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FRIENDS’ GAZETTEYour articles look at moral reasons for being
vegetarian or vegan which is a very
interesting mix and unique . . .
MAY 2016 - ISSN 2053-4426 UK and FRANCE - e-mail: [email protected]
Tim Barford - founder VegFestUK
BRITISH expats living in France are
getting worried at the thought of a
‘leave’ vote in the UK’s EC
referendum next month.
One British linguist, who's worked in
France's public sector for two years,
said that both she and her husband
were ‘seriously considering’ taking
French nationality as soon as
possible.
“I think there'll be a low turnout tothe referendum and if so, it will be
mostly people who are anti-EU who
will vote,” she told on-line paper The
Local, on condition of anonymity.
“I expect a huge amount of
misinformation to be spread and a
very real possibility that the British
electorate will vote for a Brexit,” the
paper quotes her as saying.
FG interviewee Helen Landau 53,
and partner Francis Squire 54, who
live in Provence in the south, have
already applied for French citizenship.
The approaching referendum has
added ‘momentum’ to their application
Helen admits.
She told FG: “You don’t know what
will happen. And it’s quite reassuring
for us to know that even if [Brexit]
should happen, assuming that we
have got through all the stages of the
French citizenship, we would have
some protection. So it’s added a bit of
momentum.”
Becoming French is no easy matter
in a country fond of its bureaucracy.
Helen explained: “You need threeyears’ tax returns; you need proof of
your address; you need not only your
birth certificate but also the birth
certificates of your parents – some of
which we had but some of which we
didn’t have.
“Then it all needs to be translated,
but not just by anyone but by an
official translator.
“They do like their bureaucracy and
it’s quite expensive to have them
translated.
“They must have 90 per cent of the
information on a birth certificate in
their computer.Continued on page 4
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Left isn’t anti-Semitic author
saysNelcya Delanoë in front of the plaque erected as part of general war memorials in
Villeneuve les Avignon
AN AUTHOR and historian who has penned
a book on the roundup of Jews in wartime
France has spoken out on the anti-Semitism
row engulfing the British political left.
But her views come in sharp contrast to
comments from newly-elected London mayor
Sadiq Khan and a top Jewish leader.
Labour has suspended Ken Livingstone from
the party and an enquiry has been launched
after remarks he made to the BBC.
"When Hitler won his election in 1932, his
policy then was that Jews should be moved to
Israel. He was supporting Zionism before he
went mad and ended up killing six million Jews,"
Livingstone said.
Speaking to FG, Nelcya Delanoë said: “Anti-
Semitism is used to shut down a few remarks
on Israel. I don’t see why it [criticism of Israel]
should be linked [to anti-Semitism].
Sadiq Khan, London’s new mayor, of
Pakistani origin and a Muslim, has said that
Labour clearly "don’t understand what racism is".
And Board of Deputies of British Jews
president Jonathan Arkush reportedly told the
BBC recently: “What Ken Livingstone
deliberately did was to draw an equationbetween Nazism and Zionism.
“He therefore crossed a line into what
certainly most people would regard as distinctly
anti-Semitic.”
Delanoë's comments came at a recent
function where a plaque highlighting the round-
up of Jews during the Second World War in
Villeneuve les Avignon a southern French town
was unveiled thanks to her efforts.
Her book: ‘D’une petite rafle provençale…’
('A small roundup in Provence…’) is available in
good bookshops.
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A RADIO show all about vegetarianism has
been funded by the on-line crowd funding
scheme Kickstarter.
Now the fascinating show ‘Vegetarianism -
the story so far’, is on the airwaves and goes
on until spring next year.
Creator, reporter, editor and avid FG
reader, Ian McDonald told us: “The
programme tells the whole story from [the
early days] till today, around the world.
“You can listen to it on Resonance 104.4
FM in London, and on the internet wherever
you are via Veghist.org.
“It will be released one episode a month, infifteen parts, slowly unfolding over 2016 and
2017.
“It includes interviews with people around
the world from East to West and back again."
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LACTO-VEGETARIANISM has come to the land of the bullfight -
thanks to followers of a spiritual path.
Members of the Radha Soami Satsang Beas group are strict lacto-
vegetarians, and don't touch fish, flesh, fowl or eggs as part of a daily
meditation regime. An annual visit in May to Malaga, Spain by their leader
Gurinder Singh Dhillon brings thousands swarming into the area.
Now local traders have wisened up to the three-day guru-fest and are
offering egg free ice-cream to hungry Brit disciples, many of themstrangers to Iberia's soaring early summer temperatures.
Sylvia Pillay, an FG reader, volunteer and group member, said: “The
vendors in San Miguel the main street in Torremolinos knew all about
us. Signs everywhere - ‘no eggs’. One place was doing crepes with no
egg with a chocolate filling. I think we gave a boost to the economy.”
EGG FREE HELADOS- NO CREPE
“Then you have to take a French test,
because you have to be at a certain level in
French. We are at that stage now. We’ve done
the French tests. We’ve got our certificates.
We’re nearly at the end of the process.
“The final thing is, we have to get a police
report from our home country. So that they’re
sure that we’re not of dubious character. And
then we’ll be complete and we can then go and
depose it.”
Then, in typical Brit fashion, she adds warily:
“Based on my experience it might be that they
add a few extra things that we didn’t think of.”
A Frenchwoman born in an English-
woman’s body: Helen Landau tells FG about
her love affair with France and her reasons for
‘becoming French’. (See page 10).
Parlez-vous francais?… Helen Landau and Francis Squire hope to become French citizens.
ACCORDING to latest figures there are
around 400,000 Brits living in France.
Besides Paris they choose southern
France, Brittany and recently, Corsica.
Numbers shot up by 50% between 2009
and 2012. The French National Statistics
Institute (INSEE) puts this down to the
financial crisis which swept Europe.
BREXIT FEARS - from page 1
A LONDON bus, cleverly disguised as a
veggie food truck, has been taking Europe by
storm.
For the Vegan Routes food truck was one of
174 mobile food stands at the Brussels Food
Truck Festival 2016 this month.
One happy customer gushed: “Food trucks
normally tend towards fried and heavy foods, so
Vegan Routes was a welcome change we could
feel virtuous about. I gobbled down the hummus
with fresh heirloom veggies.”
On our last check Vegan Routes could be
found parked in Brewer Street in Soho, London.
Sin huevo . . . FG reader Sylvia Pillay tucks into some
egg-free Spanish goodies
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HOLLYWOOD A-lister and vegan
businessman, Woody Harrelson, has been
refused permission to set up a medical
marijuana dispensary in Hawaii.
Harrelson, 54, was hoping to open a
dispensary in the state, the first of its kind in the
USA.
He was among the first of nearly 60
applicants to make a bid to create one of the
pioneering dispensaries in Honolulu County
under his company name, Simple Organic
Living.
According to website The Cannabist the
five-member selection panel did not give any
reasons for accepting or rejecting applicants.Harrelson is an ethical vegan and raw foodist.
He also reputedly won’t eat sugar or flour.
Hawaii became the first state to legalize
medical marijuana 16 years ago.
Under a law passed in 2015, the state can
grant eight licenses. Applicants must have $1
million cash before applying for a licence, plus
$100,000 for each (of 2) dispensary locations.
Harrelson, with an estimated wealth of $65m
(£44.85m), shot to stardom as the surly barman
in 80s’ Cheers, starred with Moore and Redford
in the seminal, Indecent Proposal and co-stars
with McConaughey in HBO’s True Detective.
Hawaii 5 - No!Clegg backs UK bid to
legalise medical potA CAMPAIGN aimed at legalising the use of
marijuna for medical reasons has won the
backing of former Lib Dem leader, Nick Clegg.
The move comes as a Catholic bishop in America
has urged lawmakers there to allow the drug to be
used medically in his state.
End Our Pain campaigners in the UK hope to
attract hundreds of thousands of signatures for a
petition backing the move.
They want doctors in the United Kingdom to be
able to prescribe marijuna to help take away the
painful symptoms of multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s
disease and rheumatoid arthritis.
In Iowa, USA, Bishop Richard Pates has asked
House and Senate members to approve a
comprehensive bill to permit medical cannabis.
“I believe now is the time to help suffering Iowans
and their families get access to this medicine," Pates
said in a letter, the Des Moines Register reported.
EOP campaigner Peter Carroll told The
Independent: “Denying patients access to a medicine
that can help them just because it contains cannabis
is morally wrong and cruel.”
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Veggie dreams can cometrue - in sunny Croydon
Video game boosts
veggie appetite
WANT your kids to eat up their
greens? Simple, give them a video
game. Not any game, though. It has to
be one aimed at encouraging healthy
eating.
That’s the message from the US
Department of Agriculture which found
that a serious video game, Squires
Quest! II: Saving the Kingdom of
Fivealot, helped kids aged 10-11
improve their fruit and vegetable
intake. Lead researcher Dr Karen
Cullen said: “By using a serious video
games we saw increases in vegetable
intake at dinner . . . and fruit intake at
breakfast, lunch and snacks.”
In the game eight characters
interact with the player, a squire, who
must save the medieval kingdom of
Fivealot from sneaky King Ssynster by
meeting food goals and earning
enough badges to become a knight.
Of 400 participants, 79% reported
meeting all goals during game play.
The opening of a vegan cafe in
Croydon, Surrey has caused a stir
of interest in the local press and in
the fast-growing vegan and vegan-
curious community in the suburbs.
Marijan Suarez reports.
CONVENIENTLY located in Project
B at Middle Street, between bustling
Surrey Street market and the High
Street, Buttercream Dreams is a
relaxed urban vegan café, new to
central Croydon.
Lauren Adderley and her enthusi-
astic team offer delicious, generous
portions of hearty mains, home-
made cakes, teas, coffees and even
cocktails at affordable prices.
All the food is vegan and there
are gluten-free goodies and sugar
free treats available. I sampled an
excellent groundnut stew served
with cous cous, a fresh carrot, beet-
root and green leaf salad for £7.00,
followed by a delicious slice of blue-
berry and lemon polenta cake.
My companion had a superb
chocolate and coconut cake, a pop-
ular choice here.
The ladies, with a passion for
good food, will package a “cake to
take” - I left with a couple of deli-
cious chocolate and biscuit cup-
cakes! These are priced at £2.50.
Highly recommended for a quick
family coffee break or a leisurely
lunch. Don’t be shy – give vegan
food a try!
Currently opening between 10.00
and 16.30, Monday to Saturday.
Delicious generous portions in vegan cafe, Buttercream Dreams, Croydon
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FORGET the shop bought variety and get your
pressure cooker out from the back of the cupboard for
this traditional summer treat.INGREDIENTS
1 lb (450g) limes
1.2 kg granulated sugar (or more, to taste)
1 pint water + extra 2 fluid oz.
METHOD
Scrub fruit, removing any stalky bits.
Halve. Place in pressure cooker with one pint water.
Bring to pressure and cook 15 minutes, cool quickly by
using cold water on lid.
Place the limes and most of the water in a liquidiser
and liquidise to the texture you prefer.Pour into a preserving pan (or large thick-bottomed
pan) with the rest of the lime water and the 2 fluid oz
and the sugar. Heat gently to dissolve sugar, taste-
test; limes vary as to their ripeness and more sugar
may be required according to taste.
Bring to the boil (gently) then bubble-boil for 10
minutes, stirring occasionally.
Cool for 10 minutes and pot into warmed jars.
pic courtesy Jess
Fast-foodies risk breaking family
and social ties - a study showsDO YOU WOLF down ready-made
meals from the freezer or fridge when
you’re hungry rather than using fresh
ingredients you’ve bought at the local
organic store?
If so, you could be losing touch with the
food you consume and as a consequence
from society in general.
The startling results come from a public
dialogue commissioned by the UK’s Food
Standards Authority called ‘Our Food
Future’.
The subject was thrashed out recently
by 200 food experts who met in London to
discuss what the impact of changes to the
global food system could be and what we
all can do to get the best outcome for
people in the UK.
Steve Wearne, director of policy at the
Food Standards Agency, said: “The food
supply chain is complex and under
pressure from a growing world population.
“It's the FSA's role to understand how
this affects the interests of consumers.”
ASIAN food company TRS this month
pulled three of their products after
they were found to contain
salmonella.
In an official statement food watchdog
the UK Food Standards Agency said:
“TRS Wholesale is recalling its Jeera
(cumin) Powder and Dhania (coriander)
Powder because salmonella has been
detected in the products.
“TRS Wholesale is also recalling its
Ground Cumin (jeera) Powder and Chilli
Powder (Extra Hot) because salmonella
has been detected in the products.”
The west London based company
was founded over 50 years ago and is
part of the TR Suterwalla Group.
TRS claims to be one of the largest
suppliers of ethnic foods in the UK and
imports and packs over 900 lines from
its extensive facility in Southall, Middx.
Cash-and-carry manager Kirit Joshi
told Friends’ Gazette the items had been
withdrawn “while the FSA is carrying out
further tests”.
He said he was surprised by the
development and added this was the
first such incident in the company’s
history “as far as he knew”.
The recall affects 100g packs of
cumin and coriander with best before
dates of June and December 2017, and
400g chilli powder packs with a best
before date of March 2018.
Affected items can be returned to the
store of purchase for a full refund.
Curry spices in
salmonella fear
ALMOND and apricot kernels could
kill, the UK health watchdog has
warned.
The warning comes in the wake of a
recent re-evaluation by European
experts. Britain's Food Standard Agency
said this month: "We advise that bitter
apricot kernels including the powdered
forms should not be eaten.
"This is because a naturally-occurring
substance in the kernels changes – after
people eat the products – to cyanide.
"We also advise that sweet apricot
kernels and bitter almonds are not eaten
as the same toxic chemical can be
present in these also."
Cyanide is a poisonous chemical that
can cause nausea, fever, headaches
and, in extreme cases, be fatal.
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SCRAMBLE FOR VOTES
ON HOLY GROUND
Sikh ashram atcentre of
political visits
WORRIED Sikh politicians are
descending on a Punjabi ashram in an
unabashed bid to snatch votes as
elections loom.
Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir
Singh Badal and his wife, also a
politician, visited Dera Baba Jaimal
Singh in Beas last month.
The visit came just a day after arch-
rival Rahul Ghandi dropped in for a
closed-doors chat with group leader
Gurinder Singh. (Breakfast in Beas -
Friends’ Gazette, April 2016)
Badal is related to Singh by marriage.
Both politicians are scrambling for
votes before next spring's local
government elections which could usher
in a change of power in the sub-
continent.
A recent report in Indian paper, The
Tribune, reads: "The dera, which has a
considerable number of followers from
the Dalit community, has been attracting
top leaders of various political parties."
Indians go to the polls next spring to
vote for local councils or Vidhan Sabhas.
As in the UK these results often
foreshadow national voting which follows
some time later when the government of
the country is up for grabs.
The centre is one of 900 ashrams or
‘deras’ in the area.
Known as Radha Soami Satsang Beas it
is popular with lower caste Sikhs or Dalits
who attend in their millions providing fertile
ground for vote hungry politicians.
Its belief system, known widely as Sant
Mat, is passed down from father to son and
remains in an Indian family in much the
same way as an orthodox western religion.
Like most spiritual leaders, Singh
maintains a neutral stance in all things
political, a well-known fact among followers.
Members of a Vidhan Sabha are direct
representatives of the people of a particular
state as they are directly elected by an
electorate consisting of all citizens above
the age of 18 of that state. (Comment p13)
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I WAS born in Paddington,
London and have lived a little
bit all over England.
I went to university in
Birmingham and my first job was
in Merseyside and then I came
back to London.
Actually, now we have
severed ties there. We are not
[two of] those people who just
have a little base [in France].
We live a hundred percent
here [in Villeneuve].
I was lucky I was given the
opportunity to work here by my
company [doing] marketing.
They actually brought us to
Paris. I stayed seven years in
that job. And during that time I
completely fell in love with the
life in France.
I think the French people still
have a lovely art of savouring
life, savouring the good things in
life that becomes a little bit
infectious. It could be something
as simple as really tasting the
foods that you eat.
I think the three-hour lunch
hours are a bit of a myth.
But even if it’s a 40-minute
lunch - time is taken, there’s a
little ceremony, even if it’s quite
simple.
That attracted me and I
definitely think there’s a bit of an
art to just sitting on the terrace
when the sun is out and enjoying
a cup of coffee.
‘I’m in love with France,I admire its values’Theatre owner and self-confessed francophile
tells Friends’ Gazette what it is that makes
her want to fully embrace her new country.
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I think one of the most fundamental things
[which makes me want to take French
citizenship] is not being able to vote. We don’t
have a right to vote in the UK because we don’t
have a permanent home in the UK and we don’t
have the right to vote in France, apart from in
some of the very local elections.We have now paid about 15 year’s worth of
taxes in France without ever having been able
to exercise the right to vote and it feels part of
being fully integrated into a country which is
what we always wanted to do.
We never wanted to just create or live in a
little enclave of British people that met up with
other British people and joined British tennis
clubs. We wanted to live in France and enjoy
the French [life] and it is just as a natural
extension of that.I have an inner French woman who was born
in an Englishwoman’s body with English-
woman’s skin that definitely doesn’t suit the
French climate. So I spend most of the summer
with this lovely English blush.
It’s a very bureaucratic process at the end of
[which], assuming it would be accepted, we
would be able to ask for a passport.
I’ll feel very proud [whenwe get it], because I am in
love with France. I do
admire its values.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité;
I’m not aware of three
British values. People do
talk about British values, but
they’re not as articulated in
that same way as they are
in France with their liberté, égalité, fraternité.
Men are equal to women; everyone is equal;we are free to think what we want to think,
exercise our religion freely and there is that
spirit that we should be
fraternal. We should support
each other.
I think there’s a great deal
of scepticism [in Britain]
towards Europe and what
benefits it brings and I think
that the vote [EU
referendum] will be rather
tight.
It’s not a given which way
the vote will go. If I had the
vote, because once again I don’t have the vote
because I can’t register because of the time that
I’ve been away I would definitely vote to stay in the
EU. Not just because of the individualistic reasons
that [leaving] might cause my life difficulty but I
fundamentally have always believed that a strong
Europe is a good thing.I have always had a
double life, one of my ‘more
lives than one’. I worked in
business in big multi-
national companies in
marketing, in market
research, but I always did
theatre on the side at the
highest levels that I possibly
could as an amateur, as an amateur actress.
I followed a two year course designed especiallyfor people like me at the brilliant Questors Theatre
which is based in Ealing in London. I did lots of
productions with them. It’s a course that goes over
two years. Very intensive. Three evenings a week
plus every tenth day for two years with two full
productions. It aims to take you to the level of
having a professional training, though it’s all done
on an amateur basis.
And then I continued with the theatre all through
my time in the UK with one or two productions a
year. Then when I came to France I joined a
French theatre group and did some productions
also in French, in Paris.
But it had always been at the back of my mind
that one day I’d love to have a theatre. And one
Sunday I had to work for my business all day and
at about five o’clock on a Sunday afternoon after
doing marketing reports I browsed through the
internet and I saw this little sign saying “Theatre for
Sale”.
It was a little pocket theatre. It’s very small. It
was an investment but it wasn’t millions of Euros. It
is a very, very small theatre. It’s kind of like one of
the English pub theatres. There are 33 places.
It was a now-or-never moment, really. It was
like: ‘every time you’re with friends
Pictured: (p10) Helen
Landau, (this page, top)
Fort St André, Villeneuve
les Avignon and (left)
Rue du Chapeau Rouge,
Avignon, after which the
theatre is named; (over)
‘More Lives Than One’ a
Chapeau Rouge poster
and the cantina just a
few doors down from the
theatre itself. cont. p12
I’m in love with France . . . from p10
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when the second bottle of wine opens you’re
always talking about how one day you want to
own a little theatre; now here’s one for sale, are
you going to do something about it or not?’
This was towards the end of 2011 and we
actually took ownership just after the Festival in
2012. So we do a lot of ateliers (workshops),
three a week, two in theatre and one in
medieval music. And we started conversation
classes in English as well.
We mainly do theatre and music, obviously
quite small productions that don’t require a big
stage with a small cast. Most of it is in French,
working with local groups, people from the Avignon
region.
And then we try to put on something once a year
in English. Less easy to do because there aren’t so
many [English] people in this area that are into
theatre but we do manage to do a bit in English.
Then, of course, we have our participation in the
Avignon Festival which is full-on; seven shows a
day for three weeks.
Helen was speaking to Stephen Ward.
I’m in love with France . . . from p 11
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Chère [Friends’ Gazette],
EXCUSE-moi d’être tardive pour vous
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Nous étions absents pour trois jours.
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THERE is no keeping politics out of
religion. Presidents, prime ministers,
kings, queens and princes love to drop
in on spiritual leaders.
In their insatiable appetite for votes or
support they hope that some of the
leader's spiritual charisma will rub off on
them and that his or her blessing will
result in favourable poll ratings.
But in a democratic society these
meetings between spiritual leaders and
hopeful temporal ones must be held in
public and be public knowledge.
Something sadly not in evidence
when Radha Soami guru Gurinder
Singh recently met with top Indian
politicians. (Scramble for votes... p9)
First Rahul Ghandi, VP of India's
Congress Party; then the very next day
by Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir
Singh Badal of Sikh political party
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD).
Yet not an official beep! It took the
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