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Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale Results!

Thursday, May 5th, 2011

On April 30th, a ton of fantastic people and more than 30 compassionate bakers showed up at Nice Shoes to celebrate awesome vegan desserts and to raise money for animals affected by the earthquakes in Japan.  We were fortunate enough to have a warm and sunny day, and everyone had a good time.  Plus, Nice Shoes donated 10% of their sales that day!

Overall funds raised were over $1400! Great job, everyone!

We also had a raffle for gift certificates from Nice Shoes and a wonderful new cookbook called Quick and Easy Vegan Bake Sale, which was donated by the author, Carla Kelly.  Thanks, Carla!

All photos by Laura May.  Click to embiggen:

 

Many people lined up at the bake sale.

So many desserts!

Beautiful cupcakes in cherry and coconut

Beautiful cupcakes in cherry and coconut flavours.

People looking at desserts on tables.

What to choose...

People at tables, looking at baked goods.

Thank you, Nice Shoes!

Cinnamon buns

Delicious cinnamon buns

Some 4-legged friends visited the bake sale too.

 

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Taiji Dolphin slaughter on hold

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

I just read in the news this morning that Taiji’s annual dolphin slaughter is on hold, thanks to the publicity generated by the new movie The Cove. While there is nothing official as of yet, the media attention focused on the hunt has the fishermen staying away. It appears that now that the rest of the world is talking about the slaughter, the Japanese media has decided to cover it.Picture 1

This is definitely good news in the short term, but let’s see what happens when every media outlet isn’t sitting in Taiji cove waiting to film the hunt.

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