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VIVA! EMAIL NEWS ALERT: January 2009
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In this Viva! City:
New Year’s Resolutions Sign our Badger Petition Tesco Selling Foie Gras The Incredible Veggie Road Show Cook Vegetarian Subscription Offer Turn Your Spare Diary Into Cash! White Meat is Not the Healthy Option Calling All Budding Master Chefs New Year…New Recipes! Seeking Qualified Nurses Business Friends Other Links and events
New Year’s Resolutions
Happy New Year from everyone at Viva!! We hope you enjoyed a meat and cruelty-free Christmas and are looking to keep up the good work this year. Keep your eyes out for our new campaigns launching later in the year and make a New Year’s resolution to make 2009 a great one for the animals! To catch up on all the things Viva! achieved last year in our 2008 Report click here.
Click here for more information on how you can get active for animals in 2009 or click here to make your first donation of the year!
Sign Our Badger Petition!
The Welsh Assembly will soon be deciding the future of badgers in Wales. Over 11,000 people have already voiced their opposition to the proposed cull by sending Viva! badger postcards to the Welsh Assembly, but the work mustn’t stop there. Viva! has launched a petition to stop the badger cull from going ahead. Click here to sign to show your support for Welsh badgers and be sure to pass on the petition to friends and family.
Tesco Selling Foie-Gras
A recent investigation into Tesco stores in Hungary has revealed that the supermarket giant is stocking foie-gras. The so-called delicacy is not sold in major supermarkets in the UK due to its inherent cruelty. Animal group Four Paws obtained footage from Hungarian foie-gras farms, which demonstrates the suffering endured by the geese and ducks who are force fed so that their livers grow to be ten times their natural size, as well as the filthy and cramped conditions in which this takes place.
Viva! are calling on the public to complain to Tesco to voice their opposition to its support of cruelty for profit. Click here for more information, including a template letter, or use the contact details below.
Freephone: 0845 6004411
Write: Sir Terry Leahy, CEO, Tesco, Tesco House, PO Box 44, Delamare Road, Cheshunt, Herts, EN8 9SL
Email: customer.service@...
The Incredible Veggie Show Saturday April 18 Royal Horticultural Halls, Lawrence Hall and Conference Centre, London £4 entry, under 18s FREE
Our fantastic programme of talks and cookery demos for this year’s Incredible Veggie Show has just been finalised! Cookery demos with Rose Elliot and Robert Whittington from Lancrigg Vegetarian Country House Hotel will be taking place and speakers include Heather Mills, Viva! Founder and Director Juliet Gellatley, Professor Jane Plant and Keith Mann, plus much more.
Save 25 per cent on your ticket price by buying yours in advance! Click here to order.
Fancy helping on the day? For the day to be a success, we need an army of volunteers to man the ticket and prize draw desks, food tastings, toddlers’ play area and steward talks/demo areas, wash up and take to the streets to promote the event. If you can spare a morning or afternoon please email angie@....
You can find full details here
And here’s a great offer from Show sponsor Cook Vegetarian! Magazine….
Cook Vegetarian! subscription offer
The UK’s only monthly meat-free cookery magazine, Cook Vegetarian! is packed with easy, mouthwatering recipes and endless culinary inspiration. Trial Cook Vegetarian! for only £1 plus a free steamer worth £24. Please visit: www.cookveg.co.uk for more information and contact details.
White Meat is Not the Healthy Option!
The VVF’s colourful and groundbreaking new guide, White Meat Myths, explains why, contrary to popular belief, white meat, including turkey and chicken, is not the healthy option. The guide is part of the VVF’s new White Meat Black Mark campaign, which reveals white meat in its true colours – an unhealthy and potentially health-damaging food that can be replaced with healthier, meat-free alternatives.
Order your copy from the VVF webshop for just £2.90 inc p&p.
Calling All Budding MasterChefs! Snappy Cooking Comp Closing date February 16
If you’re under 18, why not show off your culinary talents in our veggie Snappy Cooking Comp? We’re looking for some mouthwatering recipes to feature in our new veggie cookery guide for under 18s, Snappy Veggie Cooking. There are two categories for the competition: sweet and savoury. So if you know how to make a mouth-watering main course or a divine dessert – or anything else, get in touch! Savoury dishes could be a starter; a main course; party food... Sweet dishes could be cookies; cakes; biscuits; desserts – you get the picture!
Be sure to get your entries in soon as the closing date is February 16! Click here for more details.
A special thanks to Redwoods Wholefoods for sponsoring the competition!
New Year...New Recipes!
Get your oven mitts on and your spatula’s ready, 2009 is the year for vegan cookery! The Viva! shop is proud to stock the cream of the crop when it comes to veggie cookery titles; from Sarah Kramer’s Vegan A Go-Go, an irresistible pocket-sized cookbook for vegans, to Dreena Burton’s excellent Eat, Drink & Be Vegan, full of handy recipes for entertaining. Visit www.viva.org.uk/vivashop for our extensive catalogue of vegetarian and vegan titles. Warning: Don’t browse on an empty stomach!
Seeking Qualified Nurses to take Blood Pressure at London Veggie Show
Do you measure blood pressure as a routine part of your job – and have some free time on Saturday April 18? Then why not volunteer your time at the Have a Heart section of Viva!’s Incredible Veggie Show in London? Every few minutes someone in Britain dies of heart disease or stroke. Official advice includes switching to a lower fat diet – opting for lean meat, reduced-fat dairy and oily fish. This advice is largely ineffective – and heart patients who follow it generally get worse over time. As the Have a Heart area will show, ditching meat and dairy is far more effective. For further details regarding volunteering, please email Angie@....
Business friends
Redwood Wholefoods
Once again we are delighted to be the highest rated ethical supplier of vegan foods. For details of Redwood’s delicious award winning products call us on 01536 400557 or visit us at www.redwoodfoods.co.uk
Other Links and Events
Brighton Vegan Fayre Saturday March 21, The Brighton Centre, 11am-6pm
Cooking at the Cockle Shell Cockle Shell Craft Centre, 27 Worcester Street, Stourbridge, DY8 1AH Various Dates
Are you interested in trying something different? Learn to prepare simple, tasty, nutritious food with Lizzy – an experienced vegetarian cookery demonstrator with a Cordon Vert Diploma in Vegetarian Cookery. Experience a range of delicious meat-free recipes! Sessions open to people of all abilities.
Booking essential – first come, first served! For more information click here or contact Lizzy: email ourlizzy@..., tel: 0121 475 4132 mobile: 0787 079 7191
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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