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Ruth Hawe

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The United Kingdom

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http://www.vegantopia.co.uk

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Fiction, Young Adult, Psychology

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Ruth is a passionate activist for peace, environmental awareness, animal rights, and social justice issues. She has been a vegan for more than 40 years. Born in Derbyshire and educated at St. Joseph's Convent in Stafford, where she was a contemporary of Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. Ruth studied podiatry in Manchester, practising this and reflexology for more than 30 years. Singing is a major interest and she is a member of the Sound Healers Association, and a chorister at Arundel Cathedral. She lives on the Sussex coast with her canine companion, and her daughter is an environmental scientist and teacher . ...more

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By Peter Stevenson

The International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) website brands many of the well-founded criticisms of industrial animal production as “myths.”

This reflects the regrettably polarized debate between those who believe that industrial agriculture is needed to feed the growing world population and those who, like me, argue that a far-reaching transformation of our food system is needed.

The IFC website st

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Holy Cow

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Ruth’s Quotes

“I am earth, earth
My heart's love
Bursts with hay and flowers.
I am a lake of blue air
In which my own appointed place
Field and valley
Stand reflected”
― Thomas Merton

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