World Vegetarian And Vegan News

Runner's World Find Truth Hard to Chew?

2012-01-30T13:11:00.002Z

Fina Oakes - Wonder Woman? or Masochist?

It seems that Runner's World found the truth about Fiona Oakes ( Leading UK Marathan runner who runs Tower Hill Stables Animal Sanctuary) a little too hard to believe.

Runners World have run a photo feature about Fiona in their latest edition but her incredible results and track record got edited to 'in her age group'. Now to look at her you may think 'well whats the problem with that?' . The trouble is despite her youthful, straight out of the packet, must be photoshopped good looks, she is in reality no longer the spring chicken she resembles. Her Secret? a healthy plantarian / vegan / strict vegetarian diet and lots of hard work on the farm.

It's changing, but we still suspect that despite Vegan Fitness , Vegan Body Builders, Vegan Runners, Mike Tyson, Gorillas, Elephants, Rhinoceroses there is this pervasive idiotic idea that you can't build muscle without meat (sic), you need milk for calcium (sic) and eggs will give you a competative edge. Not true. Foods for Life Nutritionist Gareth Zeal is vegan and used to be a champion weight lifter, he would regularly lift far heavier weights that weightlifters double or treble his size. Power is more important than bulk and plant protein helps you take advantage of that.

So did Runner's World find it a little tough and hard to swallow that a vegan was faster and tougher than over 99.9 % of their meat eating readership, perhaps.....

Fiona Oakes has been selected for a place in the Marathon de Sables 2012 Through the Sahara said to be 'the toughest footrace on Earth, claimed as suitable 'for lunatics and masochists' (see website)

It covers 243km/151 miles (in sections similar to 25, 34, 38, 82, 42, 22 km) run over 6 days (7 for some) - equivalent to 5 1/2 regular marathons. That's a speed of between 3 and 14 km an hour for competitors aged between 16 and 78). In addition to that, competitors have to carry everything they will need for the duration (apart from a tent) on their backs in a rucksack (food, clothes, medical kit, sleeping bag etc). Water is rationed and handed out at each checkpoint.

Fiona needs to raise a minimum amount of donations to qualify to be subjected to this mental and physical torture so please donate to one of 3 charities below and make the whole dangerous, torturous, crazy thing worthwhile as well as supporting this amazing vegan supergirl / wonderwoman. Please Donate Now

McDonald's Removes "Pink Slime"

2012-01-27T02:55:00.001Z

McDonald's Bows to Pressure From Chef Jamie Oliver, Removes "Pink Slime" From Burgers

Now see here's the thing, I looked at the ingredients of a big mac and pink slime is not listed. They've agreed to take it out so it must have been there.

So my questions are thus

1) What else is in a McDonalds Burger that is in it but not declared?

2) Why the freakin barking hell do they use vegetarian cheese? It's a DEAD COW BURGER! What kind of vegetarian says "well i don't mind a bit of ground up cow armpit but I'm not going to buy it if the cheese is made with cow sick!"???

Here's the ingredients for a big mac

Enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate riboflavin, folic acid, enzymes), water, high fructose corn syrup, sugar Lettuce, Pickle Slices, Onions, minced beef and fat, Vegetarian Cheddar (51%), Water, Butter, Vegetarian Cheese (9%), Whey Powder, Milk Proteins, Emulsifying Salts (Trisodium Citrate, Citric Acid), Natural Cheese Flavouring, Salt, Preservative (Sorbic Acid), Colour (Natural Carotenes, Paprika Extract), Anti-caking Agent (Soya Lecithin)., soybean oil and/or partially hydrog- enated soybean oil, Salt, calcium sulfate, calcium carbonate, wheat gluten, ammonium sulfate, ammonium chloride, sodium stearoyl lactylate , datem, ascorbic acid, Azodicarbonamide, mono- and diglycerides, ethoxylated monoglycerides , monocalcium phosphate enzymes, guar gum, calcium peroxide, soy flour, calcium propionate (preservative), sodium propionate , soy lecithin, sesame seed., oil, diced pickles, high fructose corn syrup , sugar, vinegar, corn syrup, salt, calcium chloride, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate, spice extractives, polysorbate 80, distilled vinegar, water, egg yolks, high fructose corn syrup, onion powder, mustard seed, salt, spices, propylene glycol alginate, sodium benzoate (preservative), mustard bran, sugar,garlic powder, Mono Sodium glutamate, caramel colour, extractives of paprika, soy lecithin, turmeric, calcium disodium EDTA

Happy Burns Night!

2012-01-25T11:44:00.002Z

Vegetarian Haggis Piper

Vegetarian Vegan Haggis Recipe from Scottish Cookbook

Happy Burn's Night! - Vegetarian Haggis Recipe

How to have a vegan, vegetarian, plantarian Burns night supper in honour of Robert 'Rabbie' Burns

So once you have caught, bought or made your plantarian / vegan / vegetarian Scottish Haggis then you'll need

Some Edinburgh Crystal glasses
Some Scottish single malt whiskey
A piper or Bagpipe music
Some neeps, tatties and plenty of gravy
Lots of friends

The haggis should enter the dining room on a silver platter and then sliced open with a silver Sgian Dubh (small ceremonial silver knife or more often these days a letter opener) Before you eat it you should address the Haggis thus;

Fair full your honest, jolly face,
Great chieftain of the sausage race!
Above them all you take your place,
Stomach, tripe, or intestines:
Well are you worthy of a grace
As long as my arm.

The groaning trencher there you fill,
Your buttocks like a distant hill,
Your pin would help to mend a mill
In time of need,
While through your pores the dews distill
Like amber bead.

His knife see rustic Labour wipe,
And cut you up with ready slight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like any ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm steaming, rich!

Then spoon for spoon, the stretch and strive:
Devil take the hindmost, on they drive,
Till all their well swollen bellies by-and-by
Are bent like drums;
Then old Master of the house, most like to burst,
'The grace!' hums.

Is there that over his French ragout,
Or olio that would sicken a sow,
Or fricassee would make her spew
With perfect disgust,
Looks down with sneering, scornful view
On such a dinner?

Poor devil! see him over his trash,
As feeble as a withered rush,
His thin legs a good whip-lash,
His fist a nut;
Through bloody flood or field to dash,
O how unfit.

But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread,
Clap in his ample fist a blade,
He will make it whistle;
And legs, and arms, and heads will crop
Like tops of thistle.

You powers, who make mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill of fare,
Old Scotland want no watery ware,
That splashes in small wooden dishes;
But is you wish her grateful prayer,
Give her a Haggis!

Proper Old Scots version here

Or you could just cut to the chase with a vegetarian Selkirk Grace whilst toasting the Haggis with a wee dram (large glass) of whisky

Vegan Selkirk Grace

Some hae meat and canna eat
an Some wud eat that want it
But we're replete and eat nae meat
An sae the lord be thankit

With apologies to descendants of Robert 'Rabbie' Burns by Capt James Tea Cook ex Taigh Na Mara, Lochbroom, Nr Ullapool

Vegucated New film aims for World Vegducation

2012-01-20T12:19:00.004Z

Vegucated | The Fit Stop:

Marisa Miller Wolfson, a fairly new vegan, plans world vegucation with her new filmVegucated. Her unique perspective and six-week experiment involves trying to persuade three carnivores to embrace a more produce-based diet and captures their hilarious journey on film

Marisa says "I had toured around the country showing award-winning documentaries on this topic and decided to make a film that appealed to a slightly different, younger crowd. I wanted to make it highly entertaining, charged with personality and I wanted people to laugh more than they cry, even when they’re getting exposed to powerful information. I used to do comedy."

The “Let’s Get America Vegucated!” Fall Tour is going to be super-fun as we travel all over the country and hold screenings leading up to our DVD and digital release before the holidays. We have 150 people from 11 countries signed up to hold grassroots screenings of the film in their communities in 2012. We hope these numbers just grow and grow.

Brighton Vegetarian and Vegan Festival

2012-01-17T10:52:00.003Z

Vegfest Brighton Vegetarian and Vegan Festival // UK Vegan Festivals:

A celebration of ethical, healthy, sustainable Vegetarian Vegan living

The dates for Europe's biggest veggie events for 2012 are getting closer - and with Brighton already 80% sold and Bristol 40% sold, they are both looking like a sell out! Both events are FREE TO THE PUBLIC and see thousands of visitors pour in to sample the best veggie and vegan products on the market. Brighton is on March 17th & 18th, and Bristol is from 25th - 27th May There's still time to book a stall at either or both events, and there's also some very attractive marketing options available, including advertising opportunities on the website, in the event programmes and in our ebulletin. And there's a special 20% off all marketing options for Brighton too! And there's also opportunities for product presentations and product placements at both shows too For all the options for Brighton, click here http://brighton.vegfest.co.uk/price-information And for Bristol, click herehttp://bristol.vegfest.co.uk/price-information Feel free to contact the office on 0117 3079872or email info @ vegfest.co.uk for further information about these two great events - and remember, they are both FREE TO THE PUBLIC! www.vegfest.co.uk www.facebook.com/vegfestuk www.twitter.com/vegfest.co.uk

Vegetarian Visitor UK Vegetarian Travel Guidebook

2012-01-17T00:24:00.002Z

Vegetarian Visitor UK Vegetarian Travel Guidebook:

2012 edition of the annually updated UK Vegetarian travel guide book Vegetarian Visitor winner of Vegetarian Award and used by The BTA / British Tourist Board is now out and on sale

Vegetarian and Vegan friendly restaurants, pubs, cafes, hotels, B&Bs, guesthouses in England, Scotland and Wales

From Glasgow to Oxford, from Stratford to Cornwall, from London to Edinburgh delicious vegetarian treats to delight everyone. Take a peek now

Order a copy now, it's only £4 including postage to Europe.

Vegetarian Restaurants Hotels, B&Bs, Guest Houses in Britain / UK

To order a copy in the EU at £4.00 (post free), email your credit card details to a.weitzel@live.co.uk or phone 01689 870437 . Alternatively please send a cheque payable to Jon Carpenter Publishing to JCP Sales, 2 Home Farm Cottages, Sandy Lane, St Paul’s Cray, Kent BR5 3HZ.

In the USA the guide is available from Independent Publishers Group at $5.95. Please call 1-800-888-4741 or go to www.ipgbook.com (IPG accepts credit card payments).

Vegetarian Scotland
Vegetarian Wales

A Planetary Emergency: What are We Waiting For? - YouTube

2012-01-03T23:06:00.000Z

A Planetary Emergency: What are We Waiting For? - YouTube

Merry Christmas Everybody, Love Lush - YouTube

2011-12-10T14:10:00.001Z

Merry Christmas Everybody, Love Lush - YouTube - Vegan Christmas Carol

Could this be the Vegetarian and Vegan Christmas Number 1? Merry Christmas.

Taxing meat could make us thinner

2011-12-07T12:42:00.001Z

Taxing meat could make us thinner | Talking Politics - Yahoo!

Actually I don't think we need to tax meat......

If we just rediverted the £billion subsidies dished out to the Meat , Dairy and Fishing Industries that would do the trick. We should be investing those £Billion subsidies in promoting and supporting products and industries that make a positive, sustainable difference to people's health and the Planet. Supporting industries that make the situation worse is nothing short of either ignorance or political cowardice

Yvonne Bishop-Weston - Nutrition London - Nutritionists - Twitter- See also Meat The Truth - Sea The Truth

Quorn Launches First Vegan Product - MarketWatch

2011-12-07T12:12:00.001Z

Quorn Launches First Vegan Product - MarketWatch

That was the year that was! In 2011 we saw President Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Russell Brand even bat munching Ozzie Osbourne coming out of the closet to promote vegan diets.

Now even "we can do it any other way" Quorn, who have always maintained that nothing apart from egg could survive their manufacturing process, have now come out with a vegan burger in the USA - Hip Horray!!!!

They promised me Vegan camembert 10 years ago. Then they sold the company and I got diddly squat. Lets hope vegan camembert is back on the Quorn Corp NPD list along with a host of other innovative Dairy Free products such as a healthy essential fat rich, high protein Vegan Ice cream that'll give those salmon munchers at Tofutti a run for their sugar coated money.

Anyway Hoorah! Merry Christmas America! Enjoy your 2012 BBQ season and keep your vegan fingers crossed for us poor supermarket neglected Plantarians here in Blighty.

'Vegan' Still a Scarey Word for Public

2011-11-18T11:20:00.002Z

Registered Vegan Trademark

Vegan restaurants, bakeries find success downplaying ‘v’ word to attract more diners - The Washington Post

I've met a lot of meat eating people who struggle with the concept of "vegetarian sausage' or 'veggieburger' "Why do you have to call it by it's meat name" they say complain.

Why? Because if we called it "A vegan rehydrated tofu, onion, breadcrumb and spiced mini log" even the vegans would steer clear of it.

Why is baby cow called veal? Why is a cow or pigs thymus, heart, pancreas served up as sweetbreads? - Marketing.

Why do veggie burgers, veggie sausages, vegan ice cream, vegan chocolate, vegan mayo taste like the real thing? because that's what people are used to and they are scared of change.

It sounds obvious but the most important thing is that food is not only good value for money but sounds, looks and tastes delicious. "It doesn’t matter if the “meatloaf” or cake is vegan so long as it tastes amazing, said Harry Balzer, chief industry analyst for The NPD Group, a consumer marketing research firm. Marketing a delicious cake or promoting that your restaurant offers the most diverse flavors will grow a business, not hocking them as vegan"

When the operations director from Cranks Restaurants (Yvonne Bishop) proudly called me to tell me that she had introduced a 'vegan pate sandwich' she was dissapointed with my response. "Please tell me you didn't call it that...........". Talk to me about a wild mushroom , portwine, red onion and thyme pate sandwich but a 'Vegan Pate Sandwich' who'll buy that? It's like an afterthought, a patronising token "oh look we even do something for you people who are always whinging that we don't do anything you can eat!"

It's the same with 'Vegan Wine' - if the best and only thing you can think of to say about your product is that it's vegan then I don't want to buy it. Desperate Aunties may buy a bottle for their eccentric nephew for Christmas dinner......

The best way to use the use the vegan word on products and in marketing is as a mark of purity - To proudly, and quickly identify your product as free from key allergens, avoiding animal welfare issues and cruelty, avoiding ingredients that increase risk of disease and avoiding key ingredients that jeopardise the sustainability of our planet - it's not absolute but a good general aid to secondary buying preferences (after primary concerns of value for money and taste are met)

My father is an ex butcher who still refuses to give up cheap meat and dairy even though he knows it has riddled him with rheumatoid and osteo arthritis and osteoporosis and makes things worse. Even he views it as a mark of quality and excellence if a restaurant has a decent vegan option on the menu, he won't choose it but they go further up in his estimations that are also based on the quality of their napkins.

The Washington Post reveals

When vegan bakery BabyCakes NYC recently opened a satellite shop in downtown Disney World, honesty wasn’t a virtue. The shop’s teal signs touting their dairy- and egg-free treats proved too much for the mostly middle American, indulgent vacationers passing by.
“It was more of a repellant,” said owner Erin McKenna. “People were just walking away.”

Within a few days, the scary ‘v’ word on the sign was made much smaller. And soon, unsuspecting walk-in customers were gushing over agave sweetened vanilla cupcakes with lemon frosting and chocolate whoopie pies, unaware they were made sans eggs, milk and butter.

The easiest way to use vegan as a mark of purity and quality rather than a limiting and defining personification of your product is to use the Vegan Society Vegan trademark. You can get a whole range of products registered for as little as £100 / $150

Because vegan does still have a few negative associations, despite the best efforts of Oprah Winfrey, Bill Clinton and a host of other celebrities and famous sports personalities Foods for Life launched Plantarian and One World Day in January 2011

They use this basic logo used by Plamil foods, the pioneers of Soy milk and dairy free chocolate in the UK

It attempts to convey the idea of a journey to a better place, a pathway to health and sustainability rather than a very tight fitting box to squeeze into.

It's hoped that this will be less intimidating and more appealling to the hoards of people still undermining their health and threatening the sustainability of the planet by using their plates knives and forks as weapons of mass destruction.

Happy 30th Birthday Vegan Society NSW

2011-11-18T10:05:00.001Z

Submission to a National Food Plan - Vegan Society NSW

30 years of promoting compassion in NSW

This weekend The Vegan Society of NSW will celebrate 30 years of spreading the vegan message of animal rights, compassion, sustainability and health to Sydney and the State.

“In our 30^th year of the Vegan Society, we have achieved a lot. We’ve held six highly successful vegan expos. We have so many enthusiastic and committed members. It’s been a real pleasure to witness the society growing over all these years,” said Greg Mc Farlane, President of the NSW Vegan Society.

The Vegan Society of NSW is of interest to people who care about animal rights, human health and the environment. Vegans refrain from using all animal products such as meat, dairy, eggs, leather and wool. They reject all forms of exploitation of animals for food, clothing or any other purpose.

“Australians deserve to be educated about the many benefits of plant-based diets and supported by government. Until this happens, people can count on the Vegan Society to provide this much needed education and information. We welcome everyone.”

Since Myer Samra and Bill Westerman formed the society in 1981, its many volunteers, presidents and committee members have continued to grow the society to become what it is today – a community of informed and compassionate citizens determined as ever to showcase, promote and celebrate the many benefits of the vegan lifestyle.

The strength of the society is its membership. Many hundreds of people have now benefited from joining the society. The society provides advice and support to help with the transition to a vegan diet. For committed vegans, the society provides social support, activities, and opportunities to be involved in vegan outreach.

Members receive a quarterly newsletter, a free subscription to Living Vegan magazine, vegan shopping discounts as well as opportunities to participate in a variety of social outings, events and festivals.

Media contact: Greg McFarlane: 0400 492 157

Massive event planned to celebrate - Here

http://www.vegansocietynsw.com/vs/html/events.html#event20111119a

One World Day - Health Sustainability - YouTube

2011-11-05T00:58:00.000Z

One World Day Nov 1st: One World Day - Health Sustainability - YouTube

One for your friends who eat animals ?

www.1worldday.org www.tinyurl.com/oneworldday www.one-world-day.org

The Veggie Kids - "What Kind of World Do You Want?"

2011-11-01T11:27:00.000Z

The Veggie Kids - "What Kind of World Do You Want?" - VERSION 2 - YouTube

Happy One World Day

www.1worldday.org www.tinyurl.com/oneworldday www.one-world-day.org

Vegan Politics: vegan MPs + politicians

2011-11-01T10:41:00.000Z

Veganism in Politics: Chris Williamson, Cathy Jamieson and Kerry McCarthy with questions from Denis Kucinich and Maneka Gandhi « The Vegan Option: blog and internet radio

Vegan Politicians (MP3 download) (other formats) (via iTunes)

We profile the handful of people who combine veganism with politics at their country’s national level. I went to the UK Parliament to meet Britain’s three vegan MPs. What was their path to politics? And I took with me questions from their counterparts in the rest of the world.

Press the play button to find out. (Or, better still, subscribe via iTunes or your podcast catcher of choice.)

The British Vegan MPs

Chris Williamson (@ChriswMP on twitter) has an official site at www.chriswilliamson.org, but also find: Chris Williamson on Wikipedia; Chris Williamson at They Work for You ; Chris Williamson on BBC Democracy Live

Kerry McCarthy (@KerryMP)’s official site is www.kerrymccarthymp.org. Also: Kerry McCarthy on Wikipedia; Kerry McCarthy at They Work for You ; Kerry McCarthy on BBC Democracy Live

Cathy Jamieson (@cathyjamieson) is officially at CathyJamieson.com, but also: Cathy Jamieson on Wikipedia ; Cathy Jamieson at They Work for You ; Cathy Jamieson on BBC Democracy Live

The American Congressman

Dennis Kucinich (@repkucinich) has two official sites: kucinich.us and, for his constituency, kucinich.house.gov. He’s also Dennis Kucinich on Wikipedia.

The Indian MP

Maneka Gandhi chairs People for Animals. She is, obviously, also Maneka Gandhi at Wikipedia.

As Diana mentioned in the show, she advocates veganism and sometimes identifies as such, but admits she doesn’t always live up to it.

References for science

I referred to studies by the large long-term EPIC-Oxford study, in particular their 2009 paper on cancer incidence. The team have a particular interest in vegetarians and vegans, and I reported their results in my 2008 podcast short at Verdant Reports.

Veganism in Politics: Chris Williamson, Cathy Jamieson and Kerry McCarthy with questions from Denis Kucinich and Maneka Gandhi « The Vegan Option: blog and internet radio

Free Recipes, Diet Plans, Diet Advice & Support

2011-10-30T22:24:00.000Z

Resources - ONE WORLD DAY - November 1st

An list of over a dozen organisations that can help you in your quest for a healthier more sustainable lifestyle!

www.1worldday.org www.tinyurl.com/oneworldday www.one-world-day.org

Paul McCartney Vegetarian Cookbook

2011-10-25T13:30:00.002+01:00

The Paul McCartney Cookbook Out Now

One World Day Nov 1st: Paul McCartney Vegetarian Cookbook

Paul McCartney ( and Stella and Mary McCartney) Have launched a new Vegetarian Cookbook in time for One World Day

The vegetarian Cook Book published to raise money for the Meat Free Monday campaign features recipes not just from the McCartney family collections but also from the McCartney's celebrity friends too.

Nicely timed Mr McCartney for One World Day

www.1worldday.org

see also V-Pure

Vegetarian Food Banned in France

2011-10-17T10:30:00.000+01:00

One World Day Nov 1st: French Ban Vegetarian and Vegan Meals

Vegetarian and Vegan Meals Banned in France!

EVU! - Vegetarianism / Veganism now made illegal in France!

Nicolas Sarkozy- Nil Point

It seems the nightmare stereotype of Veganism in France treated as treason has become a gruesome reality with a new piece of legislation that makes meat eating law, forcing meals in French Schools, hospitals and old peoples homes to always include meat and animal products.

If you needed any more proof that President of the Republic of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, is not fit for purpose then here it is. At a time when for health and sustainability reasons it's even more important we adopt a plant based lifestyle the French President has made it effectively illegal to live as a vegetarian in France. It's thought to be a move to counteract Paul McCartney's Meat Free Monday initiative that had French Farmers up in arms.

After a law voted last year by the French Parliament(1), similar decrees will be taken soon regarding all forms of catering from kindergarten to hospital, prisons and retirement homes. Vegetarianism will then have effectively been banned for a large part of the population.

A French government order issued on October 2, 2011(2) has decreed that all meals served in school canteens in France must contain animal products, and that meat and fish will be served at a certain minimum frequency. This implies that by law from now on no vegetarian can eat at any public or private school in France.

The European Vegetarian Union EVU say

The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which is binding on member states including France, holds that: Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. This right includes freedom to change religion or belief and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or in private, to manifest religion or belief, in worship, teaching, practice and observance.(4)
The public debate regarding animal rights and the moral status of animals is active in France as in many other countries. Citizens are entitled to choose freely where they stand on these issues, and those who believe that they cannot, in conscience, accept to eat animals must not be discriminated against.
A government cannot settle a philosophical, ethical and political debate by restricting the rights of those who disagree with its own positions. For years, the official policy of the French government has been openly hostile to vegetarianism.(5) The French agriculture minister, Bruno Lemaire, declared in January 2010 that the government's aim in determining its public nutritional policy was to defend the French agricultural model and specifically to counter initiatives such as those of Paul McCartney calling for a reduced consumption of meat.(6)

Footnotes:
1. "Law for the modernization of agriculture and fisheries", published on July 27, 2010.

2. Décret n° 2011-1227 du 30 septembre 2011; arrêté du 30 septembre 2011.
3. Position statement of the American Dietetic Association
4. Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, article 10.1
5.An example is the site mangerbouger.fr, where the only nutritional advice given to a teenager contemplating becoming a vegan is "By all means, do not follow that diet!" (www.mangerbouger.fr/pro/IMG/pdf/guide_adolescents-2.pdf, page 11).
6. http://tinyurl.com/FlashLeFigaro

Hopefully now the public will take French Veggie Pride a little more seriously as it seems French vegetarians and vegans really are an oppressed and persecuted minority in France.

www.1worldday.org

One World Day To Set New Diet Record: Follow Clinton And Oprah For Global Health & Sustainability

2011-10-02T15:58:00.001+01:00

One World Day

One World Day: Follow Clinton And Oprah For Global Health and Sustainability

So now is the time, only a month to go unti One World Day , choose a friend and introduce them to delicious, nutritious plant based food on the 1st of November - One World Day. Take some home made soup and carrot cake into work, organise with a local restaurant to have a special Plantarian menu and have a party or if you fancy your chef skills why not have a dinner party in your own home?

The goal is to set as many new people on the first steps on the pathway to a healthier more sustainable lifestyle as possible.

Let us know what you are up to at www.1worldday.org

One World Day - One Day for Life!

One World Day Shop * One World Day Tshirts * T shirts for One World Day

Peace Day 2012 - A Day of Global Truce: Peace Day 21 September

2011-09-22T12:37:00.000+01:00

Peace Day 2012 - A Day of Global Truce: Peace Day 21 September

We hope that Peace Day 21st september 2012 will mean peace and non violence for all life on planet earth

International Talk Like a Pirate Day

2011-09-19T18:20:00.000+01:00

International Talk Like a Pirate Day - The Movie

Sea The Truth The Movie - One World Day - Fish Free Friday

Plantarian - Fish Free Friday

2011-09-09T11:59:00.001+01:00

Plantarian - A Diet for Healthier Humans: Vegetarian Society - Fish Free Friday

vegsoc start their own fish fight!

The Vegetarian Society has launched Fish Free Friday.

Following in the wake of River Cottage cook Hugh Fearnly-Whats-His-Face's Channel 4 TV Fish Fight, and Greta Satchi getting naked and hugging a fish to promote The End of the Line, Sea First Foundations film 'Sea The Truth', their cookbook non-fish-i-licious of fish free fish recipes and Leonardo di Caprio's support for the world's oceans it's nice to see the ball kept in the air and keep chipping away at people's misconceptions or rather 'fishconceptions' according to The Vegetarian Society.

If you haven't watched the Sea The Truth film yet please do so! Now for free - Sea The Truth Movie

Food Revolution Revolting Peasants

2011-09-07T23:21:00.004+01:00

Join The Food Revolution – The Umpires Strike Back

It seems the world is revolting and finally waking up to the food industry con trick of selling us half food rather than whole food. Celebrity chefs are smelling blood and opting for vegetables. They may look more like cricket umpires than chefs but the are changing the way we think about food.

Jamie Oliver

I used to think he was a fat lipped twonk, perhaps there was an element of resentment that he'd stolen my line about the naked chef .(most of theScottish newspapers had featured me naked with a wooden spoon at some point). Love him or hate him celebrity chef, looking more like a cricket umpire who's lost his hat than a chef, Jamie Oliver is changing the world and the way we live and eat. His food revolution to transform kids food at school has gained major celebrity support and is speeding towards a million supporters from all over the world. He's fired a broadside shot against the sugar industry and is waiting for sugar ninjas crashing through his bedroom window one night.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Another oddball who looks like he'd be more at home on a village green cricket pitch with a sumo-ish layer of jumpers around his waist and a straw hat is tank top wearing River Cottage celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Not one to be out done and hot on the heels of his modicum of success with his fish fight he has brought out a cook book for vegetables - 'Veg Every Day!' Yep that's right Hugh – eight portions every day please! He's even started to mutter the veggie-mantra that eating more vegetables is better for health and better for the planet.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Yotam built up huge admiration whilst conjuring up vegetarian recipes for The Guardian, his book, The New Vegetarian is exquiste despite dissappointingly being splattered with eggs and cheese at every opportunity. Nonetheless he has brought vegetables to new tables in new households in a wholly delicious way and opened peoples eyes to the potential of plants. Quinoa fennel Salad

Meanwhile in the USA apart from Bill Clinton singing the praises of his Plantarian style vegan diet every few months and a plethora of pro veg Doctors joining the twittering wifi generation, things do seem to finally moving in the right direction.

Whatever next ? The Hairy Bikers cooking up Vegan Chocolate cake??

At the risk of hyperbole there does seem to be about a hundred different movies at the moment, such as Planeat, Forks before Knives, Meat Matters, A Delicate Balance, Sea The Truth et al that all sing the praises of a Plant focussed diet.

Everyone seems to be jumping aboard the Plantastic Plantwagon, but then didn't I warn you about that in January?

So what can you do? Foods for life have launched One World Day (http://www.1worldday.org ) as a catalyst to help you to encourage new people to explore healthier, more sustainable delicious food on November 1^st. What we need is as many new people as possible to take their first steps on a plantarian path towards optimum health and a more stable, sustainable future for our planet

We've not long left now, so please if possible talk to restaurants or hotels about putting on a special One World Day menu and encouraging their customers to bring their friends in to try it – A One World Day Disney Offer – If they 'Disney like it' then then they don't pay. ?

We also need lots of Double One Diet Dare Product offers for 1:11:11 - 11:11:11

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution | Sign the petition | Jamie Oliver (US)

Vegan Women Get PMT say Dairy Industry

2011-08-18T09:28:00.001+01:00

Latest Gotmilk poster upsets vegans & feminists

2005PMSandMilkstudy.pdf (application/pdf Object)

The Dairy Industry has suggested vegan women and vegetarian women who avoid milk are much more likely to suffer from PMS / PMT than their milk drinking counterparts. The next installment in their rediculous GOT MILK (should be got cancer? got obesity? got osteoporosis? got diabetes? got heart disease? ED) adverts is targetting men suggesting rather than call a marriage guidance counsellor they go out and buy some milk for their wives and girlfriends when they get caught in a "that's not what i meant when I said that what I wanted was that I needed you to understand that what I meant was not what I said I needed or wanted you to do and that you should have understood that!!!!!!!" type of argument.

The campaign was a huge success having riled up vegans, feminists, men, women, chauvenist pigs, Doctors, nutritionists and the media over a period of a number of months.

New York Times:

The Dairy Industtry campaign takes the cheeky tack of addressing itself to the men in women’s lives, on the grounds that women are not the only ones affected by premenstrual syndrome.
“Are you a man living with PMS?” some of the ads ask.
The approach is underlined by the centerpiece of the campaign, a microsite, or special Web site, that is ostensibly in the voice of a man whose wife or girlfriend is in the throes of PMS: “Everything I do is wrong.”

Vegan Mainstream:

This new Got Milk? campaign received some extreme backlash from feminists AND animal rights activists for its series of sexist milk ads. The print ads targeted men, suggesting they ask women to drink up their milk when PMS strikes to alleviate “bitchiness,” implicitly indicating that men suffer worse PMS-plights than women. A special accompanying micro-site was an extra slap in the face; men were directed to visit EverthingIDoIsWrong.com.

Slogans like, “I’m sorry I listened to what you said and not what you meant” are displayed on a poster also portraying a sheepish hubby (who is clearly terrified of his wife’s raging hormones) holding out a carton of milk as a peace-offering. In reality, the many hormonal additives found in milk have their own, much worse, health effects

Somalia: the Real Causes of Famine : AFACeAFACe

2011-08-04T14:18:00.001+01:00

Somalia: the Real Causes of Famine : AFACeAFACe

So are the famines in Africa as the conspiracy theorists would have us believe a consequence of American Oil company interests?

These facts are easily checked I'm sure. We know Messers Bush and Son are the devils of the oil industry, is Obama now the stooge of the drug industry?

Someone had to be bank rolling him.

Somalia had been a colony of Italy and Britain. In 1969, a post-colonial government was formed under president Mohamed Siad Barre; major social programs in health and education were implemented, rural and urban infrastructure was developed in the course of the 1970s, significant social progress including a mass literacy program was achieved.

Far beneath the surface of the tragic drama of Somalia, four major U.S. oil companies are quietly sitting on a prospective fortune in exclusive concessions to explore and exploit tens of millions of acres of the Somali countryside.
According to documents obtained by The LA Times, nearly two-thirds of Somalia was allocated to the American oil giants Conoco, Amoco, Chevron and Phillips in the final years before Somalia’s pro-U.S. President Mohamed Siad Barre was overthrown and the nation plunged into chaos in January, 1991. …
Officially, the Administration and the State Department insist that the U.S. military mission in Somalia is strictly humanitarian. Oil industry spokesmen dismissed as “absurd” and “nonsense” allegations by aid experts, veteran East Africa analysts and several prominent Somalis that President Bush [Senior], a former Texas oilman, was moved to act in Somalia, at least in part, by the U.S. corporate oil stake.
But corporate and scientific documents disclosed that the American companies are well positioned to pursue Somalia’s most promising potential oil reserves the moment the nation is pacified. And the State Department and U.S. military officials acknowledge that one of those oil companies has done more than simply sit back and hope for peace.
Conoco Inc., the only major multinational corporation to maintain a functioning office in Mogadishu throughout the past two years of nationwide anarchy, has been directly involved in the U.S. government’s role in the U.N.-sponsored humanitarian military effort.
( The Oil Factor in Somalia : Four American petroleum giants had agreements with the African nation before its civil war began. They could reap big rewards if peace is restored. – Los Angeles Times 1993)

They control your health, your energy, your communication

Next Step: USA FDA Ban Vitamins, Minerals , Supplements

2011-08-04T10:52:00.000+01:00

Dietary Supplements & Draft Guidance for Industry: Dietary Supplements: New Dietary Ingredient Notifications and Related Issues

Next step in phamaceutical industry attempts to coerce world governments to ban natural herbs, spices, vitamins, minerals, and natural product supplements from free sale.

This move is likely part of global corporations trying to take control of the worlds food supply and stranglehold control on world health. You can't patent something that occurs naturally in nature so they genetically modify it so they can control who grows it, where it is grown, how it is grown, when it is grown and how much you have to pay for the priviledge of doing so. The same with these natural ingredients such as curcumin in turmeric - they synthetically recreate the active ingredient then they can patent it of course it's then as expensive as drugs rather than the price of something you can buy in a supermarket and can only be bought through their designated agents.

Even new foods may be under threat. Despite being eaten and used by ancient civilisations for thousands of years, foods new to the west such as goji berries, chia seeds, echium oil, algae DHA and EPA oils, blue green algae, chlorella may be banned if the relevant paper work can't be found to prove they have been used without ill effect - Mayan or Inca sales ledger, medical records and consumer reciepts anyone?

The final kick in the teeth is that they plan to force feed these food ingredients to millions of animals in animal testing to establish toxic levels of these food ingredients - as we know from previous animal testing human health catastrophes this is a pointless and cruel, vindictive phamaceutical sport with one interest - commercial - if they can prove a certain animal is allergic or intolerant to a certain high level of a natural food ingredient they can get it banned. If they can find an animal that is tolerant to their synthetic version they can get their version patented, on sale and use the legal system to harrass anyone else selling anything similar.

Everyone who uses natural products for health needs to stand up and be counted!

http://www.lef.org/featured-articles/0719_FDA-views-supplements-as-synthetic-food-preservatives.htm

http://www.naturalproductsinsider.com/news/2011/07/fda-releases-ndi-draft-guidance.aspx

http://healthfreedoms.org/2011/07/11/action-dietary-supplement-labeling-act-new-fda-guidelines/

http://www.naturalproductsinsider.com/news/2011/07/fda-releases-ndi-draft-guidance.aspx

http://www.saveoursupplements.org/

UK action

http://www.consumersforhealthchoice.com/

Hot Dog Warning

2011-07-28T09:08:00.000+01:00

Drovers CattleNetwork - Warning - Hot Dogs can Damage your health

"This group's claims are on a collision course with the facts." How ironic, but there's none so blind as those that cannot see!

Great to see the cattlemen's press highlighting the facts and dangers of eating processed meat.

Meanwhile here's the study that led the UK Government to recommend maximum levels of equivilent of a couple of rashers of bacon per day.

http://plantarian.blogspot.com/2011/02/red-meat-cancer-risk.html

http://plantarian.blogspot.com/2011/02/sacn-iron-and-health-report-sacn.html

A landmark 2005 European study claimed that those who regularly eat more than 5.6oz (160g) of red meat daily increase their risk of contracting bowel cancer by a third. As many as 16,000 people die each year of bowel cancer in Britain, most of whom are diagnosed before they turn 50.
Research has shown that red meat significantly increases the risk of bowel cancer. It is the second most common form of cancer and affects 36,500 Britons every year.

The committee, which includes a number of doctors, said those consuming more than 100g of red or processed meats - the equivalent of as little as two thick cut back bacon rashers in one leading supermarket - may need to be told to cut their intake.

Nominate for Vegan Society Awards 2011

2011-07-21T19:11:00.000+01:00

Please Nominate for The Vegan Society Awards 2011

Nominate for The Vegan Society Awards 2011

One World Day 1st November 2011

Please vote for www.1worldday.org for

"Vegan Achievement Award for an outstanding contribution to veganism by an individual or organisation" (last category)

The Vegan Society Awards 2011

Many thanks

Star Wars Jedi War against VW Volkswagen

2011-06-28T17:14:00.001+01:00

Help me in my Jedi training as I confront Volkswagen's threats to Planet Earth http://vwdarkside.com/en/jedi/tony-bishop-weston-27860

Visit Jedi Vs VW

BBC iPlayer - QI XL: Series 7: Green

2011-06-13T17:04:00.001+01:00

BBC Qi Where's the word Vegan from ?

BBC iPlayer - QI XL: Series 7: Green: "Where does the Word Vegan Come from? " Question on QI BBC TV

Stephen Fry goes all green with Jeremy Clarkson, Bill Bailey, Danny Baker and Alan Davies.

According To Donald Watson who first coined the phrase and started the Vegan Society with friends in Nov 1944 he created it from "The beginning and end of vegetarian".

See Interview with Donald Watson

Q: What do you consider the greatest achievement in your life?
A: Achieving what I set out to do: to feel that I was instrumental in starting a great new movement which could not only change the course of things for Humanity and the rest of Creation but alter Man's expectation of surviving for much longer on this planet.

Vegan Diets on Radio

2011-06-11T16:06:00.000+01:00

Plantarian 1worldday (plantarian) on Twitter:

COLOURFUL Radio - Life with Karla Williams http://t.co/s4OhnAL via @colourfulradio vegan diets @plantarian 11/6 no.14 11am about 10 mins in

Cheap Family Recipes | Low Cost Meals | Reduce Food Bills | Eat For Less Money

2011-06-11T14:07:00.000+01:00

Cheap Family Recipes | Low Cost Meals | Reduce Food Bills | Eat For Less Money: "- Healthy food on a budget.

Diet Experts vote Vegan Diet Best for Diabetes

2011-06-08T13:05:00.001+01:00

Healthy Eating & Nutrition News: Experts vote Vegan Diet Best for Diabetes:

Healthy Vegan Diet Cookbook

22 Experts including registered nutritionists , Doctors and health researchers have voted vegan diets as joint next best diet to tackle diabetes. The criteria was based partly on convenience so we are guessing as a vegan plant strong diet becomes more popular, and vegan plantarian foods become more easily available then we will soon move to number one ??

Nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston says "Not just logic and common sense but also the research is finally stacking up in favour of a Plantarian diet with a higher intake of whole, complete, natural plant foods, fruit and vegetables, with a low GL (Glycaemic load), naturally lower in saturated animal fat that can make dramatic changes to health."

Even Doctors are beginning to work out that changes in diet can be more powerful than drugs, with less side effects and less expensive. Sadly this has led to lobbyists and supporters of the pharmaceutical industry trying to gag nutritionists, ban super-foods, ban supplements, ban natural herbs and even stop experts on the internet from talking about natural plants that have often been used for thousands of years to treat health problems.

See Plantarian and One World Day.

Vegan Cookbook

Marmite- loved by English Hated by Danes?

2011-05-25T17:08:00.003+01:00

Marmite? Too many vitamins? Boycott Danish Bacon?

Marmite Ban - Too many vitamins?: Backlash!

Following the Ban on Marmite in Denmark (Guardian Tues 24 May) there has been a backlash against the Danish Authorities who apparently banned it for having too many vitamins!

There is even now a call for Marmite Lovers to retaliate by boycotting Danish Bacon (hurray!) and Lego!

The Danish Authorities are now claiming that they haven't 'banned' it just used the legislation to get marmite removed from shop shelves in Denmark.

Vegan Pirates of the Carob Bean are calling not only a boycott of Danish products but a symbolic burning of Danish Bacon, Lurpak Butter and Havarti Cheese at Bristol Vegfest this weekend

World Vegan Day - Vegan News

Why the French think IMF's Strauss-Kahn was framed: 4 theories - The Week

2011-05-19T20:48:00.002+01:00

Why the French think IMF's Strauss-Kahn was framed: 4 theories - The Week: "Dominique Strauss-Kahn"

Of courseDominique Strauss-Kahn was framed . He was getting up the noses of the banks , and thus their employees the government, by calling for more regulation and undermining US banking power by negotiating with China and Russia and threatening to stop the US from doing what the feck they like.

Wakey wakey! This is the banks who bankrupt countries - "whoops we got caught out again!" , they gamble with our money, they lose our money, get bailed out with more of our money, charge us interest on the money we gave them to bail them out, reward themselves with big bonuses for getting away with it, paid by us, then tell us because we have borrowed so much money to bail them out we should tighten our belts and reduce our standard of living because they are not prepared to and someone has to.

No wonder they feel they are above the law, they get away with outrageousness every day, they rarely even pay any taxes having registered themselves in Switzerland to avoid it. It's not like murder, they are just destroying someone's career.

Why don't the Banks and Washington like him?

Here's the theory
Dominique Strauss Kahn, charged with an endless array of sexual crimes, rape, multiple sodomy charges is most likely the victim of one of the most obvious ploys known to man called the “honey trap.” Why was he a target of intelligence operations? The answer is both simple and complex.
Kahn, unknown to most until this week, has been on a crusade to end the financial crimes that are impoverishing, not only the 3rd world, but destroying the standard of living for Americans and Europeans as well. His most recent solution, the use of SDR (Special Drawing Right) bonds would be a step toward a global currency. However, the probable direct cause of his arrest is the fact that SDR bonds can’t be traded on the secondary market or used in wild collaterilization programs such as the Bush era “Ponzi schemes” that allowed Wall Street to create unauthorized money by creating imaginary debt.

That Kahn’s primary backers are Russia and China put a target on his back. China could continue its undervalued currency but hide its massive reserves of foreign currency with the IMF rather than lending it to the US treasury. Kahn had become dangerous.

Much of the $14 trillion in US debt is money Americans have borrowed to replace losses by Wall Street of money that never existed in the first place. You can’t make stuff like this up, unless, of course, you are a Wall Street power elite.

Kahn’s program, which has enjoyed a a generally chilly reception over the past few years, has, with the impending collapse of the US dollar, been gaining momentum, and with this, Khan has become a veritable financial “bin Laden.” In a sense, taking down Kahn is a far bigger victory than the killing, real or imagined, of Osama bin Laden.

See this interview with Dominique Strauss-Kahn with Spiegel and this quote that may be turned to haunt him - "human weakness is stronger than reason" (he was referring to Wall Street's unwillingness to learn lessons from the financial crisis)

"Human society is not a force of nature. The financial crisis was a catastrophic event, but one created by human hand. The lesson we all need to learn is that even a free market economy needs some regulation, otherwise it cannot function. All these ideas about deregulation -- that more deregulation is always better and that the market can solve every problem -- are fine on paper but they do not work in reality. "

Think about it, I don't stay in $3,000 dollar a night hotels but even in the cheap ones I do, if the chambermaid knocks and doesn't get an answer and comes in, the chambermaid says "whoops", apologises and scarpers she doesn't hang about for an eyeful of 60 year old VIP bollocks and a celebrity photo. One of the priveledges of paying $3,000 a night is your privacy is respected, paparazzi are kept off your back, you can ask for a blow job or a line of coke and get one without the press finding out whether you are Russell Brand, Justin Beiber or the MD of the freakin IMF, even if you are 60 - that's the point of $3,000 a night surely, you get whatever the hell you want, any time of day and it's added to your bill as room service - ask any doorman.

Vote - Bristol VegFest :: VegFest UK - The UK's biggest and best Vegetarian/Vegan Festival

2011-05-19T12:02:00.001+01:00

Vote Now - Bristol VegFest :: VegFest UK - The UK's biggest and best Vegetarian/Vegan Festival

Last chance to Vote for your favourite Vegan Things (such as Plantarian One World Day)

or ice cream, or chocolate, or cakes

Glastonbury Festival Bull fight

2011-05-18T15:03:00.002+01:00

Justin Bieber doll to be used in mock bull fight?

Glastonbury Festival

Bad Bad BAD idea!

Apparently Glastonbury are organising a bullfight with a champion Portugese bullfighter

With all due respect surely Bullfighting, even with a plastic bull flies in the face of the spirit of Glastonbury - greener, kinder world

Would you get an American soldier from Iraq / Cuba to demonstrate on a plastic doll how he tortured and killed a muslim soldier?

How about inviting executors from various Muslim / African Countries to demonstrate on plastic dolls how they carry out the death penalty on homosexuals?

Will there be paintballing this year too? Pretend to kill your neighbour?

Virtual Seal Clubbing Tent ? Fill toy seals heads with Tomatoes from local farms and club them into ketchup?

Perhaps a mock Fox hunt where the hunt tramples over everyone's tents and the dogs tear apart a toy plastic fox stuffed with pasta in a rich sundried tomato and grilled red pepper sauce????

Or a Zombie set where the audience dress up as zombies and a Justin Bieber doll made out of bread and filled with an organic bloody mary cocktail is tossed into the zombie crowd and devoured on live BBCTV

No animals are actually hurt so where's the harm? - Doh!

Sea the Truth EU Parliament

2011-04-26T21:08:00.000+01:00

Sea the Truth:

Eurogroup for Animals and Sea First Foundation

invite you to the Film Screening of

Sea the Truth

followed by a debate on the Common Fisheries Policy

Tuesday 31 May 2011

from 16:00 to 18:00 hrs

European Parliament

Altiero Spinelli Building, Rue Wiertz, 60 in Brussels

This event is hosted by

Kriton Arsenis MEP (S&D, GR)

and will include presentations by

Dos Winkel Sea First Foundation

Vera Coelho Seas at Risk & OCEAN2012

Vassili Papastavrou International Fund for Animal Welfare

For more information and to register, please contact

Andreas Erler at a.erler@eurogroupforanimals.org

or call +32 (0)2 740 0891

Fuel-Cell Hybrid Taxi Unveiled in London

2011-04-17T12:20:00.001+01:00

Fuel-Cell Hybrid Taxi Unveiled in London

A new zero - emission eco green version of the iconic London Black Cab taxi the LTI TX4 was unveiled in London. It is eco powered by a hydrogen fuel cell

The vehicle, which is the result of the collaboration between Intelligent Energy, Lotus Engineering, LTI Vehicles and TRW Conekt, is the first step in a plan to turn London’s taxis into a zero emissions vehicles by 2020. A fleet of hydrogen fuel-cell powered black cabs will be on London's roads by 2012.

For the Fuel-Cell Black Cab, Lotus Engineering has packaged the full propulsion system including the fuel cell engine and has designed control systems to optimise performance of both the fuel cells and electric drive systems. TRW Conekt led the safety analysis program, including braking and steering systems, and LTI has provided donor vehicles to assist with the structural modifications to the chassis of the taxis.

London’s Deputy Mayor for Policing and Chair of the London Hydrogen Partnership, Kit Malthouse, who unveiled the zero emissions fuel cell hybrid taxi at London’s City Hall, said, "The black cab is a much loved London icon, but it is also a significant source of pollution especially in the centre of the city. This prototype Fuel Cell Black Cab, which emits only water from its tailpipe, is an exciting glimpse of how hydrogen technology could soon play a vital role in cleaning up air quality for urban dwellers.”

The London Metro reveals there are approximately 21,000 black cabs in the UK each emitting around 243g/km of CO2. They calculated that if all the 380,000 visitors to the olympics took a zero emissions cab from Heathrow to the Olympic park they'd save 3 million kg od CO2 from entering the atmosphere.

Yes but here's the thing.............

1) They could take a train

2) They could stop eating meat!

If everyone in the UK abstained from eating meat for one day a week, this would save 13 Mtons CO2 of greenhouse gas emissions *

This would result in greater carbon savings than taking 5 million cars off the road in the UK (10.4 Mt CO2).
This would be almost equivalent to replacing one billion light bulbs with low-energy ones.
This would save the equivalent of almost 36 million return flights from London to Ibiza (36.357.200)
This would lead to greater carbon savings than taking 5 million cars off the UK roads (all year around). That would be over 17% of all cars in the UK (5.1 million cars or over 10 MtCO2).

Think what could be achieved if everyone was vegan for 2 DAYS a week ! or all week?

Please pledge and get your friends friends to pledge at One World Day

www.1worldday.org www.tinyurl.com/oneworldday www.one-world-day.org * Carbon Savings

Help! for Vegnews Meat Photo Dilemma

2011-04-16T10:40:00.000+01:00

RANT: VegNews is putting the MEAT into vegan issues | quarrygirl.com: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

Following the revelations from quarrygirl.com that Vegnews uses non vegan istockphotos to illustrate vegan recipes Vegan cook/author and photographer Tony Bishop-Weston from Foods for Life / Plantarian / One World Day has offered his services to the harangued editors of Vegnews.

"We will match any istockphoto price and recreate and reshoot a vegan plantarian version of a meat based photo for Vegnews. We understand Vegnews editor's predicament and the fact that it is standard industry practice to do this but "standard practice" is killing us slowly with diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, dementia, obesity and inflammation as well as having catastrophic consequences for the planet. There is a public expectation that we DON'T follow standard practice!"

This will be used by those addicted to meat and dairy and paid to promote the nihilistic status quo to suggest vegan food is not as appealing and that is simply not the case if it's done right.

Campaigns - Talks - Bristol VegFest :: VegFest UK - The UK's biggest and best Vegetarian/Vegan Festival

2011-04-11T20:14:00.001+01:00

Campaigns - Talks - Bristol VegFest :: VegFest UK - The UK's biggest and best Vegetarian/Vegan Festival:

21-Day Vegan Kickstart PCRM - Day 4

2011-04-07T14:02:00.000+01:00

21-Day Vegan Kickstart PCRM site: - Day 4

Still not too late to hook your friends and your friend's friends up with the 21 Day healthy kickstart - previous 3 days messages are linked to from the home page - Today Alex Jamieson

Message from Alex Jamieson

For most new vegans, their metamorphosis means more than just saying so long to hot dogs and ham and cheese sandwiches. Becoming vegan encompasses health concerns, environmentalism, and animal rights. This way of living and being in the world will bring personal, emotional, physical, and global benefits. No one can tell you exactly how these changes will occur in your life, because each individual has a unique set of circumstances to consider. Just remember, every step toward a vegan lifestyle is a positive step for yourself and the greater world around you.

For a few of my nutrition tips, visit my Kickstart page >

One World Day Nov 1st: One Earth, One World, One Day

2011-04-04T01:08:00.004+01:00

One World Day Nov 1st: One Earth, One World, One Day:

One World Day - Please pledge at www.1worldday.org - click blue button below

Vegan Menu at The Royal Wedding

2011-04-01T00:13:00.003+01:00

00.13 hrs London - April 1st 2011 (APRIL FOOLS DAY)- The Royal Wedding: Menu To Be Vegan - 01-04-11

The Menu for the Royal Wedding in May will be now be entirely vegan following the Queen of England's review of the multi-cultural / celebrity guest list and the role that meat and dairy play in the increased risks to health and the environment

A source has revealed the secret dinner plans for the Royal wedding reception

At their Royal Wedding Prince William & Catherine Middleton and guests are to eat a mini vegan version of the traditional Great British dish, steamed steak and Kidney pudding that features wild mushroom and walnuts in a rich porter gravy instead of steak and kidney.

Queen Elizabeth, Prince William's grandmother, is organising the wedding as Prince Williams mother, Princess Diana, died tragically in a mysterious car crash in France.

The Queen has decided that because there are so many guests from different cultures with different religious and ethical dietary requirements that the most sensible solution is to go totally plant based to avoid diplomatic embarrassment with a Hindu dignitary eating beef or a Muslim Sultan eating pork .

The Queen's head chef Mark Flanagan is now working on a 100% vegan royal wedding menu but still with a 'best of British' theme. Flanagan is rumoured to have recruited leading British Plantarian and vegan cookbook author Tony Bishop-Weston ( Author of The Complete Book of Vegan Cooking £16.99 Lorenz http://www.plantarian.org ) to advise on Vegan Versions of traditional British fayre. Celebrity Vegan cook Sarah Kramer is being brought over from Canada to advise on ingredients for the reworked Royal Wedding cake.

A source revealed “It has been decided that due to a combination of environmental, health, cultural and diplomatic concerns that a vegan menu is the most logical option. Meat and dairy have been shown to not only play a major part in the planets environmental woes but also heavily implicated in the rise in preventable chronic disease such as Heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, osteoporosis and cancer. When you add to that the different dietary requirements of the different faiths attending and celebrity guests such as Victoria Beckham and Joanna Lumley and their food foibles,' vegan seemed the only logical solution.”

Tony Bishop-Weston is an expert in the sort of dishes and theme that the Queens head chef is expected to create. Bishop-Weston's very first vegan cook book (Rainbows and Wellies the Taigh na Mara cookbook 1994 Findhorn Press) featured Scottish vegan versions of great British dishes eaten by royalty and crofters alike as well as some world fusion dishes. The book was the source of never before seen delicious vegan dishes we now take for granted such as Bonnie Prince Pudding, Little Bo-Peep Pie, Peat Bog Tart, Banoffee Tart, vegan haggis and hazelnut faggots.

Glam Punk, tattooed, Sarah Kramer author of Vegan A Go-Go (£12.99 Arsenal Pulp Press) has been hailed as “What Mick Jagger is to rock ‘n’ roll, Sarah Kramer is to the vegan lifestyle” and is the Canadian Queen of vegan cup cakes. Sarah lives in Victoria British Columbia where Queen Elizabeth is known as the Queen of Canada or Reine du Canada in the French speaking part of Canada. Sarah has perfect credentials for supervising the menu at The Royal Wedding and representing far flung parts of The British Commonwealth.

Both Tony Bishop-Weston and Sarah Kramer will be appearing at The UK Veg-Fest in Bristol (http://www.vegfest.co.uk ) as part of The National Vegetarian Week Celebrations at the end of May a month after The Royal wedding. UK Vegfest is the biggest vegan celebration in the world with A -list celebrities such as Paul McCartney, Lady Gaga, Moby, Madonna , Leona Lewis, Natalie Portman, Gwenneth Paltrow, Britney Spears and the Royal Couple Prince William and Kate Middleton on the guest list.

Leading UK Nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston (http://www.optimumnutritionists.com) said today "Research from Oxford University shows we need more like 8 portions of fruit and vegetables per day (rather than the 5 a day that the NHS are campaigning for) to start to reduce the risks of chronic disease. British chef's need to rethink their ingredient list and emulate the innovative, delicious and nutritious dishes that some of the American celebrity chefs are coming up with. Chefs such as green wannabe Aldo Zilli are not going to wow celebrity and royal healthy eaters with a veggieburger!"

Happy April 1st - April Fools Day - Happy One World Day - try Plantarian

French Vegan Parents Face 30 years in Jail

2011-03-30T13:13:00.000+01:00

French vegans face trial after death of baby fed only on breast milk | World news | The Guardian:

Does it get reported in the Nationals the Bill Clinton went vegan for heart health? That a Vegan cage fighter wins a world championship? That Oprah Winfrey helps her staff battle obesity and chronic disease with a vegan diet? - No

Quite often the only time we see vegan in a headline is when a baby tragically dies. Another story today highlights the need for parental education, it's one of the most important jobs we ever have in our lives and one that we are often so ill prepared for.

Two strict vegans have gone on trial in France charged with "neglect or food deprivation" after the death of their breastfed 11-month-old daughter who was found to be suffering from vitamin deficiency.

"The couple did not follow the doctor's advice to take the baby to hospital when they went for her nine-month checkup and found she was suffering from bronchitis and was losing weight," he said. Instead they treated her with cabbage poultices, mustard and camphor and washed her with earth and clay instead of giving her baths, the court heard.

These parents thought they were doing the right thing, I'm convinced modern medicinal theory and abuse of anti-biotics causes more harm than good - but anti-biotics are good crisis management and in a crisis they can save lives. A cabbage and mud poultice is unlikely to save anyone's life. But are naivety and stupidity grounds for imprisoning parents for 30 years? Surely the death of their daughter is severe punishment in itself? They were after all acting with the best intentions - they didn't intentionally cause the death of their baby or cause death by selfish actions, a lack of common sense yes but not selfish!

If this is a valid route for law then why does the law stand by and not take action with mothers who are not only naive and stupid but selfish as well!

Tempting as it may to make an analogy with mothers who feed their children sweets, crisps and cola for breakfast and KFC fried chicken for tea and risk/cause childhood obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer for their kids.... I am going to resist.

Who then? - Mothers that smoke! Why do we not take action against them? We know smoking kills - there is no doubt of 'if' only when. We are not talking a cabbage and mud poultice here and there, we are talking about a practice that has been scientifically proven to increase the risk of death!

In 2009, 16% of 15-year old girls were regular smokers .

Stats from 2005 show smoking rates are usually higher for mothers in routine or manual jobs: 48% smoked in the year before pregnancy or during and 29% throughout pregnancy compared to mothers in managerial or professional jobs whose equivalent percentages were 19% and 7%. Govt targets are to reduce smoking to 21% !

Over 13 years ago a meta-analysis of data available on cigarette smoking and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome risk was published - its findings released to the British media on March 11, 1998 .

This review of the epidemiological evidence linking maternal smoking and SIDS was based on 39 studies, incorporating a number of major recent studies and including some earlier studies not mentioned in existing reviews. It was conducted by scientific investigators at the Department of Public Health Sciences, St. George's Hospital Medical School, in London, and was completed in April 1997. The authors, H. Ross Anderson and Derek G. Cook, conclude that "maternal smoking doubles the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome." They further conclude that "the relationship is almost certainly causal."

Though it is considered to be one of the most significant known risk factors for SIDS, medical experts in the U.S. stop short of describing the association between cigarette smoke exposure and SIDS as "causal." Case control, population-based studies from several countries have shown that cigarette smoking during pregnancy triples the risk for SIDS. Epidemiologic studies have shown that exposure to cigarette smoke in the environment after birth doubles the risk for SIDS. These studies have led some scientists to believe that cigarette smoking is part of the causal pathway, possibly due to intrauterine hypoxia, although the mechanism is still not clear.

Some recent studies have added to our understanding of the possible physiologic mechanisms underlying the association between smoking and SIDS. Scientists (Kinney et. al.) have documented defects in some SIDS infants in sites of the brainstem involved in arousal, heart and breathing functions, sleep, and body movement control. While we do not yet know exactly how smoking affects a fetus, abnormalities in the developing nervous system have been observed in animals exposed to cigarette smoke in utero.

Components of smoke are also believed to have a negative effect on fetal lung development. Based on epidemiologic investigations, sustained cigarette smoke exposure makes it more difficult for babies who are already vulnerable to breathe. In addition, smoke exposure may disrupt the arousal mechanism in infants, as it is known to do in adult smokers, and may contribute to neonatal death during an hypoxic episode. Moreover, its effect on narrowing blood vessels induces smokers to keep their environments warmer and to use more bedding than non-smokers--two more factors that increase the risk of SIDS.

Studies have also shown that infants who share a bed with smokers may be subjected to higher levels of smoke than other infants because of more and closer contact with the smokers (Mitchell et. al.). Recent attention to the potential relationship between particulate air pollution and SIDS (Woodruff et. al.) has raised scientific speculation regarding possible harmful components of cigarette smoke beyond nicotine.

In Great Britain, where prone sleeping is no longer a major SIDS risk factor due to the success of the "Back To Sleep" public health campaigns, cigarette smoking has emerged as the main risk factor for SIDS. The Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy (Fleming, et. al.) found the risk of SIDS to rise with increases in the numbers of smokers in the household, the number of cigarettes smoked a day, and the length of exposure to cigarette smoke. The study concluded that it should be considered "as anti-social to smoke around an infant as it is to drink and drive."

As the body of evidence against infant exposure to cigarette smoke continues to mount, parents are strongly advised not to smoke during pregnancy and the critical first year of development, or allow anyone else to smoke around the baby either.

It is equally important that, since many babies still die of SIDS in smoke-free environments and since the cause(s) of SIDS remain unknown.

Nonetheless - Hypocrisy rooLz!

Meat Manufacturers, Producers, Processors , Packing Industry Clutch Straws

2011-03-21T15:59:00.000Z

Vitamin B12 Crying Babies & Pregnancy:

We were wondering what the meat Industry would say when the Govt finally admitted it's dangerous? Vitamin B12 is needed to stop babies crying - maybe true but we still don't need meat says Yvonne Bishop-Weston!

Dairy Free Hemp Milk has X Factor

2011-03-11T12:51:00.000Z

Award winng Dairy Free Hemp Milk alternative to Dairy Milk has the X factor it seems - Britain's got talent alright! Perhaps we'll live to see hempmilk as an American Idol too?

Save the Earth - one day at a time!

2011-03-09T16:58:00.000Z

I will eat a sustainable healthy plantarian, pure vegetarian, vegan diet:

Dairy Free Easter Egg Free From Milk

2011-03-02T16:45:00.001Z

Dairy Free, Free From , Vegan Milk Chocolate Flavoured Easter Egg

At last! a dairy free milk chocolate vegan chocolate egg for all the people who aren't yet fans of dark chocolate.

We've been on at Plamil for years to sort this out - so glad they've finally sorted it with Moo free.

All the fun of milk chocolate but with out any cows milk dairy hormones , milk sugars and proteins.

Vegan Vegetarian fair Trade - what more do you want?

www.1worldday.org www.tinyurl.com/oneworldday www.one-world-day.org

Size 0 Anorexic Chic Horror of London Fashion Week

2011-02-27T12:31:00.001Z

Healthy Eating & Nutrition News: Size Zero 0 Anorexic Chic Horror of London Fashion Week:

Vegan Zombies at London Fashion Week give healthy vegan eating a bad name!

Goodness knows most people would benefit from a vegan diet and loosing a few pounds and reducing their risks of heart disease, diabetes, stroke. cancer.

But these Vegan Zombie freaks at London Fashion week are giving veganism and fashion a bad name.

Anorexics have long used veganism as an excuse to avoid nutritious food and waste their bodies away, back stage these girls rarely touch the fruit and celery on offer for fear of their malnourished bodies bloating before they get on the catwalk.

If they were interested in health they probably wouldn't then smoke, take cocaine, E, and the other dodgy pills that their fashion industry and model agency pimps hook them into.

Healthy Vegan Woody Harrelson kills Zombies in Zombieland

The irresponsible designers that condone this look may as well be pushing alcoholics swigging vodka or smack addict junkies smoking from a crack pipe up into the catwalk - it's just as irresponsible

"This irresponsible behaviour by the fashion industry is encouraging a new generation of girls with eating disorders" says Yvonne Bishop-Weston Nutritionist London

The Fashion Industry clearly needs Vegan muscle bound Zombie specialist Woody Harrelson to rid the Fashion Industry of these Zombies. London Fashion Week should never allow these deluded, exploited, obsessive and malnourished models back to walk the catwalk unless it's at a Psychologists and Nutritionists conference on chronic eating disorders.

UK Govt Advises Vegan Twice a Day

2011-02-26T13:20:00.000Z

UK Govt Health Report Says go Vegan 2 meals a Day : What a year this has been ! Now even the meat and dairy subsidising UK government are suggesting that we should be vegan for 2 meals a day and eat no more than one portion of meat (about the size of a pack of cards or the palm of your hand) per day.

So at least 2 vegan meals a day, aiming for at least 8 portions of fruit and veg a day and no more than a big mac, a bacon butty, or a lamb chop if you want to try to start reducing the risks of cancer.

Of course if you want to minimize the risks of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes the evidence seems clear that you should follow the sort of Plantarian diet advocated by PCRM - the Physicians Committee for Responsible medicine.

Take the Plantarian Double One Diet Dare - try Plantarian for 11 days 1:11:11 - 11-11-11 - join us at One World Day - One You , One World, One Day - Please pledge now.

Avaaz - Protect the truth and freedom of speech

2011-02-21T11:09:00.002Z

Avaaz - The World in Action: Avaaz is helping to keep the lines of communication open in countries with oppressive regimes that are trying to censure the violence towards their own people by media blackouts of mobile cellphone and internet networks and lines of communication.

See https://secure.avaaz.org/en/blackout_proof_the_protests/?cl=947993172&v=8427

or see http://avaaz.org/en/

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/join_avaaz/?join

Let the people show and tell the truth.

McDonalds Exec Does Life to Vegan Delight

2011-02-14T17:39:00.001Z

www.lyfekitchen.com: Vegans delight as ex McDonalds executive does life!

Actually LYFE, not life, stands for Love Your Food Everyday but the McDonalds standard offer stands to get flipped on it's head as a $ multimillion $ Dollar deal tackles the healthy eating market with McDonald's know how.

In the Lyfe kitchen, butter, cream and high-fructose corn syrup are banned, and none of the food is fried. Sweet potato fries, for instance, are oven-baked. All of Lyfe's menu items contain less than 600 calories, including signature dishes that include a Niman ranch beef burger with agave ketchup and pickles. The desserts are expected to be dairy-free with each dish featuring responsibly sourced ingredients from local farms and "sustainable whenever possible."

So not quite a 100% Plantarian menu but a step forward from the Celebrity chef 'health' food dishes that whilst meat free all start with a dollop of factory farmed butter and a splash of cream to finish. With a cap on calories and a commitment to sustainability LYFE will have to watch the cheese too.

They have a Vegan chef on board too as well as the poached McDonald's executives (we wish!)

Lyfe Kitchen, a Chicago-based company whose name is short for "Love Your Food Everyday," will be spearheaded by former Golden Arches President and Chief Operating Officer Mike Roberts, and former communications boss Mike Donahue, as the Chicago Tribune reports.

To develop vegan options for the menu, LYFE tapped Tal Ronnen, a celebrity chef perhaps best known for catering Ellen DeGeneres' wedding to actress Portia de Rossi. Tal Ronnen is executive chef for Gardein Protein it was revealed in the LA Times

If all goes well, the chain is rumored to have plans to spread nationally with as many as 250 locations in the next five years.

Top 10 Vegan CookBooks- Bestsellers

2011-02-11T13:40:00.001Z

Top 10 Vegan CookBooks: It's incredible that a vegan cookbook has made it into the amazon.com best sellers list, something no one would have thought possible a few years ago, in fact a few weeks ago.

No doubt it's a lot, nay, all to do with Forbes no. 1 celebrity Oprah Winfrey, as it was Oprah that featured Kathy Freston's book, the Veganist on her show, and on the Oprah website, and got 378 of her staff to follow the book's advice for a week.

The American Vegan Cookbooks dominate sales of vegan recipe books, (especially ones about cupcakes) even on amazon.co.uk you won't see a British vegan cookbook tackling vegan diets until number 6 on the 'Vegan cookbooks' listings.

Its a good book too even if I do say so myself, so many of the books don't have pictures and us cooks like pictures. The Complete Book of Vegan Cooking is full of them, but is currently down to rank number 41 in the Vegetarian and vegan section, despite selling out and having to be reprinted within 6 months of it's publication.

Still, having a vegan cookbook in the bestsellers list bodes very well for the Plantarian 2011 One World Day.

Beef Burgers, Sausages and Pies banned from Football Stadium

2011-02-11T11:14:00.002Z

Who ate all the Peas?

Vegan football boss bans matchday meat pies and burgers | Mail Online: "- Chairman of an English football team, Dale Vince - the man behind ecotricity, the sustainable energy innovator has banned beef burgers, sausages and meat pies not just for the players at Forest Green Rovers but also for the fans in the stadium.

The move is intended not just to make the club more healthy but also more sustainable and eco friendly.

Dale Vince said on the forest Green Rovers club website "Although this has been described by some people as a Red Meat ban, it's actually not. We're simply saying we won't any longer provide Red Meat at the club. We've taken it off the menu. This is a part of a bigger picture move - it's about improving the quality of food at FGR, about providing better quality, healthy food all round."

London Nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston said " A number of football trainers are now realising that what they were taught as dietetic and nutrition gospel is false - the opposite of what they once believed is true - avoiding meat can actually improve performance, vegetable protein can provide power and essential fats with more vitamins and minerals without the detrimental effects of too much saturated animal fat"

"A diet richer in Plantarian foods could reduce the risk of injury too" says the Nutritionist

I will eat a sustainable healthy plantarian, vegetarian, vegan diet | Billion Acts of Green

2011-02-10T14:26:00.002Z

I will eat a sustainable healthy plantarian, vegetarian, vegan diet | Billion Acts of Green: Please pledge now on Earth Day

(Link should now be working)

One World Day - Plantarian

New Book - Comfortably Unaware

2011-02-08T21:55:00.000Z

New Book described by Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE, UN Messenger of Peace "Comfortably Unaware explains, so clearly, how what we choose to eat has a direct impact on the health of Planet Earth: how modern agro-business and our thoughtless appetites are, quite literally, destroying the environment and the future of our children. I urge you to read it, to think about its message, discuss it with your friends - and start to change the world, one bite, one meal, one diet at a time."

Comfortably Unaware: "Do you know the true cost that your food has on our resources? 'What you choose to eat is killing our planet,' says lecturer and author Dr. Richard Oppenlander. In Comfortably Unaware, he reveals the truth about food choices and its impact on our world. Dr. Oppenlander tackles the crucial issue of 'global depletion' as it relates to food choice. 'We should all be committed,' he tells us, 'to understanding the reality and consequences of our diet, the footprint it makes on our environment, and seek food products that are in the best interest of all living things.' His forthright information and stark mental images are often disturbing, and that's how it should be. As the guardians of Planet Earth, we need to be shaken out of our complacency, to stop being 'comfortably unaware,' and to understand the measures we must take to ensure the health and well-being of our planet and ourselves.

Year of the Rabbit - New World Record

2011-02-07T17:47:00.001Z

Year of the Rabbit - New World Record for Healthier More Sustainable Living:

Happy Chinese New Year ! The year of the Rabbit seems set to be a landmark year for Planet Earth. The year we A) Did or B) Didn't listen to all the warning signs of deteriorating health and environmental catastrophe right in front of our faces.

Encourage your friends to make the right choice at One World Day

Oprah New Vegan World Record

2011-02-02T21:37:00.001Z

Oprah On The Way to a New World Record - ONE WORLD DAY:

Oooh we are cooking on gas this year, wake up and smell the Teecino! Another step closer to the One World Day goal of a new world record of healthier more sustainable living as Oprah and 378 of her staff stand up to be counted.

First the Skinny Bitch books, Bill Gates, that bloke from Las Vegas, Oxford University's 8 a Day study (see below) and now the global legend that is Oprah Winfrey.

Perhaps thats a record in itself? Has even PeTA managed to get over 300 people to go vegan all in one go?

Answers on a post-card to plantarians at One World Day

ONE WORLD DAY - Nov 1st Make a Difference!

2011-01-27T11:56:00.001Z

ONE WORLD DAY - November 1st Make a Difference!:

It's finally live ! - polls, forums, ideas, videos, pictures, sponsorship ideas, blog and anything else you want.

A day of focus to promote a healthier more sustainable lifestyle to people who need a healthier more sustainable plantarian lifestyle.

www.1worldday.org

Bold Native - The Future Is Vegan

2011-01-25T14:46:00.000Z

Bold Native - The Future Is Vegan: Movie premier in London. Story of an animal rights activist in America

1 World Day - Vegan is Cool Bitch!

2011-01-21T14:21:00.001Z

1 World Day:

So here's the latest idea for the World Vegan Day world record attempt for healthy plant eating on Nov 1st - 1:11:11 - 11:11:11

One World Day. The more well seasoned vegan campaigners will recognise the shutting down of people's brains once you mention the word vegan a bit like when you stumble over one of those religious guys on the street with a big placard proclaiming the end of the world, hell , brimstone and the fury of God. Most of us haven't got any time or emotional energy left for more problems, more vexing and worrying imponderables.

If we are going to change the world we need to reach new people not just preach to the converted.

If we can't even get our foot in the door or their brain just drops into screen-saver when we talk vegan then , for those people at least we need to put a different hat on. A new hat that doesn't come with all the baggage of veganism.

Skinny Bitch is a good example - "OMG like you mean like saving the planet and being kinder to animals means I can be like slim and beautiful??? OMG I never knew that! How kewl is that? Awesome!"

Suddenly Vegan is cool. How did that happen?

"A no nonsense tough-love guide for savvy girls who want to stop eating crap and start looking fabulous"

Do you think if it had said "The Vegan Diet" in big red letters on the front it would still have been a world best seller? Would Posh spice still have picked it up for it to be spotted in her handbag?

We are facing a Plantarian revolution my friends we just need to entice more of those naysayers onto the Plantarian road - 1 World Day seems another good stepping stone, another good tool to reach our goal, not instead of but as well as World Vegan Day

World Vegan Day - Vegan News

Tax Dodger Adverts Blocked by Daily Mail Group & Telegraph

2011-01-04T16:24:00.000Z

38 Degrees | Community:

On the Day George Osborne put VAT up by 2.5% and fuel rises to over $10 a gallon The Telegraph and Daily Mail group pulled adverts exposing British companies (and George Osborne personally) of dodging a total of £120Billion worth of tax every year.

Journalists are asking why is the government not dealing with Tax dodgers instead of battering the poor once again with a big tax mallet.

If fuel tax was spent on energy saving and invested in new green technology...
If extra VAT was spent on lifting our youth from the poverty trap.......

But no the money pays for the mistakes of bankers, worse still it subsidises their bonusses

World Vegan Day - Vegan News

Plantarian Double One Diet Challenge

2011-01-01T04:21:00.001Z

Plantarian Healthy DoubleOne Diet Challenge:

World Vegan Day - Vegan News

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

2010-12-28T15:17:00.001Z


Merry Christmas Everybody

We are at war with the planet, each other, our immune system, other species - the war must stop or we face extinction. Enough people must stand up and say enough is enough

Make this year's World Vegan Day a global World Try Vegan Day on November 1st 1:11:11 - The most people ever to eat healthy, sustainably produced, cruelty free food - a new world record that makes a difference - It starts with a pledge.

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Artful Tax Dodger - George Osborne

2010-12-20T12:30:00.000Z

Tax Dodgers

A government of elitist crooks, stealing from the poor to line the pockets of the very rich. British, businesses, bankers, and polititians are literally laughing all the way to their Swiss bank account and registered address.

Poor Cows of Nocton Milk Water

2010-11-15T22:54:00.000Z

A tale of two herds | World news | The Guardian: The fight in Nocton against the UK's biggest yet factory farm battery dairy goes on.

The developer, Peter Willes, has caused concern because of two previous convictions Willes received at other farms he owns. In 2008 he was fined for polluting a stream in north Devon after a case was brought by the Environment Agency, and in 2005 he had a 12-month conditional discharge after pleading guilty to having four types of antibiotics for cows which are illegal in the UK.

Conservative MP and environmental campaigner Zac Goldsmith has called the proposals "squalid" and warned the project would "take farming to a new low".

The 8,000 cows will be divided into mini-herds of 450 cows, will be kept in large barns with 8.3 sq metres of concrete and sand for each animal – less than five times the space taken up by an average Holstein-Friesian dairy cow, or, relative to their sizes, roughly equivalent to a human in a standard toilet cubicle.

The 8,000 cows are expected to each produce 33 litres a day for 10 months a year. The current national average is 28 litres a day, which is itself nearly double what it was 30 years ago.

"It is highly likely that the milk from these high yeilding cows will be a nutritional shadow compared with what is detailed in mccance and widdowson, the nutritionist's bible on nutrient levels in food.

It would be very interesting to look at the actual nutrient levels of this watery bland battery farmed milk compared to a naturally fed organic cow" says Yvonne Bishop-Weston, new forest and London nutritionist

Steve Wynn’s a vegan - Las Vegas Sun

2010-11-14T12:02:00.001Z

Steve Wynn’s a vegan - The Kats Report - Las Vegas Sun: Steve Wynn, the Las Vegas Luxury Casino King has joined the ranks of other Billionaire / millionaire rich and powerful such as President Bill Clinton and Apple iphone's Steve Jobs

“The notion that you need animal food as protein is one of the great conspiracies of *#%*~#! by the government,” Wynn says, clinking a spoon hard against a china bowl steaming with steel-cut oatmeal. “Did we not all grow up saying we had to have four glasses of whole milk a day for healthy bones? It’s ridiculous. It’s liquid cholesterol.”

Steve Wynn sold Las Vegas hotels The Mirage, Treasure Island and Bellagio to MGM Grand Inc to move up market and build Wynn Las Vegas, Encore Las Vegas which he owns along with some of the world's most famous paintings.

All Steve Wynn's hotels must now provide healthy vegan options, even the 24 hour cafes.

PLANEAT Movie Health Secrets

2010-11-11T13:31:00.010Z

PLANEAT:

We were invited to the premiere of PLANEAT last night in London. Another in a long line of movie length documentaries that shines a spotlight on the links between diet and the plague of preventable chronic disease that blights western society.

Planeat talks a about the plight of the planet and the links to diet but mainly about health.

Unlike most of the other films in this family such as supersize me , Foodmatters, a Delicate Balance, The End of The Line, Earthlings , Forks over Knives , and Food Inc Planeat the Movie pretty much skips the animal welfare issue and focuses predominantly on health

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The two main Doctors interviewed at length in the Planeat film are the ones responsible for Mr President Bill Clinton's trial adoption of a vegan / plant based diet to heal his heart following an operation to insert two stints in his diseased arteries.

I congratulate the producers of this film for sticking to their two main points
1) We have a world food crisis
2) We have a world health problem.

Both problems can be tracked back to too much meat.

Both problems can be sorted by buying and eating more plants.

I suspect vegans won't openly adore this film because Dr Colin Campbell's original research was based on rats - but like he said it would have been even more unethical to deliberately give human subjects the same cancer and then switch it on and off with a plant or meat based diet. He was lucky to get an opportunity to study the complete Chinese society with his renowned China study and gather evidence that his theories were correct - animal protein and fat feeds cancer cells - it seems animal products don't give you cancer they are just one of the most effective natural tumour fertilizers that nutritional science has so far come up with.

Vegetarians viewers will probably be squirming as 'the cheese issue' raises it's ugly, carbon negative, saturated fat filled head again. At one point it's claimed that an egg and chicken based diet is better for the environment than a cheese based diet having already highlighted that dairy is implicated in a deterioration of heart health and increased risk of cancers.

Vegans will also no doubt whinge that the film doesn't openly advocate a vegan diet. It's not enough to simply avoid meat and dairy you must eat a greater variety plants too. One of the Planeat's team's new best friends is a data cruncher who works at WWF. He has a big chip on his shoulder and says veganism is NOT the answer.

He alleges that even the 'V' on restaurant menus puts people off and that a million people following Meat Free Monday has way more impact than a handful of reactionary hardcore vegans getting up people's noses. He seemed however sadly devoid of any practical solutions on the way forward other than emailing WWF members about the film.

The WWF's belief that people don't care about animal welfare flies in the face of the way consumers and supermarkets got behind campaigners such as Jamie Oliver's efforts to banish battery eggs from supermarket shelves. Research show's 70-80% of consumers care about animal welfare they just have other priorities such as taste, value for money and convenient availability that in practice rank even higher than family health.

Until vegan food matches consumer expectations in taste, value for money and convenience, no amount of leaflets, documentaries, demonstrations, arguments and celebrity endorsement is going to convince them to go vegan.

Messages of "eat less meat" and "meat free mondays" are logically the most likely ways to encourage people on the road to self discovery - just waking up one morning as a vegan is simply too scary for readers of the Daily Mail and The Sun - it's hard enough of a concept to grasp for the Guardian and Independent's contemplative and pondering intelligentsia. They require gentle steps. The Vegan Society has been around for 66 years, Vegetarianism is thousands of years old yet The Vegetarian Society has less members than ever (although that could be because it's now so easy to be vegetarian with thousands of labeled products and v stamped menus to choose from)

Paul McCartney and Meat Free Monday is probably right on the button - one step at a time in bite sized chunks despite the urgency of the ticking clock and big guns like President Bill 'every day is meat free Monday' Clinton proving us right all along.

Leading UK Nutritionist in London Yvonne Bishop-Weston said today "There's no doubt that we need more vegetables and fruit in our diet to protect us from self inflicted diseases."

"If you know anyone suffering from any of the major chronic diseases that plague our modern western society we urge you to take them to see Planeat the movie!"

Visit www.planeat.tv or www.planeat.me to sign up for latest screenings

The Vegetarian Society - Awards 2010

2010-11-03T12:40:00.001Z

The Vegetarian Society - Awards 2010 - winners: Yours truly presenting Nigel Phillips MD of Redwoods with The Vegetarian Society award 2010 for best convenience food.

The Lincolnshire sausages that won are truly convenient as you can eat them cold straight from the packet. You can of course put them in the oven to crisp them up as a perfect complement to a full monty Sunday cooked vegetarian traditional breakfast.

Oi! who said it looks like I've done a lot of sampling the products for this category? I wasn't a judge for this!

BARC - Vegan Food Fair

2010-10-22T13:51:00.000+01:00

BARC - Vegan Food Fair: "- Yes there is such a thing as a free lunch! Bristol 30th Oct

1010 banned climate change film

2010-10-22T13:23:00.000+01:00

1010 banned climate change film: You know sometimes it is so tempting to just think of the bigger picture and just press the Dr No button.

Vote for a Vegan Pizza @ PizzaExpress Restaurants

2010-10-18T17:01:00.002+01:00

Vote - Vegan Pizza - PizzaExpress Restaurants:

Well yes we know, yes it is possible , if you find a good manager, if you are organised, if you can swallow your pride that they charge you extra to make a pizza with your ingredients Pizza Express can make a damn fine vegan pizza.

But here's an opportunity to have a vegan pizza actually on the menu - all over the OK - on all manner of high streets, no matter how obstreperous or jobsworth the Pizza Express restaurant manager is.

VOTE NOW!

Please

Levantina (vegan)by Sarah Walker

Vote for this entry
Falafel, courgette, tahini, garlic, sesame seeds

"this is a vegan pizza as 2 of our 5-person family are vegan." - Sarah

"... a real winner because it's really different..." - Francesco Mazzei, Award Winning Chef

Happy Birthday John Lennon

2010-10-08T14:09:00.000+01:00

Imagine: John Lennon would have been 70 today

Sea and Fish The Truth - Sea First

2010-10-04T20:06:00.000+01:00

Sea and Fish The Truth - Sea First: A new charity to highlight the desperate plight of the world's oceans.

Please visit and watch the trailer for the new video Sea- The truth

Child Nutrition Act USA

2010-09-21T19:47:00.001+01:00

PCRM Legislative Fund / Child Nutrition Act: Attention all our friends and readers in the USA!

Elizabeth Kucinich, Director of Public and Government Affairs in PCRM, has published this message today:

Congress is on the verge of voting for a new Child Nutrition Act, and we’ve received word that an excellent House version of the bill, which would allow more children to have access to healthful plant-based options, may be rejected for a much weaker, stripped-down Senate version. This Senate version will make it harder for children to choose healthy food options in the cafeteria. Our chance to improve school lunches across the nation lies in the hands of Congress today! Please urge key leaders in the House to pass the superior House bill, H.R. 5504, and reject the Senate’s bill, S. 3307.

Please follow this link ASAP to send an email, or for more info: http://www.pcrmlf.org/cna/index.cfm

The health of America's children is declining rapidly, with millions afflicted by obesity and at high risk for adult diseases like type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and certain cancers. These children, many of whom get more than half of their daily calories in the school lunch line, are not given the opportunity to choose healthier food or learn good eating habits at school. Urge Congress to help provide students more plant-based options in the federally funded school lunch and school breakfast programs. Please support H.R. 5504, The Improving Nutrition for America's Children Act of 2010, to give students the healthy school lunches that they deserve.

Peace One Day Concert - Live Online

2010-09-20T18:34:00.004+01:00

The Concert Channel: Wherever you are in the world you can join in the Live Peace One Day Concert

Jeremy Gilley's Peace One Day Celebration 2010 webcast will be streamed online on Peace Day, Tuesday 21 September - evening playouts in multiple time zones:

20:00 UK BST;
21:00 Europe CEDT;
21:00 Sydney;
21:00 Singapore;
21:00 US EDT;
21:00 US PDT.

Anyone in the world can view the webcast play-outs, even if you are not in one of the targeted time zones.

Hosted by Jude Law and Sharon Stone, the concert features performances from Patti Smith, Youssou Ndour, Vanessa Paradis, Charlie Winston, -M-, Yodelice and Ayo.

Tickets cost Euro 9.99/£8.25/$12.75. All proceeds go to the non-profit Peace One Day to support us in reaching 3 billion people with the message of Peace Day by September 2012.

Click here now for webcast tickets:
http://peaceoneday.theconcertchannel.eu

Bill Clinton vegan for heart health + Weight

2010-09-20T11:14:00.001+01:00

Bill Clinton goes vegan to reverse heart disease (VIDEO)

Bill Clinton reveals he's trialling a vegan diet for health reasons to protect his heart and lose weight in an effort to enjoy seeing his grandchildren grow up.

He quotes success rates of over 80% for trials he's seen that started in 1986 on plant based diets used to reverse heart problems

Lady Gaga's Meat Dress

2010-09-15T17:44:00.001+01:00

Lady Gaga's meat dress was made of real meat | Ministry of Gossip | Los Angeles Times:

Nice legs, shame about the boat race - nice hat - rare, as it comes - Lady Gaga is clearly NOT vegan or vegetarian and is probably very smelly.

What a lot of FUSS over Lady Gaga's meat dress. Goodness! People have leather coats, leather skirts, leather jackets, leather bags, leather shoes, leather hats, leather gloves, leather car seats, leather sofas - where the hell do they think leather comes from? Disneyland? The Silkworm Farms of ShangriLa - Noooooo Dimwits - Leather is from cows - it's skin, it's meat.

The same hypocrites cringing about Lady Gaga's meaty dress are wearing meat on the insides of their colon from yesterdays lunch and cow skin on their feet and meat skin on their backs.

Great statement here - Meat is for fun - there's no ethical valid excuses for killing cows - we don't need cow meat for health, raising beef for food and leather has a negative impact on the environment and true costs are both expensive and unsustainable.

If you eat it or wear it you are doing it not out of necessity , you are doing it purely to entertain yourself, for fun, for enjoyment - killing just for fun, trashing the planet for fun, risking your health for fun.

Let's have a little honesty here - over 90% of the population love meat and leather - be honest about where it comes from and why you use it.

JOKE:
Q: Why would you invite Lady Gaga (and her meat dress) to your summer party or wedding?
A: To keep the flies off the guests and the bride.

MP backs Meat Free Monday

2010-09-09T16:16:00.002+01:00

Inside the M60 | Manchester MP backs meat free day:

Early Day Motion 669 calls for a Meat Free Day in parliament.

Manchester Withington MP John Leech has submitted a parliamentary Early Day Motion (EDM) calling for catering authorities at the Houses of Parliament to go “meat-free” on Mondays.

The “Meat Free Monday” campaign is being promoted in Manchester by Manchester Friends of the Earth, and by environmental campaigners and other groups and bodies right across the UK.

It encourages local authorities, schools and other public and private bodies to provide an animal-free menu at least one day per week to help tackle environmental and diet-related health problems.

Add your support via Facebook

Meat Free Monday - Meat Free Day - Animal Aid Meat Free day

Vegan Rolos- dark chocolate caramels

2010-09-06T12:17:00.001+01:00

Viva! - Cruelty Free Shopping : the latest vegan dilemma ..... would you give your partner your last dark chocolate caramel vegan Rolo .....?

Whilst the internal politics at Cadbury's / Green & Blacks leave us with dark chocolate absurdly labelled as containing organic milk powder the enlighten souls at the Irish Celtic Chocolate company are treading fearlessly where Plamil should have trundled long ago.

Yes it's true , Rolo fans, you no longer have to make your own dairy free chocolate vegan Rolos (although I doubt these are as orgasmic as ex Vegan Society trustee Dr Cynthia Combe / Robinson who used to make our knees go week with her treats).

I am about to try to order some vegan Rolos from Ocado to have them delivered to my country retreat...

Make sure you buy 2 boxes so you can offer your last Vegan Rolo to your loved one without reservation.

Lack of Vegan Food Branded as Racism

2010-08-26T10:42:00.000+01:00

More problems for The Govenor of California - Arnold "hasta la vista, baby" Schwarzennegar
San José, California, August 25, 2010—The Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.), a Santa Clara County-based nonprofit, has released its food availability study for the area, exploring how accessible healthy foods are to consumers in the county’s communities of color and lower-income communities compared to higher-income communities. The report reveals that higher-income areas have more than twice as many large supermarkets per capita as lower-income areas. In contrast, the report shows that lower-income communities have nearly twice as many liquor stores and 50 percent more markets that sell an abundance of meat products; neither of these types of stores offers a variety of healthy food options, especially fresh fruits and vegetables.

“With all of the wealth in Silicon Valley, it is unacceptable that certain communities do not have access to fruits, vegetables, and other healthy food alternatives,” says F.E.P’s Executive Director lauren Ornelas. “Such a food injustice can lead to a host of health problems, including type-2 diabetes and obesity. That this can happen in our own backyard is inexcusable."

She adds "It’s really a form of environmental racism.”

World Vegan Day: West Midlands Vegan Festival 2010

2010-08-16T10:19:00.001+01:00

World Vegan Day: West Midlands Vegan Festival 2010:

Oyez!! Oyez!! World Vegan Day party UK - West Midlands Vegan Festival - Bigger than ever before - Be there or be a bowl of lumpy custard!

The World Vegan Day Poll suggests more people would go vegan if they were dragged around a slaughterhouse - Do you agree?

World Vegan Day Poll

World Vegan Day - Vegan News - World Vegan Day: West Midlands Vegan Festival 2010:

National Nut Day Not just for Nuts

2010-08-09T20:44:00.001+01:00

Restaurants and cafes to celebrate National Nut Day - Eat Out Magazine: 22nd October in case you were wondering. A little bit of me wonders about the benefits of The Vegetarian and Vegan Society aligning themselves with National Nut Day.

We've spent so long trying to shake of the stereotype of veggie nut cases are we not playing into the Daily Mail's hands for a Sun style pickle a nut day headline and the office vegetarians up and down the UK being thrown into a tub full of vinegar?

Perhaps teenage vegetarians and vegans around great britain are gagging to be nibbled on and can't wait til the 22nd October when they finally get to join in some group action.

Kate Gaskell, managing director of Liberation said: "Some people are unsure about the many ways they can use their nuts and we hope they will be inspired by seeing how they can be used in restaurants . We also have top tips to get people started."

Oooh matron , don't get me started! Tips? Make sure they are fresh! Soak them in water and then whizz them up, cover in chocolate to make fantastic after dinner treats!

See more at

National Nut Day

Anglers Fishermen Small Baby Tools

2010-07-22T15:54:00.001+01:00

Home | DoAnglersHaveSmallRods.com: Having wound up nearly every meat eating group in America notably the Christians with the Jesus was a vegetarian series and the Jews with the Holocaust posters PeTA is now 'Tackling' anglers.

Basically accusing Anglers of being smelly as a golden shower with complexes about their small member -ships and failed relationships.

Having fished as a child I can confirm that apart from my uncle who taught me and a friend called 'Cushie' who had a real affinity for the sea and it's inhabitants , fishermen are generally a weird social group especially the anglers.

Whether or not they all fall into the enlargement / Viagra/ enhancement / relationship counseling category that PeTA has them poked into is another matter.

PeTA's naked ambition is clear, it's rather bare bottomed fart pants teenage humour but then so are most of popular teenage and Adult video on line live chat viral jokes and free downloads. Will it be censored and banned ?

Well it made me laugh.

10 ways vegetarianism can help save the planet | Life and style | The Observer

2010-07-21T02:44:00.000+01:00

10 ways vegetarianism can help save the planet | Life and style | The Observer: "

Useful summary of the environmental issues and problems that vegetarianism or rather veganism has answers to.

Babies, Dogs, Burglars and Foxes

2010-06-14T01:32:00.001+01:00

Baby dies in dog attack at home

With condolences and all due respect to the family whose babies were scratched and bitten by a fox, the timing of the recent story about foxes story seems far too suspicious to be ignored to me.

Barely a few weeks after the Conservatives (who's manifesto included the pledge to bring back foxhunting) get into power, we get a story splashed across ALL the UK newspapers about the dastardly foxes straight out of the children's books - boo, hiss, nasty, evil, cunning, deceitful Mr Fox. The call for blood letting starts immediately with a host of Tory MPs, Mayor Boris Johnson and the Tory press calling for a urban fox cull.

Isn't anyone just a little bit suspicious how this cunning clever ginger canine could be sooo stupid as to play right into Tory fear mongering and murdering hands.

We have families of foxes every year in our garden, yes they sometimes make a racket but now we have double glazing we rarely hear them. Has our cat ever been bothered by them? no! She doesn't seem to be the least bit phased by their presence when she faces them in the street. There are however a number of cats down our street that make her run for cover even when we are about to protect her.

Would I trust a fox with my baby, hell no, I'm not stupid , although more than I would trust leaving a baby outside a supermarket unattended with dangerous humans all around. ( 500 Child abductions PA , 7% children physically abused by parents / carers and over 11% of kids sexually abused , in 2009 over 34,000 children were registered as at risk and on Child Protection Plans )

Our cat has a magnetic key to open her cat flap (actually to stop the Toms following her in but it works for foxes too. Even before the magnetic flap in 10 years we only ever had one fox venture into the kitchen and the poor thing was petrified.

Keep your back door locked - not just to keep the foxes out but more to keep out burglars (3/4 million UK burglaries PA )

Logically we should be more afraid of dogs than foxes, foxes are much more likely to fully aware of whose at the top of the food chain, carries guns or has a pal with lots of horses and a pack of hounds gagging to rip a slow fox apart limb from limb.
Dog Attacks

5,221 people were treated during 2008-09 after dog attacks in England - up from 3,137 ten years earlier. The total includes 1,250 children, including many babies and toddlers.(Daily Mail Dec 2009)
Children killed by Dogs - Deaths by Dog attack - BBC

The whole fox thing is a complete Tory red herring to take your mind and attention of cuts in education and the health service. Don't fall for Boris Johnson's Testicular Tory Tirades.
The fox is an opportunist but their are far more dangerous opportunists than foxes out there, every town has them, Westminster is full of them but the have two legs not four.

Poor cow: 6 calves found in trash

2010-06-10T16:53:00.001+01:00

Got room for a Cow?

That's the trouble with the dairy industry - just like in the egg industry the males of the species are just "waste product" - Male chicks get gassed or crushed alive and then chopped up the egg producers just need the females to lay eggs but nature maintains a balance of males to females so they are just garbage.

It's the same with Dairy farmers - the quandary 'what do we do with the male calves - the boys don't make milk - they are useless. These 6 calves were found chucked in a shed left to die, Farm Sanctuary saved them.

If you know someone with a big lawn to mow and needs tons of manure please give Farm sanctuary a call

Woody Harrelson Scores Winning Goal In Charity Soccer Game

2010-06-06T23:16:00.002+01:00

Woody Harrelson Scores Winning Goal In Charity Soccer Game | FilmShaft

Now that's what I call a World Cup game a quality Football match. Who'd have thought a Vegan would have won the Socceraid celebrity game of charity football for Unicef that Robbie Williams championed. There was so much traffic on the official Unicef Socceraid website that they shut it down for the weekend. Twitter has gone mad with it and Woody Harrelson or 'harellson' and 'harellson' was trending on twitter for a while there even ahead of #howtogetslapped ??!??!? Some fans had assumed he'd died - why else would Woody be trending on twitter?

So anyway - Well done Woody, a better vegan footballer than a vegan Zombie basher!

This is probably the last ever blog on football so if you've stumbled across this please also check out Spirit Of The Game - a film about Sir Stanley Matthews

National Vegetarian Week 2010

2010-05-25T18:47:00.001+01:00

National Vegetarian Week 2010 sponsored by Cauldron

Butcher of Oldham on the Warpath

2 men from the UK Vegetarian Society have a narrow escape whilst celebrating National Vegetarian Week with some meat free kebabs and unwittingly incurring the wrath of the Butcher of Oldham.

The Butcher has his sights firmly set on the vegetarian pair, cleaver in hand, eying them up for his next batch of sausages.

Now That's what I call a Green Party!

The what's on finale event of National Vegetarian week will be at the other end of the country in Bristol for a stonking Bank Holiday Weekend food and music festival and Meat Free Sunday on Bristol's trendy new harbourside.

Vote - Best Eco Veggie fair trade products

2010-05-24T10:50:00.002+01:00

Vote - Bristol Eco Veggie Products - Last chance

Vote now for all your favourites - last chance - Presentations this Bank Holiday weekend

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Bristol Bank Holiday Weekend Festival

2010-05-24T08:45:00.005+01:00

Bristol Bank Holiday Weekend What's On Event Festival for all the Family: Last chance to buy tickets online and save yourself money on the gate ticket price.

Tell your friends, facebook, email, twitter and meet up this Bank Holiday weekend in Bristol - for the world's most fun, environmentally friendly green 100% vegetarian Vegan food and music festival. Something for everyone from kids to senior citizens and the Bristol Massive in between.

In London? get out of the city ! Bristol is only a few hours away, hop on a train and walk across the river to the harbourside for the best value fun break this summer. Have you got any better ideas?

2010 May Bank Holiday weekend break weather looks good - See here

What's On Festival Event Bank Holiday Weekend - Net Mums - Gum Tree - Mumsnet

Bristol Bank Holiday Weekend Eco Veggie Fayre at Bristol Harbourside: Lineups, directions and info

Corned beef tainted with drug

2010-05-24T08:23:00.001+01:00

Corned beef tainted with drug recalled - Food safety- msnbc.com

What the hell's name for poison your brain food industry scam is an acceptable amount of a drug used to treat cattle for parasites???

Stand up all those meat eaters are ok with just a little bit of organophosphates in their sandwich?

Whatever is an acceptable amount according to Grace Foods (ARGG! ARRGG! Share alert! see Grace Foods stock market value tumble on wall street today) has been exceeded in possibly 22,000 cans of corned beef so Grace foods are recalling them in case 'people get sickened' (just a remote possibility)

Me I'm sickened already , not that I eat corned beef, just at the extent and magnitude of the job in hand to fight the extent of moral corruption in the food industry. You can bet your falling share price that this sort of thing is just the tip of the iceberg.

Nr Bristol UK? get yourself along to the Environmental and Ethical Food and Music Festival this Bank Holiday weekend - Bristol Bank Holiday What's On Event Weekend Festival

Vote now to save the world

2010-05-06T19:04:00.000+01:00

Age of Stupid free online for 48 hours for UK election | The Age of Stupid

If the Conservatives get in we are doomed - in 4 years it will be too late to do anything really positive to save the planet. Leaving it to market forces won't hack it. Their mates are making money out of misery as we speak - thanks to first the the UK and now to Greece investment bankers bonuses are bigger than ever.

Fran Armstrong has made her film the Age of stupid free to watch until it's too late (tonight at 10pm) phone all your friends and relatives - if they haven't voted yet tell them it's their last chance to save the world - in this election EVERY vote counts.

Croydon Conservatives Threaten Health

2010-04-23T16:04:00.001+01:00

London Green Party | Croydon incinerator to include radioactive and toxic waste

Croydon Conservative led Council plan to turn Croydon into a massive rubbish dump for the south of London at a cost of £1 Billion and and even greater cost to the environment, amenity and health of the borough.

The Croydon Green Party have uncovered the Tory plans to scupper plans for better recycling by building a facility that will have to import lorry loads of rubbish and waste from London and surrounding areas to make it viable.

It will require a constant supply to feed it thus disincentivising recycling efforts.

The Croydon Green Party have identified a number of threats to Croydon resident's health - this is catastrophic news for a borough that has already been named and shamed as the unhealthiest in London.

It is further evidence of the Conservatives total disregard for optimum health in Croydon.

"The Council seem to be trying to sneak this past us" says London Nutritionist and Croydon resident Yvonne Bioshop-Weston

Twitter Ridicules Tory Press Attack on Clegg

2010-04-22T14:32:00.001+01:00

Conservatives compares Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg to an insect bite | The Sun

The Tory Press has been ridiculed today on Twitter after " It's all #nickcleggsfault " cynically , sarcastically, gets to be number one tweet on twitter

Top one so far

#nickcleggsfault Nick Clegg lived in same town as a seriously ill man and never visited him,though he knows he has a spare kidney.

Rupert Murdoch and his minions has come out with all guns blazing visciously and vindictively dredging the past to try and find anything they can to try to dilute the support for the man who has knocked their boy Shameron off his arrogant perch

Clegg has been attacked for not even being properly English! he's half Dutch, quarter Russian and has married a SPANISH woman! He speaks lots of foreign languages when as everyone know's the British etiquette is to just shout English LOUDER to foreigners. He even eats foreign food!

Oooh - How very dare he!

New, allegedly un-spoofable tory posters were immediately spoofed with great effect

SAVE ME 2010 | How they stand - Is your MP/political candidate FOR or AGAINST a repeal of the Hunting Act?

2010-04-21T22:58:00.001+01:00

SAVE ME 2010 | How they stand - Is your MP/political candidate FOR or AGAINST a repeal of the Hunting Act?

Dr Brian May from Queen funded and launched a new Campaign group to counteract the privately funded Countryside Alliance's political hand up the backside of the Conservative Party.

Charities are powerless to fight back under rules by the charities commision that forbids them to get involved in politics

You can download the Save Me Poster on their website at http://www.save-me.org.uk/news/support-posters/

You Can join theSAVE ME Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/SaveMe2010

You can submit a potential question about hunting for the next leadership debate on BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8589502.stm

Clegg vaults to lead in U.K. election: poll

2010-04-20T22:26:00.001+01:00

Clegg vaults to lead in U.K. election: poll
A breath of fresh air blasts into UK politics and takes the wind out of Shameron's sails with a massive 10 point body blow that puts Nick Clegg in first place even in The Sun newspaper's poll.

Murdoch's News International Jugganaut have an editorial 'ban on Lib Dem' policy and purposefully try to keep them out of British Politics admitted the ex editor of The Sun David Yelland in The Guardian on Sunday.
If Clegg is in the lead even in the Sun's commissioned YouGov poll then chances he's doing even better than the 1% lead over the Tories they admit to.

There are hoards of voters who would love to give the Liberal Democrats and The Green Party a chance to take a fresh approach to UK politics that's neither greedily grabbing everything they can for the richest 1% nor bogging down the wheels of optimum performance with a treacle mine of administrative sludge.

The optimist in me wants to believe that the British public can't really have been foolish enough to really want a conservative regime and merely want something different to the party of red tape. Now there is a credible alternative to Shameron and his old boy fox hunting network.

Days after the debate Clegg is still on a roll - good news for the Green Party too if people finally start grasping the notion of NOT voting for same old same old.

Council tried to seize ‘veggie’ child

2010-04-20T12:19:00.001+01:00

Council tried to seize ‘veggie’ child

TWONK of The Week award goes to Lewisham council for persecuting a family for NOT eating meat and dairy.

Lewisham clearly on target to follow Croydon's footsteps as the unhealthiest borough in London if it's full of health professionals that think that way.

Can these people not read? did they all qualify in the post war era when the obcession was to fatten up the kids?

Meat Free Mondays in San Francisco

2010-04-07T11:30:00.001+01:00

San Francisco supervisor proposes meat-free Mondays

San Francisco is the latest city to join Sir Paul McCartney's growing meat free monday campaign. San Francisco supervisor Sophie Maxwell has introduced a meat free monday resolution.
Maxwell's measure declares every Monday as "Vegetarian Day" to urge restaurants, grocery stores and schools to offer more plant-based options.

Maxwell is a vegetarian and she believes if residents gave up meat once a week, it would improve their health. Her resolution would not require meatless Mondays, but would encourage them.

San Francisco would become the first American city to embrace Meatless Monday.