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Veg Soc in the news

Keeping vegetarianism in the news and being a voice for vegetarians are important elements of The Vegetarian Society’s work. This page highlights a small selection of current stories in the media at present. This page will be updated at least once a week so please visit again.

May 9: National Vegetarian Week is featured in Delicious with a review of vegetarian restaurants.

May Issue: Marie Claire have featured our Silent but deadly environment campaign and National vegetarian Week in their ‘eco news’ section.

May Issue: Natural Heath drew together four of “…the world’s healthiest, time-honoured diets based on wellbeing – not weight loss”. We were very pleased to see that a vegetarian diet is number one and is quoted as being of “benefit to your health and the environment”.

May Issue: Cheshire Life have featured National Vegetarian Week and our patrons in their latest issue.

May Issue: Country Kitchen published a two-page spread on vegetarian food to promote National Vegetarian Week. The article reminded us that “Vegetarain food doesn’t have to be all unimaginative vegetable dishes topped with cheese.”.

May Issue: Concept for Living published a news piece about National Vegetarian Week and included our poster in the article.

May Issue: Healthy and Organic Living ran a 5-page feature spread promoting the environmental and health benefits of a vegetarian diet. This veggie special issue also recommended organic tofu made by Cauldron, our sponsors for NVW as a great meat-substitute and featured recipe suggestions from our new recipes booklet ‘Meat-free made easy’.

May Issue of BBC Good Food magazine ran a 5 page spread of recipes commissioned for National Vegetarian Week. The menu for 6 is perfect for serving up at a dinner party to celebrating NVW (May 19 – 25). NVW was also name-checked as a diary date in two other features in the magazine.

May Issue of Olive magazine published a diary date for our National Vegetarian Week.

May Issue of Period House magazine featured a selection of the top veggie food and drink products to celebrate National Vegetarian Week. The article included our approved product, Whistable Bay Organic Ale . Similar to the Good Food magazine, Period House also featured a special recipe collection to celebrate NVW from Gregg Wallace’s new book, A Cook’s Year.

April 16: Recipes4us.co.uk have a great article on National Vegetarian Week and becoming Vegetarian.

April 15: Su Taylor, Press Officer, had her letter to The Scotsman printed in which she corrected an inaccuracy in a article previously published that mentioned a vegetarian being someone who eats fish.

April 15: North-West Evening Mail urged businesses in South Cumbria to get involved with National Vegetarian Week.

April 11: Ladies First featured our National Vegetarian Week in their diary pages.

April 11: Consultant editor and omnivore Fiona Briggs from Talking Retail will be going veggie for National Vegetarian Week in response to the environmental impact of a non-vegetarian diet and the global food crisis.

April 4: Off Licence News answered a reader’s question about full page

April 1: The trade publication, Cost Sector Catering, listed National Vegetarian Week in their ‘What’s On Where?’ pages.

April Issue: Tesco Foodie magazine offered up 8 “delicious ways to go meat-free for National Vegetarian Week”

Spring Issue of Caris, the new handbag magazine for girls, ran a two page spread on what girls should consider when choosing to be veggie

March 30: Rose Elliot, our patron, was interviewed in Scotland on Sunday

March 30: In answer to a reader’s query, Sophie Butler in the Sunday Telegraph recommended our Cordon Vert Cookery School as the best place for the reader’s daughter to learn how to cook vegetarian meals.

March 27: Positive Health ran our news that Cauldron Foods will be sponsoring this year’s National Vegetarian Week.

March 25: Agalinks.com featured a page on NVW including a mention of our new recipe booklet ‘Meat-free made easy’.

March 22: The Times featured advice from Caroline Chisholm, Head of Communications in their advice column ‘Ask Your Father’. The column gave advice on what to say when a 6 year old says “Mummy, why do we eat fluffy lambs?” to which Caroline replied, “Children are empathetic to animals in the field and pets, and they don’t see any distinction between the two, which in some sense is quite right. Both are sentient beings. Children are also very perceptive and it’s important to discuss the issues with them, however young they are. Otherwise they could imagine much worse or be confused. Be honest and informative”

March 20: Woking News and Mail published a letter from a clued up veggie who pointed out the environmental impact of being a meat-eater and recommended that people contact us for more information.

Other stories of interest in the news

May 9:

What a waste: Britain throws away £10bn of food every year. Global food shortages, soaring prices and alarm over the environment. But every day, Britain throws away 220,000 loaves of bread, 1.6m bananas, 550,000 chickens, 5.1m potatoes, 660,000 eggs, 1.2m sausages and 1.3m yoghurts - seen in The Independent

London Aware 2008. We are all aware that climate change is here. Everyone can choose to make a difference just by considering the options that they have in every day life (and in business too). But what should we be doing and what should we not be doing?- from UKaware.com

Cod fall may speed 'toxic tide' Declining fish stocks could be partly responsible for algal blooms in the oceans, researchers have found - seen on bbc.co.uk

Why free range meat costs the earth. Intensively reared chicken can claim to be the most climate friendly meat, says Tom Heap - seen on the First Post

New report shows edible cities are the future. There are huge opportunities to grow more food in our cities, a new report by Sustain[1] shows. Edible Cities,[2] looks at examples of urban agriculture projects in cities including New York, Milwaukee and Chicago and identifies a series of opportunities that other cities could be adopting - seen on sustainweb

Outrage at European moves to feed animal remains to chickens. The European Union is preparing plans to allow pig remains to be used to feed poultry. The practice - banned in Europe after the BSE crisis 10 years ago - would save farmers millions of pounds as prices of cereal feed for chickens soar, say officials in Brussels - seen in The Guardian

Letters: Organic farming. In a world running out of oil, we must rely on organic farming - seen in The Independent

Dove story: how you're helping to change Unilever's mind on palm oil. Potentially good news for orang-utans - Unilever announced this morning that they're now supporting our calls for a moratorium to protect Indonesia's rainforests from destruction at the hands of the expanding palm oil industry - seen on greenpeace.org

April 29:

Tesco carbon footprint study confirms organic farming’s energy efficiency but excludes key climate benefit of organic farming – soil carbon A study looking at the carbon-footprint of a range of key consumer staples sold through Tesco has reported that the two organic products studied generated no more and in some cases less greenhouse gases than the same amount grown non-organically - seen: The Soil Association

RSPCA says pets are falling prey to a throwaway society The number of pets being abandoned by owners in the UK has grown by almost 25 per cent in a year, raising concern that animals are the latest victims of a “throwaway society” - seen in The Times

Supermarket trials carbon labels Supermaket chain Tesco has announced that a range of its own-brand products will carry labels showing the size of the goods' carbon footprints - seen on the BBC

Vestal Vegan to beat global warming, you have to go veggie, claims Paul Mccartney. but how easy is it to be meat-free? Kate Smith decided to avoid all animal food products for a month to find out - seen in The Sunday Herald

‘Torture Burgers’ off the menu at Burger King Fast food chain dumps foie-gras burger after protests VIVA! – Europe’s largest campaigning vegetarian organisation – is claiming victory today after Burger King scrapped a proposal to use foie-gras in a ‘luxury’ charity burger - seen: Viva

April 25:

Animal lovers hopping mad over Bath kangaroo burgers. Business urged to drop dead wildlife from menu. A BATH pub serving kangaroo burgers has been contacted by Bristol-based vegetarian campaigning group Viva! asking them to take it off the menu, after concerns were raised by animal lovers- seen in viva.org

Exposed: How cheap factory-farmed meat, fish and eggs are passed off as luxury goods costing shoppers billions. Cheap food is being dressed up as top-quality produce in a vast fraud costing shoppers £7billion a year, it is claimed today. There is mounting evidence of battery farm eggs being sold as free range, farmed fish passed off as wild and inferior meat labelled as organic - seen in The Daily Mail

Research animals ruling overturned. A ruling that the Government was failing in its legal duty to ensure the suffering of animals used in laboratory experiments was kept to a minimum has been overturned - seen in The Press Association and BUAV (pdf)

EU bioethanol production slump. BIOETHANOL production slumped in the EU last year as high feedstock prices forced buyers to look outside of Europe for their fuel - seen in Farmers Guardian

Forum to discuss how cooperating on animal welfare can boost global trade. (pdf)

UN food chief urges crisis action . The head of the UN World Food Programme has said urgent action is required to stimulate food production and help the poor cope with soaring food prices - seen in the BBC

Brown sounds retreat on biofuels. IT WAS seen as a radical solution to tackle climate change by reducing harmful gases from car exhausts, while sheltering motorists from soaring petrol prices - seen in The Scotsman

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