Linda McCartney Vegan Foods Sales Take Off

Linda McCartney Food Sales Soar

Since the new owners of Linda McCartney Foods, Hain Celestial, have veganized and improved the nutrition value of the Linda McCartney range sales have rocketed.

Sales have risen to 10million and 57% in the last 12 weeks alone.

Sales have been boosted by the new higher protein hydrogenated fat free meat free sausages and the Linda McCartney soysage rolls. The frozen mince is back in production and Linda McCartney group sales have probably also been boosted by a new vegan frozen meat free chicken pieces (great with Satay sauce)

It's possible that sales of the Linda McCartney sausage rolls have also been boosted by Symington's faux pas. The new owner of Granose/ Direct Foods/Haldane Sosmix (the traditional principle ingredient for vegan sausage rolls and christmas stuffing) naievely added milk protein to the ingredients making the product unsuitable for millions of it's customers. Understandably there was uproar. Symingtons have recently revealed they have reformulated the product and that a dairy free vegan version will be available sometime in 2009.

British National Party membership and contacts list, spread sheet, 2007-2008 - Wikileaks

British National Party membership and contacts list, spread sheet, 2007-2008 - Wikileaks

I guess by now anyone who think they may find it useful in the fight against speciesism and racism has obtained a copy. But just in case, here is the link -

This is not intended to encourage or provoke any activity that would break the law - no hypocrisy please - it just very useful to know who your dealing with isn't it?

I don't hide my support of a more environmentally friendly healthy and pascifist lifestyle - it's a worry when people hide their views of hatred.

The most reassuring fact in these days of apathy is that The Vegetarian Society still have more supporters and more influential members than the BNP - clearly there is hope for the human race.

British National Party List

Worryingly there are other, more extreme groups claiming the views of the BNP aren't extreme enough? The Government needs to wake up and address the issues and tension that is allowing this kind of inbred cretinous hatred to flourish.

Vegan Recipes - Healthy, Nutritious and Delicious.: Vegan Catering Challenge Winners

Vegan Recipes - Healthy, Nutritious and Delicious.: Vegan Catering Challenge Winners



The Vegan Society Challenge Winners

Barack Obama: Congratulations!

Barack Obama "One Voice can change the World" - There's no doubt that TODAY November 5th 2008 will go down in history - no longer as Bonfire night / firework night / Guy Fawkes but the day that Barack Obama changed history, ended many years of struggle to deliver the hope of true equal rights in America to black people and gave hope to the rest of the world after years of terror and abuse of power under George W Bush.

Obama - Thank you for giving us back HOPE!

My hope? - Peace One Day for all Earthlings

Original Presidential Nomination Candidacy Acceptance Speech



Democracy, Liberty, Opportunity and Unyeilding Hope.

Barack Obama Presidential Acceptance Speech 5/11/08

Vegan Magazine - Better Than Viagra

Vegetarian Real Mens Magazine ‘Off the Hoof’ Is Better Than Viagra and Fully Loaded To Eat Nuts

A new adult mens magazine is claiming it's better than Viagra!

'Off the Hoof' have thrown down their non leather, non silk, gaunlet to men's magazines Nuts and Loaded, with plans to reach sales of over 300,000 by World Vegan Day 2009. The defiant 'Off the Hoof' editor Al Slurry says “Nut’s is for burger munching Viagra dependent wimps and flaccid porn reliant merchant bankers. The magazine we have written is for adults, real men and their ladies who love a sausage that tastes just as good cold as it does hot”

Publishers Yaoh claim the magazine is not just suitable for vegetarians - it's suitable for everyone! See www.offthehoof.co.uk

Happy World Vegan Day 2008

Flickr: World Vegan Day 2008

Happy World Vegan Day! Pass it On. Send your friends a Happy World Vegan Day greeting.

Visit www.flickr.com/groups/worldveganday choose a picture, add a picture and use delivr to send a personalised bespoke World Vegan Day E greeting card and inspire all your friends.

Vegan Month

Vegan Month and World Vegan Day Events



Sat 1st November - Croydon

Oasis Natural Products will be giving away 64 vegan food parcels - One for every year of veganism since 1944.
Free tasters and prizes available too.
96 High Street, Croydon CR0 1ND www.oasisnaturalproducts.co.uk

World Vegan Day - PIZZA

Foods for Life are Challenging Pizza restaurants to create a healthier vegan version of this most unhealthy fast food.
They have a devised a recipe with 64 healthy ingredients - one ingredient for every year of veganism. See Healthy Vegan Pizza
www.optimumnutritionists.com - www.news.foodsforlife.org

World Vegan Day - Glasgow - will you still feed me when I'm 64
The Underpendent collective of vegan restaurants in Glasgow (mono, Stereo, the 78) will be offering a World Vegan Day Tripper I've Got A Ticket To Ride meal ticket
Vegan breakfast , Lunch and Dinner all for only £10 on World Vegan Day 1st November.
See Vegan Cafes Glasgow - World Vegan day Glasgow

World Vegan Month - UK Off the Hoof - Magazine Launch
A new vegan magazine is being launched for World Vegan day. Called 'off the hoof' it is an irreverent look at life through vegan eyes. Recipes, product reviews, travel, celebrity interviews - it sounds normal but it's anything but.- See Ethical Pulse

World Vegan Day Festival

Vegans will be celebrating their 64th Birthday at the West Midlands Vegan Festival in Wolverhampton.

World Vegan Day LA - California

World Vegan Day Sydney Australia

World Vegan Day Melbourne Australia 2008

World Vegan Day Fashion Show Montreal

Lush Staff will go Vegan for World Vegan Day

World Vegan Day 2008 Celebrations - Festivals, Film, Pizza and a Magazine Launch on Nov 1st.

A US Survey of 3,200 adults (May 2008) suggests "The vegetarian and vegan market has the potential to grow to nearly six times its current size, which would bring the total number of such consumers to almost 18 million adults."

Vote in our World Vegan Day Poll

world vegan day

Vegan Pizza recipe with 64 Ingredients for World Vegan Day

Vegan Pizza

Foods for Life Nutritionists have relaunched a Healthy Vegan Pizza Campaign for World Vegan Day November 1st 2008.

They have posted a recipe for a healthy Pizza with 64 ingredients to mark the Vegan Society's 64th Birthday on November the 1st.

How can you help?

Contact High Street Pizza Restaurants to ask them to provide a Healthy Vegan Pizza choice on their menus.

Pizzaz vegan Pizza

Cost of Iraq War - Wall Street Crash

Cost of War | National Priorities Project



click here to learn more

www.stopwar.org.uk reveals "The cost of the Iraq war to Britain is estimated to be as much as £10 billion, and the US government spends $10 billion dollars a month on the conflict.

But the cost is substantially more when hidden costs are taken into account. Who pays for after care for injured soldiers? Pensions and injury payments?

Joseph Stiglitz, leading economist and former head of the World Bank, has estimated that the total cost of the war to the US will be $3 trillion and $6 trillion to the world."

Perhaps Sir Bob Geldof should re record his song "I don't like (black?) Mondays" ? - The catalyst for todays Wall Street crash was the growing realization that the Bush administration's $700 billion rescue plan and steps taken by other governments won't work.

I'm not suggesting that the war in Iraq has bancrupted America and potentially all it's allies, I'm sure there are many other factors of Mr Bush's administration that have led to such a financial mess. I mean there's a war in Afghanistan too. The main war has been on the taxpayer a war waged by Bank executives who dished out billions of dollars of bonuses even though they had failed in their jobs and their responsibilities to shareholders.

A society that rewards greed and failure simultaneously has only itself to blame......

Sarah Palin Debate On SNL (VIDEO)

Tina Fey As Sarah Palin In VP Debate On SNL (VIDEO)

Awesome Saturday night Live clip - Sarah Palin Debate sketch

Sarah Palin v the polar bear

Sarah Palin v the polar bear: who will survive? | World news | The Guardian: "the right to arm bears" Ha ha ha - Well done Tim Dowling for this (and Jasmijn de Boo from Animals Count for spotting it)- loved this article!

Biggest threat to survival
Polar bear: Sarah Palin.
Palin: Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, feminism, belated national reality check brought on by global economic crisis.

Surely the US voters are not mad enough to let this gung ho Rambo meets Nania's Ice Queen from The Lion , The Witch and the Wardrobe into the whitehouse??

Sure democracy dictates that the Oil Industry needs it's voice but look what happened when they let George Bush into the Whitehouse - Wars, skyrocketing oil prices, environmental and economic devastation, edpidemic of preventable chronic disease, a plague of GM Soya throughout South America....... Pirates in the Ivory Coast.

Peace One Day

Peace One Day

Jeremy Gilley has restored my faith in humanity. I'm a pretty optimistic guy but with so many cynics in the world, with so much apathy, it does wear you down sometimes - you can't help yourself but secretly doubt that you'll ever succeed.

Even though that driving force still burns within you that make 'doing nothing' simply not an option the excuse of "it'll never work" is always there haunting you, taunting you, ridiculing you.

So when a guy stood up like Jeremy Gilley, for me, and I suspect the thousands of others at The Peace One Concert in the Royal Albert Hall it got quite emotional.

Anger, frustration, relief, pure tearful joy and most importantly HOPE.

Thank goodness for people like Jeremy Gilley - May his , and our dream come true - for all life, for all people - peace one day soon. Watch the trailer video - Peace One Day - Peace One Day Myspace x

Something Fishy at Vegetarian Society

Common sense defeated by apathy amongst Vegetarian Society Members

Campaigners from www.poor cow.co.uk had provided Vegetarian Society members with a unique opportunity to help put a stop to the increased use of 'Battery Milk' in the food industry and the tragic situation of a increased numbers of dairy cows sentanced to a short tortuous life as 'battery cows'.

50 votes were all that were needed at the 2008 Vegetarian Society AGM. Less than 50 votes from amongst the 10,500 Vegetarian Society members would have beaten the block vote from Vegetarian Society trustees, staff, family and friends. However only a handful of members bothered to register their vote.

A sad day for vegetarianism

The Vegetarian Society AGM voted

To continue to approve products made from battery milk, from cows fed GM food and against introducing animal welfare standards that vegetarians can be proud of.

The Vegetarian Society voted for continuing the status quo that mean's that Paul McCartney's Vegetarian Society has the lowest animal welfare standards for cows in the UK - even lower than Vegetarian baiting F Word TV chef Gordon Ramsay.

Concerns were raised at the AGM about falling VSUK membership numbers since McDonalds were added to the list of clients. It was suggested that since it was now so easy to be a vegetarian the need for a Vegetarian Society has lessened.

If the vegetarian society even refuses to take steps to stop the increase in ill treatment of dairy cows, the epitome of British vegetarianism, then it begs the question "what is the point of the Vegetarian Society?"

Luckily there are a host of other organisations such as Viva!, Animal Aid, CIWF, RSPCA, The Vegan Society, and smaller groups such as VEGA and Movement for Compassionate Living ready to take The Vegetarian Society's place as the UK's no 1 voice for the animals.

Heather mills gives $1Million to NYC

Mills to make $1M vegan food donation - UPI.com

Heather Mills McCartney has given one Million Dollars worth of Vegan food to New York City Bronx children "because the neighborhood has the city's highest child obesity and asthma rates" say the Hunts Point Alliance for Children officials

Vegetarian Paul McCartney Urged To Save Cows

Vegetarian Sir Paul McCartney Urged To Save Cows
It appears that even the arch enemy of all vegetarians (except pseudo veggie Posh Spice Victoria Beckham) F Word TV chef, puffin and horse eating Gordon Ramsay has higher animal welfare standards than the founders of modern vegetarianism!

In a recent interview Gordon Ramsay revealed that he insists on buying meat for his restaurants that has been ethically bred and collected. "That's absolutely paramount," he said. "We have traceability across the board, where we have a certification of whether it's organic beef, or whether it's a hand-picked scallop or a line-caught sea bass."

A Campaigner from www.poor-cow.co.uk said today "We are hoping that Sir Paul McCartney will step in on the Battery Cow issue as he did on the GM issue that led to the Vegetarian Society banning GM ingredients in approved products. Paul McCartney has been a loyal patron of the Vegetarian Society and helped on many ocassions and we believe he will have serious concerns about both animal welfare and the dangers of genetically modified foods fed to cows"

see also Activeg

Even if you are not a member of the Vegetarian Society you can still sign our petition asking the Vegetarian Society to ban battery cows milk from it's approved products.

www.PetitionOnline.com/PoorCow

UK: Vegetarian School Opens

First state Hindu school opens its doors - Telegraph

A new Vegetarian School in London is opening on Monday (Sept 15th) The Krishna-Avanti primary in Harrow, north London, is already heavily over-subscribed.

It will have its own temple, vegetarian catering facilities, and lessons in Sanskrit and yoga.

The school - opening for reception pupils on September 15 - was originally aimed at strictly-vegetarian families, but it provoked claims that it would rule out most of the estimated 15,000 Hindu children living in the borough. The requirement was later ditched, with admissions now being devolved to local temples.

The opening is expected to be the first of many following a Government recommendation that more faith schools should be created where local demand exists.

At the moment, there are 4,621 Anglican schools in England, 2,027 Roman Catholic schools and 26 Methodist schools. A further 38 are classed as Jewish, nine are Muslim and three Sikh.

UK: 86% Veggie at least Once a Week!

Carnivores shun meat and flirt with bi-tarianism, says survey - Telegraph

A new survey reveals that 86% of UK adults eat no meat at least 1-2 times per week. 12% in the survey refer to themselves as Vegetarian.

Great News but hardly a surprise - even grub loving Oprah Winfrey went vegan for a few months this summer and that involved turning down some chocolate muffins cooked by Tom Cruise's mum that most vegetarianettes would have bitten her arm off for.

The trouble with surveys is most self declared 'vegetarians' eat fish, and sometimes even a bit of chicken. Nonetheless they are an important group of people who aspire to vegetarianism and have the same preferences (kinder to people, health, environment and animals) they are just not anal about it (un-like the vegans)

It's estimated that over 40% of UK families regularly seek out vegetarian options predominantly for health reasons. The emphasis on health may partly explain why the Organic Soil Association have 200 staff working on approval of nearly 60,000 products whilst the Vegetarian Society have 2 staff adminstrating only 5,000 approved products.

It's estimated by Animal Aid that 30% of UK milk is now from Battery Farmed Cows subjected to zero grazing (typically kept in sheds and fed GM soya)although the Vegetarian Society admit double that figure for approved products that would fail improved welfare standards.(See news 5/09)

The Soil Association who ban ingredients such as hydrogenated fat and artificial sweeteners and also GM feed for dairy cows for health reasons also go far further than the Vegetarian Society on animal welfare standards. The Soil Association have managed to lure Vegetarians away from the doctrine with promises of 'happy meat' and 'humane methods of slaughter' (giving them a tickle under the chin before the bolt goes through their brain? aaaaw bless!)

No doubt anyway that vegetarians often aren't true vegetarians.

Papers recently are full of talk about professional Vegetarian baiter UK Chef Gordon Ramsay going into business with 'Vegetarian' Victoria Beckham to launch a 'Cor blimey sausage and mash/fish and chips restaurant' in LA. The Red Tops are allegedly taking bets on whether Posh Spice will actually ever eat there as they have her in the 'mad vegan anorexic box' but I'm sure fish and sushi was on her diet plan last time I looked.

There are a number of letters in the latest Vegetarian Society Magazine asking for more tolerance towards 'vegetarians' who eat fish. The trouble is for hard line vegheads this is often like asking them to be tolerant of murderers and rapists.

Meanwhile there are some vegans that think that vegetarians may as well eat cold blooded fish whilst they still turn a blind eye to the suffering of battery dairy cows and the plight of a quarter of a million mashed up calves a year for the sake of milk and cheese.

Please visit www.poor-cow.co.uk

Meat and Dairy Jeopardise Our Future

Meat is Not Green

Green Debate : Meat Vs Cars

The discussion about meat and it's contribution to climate change is hotting up.

Last year a major report into the environmental impact of meat eating by the Food Climate Research Network at Surrey University claimed livestock generated 8 per cent of UK emissions. It also said vegetarian diets that included lots of milk, butter and cheese would probably not noticeably reduce emissions because dairy cows are a major source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas released through flatulence.

Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which last year earned a joint share of the Nobel Peace Prize, said that people should then go on to reduce their meat consumption even further.

His comments are the most controversial advice yet provided by the panel on how individuals can help tackle global warning.

Pachauri, who was re-elected the panel's chairman for a second six-year term last week, said diet change was important because of the huge greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental problems - including habitat destruction - associated with rearing cattle and other animals. It was relatively easy to change eating habits compared to changing means of transport, he said.

The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation has estimated that meat production accounts for nearly a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. These are generated during the production of animal feeds, for example, while ruminants, particularly cows, emit methane, which is 23 times more effective as a global warming agent than carbon dioxide. The agency has also warned that meat consumption is set to double by the middle of the century.

Pachauri is currently on a world tour having spoken to the EVU in Europe and then as guest of CIWF in London. His interview in the Observer has travelled to the other side of the world and has prompted debate in India, USA, New Zealand, Australia and practically everywhere else.

In Latin America, the FAO estimates that some 70% of former forest cover has been converted for grazing.

Meanwhile farmers in the UK have had a great idea - they are going to start feeding cattle a new carbon friendlier diet! You'll never have guessed - it's called grass!

Innocent or Stupid ?

innocent drinks : our drinks - smoothies, thickies, really lovely juices

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGH! Innocent or naive? Too smooth or just thickies? I love Innocent I really do, jealous ? Absolutely, because if I'd had the balls and the money to do it I'd have done it just like that. That smoothie, friendly, jokey ,honest style, much copied now but never as sincerely - Love it!

So then there was the water - Innocent 'This Water' - NO IT'S NOT! It's Fecking Fecklessly un innocent Squash - Yes there's water in the bottle too but it's full of sugar! Innocent famous brand for not adding added, and they added crap - white, sugary, once slave traded, sugar.

Whoops! recognising their mistake they sold the company to their employees and tried to rinse their hands of the not quite whole, not nothing but the whole nearly but not quite water thing.

With the Innocent launch of Veg Pots, the lumpy soups or vegetable stews I got excited. Here's a way for the lads to redeem themselves. Back to their roots instead of just fruit, whole fruit and nothing but the fruit we'll have Vegetables, the whole veg and nothing but the veg!

At last ( I fantisized) a nutritious vegan lunch that will soon be everywhere from corner shops to service stations. Oprah Winfrey and Natalie Portman will be gagging for them!

BUT NOoooooooooooooooooo! Innocent got some poncy no brain chef from the Fois Gras with donkey brain porridge Fat Duck to do the veg pot recipes. My heart beat faster and faster , mouth salivating....almost to the end of the long list of ingredients.....and then crushed, deflated, crumbled to the floor - the Anthony Worrall Tossedpot Marks and Spencers dead animal appreciation society have wealeded their wicked curse once more.

Just a little bit (2%) of creme fraiche WHY!??! Just a little bit of honey?!? WHY! For heaven's sake! Why?

I appreciate it's just innocent stupidity as no profit seeking company would deliberately seek to alienate millions of potentially loyal customers on purpose but it FEELS like a grudge, it FEELS like we are being intentionally picked on - "no no not for you the vegpot - don't touch the precious food, you're not a local, you have to eat the special food for the uncompromising ones - the boring tasteless food it shall be that is only suitable for you because no tastebuds we think you have"

In fairness Innocent Vegpots are quite healthy, They don't have huge spoonfulls of sugar in them like This is (not!) Water, they are low in salt, have lots of veg and less than 1% saturated animal fat. Do they taste nice? I'll never know - Innocent may as well say "less than 1% cow puss and doggy doodoos"

Lads lads lads - KISS X Keep It Simple Stupid! Remember the day you gave up your jobs to make smoothies! Remember the days at Cranks. Remember the fig tree!

Writers Needed for New Vegan Magazine!

Dr John Briffa: Off the hoof | Life and style | The Observer - OFF THE HOOF!

Fancy yourself as a writer? Good with words? A budding journalist looking for an editor prepared to publish more 'challenging' controvesial articles?

The pun 'Off the Hoof' may have first been publicised by Dr John Briffa in an article in The Observer about giving up beef. He probably nicked it from someone else. Whatever the origins of this vegan pun it's now been adopted as the Title for a new irreverant vegan magazine full of fun and frollocks with a mission to entertain rather than bore.

'Off the Hoof' is from the same horse-free stable* that brings you The Bristol Vegan Fayre (May 09) The Brighton Vegan Festival (March 09) The Vegan Guide to Bristol and of course all those delicious essentially nutritious Hemp food products and cruelty free hemp cosmetic products.

First issue of 'Off the Hoof' is due out on World Vegan Day 1st November

If you are interested in advertising or submitting articles for something rather out of the ordinary then contact Frank, Tim or Charlie at Yaoh 01179239053 www.yaoh.co.uk

Off the Hoof Adult Content

Off The Hoof - New Vegan Magazine and Off the Hoof on Ethical Junction

* Though with all those blokes in one 'office' I'm sure it might not always smell horse free!