Vegan Heroes - Art- Pinky Binks

Vegan Heroes, Famous & Celebrity Vegans, & Quotes: National Vegetarian Week 2009 - Art- Pinky Binks

An installation to mark Smith's frontman Morrisey's 50th birthday and National Vegetarian Week

.....but is it art?

Vegan sausage beats off egg rivals in taste test

Healthy Eating & Nutrition News: "Redwood wholefoods sausage won in a blind taste test at dine in and gourmet takeaway venue tibits in London as part of the National Vegetarian Week celebrations."

For more info contact the Vegetarian Society

Naked Vegan - Are you getting it 5 times a day?

Naked 5 a day - tibits makes vegetarian sexy on Twitpic

Are you getting it 5 times a day? tibits restaurant kicked off National Vegetarian Week with a BANG this morning as body painters spent 4 hours painting naked vegetarian model Juliet into '5 a day Eve'. (and now a little bit for the Sun/Daily Star readers)Aparently only 15% of us get it 5 times a day - asked if tibit's naked '5 a day Eve' had 'adam, the hot potato said "oh yes! I'm a very committed vegetarian- I take my 5 a day very seriously" As naked Eve bit on Adam's apple the were no worries of the May winds making her shiver.The gathered paparazzi all agreed - "this fruit is HOT!"

On thursday morning between 8-10am tibits are inviting journalists to decide if the McCartney clan are still the top hot dogs of the vegetarian world at a blind tasting of the UK's top veggie sausages and showcase of some of the UK's best vegetarian products. To be added to guest list please visit Tibits NVW Breakfast event

Accused of promoting vegan Porn a spokesperson said "this is art - just like the food at tibits" although not all tibits dishes are naked some have a lot more dressing. Telegraph Picture of the Day London Paper

Vegetarian - 1 day at a Time

Tristram Stuart reports on a small town in Belgium that has gone meat-free one day a week | Environment | The Guardian

At last someone taking the UN, Paul McCartney and George Monbiot seriously and doing something about it. The Sausage loving politicians of Ghent have fearlessly suceeded where Camden council tried but failed. They made the whole town go vegetarian once a week.

A good start.Only another 313 days to go!!!

Sick Vegans Kill People and Destroy the Planet

George Monbiot: Credit crunch? The real crisis is global hunger. And if you care, eat less meat - The Guardian

Meat eater, George Monbiot eloquently highlights why the most dynamic gesture we can make to help stop people starving to death, stop the irresponsible destruction of our planet and save the teetering world economy is to eat more vegan food.

He also draws attention to the fact that many vegans are their own worst enemy. By failing to take care of their health and bodies vegans, allowing their skin to turn to a "fascinating pearl grey" are providing excuses to even our potentially staunchest allies.

The trouble is there are some vegans out there who revel in veganism's fringe niche-ness spending their lives discouraging people rather than encouraging people to adopt our more environmentally friendly, ethical and potentially healthier lifestyle.

It's now more important than ever that for the future of mankind that all the healthy vegans who easily avoid deficiencies of essential fats and Vitamin B12 and the associated emotional problems join together to double their efforts to prove how enjoyable and easily attainable vegan diet really is with just a few basic shopping tricks.

Free Meal for National Vegetarian week

Yvonne Bishop-Weston (NutritionistW1) on Twitter: "http://tinyurl.com/freemeal"

Credit Crunch offer for National Vegetarian Week by Tibits, a Free Meal

National Vegetarian Week 2009

Tibits will be leading the celebrations for National Vegetarian Week in the City this year with a number of events.

MONDAY Tibits does 5 a Day 5 portions of Veg , more than 5 Times a Week is the message from Tibits this year and what a delicious way to get your 5 a day.



TUESDAY - DVD Launch - The Healthy Vegan starring the thinking man's answer to Delia Smith - Rose Elliot - author of over 60 vegetarian cookbooks and a Patron of The Vegetarian Society

WEDNESDAY It's A Lush Vegetarian Life Lush Covent Garden,10 The Piazza, Covent Garden, London WC2E 8RB May 20: Free fresh face mask workshop between 6 and 8pm. This promises to be a great, hands-on experience and an opportunity to try some fresh Lush products. There will also be complimentary refreshments. There are a limited number of places available, so if you would like to go please call 0207 240 4570 to book your place.

THURSDAY - Tibits - Traditional Big Breakfast Best Of British Competition - VIP's and Journalists are invited to vote on the best of vegetarianism and decide the top 10 of vegetarian excellence. The rest of us can nominate our favourites online in the Tibits guestbook
Swiss style restaurant Tibits will taste test challenge Stella McCartney to see if she still thinks her mother's pioneering vegetarian sausages are still the best tasting British Vegetarian Sausages. Tibits Book Tibits 5 a day Tibits Breakfast

FRIDAY - Cook Book Launch - The Complete Book of Vegan Cooking a new vegan cookbook by Vegetarian Society award Winning Cook Tony Bishop-Weston with Nutritional advice from London Nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston

SATURDAY & SUNDAY Hampton Court Palace East Molesey, Surrey, KT8 9AU. May 23, 24, 25: Foodies at Hampton Court. The event, which is in it’s third year, celebrates food and drink with chefs demonstrations, food and drink masterclasses and a market of specialty producers. Cordon Vert Tutor, Chico Francesco will be demonstrating on each day, a selection of delightful dishes from the Cordon Vert’s new ‘Inspired by Linda McCartney workshop’.

Metropolitan Police Catering Service - Even the Metropolitan Police canteens are going to getting in on the action - encouraging coppers to try more fruit and veg during National Vegetarian Week.



The finale of National Vegetarian Week 2009 will as always be The Bristol Vegan Fayre the world's biggest vegan festival on the 30th and 31st May 2009. Great Bands, Ethical Shopping, family Entertainment and as always so much more!

Now Vegetarian Kids can eat crap food too!

The Vegetarian Society - Haribo Press Release 2009

Yipee, at last, finally vegetarian sweets! - well actually vegetarians/vegans have had sweets for years and companies such as Just Wholefoods have madeVegeBears and even won awards for their efforts.

The trouble is they are usually only sold in health food stores as Haribo have a strangle-hold on everywhere else.

So! great news that Haribo have veganised their sweets and we can now buy vegetarian confectionery EVERYWHERE.

But do we really want vegetarian kids to eat more sweets? It was a great get out clause for parents - "oh no, sorry darling you can't eat that crap because it's got little piggies testicles, toes and ears in it and probably a little bit of it's anus too"

Now they've taken out the nasty stuff what do we do? We can't LIE, it's not PC to say "No darling, my little vegan pumpkin, you can't eat that crap because you'll end up fat and ugly like the poor kids on the bus", we could I guess threaten them with the dentist but we've spent years nuturing a good relationship with the dentist and avoiding passing on hereditry irrational fear. What the **** do we do? Not sure "have a satsuma instead" is going to cut it. Do we be economical with the truth and keep the news from them? It's only going to take one naive well meaning mum to say "don't worry little odd child, they've changed the recipe you don't have to be an alien any more you can be like all the other spotty, grossly overweight and snotty children"

Then we'd be caught out and our children would never believe a word we said, ever again - oooh - like normal kids then.

It's taken Neville Finlay 3 years to get these Halal sweets to mass market I guess we should be greatful . Personally I wish he'd stuck to vegan Caviar!

Russell Brand Hair Stylist No 1

Russell Brand’s hairdo is voted worst celeb hair in a lads’ poll | The Sun |Showbiz|Bizarre

Russell Brand wins award in Hair specialists Optima men's hair survey.... for the worst haircut.

Seems either the crew cut is back in or the researchers surveyed members of Saga and 'help the aged'.

Top five best: 1. Robert Peston; 2. DANIEL CRAIG; 3. GEORGE CLOONEY; 4. BRAD PITT; 5. DAVID BECKHAM.

Top five worst: 1. Russell Brand; 2. Jonathan Ross; 3. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen; 4. CRISTIANO RONALDO; 5. DONALD TRUMP

Video for Those Who Say Fur is NOT Cruel

A Shocking Look Inside Chinese Fur Farms: "Undercover investigators from Swiss Animal Protection/EAST International recently toured fur farms in China's Hebei Province"

I try to avoid posting Animal Rights stuff up here

A) Because most people visiting our blog understand the concept of ethical living and don't need to see animals suffering for inspiration.
B) Because adopting a plant based diet will save more tortured souls and pointless deaths and unfair trade than any other single gesture.

The trouble is that there are those who try to suggest that there is nothing wrong with the fur trade, that if you are going to eat meat, fish and dairy it is hypocritical to moan about fur - animals killed and tortured purely for selfish vanity.

Those in the fashion industry who make money out of fur try to stifle the truth about the Industry.

For that reason we here post a link to a truly revolting reservoir dogs style horror snuff movie, a video made by heroes from Swiss Animal Protection/EAST International that serves as evidence and proof, should you need it, on the true undeniable horrors of the fur trade.

Dogs are shown being skinned alive and seen writhing in pain looking into the camera, eyes pleading, with their skins removed. Best not watch it, just show to people who insist on living in denial and need the facts, the evidence , the proof.


VIDEO evidence of Cruelty in the Fur Trade

Remember it is not the Chinese that are responsible it is the naive apathetic blissfully ignorant consumers who create a market demand for fur that are to blame. Consumer wallets, purses and credit cards are the true instruments of torture not the Chinese knives. It's our fault for standing by and allowing it to be profitable to do this.

Study : Meat Diet Kills

Study suggest less red meat is better - Lifestyles - News & Observer: "The study followed more than a half million older adults for ten years. Even taking into account other factors that might affect health, including use of tobacco and exercise level, people who ate more red meat - beef, pork and lamb, for example - were likely to die sooner, especially from heart disease and cancer."

Frozen Vegan Pizza

:::: TOFUTTI ::::

How come these Pizzas aren't available in the UK?

That's total descrimnation ! First we got robbed of the Tofutti Cutie now they are depriving us of Pizza! Grrrrrrrr!

Complain here - Tofutti UK

Recipe for Roast Cat

YouTube - Cooking Kitty

Roast Cat Recipe - The Vegetarian Society launch a Delia Smith style recipe video to encourage consumers to seek alternatives to poor tortured battery farmed cows and chickens.

Feral and domestic cats are a environmental hazard and they breed like rabbits so The Vegetarian Society's video could prove a solution to global warming as mother's move from traditional Sunday roast beef and roast chicken recipes to Roast Cat.

3 Minute Chocolate Cake!

Vegan Recipes - 3 Minute Chocolate Cake!

WOW - an old trick I used to use to make girl's knees go wobbly. I was reminded by an email about a dreadful 5 Minute Chocolate cake. This one is light and fluffy and ADDICTIVE so beware.



1 minute to mix - 1 minute to cook and 1 minute to stand = 3 minutes!

3 MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE

Ingredients
3 dessertspoons soya or rice milk
2 dessertspoons Vegetable (rapeseed/canola) oil
1 heaped dessertspoon Drinking chocolate powder
1 heaped dessertspoon of soft brown sugar (or 2 dessertspoons of maple or agarve syrup )
1 heaped dessertspoon of self raising wholemeal flour

Method
Into a Coffee mug pour in dessertspoons (cereal spoon) of ingredients in order above (soya milk first)

Mix thouroughly with a teaspoon.

Microwave on full power (900-1000w) for 1 minute.

Allow to stand fo a minute

Add a spoonfull of ice cream and eat straight from the mug.

Use this delicious light fluffy chocolate cake recipe carefully or it could change your life and your waistline.

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NEW Vegetarian Omega 3



I hope everyone is now aware of how important essential fats are for the integrity of every cell membrane in the body and also the difficulties of processing omega 3 flax oil into the important omega 3 long chain fatty acid EPA in the body.

For a few years now we have had V-Pure extracted from Algae but although it has good amounts of DHA it's relatively low in EPA for therapeutic use (only 75mg per dose)

Now there is Echium oil in the form of Echiomega an SDA rich oil with GLA that is claimed to provide 300mg of EPA from 1 gram of Echium oil and is 5 times more effective at conversion than omega 3 ALA rich flax oil.

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Veggie Russell Brand Wanted for The Simpsons

Simpson roles for Barack Obama and Russell Brand | The Sun |Showbiz|TV

The Producers from The Simpsons have revealed they are keen to have US President Barack Obama and UK Essex Comedian Russell Brand on The Simpsons legendary long running comedy cartoon series. Brand won't be the first famous vegetarian. Paul and Linda McCartney once appeared in The Simpsons to help Lisa go vegetarian.

Heather Mills £4.3 Million Burger King Transfusion

Heather Mills Signs Burger King Deal | Showbiz Spy

Heather Mills, Sir Paul McCartney's ex wife has just signed a deal with BK Burger King to promote the new BK vegan veggie Whopper burger for £4.3 million pounds. This is a little bit of a poke in the eye for The Vegetarian Society who allegedly get less than a half a per cent of that amount for promoting the McDonalds vegetarian option despite having the backing of Sir Paul McCartney himself.

Heather is notoriously generous on animal rights issues and it's hoped a percentage of that fee will find it's way in supporting vegan campaigns in the UK and around the world.

Thousands of people attended the Brighton Vegan Festival on Saturday despite the distraction of the glorious sunny seaside weather. Having bought a new vegan cafe in nearby Hove it was hoped Heather Mills would attend but she was clearly preparing for mothers day with Beatrice.

Vegan Shop London - Opening this Mother's Day

SSOV Blog - Our Camden Shop - Opening this weekend!


OK You now have TWO choices this Saturday and Mothering Sunday/Mothers Day treat for Ethical Mums

1) Go to The Seaside - Britains biggest Vegan Festival hits Brighton in the Brighton Centre with vegan cinema, vegan art gallery, vegan cookery demos, vegan live music, Vegan Reggae, Vegan Talks, Vegan Celebrities, Vegan Penthouse Restaurant with sea view, Vegan shopping, vegan shoes, vegan cakes, vegan fish and chips, vegan hot dogs, vegan cosmetics, vegan nutrition,etc (See Croydon Guardian )

OR if you just totally screwed up your diary and you can't get to Brighton then

2) The opening of The Secret Society of Vegans (shhhh don't tell a soul) fantasmagorical new shop in Camden.

The choice is yours but you only have 2 choices OK? O'Kaaaay?

Heather Mills to Open Seaside Cafe in Brighton

Heather Mills snaps up favourite seaside café for vegan venture

Lady Heather Mills-McCartney probably back to Heather Mills now she is divorced plans to open a vegetarian seaside cafe in Brighton - well the next town on - Hove.

Animal Rights campaigner and strict Vegan, Heather 41 has taken over the Big Fish café in Hove, East Sussex.

Heather Mills used to eat there with Paul McCartney and their daughter Beatrice before the couple's divorce. "They'd have veggie breakfasts and soya milk tea," says the previous owner of the big fish café Nick Short. "Heather said she'd like to buy the place if it came on the market."

The sale went through with Heather Mills on Friday for £140,000 – £115,000 less than the original pre recession price of £255,000 Heather had allegedly originally verbally agreed to pay for the business.

Heather apparently plans to renovate the property and turn it into 100% vegan cafe restaurant removing all meat fish and other animal products from the menu.

It's thought Heather Mills and her daughter Beatrice may pop into the Brighton Vegan Fayre in The Brighton Centre on Saturday 21st March to get ideas for her new menu. There will be a big emphasis on healthy food at The Brighton Vegan Food and something for everyone with a cowboy style fast food bar, Vegan pirate salads and smoothies and a gourmet Penthouse restaurant in the Skyline with impressive views out to sea. Surprises such as vegan fish and chips , vegan steak salad, Vegan Sausage and Mash as well as some delicious traditional style fresh vegetable, nut and bean dishes will open people's eyes to the full potential of a healthy, sustainable, ethical vegan lifestyle.

Best suggestions so far for the new name of Heather Mills Seaside Cafe in Brighton is to change it from 'Big Fish' to 'Big Wish' or 'Small Fry' - 'Windy Miller's' is our top tip.

Natalie Portman helps make a noise

Natalie Portman Hears 'A Powerful Noise' - Socialite Life

Natalie Portman Hears A Powerful Noise - Socialite Life

Celebrity NATALIE Portman stepped forward to promote a women's rights film 'Powerful Noise' for International Women's Day

Natalie Portman clearly has bare naked ambition on women's rights issues, I wonder what she is doing for Mother's Day?