Terra Nemorosa - The Vegan Land

As you might or might now know, this blog/homepage has been around for years, but maybe you're wondering who the blogger is (or in this case the bloggers are)?

Wonder no more. Hi! I'm Camilla, one of the people behind this blog. I'm vegan and have been or a number of years, before that I was ovo-lacto and before that pescatarian (though at the time I didn't know there was a name for it). As a child, of course, I was omni, but struggling with it, from the age of six, when I found out that there was no difference between the muscle tissue in my body and that in the bodies of animals. So that was why I started my path towards veganism. My love for animals. Soon I discovered all the other pros of being veg. Now I can't think of a single drawback.

For years I've also been concerned about the environment, ecology etc and human rights, feminism and so on.

For the future, I'm dreaming of a much greener lifestyle. A green, cruelty-free lifestyle to be exact. Some day I hope to live somewhere in the countryside, preferably in the woods somewhere, growing my own food, with solar panels on the roof and hopefully a mini wind power plant somewhere nearby. By then, I hope my family is a lot bigger than it is today. Right now it consists of only three humans and a number of non-human family members.

In fact, maybe we could start a vegan village! Maybe... Still, if you can dream it, you can do it, as someone once said (more or less).

If you want to grow your own vegetables (or whatever you like) composting is an important part of your gardening. Basically, any vegetables or fruit etc that you eat, produce peels and so on, and those are ideal for enriching the soil in your garden.

I found this a while back and I thought it was great. Very true.

Speak French? Interested in becoming a vegetarian? Then this might interest you.

I just read an article about surviving the end of civilization. It seemed to mix serious and joking advice. Personally I found a couple of the points either impossible to follow or simply ridiculous. So I added a few of my own, so my list would contain ten points too. My points are more serious, but I claim no expert knowledge. Take these points as they are, just general advice that should be useful even if society doesn't come to an end.

1. Collect supplies - food and more
2. Get crafty - no demand for bloggers, fashion gurus or celebrities
3. Build a greenhouse
4. Make a garden and grow vegetables, fruit, cereals and so on.
5. Collect rain water
6. Get solar and wind power
7. Move into the woods (or some other isolated spot) or gather your family, friends and relatives - so you'll have friendly neighbours
8. Get some environmentally friendly and low energy transportation - like bicycles?
9. Build a wall or grow a thick, thorny hedge
10. Collect valuables for trade - gold and so on.

 Great article about how a diet can help solve many of our problems.

Yes we can. Didn't you think so?

Great moving story about a woman's way to veganism.

Great article. Sometimes the world seems to conspire to make you feel exactly that way.

I just signed this. Would you like to do it too?

This was quite interesting. Alternative sources of energy are definitely worth checking out.

"I will continue to be a vegetarian even if the whole world started to eat meat. This is my protest against the conduct of the world."
Isaac Bashevis Singer – Nobel Prize winning author

This article is about what it means for most of us, to live in a world where we're very much alone to feel the way we do about animal exploitation. As far as I'm concerned, it's very accurate. For some it might be hard to go against the rest of the world, but at least for me, it was easy. I didn't have 'the rest of the world' even before I chose my lifestyle.

I found these articles interesting and informative. This one is about India's relationship with China, in connection with the Uighurs. Here, is another one with more about the Uighur people. Finally, this article deals with a civil rights movement for the Uighurs.

Normally, I'd never post anything about a tv talent show. However, this story, about Chinese racism and prejudices caught my interest.

Information for those who want to learn more about making a transition to veganism.

If you, like me, tend to get depressed when the light disappears, this might help cheer you up.

Read more about it in this article.

Read more about it here.

Interesting article about a neuroscientist who argues against animal experiments - partly from the perspective of cruelty - but mainly because his research has shown him that it's useless. All those animals are being tortured and killed for nothing.