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Animal Rising on ending the Grand National
14/04/2023

Animal Rising on ending the Grand National

Alex Lockwood, a spokesperson for the group Animal Rising, sparks debate on TalkSport as he tells of the groups plans to disrupt the Grand National.If you wa...

21/10/2022

Included in Costa Coffee's Christmas range this year is a vegan P’gs & Blankets Panini and three sweet treats

World's first vegan 3-stars Michelin restaurant
09/10/2022

World's first vegan 3-stars Michelin restaurant

Michelin guide said it hoped that the recognition would encourage chefs to emphasise sustainability

29/03/2022

Sweet-toothed vegans are in for a treat as a plant-based bakery opens in the West End today.

Great new vegan guide to Norwich by the Little London Vegan. As well as being London's top vegan eating out vlogger/blog...
15/03/2022

Great new vegan guide to Norwich by the Little London Vegan. As well as being London's top vegan eating out vlogger/blogger, she's producing UK city guides. Her reviews and guides are punchy, to the point (no waffle unlike most bloggers and takes one minute not ten!) yet very detailed, great fun, and the pictures are gorgeous.

Vegan vs vegetarian in UK restaurants featured in The Telegraph.How veganism killed the vegetarianhttps://www.telegraph....
28/02/2022

Vegan vs vegetarian in UK restaurants featured in The Telegraph.
How veganism killed the vegetarian
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/features/veganism-killed-vegetarian/
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Vegan cheez, tofu scramble, cauliflower steak or chickpea curry: meat-free cho-ices have never been so great. I’m quite envious of the modern ‘plant-based’ posse: when I gave up meat for a decade back in the ’80s, I was lucky to be offered a baked potato with congealed cheese.
But it’s not all rosy: if you are an old-fashioned veggie, who prefers to get their protein from eggs and cheese rather than ‘plant-based meat and dairy alternatives’, it can feel like the vegetarian option has been pushed off the menu. If you don’t want meat, it’s go vegan or go home.
In restaurants, those great vegetarian dishes – a buttery risotto, macaroni cheese pimped with truffles or, the pinnacle of restaurant showmanship, a quivering, rush-it-to-the-table soufflé – are losing out, as vegan dishes are deemed to ‘do’ for vegetarians too. Our local Côte brasserie has three vegan main courses but none solely vegetarian.
The same is true in the supermarkets. A quick search of Asda’s website promises 199 vegetarian ready meals – impressive until, on closer examination, most of them are vegan. Squeaky Bean Marinated Chicken Style Pieces BBQ, anyone?
Veganism is certainly big business. Last December alone at least 682 new vegan products were launched in the UK, including vegan versions of Babybel and Philadelphia cream cheese. Just about every fast-food chain out there jumped on the trend too, with new vegan offerings at McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC, Domino’s and Nando’s. Starbucks also dropping its surcharge on plant milks permanently is the cherry on the egg-free, butter-less cake as far as the vegan movement is concerned.
A quick search of many supermarket websites reveals that most of the vegetarian ready meals are actually vegan
So is vegetarianism on the way out? According to Alex Bourke, author of Vegan London, ‘Vegan has indeed effectively taken over from vegetarian.’ Excluding Indian cuisine (which has a long tradition of being vegetarian but not vegan), almost 90 per cent of all new vegetarian restaurant, café and market-stall openings are now in fact vegan, he says. Vegetarian restaurant chain Mildreds has gone vegan, and it’s not alone.
Increasingly, the view from meat eaters and vegans alike seems to be that regular vegetarians should be happy to settle for vegan. There’s even a new collective term: veg*n. Pronounced, presumably, much like ‘vegan’: yet another example of vegetarians being squeezed out.
A recent survey by Oatly, the vegan milk producer, found that a third of us are fed up with dietary labels and one in 10 feel judged for labelling their diet in a particular way. Oatly’s latest puppet-based ads portray a bottle of cow’s milk as a thug being gently patronised by a pair of oat-milk cartons. Nothing judgmental or divisive about that!
Being stuck with the vegan option can feel especially galling for vegetarians, when there are twice as many as vegans. It could be that restaurants are overplaying the vegan card in an attempt to look cool. Jack Croft, head chef at Mayfair’s Fallow, a sustainably focused restaurant with a 50 per cent vegetarian menu, says, ‘We expected to have lots, but in fact only about five per cent of our guests are vegans, and we adapt the vegetarian dishes for them.’
Neil Campbell, head chef at Ottolenghi restaurant Rovi, takes the same route, with several adaptable vegetarian and vegan dishes alongside the meat. But, he points out, ‘Cooking vegetables takes more time and skill to deliver a flavour.’ For chefs without the time or staff to work on several dishes, a one-size-fits-all approach will be tempting.
So, vegetarians, hold your middle ground. As Croft says, ‘I don’t see why the vegetarians shouldn’t be allowed cheese just because the vegans can’t.’ And it won’t be congealed on a baked potato.
Vegetarianism vs veganism
Burger king
While the plant-based Whopper (right) is vegan, it is cooked on the same grill as meat products; the Vegan Royale (left) is cooked separately
Wagamama
Most of its vegetarian main dishes are also vegan – apart from noodle dishes featuring egg.
Pizza Express
Here’s where veggies win out, with 15 pudding choices versus just two vegan sorbets.

Now that the vegan diet is more popular than ever, old-fashioned vegetarian options could be pushed off menu

26/02/2022

www.VeganLondon.Guide 800 colour pages, hundreds of restaurants, cafes and markets, plus shops, arranged by area. Colour coded maps (vegan, veg, omni, shops)

11/01/2022

The Vegan Guide: Everything you need to embrace the world’s fastest growing way of life
By Alex Bourke

Alex Bourke invites us on a guided tour, looking back at the last 25 years of the ‘Vegetarian – and now Vegan – Guides’ that Alex has produced, including his most recent book ‘The Vegan Guide’ released in 2021. READ MORE >

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Ready to play vegan in 2022? Get www.TheVeganGuide.info as your handbook and let's go.
31/12/2021

Ready to play vegan in 2022? Get www.TheVeganGuide.info as your handbook and let's go.

VEGAN 2021 is the latest in this series of annual wrap ups produced by Plant Based News to celebrate the achievements of the vegan movement.Kindly supported ...

29/12/2021

Following a recent public push from activists, Starbucks UK is ending its vegan milk upcharge, and launching new plant-based food options too

Coming out in time for World Vegan Day is a new plant based guide to Glasgow, published by Plant Based Treaty working wi...
18/10/2021

Coming out in time for World Vegan Day is a new plant based guide to Glasgow, published by Plant Based Treaty working with Vegetarian Guides. More on that very soon.

Glasgow is where the COP26 climate talks start on 1st November.

Vegetarian Guides has endorsed the Plant Based Treaty, asking governments to stop the expansion of animal farming, roll it back and replace by plant based farming, and plant trees to restore the world.

Will you join us in endorsing the Plant Based Treaty too.? And let's encourage Glasgow City Council to lead, with the world watching, by being the first UK city to endorse the Plant Based Treaty.
https://drove.com/.2oCz

As a companion to the UNFCCC/Paris Agreement, The Plant Based Treaty initiative is a grassroots campaign designed to put food systems at the forefront of combating the climate crisis. Modeled on the popular Fossil Fuel Treaty, the Plant Based Treaty aims to halt the widespread degradation of critica...

Wagamama now 50% vegan:The restaurant chain Wagamama said on Wednesday that half of its menu was now plant-based after i...
08/10/2021

Wagamama now 50% vegan:
The restaurant chain Wagamama said on Wednesday that half of its menu was now plant-based after it added new vegan options for customers.
Among the new dishes are a spicy vegan “short rib” ramen using mushroom and soya, a jackfruit option and several based on a chicken alternative that it said “mirrors the taste and texture of pulled chicken”.
Oh and something about new vegan chocolate bars.
https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/06/cadbury-launch-vegan-dairy-milk-alternative-plant-bar-chocolate

Product will be made using almond paste and cost double the price of a standard Dairy Milk chocolate bar

31/08/2021

The 34 outlets catering to students at four universities will offer only a single meat option four days a week

Milton Keynes's (just off the M1) vegan cafe The Quirk Space must be on the way to everywhere. Please show them some lov...
26/08/2021

Milton Keynes's (just off the M1) vegan cafe The Quirk Space must be on the way to everywhere. Please show them some love!

WHOOOOOOP! // has been nominated for best newcomer in the Milton Keynes Food & Leisure Awards 🥳🎈👯‍♀️
As the first 100% vegan cafe in the area in what has undoubtedly been a WILD first year 😂 this is a big deal for us!
If you agree that we are worthy of this esteemed title, we would totally appreciate a vote and/or a share!
To register your vote, please visit https://www.mkfla.com/vote-now/ and find us listed under the 'Best Newcomer' section 🤩
Thanks for the support, as always,
Hayley and the TQS team x
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London's legendary vegan entrepreneur Fat Gay Vegan aka Sean O'Callaghan is back from the brink of covid thanks to the N...
26/08/2021

London's legendary vegan entrepreneur Fat Gay Vegan aka Sean O'Callaghan is back from the brink of covid thanks to the NHS. This is the man who gave London and then the UK vegan potlucks, beer festivals, street markets, and for the world vegan cruises, and a hilarious and inspiring blog. His latest project is the vegan market in Camden. Send him some love as he recovers and give him a follow for news about new vegan delights in London. (And love to all the NHS staff on here.)

If you wanna read about where I have been for the past two weeks or so, you can jump over to my blog for an update. Spoiler: it is COVID related. Read here: https://tinyurl.com/jp9hj8db

Trading Standards in Bournemouth is telling vegan cafe Plant Hustler to paint over the vegan infographics on their wall....
26/06/2021

Trading Standards in Bournemouth is telling vegan cafe Plant Hustler to paint over the vegan infographics on their wall.
This reminds me of the McLibel court case in the 90s, where the worldwide vegan movement provided expert witnesses to support the defendants who had been exposing the truth by distributing leaflets about the impact of McDonalds' food on animals, human health and the planet. McDonalds hasn't again dared to attempt to intimidate its critics for simply telling the truth.
Indian Veg restaurant in Chapel Market has for decades had facts all over its walls about the benefits of eating meat-free. Islington Trading Standards doesn't have a problem with that.
Will we as individuals and a movement support Plant Hustler, and freedom of information for all vegans and our entrepreneurs? As someone who promotes vegan cafes in my books and has just published a book about the benefits of veganism and how to do it, am I next to be ordered to keep quiet? I am IN! How about you?

Totally vegan news, entertainment & community

21/06/2021

The world’s first-ever meat-free Burger King outlet has opened doors in Cologne, Germany this week, amid surging mainstream demand for plant-based food.

02/05/2021
28/04/2021

On the campaign trail with fellow AWP assembly candidate Alex Bourke. Our message of a truly inclusive city for all has been going down well with dog walkers & plant-based businesses in East London & thanks to ITV London News for coming along to film for tonight’s 6pm show.

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