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VIVA! EMAIL NEWS ALERT: February 2009
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Viva! 8 York Court, Wilder Street, Bristol BS2 8QH, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 944 1000 Email: info@... Web: www.viva.org.uk www.factoryfarming.org.uk www.savethekangaroo.com www.timetogoveggie.com
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In this Viva! City:
You Had a Heart For British Pigs Help Australian Animals in Bush Fire Crisis Mother Earth Day of Action Sign Our Badger Petition! Fish Industry Feeds Public a Red Herring The Incredible Veggie Show Cook
Vegetarian Subscription Offer Raise Money For Viva! Online! Lake District Chef Wanted! Heaven Scent Business Friends Other Links and Events
You Had a Heart for British Pigs
Viva! will also be taking our plucky Piggles mascot
up and down the country to highlight the suffering of British pigs. Visit the
Piggles website to find out more. See the horrific conditions
we found on our latest pig farm investigation – and read about them here.
Click here to donate and
help us fund more investigations and fight for the survival of British pigs
– not the British pig industry.
Help Australian Animals in Bush Fire Crisis
Click here to read more and find out how you can help. To find out how you can campaign for roos in this country click on our website www.savethekangaroo.com.
Mother Earth Day of Action
Mother Earth: the giver of life, and the receiver of global warming and a near-approaching environmental catastrophe. For all the love, life and nurturing she has provided her inhabitants over the years, Mother Earth has received little thanks. Global warming, deforestation and polluted waters are some of the many ailments we have imposed upon the planet. Millions of animals – both wild and farmed – suffer and die because of the West’s desire for meat. Time is running out, we must act now to save the world.
This Mother’s Day, give Mother Earth the gift of life. We have produced a brand new leaflet and we’re asking young people across the country to get involved and get our point across in their classrooms! We’re holding a Week of Action, Monday, March 16 to Mothering Sunday (March 22) and we want you to get involved!
Ask your form tutor/favourite teacher if you can hold a Save Mother Earth week in your school/college/university. We’ll send you all the free materials you need; posters, leaflets, stickers and magazines.
Email our youth campaigner Fiona. Not forgetting adults, you can get involved too! Email our environmental campaigner Zephie to find out how.
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.
Fish Industry Feeds Public a Red Herring
The Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation (VVF) tackled
the British fish industry head on at the end of January over claims that fish
is essential for health. VVF’s new fish campaign launched with a dying
mermaid, wrapped in nets, on the steps of Fishmongers’ Hall by London Bridge at the start of a one
day conference on Seafood and Health. The VVF’s message to delegates
‘Fish is not a Health Food’ was made loud and clear on banners
and copies of a new guide Fish-Free for
Life were handed out. Author of the guide, VVF senior health
campaigner Dr Justine Butler, says: “The fish industry is aiming to
increase its revenue by feeding the public a ‘red herring’ that
we need fish in our diets to protect our health. The scientific research
tells a different story... you can get all the omega-3s you need from a
plant-based diet, which does not contain harmful toxins found in fish
including PCBs, dioxins and mercury.”
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 Incredible Veggie Show
The UK’s only monthly meat-free cookery
White Meat gets
Black Mark in school dinners Parents in Cheltenham were warned about the dangers of feeding their children white meat earlier this month, as a new report reveals it can increase the risk of cancer and diabetes in later life. Viva!’s sister charity, the Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation (VVF) has produced a new report White Meat Black Mark, which found thoroughly cooking white meat, including chicken, duck and turkey, can generate hazardous chemicals known as HAAs, which are linked to cancer in humans. The VVF is calling on all LEAs to reduce or remove the amount of all meat – including white meat – from local school meals. Charlie the giant VVF chicken and the VVF team handed out FREE healthy lunch packs and information. He gave an ‘LEA representative’ dressed in a suit and dunce hat, a ‘black mark’ for allowing white meat to remain on school menus. Please show your support for more meat-free meals in schools by signing the relevant petition for your local area, below.
Raise Money For Viva! Online!
Through our new easyfundraising partnership, web users will now be able to raise money for Viva! with a click of their mouse!
easyfundraising is an online shop including Argos, Next, Debenhams, John Lewis, Toys R Us, HMV and over 600 others. Just use the links on the easyfundraising site whenever you shop online and, at no extra cost to you, we'll receive a free donation of up to 15 per cent from every purchase you make. It's completely FREE to register. It really is that simple!
All you need to do is visit www.easyfundraising.org.uk/vivaorg and when you register, select Viva! - Vegetarians International Voice For Animals as the organisation you wish to support.
Alternatively, use the easysearch search engine and you'll raise funds for us with every search you make! It's completely free to use and if you make just 10 searches a day, you could raise £20 a year – or more – to help us campaign for animals.
Check out our unique easysearch page at vivaorg.easysearch.org.uk and use it every time you search the web.
Lake District Chef Wanted!
Lancrigg Hotel, set in a stunning location in the Lake District, is looking for two new chefs! They should have a knowledge of vegetarian and vegan cuisine and also be interested in organic food. All the food served at Lancrigg is prepared in their kitchens, including all the breads and cakes, using 100 per cent certified organic ingredients. They also cater for various specialised health diets. The wage will be based upon knowledge and experience. Live in accommodation is available.
This is a great opportunity for anyone who loves the outdoors and wants to further their knowledge of vegetarian cuisine.
For more info see: www.lancrigg.co.uk or email info@... or call 01539 435 317.
Heaven Scent
Has the cold, wintry weather got the better of your skin? Let the Viva! shop come to your rescue with our selection of the best vegan and organic moisturising creams around. Dab a little or a lot of Figs & Rouge’s botanically derived creams for dry skin. We can’t live without their Camellia & Chamomile Hand Cream and Marigold & Mandarin Body lotion. Wrapped up in vintage style packaging these products look as good as they feel.
Business friends
Live Native
Feed your skin with Live Native’s life-loving, nutritious and truly pure range of nature-intact vegan organic living skin care products. Hand made on the Isle of Skye. To find out more call us on 01599 530 367 or visit www.livenative.co.uk
Veggieromance
Veggieromance.com is the UK's leading website for vegans and vegetarians wishing to meet like-minded singles. Join veggieromance.com to connect with people who share your lifestyle and outlook. Thousands of members nationwide. Network and connect with other vegetarian & vegan singles today. www.veggieromance.com
Ecoture
New young environmentally-friendly, vegan website dedicated to inspiring people to do great green things! Check out the website for eco-friendly bags, gifts and more! Visit: ecoture.webs.com
Other Links and Events
March
Brighton Vegan Fayre Saturday, March 21 11am-6pm
Earthwatch Lecture – Forests and Climate Change Thursday, March 26 7pm-8.30pm Royal Geographical Society 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR
Chaired by explorer Paul Rose, the speakers are Dr Mika Peck of the University of Sussex (Climate Change, Canopies, and Wildlife in Ecuador), and Dr Dan Bebber, head of Climate Change Research, Earthwatch (The Footprint in the Forest). Click here for more information.
World Day for Laboratory Animals Saturday, April
28
This event promises to be a big event this year as people from all across the country join together to say no to vivisection. A peaceful march is being organised through the streets of London. For more information, please visit the continually updated website: http://www.wdail.org/
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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