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WE are here promoting and supporting the mainstreaming of veganism in the South! This page used to be the page for the Festival ‘in person’, but now it is the showcase page for all the amazing vegan stuff we have in Cornwall, and the public face of the Cornwall Vegans group. Archive
“Cornwall Vegan Festival 2018 will once again take place at Mount Pleasant Eco Park Porthtowan and feature more stal
ls and activities, talks and features. https://www.facebook.com/events/323701604737309/?active_tab=about http://www.cornwallvegans.uk/cornwall-vegan-festival-2018-make-this-your-vegan-spring/
We will be moving into the Amphitheatre space to put on a 'dry weather program' as well as having talks and demonstrations in the Barn area undercover. We will feature our Veganers Question Time and look forward to more curious and interested participants! Also in the grassy areas will be a chance to show off your musical talents.. A 'no mic' acoustic area is to be set aside for those singers and instrumentalists wanting to entertain or play together.”
Read more about the 2017 Earth Day Festival:
"Learn about sustainable ways of living and caring for the planet, with local based companies, many delivering unique Cornish flavours! Stalls include local vegan food companies, organic and ethical brands and environmentally conscious charities and organisations. Vegan food samples and foody demonstrations, workshops and outdoor area perfect for bringing a rug to sit on and family friendly! We are very excited to have such a symbiotic venue and hope that the Festival will raise awareness of the interconnectedness of environmental and vegan issues. The Cantina will boast a hot vegan meal in a beautiful timber building with views! Overnight camping will also be available via the Eco Park direct, the site is set in an area of outstanding natural beauty, with access to solar showers and composting loos!"
Stunning location in the heart of Cornish countryside. Earth Day this year falls at the end of the Easter holidays so incorporate the Festival into your plans!"
2015 Cornwall Vegan Festival from the Hall for Cornwall:
"Stalls that support vegan living from a variety of aspects, including environmental sustainability, animal welfare, social justice, conservation, low impact living, fitness, beauty, ethical living, organic growing, wellbeing, nutrition, food and lifestyle. Including People and Gardens, Wildebeest, Vegan Organic Network, Ethica, Woodturning, And chocolate!"
Vegan for the Animals
A Question of Ethics
"If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth – beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals – would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals? "~Attributed to George Bernard Shaw
"People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines…. It appears to me, besides, that [such people] can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel." ~Voltaire, Traité sur la tolerance
"When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy." ~Ingrid Newkirk
"There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties… The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery."~Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Modern intensive farms are designed to produce as much as possible, as quickly and as cheaply as possible. This compromises the welfare of the animals. They are housed in sheds with little access to outdoors, suffer prolonged diseases and discomforts, inability to perform all natural behaviours… the list goes on. Most farm animals live unnaturally short lives and are bred to gain weight quickly to produce more meat. Broiler (meat) chickens grow so fast they are killed at around just 44 DAYS old and are often crippled as their bones cannot take the extra weight. Animal Aid recently carried out undercover investigations into slaughter house practices by placing cameras inside seven randomly chosen slaughter houses where animals were seen being kicked, inadequate stunning and being killed using illegal slaughter methods. This is just an example of the cruelty involved in the final stages of an animal’s life. Eggs
Most chickens still live their lives in battery style units. They cannot stretch their wings, dust bathe, scratch and peck at the ground to forage, so often attack each other out of boredom and frustration. There are about 30 million hens in the UK egg-laying flock. Some 66% are currently in cages, 27% kept free range; and 7% in perchery/barn systems (BEIS, 2005). Egg layers are forced to lay far more eggs in their lifetime than they would do naturally, created by selective breeding, food control and increased access to light to stimulate laying. This can lead to bone disorders such as oestoporosis due to the drainage of calcium from the bones for the eggs shell. Egg layers are usually killed after 1-2 years as their productivity decreases. Only female chickens lay eggs, so what happens to the males? These are killed instantly as they are not useful either by being minced alive or gassed. Tens of millions of male chicks are killed every year. Dairy
Cows are bred to produce unnatural amounts of milk causing constant discomfort due to increased udder size and infections. Diary cows can live up to 25 years old but are usually killed after just 5 years when they start to lose their productivity. Female cows must be pregnant in order to produce milk, so must suffer a constant cycle of pregnancy, birth and milking. The calf is usually taken from its mother within a single day, an act that is highly distressing to both parent and child; female calves may go onto be dairy cows themselves whereas male calves cannot be used so are either killed at a few days old or sent onto the veal trade. http://www.viva.org.uk/blog/are-you-baby-eater
Organic/free range products
Despite some animal products being classed ‘organic’ or ‘free range’ unfortunately suffering still occurs as, minimum requirements for those animals classed as free range are also awfully inadequate. For free-range egg layers, on average less than 10 per cent of the hens are outside at any given time, and many never go outside at all (Hegelund, 2005). Free range egg layer chickens are stilled killed after one year, broilers are killed at 80 days instead of 56 as in factory farmed conditions, unwanted male calves and chicks killed, and all animals, whether free-range, organic or intensively reared will pass through the same slaughter houses. We all know it goes on, with varying degrees of awareness. We all know it’s wrong, with varying degrees of concern. Incredibly, despite the common belief we live in a civilised society – it’s even legal. Unless you are vegan, you will be a part of that food chain. Stop eating animal products and you break it immediately. It’s that simple, it’s that clean, and it feels great. And finally, just ask yourself this, if we can survive healthily, enjoy good food and products without using animals, then why do we allow suffering to continue? http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/CAMPAIGNS/factory/ALL///
I often see comments from nonvegans on posts about those who 'farm' the lives and bodies of nonhumans (amongst others) that read variations on the theme of, 'Cruel, uncaring, insensitive brutes . Should be charged with animal cruelty.'
Well here's a newsflash for every nonvegan consumer.
Nonveganism IS 'cruelty'. Nonveganism is THE ultimate act of violence and callous disrespect.
Every single nonvegan is paying those 'farmers' to keep them supplied with dead flesh, breastmilk, bird eggs and body parts. Every single nonvegan keeps the zoos, the water parks, the racetracks, the laboratories, the trawlers, and every torture chamber for nonhumans and blood drenched, stinking, hellhole that our species has devised, open for business with the flow of their cash.
Nonvegans want their demands for lives and bodies to be met cheaply and their suppliers want to make as much money out of the deal as possible. That's business 101 and it can NEVER end well for the innocent victims.
As long as nonvegan humans are demanding and paying for the lives and bodies of nonhumans, there is absolutely NO point in their piously complaining about the inevitable consequences of the bloodbath for which they are personally and directly responsible.
The ONLY solution to the outrage that is nonveganism, is to stop doing it and become vegan.
Image by Konrad Lozinski is of a mother sheep and her infant. Sheep lives and bodies are exploited at the demand of nonvegan consumers for their wool, their flayed skins and their dead flesh, and in many cases for their breastmilk. 'Farmers' make profit from supplying those demands, but demand starts with the consumer.
27/02/2026