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GIVEAWAY: Smiles like vegan spirit – T-Shirt

Smiles Like Vegan Spirit

We’re raffling off one copy of our new design!, Perfect for all grunge lovers and flannel shirt wearers 🎸 🎸🎸 Of course eco and fair.

All you have to do:

Leave a comment until Sunday, 11.55 pm (CET), in which you name your favorite song by the three fine young men from Seattle and explain why. We’re going to draw a winner next week.

The sweepstakes is under way on facebook, Instagram and our blog.You can find the conditions of participation here.

And with a little luck you’ll look as good as Tuki soon!😉

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The winner ist Toshé Tosh (facebook). Congratulations! 🎉 Better luck next time for all the others and you can still find the T-Shirt in our onlineshop. 😺

French Apple Pie by Ronny

Ingredients:
1 part margarine (I use Vitalite)
2 parts flour (I use white flour, but half and half white and brown would work.
1.5 cups flour (approx 12 floz)
0.75 cups marg (approx 6 floz)
6 small-medium apples
Soft brown demerera sugar
cinnamon
salt

Method:

Slice the apples as thinly (discarding cores) as you reasonably can with a knife (don’t bother peeling or showing off with a razor blade or owt) and place in a colander, layer by layer.

As you put each layer of apples in, sprinkle the sugar over until it coats the rings of apples evenly. Leave to sit while you make the pastry.

Rub the fat into the flour and a pinch of salt with your fingers until it resembles breadcrumbs. You’ll know you’re rubbing rightly if your palms remain clean (all those incidents with a plastic ruler on the back of my knees in Domestic Science lessons taught me summat).

Add cold water, little by little, to the mix and clump together with your hands or with a spoon until you have a ball o’dough. Don’t over-mix.

Either roll out or flatten with your palms onto a greased baking tray. Then arrange the apple slices on top about two layers thick. Press down against the dough firmly as you lay them.

Dredge the top with cinnamon, sprinkle with a little more sugar if you have a sweet tooth and then bake in a medium cool (gas mark 4-5 / 180C) oven for 30 mins.

Allow to cool before eating or it’ll take the roof of yer mouth off. Best served the following day.

The recipe is taken from the follow-up to Ronny’s low-budget masterpieces ‘The Cake Scoffer’ and ‘The Salad Scoffer’: The Return of The Cake Scoffer.

Giveaway: a cosy hoodie for you

We’re giving away one of our new hoodies, as always made of organic cotton, fair-trade and printed in our neighborhood by Onbones Collective. All you have to do to take part:

▶️ Comment this post until Sunday, 11th of November, 11.11 pm MEZ, describing which one you would like to win and why. We’ll draw a winner next week.

1. “Act before it’s too late” 🌳
In solidarity with the activists squatting Hambacher Forst. Part of the revenues go directly to the local climate movement.

2. “Whale” 🐋
The exploitation and killing of whales has a long tradition. But whales are fascinating creatures! On your page you’ll find some interesting facts.

3. “Cut Fruit Not Throats” 🍏🍒
Pretty self-explanatory, is it not? 😉

Good luck! 😘

(The giveaway also takes place on our Facebook and Instagram page. If you didn’t win this time, you can just get your hoodie in our store.)

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We’re overwhelmed by all your lovely comments! ❤
Because we are poor we had to draw a winner. And the lucky winner is: @powerd.by.oatmeal (instagram)

But don’t give up hope, this won’t be the last giveaway, good luck next time 😘

And you can find all hoodies in our shop: https://www.rootsofcompassion.org/Home_1

News August

And here is another round of celebrating our new articles in August. What’s new in our shelfs since June? Hm, let’s start with:

Stickers

There are some new stickers. Most of the themes you may have seen on other items like meat is dead, open cage, refugees welcome, meat is murder or no border, no nation. But there is a wise man too, who’s got something to say: “You must unlearn what you have learned. Go vegan you must!”

Hoodies, Shirts, Caps

Some classics are now also printed on the stanley&stella shirts. This time we moved bacon had a mom und wait, you eat whaaat??? in large/loose from the old to our new cuts. The black liberation hoddie with white printing is also available in small/waisted. Awesome! And there is a new cap too. Some cap? No, a cycling-cap which should tune your vegan cycling outfit to the max. There is only missing a ROC bike. A ROC bike? Hm, let’s think about it.

Food

At last there is a smaller size of the AmiDog dogfood. The bag has lost 2,5kg of it’s 15kg and now has a weight of 12,5kg. So you delevery-person has to carry less. Nice for him i guess and even the price is smaller. Also there is a new lovely design. Should be as much of interest for your roommate as the food, but maybe it makes you even more happy.

New in stock june

Time is running. Thats why we’ve almost got two month of new items. Hope you can stand it.

Shirts, patches, shoes

Katharina Rot’s interpretation of Liberate just made it on a shirt. As you know there were new hoodies in winter. But we thought, it might be helpful, if you don’t have to cut off arms and hood for wearing this in summer. So now, we’ve got shirts too. Kein Gott, Kein Staat, Kein Fleischsalat, a popular German slogan, which did it very fast from presentation to shop item completes our new shirt collection in may.
You may have seen our new patches No Border…, Dort kämpfen… und Respect Existance… which are online since may.
The Ahimsa High Top is the new one in our shoe-corner and completes the Ahimsa collection as a very ankle-friendly dude.

One book and one sticker

Until all are free describes more than 30 years of fighting for animal rights in the swedish Animal Liberation Front. More than 300 pictures and some interviews with activists are waiting for you. If you have a bike, maybe the roots of compassion vegan cycling team sticker is what your bike wants to have on its frame.

Food

It is not that much this time. But the EcoMil almond cuisine is fantastic enough to be intruduced alone. It expands our alternatives to cream besides soy, rice and spelt and of course got its BIO label.

New in stock April