Veg Soc in the news
News archive 2007
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November: The November issue of Trafford
Today, our local authority's newsletter, carried a report about the Society
and the Cordon Vert School entitled "Trafford - the international
home of vegetarianism".
November 11: Our "Silent but deadly" campaign
is mentioned in the Observer in the article Why
eating less meat could cut global warming. (The poster was also
pictured in the print version)
November 9: Our Christmas recipes were mentioned in
the Vegetarian BBC Good Food Magazine's Christmas edition.
November 6: Tuesday 6 November 2007, BBC Autumnwatch
presenters Kate Humble and Bill Oddie namecheck The Vegetarian Society
after Twiggy and Woody (the beavers) are made honorary members of the
Society. To find out more read on
October: Great news, our ‘Silent
but deadly’ campaign has been shortlisted in the Best Press category
(Under £100k).
http://www.greenawards.co.uk/entries/2007_shortlist
October 29: Scott Maslen ( EastEnders, The Bill) appeared
on the Paul O’Grady Show on Channel 4 and name checked The Vegetarian
Society
The WCRF report: read
our statement
13 October: Our Seedling Symbol got a mention
in the Telegraph's Culinary
Advice section when someone asked what "suitable for vegetarians" really
means on labels. |
19 September: We were featured on Channel
4 news. You can watch it if you follow the link below - it's near the
end of the McDonald Report - channel 4 news
The
Guardian featured our "Silent but Deadly" promotion. |
| 10 September: The Cordon Vert Cookery School is featured
in Manchester Confidential |
| 4 August: Liz O'Neill, Head of Communications for The Vegetarian
Society, did a short interview on Vanessa Feltz programme on BBC Radio
London in the morning, about Harvey Nichols’ decision to stop selling
Foie Gras. |
| 31 July: Liz O’Neill, Head of Communications,
The Vegetarian Society appeared on BBC Radio Five Live’s Midday News
programme talking about the health benefits of a vegetarian diet.
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| 18 July: Meat is Murder on the Environment. New Scientist
quoted us while reporting a new study into the effects of meat on the environment:
(Link
to New Scientist) |
| 11 July: Our chief executive, Annette Pinner,
appeared on Radio 4's Today programme to talk about vegetarianism and global
warming. |
10 July: Liz O'Neill, our Head of Communications, was
asked to write a blog about environmental issues on Comment is Free:
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/liz_oneill/2007/07/hot_air.html |
| Other vegetarian stories in the news |
November 28: Children at a vegetarian
nursery in Norwich were today revealed to be among the best-fed youngsters
in the UK!
The lucky youngsters at the University of East Anglia Nursery were celebrating
after the nursery was named one of just four highly commended nurseries in the
very first Nursery Food Awards. The awards, which are the first of their kind,
were run by pioneering food company Organix, in partnership with the Soil Association,
following on from their successful School Food Awards, and supported by Hobart
and Nursery World magazine.
November 2: Gordon Ramsay appeared on
Friday Night With Jonathon Ross. Not only did Jonathon correct Mr Ramsay
when he said that vegetarians ate fish but the chef seemed to have
met his match in Girls Aloud star Cheryl Tweedy Cole (a vegetarian herself).
If you would like to see the interview then it’s on our myspace
site - but please beware there is very strong language involved. Visit www.myspace.com/vegsoc and
go to the bulletin boards.
31 October: With the World Cancer Research
Fund report due out today - several reports have appeared in the papers:
- Daily
Telegraph
- LA
Times
- The
Sydney Morning Herald
28 October: Denis Campbell, health correspondent
for The
Observer, writers about a study linking red meat and alcohol to increased
risk of cancer.
13 October: the East Anglian Times had
a report about The Red Lion pub in Great Bricett, whose landlady, Jan
Wise, has decided to serve only veggie meals.
8 October: Manchester
Evening News reported that vegetarian food manufacturer (and Seedling
Symbol holders) Goodlife, based in Warrington, had secured funding to
boost increased production in the run-up to Christmas. It seems many
people prefer their butternut squash and nut roasts to turkey! |
11 September: Vegetarian Chef wins TV Competition.
Chef from the Bean Inn vegetarian restaurant in St Ives Bay, Paula Richards
recently
featured in the new series of “The Peoples Cookbook” (UK
TV Food) which is broadcast this week. Paula had to work with top chefs
Antony Worrall Thompson & Paul Rankin to recreate her most popular
restaurant dish in front of a studio audience and professional tasting
panel and was thrilled with winning the competition.
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| 11 July: Chrissie Hynde lobbies for vegetarianism (link
to ContactMusic) |
| 10 July: Paul
McCartney wants the world
to turn veggie to halt global warming (link
to Daily Mirror) |
9 July: Moby hits out at Live Earth for serving meat:
http://www.gigwise.com/news.asp?contentid=34439 |
2 July: The prospect of (vegetarian) Mr
Benn taking charge of livestock issues as Secretary of State for Environment,
Food and Rural
Affairs has
caused sharp intakes of breath in the farming world: (link
to Daily Telegraph)
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