Chelsea Davis
The Evolving Vegan
Northwest VEG
Outreach and
Volunteer Coordinator
Humane Educator
MVP11 6/17/14
Is It Really Vegan?
Is It Really Vegan?
Be aware of hidden animal products.
Read the ingredients of everything. If you don’t recognize it, look
it up!
Extensive list by Happy Cow:
http://www.happycow.net/health-animal-ingredients.html
Some common animals ingredients: Gelatin, Casein, Lactose,
Carmine, Glycerin, etc.
Fish bladders used for wine and beer: www.barnivore.com
Sugar isn’t vegan?
List of accidently vegan products:
http://www.peta.org/living/vegetarian-living/accidentally-vegan.aspx
Great Resources on your Phone!
Clothing
Leather: Processing leather requires copious amounts of energy
and a toxic stew of chemicals including formaldehyde, coal tar,
and some cyanide containing finishes. The tanning process is
just as pollutant-laced, and can leave chemicals in the water
supply and on the hands of developing world workers.
Fur : No federal humane slaughter law protects animals on fur
factory farms, and killing methods are gruesome.
 Trapping: TrapFreeOregon.com
Wool: Mulesing, Shearing, Export and Slaughter
Silk: The fiber that silkworms weave to make cocoons. To obtain
silk, distributors boil the worms alive inside their cocoons.
Down: layer of feathers closest to the skin of ducks and geese
Personal Care Products
and Makeup
Look for the Bunny!
More info on makeup:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/portlandvegans/vegan-makeup/714885928552135
Clothing and Products
There are great alternatives out there!
Resources for cruelty free clothing,
shoes, accessories, makeup and skincare
 Herbivore, Food Fight, Ether, Held belts,
Action for Animals, Vaute Couture, New
Seasons, Whole Foods, People’s Coop,
Pharmaca, Target(!).
 Where else?
What about Vegan Shoes?
Extensive list of vegan athletic shoes:
 http://vegan8.me/vegan-athletic-shoes/veganathletic-shoes-2013/
Extensive list of vegan “dressy” shoes:
 http://www.ecouterre.com/eco-friendly-vegan-shoebrands/
Vegan Shoe Stores:
Pie Footwear , MooShoes, Ether, others?
Medication and Vitamins
 Ask your doctor and pharmacist about the
ingredients.
 Opt for veg capsules over gelatin.
 Look for vegan supplements:
 DEVA, Country Life, others?
 Sources: Veganessentials.org, Food Fight, New
Seasons, Whole Foods, Pharmaca, People’s Coop,
where else?
Veganic Gardening
 Vegan-organic gardening avoids not only the use of toxic sprays and chemicals, but
also animal products such as blood and bone meal, slaughterhouse sludge, fish
emulsion, and manures.
Other Nutrient Sources:
 Compost from YOUR kitchen
 Green Manures (and nitrogen-fixing crops) - cover crop of plants,
 Seaweed (fresh, liquid or meal) - Used for trace elements.
 Gypsum (hydrated calcium sulfate) and Lime - calcium is needed
 Neem - natural pest repellent and organic fertilizer
 Alfalfa meal, Flax Seed Meal, Cottonseed Meal, Soya Meal, Human Urine - nitrogen.
 Epsom Salts - magnesium.
 Dolomite - calcium and magnesium.
 Rock Phosphate - Phosphorus
 Rock Dusts (stonemeal) - Used to re-mineralize soil
 Rock Potash (potassium or wood ash) - Potassium
Helen Atthowe (http://veganicpermaculture.com/)
Portland VegFest Presentation on Veganic Farming and Gardening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hQWBcRXQmU
What about our pets?
 Dogs are omnivores and can flourish
on a vegan diet
 Cats are a bit trickier but it is
possible!
 Dr Armaiti May
 http://veganvet.net/
 Portland VegFest presentation on
Vegan Diets for Cats and Dog: The
Risks and Benefits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI
MBX3jdYM0
Traveling
 Plan ahead
 Learn the language
 Vegan World app
 Vegan Life app
 Happycow.net
 Yelp.com
 Pack your own food!
 Bring a meal on the airplane
 Pack snacks in your suitcase like oatmeal, nuts, dried fruit,
bars, other ideas?
Now…