’s up with that?
Breakin’ internet
What’s up with that?
Love wins
What’s up with that?
Livin’ it
What’s up with that?
Leg’ real
What’s up with that?

Guns blow doors to the system
Yeah f*ck ’em when we say we’re not with them
We’re solid and we don’t need to kick them
This is North, South, East and Western

We’re representing peeps
Let them play us on the air
When we’re talking in our sleep, does it listen on a system?
We’re sittin’ in the stoop
Where we get our scoop
This is how we keep it cool and this is how we do

We’re representing peeps
Let them play us on the air
When we’re talking in our sleep, does it listen on a system?
We’re sittin’ in the stoop
Where we get our scoop
This is how we keep it cool and this is how we do

What’s up with that?
Your values
What’s up with that?
Your beliefs
What’s up with that?
Your families
What’s up with that?
History
What’s up with that?
Your future
What’s up with that?
My boys
What’s up with that?
My girls
What’s up with that?
Freedom
What’s up with that?
Your power
What’s up with that?

Guns blow doors to the system
Yeah f*ck ’em when we say we’re not with them
We’re solid and we don’t need to kick them
This is North, South, East and Western

Guns blow doors to the system
Yeah f*ck ’em when we say we’re not with them
We’re solid and we don’t need to kick them
This is North, South, East and Western

We’re representing peeps
Let them play us on the air
When we’re talking in our sleep, does it listen on a system?
We’re sittin’ in the stoop
Where we get our scoop
This is how we keep it cool and this is how we do

We’re representing peeps
Let them play us on the air
When we’re talking in our sleep, does it listen on a system?
We’re sittin’ in the stoop
Where we get our scoop
This is how we keep it cool and this is how we do

The song ends with “Gonna keep up on all that,
Gonna be doing it like that”

Therefore, say no to indifference.

What you can do: here.

Where you should go: here.

 

The vegan queen of extremes

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Fiona Oakes is the vegan queen of extremes

As a teenager, Essex Fiona Oakes underwent several surgical procedures to remove her kneecap and knee joint and was told she would never walk again:

But at the age of 48, she holds three world records, including being the fastest woman to run seven marathons on seven continents, plus the North Pole, with a total time of 31 hours 11 minutes and 53 seconds.

BBC visited Oakes, who is also a vegan and nicknamed the “Queen of Extremes”, and shows why she was willing to walk over 240 kilometers in the Sahara.


Here
you can find the full
video
by
Fiona Oakes, the vegan queen of extremes

Animal-friendly children’s room

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The vegan idea is not finished after a purely plant-based children’s meal: a non-violent life (
ahimsa
) also involves developing an awareness of how objects are produced.

These include many
stuffed animals
but also wooden toys made from renewable raw materials, such as this train.

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You can find the cuddly imitation lambskin at IKEA or online right
here
.

Checked fabric play ball from EnSoie Enfant.

Children’s blanket with Bambi print and Steiff button in ear fabric Bambi by
Nepomuk
.

 

Taking a close look at organic food

 

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A comparison of ORGANIC and NON-ORGANIC. The insight into genetically modified food, crystallization images from the research of Soyana’s LifevisionLab.

Mr. A. W. Dänzer, owner of the Soyana company, has studied and photographed the beauty of organic food for years.

In 1996, the author created his own laboratory (LifevisionLab) to visualize the power of food in food. His research has yielded results: the crystallization method presented reveals the inner order of organic food in beautiful images that speak for themselves. After the Nobel Prize winner
Ilya Prigogine
we are dependent on constantly taking order in order to be able to live and develop. The well-known physician, psychotherapist and author Dr. Ruediger Dahlke (e.g. PEACE FOOD) writes in the foreword to Mr. A. W. Dänzer:

“Information and order in food – both closely linked to the light that is spread – are the key to a long and healthy life. Both can be tasted, but not scientifically measured. This book helps decisively here by making quality visible and wonderfully showing the order in food: Organic food differs visually from conventional industrial food.”

 

The vernissage today, Tuesday, October 21 at 6:30 pm in the Volkhaus (Blauer Saal) is practically fully booked, maybe there are still a few places available if you come in time. Participants in the book vernissage will receive a voucher for a small free organic aperitif and snack in the Vegelateria restaurant after the vernissage. The author will be present and will report on his experiences based on this research.

 

THE INVISIBLE POWER IN FOOD
Verlag Bewusstes Dasein, Schlieren-Zurich, 2014,
272 pages, 753 illustrations, large format 280x280mm, thread binding,
€ 25.80 / CHF 29.80 ISBN 978-3-905158-15-1

 

www.bio-nichtbio.info

www.vegelateria.ch