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Celebrating 15 years of being vegan!

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I don’t have a clear vegan anniversary date, but July 2009 was when my husband and I made the ‘click’ to go vegan. This happened at the first Minding Animals Conference in Australia, an international gathering with leading activists and academics in the field of critical animal studies (I also gave two presentations btw). The atmosphere was amazing and inspiring! šŸ¤—Veganism was considered normal, a ‘given’, which was a real eye opener, and a big contrast to the more dominant ‘vegetarian/veggie’ focus in those days (especially in Belgium). Despite having been vegetarian for more than 10 years before and being aware of animal rights issues, we realised we were still contributing to animal oppression in many ways. We wanted to change that.

Artivism: ‘Like herrings in the ocean. And not in a barrel …’

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I need your help! I have submitted a work to ‘de Nationale Expo’. My work has a nature conservation message.

100+ vegan burgers for International Hamburger Day!

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As International Hamburger Day or World Vegan Burger Day was coming up, I thought of making a compilation of some of the vegan burgers we have eaten over the years to celebrate! Yes, #veganseatburgerstoo ! I hoped I would find a handful of vegan burgers for this post … turns out, I found 100 burgers! šŸ™‚ And no, we don’t eat this every day šŸ˜‰ I went back to posts from the beginning years of this blog, back to 2014! There are burgers from restaurants and food stalls in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, Spain and Austria. And a handful of homemade burgers too. The photos are just in random order, and with a link to the review of the restaurant or the event. There you can read whether we liked them or not šŸ˜‰ I took all of these photos myself, but got some help from my husband in eating them šŸ˜‰

Impressions from Ieperfest 2019. Vegan hardcore music festival

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Ieperfest is aĀ 3-day hardcore music festival,Ā just outsideĀ YpresĀ (Ieper, 75km from Bruges, Belgium). Since day one, more than 20 years ago,Ā all the food at Ieperfest isĀ vegan! In previous years, the festival was mid August, but this year it has been set to the beginning of July. We just went for the afternoon, to taste some of the great food, and enjoy the atmosphere. The weather was mild (not too hot, not too cold) and luckily no showers when we were there.

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

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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 for the first time in 2018, and then gave a presentation about ableism and ageism in the movement. This year I gave a presentation about Representation of other animals. About vegan turkey and voiceless animals.

Impressions from Vegan Summerfest 2018, Ghent

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Vegan Summerfest 2018 is already a couple of months behind us, but I still wanted to add some photos of the event to my blog. I have documented all the previous editions (2015-2016-2017), so also did not want to have this edition missing. So here are some impressions! The edition in 2018 was the first time Vegan Summerfest was held in the EXPO in Ghent, a more spacious and accessible location. That also comes with a price, and this year was also the first time the festival was no longer free, but with an admission fee. But that also came with a spacious parking, and Expo has great connections with public transport of Ghent. We were there early, as we wanted to avoid the bigger masses that usually come in the afternoon. There was however a huge queue leading up to the entrance though. Although it was pretty dark that morning, luckily it stayed dry! Once inside there were the usual suspects: lots of stalls with food, some with clothes, and body and care products. …

Delicious food and inspirational talks at VegfestUK, London 2018

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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.Ā 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 are also dozens of presentations, on a wide range of topics: from health to veganic gardening, from radical veganism to bodybuilding, or environmental aspects to animal rights. Really interesting! We ate a lot, we bought some products that were new for us, and we listened to a lot of inspiring talks! And meeting up with friends and getting to know new people! Here is an overview with a selection of pics from the weekend: I also gave a presentation, in the Justice room: Ableism, bodyshaming and health shaming. On intersections and inclusiveness. (Geertrui Cazaux). I Previously posted an introduction to that talk hereĀ . It took me a while to get the …

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

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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 many presentations on a broad variety of topics (program here). I gave a presentation about ableism, ageism and speciesism. The presentation is now up on Youtube on VeganKanal. The slides from the presentation are inlcuded. I added English subtitles to the video. Interested in hearing your feedback! The video does not include the introduction. In which I gave (among other things) an overview of the presentation: Intro: definitions and examples 1) intersections and interconnections between ableism, ageism and speciesism 2) how to reach disabled, older people 3) points to take into account to be an inclusive movement   View this post on Instagram A post shared by Geertrui (@trudi_bruges)        

Sexism and male privelege in the movement, Lisa Kemmerer at IARC

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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 many presentations on a broad variety of topics (program here). View this post on Instagram Great vegan sandwiches (and plenty of other stuff for breakfast, lunch and dinner) at the @internationalarconference in luxembourg last weekend. šŸ‘ šŸŒæšŸŒæšŸŒæšŸŒæšŸŒæšŸŒæ #iarc #iarc2018 #vegantshirt #animalrights #animalrightstshirt #onestruggleonefight #vegan #veganfood A post shared by trudi_brugesvegan (@trudi_brugesvegan) on Sep 10, 2018 at 6:11am PDT View this post on Instagram Arrived at the International Animal Rights Conference! #luxemburg #iarc #iarc2018 #animalrights #speciesism #veganism #luxembourg @internationalarconference A post shared by trudi_brugesvegan (@trudi_brugesvegan) on Sep 6, 2018 at 11:06am PDT I found the presentation by Lisa Kemmerer on ‘Sexism and Male Pivilege among vegan activists‘ the highlight of the Conference.Ā Lisa Kemmerer is a philosopher-activist working on behalf of nonhuman animals, the environment, and disempowered human beings. I first got to know of her work through the book ‘Sister Species. Women, animals and social justice‘. This …

Can I look at you in peace now? Premiere of Dominion in Ghent

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A couple of weeks ago, the documentary DominionĀ 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 ā€˜Dominion Movement Belgiumā€™. Dominion is anĀ Australian documentary (2018)Ā and is announced as following (website): Exposing the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture through drones, hidden & handheld cameras, the feature-length film explores the morality and validity of our dominion over the animal kingdom.