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Veggie wine, and not a carrot in sight
[Daily Mail, 15 March 2016] ONE of the most bizarre modern food fads to hit the supermarket shelves is ‘vegetarian wine’. More than half of Waitrose’s wines, some 735 labels, are vegetarian-approved, with 545 being vegan. Marks and Spencer has 549 approved types, while Sainsbury offers 230 and Tesco 142. Being veggie, what these drinks […]
Is it time to give up leather? Feature in the Guardian
Written by Lucy Siegle for The Observer Cows have long been farmed to fuel the fast food market. Now, by turning leather into a seasonal fashion, they are becoming part of fast fashion. Soon we will have to kill 430m every year. Lucy Siegle gets to grips with life without leather (well almost) After months […]
Tesco to give all unsold food to charity after finalising deal
Written by Caroline Mortimer for the Independent Tesco has agreed a deal to donate all the unsold food from its stores to charity. The supermarket giant announced plans to work with 5,000 local charities across the UK in an initiative that aims to eradicate all its food waste by the end of 2017. It said […]
Healthy eating from a different lifetime – Jewish Chronicle
Fania Lewando’s Yiddish cookery book, published before the war, has been translated for a new audience, writes Victoria Prever for the Jewish Chronicle. Imagine a restaurant offering cabbage kreplekh (kreplach), Polish-influenced cheese piroshky (soft doughy parcels oozing with gooey cheese) and potato cutlets stuffed with mushrooms. Eight decades ago, in the 1930s, a restaurant serving […]
Factory farming divestment: what you need to know
Written by Tom Levitt for the Guardian After the success of campaigns to get investors to divest from fossil fuel companies, factory farming is the next target The fast food chain Subway is latest to join the backlash against antibiotic use in the farm sector. It has launched a new chicken sandwich in the US […]
Spanish Designer Makes Cruelty-Free & Biodegradable Vegan Leather from Pineapples
Written by Anna Starostinetskaya for Vegnews Carmen Hijosa creates Piñatex as a biodegradable and cruelty-free alternative to animal leather. The new leather-like Piñatex—a material similar to canvas derived from repurposed pineapple leaf waste matter—has been created by Spanish designer, Carmen Hijosa. A biodegradable and cruelty-free alternative to animal leather, Piñatex sells for approximately $5 to $15 per square […]
Vegan diet ‘can cut risk of prostate cancer by 35 per cent’ – The Independent
Written by Kashmira Gander for the Independent Leading a vegan lifestyle can cut the risk of prostate cancer by 35 per cent, a new study has suggested. A vegan diet is void of all animal products and is instead based entirely on plant foods, including fruit, vegetables, nuts and grains. The US researches behind the […]
Amputated Hands and Torn Fingers: The Meat-Processing Industry’s Horrifying Injuries
Written by Michelle Chen for the Nation At one of America’s biggest packinghouses, livestock isn’t the only kind of meat getting butchered. Fingertips and thumbs are part of a strange new inventory at Tyson Foods. The company, with more than 400 facilities nationwide employing more than 110,000 workers, brands itself as “feeding you like family,” […]
Thousands of dairy farms face closure as debts reach crisis levels
Written by By Elizabeth Anderson and Rhiannon Bury for the Telegraph Thousands of dairy farms face closure as debts reach crisis levels. Around a fifth could close this year, according to some estimates. As many as one in five of the UK’s 10,000-plus dairy farms could be forced to close this year, as falling milk prices and rising debt […]
It’s Time for Veganism to Embrace the Past to Build the Future: Huffington Post
Written by Damien Clarkson for The Huffington Post The secret is out…. After 70 years of hard campaigning veganism has arrived in the mainstreams consciousness. Last month Veganuary – where people give veganism a go for a month – saw an unprecedented level of support as at least 23,000 people ditched animal products for January. […]