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  • Animal Resistance. The animals are not voiceless.

    by trudi_bruges

    The book Fear of the Animal planet, by Jason Hribal (2010) documents the numerous accounts of animal resistance in modern history: elephants and tigers who escape from the circusses and attack their abusers, monkeys who manage to flee from laboratories, orcas and sea lions who show their resistance to captivity and abuse. The zoos, circusses and other facilities uphold a narrative of these being...

    June 10, 2019
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    inspiration / literature
  • Delicious food and inspirational talks at VegfestUK, London 2018

    by trudi_bruges

    A couple of weeks ago at the end of October, we went to VegfestUK, a vegan festival which is held annually in London at the Olympia. We had already visited VegfestUK in 2016, and were really impressed by its scale and the intersectionality conference which was held then. The festival not only houses nearly 300 stalls (food, body and care products, organisations, etc) but there...

    December 21, 2018
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    events
  • #197 Loved it! Lunch (twice!) at vegan resto Wulf & Lamb, London

    by trudi_bruges

    restaurant review #197 – Wulf & Lamb is a vegan restaurant in the city center of London. It is located south of Hyde park, about a 10 minute walk south from shopping gigant Harrods and west from Buckingham Palace (just mentionning these as a geographical reference, not as an endorsement of any kind 😉 ). We went here twice during our trip to London...

    September 30, 2018
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    outside Bruges
  • #194 Lovely lunch at new resto Organic Vision, Ostend

    by trudi_bruges

    restaurant review #194 – Organic Vision is a new restaurant in the city center of Ostend. It is located near the main shopping street. Organic Vision is the long awaited successor of De Graankorrel, which was a vegan – macrobiotic restaurant in Ostend, but closed about 2 years ago. Unlike De Graankorel, Organic Vision is not a vegan restaurant. There are however several vegan...

    August 27, 2018
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    outside Bruges
  • #187 Delicious dinner at vegetarian restaurant Rasoterra, Barcelona

    by trudi_bruges

    restaurant review #187 – Rasoterra is a vegetarian restaurant in the old city center of Barcelona (More reviews of Barcelona HERE). It often pops up as one of the best places to go dining on vegan or vegetarian lists of Barcelona – or even the world! So we really wanted to visit Rasoterra. I made a reservation when we passed by the day before, which...

    July 13, 2018
    Comment 1
    outside Bruges
  • Can I look at you in peace now? Premiere of Dominion in Ghent

    by trudi_bruges

    A couple of weeks ago, the documentary Dominion was shown for the first time to a public audience in Belgium. The premiere was in the Sphinx cinema, in the heart of the city of Ghent (next to the McDonalds, oh the irony). The screening was organised by the ‘Dominion Movement Belgium’. Dominion is an Australian documentary (2018) and is announced as following (website): Exposing the dark underbelly...

    June 14, 2018
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    campaigns / activism, events
  • Recommended literature: Animal Rights, Human Rights (David Nibert)

    by trudi_bruges

    I recently read ‘Animal Rights. Human Rights. Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation‘ by David Nibert (2002) and found it truly inspiring. The thesis of the book is that human oppression of other animals is primarily motivated by economic interests, and is profoundly and permanently intertwined with oppression of other humans. The economic forces fueling oppression have intensified with the development of capitalism. The oppression...

    May 17, 2018
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    inspiration / literature, social justice/interconnections, thoughts
  • #166 Very nice lunch at Hashtag Food, Bruges (4)

    by trudi_bruges

    restaurant review #166 –  Hashtag Food is a restaurant at the edge of Bruges. It is not a vegan restaurant, but they have several vegan options standardly available.  Hashtag Food used to be in the city center, but in the Fall of 2017, the restaurant moved to a quieter area at the edge of the city, near the Scheepsdalebrug. We have visited Hashtag Food on...

    March 15, 2018
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    in Bruges
  • Recipe: Vegan cheese croquettes!

    by trudi_bruges

    Cheese croquettes! I have eaten a lot of these in the old days, but since going vegan have only had a couple of occassions where I could eat vegan cheese croquettes. Vegan cheese croquettes are not so easily found in shops (at least not around here). I had bought some at vegan shop SHAVT (now only webshop) and also eaten these at a bistro in...

    February 25, 2018
    Comment 1
    kitchen
  • #156 Fine dining at ‘t Aards Paradijs, Nevele

    by trudi_bruges

    restaurant review #156 – ‘t Aards Paradijs is a gastronomic restaurant in Nevele, which is just outside of Ghent and 40km from Bruges. In 2010, chef Lieven Lootens was awarded the title of best vegetable chef of the year (beste Groentekok) and I had seen ‘t Aards Paradijs mentionned in a facebook group as a place where one could ask a vegan menu. And...

    December 28, 2017
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    outside Bruges

restaurant reviews: Bruges

March 7, 2021

#287 Lunch at Indian Tandoori, Bruges

restaurant review #287 – Indian Tandoori is located in de Oude Gentweg (near the Katelijnestraat) in the east side...

by trudi_bruges
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December 20, 2020

#285 Delicious tapas in beautiful historic setting, Atelier Flori, Bruges

restaurant review #285 – Atelier Flori is a vegan wine and tapas bar in the center of Bruges. It...

by trudi_bruges
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November 24, 2020

#283 Great Thai food! Not so cosy setting, Wiphada, Bruges

restaurant review #283 – Wiphada is a Thai restaurant in Bruges. We were here a couple of weeks ago...

by trudi_bruges
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October 6, 2020

#278 Light snack in relaxed atmosphere, The Rabbit Hole, Bruges

restaurant review #278 – The Rabbit Hole is a new place in town where you can get a vegan...

by trudi_bruges
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Inspiration / literature

December 16, 2020

About the pornography of Meat, Carol J. Adams

July 9, 2019

Animal liberation and disability liberation

June 28, 2019

The Cow with Ear Tag #1389 by Kathryn Gillespie

Animals in Society

She was a person

Published by trudi_bruges

She was a person. She wanted to live ❤ View this post on Instagram She was a person. She wanted to live ❤ One of the 15 million mink...

November 10, 2020
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animals in society

About vegan turkey and voiceless animals. Geertrui Cazaux (IARC 2019)

Published by trudi_bruges

A couple of weeks ago, I was at the 9th International Animal Rights Conference in Luxembourg. This conference is held every year at the beginning of September. I attended...

September 21, 2019
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animals in society, events, language

About criminal animals. E.P. Evans (1906) The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals

Published by trudi_bruges

I have been adding some books that have been inspirational to me to an album on my facebook account, and I will be adding them here as well. Some...

July 26, 2018
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animals in society, inspiration / literature

Bombed, shot, shell shocked and killed. Animals in War Memorial, London

Published by trudi_bruges

On our last city trip to London last Summer, we visited the Animals in War Memorial. It is located on the upper East side of Hyde Park at the...

November 10, 2017
Comments 7
animals in society

About ‘whole’ chickens and ‘humane’ milk

Published by trudi_bruges

Two interesting stories about animals in advertising, but coming from a whole different background. First, the poster from GoVeganworld.com, a British  vegan organisation. It states that humane milk is...

July 26, 2017
Comments 4
animals in society, campaigns / activism

Why I don’t buy a goat for Africa

Published by trudi_bruges

A couple of weeks ago I saw this message in my Facebook Feed. It is from the Belgian NGO Dierenartsen zonder Grenzen (DZG = Veterinarians without Borders). The post calls...

November 30, 2016
Comments 15
animals in society, campaigns / activism, goat, veganic farming

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Interview with The Vegan Rainbow Project

The Vegan Rainbow Project is a project from Daniela and India, and wants to draw attention to and explore interconnections of oppression and enhance visibility for vegan living minorities, whilst...

January 1, 2019
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Dining out

#289 Gastronomic festive take away menu from ‘t Vijfde Seizoen (3), Aalterrestaurant review #289 – ‘t Vijfde Seizoen is a gastronomic restaurant in Aalter (between Bruges...March 23, 2021

The House of Meat. What would you do?On a night out with friends, Eric tries a new restaurant. The waiter welcomes...February 17, 2019

About the smallest room of the restaurant!Readers who have been following this blog, or who have read some of our...February 6, 2018

About the pornography of Meat, Carol J. Adams

by trudi_bruges

This new edition of The Pornography of Meat by Carol J. Adams just arrived. Very richely illustrated with examples of how women are seen as ‘meat’ and how ‘meat’ or animals raised to be eaten are portrayed as ‘feminine’, sexual, wanting to be consumed. See also the earlier work of Carol J. Adams: The sexual politics of meat. This updated edition of The Pronography of Meat includes a photo from me: a truck from a hatchery company (that ‘incubates’ the eggs and the chicks are sent of to egg-laying companies). The truck shows a cartoon like drawing of three anthropomorphised and female sexualised chickens, with next to them the slogan ‘Girl Power’. Yeah, being forcefully kept indoors, having to lay 300+ eggs a year and being sent of to slaughter when ‘production’ drops is really empowering these female animals. I really cringed when I saw this truck on the highway, and was determined to get a good photo! Luckily, the truck took the same exit as me, so I was able to stand still...

December 16, 2020
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inspiration / literature, Spom

Shop Reviews

December 12, 2020

A visit to vegan shop V.GAN, Brussels

September 8, 2020

Waste free shop with vegan pastry, KarmaMarkt, Bruges

July 21, 2019

Bags and more! Cuco Vegan Fashion, Barcelona

July 15, 2019

Beautiful cakes and more at vegan bakery La Besnéta, ...

June 9, 2019

A look inside vegan shop Cal Veganic, Barcelona

January 20, 2019

A visit to zero waste shop Refill, Oudenburg

Restaurant Reviews: Outside Bruges

#289 Gastronomic festive take away menu from ‘t Vijfde Seizoen (3), Aalter

Published by trudi_bruges

restaurant review #289 – ‘t Vijfde Seizoen is a gastronomic restaurant in Aalter (between Bruges and Ghent). This literally translates as ‘the fifth season’. In ‘normal’ (non lockdown) times, there...

March 23, 2021
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dining out, outside Bruges

#288 Great healthy food, Hawaiian Poké Bowl, Leuven

Published by trudi_bruges

restaurant review #288 – Hawaiian Poké Bowl is a chain of restaurants with about a dozen locations throughout Belgium. This is from a visit to Hawaiian Poké Bowl in...

March 13, 2021
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outside Bruges

#286 Vegan pie and more at Karbon, Ghent

Published by trudi_bruges

restaurant review #286 – This review is from a visit to Karbon in the beginning of October 2020, before the second lockdown measures due to the COVID19 pandemic were...

February 3, 2021
Comments 0
outside Bruges, restaurant reviews

#284 Nice gastronomic vegan lunch at Naturell, Ghent

Published by trudi_bruges

restaurant review #284 – Naturell is the ‘sister restaurant’ of ‘t Aards Paradijs in Nevele, which we have visited a couple of years ago (see restaurant review #156 here)....

December 4, 2020
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outside Bruges

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Veganic agriculture

December 15, 2017

About pigs, horses and winter stew

November 25, 2017

Inspiring: pig farmer turns vegan and now grows ...

July 3, 2017

Farmer switches to veganic farming and gives cows to ...

November 30, 2016

Why I don’t buy a goat for Africa

Interconnections

social justice/interconnections

Geertrui Cazaux – Interview for Animal Culture Magazine

Honoured to be featured in the July edition of Animal Culture Magazine! I talked about my background, my activism, why I started the platform Crip HumAnimal, … The full...

August 1, 2019
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inspiration / literature, social justice/interconnections

Animal liberation and disability liberation

Beasts of Burden, Animal and Disability Liberation, by Sunaura Taylor is a must read for anyone interested in the intersections between ableism and speciesism and disability studies and critical animal studies....

July 9, 2019
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social justice/interconnections, Varia

New Platform: Crip HumAnimal: about ableism and speciesism

I have created a new space Crip HumAnimal, to specifically address the interconnections between ableism and speciesism. A place to highlight stories of disabled vegans, a place to address the...

December 12, 2018
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events, social justice/interconnections

VIDEO Ableism, ageism and speciesism, presentation IARC 2018, Geertrui Cazaux

I attended the 8th International Animal Rights Conference in Luxembourg at the beginning of September. A very inspirational weekend, being together with activists from many different countries and attending...

November 10, 2018
Comments 7
social justice/interconnections

VIDEO – Ableism in the vegan movement. Intro to my talk at VegfestUK – Geertrui Cazaux

Why do we need to address ableism in the vegan and animal rights movement? This is an introduction to my talk at VegfestUK, in London, Oct 27 – 28:...

October 18, 2018
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"Now I can look at you in peace. I don't eat you anymore"

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Geertrui Cazaux (Trudi). Vegan. Gardener. Wife. Disabled. Writer. Activist. Caretaker. Ex-academic. Wannebe drummer. °1970. Belgium. Vegetarian since mid '90's and vegan since 2010. My main motive has always been the ethical perspective, although I am also inspired by the environmental and health aspects.

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