Alice Springs Vegan Society in Alice Springs, Northern Territory | Non-profit organisation

Alice Springs Vegan Society

Locality: Alice Springs, Northern Territory

Address: Todd Mall 0870 Alice Springs, NT, Australia

Website: http://www.veganismisnonviolence.com

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23.01.2022 Our town has gone green!

16.01.2022 Happy Father's Day!

11.01.2022 Take extinction off your plate by going vegan. Animal production is the number one cause of habitat loss, land clearing and deforestation for endangered animals worldwide. The fastest way to protect land for wildlife is to live vegan. Plant based foods consume hundreds of times less land and water to produce it. We do not endorse all the views of this website.

10.01.2022 My interview on ABC Darwin Breakfast radio in response to the 1.2 million dollar Australia Day lamb ad mocking vegans. I took a light hearted approach and it went very well. Veganism has gotten attention in the media recently and is a terrific opportunity to get the friendly vegan message out there. Please consider doing friendly vegan education when the subject comes up in conversation/radio rather than wasting the opportunity by complaining about the ad! We're fine. Vegans can take a joke, but we're not the ones lining up at the slaughterhouse! -Renata Peters

01.01.2022 Worried about palm oil? No body asks about ethically sourced olive oil. Because we don't live in a vegan world, it doesn't exist. Has anyone thought to check how many thousands of rare native Australian parrots are killed each year to reduce olive orchard damage, nut orchard damage and stone fruit orchard damage? Sometimes 10,000. Every year thousands of kangaroos, parrots and other native animals are killed by farmers to produce wheat, nuts and fruit. There's no moral differ...ence between Australian killed wildlife and Malaysian killed wildlife. There's no moral difference between eating palm oil and eating olive oil, peaches or almonds. To say that palm oil and orang utans are more important than olive oil and corellas is quite simply speciesist. Encourage certified sustainable farm practices, yes. Cultivate a gradual transition to a vegan world by conducting peaceful vegan education, yes. But boycott palm oil? No. It doesn't make anymore sense to boycott palm oil than boycotting olive oil, bread, pasta, fruit and nuts. Even if the boycott was successful, farmers would just grow something else like bananas. Palm oil is *not* the drive behind rainforest destruction as only 3% of cleared Malaysian rainforests were replaced with palm oil and of that 80% of the product produced from the plantations are used as livestock feed. If you want to see where the Malaysian rainforests have gone, you'll find in the cardboard packaging of cereal boxes because it's timber that's the main drive of the forest clearing. Palm oil has serious issues, but so does every other vegan product out there. And finally, worldwide, the number one cause of rainforest destruction and land clearing is livestock production. 90% of the Amazon rainforest destruction is for the purpose of producing meat and dairy products for the western world. And don't forget the global clearing of seabed floors and grasses by fishnet weighted trawler boats for seafood. The fastest way to stop habitat loss and extinctions is to go vegan.