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Being Vegan

Mammalian meat allergy and my heart valve replacement

Ronald Priestley - 0
Increasingly, people living in bush areas of the Shire are becoming aware of Mammalian Meat Allergy (MMA). Also known as alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), the disease is caused when a tick bites you and transfers a sugar called alpha-gal into your bloodstream.
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Being Vegan

Pets on a vegan diet can help save the world!

Denise Cullen, Cosmos Magazine - 4
When my six-month-old puppy was diagnosed with a congenital liver shunt, the vet placed him on a diet featuring predominantly dairy and plant-based protein.
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Entertainment News

Incredible screenings at Bangalow Film Festival

Echo - 0
Bangalow Film Festival adds more incredible films to the 2023 program and, with a stack of special screenings still to be announced, sessions are...
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Being Vegan

Being Vegan: Teach your children well

Eve Jeffery - 12
I wasn’t always a vegan. I am happy to admit I was wrong.
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Being Vegan

Being Vegan: Let me tell ya ’bout the birds and the bees (Part 2)

Eve Jeffery - 7
Honey bees make honey as a way of storing food to eat over the cooler winter period, when they are unable to forage and there are fewer flowers from which to gather food
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Being Vegan

Being Vegan: Let me tell ya ’bout the birds and the bees (Part 1)

Eve Jeffery - 0
One of the questions I get asked a lot is: Why don’t vegans use eggs and honey?
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Sustainability

Being vegan: Where do vegans get their protein?

Eve Jeffery - 16
You can eat a plant-based diet and get plenty of protein. Like any balanced diet, if you eat properly you will get all the nutrients you need. This is the first article in our monthly Being Vegan series.
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Letters

How can we keep paying for incompetence

Annie Radermacher, Brunswick Heads  - 0
The only way forward is going backwards. That’s how I explain the current situation of Byron Shire Council. The ongoing neglect of our major...
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National News

Greens urged to back pathway to end native forest logging

The Echo - 0
Some of NSW’s most respected and long-standing forest campaigners and scientists have today urged the Greens not to support the Nationals' attempt to disallow the Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) method.
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Local News

Ballina Council makes decision on Ross Lane

David Lowe - 0
With the absence of all four of its progressive councillors for various reasons, Ballina Council pushed ahead with its agenda at yesterday's monthly meeting, including a decision which is likely to close Ross Lane for months while the road is upgraded.
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Local News

Mullumbimby puts new governance models first, and now wants to build it

The Echo - 0
Imagine Northern Rivers says Mullumbimby is the only community across the region to rank new models of governance and decision-making as the number one element of its preferred future, and last week locals gathered to work out how to make it real.
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