Aldi to launch vegan turkey as part of 2020 Christmas range
Aldi has announced a range of vegan mains, sides, desserts and party foods for the upcoming festive season. Following in Tesco’s footsteps, budget retailer Aldi is launching a vegan turkey this September. The new dish is part of its festive offering for 2020, which features new impressive plant-based dishes for starters, mains, sides, and dessert. …
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Harrowing footage shows starving pigs eating each other at a ‘high standards’ farm
‘Flat House farm is one of the very worst pig farms I’ve investigated in Viva!’s 26 years,’ says animal protection agency founder. This week, vegan charity Viva! Campaigns released horrific footage of its four-month undercover investigation of Leicestershire based Flat House Farm—one of the largest hog farms in the UK. The farm is home to …
Australian study finds plastic in 100% of seafood samples
‘Considering an average serving, a seafood eater could be exposed to up to 30mg of plastic – equivalent to the average weight of a grain of rice’ A recent Australian study has found plastic in all samples of popularly consumed seafood including crabs, oysters, farmed tiger prawns, wild squid and wild sardines. The study led …
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LEON launches a brand-new plant powered menu to celebrate ‘British summer produce’
‘Now more than ever is important to continue to support British farmers and producers and offer food that tastes good, does good and is kind to the planet’ The ‘naturally fast food’ restaurant chain LEON has launched a new plant-based menu to celebrate British summer produce and the power of plants. The new menu, which …
Top footballer Saúl Esclápez says a plant-based diet is ‘very beneficial for everyone’
‘In the end… you sleep better, you are less bloated, when you are competing (and) you recover more quickly’ Europe’s best midfielder Saúl Ñíguez Esclápez, famously known as Saúl completely swears by his plant-based diet. In an interview with Euronews Living, the Spanish footballer player, who is 25 years old, shared the positive health benefits …
Joaquin Phoenix calls on people to ‘reject animal cruelty’ and ‘change the world from your kitchen’
‘There’s so much pain in the world that we are powerless over, but being party to animal suffering is not one of them’. Joaquin Phoenix has spoken against the factory farming industry stating it ‘maligns our values’ and ‘exploits our trust’. The multiple award-winning actor and passionate vegan made the comments as part of PETA’s …
Graphic video shows Detroit cop mercilessly shoot pet dog in its own yard after it clashed with a K-9
In the video, a Detroit police K9 gets into a fight with a fenced-in pit bull in its own yard. An upsetting home video shows a Detroit police officer mercilessly shooting a dog in the head while the dog was confined within the fence of its owner’s property. The disturbing incident happened as the cop’s …
Animal Charity calls on farm to ‘give up goats’ following cruelty exposé
‘The response to what we uncovered has been incredible with national and international attention’ Around 50 animal rights activists staged a protest outside Far Marsh Farm in Ottringham demanding the farm release its goats. The demonstration took place on Saturday following Animal rights group Surge’s undercover footage that exposed horrific animal abuse at the outlet …
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Men who eat plant-based diets ‘don’t have lower testosterone levels’ than meat eaters
The study has shown there is no difference between the testosterone levels of vegans and meat-eaters. A vegan diet does not reduce testosterone in men, shows new research busting long-held and potentially harmful myths about the impact of a plant-based diet on masculinity. The study published in the World Journal of Urology came to the …
Vegan restaurant Neat Burger backed by Lewis Hamilton opens second site
‘We are thrilled to have opened our latest restaurant and look forward to welcoming visitors to enjoy our delicious plant-based burgers’ This week, vegan burger restaurant Neat Burger announced the opening of its new branch in Camden Market. The new branch follows the fast food restaurant’s first site in Mayfair last year. The brand as …
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Meatless Farm opens first-ever plant-based drive thru as part of M*** F*** campaign
‘Next-generation meat alternatives are fast becoming a more frequent preference for meat-eaters’. Meatless Farm has opened the UK’s first plant-based drive-thru to target meat-eaters who switched to plant-based eating during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the UK vegan meat brand, the M*** F*** drive-thru is part of Meatless Farm’s provocative campaign aimed at showing customers …
Canadian government invests $2.6 million to boost vegan protein development
‘It’s not only a good investment now but it is preparing us for the future, because this trend of the population increasing their consumption of plant protein is here to stay’ Canada has once again backed efforts to grow its country’s plant-based sector. The government has announced more than $2.6 million in federal funding for …
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