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“Fish” & Chips with tartare sauce & mushy peas
When my “veganized” version of this British classic went viral on YouTube, lots of people found my channel from this video! It’s a great treat and will fool any of your non-vegan friends. Making your own creamy mayonnaise is really easy. The taste will leave you wondering why mayonnaise was ever made with eggs! I strongly recommend using a hand […]
Chocolate and ginger tart (gluten free)
This is a vegan chocoholic’s dream. It is rich and creamy, and yet there’s no dairy in it. This is the favourite tart of the most cheerful customer we have at the bakery, so we’ll often make it just to thank her for brightening our day when she comes in. It can be made up […]
Vegan is the new kosher, rabbis worldwide declare
Rabbi David Rosen, one of the leading Jewish interfaith activists, would like Jews to consider veganism as the new kosher. He joins more than 70 rabbis worldwide who have signed a declaration urging Jews around the world to embrace veganism. Read the full CBC story here.
Vegans give Shavuot a new taste
In Israel, growing numbers of people are avoiding dairy—the basis for many of the holiday’s famous recipes. So chefs are creating new recipes that everyone can enjoy, writes Flora Tsapovsky in Tablet Mag, click here to read the full story.
Shavuot: The perfect time to cut out meat
Richard Schwartz writes about applying Torah values to our diets. The president emeritus of Jewish Veg argues that this holiday is the perfect time to cut out meat. Because Shavuot is z’man matan Torateinu (the commemoration of the giving of the Torah), many religious Jews stay up the entire first night of the holiday to discuss Torah teachings. […]
Sixty senior rabbis call for end to ‘evil crime’ of live animal shipments
Chief rabbi of Beersheba says every rabbi should join protest; anyone buying such meat is complicit in activity that is against human and Torah morality, writes Sue Surkes in Times of Israel. Click here to read the full story. Image credit: Screenshot from Australian TV’s “60 Minutes” broadcast about live shipments, “Sheep, Ships and Videotape,” shown […]
Top tips to celebrate a vegan Shavuot – Jewish Chronicle
There’s no need to skip the Shavuot party if you don’t do dairy, writes Victoria Prever. Here in the UK, Lara Balsam, Director of the Jewish Vegetarian Society, herself a vegan, says that it’s far easier nowadays to find good vegan alternatives to traditional dishes : “Enjoying a vegan Shavuot has never been easier or tastier. […]
Masala mamas – cooking up an education for Mumbai slum children
Click here to read the Jewish Chronicle’s feature about a brand new veggie cookbook with a very special story behind it.
One third of early deaths could be prevented if everyone moved to a vegetarian diet, Harvard scientists have calculated
Dr Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard Medical School said the benefits of a plant-based diet had been vastly underestimated. Recent figures from the Office for National Statistics suggested that around 24 per cent or 141,000 deaths each year in Britain were preventable, but most of that was due to smoking, alcohol or obesity. […]
France bans use of ‘meat terms’ for products which don’t contain meat
As explained here by Vegan Life Magazine, under a new law in France, the use of terms including ‘sausage’, ‘burger’ and ‘steak’ for veggie products will result in fines of up to €300,000 (around £260,000). We would much rather see the French government ban the likes of foie gras which causes untold misery for ducks and […]