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VIVA! EMAIL NEWS ALERT: August 2009

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In this Viva! City:

Ban the shooting of seals by fish farmers!

Limited tickets left for School Speaker training!
Celebrate 15 years with Viva!

Viva!-La-Veggies: Veggie Month 2009 is go!

Help persuade Selfridges to go foie-gras free

Cheltenham goes veggie for the day!

Veggie case studies wanted!

Veggie Dogs wanted!
Business Friends

Other Links and Events

Ban the shooting of seals by fish farmers!

As many as 5,000 seals are shot in Scotland every year. The reason? Because of consumer’s desire for cheap fish. Around 1 million meals containing salmon are eaten in Britain each year, and it is this artificial trade in intensively farmed fish which is driving the bloodshed, as farmers kill seals that catch fish. Yet another example of wild animals suffering because of the greed of the livestock industry.

Click here to email Alex Salmond, First Minister of Scotland, to call for an end to this brutal practice. Read the recent Sunday Times article with Viva! celebrity supporter Chrissie Hynde on why she backs a ban.

Limited tickets left for School Speaker training!

Viva! and the Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation School Speaker Training Day

Saturday, August 29, 10am-5pm, at the Charity Centre, 24 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2DP

Calling all animal advocates – we have some tickets left, but they are going fast! We need you to get into schools and promote the veggie message. Speaking to teenagers in schools about vegetarian issues is a truly uplifting experience. This no obligation training is fun and rewarding. 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. Find out more here.

Celebrate 15 years with Viva!

Invitation to Viva!’s 15th anniversary celebration dinner

Saturday, 5 September 2009, 6pm–1am, Circomedia, Portland Square, Bristol BS2 8SJ

Have a fantastic feast with an exotic twist and help Viva! celebrate our landmark 15th anniversary. You’ll also be helping to raise funds for our new ambitious campaigns to end factory farming and animal slaughter. Mingle with the stars!: Heather Mills, Wendy Turner Webster and Michael Mansfield QC, actor Gary Webster and BBC TV presenter Sarah Jane Honeywell will be attending. You can also mingle with lovely Viva! staff, too! Hope to see you there. Find out ticket prices and more information here.

Viva!-La-Veggies: Veggie Month 2009 is go!

September is Viva!’s month where we attempt to turn Britain veggie – with your help, of course! We’ve already had lots of people get in touch wanting to help. Information saves lives – and you can be instrumental in ending the suffering of thousands of animals simply by raising awareness. Things are changing: fewer animals are dying and vegetarianism and veganism are growing. However, there is still much to do, and that’s why we need you. From door-dropping a handful of leaflets to running a stall, click here to find out the fun and easy ways you can getting involved – and start saving animals today!

Help persuade Selfridges to go foie-gras free

Despite stopping selling foie-gras at all its other UK stores, Selfridges persists in selling this ‘torture in a tin’ in its flagship London branch. Viva! have long been campaigning for a change, to follow other large retailers such as House of Fraser and Harvey Nichols who have taken the ethical decision to drop it. We are joining other animal groups in renewing the call for them to drop this pâté made by horrific force feeding of ducks and geese in France. Click here to contact them and add your voice. Find out more about you can get involved in Viva!’s campaign for a foie-gras free Britain here.

Cheltenham goes veggie for the day!

Volunteers needed

Viva!’s Incredible Veggie Roadshow will be rolling into Cheltenham on Saturday, September 26 2009.

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 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!

Veggie case studies wanted!

Has changing your diet changed your life? Did ditching the dairy help you overcome dermatitis? Has going veggie cured your constipation? We want to hear from you! Please send us your stories along with a photo (before and after if possible) and we will consider publishing your story in our magazine Viva!LIFE. Email your stories to info@....

Veggie Dogs wanted!

Do you own a lovely veggie dog? Viva!LIFE is hoping to feature some top veggie dogs in a future issue. We are looking for good pictures of pups of all colours, shapes and sizes, accompanied by any funny stories, captions and anecdotes about them as a veggie dog. If you would like your dog to be a future Viva!LIFE star, email editor Helen with your words and pictures by Thursday, September 3, 2009.

Business Friends

Amazing Bamboo Socks!

Buy a three pack of socks and save 3 tress, all for £10! We plant or save a tree for every larger item we sell. For August only, we'll also include socks.
Click here for men's or here for women's socks.

NAKD BARS - 100% Vegan Raw Wholefoods bars – www.eatnakd.com
UK’s best-selling, award-winning wholefood bars are outspokenly vegan, made raw and promote Animal Aid on every pack! Hooray! Buy direct at eatnakd.com or find in healthfood shops or the healthy eating sections of Tesco, Waitrose, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and Boots.

Ecotricity www.ecotricity.co.uk/viva

Ecotricity is dedicated to building new sources of renewable energy to fight climate change, investing more per customer than all the other UK suppliers put together. Switch to Ecotricity and they will donate £20 to Viva! Just call 08000 302 302 or go to www.ecotricity.co.uk/viva. 

Vegus Foods www.vegusdirect.com

Wheatgrass juice delivered to your home every week, Whole, Raw, Live enzymes, No mixing – ready to drink, Never heated, Never frozen, No refrigeration needed, Vegan. Broccoli sprout juice too! Vegus Foods, Wexford Ireland. See how we do all this at www.vegusdirect.com

Other Links and Events

Bristol Animal Rights Collective are organising a free vegan food fair in Bristol on Saturday 31st October, with the main aim to promote veganism to non vegans. Would anyone like to be involved in helping organise the event? If so, the first meeting will be on Monday 24th August at Kebele, Robertson Road, Easton. Tea and coffee from 6.30pm, meeting starts at 7pm. Contact on the evening - 07595745441. They also need help with the event, so get in touch if you can get involved.

For other upcoming events see our online diary 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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