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In this Viva! City:
Stop the Cull!: National Rally for the Badgers
Kangaroo Massacre at
Belconnen
Youth Get Active!
Can you help Viva! find Britain’s
Best Young Veggie?
Macho Man Challenge
Make
This Father’s Day a Cruelty-free One ...
Nottingham
Incredible Veggie Roadshow!
Switch to Ecotricity (and help Viva! too)
Last Call!: Become a School Speaker
Travel and Catering Tips
Join the Club
Other Links and Events
Stop the Cull!:
Viva! National Rally for the Badgers
Cardiff, June 28
2008. 1pm
outside the Welsh Assembly Building
(Debating Rooms)
(followed by talk, stalls and teas and coffee from 2pm to 4pm at the nearby Future
Inn Cardiff Bay Hotel (Ennistown and Emma rooms)).
Please help
– badgers desperately need us! They are wrongly accused of being the
main source for the spread of TB amongst cattle. The real culprit, of course,
is the dairy industry – whose greed and bad practices are causing TB to
spread like wildfire. Despite Britain’s top scientists telling the
government that a cull of badgers would actually make things worse, farmers
are still calling for their pound of badger flesh. This is madness – a potential
wildlife massacre on an almost unprecedented scale.
The Welsh Assembly have decided that a trial badger cull is to go ahead later
this year. We must try and persuade them to change their minds otherwise the
pro-cull policy could spread to the rest of the UK. It is important that
we stand up for the badgers, and that is why we are organising a peaceful
rally and photo call outside the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff to try and make
them see sense. The more people there the louder the message!
Please join us on the day – we will bring everything you need.
Click here to for
more information and directions.
If you can’t make it on the day (please do
try!), we are also producing a great new door-dropper campaign leaflet that
highlight the plight of the badger and shows consumers the link between
consuming meat and dairy and destruction of our wildlife.
To order leaflets, send emails to politicians and to
find out what else you can do to help the badger click here!
Kangaroo Massacre
at Belconnen
Your emails and the international press coverage
Viva! was able to generate won the kangaroos at a disused Australian military
base a temporary reprieve, but now the slaughter has begun of 400 of these
beautiful animals. This follows tireless work by wildlife campaigners in Australia to try and find a
non-lethal solution - from translocating the kangaroos to establishing a
wildlife sanctuary on the base. It seems that money has won out, as the
authorities now say it would be too expensive to move the kangaroos, and it
is reported that the land has been earmarked for redevelopment as housing.
Wildlife always loses out to greed. Please click here
to find out what you can do.
Youth Get Active!
The new website for teen activists - www.vivaactivists.org.uk -
launched earlier this month and is already proving to be a great success. The
new site makes it easier for young people to contact Viva!’s youth team
directly to ensure they get fast responses to their requests. The site also
boasts a selection of quizzes, wallpapers, banners and competitions as well
as plenty of advise on how to get involved with Viva!’s latest youth
campaign So Cute. Send the link
to any young veggies you know, the more young people who get involved in our
work the better! Check it out here.
Can you help Viva! find Britain’s
Best Young Veggie?
A competition to find Britain’s Best Young
Veggie has been launched by Viva!. The aim of the search is to get activists
across the country
competing for the sought after title. Any veggies aged 21 years or younger are
eligible, and once selected, the winner will be showered with prizes for being
such an inspirational veggie. Entrants must be nominated to be in with a
chance – and anyone can nominate! – and if they win, even their
nominee will receive prizes from Viva!. To find out more, please visit www.vivaactivists.org.uk and
click competition.
Macho Man
Challenge
Are you under 21? For a special treat this
Father’s Day, Viva! have provided delicious veggie recipes for manly
meals! Not only will this amazing gift teach your Dad a priceless lesson in
compassionate dinning, it could also win you (and your Dad) prizes! So if you
think you’ve got what it takes, to impress your meaty Dad with your
skills in the kitchen, take the Macho Man Challenge at www.vivaactivists.org.uk and tell
us why you want your Dad to go veggie, and why he deserves a special
Father’s Day present from Viva!. The winner (and their Dad) will
receive a goodie bag of prizes.
Make This
Father’s Day a Cruelty-free One ...
Also, looking for that special something for
Father’s day that is unique and cruelty-free? Why not show him you care
with Viva!’s very own range of compassionate fashion including our
brand new, super sexy, black boxer shorts. Complete with the phrase
“All this & veggie too” or “All this & vegan
too”, these fair-trade undies make a fantastic present for all those
veggie and vegan dads out there.
Visit Viva!’s web shop before June 15
for even more inspired ideas for Dads.
The Incredible
Veggie Roadshow Rolls into Nottingham!
Viva!’s Incredible Veggie Roadshow will
be rolling into Nottingham on Saturday, July 5 2008.
A brilliant free
family day out, there will be cookery demonstrations, talks, veggie stalls,
competitions, cruelty-free fashion, beauty products, vegan food products,
books, information and campaign news. And free nutritional advice will be
available all day.
Find out more about it and see the full list of
shows here. If you can offer
us help for any shows – we would especially like to hear from you if
you can help out publicising the event locally by putting up posters or
handing out invites, or if you can help out on the day itself – please get in touch. It’s incredibly
rewarding to see so many people interested in vegetarianism and the shows
have proved so busy so far that we really need all the help we can get!
Switch to
Ecotricity (and help Viva! too)
Ecotricity is an electricity company with a
difference. As green energy pioneers, they are dedicated to building new
sources of renewable energy to fight climate change.
The company take the money their customers spend on
electricity and invest it in clean forms of power like wind energy. What's
more, they're the only green electricity company actually building these new
renewable energy sources.
Over the last four years Ecotricity have invested
£1 in building new wind turbines for every £1 their customers have spent on
their bills – that’s £460 per customer, per year.
As well as protecting the environment you
shouldn’t have to pay a penny more, that’s because with their New
Energy tariff they promise to match the standard price of your regional
supplier. Best of all Ecotricity will also
donate £15 to Viva! for every supporter who makes the switch.
It’s really easy to switch and takes only five minutes.
Act now and sign up to Ecotricity at www.ecotricity.com/viva or by
ringing 0800 0326 100. Remember to mention
Viva! when you do.
Last Call!: Become
a School Speaker
Viva! and the Vegetarian
& Vegan Foundation School
Speaker Training Day
Saturday,
June
7 2008 10.00-5.00 at Carrs Lane Church Centre, Carrs Lane, Birmingham B4 7SX.
Calling
all animal advocates! We need you – especially if you live in the Midlands – to get into
schools and promote the veggie message!
The day costs only £10 waged/£5 unwaged, which
includes a copy of The Viva! Guide to Speaking in Schools, our teen video
Food for Life, leaflets and vegan refreshments. For more info and to book a
place click here.
Viva!
and VVF Here to Help!
Travel and catering tips
Being veggie or vegan has never been easier, but
could all do with a little help sometimes! That’s why Viva! and our
sister organisation the Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation have put together some
veggie catering and vegan travel tips. Visit Viva!’s travel tips or catering tips
– and check out the VVF’s travel tips
and catering
advice.
Join the Club…
Never again need you struggle for inspired recipe ideas!
Now you now have your own online chef and nutritionist on hand 24 hours a day
at the click of a mouse. Jane, our virtual chef, will welcome you and
introduce you to this amazing website. Even if you’ve never cooked
veggie before, Jane from the VVF will get you started.
As well as host of recipes – which will continue to grow like bean
sprouts – you can tell us the ingredients you’ve got to hand and
we’ll tell you what to do with them! A kind of Ready, Steady Cook
Veggie.
To make sure you’re eating right, Amanda, our own
virtual nutritionist, will put you through a Health MOT. You can even analyse your own poo,
Gillian McKeith style if you insist!
Join the online Recipe Club here – by joining the
VVF you will be given a supporter number which you can use to access the club
online.
Alternatively, if you want a colourful
folder sent to your home with dividers, recipes, health tips and seasonal
updates four times a year join here.
Simply Click to
Raise Money for the VVF!
Did you know that there’s a search engine
that gives money to charity every time you search the web? Simply visit www.everyclick.com and designate The
Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation as your charity of choice and you’ll
be funding their life saving campaigns.
Other Links and
Events
Saturday
May 31 – June 1, 11am-8pm
Bristol Vegan Fayre
Two-day vegan extravaganza with live music and a host of other entertainment
as well as stalls, cookery demos and talks, and a variety of caterers. Viva!
and the Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation will be there so come along and say
hi! Visit www.bristolveganfayre.co.uk
for details. Advance weekend tickets are £12 (£10 + £2 booking fee) or day tickets
are £5 on the day (but get there early to guarantee entry!).
Tuesday June 3
Food & Climate Action
An opportunity to highlight the message the livestock sector generates more
greenhouse emissions as measured in CO2 equivalent – 18 percent –
than transport. Details via www.veggies.org.uk/climate
Saturday June 7, 10.30am-3pm
Redditch Green Fair
St Stephens Church, Redditch Town Centre
The 3rd annual and independent green fair in Redditch will promote
sustainable, eco-friendly living. The event will feature 20+ stalls offering
eco products, fair-trade goods, organic produce, natural gifts and lots of
`green` info and advice. Includes a free vegan food sample stall by Redditch
Veggies & Vegans, a Viva stall and a Midlands Vegan Campaigns tombola.
Organised by the Redditch
Alliance of Greens. Tel: 01527
458395. www.redditchgreenfair.org.uk
Sunday June 15, 1-5pm
Greenfest
West
London
Furnivall
Gardens,
Hammersmith
Around 50 stalls (including London Vegans), London Cycling Campaign,
Sustainable Travel Roadshow, kids activities, entertainment, live music, food
and more. See www.greenfest.org.uk
for details.
Business Friends
Please support
our sponsors and help fund our life saving work
Alternative
Stores www.alternativestores.com
A one stop ethical
shop for all your veggie & vegan goods. See our range of affordable
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Bourgeois
Boheme www.bboheme.com
Animal-friendly
fashion online boutique, now with their new retail location – London’s first vegan
footwear and accessory shop! More information at http://www.bboheme.com/about_us.php#shop
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Meet likeminded
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Veggieromance.com - meet your other half.
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