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Bristol Vegans - please email Ellen your email address!!
Our wonderful team leader Ellen has been denied access to her email address book after her computer contracted a particularly virulent but fortunately non contagious form of Swine Flu which effects only computers and not humans. Our condolences. Please email your email address to ellenhoward@blueyonder.co.uk so that she can keep you in touch with all Bristol Vegans upcoming activities including our planned super doopa summer BBQ!!
Bristol Vegans Next Meet - up at The Lansdown July 30th
Big thanks to everyone who came 27th June, it was lush, great food and excellent company, lovely upstairs room, and thanks to our hosts at The Lansdown. Now confirmed – All welcome at the next Bristol Vegans Gathering at The Lansdown Pub on Thursday 30th July from 6pm
Bristol Vegan Fayre May 30th and 31st - Thanks for coming
Zion Train, The Blockheads, Horace Andy, Dub Asante, SohoDolls, Macka B and the King Blues headlined Bristol Vegan Fayre May 30th and 31st 3,000 visited on saturday and 2,000 on sunday Thanks to everyone who helped – especially all the vegan Bristol peeps
Stunning!!! its a reggae sunsplash sunday May 31st at this year's BVF with top acts lined up including Horace Andy, Dub Asante and Macka B for starters – plus Ian Dury's band The Blockheads, SohoDolls and The King Blues headline on Saturday May 30th on the Main Stage, along with Zion Train Advance Tickets are on sale now from http://www.yaoh.co.uk/catalog priced £8 each day in advance Tickets also available on the day pay on the gate – £10 before 5pm and £12 after 5pm each day
Off The Hoof - Issue 3 out now
The third issue of vegan lifetsyle magazine Off The Hoof, published by Yaoh, is out now!
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The Vegan Environmental Awards 2009 – Winners Announced
The Vegan Environmental Awards 2009 – winners have now been announced – see http://bristol.veganfayre.co.uk/vegan-enviromental-awards-results
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Vegan Stall In Bristol City Centre
Next one Feb 7th – come and help!!!
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Man-kind Images – A New Ethical Photo Library
Launched on International Animal Rights Day, Man-kind Images is a new ethical photo library featuring over 500 animal and related images.
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Live on Less Than £1 per Day
Beat the Credit Crunch
Bristol Group Shows How You Can Live on Less Than £1 per Day! Series of FREE Public Talks/Demonstrations:
Commencing Tuesday 3 February, 2009; 7.30pm
The Better Food Company, Sevier Street, Bristol
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Bristol cafe says it's easy to cook vegetarian for under a fiver
Award-winning Bristol vegetarian restaurant Cafe Maitreya provided our latest recipe to feed a family of four for a fiver.
Check out this story on www.thisisbristol.co.uk.
News from ActiVeg
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The Effect of a Plant-Based Low-Carbohydrate ("Eco-Atkins") Diet on Body Weight and Blood Lipid Concentrations in Hyperlipidemic Subjects
A low-carbohydrate plant-based diet has lipid-lowering advantages over a high-carbohydrate, low-fat weight-loss diet in improving heart disease risk factors not seen with conventional low-fat diets with animal products.
Check out this story on archinte.ama-assn.org.
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Cancer incidence in British vegetarians
Conclusion: The incidence of some cancers may be lower in fish eaters and vegetarians than in meat eaters.
Check out this story on www.nature.com.
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Eat red meat just three times a week, says World Wildlife Fund
Photo: bricolage108
Packs of red meat should carry warning labels advising shoppers to ration themselves to three portions a week, amid controversial claims that livestock production is killing the planet.
Check out this story on www.dailymail.co.uk.
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Vegetarians less likely to develop cancer than meat eaters, says study
For years, they have boasted of the health benefits of their leafy diets, but now vegetarians have the proof that has so far eluded them: when it comes to cancer risks, they have the edge on carnivores.
Check out this story on www.guardian.co.uk.
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New Zealand: Govt rules out further milk safety probe
The New Zealand Government says it won't honour the previous administration's plan to convene a group of experts to discuss the safety of A2 milk, relative to "ordinary" A1 milk.
Check out this story on www.nzherald.co.nz.
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I don't eat meat - and look at me
A NORTH Wales vegetarian has slammed a report which claims red meat is a vital source of dietary iron.
Check out this story on www.dailypost.co.uk.
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Peanut butter 'good for the heart'
âPeanut butter wards off heart disease,â the Daily Mail has reported. The newspaper said that peanut butter sandwiches could be the secret to beating heart disease after scientists found that snacking on nuts five days a week can halve the risk of a heart attack.
Check out this story on www.nhs.uk.
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Medical news: Vegetarian diets prevent disease
The American Dietetic Association has released an updated position paper on vegetarian diets that concludes such diets, if well-planned, are healthful and nutritious for adults, infants, children and adolescents and can help prevent and treat chronic diseases including heart disease, cancer, obesity and diabetes.
Check out this story on www.scientistlive.com.
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Historic 1.5 million-strong petition calls for road map to end animal experiments
Largest ever animal protection petition to be submitted to 10 Downing Street.
Check out this story on www.uncaged.co.uk.
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Fish's off... Heather Mills gets high and mighty as her vegan café replaces seafood diner
Photo: bricolage108
Heather Mills opens her new vegan café - which replaces a popular seafood restaurant.
Check out this story on www.dailymail.co.uk.