New Years Resolutions & Vegan Predictions for 2007

007 is set to be a very special year.

Author of Vegan Tony Bishop-Weston is predicting in the number of Vegans will double during 2007. Judging by the number of new vegan groups such as The Secret Society of Vegans, Vegan Secret Agents at Double 07, Vegan Pirates, new websites such as Supervegans, Da Vegan Code, and even a vegan political party called Animals Count hoping for seats in the European Parliament – he may be right.

And that's just the tip of the vegan iceberg - in Bristol, Tim Barford from hemp product company Yaoh is planning what he hopes will be the world's biggest ever vegan festival.

Meanwhile London Nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston is predicting 2007 will be the year of the seed and suggests that a good new year's resolution for health food stores should be 'stock more hemp!'

The Vegan Society had a big shake up at the AGM on World Vegan Day and big things are expected from the new directors, the dynamic new team and bigger premises in Birmingham during 2007.

Certainly the future of the planet is hanging in the balance – the more people who switch on to the solutions that veganism (and hemp!) have to offer then the more chance we have of avoiding our slide towards ill health, environmental catastrophe and oblivion.

Make a difference to people, human health, animal welfare and the environment - make your new years resolution to go vegan !!

Disgrace! Britney Spears Caught Without Pants With Paris Hilton

No this site hasn't been hacked by Porn-sters!
IT'S A DISGRACE! Not a disgrace that Britney Spears is so in need of media attention that she has to hook up with party hound Paris Hilton and flaunt her pantie knicker-less uncensored bare binkie for the paparazzi 3 times in a week - no that's just sad. The disgrace is that people around the world are so even more sad that search engines are burning hot and freaking out with searches for Britney Spears Free naked Crotch Photos , Britney Spears caught without panties getting out of car, Britney Spears caught partying nude with Paris Hilton , Free High Resolution Photos of Britney Spears crotch? etc etc etc.

I mean for goodness sake!!!!! - there's a dirty great hole in the ozone layer, the marine ecosystem is about to collapse from overfishing, the planet is running out of food because we are feeding it all to Factory Farmed animals, we are running out of water, the ice caps are melting which could throw us into a new ice age and we are running out of fresh air to breath.

What's the most important thing on our kid's minds? - Britney Spears' shaved, naked front bottom!

Here's the deal - we help you (yes you! you are reading this aren't you?)stop wasting your time looking for Britney Spears' pussy - you use the time saved constructively to try and save the planet? Deal or no deal? *sigh*

Q) Is there any hope for the human race??????????????
A) Yes Go Vegan!

More Evidence of Vegetarians High IQ

High IQ link to being vegetarian

Intelligent children are more likely to become vegetarians later in life, a study says.

A Southampton University team found those who were vegetarian by 30 had recorded five IQ points more on average at the age of 10.

Researchers said it could explain why people with higher IQ were healthier as a vegetarian diet was linked to lower heart disease and obesity rates.

The study of 8,179 was reported in the British Medical Journal.

Does this mean people with Low IQ are more likely to eat at McDonalds? A study someone?

Nutrition advice at Nutritionists London - Food For Life

Animal Rights Political Party Launched

BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | New animal rights party launched



Animals Count a new political Party was launched today at Animal Aid's Christmas without Cruelty Fayre.

Widely covered by the BBC today the Animals Count Party led by Jasmijn de Boo in the UK follows in the footsteps of success of their sister party in Holland that now have 2 seats in the Dutch Parliament.

See BBC Report Video

See Animals Count Website The new UK Party for The Animals

See additional Report Animals Count Launch Party
on the BBC

See also Dutch Party for the animals Success - News and Dutch Party For The Animals Website

Bacon Causes Cancer?

Bacon causes Cancer? Health Food News

Those who ate bacon five or more times per week were 59-percent more likely to develop bladder cancer than those who never did. Also, men and women who ate chicken this often were 52-percent more likely to develop bladder cancer than those who never ate skinless chicken.

SOURCE: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, November 2006.

London Nutritionists

Vegetarian Health Store Wins Award in Croydon Surrey

Oasis Yoga and Health - Natural Products Health Store and Natural Health Clinic

Oasis Natural Products, a Croydon vegetarian wholefood health store has won the Best Health and Beauty Business Award.

London Nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston said "The team at Oasis so deserve this! They've worked so hard for so long to deliver support for the people of Croydon to lead a healthy lifestyle. It's so inspiring to see this award won by an ethical vegetarian business. It proves ethics and success can be achieved in business."

Burberry Targetted By Animal Welfare Activists

Bloody Burberry - When Plaid Goes Bad

The new CEO at Burberry who moved from Liz Claiborne Inc (DKNY) was head hunted Burberry to save the flagging brand since the Chavs adopted it.

Perhaps she could have chosen an image that wasn't so stereotypical "Rich spoilt bitch I don't care about anyone or anything else" type of profile.

Certainly the shareholders and investors won't be best pleased that she's incured the wrath of PeTA. That won't be good for the share price. The boys in the City don't need many excuses to start dumping shares and the value of the already pressured stock will plummet. PeTA's new fur campaign will no doubt hit Burberry's projected 23% increase in retail revenues for 2006.

PeTA say "Burberry may be best known for its distinctive plaid, but its use of real fur is making the design house synonymous with cruelty to animals. Burberry continues to use fur in its designs despite the fact that leading clothing retailers like Selfridges, Harvey Nichols, Ann Taylor, Polo Ralph Lauren, and others have pulled fur from their stores forever."

Burberry say "Good workplace standards, health and safety, fair pay and fair employment conditions together with care for the environment are all elements of a successful and professionally run business. It is our responsibility to ensure that these expectations are also met in our supply chain, where both good and poor performance has the ability to impact on Burberry’s reputation."

Case of "put your money where your mouth is" we think.

PeTA's new Burberry website exposes some of the cruelties of the fur trade. There is a video with commentary by Stella McCartney

SiberNews - Study: vegan diets healthier for planet, people than meat diets

SiberNews - Study: vegan diets healthier for planet, people than meat diets

The food that people eat is just as important as what kind of cars they drive when it comes to creating the greenhouse-gas emissions that many scientists have linked to global warming, according to a report accepted for publication in the April issue of the journal Earth Interactions.

Govt Accused of radical Extremism on Environment

UK Government radical Extremists say UK Vegans

"Salvation for the planet lies in hemp not hype" says leading UK Vegan Tony Bishop-Weston



"Instead of madcap taxes the Government should do more to tackle the mad CAP (common agricultural policy) subsidies for the meat and dairy industry and invest in sustainable alternatives for food and energy such as hemp" says Bishop-Weston.

"Things will only change if the sustainable alternatives are more easily available and the price of things contributing to the destruction of our health and planet are left to reflect the true cost of production." he adds.

Hemp Products

World Vegan Day Press Release


World Vegan Day London Event on World Vegan Day 1st November Understanding VEGAN : Climate Change & Environment at

VENUE: YMCA Indian Student Hostel, Mahatma Gandhi, Conference Hall, 41 Fitzroy Square, central London - Tubes: Warren Street, Portland Street, Regents Park & Euston Square

Vegan Food Saves Environment

Vegans Sales of Vegan & Free From Foods saves Environment

Vegan companies such as Plamil tend to have a broader outlook on business ethics, it's not just a focus on health foods, they look at ethics and environmental issues too.



Plamil have been given consistently high marks for their products by Ethical Consumer magazine, source the bulk of their ingredients from worker co-operatives where possible and are converting their chocolate factory over to using more sustainable 100% renewable energy -- possibly a world first for confectionery manufacturing.

"The market for Free-From foods has increased dramatically over recent years but local independent retailers are now beginning to take advantage and catch this emerging market" says MD AdrianLing.

" We have wide range dairy free and egg free products to fill the gaps on the local retailers' shelves and help them take full advantage of a growing market for environmentally friendly health foods"


World Vegan Day is November 1st

World Vegan Day 2006

World Vegan Day is almost upon us. On November the 1st 2006 people from around the world - from Canada to Australia will be celebrating Veganism's 62nd Birthday.

Please let us know about your event - Post a comment below.

Contact your local health food store and organise free World Vegan Day tastings of delicious vegan food, contact local pubs and restaurants and see if they'll put on a special World Vegan Day dish , contact your local school and see if they'll let you give a talk about making a difference to people, animals and the environment, contact your local papers or local radio and see if they will feature a vegan chocolate cake recipe a free World Vegan Day giveaway of vegan products or a discussion about veganism. You could also arrange a display in your local library or leisure centre of health club for World Vegan Day

Contact your local vegetarian & Vegan group to find out what they are up to and offer your help.

Above all, even if it's just getting a few friends around for a vegan chocolate fondue and a few bottles of German Beer to toast the founder of Veganism Donald Watson Please have fun and celebrate the lifestyle that benefits people, animals and the environment!

LINKS
World Vegan Day November 1st Count Me In Calendar

World Vegan Day UK 2006

World Vegan Day in London

World Vegan Day Austrailia

World Vegan Day Essex

Austrailan Youth Hostel Association - World Vegan Day

World Vegan Day Europe

World Vegan Day Kansas City

World Vegan Day Vancouver?

World Vegan Day Birmingham

World Vegan Day Leicester

Glasgow - Mono - Half price food for World Vegan Day!

World Vegan Day



New guides from The Vegan Society are available and free to download

Veganism and the Environment - Free Booklet

Veganism, Vegan Nutrition and Health - Free Booklet

Why Vegan? - Free Booklet

Last Chance to Say no to GM contamination

Friends of the Earth: Campaigns: Real Food: Press for change: Say no to GM contamination

Govt Consultation ends on 20th October this is maybe your last chance to say NO to GM contamination of the UK



Say no to GMO NOW

Teens 'smoke to have small babies' - Yahoo! News UK

Teens 'smoke to have small babies' - Yahoo! News UK

London Nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston said "This is ridiculous - young mothers are pointlessly endangering not only their baby's long term health but also their own. The baby's head is likely to be around the same size despite the smaller body and it's the head that's most difficult to get out. In addition smoking is really bad for the skin so the likelihood of horrendous stretch marks is far greater"

Pregnant teenagers are deliberately smoking in the hope of having smaller babies so giving birth is easier, it has been reported.

Public health minister Caroline Flint spoke at a Labour Party conference fringe meeting about teenagers' attempts to reduce their labour pains, the Nursing Standard magazine reported.

Smoking can lead to low birthweight babies, meaning some teenagers smoke throughout pregnancy, the magazine said.

The Department of Health said Ms Flint had heard about the issue anecdotally from health professionals and young women she has met.

Ms Flint said: "It is important that we understand what stops young women making healthy choices so we can provide the right answers to their concerns.

"In this case, childbirth is no less painful if your baby is low weight. So smoking is not the answer, pain relief is."

Studies have shown that women who smoke during pregnancy are three times more likely to have a low birthweight baby. Smoking can also cause other problems, such as respiratory illness.

Women who smoke are less likely to carry their babies to full term and there is a 26% increased risk that they will miscarry or experience stillbirth.

Babies of smoking mothers are also an average of 200g (7oz) lighter at birth.

Royal College of Midwives (RCM) midwife Gail Johnson said there was no evidence that having a smaller baby reduced pain in labour. She said: "It is vital that the risks associated with smoking are highlighted and that women are then supported to make changes to their lifestyle but the RCM is very clear that there is no evidence that the size of the baby relates to the amount of pain the woman may experience."

Story by PA

Vegan Society AGM - Sparks Will Fly

Vegan Society AGM 2006 It's promised sparks will fly as active members of The Vegan Society try to bring it's governing body, strategic planning and campaigning, kicking and screaming into the 21st Century. Members are urged to attend not just for the celebrations afterwards but to be a voice of reason at The Vegan Society Annual General Meeting 2006.

For a small UK charity The Vegan Society has admirably managed to make huge changes to the world we live in, the way we think about life, the way people shop and the way we live.

But for the many new converts to veganism it's not enough. Unlike some of the older vegans who appear humbled by the small changes we now take for granted the new vegans are not prepared to accept a status of second class citizen. They want and expect the same service, quality, value for money, convenience and enjoyment from life as they had before they became vegan and they want it now. It infuriates them and their friends that restaurants would prefer to ignore their preferences or charge the same price for a low value vegetable side dish as their friends are paying for the expensive meat or fish dish.

These new vegans are no longer just academics, amateur philosophers, musicians, students or unemployed anarchists with plenty of time on their hands. They are IT executives, Doctors, marketing and PR gurus, designers, chefs, authors, dieticians, fireman, company directors, food manufacturers, financial directors and accountants, city bankers, journalists, broadcasters, athletes, property developers, market anaylists, and business consultants.

They want to see a slick new vegan society that behaves in more professional, dynamic and pro-active way - mere existence is not enough they have much higher goals and agendas.

The Vegan Society's AGM 2006 in London is set to be one that could make or break the future of the world. If the Vegan Pandora is allowed to fully escape out of the box that Donald Watson opened in 1944 then this most logical, simple, practical solution to some of the biggest dilemas that face mankind could become totally infectious and create a world epidemic of common sense.

There are a number of motions being put forward and despite the present undemocratic regimes best attempts to hang on to the cliquey status quo it's hoped the old guard will finally be thwarted. The hope is that the intimidation, lies, political backstabbing, and procrastination will finally be flushed down the toilet and a new more vibrant vegan society will emerge capable of taking on the global corporations that are ruining the world in the name of short term profits.

Some people suggest that The Vegan Society has been infiltrated by a competitive industrial body - the aim being to do just enough to exist and avoid suspician but to sterilise, make all innovations and campaigns ineffectual and impotent. It would be easy to fall for this conspiracy theory given the many projects that have been completed but never put into action. Coupled with big legacies that have just been frittered away on running costs rather than invested in the future and a planned move to Birmingham????? it's easy to get suspicious.

Those on the inside know that fear is the biggest complications. "The controlling trustees are just plain scared of what they don't understand, can't comprehend and have no experience of. They are afraid to enter into the territory of the world's arena preferring the safety and comfort of their little cliquey world where they can feel important, clever and in control. They surround themselves with amateurs and sycophants who perpetuate their delusions of grandeur. Anyone who tries to change things in their particular area of expertise is patronised or outmanoevered with petty committee politics." says one ex member of staff.

No wonder so many people have got frustrated and left in recent years. The good news for veganism is that they have nearly all gone on to bigger and better things.

There is a move to change the constitution of The Vegan Society so that trustees are recruited in set areas of expertise and are designated individual responsibility for key functions of The Vegan Society that will benefit from their experience and qualifications.

In this way it's hoped to stop the culture of "intefering busybody" where instead of getting involved in scary areas of IT, media, marketing, legislation and PR where they are unconfident they get involved in accounts, merchandising and publishing and get away with opinions rather than productive results.

" I'm always amazed how much The Vegan Society gets mentioned- they've not had a formal Press Officer for 3 years" says Tony Bishop-Weston author of Vegan - (a healthy diet cookbook)

Anyone with an interest in furthering Veganism is encouraged to both vote for change and attend the Vegan Society AGM in London - See Vegan Society AGM 2006 for details.

For Vegan Society Members' discussion on the AGM motions see Vegan Forum

McDonalds to be sued for misleading advertising

Pelman v. McDonald's Corp.
New York Law Journal
September 22, 2006 - McDonalds Must Answer Complaint Alleging Deception as to Nutritional Benefits of Its Food says judge.

While late-night comedians joked when a New York lawyer filed a lawsuit against McDonald’s in 2002 for making his clients sick and obese, the fast food giant is now finding itself one step closer to the courtroom door. As reported today by the New York Law Journal (sub req’d) regarding the case of two teenagers, known as “Pelman v. McDonald’s”:

Southern District Judge Robert Sweet has refused to grant the company’s latest motion to dismiss, saying that parents of children who are obese and suffered other health problems — allegedly because of McDonald’s food — provided enough specific examples of allegedly misleading advertising to allow the suit to go forward.

Informed Eating

Vegan Revolution Needed to Feed The World

15/09/2006 - The FAO has called for a second Green Revolution to feed the world's growing population while preserving natural resources.

Addressing a meeting of the World Affairs Council of Northern California in San Francisco, FAO director-General Jacques Diouf said that a major international effort was needed to feed the world when the population soars from six to nine billion.
"The new Green Revolution will be less about introducing new, high-performance varieties of wheat or rice, important as they are, and much more about making wiser and more efficient use of the natural resources available to us," he said.

Diouf added that the original Green Revolution of the Fifties and Sixties doubled world food production by bringing the power of science to agriculture, but relied on the lavish use of inputs such as water, fertilizer and pesticides.

The task ahead may well prove harder.

"We not only need to grow an extra one billion tonnes of cereals a year by 2050 - within the lifetimes of our children and grandchildren but do so from a diminishing resource base of land and water in many of the worlds regions, and in an environment increasingly threatened by global warming and climate change," he said.

More

More about Feed the World - Feed the World with Vegafam

UK Lets Talk Like a Pirate Day

UK Lets Talk Like a Pirate Day

It's almost here - Lets talk like a pirate day that started in the USA for a joke by 2 journalists and then went large and turned into international talk like a pirate day and spawned let's act like a pirate day is Tuesday Sept 19th.

For more details and contacts go to Talk Like a Pirate Day

There's a forum to learn to Talk Like a Pirate , a Talk like a pirate day gallery to post pictures , a pirate message service and tattoo gallery.

Journalists and producers wanting to talk to a live pirate text 07944068432 or contact via email - Don Quinoa @ piratesofthecarobbean.co.uk

More at

Healthy Pirate Attacks Jamie Oliver over Jamies School Dinners

5th Lets Talk Like a Pirate Day to be celebrated by 19 million people internationally
(includes video)

Pictures at Flickr UK Talk Like a Pirate Day

Jamie's School Dinners - Food Most Fowl

Jamie's School Dinners - Food Most Fowl



See the animated cartoon for kids about what goes into food designed for children.

Luckily the government,nutritionists, School Foods Trust and Caroline Walker Trust have all agreed that rectum, testicles, lung, udder, feet and other tasty tidbits should no longer be in school food for children.

London Nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston says there is still much work to be done.

Omega 3 from Fish Oils not sustainable

Fish Oil IQ test a red herring says leading London nutritionist on ITN - Video

Founder of Foods For Life Yvonne Bishop-Weston tells ITV ITN reporter Chris Choi that Fish oil is not a long term solution for UK school children. "It's unsustainable both financially and environmentally"

ITN report microscopic sea plants ( Algae )may be a cheaper more environmentally friendly option to address the predicament of low levels of omega 3 long chain fatty acids DHA and EPA in childrens diets.

Meanwhile Jamie Oliver star of Jamies School Dinners on Channel 4 says parents who fail to properly feed their children are "arseholes and tossers"

Yvonne says parents should be more responsible but not blamed as the people who they look to for guidance such as Doctors and Schools have a limited understanding of nutrition themselves.

"When you have Burger King offering Hospital Catering (Croydon, Southampton, Cambridge) it's a bit harsh to start calling parents rude names - Mr Oliver needs to aim his fully loaded barrels a bit higher!" advises Yvonne.

New interim guidelines for caterers of school meals were released by DfES , SFT and Govt this week. Free water has to be made available, less fatty and sugary foods, and it's now illegal to feed school children testicles, rectum, udder, feet and other nasty smelly bits of animals often hidden in sausages, burgers and twizzlers.

See video ITN report on Fish Oils

Vegetarians Win BBC Test The Nation

Vegetarians Win BBC Test The Nation - Results

It seems that if you want the best IQ then 2 secrets may be to be a vegetarian and go to public school.

In The BBC's Test the Nation programme testing for IQ it was the vegetarians that won followed by the ex public school boys.

London Nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston from Foods For Life says "This Vegetarian win supports advice that a diet richer in fruit and vegetables, nuts and seeds is better for sustainable healthy brain function"

Just as well the Vegetarians won - they were up against the butchers, estate agents and footballers wives - if they'd have lost against any of them it would have been a bit of a PR disaster for The Vegetarian Society who fielded 4 staff members amongst the 30 strong team.

IQ Test your Vegetarian or Vegan brain power and intelligence!