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VIVA! EMAIL NEWS ALERT: August 2008

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Welsh Day of Action for Badgers!

Green Your Life – and help save the planet!
Veggie Month 2008
The Safety of Soya
Incredible Veggie Roadshow comes to Portsmouth!
The fish eating vegetarian?

Job: Full Time Web Designer/Developer
Other Links and Events
Business Friends

Welsh Day of Action for Badgers!
Saturday, 20 September, 2008

England may have said "No" to a 'cull' of badgers, but the Welsh Assembly are stubbornly pressing ahead with plans to slaughter wildlife in a misguided attempt to control bovine TB.

To raise support in Wales for both badgers and common sense, we are organising a Day of Action across Wales in September. Unless we achieve a U-turn, the Welsh countryside will be littered with cages, and thousands of animals could lose their lives.

We have new free Welsh specific materials and good science on our side - we just need you!

Download the leaflet here (PDF). Find out how you can order it (and other free materials) and how to get involved here.

There are more ideas on how you can get involved with the general campaign here.  Also, check out Viva!'s shocking factsheet on badgers and cattle TB – and why going vegan protects our wildlife – here.

Green Your Life – and help save the planet!

The world is at a crossroads, most environmental scientists believe, and there is little time left to mend our ways. With carbon footprints the size of Goliath’s and rampant consumption, we in the West need to dramatically change our lifestyle – and do it quickly.

Viva!’s latest magazine – Green Your Life – shows how everyone can, almost overnight, dramatically reduce their impact on the globe. The two greatest threats to the planet come from diet and power generation and Viva! provides the why’s and how’s of changing both. Following this lead will immediately slash your carbon footprint and dramatically reduce global warming PLUS end your part in the world’s other accelerating environmental disasters.

Green Your Life has been produced in co-operation with Ecotricity, the world’s first truly green energy company, which invests only in wind generation.

Every Viva! supporter will have received the magazine. If you are not a supporter why not join and, as well as getting our great thrice yearly magazine, also support our life saving campaigns? In the meantime, click here to read the magazine in full online or here to find out more information.

Veggie Month 2008!
Saving farmed and wild animals

We have already had a fantastic response to this year’s Veggie Month, but it’s not too late to get involved!

This year we are determined to expose the role the meat and dairy industries have in the destruction of biodiversity – by destroying the natural habitats of wild animals. To do this, we have produced a fantastic new leaflet and poster: ‘Your next burger could cost him his LIFE!’. You can order these free materials (and many more!) to help spread the ‘Go Veggie’ message. Click here to download the new leaflet (PDF), or order your materials here and find out how even just half an hour of your time could help save thousands of animals.  

The Safety of Soya

You may have seen the latest anti-soya news story on soya and male fertility. It’s based on a very small study of overweight men experiencing fertility problems – hardly typical. Viva!’s sister group, the Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation (VVF) get more nutritional enquiries about soya than any other subject. Nearly every day someone emails or telephones the VVF to ask is soya safe? Can it harm children? Will it feminise boys? Does it contain hormones? There is a huge amount of misinformation and downright daftness about soya which is why they have launched a website dedicated to informing and myth-busting. If you want to read a fully-referenced factsheet on the safety of soya, find out more about soya-based infant formulas, read some of the most frequently asked questions and access some delicious recipes go to www.safetyofsoya.com.

Incredible Veggie Roadshow comes to Portsmouth!

Viva!’s Incredible Veggie Roadshow will be rolling into Portsmouth on Saturday 27 September 2008.

Free entry! A brilliant family day out, there will be cookery demonstrations, talks, stalls,  food tastings, competitions, cruelty-free fashion, beauty products, vegan food products, books, information and campaign news. And free nutritional advice will be available all day.

If you can help publicise 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 veganism and as a result of our efforts to date millions of animals have been saved.

The fish eating vegetarian?

Do vegetarians or vegans eat fish? No, of course not! However, it never ceases to amaze us the eateries that try and palm off dishes containing fish as veggie, or dishes with dairy and honey in as vegan. Let us know if you come across this and we’ll get on the case! Email Angie with those food offenders who could do with a little bit of good veggie education.

Viva! and Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation

Full time Web Designer/Developer

Are you vegetarian or vegan and committed to helping create a veggie world? Then Viva!, and our sister organisation the health charity The Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation (VVF), have an exciting position for you.

We are looking to recruit a full time web designer/developer who will be fully responsible for the layout, visual appearance and usability of the Viva! and VVF websites, ensuring that brand continuity is maintained throughout.

The job is full-time (Mon-Fri), with four weeks holidays pa, plus bank hols and usually five days at Christmas. You will be required to work some of these hours at our Bristol HQ. Salary £18,000 to £24,000 depending on experience. Click here for more details and to apply.

Closing date is 1 September 2008.

Other Links and Events

Saturday 16th Aug, 12-3.30pm
Free Vegan Food Fair
Wesley Memorial Church, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford
All welcome - bring a non-veggie friend! Stalls, cookery demo and talk, films, kids activities and more. Viva! will have a stall manned by local supporters.

Sunday 24th Aug, 10am-4.30pm
Ludlow Green Fair
Market Square, Ludlow
Part of the Ludlow Green Festival, which takes place 21-24 August. Stalls covering all aspects of green living - come and visit the Viva! stall!

Thursday 28th Aug, 7.30-9.30pm
Talk by Dr Michael Greger: The Latest In Human Nutrition
The Brighthelm Centre, North Road, Brighton BN1 1YD
Learn about the latest cutting-edge nutrition research, focusing on studies published in the last year. Dr Greger offers practical advice on how best to feed ourselves and our families to prevent, treat, and even reverse chronic disease. Entry £5.00 includes wine and tasty super-nutritious snacks. To reserve a place call:
01273 626987 / 07905685765 or email lesley.jeavons@....

Michael Greger MD is Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at The Humane Society of the United States. An internationally recognised lecturer, he has presented at the Conference on World Affairs and the National Institutes of Health, testified before the US Congress, and was invited as an expert witness in defence of Oprah Winfrey at the infamous "beef defamation" trial. Dr Greger is founding member of the College of Lifestyle Medicine and a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture, where he returned to teach human nutrition, and the Tufts University School of Medicine.

Sunday 31st Aug, 11am-6pm
York Green Festival
Rowntree Park
Check the Viva! site for updated details. Viva! will have a stall manned by local supporters.

Saturday 6th Sep - 7th Sep
Organic Food Festival
Bristol Harbourside
Viva! will be flying the veggie flag at this year's Festival so pop along to our stand - we'll have details of our latest campaigns and a selection of merchandise for sale. Visit www.organicfoodfairs.co.uk for details.

Sunday 7th Sep
London Vegan Festival
Kensington Town Hall, Hornton Street, London W8
Delicious food, stalls, entertainment, speakers, workshops, and much more. See www.vegancampaigns.org.uk/festival/ for details.

Friday 19th Sep, 7.30pm
Farm Animal Sanctuary - an evening with Joanna Lumley
Speech House Hotel, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
This Farm Animal Sanctuary fundraiser - to raise funds for their 500+ rescued animals - will include talks by Joanna Lumley and sanctuary founder Janet Taylor, entertainment, raffles, auction and a full vegetarian hot and cold buffet. Viva!’s founder and director, Juliet Gellatley, and associate director, Tony Wardle, will be there, and will be delighted to see you! Tickets £59.50. For details, or to make a donation towards their work, contact: Farm Animal Sanctuary, Manor Orchard Farm, School Lane, Middle Littleton, Evesham WR11 8LN or ring Mike/Jane on 01424 893181 or 07790 614383, or email jantaylor.sanc@... or mike.etype@....

Saturday 1^st Nov
West Midlands Vegan Festival
The Midlands’ largest vegan event is preparing for a great day. To find out more, and to see how you can help publicise it visit www.veganmidlands.org.uk/festival/home.html

Business Friends

Please support our sponsors and help fund our life saving work

Beanie’s Health Foods www.beanieshealthfoods.co.uk

Beanie's is a Vegan Society approved, family run business importing FRY'S Vegetarian (recommended as a BEST BUY by the Ethical Consumer!), B'NICE Rice Creams and ALICER’S gluten-free vegan burgers.

Montezuma's Chocolates  www.montezumas.co.uk

Proudly producing award winning British chocolate on the South Coast.  For all your vegan and vegetarian chocolate needs visit www.montezumas.co.uk

VeggiePets.com www.veggiepets.com
Pet foods are often the last meat products in vegetarian homes. VeggiePets.com sells vegetarian and vegan foods for dogs and cats plus biscuits, chews and treats. Delivery throughout the UK.

Aunty Jee – vegan approved products now online!

You can now buy such yummy fayre as 7 Star Lentil Curry and Soya Korma Curry – approved by Viva! from Aunty Jee online here.

Your Viva!City

This email alert reaches thousands of people but we’d like your help to make it even better. At the moment we have just one list of addresses which means that we have to send the same email to everyone. From time to time we’d like to let people know about things happening in their area or get in contact with our younger supporters but we don’t want to fill everyone else’s mailboxes with information that isn’t relevant to them. What we’d like to do is compile email lists separated into different regions so that if we do have something we’d like to tell people in Scotland or Yorkshire about, we can send them the information without bothering anyone else.

The simplest way for us to identify which area you live in is to know your postcode and so we’d be grateful if you could take a minute to fill in our online questionnaire. We’d also really like to know your age if you’re under 18 – you can fill in your date of birth on the form. You won’t receive any postal mailings (unless you want them and fill in your other details) and the information will be used only to sort your email addresses. You don’t even have to give us your name if you don’t want to.

As ever, if you would like any more information about any of our campaigns, check out our website www.viva.org.uk or get in touch with us directly – contact details at the top of this email. Please don’t click “reply”, however – your email won’t be seen at that address.

Thanks again for all your support.

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