Today was a very exciting day as we had our first stock delivered! I wasn't actually dressed yet when it arrived so not feeling very business-y but it was still a special moment!
So now we are within a couple of days of finally opening our online shop at www.veganation.co.uk - it's hard to believe as it's taken over a year to get to this point. I'm not exactly sure WHY it's taken so long, but now we're finally nearly there.
There are still a few little things that need tweaking with the website- when I was testing it this evening and did a search for yeast flakes (yum!) the search results came up as two flavours of Tartex and a packet of leek and potato soups so that's going to need to be sorted out. And there are still a few listings to write, pictures to upload etc but I think the shop will be opening at the end of this week, beginning of next week at the latest.
It feels like great timing: I was looking at one of the books I bought for the shop, 'Life on the Line' which is about the life of Vicki Moore, the heroic animal rights campaigner who was gored by a bull in Spain while protesting Spain's 'blood fiestas' and I read the most distressing account of cruelty to an animal that I think I have ever read, illustrated with photos. It makes me feel even more awed by the courage and strength of the late Vicki Moore and her husband Tony in choosing to confront and challenge this evil, but, this may sound silly, it also made me want to do something to help a bull in some way. And that is what our website will be doing, I hope, by helping to promote veganism and helping support new vegans by making hard-to-find products available to them. When you visit our shop, make sure that you read the Story of Fergus the Highland Bull, saved from slaughter in Cambridgeshire. Fergus is now a very contented resident of Hillside Animal Sanctuary (www.hillside.org.uk ) where he is the leader of his own small herd.
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