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Most Important Fish Endangered

2011-10-30T03:20:00.001-07:00

[Source: Pew Environment Group]

Most sensible omega 3 alternative for human consumption would be from sustainably farmed algae - see V Pure

The Origins of Marmite Discovered by Captain Cook

2011-09-28T05:21:00.000-07:00

The Origins Of Marmite By Captain James Tea Cook - Pirate of the Carob Bean

Captain James Tea Cook

AHOY there! Here be another o' my vegdumacation blogs ! I know you be waitin wi' baited breath so let me hold you in shivering anticipated suspendered animalation not a moment longer!

A little known fact be that one o my great ancestors, Captain James Cook, who was fair fond o aboriginals and their practices, discovered what we take fer granted as Marmite on one of his trips to Botany bay in Australia.

Much is documented about his 1772 'discovery' of the magical medicinal Tea Tree Oil even though the aborigines already knew where it was, what it was, how it could be used medicinally and why it be good for you.

Marmitine Tree- delicious sap

Far less is recounted about Captain James Cook's discovery of Marmite which ended up being such a hoo ha and a blighted stain on Australian history books. Used by Aboriginals to make dull food, like snake's brain and weird green vegetables, taste nice and to ward off mosquitos, the sap of The Marmitine tree was revered and traded like gold, worth more than it's weight in Rum.

The salty sea dogs what purported to arrange themselves as Captain Cook's crew fell on the sap with unfettered voracious lust. They just couldn't get enough o the stuff that made even the ship's hard tack biscuits taste good, with or without weevils!

Very soon every Marmitine tree in Australia had been raped, pillaged and bled to extinction - the aborigines as you can imagine were livid which is the real reason why the Autralian Government perpetrated such heinous crimes against the continent's native people.

Despite modern food manufacturers attempts to recreate the sap and brew a similar tasting fluid the best they could come up with is 'Marmite' named after a French casserole dish.Whilst the original sap would melt every taste bud and en-trance all who tasted it, the manufactured copy, Marmite, can only claim to win half the hearts of the nation with almost as many people hating it as loving it.

Marmite - Cult Following

None the less, with no credible competition Marmite now has a cult following all over the world with not as much as a nod to the Aborigines or Captain Cook and his descendants who gorged on it to extinction

The Australian attempt at recreating the original now extinct sap, Veggiemite, is mainly patronised by a small group, though widely distributed, of back packing barmaids who originated from the suburbs of Sydney. The Austrailian Veggiemite tastes like it's been made with a sweet Norweigian cheese called Gjetost which leaves one with undoubtable conclusion that they should have got some original Aborigines to help make it. I'm guessing though that even Aborigines don't live that long - they'd have to be 250 years old, perhaps if they went into dreamtime?

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International Talk Like a Pirate Day

2011-09-19T09:43:00.000-07:00

www.1worldday.org www.tinyurl.com/oneworldday www.one-world-day.org

Fish Free Friday

2011-09-14T05:17:00.000-07:00

Vegetarian Society launch - Fish Free Friday

Aharrrgh! We see The Vegetarian Society Launched Fish Free Fridays - every day be fish free fer us, but just like meat free Mondays and One World Day everybody's gotta start somewheres!

Let us know yer favourite fish free friday recipes!

Avast there! Do Something!

2011-03-09T09:23:00.000-08:00

I will eat a sustainable healthy plantarian, pure vegetarian, vegan diet:

Don't just sit there yer scallywag, bash the blue button and be making a difference to this varmit infested planet full o lying dogs and drug pushers!

Google Doodle Celebrates Robert Louis Stevenson's 160th Birthday | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

2010-11-13T13:19:00.000-08:00

Google Doodle Celebrates Robert Louis Stevenson's 160th Birthday | News & Opinion | PCMag.com:

Robert Louis Stevenson , most famous for writing "Treasure Island," "Kidnapped," and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," is now 160 years old.

Bristol Bank Holiday Weekend Festival

2010-05-26T18:21:00.000-07:00

weather Looks Good for Bristol Bank Holiday Weekend Festival

AHaaargh - what's on and more could you be wishing for. Family scurvy free fun, weather in Bristol looks fine.

http://www. bristol.ecoveggiefare.co.uk

Queen steps in to save Foxes from Tories

2010-04-21T15:16:00.000-07:00

SAVE ME 2010 | News - The First SAVE-ME Billboard

Queen's Brian May be steppin in to be saving foxes from the fate of David Cameron and family

It seems David Cameron be wanting to be the UK's answer to Sarah Palin

It be surprising nobody has morphed that picture yet

Richard Branson Eats Meat Free Monday

2010-03-31T16:54:00.000-07:00

UK APRIL 1st Richard Branson Goes Vegan

Aharrgh. Seems Sir Richard of Virgins Mr Branson has gone all vegan on us. Only one day a week mind

"I love eating meat, but I love our planet even more, so I have joined Sir Paul McCartney's Meat Free Monday campaign and stopped eating meat at least one day a week."

In another story today Sir Richard be accused of getting into Olympic Swamp Water and Algae.

Happy Meat Free Mondays to ye all!

YouTube Banned Greenpeace Kit-Kat advert

2010-03-18T07:01:00.000-07:00

YouTube - Greenpeace - Kit-Kat advert

Here is the Greenpeace Kit Kat Advert that You Tube Banned

greepeace target Nestle in CROYDON on palm oil and rainforest... on Twitpic

2010-03-17T12:21:00.000-07:00

greepeace target Nestle in CROYDON on palm oil and rainforest... on Twitpic

Seems Nestle's Fair Trade Kit Kat chocolate bar is not so Fairtrade after all.

The Palm Fat contained in it is responsible for the devastation of Rain Forests and the death of Orangutans

Greenpaece climbed up above the reception of Nestle HQ in Croydon and unfurled a banner and unleashed a tribe of orangutans on the streets of Croydon

Stupid? Or Not Stupid? You choose on Twitpic

2009-10-26T08:05:00.000-07:00

Stupid? Or Not Stupid? You choose on Twitpic

Savage Chickens: Pirates For Life Cartoon

2006-09-16T19:19:00.000-07:00

Savage Chickens: Pirates For Life Cartoon

Here be a whole weeks worth o chicken pirate cartoons for Internationable lets talk like a pirate day

Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day

2006-09-16T07:24:00.000-07:00

yes its let's talk like a pirate day again! and even Jeeves is in on the let's talk like a pirate day shabang.

since it's invention many moons ago by two american journalist it's grown from lets talk like a pirate day to international lets talk like a pirate day

Vegan Pirates have started up a forum to enable people to talk like a pirate on the 19th September.

Second food revolution needed to feed the world

2006-09-16T07:22:00.000-07:00

Second food revolution needed to feed the world

The FAO has called for a second Green Revolution to feed the world's growing population while preserving natural resources.

Addressing a meeting of the World Affairs Council of Northern California in San Francisco, FAO director-General Jacques Diouf said that a major international effort was needed to feed the world when the population soars from six to nine billion.
"The new Green Revolution will be less about introducing new, high-performance varieties of wheat or rice, important as they are, and much more about making wiser and more efficient use of the natural resources available to us," he said.

Diouf added that the original Green Revolution of the Fifties and Sixties doubled world food production by bringing the power of science to agriculture, but relied on the lavish use of inputs such as water, fertilizer and pesticides.

Vegan Pirates say "It doesn't matter how much food you grow if you are going to waste it all and feed it all to animals to produce beef and dairy products wasting water, land and causing pollution then there will never be enough. We need to focus on high quality superfoods from plants such as soya, hemp , pea, quinoa, buckwheat, seaweeds and micro algae and eat foods first hand not second hand"

Pirate Voicemail - You have 1 Message

2006-07-20T09:37:00.000-07:00

Pirates of The Carob Bean - Pirate News - Talk like a Pirate

A HAaaarrrggh! Ahoy there Shipmates!

2006-07-20T09:11:00.000-07:00

Ahoy there Mateys!

Avast and be prepared to find out more o the secrets a life accordin to the Da Vinci Code and other jewels of knowledge you may be wantin.

If you fancy talkin like a vegan pirate yersel then go to the main Vegan Pirate's new lair at www.veganpirates.co.uk

see what Cap'n Long John Tofu an the Pirates o The Carob Bean been up to.