David Cameron - Year of Change

Airbrushed for change - MyDavidCameron.com

David Cameron's new poster for power is ever so slightly unbelievable. Clearly he is on the hunt for every vote but will anyone believe him? Sadly there is a new generation of voters who were barely born when the last conservative government caused riots and homeless people in their hoards on the streets.

MATT & NATa HANDBAG?

MATT & NAT | Luxury, eco-friendly, vegan handbags and accessories

A HAND - BAG? A vegan HAND BAG? A stylish, utterly exquisite looking, luxury, ethical, vegan HANDBAG?

Yep!

When he was 18 years old, Inder Bedi was challenged to forego animal products for thirty days. Upon graduating university, Inder set out to create an accessories brand that, although vegan, was first and foremost beautiful, understanding that the two could co-exist.

Now thirteen years later, he sits at the helm of one of Canada's premier accessory brands, MATT & NAT, garnering international recognition, and the originator of vegan luxury.

Samsara is his latest venture: a collection of vegan accessories with the intention to affect change both locally and globally.

For every bag sold, ONE DOLLAR is donated to a non-profit organization of your choice. That means that every bag found on any shelf across Canada represents one dollar that will be donated at the end of the season.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

The Perfect Christmas Present ?

SAVE: Complete Book of Vegan Cooking

Save £6.00 on this new generation Cranks vegetarian cookbook now on Amazon for only £11.00 instead of £16.99 - a perfect Christmas present to help encourage friends to be kinder to their health and the planet

The Complete Book of Vegan Cooking: Everything You Need to Know About Going Vegan, from Choosing Ingredients to Advice on Health and Nutrition: Amazon.co.uk: Tony Bishop-Weston, Yvonne Bishop-Weston, Formerly Yvonne Bishop and Tony Weston: Books

Signed copies available here (at the full price) - Vegetarian Cookbooks Healthy Recipes

Vegan recipes are the new Nouveau Cuisine - the likelihood of a vegan dinner party guest is greater than any point in history - all your friends should have this vegan cookbook on their kitchen book shelf. A great first step for those who don't know where to start on Vegan diets.

Features great ideas for Christmas including Christmas cake recipe, stollen recipe and christmas pudding recipe

Beef Industry retaliate on Meat Free Mondays

Vegan and Vegetarian News Twonk of the week award goes to

UC Davis News & Information :: Don’t Blame Cows for Climate Change: "Mitloehner said. 'Producing less meat and milk will only mean more hunger in poor countries.'"

What? on the basis that if we stop producing so much, fuelled by massive govt subsidies , we'll have less to throw away and then companies will have less waste product to then take advantage of more grants to turn it into food that can be shipped off to Africa's starving.

Who funded this twaddle?

"Clearing the Air" is a synthesis of research by the UC Davis authors and many other institutions, including the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture, California Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board. Writing the synthesis was supported by a $26,000 research grant from the Beef Checkoff Program, which funds research and other activities, including promotion and consumer education, through fees on beef producers in the U.S.

Oh I see

"The developed world's efforts should focus not on reducing meat and milk consumption," said Mitloehner, "but rather on increasing efficient meat production in developing countries, where growing populations need more nutritious food." he witters on

Or we could just cut out the middle man and grow and eat more nutritious plant based foods and exporting less McDonald's , milkshakes and essential nutrient free Dunkin Dough Nuts. That would also save electricity, water and the rain forests!

Every respectable health promotions authority in the world now recognises a formula of less saturated animal fat and more fruit and vegetables is the best route to reduce epidemics of chronic diseases such as diabetes.

Finally will someone please ask Twonk brain what he thinks his factory farmed efficient cows will eat? Yes! not factored that into your convenient Beef industry sponsored equation have you?

Top 10 Food Trends for 2010

Nation's Restaurant News




Top 10 / top 20 food trends for 2010 - The NRN are, it's safe to say, fairly conservative, (their politics have been likened to a little right of the NRA) as you'd expect for a magazine whose readership are chefs who routinely think up new ways to kill animals and make dead rotting flesh taste nice.

The cliche of Chefs' animosity to vegetarians is perpetuated by chefs such as Gordon Ramsay - the only thing he says he hates more than vegans is traffic wardens.

So a good sign indeed that the National Restaurant News, NRN , one letter away from NRA, and their survey of chefs has come out with these encouraging results in their top 20 food trends for 2010 for the ethical environmentalists amongst us.

Exciting times ahead surely , good news for Vegetarian Visitor the UK Restaurant and accommodation guide and perfect timing for The Vegetarian Society's new campaign V Healthy that features leading London Nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston's 7 ways to health

(Dec. 1, 2009)

• 1. Locally grown produce
• 2. Locally sourced meats and seafood
• 3. Sustainability
• 4. Bite-size/mini desserts
• 5. Locally produced wine and beer
• 6. Nutritionally balanced children's dishes
• 7. Half-portions/smaller portion for a smaller price
• 8. Farm/estate-branded ingredients
• 9. Gluten-free/food allergy conscious
• 10. Sustainable seafood
• 11. Superfruits (e.g. acai, goji berry, mangosteen, purslane)
• 12. Organic produce
• 13. Culinary cocktails (e.g. savory, fresh ingredients)
• 14. Micro-distilled/artisan liquor
• 15. Nutrition/health
• 16. Simplicity/back to basics
• 17. Regional ethnic cuisine
• 18. Non-traditional fish (e.g. branzino, Arctic char, barramundi)
• 19. Newly fabricated cuts of meat (e.g. Denver steak, pork flat iron, Petite Tender)
• 20. Fruit/vegetable children's side items
  

Source: The National Restaurant Association's What's Hot in 2010 chef survey.

Note 11: Purslane is not a fruit but a succulent herb a bit like a cross between cactus and watercress that has huge amounts of omega 3 essential fats - Chefs obviously still have some way to go but really exciting it's on their radar.

Sir Paul tells EU: 'Less meat means less heat' - Climate Change, Environment

Meat Free 5 A Day Day Campaign: As Sir Paul McCartney jets off to theEuropean Parliament today to try to get them to see sense of reducing meat consumption to save the planet and improve health a London Businessman, Nitin Mehta MBE explain why we all need to examinine the facts on diet and consider them.

Croydon has been nominated the unhealthiest Borough in London and local support groups are struggling to find a way to stop rising the rising rates of childhood obesity and diabetes in Croydon.

Nitin Mehta is convinced Paul McCartney has the answer, an answer that is thousands of years old

Vegan: London made from fruit and veg

Meat Free 5 A Day Day in Croydon Campaign: London in 5 a Day : Video : Pics

London gets a makeover in this vegan artwork as London is recreated using fuit and vegetables to celebrate the launch of The Good Food Channel.

But is it art? Lets hope Life imitates art and Londoners really gets a taste for fruit and veg.

World Diabetes Day 14th November

Healthy Eating & Nutrition News: World Diabetes Day 14th November

A group of health professionals gathered a group of diabetics and sucessfully reversed their diabetes just by eating vegan wholefoods.

Lets put health back in the hands of the people rather than leaving them at the mercy of the profit machine of the pharmaceutical industry. Empowerment through knowledge and diet

A cure for Diabetes?

Take 6 people and reverse their diabetes just through Diet?

Drugs are killing people.

Processed food is killing people.

If you really want to get well then try this approach, if it doesn't work what have you got to lose? You'll still be on the drugs. You'll still be ill.

If it does work, with the supervision of your doctor you can gradually wean yourself off any drugs that you don't need any more.

Happy World Vegan Day

World Vegan Day: Happy World Vegan Day

World Vegan Day - Vegan News

The Most Ethical Sunday Lunch In London on Twitpic

The Most Ethical Sunday Lunch In London on Twitpic



Sunday Lunch, Films, Talks, Kids stuff see www.ecoveggiefayre.co.uk

Stupid? Or Not Stupid? You choose on Twitpic

Stupid? Or Not Stupid? You choose on Twitpic

www.ecoveggiefayre.co.uk

"You won't see a more important film this year" - News of theWorld

SUN
Nov 1st
FAIRFIELD 
HALLS 

Please Post this Poster

What's on , Events, London Nov 1st

Family Fun Day Ethical Health &amp Sustainability Croydon South London London events gigs nightlife

Are you really stupid enough to miss this - one day only - Fairfield Halls Nov 1st - ethical cinema.

Our future is at stake - our future health, our future planet, our children's future - time is running out. What's your excuse for standing by and doing nothing?

The Age Of Stupid



at the eco veggie fayre

Lush Prove Hunters are Extremists

Lush Prove it's the Hunters That are Extremists

Lush prove themselves to be true vegan heroes as they take on the fringe extreemists in the Countryside Alliance who think it's acceptable to trample through people's gardens and watch a pack of dogs rip a fox to bloody shreds for fun.

LUSH refuse to be bullied by these violent extremist fanatics who live in a make believe world where they mourn the loss of slavery and allowing women to vote.

Well done LUSH for supporting the working class heroes who get up at 4.30 on a Saturday morning to thwart the psycopathic foibles of the bloodsport fanatics.

Noah’s Ark Zoo – Under Cover BBC Inside Out Oct 19th 7.30-pm

Off The Hoof magazine - Going Veggie for a Greener Planet

Noah’s Ark Zoo – BBC Inside Out Oct 19th 7.30-pm - Off The Hoof Undercover Report

The UK’s leading veggie lifestyle magazine OFF THE HOOF has published a sensational 12 page diary focusing on today’s BBC Inside Out programme report on Noah’s Ark Zoo in Bristol

This fascinating account – an actual diary of events recorded over 6 weeks, describes a number of appalling situations including the discovery of a recently dead tiger cub’s head in a freezer at the Zoo.

The article is published in Issue 5 of Off The Hoof which is available free to download online from October 27th and in printed format from November 1st when the issue is launched at The Croydon Eco Veggie Fayre, organised by Off the Hoof.

The BBC are covering Noah’s Ark Zoo at 7.30pm Monday 19th October in the programme inside out

Eco Veggie Fayre - Off the Hoof - Yaoh Hemp Foods

Vegan Diets Go Mainstream

Turn Over A New Leaf: Vegan Diets Are Moving More Solidly Into Mainstream -- baltimoresun.com

Forget Atkins (who?) the South Beach Diet, Zone , Weight Watchers, Rosemary Conley, Jenny Craig, food combining, macrobiotic , The Food Doctor and the cabbage soup diet.

Move over! the mediterreanean diet, GI and slimming world.

The Vegan Diet is the latest (oldest) thing. As Veganism reaches it's 65th Birthday we've seen one of the biggest social experiments into health and sustainability of our last few generations and it's payback time!

Finally the world is taking Veganism seriously - OMG the vegans didn't die of malnutrition or boredom - they've given birth to healthy robust children who look at the world through different eyes.

Old and young, rich and poor, black and white, gay and straight, girl and boy, it's suddenly begining to dawn on everybody what a vegan lifestyle offers for a more fulfilled life.

72 year Peter Gleave is the latest in a long list of people to find that a vegan diet can give you a new lease of life. Even Pepsi are helping people to eat vegan food and find the best Vegan restaurants

Celebrate World Vegan Day - Celebrate Life !

World Vegan Day - Vegan News - Eco Veggie Fayre

Alicia Silverstone Does Vegan on MTV

Alicia Silverstone Messing with nature on MTV

What's all this? Superheroes and Flirters??

Alicia Silverstone is rocking the boat of the status quo and jeopardising the future for us all. She's gone all sensible and logical on us and has written a book called the 'kind diet' andis plugging it on TV and in glossy mags.

Woah Alicia ! Don't let the cat out of the bag! If those selfish, dumbass spotty steak eaters get wind of all this then what hope do we have? If they don't continue eating all that meat and dying at half their natural life expectancy we'll never be able to fit all the vegans on the planet - there just isn't the room!

Killing off meat eaters with Diabetes, Heart Disease, Stroke, cancer, osteoporosis, Altzhiemers is just nature's way of natural selection and survival of the fittest.

Greenpeace Dodge the Truth 12 Times

12 policies to save the climate and our planet | Greenpeace UK

Greenpeace dodge the truth yet again.

Like Al Gore before them in an inconvenient truth their inconvenient truth for them is that eating less meat is the single most powerful thing you can do for the planet.

so yeah - well done for getting on the roof of Parliament in London, well done for capturing the nations attention, well done for forcing green issues higher up the UK political agenda....

But more important than anything if you want an immediate effect on saving the planet it's getting people to eat less meat. The implications go far beyond the simple arithmatic on gases caused by livestock farming and forest destruction to grow food to feed the animals - that's worse than all theworlds transport.

Not factored into that are the resources needed to treat people with heart problems, cancers, diabetes and host of other preventable diseases self inflicted and caused by bad, highly processed, vitamin and mineral deficient diets.

5 a Day Day

Russell Brand Confuses Nation

press archive: "LIFEs 3 BIGGEST CONFUSIONS
1. Foreign call centres
2. Algebra
3. What women see in Russell Brand"

According to a poll by Confused.com Vegetarian Russell Brand's attraction to women is the no 3 most confusing thing to Brits narrowly pipped by Algebra and foreign call centres.

Off the hoof in Borders Bookshops

UK Organic Vegan Hemp Products by Yaoh: vegan magazine Off the Hoof is on Sale in Borders

Your good deed for Vegan Mo Fo is to buy one now 

Grab a copy - and keep us in there!

The Hoof is enjoying a trial run during September and October in selected Borders - including London (Charing Cross and Islington), Brighton, Oxford, Bristol, Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds and Manchester amongst others. Please support us!

You don't need to be vegan to read it and enjoy it - tell your friends!