 This photo is from the Instagram feed of Rachel Jeffery https://www.instagram.com/rachel_jeffery_dietitian/ I’m often told how nice my lunch looks, so I thought through 2020, I share some of my meals on Tasty Bowl Tuesday. This weeks Tasty Bowl was made by my sister. She was visiting from interstate and she kindly prepped lunch while I was out running errands. Eve practises veganism and so she created a wonderful plant based lunch for us. The meal included - A green salad with tomatoes, olives and cucumber, as well as tofu cooked with ginger, zucchini and roasted capsicum. Raw corn was added after cooking with a dollop of hummus. Rachel Jeffery Dietitian Eve JefferyPeople ask what they can do to help the planet then they stick their fingers in their ears and ‘la la la la la’ when you give them an answer.
Well, the answer is – a food trend is shaping up to be the biggest lifestyle change in 2020 as veganism takes hold of growing numbers of climate activists. Animal welfare aside, people are turning to veganism as it becomes clear that animal agriculture is causing a lot of harm to the planet as it produces less food per square hectare than cropping, and we just need the extra tree space that cows, pigs, chickens and sheep on death row are currently using. Also, the oceans are a lot healthier with sea life in them rather than in your belly. People are also working out that you are fitter, faster, stronger and healthier on a plant-based diet which is taking the strain off the medical industry – if you haven’t watched The Game Changers* yet then you haven’t seen Schwarzenegger at his best. We double-dare you to watch it. (*Nothing gory or judgey people, just some awesome athletes winning, winning, winning on quinoa, carrots and chickpeas!)
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 Eve JefferyThis article first appeared in November 2019 as part of the Being Vegan series in Echonetdaily By way of an apology to my children.
There are no words to express my sorrow toward all earthlings. I wasn’t always a vegan. I am happy to admit I was wrong. Not many vegans have been a vegan all their life. Mind you, I have been speaking to some families who have happy healthy teenage children who have never consumed animal products – but, for the majority of us, being a vegan is something we have come to later in life. Like ex-smokers or ex-alcoholics, ex-carnivores can be a little bit ‘militant’ when it comes to their food choices because we’ve seen the light, or maybe, we’ve seen too much of the dark… READ MORE Eve JefferyThis article first appeared in October 2019 as part of the Being Vegan series in Echonetdaily The buzz on bees
As I said in last month’s Being Vegan, one of the questions I get asked a lot is: why don’t vegans use eggs and honey? Again, my personal reason for being a vegan is because I believe all the creatures on this planet are earthlings and as such we all deserve equal rights. When it comes to consuming anything that belongs to another earthling, I ask myself: what was this ‘food’ item intended for? What was it created for?…READ MORE  Eve JefferyThis article first appeared in September 2019 as part of the Being Vegan series in Echonetdaily Chickens are birds too!
One of the questions I get asked a lot is: Why don’t vegans use eggs and honey? The answer is not complicated, but it does take a bit of explaining, and usually the short answer draws ‘yes, but what about?’ questions…READ MORE  Eve JefferyThis article first appeared in August 2019 as part of the Being Vegan series in Echonetdaily The first thing that people usually say when the subject of my veganism comes up is ‘Where do you get your protein from?’.
Actually that’s not totally true – usually, the first thing people say is ‘but what about bacon?’, and to be totally honest, when I was an omnivore that was a question I asked. The protein comment usually comes second and I could pretty much almost guarantee that just about every vegan has been asked this question. I’m not going to acknowledge the first question which is more about hurting someone’s feelings than about the taste of charred pig flesh, but I can address the second.…READ MORE Eve JefferyThis article first appeared in The Echo in May 2019 A tiny baby goat, tied up in a hessian bag and left on a rubbish tip in Broken Hill to die, has done more for the lives of animals and the lives of humans than she could ever have imagined.
‘Sunshine’ as she was named by Kelly Nelder, the earthling who ended up with her, was nursed back to health and was soon joined by Sugars, a (not so) mini piglet from a failed mini pig breeding business. Sugars and her family had been sold to a man who bought pigs to butcher for meat. She was separated from her family and when she arrived on Kelly’s doorstep, she was covered in lice, cold and stressed…READ MORE  Eve JefferyThis article first appeared in The Echo in December 2017 I’m an old, fat, white chick so people get quite a shock when they have been vilifying the progeny of my ancestors and I happen to mention I am one of them – The Chinese that is.
I don’t actually look Chinese so when people are spewing their venom about Asians, they don’t think they’re offending anybody in earshot. I don’t look vegan either, but people don’t care at all about offending them…READ MORE |