CRUELTY-FREE CHRISTMAS
FOOD AND GIFTS
 With
a little thought and imagination, you can ensure that animals don't pay the
price for your happy Christmas. Here are some ideas.
Food
An expanding range of cakes, chocolates, wines, biscuits and other luxury
foods made without any animal ingredients are now available in supermarkets
and health food shops. Animal-free Christmas puddings are easy to find
nowadays, or have fun making your own. Christmas cake recipes usually
work just as well without eggs. Simply substitute with vegetable oil. You can
make your own mince pies from shortcrust pastry and vegetarian mincemeat.
Alternatively, animal-free pies are available in the shops. Check the ingredients
for lurking butterfat, suet and lard.
See the Animal Aid Veggie Collection
for delicious animal-free Christmas recipes.
Cosmetics and toiletries
Most high street brands contain animal ingredients such as lanolin (wool
fat), gelatine (from bones and skin) and stearate (from animal
fat). Many cosmetics or their ingredients are also still tested on animals in
painful and totally unnecessary experiments conducted outside the UK. Both luxury
and budget brands of cruelty-free cosmetics and toiletries are now widely available
from health food shops, supermarkets, chemists and by mail order.
The Animal Aid online shop
features a good range of cruelty-free cosmetics and toiletries.
Clothes
There are several modern alternatives to leather and other animal products.
Look for Lorica and PVC jackets in place of leather and suede.
Check the labels when buying clothes to ensure that you choose synthetic versions
of silk and fur.
For a huge range of cruelty-free items under one roof, come to
the Christmas Without Cruelty
Fayre.
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