Beauty Without Cruelty - Defending Animal Rights

Beauty Without Cruelty is delighted to announce that Shannon Keith is our special guest for the 2010 Animal Rights film festival, which is to take place in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg from 29^th October to 6^th November this year.

This year will see exciting events around the festival and details will follow in due course.

We are extremely excited that Shannon has agreed to support Beauty Without Cruelty and speak at the festival. We have no doubt this will be both entertaining and enlightening.

Keith is an American animal rights lawyer, activist, and documentary director/producer.

She is the director of Behind the Mask: The Story Of The People Who Risk Everything To Save Animals.

Keith is an animal rights activist, documentary film maker and animal rights lawyer. Keith has represented a number of well-known animal-rights activits and campaigns, including (SHAC) Stop Huntingon Cruelty and Kevin Konjaas, the former president of SHAC USA, against Huntington Life Sciences and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

She has saved dogs from being euthanised in Los Angeles, and in 2000, she obtained the largest settlement against the City of Los Angeles for the beating to death of a dog by a city employee.

In 2002 Shannon began to challenge the media with her strong message in support of animal liberation actions and activists.

In 2004 Shannon started a non-profit, tax-exempt group called ARME (Animal Rescue, Media & Education). ARME rescues homeless animals and focuses on stopping the problem at its roots through educational initiatives, including making documentaries about animals and animal activists.

In 2006 after three years of filming, Keith released Behind the Mask: The Story Of The People Who Risk Everything To Save Animals. Keith founded and runs Uncaged Films /ARME (Animal Rescue, Media & Education), which produced the documentary.

Her latest film is The Skin Trade, which Beauty Without Cruelty will be screening soon……….

BEAUTY WITHOUT CRUELTY LAUNCHES 'LIVING WITHOUT CRUELTY' COOKBOOK

World Day for the Abolition of Meat was 30th January 2010. This day is intended as a means of promoting the abolition of the idea of treating/viewing/exploiting animals as food. Worldwide, six million sentient beings are killed for their meat every hour, and this figure does not include fish or other sea animals, who are, of course, included in the demand for the abolition of meat.

Meat consumption causes more suffering and death than any other human activity and is completely unnecessary. The inclusion of flesh foods is using up our water and land resources, polluting our planet  and directly contributing to the starving of millions of people world wide as well as causing ill health through heart disease, cancer and more.

BWC felt that in order to make things easier for people considering changing their eating habits, a cookbook with locally available ingredients and with easy and often familiar recipes, albeit with a twist, was essential. Initially our first little booklet was in response to requests and the positive feedback ensured the already planned cookbook. To this end, all the recipes have been tried and in many cases, are firm household favourites of the author (myself) or the other contributors.

Thus we have 89 recipes that are easily within in the grasp of anyone familiar with the kitchen, and we have included information on certain items such as nutritional yeast flakes, tofu, protein, the newer ‘super food’s that are easily available such as goji berries and walnuts, information on the dairy industry, farming and more. We also offer a small selection of familiar food items that are animal ingredient free, most of which can be found at the local supermarket, a large pharmacy chain or health stores. Recipes have been included, by a few famous South Africans who eat with conscience and they also include their favourite quote with us.

This will be one of those books where the readers will try most of the recipes, and will be sure to dip into on a regular basis. from Mediterranean Baked peppers, Spiced Chickpea cake with roasted vegetables and Braaied Brinjal steaks to Chickpea and mushroom curry pancakes and Toni’s terrific fishless cakes, Cauliflower lemon sauce for pasta and Mushroom nut rolls to sweet endings like upside down Banana Loaf, Whiskey fudge and amazing chocolate cake, this book is sure to please.

Of course the purchase of the book also supports the work that Beauty Without Cruelty does to expose and act upon animal abuse and exploitation in all forms, including farming, vivisection, wildlife exploitation, cosmetic testing and animals in Entertainment, which makes this a worthwhile purchase in any event!

Beauty Without Cruelty South Africa, now in their 35th year, are delighted to announce the launch of their Living Without Cruelty cookbook to coincide with World Day for the Abolition of Meat 2010.

Some recipes have been submitted by well known South Africans, including Patricia Glyn, intrepid traveller,  author and speaker, Jo Day, SA’s queen of rock and Claire Johnston and John Ledyen, of  Mango Groove.

Our grateful thanks to Charoltte Rhys for their generous support of this project!

We now proudly announce our new tee, also conceptualised by Roedean students,  available in Sky Blue, Green  (seen below) Navy and White, standard tee sizes, SMLXL and in age 13/14 (for a snugger fit women size 32/34) Limited stocks. Get yours now! Only R150 ex p&p. Thick 100% cotton tees,  made in South Africa.Mail your EFT, address and size details to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 A vegan braai (barbecue) was held in September to celebrate Heritage Day and as a small fundraiser . The food was fabulous! Our first event of this nature and almost 3 dozen poeple supported the venture, which is to be an annual event at Deer Park Cafe in Vredhoek Cape Town. 

 
A  RECENT PROTEST against fur was held at the V&A waterfront Cape Town in August and there was a good response from BWC supporters! The reason for the demonstrations is not to change store owners minds or legislation (which would seldom occur) but to create a forum for public awareness and education by drawing attention to the issue and handing out educational material. Ensuring the public is aware of the source of many trinkets, trims and toys (usually cat and dog fur) is essential to reducing and ultimately elimination the sales of these horrendous items. THAT is what will work.

While not a campaign as such, it is worth noting what we have attempted to do with regard to ensuring that monies given by the public for South African causes remains here: We have unhappy news in the world of animal rights in South Africa. This insert, from Chairperson Beryl Scott in July 2009: The existence of an animal welfare/rights organisation depends largely on the generosity of its members and supporters, who make donations and bequests in the belief that the money they contribute will be used to better the lives of the animals they care so much about. Read more here :  files/The existence of an animal welfare.doc