cruelty free festival 2011

We planned to get to Belmore Park early in the morning for the festival but when I woke up in the morning, I decided not to take my grey hair with me. So, I quickly coloured my hair, washed it and had a short cut around styling it by using some cruelty-free hair products. It was just after 11 when we finally parked the car and walked to the park.

The weather probably sent a few different messages between the time we left home and arrived at our destination. At some stage it was even spitting but luckily after a few drops it stopped and the sun was shinning for the bigger portion of the day.

Cruelty Free Festival is a local event and through products and services, it aims to find ways to reduce animal cruelty. You can look forward to a day of activities and entertainment including live music on the main stage, fashion parade, talks, animal art show, kid’s colouring competition, rescue animal photo competition, raffle and showbags. You will also meet businesses offering vegan and cruelty-free living options and advocacy groups giving a voice to animals.

After checking the stalls, we have decided to have something to eat. My husband had vegan Pad Thai and I had a duck salad which was quite spicy, loved it! By the way, no one can beat my husband’s vegan Pad Thai.

Cruelty Free Festival 2011

We talked to Young Lawyers and petted Frankie. As my husband would like to get involved in tenancy laws around pets, we also chatted with people from Cat Protection Society. I picked up a sample vegan dog food for Olly from Veganpet and Vegeset (a vegetarian setting agent), soymilke (condensed soy milk) and soyatoo! from Vegan Perfection. Had a lovely chat with Jessica from The Cruelty Free Shop.

Quickly found Vegan Society’s stall. While my husband was chatting with Greg I joined the society- one of the things I have been wanting to do. Lovely ladies from the stall gave me the spring issue of Living Vegan and a DVD called Our Diet -Leading to a Sustainable Future or Killing Our Planet? by Dr Aryan Tavakkoli. In the end John got himself a book called But You Kill Ants by John Waddell which answers all those stupid questions asked by non vegetarians. It sure fills the gap.

One of the disappointing aspects of this event was that I was hoping to find some interesting ingredients to buy at the festival but the whole emphasis of vegan food was mostly around snacks. Anyway, let’s see what next years’ festival is going to be like.

Cruelty Free Festival’s website.