Vegan writing and resources in NSW
Thanks for your interest in cruelty-free and vegan living!
Songs
Click here
for a playlist of MC Pony's Veganthused! music videos, or see: youtube.com/veganthused
These date all the way back to a live performance of her introductory song "Pony in da House"
at the 2013 Cruelty Free Festival in Sydney, her first single, "Happy Veganniversary", co-written with Ralph Graham and featuring Renée Jonas, launched on 29th August 2015. through to her 2021 release "Please Don't Turn Away"
which is age-restricted on YouTube due to the compelling yet confronting images from We Animals Media.
Poems
The two poems in this section are taken from The VOCAL Project: A Vision of Compassion for All Life, by Elizabeth Usher. NB - this work is copyright.
Some Friendly Advice for Flesh Eaters
Think not of the fact that a pig’s life was taken
To provide for your breakfast of rashers of bacon;
Refuse to admit a cow’s throat was slit
To give meat for the burger into which you just bit;
And don’t for one moment reflect on the torment
That the reddy-brown stain on the slaughterhouse floor meant;
Scoff at the thought of concerning yourself
With those battery eggs on the grocery shelf;
Don’t question the need to make animals bleed
When it’s driven by profit and corporate greed;
Though suffering’s rife, think not of the strife
That goes hand-in-hand with your meat-eating life;
For such thinking can pose quite a danger you see
As you might just end up a vegan like me.
Something Fishy
It is rare for a person to relate to a fish,
Unless of course it is placed on a dish –
As “Special of the Day”, praised to the sky –
Wholly intact, with its unblinking eye
An unwelcome reminder for a waiting diner
Of its previous state, before the trip to the plate:
A trip that included a hook, line and sinker,
Before ‘drowning in air’ – now that’s really a stinker.
But, what’s really the matter with a seafood platter?
Besides widespread pollution by PCBs?
Besides the lives that are taken in order to please
A taste for the ‘fruits’ of rivers and seas?
The matter, my friends, is rather extreme:
Ocean depletion – an unfortunate scene;
For this is the truth: there won’t always be
The oft-quoted “plenty more fish in the sea”.
Please remember that this work is copyright, and may not be reproduced without my direct written permission.
Articles
Elizabeth Usher has also been the Vegan Editor of The Sydney Sentinel
since its founding in September 2020.
See all vegan articles on the site: https://sydneysentinel.com.au/category/vegan/
Of particular note is her tribute to Bede Carmody.
