"THE EPICUREAN" Kate March
"THE EPICUREAN"
I LOVE to cook - anything! Savoury or sweet, three course roast dinners or vegan brownies. I love both the art and science of cooking: I have taste and a nose for combining ingredients, herbs and spices, and spotting the missing component in just about any dish. Two things are very important to me - quality ingredients and community...For me Vital Awareness is not only about exposing the horrors of factory farming and the unhealthy state of our current food industry (about which I am very passionate) but it is also about bringing farmers and growers together with markets and restaurateurs - a community event: farm to table, which fortunately is the second part of our mission...I need to know my supplier, I need to know that the meat, dairy and eggs I am eating have been ethically and humanely produced.
"THE ACTIVIST" Gillian March
"THE ACTIVIST"
ANIMAL WELFARE has always been a "cause" of mine - going back to my early teens....I have been appalled at the conditions of factory farming for a number of years and stopped eating meat five years ago...January 2011 found me reading Eating Animals by Jonathan Saffran Foer - it blew my mind! The facts I knew about factory farming paled into fairy stories by comparison to the brutal facts that Foer shared in his book. It was then I knew I had to do something...Hence the birth of VITAL AWARENESS...
In May 2011 I stopped eating animal products completely, I was done with dairy (conventional dairy is a heinous industry) and I was finding that eating fish was becoming a huge problem for me also - sourcing sustainable fish with the least by-catch was an issue...
SO here I am a vegan supporting ethical meat and dairy production. I don't believe that we are going to change a hard-core meat eating culture, and therefore promoting veganism isn't going to 'cut it' - SO we have to change the way we farm, and raise our animals; and it all begins with awareness.
...to read more about The Epicurean and The Activist check out our full stories at The Origins of Vital Awareness Part One and Part Twohttp://www.vitalawareness2.blogspot.com
In May 2011 I stopped eating animal products completely, I was done with dairy (conventional dairy is a heinous industry) and I was finding that eating fish was becoming a huge problem for me also - sourcing sustainable fish with the least by-catch was an issue...
SO here I am a vegan supporting ethical meat and dairy production. I don't believe that we are going to change a hard-core meat eating culture, and therefore promoting veganism isn't going to 'cut it' - SO we have to change the way we farm, and raise our animals; and it all begins with awareness.
...to read more about The Epicurean and The Activist check out our full stories at The Origins of Vital Awareness Part One and Part Twohttp://www.vitalawareness2.blogspot.com
