Not just for Christmas - a Cook Book

Must have addition to a cookbook shelf as Vegan recipes become the new nouveau cuisine

A full colour hardback vegan hero for this Christmas. NOT for vegan nouveau cuisine , we leave that to the likes of Chad Sarno from Saf. But because this book can change lives - it's easy peasy, how to, Good Housekeeping style, full colour, encyclopedia, vegan for dummies, guide to vegan diet and lifestyle that everyone has been waiting for.

For all those people who think that they really should start thinking about what they eat for the sake of the planet and their health - this is the vegan cookbook for them.

For all those people thinking "I'd love to go vegan but where the hell do I start" - this vegan cookbook is the perfect first step.

For all those considering that they should at least follow in the footsteps of Richard Branson, and a host of A list celebrities signed up to Paul McCartney's meat free mondays this vegan cookbook is for you.

All the whys, the whats, the wheres, the hows and the whens answered in this book.

The perfect ethical Christmas Present

Geoff Francis - Weapons of Mass Destruction

Weapons of Mass Destruction - wmd changing the picture rationale

Finally! Some long lost footage of vegan Artist Geoff Francis Weapons of Mass Destruction at The Frieze Art Fair Regents Park in The Vegan Society Diamond Jubilee year

www.bonobo.tv

U.N. Climate Talks in Copenhagen

U.N. Climate Talks in Copenhagen - NewsTimes: "Edward McMillan-Scott"

Edward McMillan-Scott, an MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber, is a Vice-President of the European Parliament. His portfolio includes Democracy and Human Rights. He sits as an independent and sumarises

Carbon Emmissions
In 2006, the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) based in Rome issued its 400-page ground-breaking report, Livestock's Long Shadow. It gave a stark warning: "The environmental costs per unit of livestock production must be cut by one half, just to avoid the level of damage worsening beyond itspresent level."

Economics
The economist Lord Stern, author of a major report on the economic impact of climate change, recently observed, to some controversy: "Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet
is better."

Health
The better news is that a modest change to our eating habits can have a major effect on the rate of climate change. Even better is that vegetarians have 28 per cent less heart disease, 39 per cent lower cancer mortality and suffer 50 per cent less diabetes. In my own case, not eating meat dropped my "bad" cholesterol by 27 per cent.

Andy Burnham, the Health Secretary, warned that global warming poses a “real and present danger” to the health of millions.

His report suggests that tens of thousands of lives a year could be saved in Britain alone by cutting the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere. The move would significantly cut emissions and save around 18,000 lives a year from heart disease alone, they estimate.

Alan Dangour, one of the authors of the report and a senior lecturer at the London School of School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that a dramatic change could be made without having to give up meat.

“We are not saying become vegetarian, we are just saying cut back on the amount of meat and meat products you eat," he said.

Nitin Mehta MBE Joins Paul McCartney

Nitin Mehta Speaks Out about Meat Free 5 A Day Day in Croydon Campaign:

Respected Croydon Businessman Nitin Mehta has spoken out about Sir Paul McCartney's mission to the EU Parliament today and explained the reasoning behind Sir Paul McCartney's plea that we reduce meat consumption for the sake of health and the Environment.

Croydon has been nominated the unhealthiest Borough in London and local support groups are struggling to find a way to stop rising the rising rates of childhood obesity and diabetes in Croydon.

Affordable Vegan Fashion

Leona Lewis to design with Stella's help (Vogue.com UK)

Looks like vegan Leona Lewis has a fighting chance to make affordable Vegan Fashion work where other's have failed. Following in the footsteps of Vegan filmstar Natalie Portman, Leona Lewis has long muted the idea of affordable ethical fashion. An alternative to the celebrity only price tag of Stella McCartney's creations from her shop off Regent Street in London. After clearly impressing the fashion guru from the McCartney dynasty, Leona looks ever more likely to realise her dream of an ethical vegan fashion range available on the high street according to Vogue - and they should know potential when they see it.

Vegan Fashion: LA Times, Chicago

Vaute Couture in the LA Times - Jeanne Mai-ly Hilgart



My kinda Town - Chicago. A Ford model (and that is 'fashion" not "Transit van") turned vegan fashion designer. This girl's the real deal, not just a celebrity cashing in on merchandising.

Jeanne Mai-ly Hilgart, founder of Vaute Couture, Inc., trying to raise money for animals since she was 8, and sick of being cold and un-fabulous for the six months in Chicago they call winter ...

http://www.onoursleeve.com/

http://www.vautecouture.com/

Lush Prove it's the Hunters That are Extremists

Cosmetics company is attacked by vandals after launching anti-fox hunting campaign | Mail Online

Vegan Heroes Lush Cosmetics have coaxed the blood sports hunters out of the woods and revealed them to be the sick individuals they actually are.
 
It's the hunters who are the extremists, the violent minority, the social misfits.

The hunt sabs risk their, property, their safety and their social lives, discussing the latest recipes for vegan chocolate cake at 4.30 in the morning as they heroically set off to lay false sent trails to thwart the hunters quest for enjoyment in bloody entrails.

The selfish bullies who think it's fun to see a fox torn apart by a pack of hounds think nothing of writing obscenities on high street windows with a kebab and kicking over shop displays.

Like their supporters in the double house with duck pond Tory party they think they are above the law.

Whilst the blood sport enthusiasts and Country Side Alliance Lobbyists can abuse the law, some of my very peaceful hunt sab friends got followed by a helicopter and falsely arrested, fortunately they are not above the law.

Lush Fox Hunting Campaign

Incy vegetarian spider is a scientific first - Times Online

Incy vegetarian spider is a scientific first - Times Online

a vegan spider! Hurrah for nature!

Name: B kiplingi
Species: Spider
Size: Thumbnail
Diet: leaf buds of wild acacia plants
Found: Mexico
Young: reared in a nest

Alicia Silverstone Messing with nature on MTV

Alicia Silverstone Brings The Vegan Message To The MTV Newsroom » MTV Newsroom

Alicia Silverstone is messing with nature

Eating meat is natures way of natural selection - killing off the people too selfish and too stupid to see that the modern meat based diet is not only killing themselves it's killing the planet.

Nature has dished out heart disease, diabetes, cancer, arthritis , osteoporosis, Altzhiemers, stroke and constipation to meat eaters for a reason.

Don't mess with nature's way Alicia, leave the meat eaters to their burgers!

Nature knows best - survival of the fittest - make way for the homo-superior

YASUS AFARI

YASUS AFARI will be appearring at The World Vegan Day celebration in Fairfield Halls Sunday 1st November

THE EARTH IS OUR FRIEND
(Garden of Creation) YASUS AFARI ©

The earth is the garden of creation
Purposefully clothed with lush, green vegetation.
Roots!
Firm enough to prevent critical soil erosion,
All elements working in union,
For natural joy and satisfaction.
The earth is a friend, we are the friends of the earth
The cyclic function of the earth’s ecology is no mystery.
Like the organs of the human body,
Each working in perfect harmony,
In this our environmental community,
of which the guardians and keepers,
are the children of humanity.
The earth is a friend, we are the friends of the earth
The rivers, like blood streams flowing into the oceans
Returning secretly to the fleshy bowels of earth’s creation
Evaporating to the atmospheric breath of life
Sun, moon and stars
Solid, liquid and gas
Land, sea and air
Flesh, blood and spirit.
The earth is a friend, we are the friends of the earth
Like the lungs of man
The trees breathe to keep the earth alive
Yeah! The Sun, like a devoted Father
Working from sunrise until sunset
And the Moon, like a loving Mother
Working from dusk until dawn
Shining with the sweet embrace of her children, the stars
The earth is a friend, we are the friends of the earth
If we protect the earth,
Then, the earth will protect us
Clothe, feed and shelter us.
The earth is the garden of creation.
If we keep the earth alive
Then we will stay alive,
The earth will keep us alive.
The earth is our friend,
We are the friends of the earth

Heather Mills Vegan Food for Kids

Heather Mills goes back to blonde as she hands out her vegan food for free | Mail Online

The Daily Mail witter on about Heather Mills' changing hairstyles from the obligatory straight long blonde rich guys' wife haircut to , platinum pixie, to an Autumnal Anne Robinson back to blonde, but a good plug about vegan food for kids and her V-bites restaurant in Hove.

Heather is allegedly trying to get on the stars in your ice show 'Dancing on Ice' lets hope her true personality manages to shine through during that.

Heather was back in New York giving out free vegan food to New Yorks financially and nutritionally challenged kids.

Vegan Mofo III: Public Feed Info

Cake Maker to the Stars: Vegan Mofo III: Public Feed Info

Thanks to Kitee Cake Maker to the Stars Blogger for turning a good idea into a twittering glittering blogtastic idea.

More delicious vegan ideas than you could shake a hemp fibre stick at!

Go Girl! VEGAN MOFO 3 2009 is just Rock'n'Roll' with cookies

An awesome warm up act for World Vegan Day

Meat Free Day Heroes

Croydon Lags Behind in the UK Meat Free Day Race

Croydon Council are dragging their feet (no wonder they are the least healthy in London) but elsewhere in the UK vegan heroes are cutting through the red tape and across the winning line

Liverpool schools could be the first in the UK to go meat free one day every week encouraged by veggie Superhero Sir Paul McCartney and The Vegetarian Society

Brighton, Lancaster and Leeds are also putting a motion to the full council with help from vegan heroes Animal Aid (See www. Meat Free Monday .com )

Bristol council are being targeted by Vegetarian champions Viva's and their Fruity Funday Campaign

Meanwhile he veggie elite at Thames Valley Vegetarians have Reading Council in their sights and Happy Hippy Veggies at the Sumac Centre are targetting Nottingham Council.

Patron Saint of Vegetarians

Parish of the English Martyrs, York: "the Bishop of Worcester, Wulstan"

I kid you not - Bishop Wulstan - St Wulstan is recorded as the Patron Saint of Vegetarians and dieters

Apparently the smell of a cremated Goose put him off his prayers

Super Vegan Super Hero - Brocolli

Research - broccoli - heart disease

More evidence that Brocolli is a true super vegetable in the vegan world.

Vegan Magazine - Free !

World Vegetarian And Vegan News: Vegetarian Magazine - Free !

Yes you read it right the vegetarian and vegan heroes at Yaoh hemp products and Off the Hoof are distributing their magazine free online.

Read before you buy! How cool is that - now millions of people all over the world can read this cool magazine for free, diddly squat, nothing, zero, no charge, gratis, a gift.

Kate Moss vegan boyfriend Jamie Hince Fur Horror

Kate Moss vegan boyfriend Jamie Hince furious over models rabbit fur throw - mirror.co.uk

Jamie's Drive Time
Sound's like Kate Moss is trying to ditch vegan boyfriend Jamie Hince by using fur to drive him out. Apparently 'Kate mate' hard core vegetarian Stella McCartney won't visit Kate Moss at Kate's home because of Kate's fur fetish for dead animal Skin.

Sado Masochistic Sex
The Fur is everywhere but so far vegan Jamie Hince has been able to tolerate it for the sake of regular sex with his top super model girlfriend.

However now it seems Kate Moss wants rid of her chain smoking, Rock 'n ' Rolling vegan boyfriend Jamie Hince and is provoking him by buying a rabbit skin throw for the couple's bed.

Honking
Vegan Jamie says the rabbit skin throw makes him want to throw - made from a whole warren full of rabbits stripped of their skin. Now the Rabbits have stopped hopping it's making Jamie Hopping mad and making him feel sick asa rabbit rather than eager to hop into bed with Kate.


Rabbit Rabbit
Fur loving Kate may go like a rabbit between the fur lined sheets but the rabbit rabbit on the streets is that Kate's rabbit and fur obscession is one hop too far

Bunny Boiler
It's finally dawned on Jamie that Kate Moss is not just a bunny boiler, but a bunny skinner, a bunny eater, a bunny killer, a bunny skin wearer.

Kate's home is becoming the Watership Down rabbit equivilent of a Bunny London Dungeon.

World Vegan Day

World Vegan Day

What? World Vegan Day
is an opportunity for vegans and their friends to celebrate and promote
veganism

When? World Vegan Day
is every year on November 1st (since 1994)

Why? The world's first
Vegan Society was born on November 1st 1944 - started by Donald
Watson and friends.

Where? World Vegan Day
is celebrated internationally all over the world.

How? World Vegan Day
is celebrated in many different ways, 

from a
simple birthday party to a full vegan festival with exhibitions of
vegan food and products, talks on nutrition and cooking demonstrations.

Wishing
you very best wishes for an ethical, environmentally friendly


and healthy World Vegan Day - 1st November

Heather Mills Vegan Restaurant-V-Bites

Heather Mills Vegetarian Restaurant-V-Bites



Heather Mills looked on top of the World as she launched her new vegan vegetarian restaurant cafe in Brighton and Hove - V Bites

V - Bites' Menu looks like it has something for everyone - V bites is one place you won't walk away hungry from!

Moby's TeaNY Cafe in NYC Burns Down

Moby's TeaNY in NYC destroyed by fire

Heart goes out to Moby and Kelly as an 'electrical fire' destroys their veggie cafe in New York TeaNY



Michael Parish wrote on Ecorazzi

Moby opened the joint in 2002 with this his then girlfriend Kelly Tisdale, and later turned it over to Tisdale exclusively.

On his blog, Moby wrote:

”Apparently Kelly is working hard to repair it and get it re-opened. So there’s a good chance that Teany will re-open at some point in the next month or two.”

Healthy Vegan Recipe DVD

Healthy Vegan recipe DVDSolution for Meat Free Mondays - Famous Veggie Hero Rose Eliot, the thinking man's Delia Smith (or Fanny Farmer) a celebrity recipe queen for Vegan Diets presents a shedload of healthy recipes.

DVD of recipes - cooking and raw food too with health tips from Yvonne Bishop-Weston

Comes with a free little recipe cookbook booklet.

FREE video follows - Please Be Patient (read blogs below whilst you wait) You Tube we ain't. (Advisory: Actually in this particular free celebrity video clip it's the equivilent of XXX vegan health porn as Rose Elliot makes treat food with white flour, sugar and margarine!! )

Chocolate Chip Cookies from WDF Productions on Vimeo.

See also Vegan Cookbook

Paul McCartney's Meat Free Mondays

World Vegetarian And Vegan News: Meat Free Monday - Launch

Sir Paul McCartney, family and celebrity friends kicked off a global media blitz yesterday with his call to make Mondays meat free.

Over 300 stories about going vegetarian so far - it will be interesting to see how many cities follow Belgium city Ghent's example and give up meat for one day per week. One thing is sure, with Boris Johnson in control of London it's not happening any time soon in the UK capital city.

'The Goode Family' Cartoon Vegan Sitcom

TV Review - The Goode Family - On ABC, a Clan So Virtuous Even Its Dog Is Vegan - NYTimes.com

The Goode family from ABC is a new cartoon sitcom about a recycling vegan family. It locks in a lot of the stereo typical cliches that vegans get bombarded with and is definitely vegans according to meat eaters but is hugely funny nonetheless.

http://abc.go.com/primetime/thegoodefamily/

video YouTube

Sir Paul McCartney’s House On Google Street View

Sir Paul McCartney’s London pad is taken off Google Street View after he made a complaint | The Sun |Showbiz|Bizarre

Champion Vegetarian, Paul McCartney's family home on Google has now been deleted on Google Street view after his security team complained.

National Vegetarian Week 2009 - Art- Pinky Binks

National Vegetarian Week 2009 - News - Pinky Binks





Art for Smiths - For National Vegetarian Week (18-24 May) vegan artist and lecturer Pinky Binks created a tribute to the thousands of animals slaughtered in a now lonely and dilapidated slaughterhouse in Hamsterley.

The installation was also timed to mark Morrissey’s 50th birthday (Friday 22nd May) as he has been an ardent campaigner for animal rights throughout his life and is partly made up of pink gladioli. Morrissey has also been named the UK’s Favourite Vegetarian in a nationwide poll, beating Sir Paul McCartney for the very first time.

Vegan Heroes

World Vegetarian And Vegan News: Vegan sausage beats off egg rivals in taste test

This weeks vegan heros are Redwood's sausages

McCartney Celebrity Heirloom Challenge

Paul McCartney Celebrity Family Heirloom Under Threat by Health Food Giants

In a National Vegetarian Week Battle of the Bangers it's now not enough that the McCartneys 2nd greatest legacy to the world, The Linda McCartney sausage is the healthiest veggie sausage (highest %protein and lowest %salt) and also the best value (99p in Iceland) it has to be the tastiest too.

New flexitarians, demi vegetarians, conveinegans, and conscious consumers demand the same choice, the same quality, the same value for money but more importantly the same enjoyment from their vegetarian foods as they expected when they ate meat.

Will the new redesigned healthier Linda McCartney sausage fulfil all those demands and stave off the might of Premier Brands industrialisation of vegetarian foods?

Lets see what the experts say at The National Vegetarian Week big breakfast event at tibits restaurant in London. tibits will also be showcasing a selection of top vegetarian products including a new Vegan Cookbook coming out in June

Vegetarian celebrity of the year

National Vegetarian Week 09



Will Russell Brand be your favourite National Vegetarian Week 2009 Celebrity of the year? Vote Now

Oprah Moves Back onto the Vegan Hitlist

Oprah Gives Away Free Chicken; We Yawn and Say We Told You So



After delighting millions by going vegan on national TV and worldwide on her blog the Oprah media machine has leavered opened the trap door underneath her ethical fans feet by going all KFC on us.

There's nothing worse than a vegan's scorn, I mean it's not like she was ever one of us, highly unlikely she'd give up Dairy Ice cream for good - the vegan stuff is just never in the right place at the right time for her - and she did kind of hint that unless she had a vegan chef pandering to her every need she would struggle.

But this???? - KFC's the enemy - you put a vegan spotlight on yourself and then Dance with the devil then plagues of vegan locust be upon you foul torturer! manslaughter be on your hands

Now Star Trek Diets to Fight against Pig Flu

There will be no room for star trek pigs who would compete for space, air, water and food and cause waste and pollution problems due to their excrements and flatulence (and be a constant worry about H1N1 swine flu).

If Star Trek fantasies are ever to become a reality then the food dilemma has to be sorted first. It’s thought tomorrow’s Star Trek Space explorers will have to be self-sustaining farmers, growing enough plant foods such as fresh greens and vegetables to provide optimum nutrition for long journeys.

As the cost of sending equipment into space is estimated to be around $30,000 per pound, plants will have to also earn their keep by filtering and cleaning Star Trek air and water supplies.


Many experts suggest we should be looking more closely at an ethical Star Trek diet for planet earth as we approach environmental catastrophe due to our greed for animal food. Other experts have suggested it’s immoral for us to be feeding grain and water to pigs when there are so many people on the planet starving or dying from dehydration from lack of water.



The World Health Organisation and ex Beatle Sir Paul McCartney have urged us to just try vegetarianism even if it’s just once a week. McCartney has helped launch the concept of Meat Out Mondays all over the world as an ethical first step.

Despite the mountain of environmental evidence in favour of a plant based vegetarian Star Trek diet, the modern cornucopia of realistic alternative choice to meat and dairy products and the health risks it’s estimated over 50% of the population still eat meat more than once a week.

Health writer and nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston says “Dealing with the emotional attachment to eating meat means people find their habits difficult to change. They come up with all kinds of spurious claims such as “My body needs meat!” or “I only eat organic meat”. True, we’d be unlikely to be facing a pandemic of killer swine flu this Autumn if meat was farmed organically, however, whilst organic meat is undoubtedly less harmful to our bodies and the planet, it’s more vegetables we need in our diets not more animal products. Less than a quarter of the UK population even reach the NHS’s modest suggested targets of 5 fruit and vegetable portions per day”



Things have changed dramatically in recent years. McDonalds now sell salads whilst Burger King have allegedly paid Heather Mills $6 million (since denied by Sir Paul McCartney’s ex wife) to help launch a new swine flu free vegan veggie burger.
Swiss based Tibits, a vegetarian blue blood heritage restaurant chain in London, are leading the celebrations for National Vegetarian Week 2009 that starts on Monday 18th May, and are on a mission to encourage people to eat more fruit and veg.
Tibits will host; a photo call for vegetable body art, a launch of a new plant based cookery DVD, a vegan for dummies style recipe book launch, a fashion event to view a new range of designer shoes to rival Stella McCartney’s range and other vegetarian celebrity style products as well as their banquet choice of inspired dishes that make choosing your 5 a day an immune system boosting simple delight.

The finale of National Vegetarian Week is The Bristol Vegan Fayre on 30th and 31st May that last year attracted 12,000 people

London - National Vegetarian Week 2009

London - National Vegetarian Week 2009 Tibits restaurant is the hero of this years National Vegetarian Week Celebrations it seems

Celebrity Wet & Wild Young Beavers Exposed

Beaver diary - Wet and Wild (WWT)

Celebrity Young Beavers Exposed - FREE VIDEO

These wet and wild young beavers are shown getting wet, muddy and wild outdoors. Named Wizzy by a young girl in a natural nature project our hairy baby beaver has joined her mum and dad to become an honorary member of The Vegetarian Society UK with the approval of it's WWT babysitter.

See the amateur celebrity beaver outdoors swimming, splashing, licking and munching a fresh strawberry and nibbling on a fat corn cob with a remarkable display of pure naked basic instinct coming into play as she gets a twig in her mouth and drags it ashore for some good dam fun.

See Free Hi-Res Young Beaver Video

Celebrity Beavers

Joacquin Pheonix loses the Plot

Joaquin Phoenix Mental Breakdown?
Is he or isn't He?

Mad or clever?

Mis guided or deranged?

What is it with Joacquin Pheonix is it just lack of vitamin B12 and Essential omega 3 fats?

Or has he truly gone stark raving bark at the moon bonkers?

Superbowl Bans Vegetables

Peta Vegetable Sex Ad Banned from TV Network

Whatever next? is it a conspiracy? Macdonalds OK? GoDaddy OK? Alcohol OK? Vegetables Banned? Have the Superbowl gone mad or KKK?

Russell Brand - Vegan Aspirations

Russell Brand considers quitting sex - Vegan aspirations for celebrity Veggie Russell Brand



Russell Brand has declared to US GQ magazine in an interview that he's getting bored with his life of sex and materialism and is worried about being more famous for being a tart than a comedian.

Apparently he's now on a mission to be celibate and vegan.

“ That’s all got to go" he said in the interview "until I’m in a position where I can say, ‘Look I’m celibate, I’m a vegan. All I do is meditate, come out and do stand-up and make films,’” he added.

Vegan Awards 2009

Vegan Awards 2009

Chef Heather Mills Gives Vegan Cooking Lessons

Vegetarian Star » Blog Archive » Chef Heather Mills Gives Vegan Cooking Lessons

Say what you will about Heather Mills-McCartney but she gets off her backside and does something. She also likes a challenge.

She went to the poorest part of New York blighted with some of the USA's highest rates of obesity, diabetes, asthma, and other health issues.

Not only did she donate a $1Million of vegan food she got on down and showed them how to cook low cost healthy food too.