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New Veggie Cafe In Southport Just Opened

New Veggie Cafe In Southport Just Opened

Good news if you are taking a trip up the coast - there's somewhere good to eat when visiting Southport. The opening of The Eatery cafe will benefit Freshfields Animal Rescue too. This is a snippet from an article which appeared in the Southport Visiter: Vegetarian cafe opening in aid of Freshfi

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Food For Life - Haiti Relief

Food For Life - Haiti Relief

Hannah Moorcroft writes: "Dear all at ScouseVeg, I'd like to tell you about an absolutely amazing, ethically sound organization called "Food for Life". This is the worlds largest vegetarian/vegan food relief. Serving more than 1.500.000 veg meals daily. Food for Life operates in more than 50 coun

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The Second Annual Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale

The Second Annual Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale

Time to bake some muffins people: Hi, this is Gary Loewenthal from Compassion for Animals, a Washington, DC-area grassroots animal advocacy group (www.compassion4animals.org - perpetually under construction). I wanted to invite you to participate in the second annual Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale, Apr

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Take Two Chefs

Take Two Chefs

I know, not a very original title... Wanted to get this out before last week but time got away from me, so here now is a feature on two American chefs who specialize in vegetarian and vegan recipes. No meat, just veg. They have both managed to become famous via a couple of celebrity daytime chat

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My Handmade Soaps

My Handmade Soaps

Well not mine... This is a plug for a website which does as it says on the tin: My Handmade Soaps, a local cottage craft based in Newton Abbot, Devon was launched by Cherrie Elliott in 2006, since when it has grown from strength to strength. All the product range is made from 100% vegetable base

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The Vegetable Orchestra

The Vegetable Orchestra

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present to you... The Vegetable Orchestra: Found via Noise Addicts: The Vegetable Orchestra performs on instruments made of fresh vegetables. The utilization of various ever refined vegetable instruments creates a musically and aesthetically unique sound universe. T

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New Shop: Honest To Goodness [Updated]

New Shop: Honest To Goodness [Updated]

We here at ScouseVeg like to do everything we can to help any local business which is veggie/vegan related and we have an opportunity to do that by telling you about a new shop just opened over the water called Honest To Goodness: Honest To Goodness is an ethical grocery shop and everything they

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Support Meat Free Monday North West

Support Meat Free Monday North West

An important message from Hanna: "Dear all at ScouseVeg and everybody else whose cares about our precious planet! A little while ago we got inspired by Sir Paul McCartney and his daughters launch of the Meat Free Monday campaign here in the UK. Although being long time vegetarians/vegans, we t

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Beanie's Page

Beanie's Page

This website is sponsored by Beanie's Health Foods If it wasn't for the kindness and generosity this website would have trouble surviving. (We have bills to pay as well). But it isn't just for their sponsorship that this dedicated page to them exists - This is here to tell you about some of the

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Your Natural Beauty Store

Your Natural Beauty Store

We always like to help and promote any local business here on ScouseVeg that are environmentally and animal friendly and Your Natural Beauty Store is a new online store not long started. It is a recommended visit. - A note from Carrina Rowe, the Sales & Marketing Manager: I started the site becau

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New Veggie Cafe In Southport Just Opened

New Veggie Cafe In Southport Just Opened

Good news if you are taking a trip up the coast – there’s somewhere good to eat when visiting Southport. The opening of The Eatery cafe will benefit Freshfields Animal Rescue too. This is a snippet from an article which appeared in the Southport Visiter: Vegetarian cafe opening in aid of Freshfields Animal Rescue Feb 26 2010 by Laura .....

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Jonathan Safran Foer on: Eating Animals

Jonathan Safran Foer on: Eating Animals

Over this past week The Guardian has been posting extracts from Jonathan Safran Foer’s first non-fiction book: Eating Animals. The American author has been an occasional vegetarian (some years vegetarian, some years omnivore, occasionally vegan) since the age of 10. With the birth of his first child Jonathan pondering the responsibility of ma...

Events

ScouseVeg Monthly Meeting – March 2010

What ? The monthly ScouseVeg social gathering. Where ? The Egg Cafe, 16-18 Newington, Liverpool   Map/Directions When ? Friday March 5th, 2010 From 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm More info: Scouseveg’s monthly meeting at The Egg Cafe in city centre Liverpool. Join us for an informal gathering, and meet some like-minded people. Families wel...

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How Would You Feel If The Hunting Ban Was Repealed ?

How Would You Feel If The Hunting Ban Was Repealed ?

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the ban on hunting with dogs. League Against Cruel Sports have released a video which records the reactions of various celebrities as they watch footage of traditional hunting. In the video is former Doctor Who Colin Baker; actress Annette Crosbie; Time Team presenter Tony Robinson; and naturalist Bill Oddie. ....

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Nature’s Boutique

Nature's Boutique

A plug for a friend of Niki’s: “Nature’s Boutique is about Natural Beauty, offering natural organic products derived from nature. We believe that ‘Green is Glam’. Being green doesn’t mean that you have to comprise on quality or luxury; quite the opposite in fact, as we have carefully selected pure eco luxury brands w...

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Fur Wearer Kate Moss Paying Lip Service

Fur Wearer Kate Moss Paying Lip Service

Two items spotted on Ecorazzi: The first one is a report about how Kate Moss is going to take part in Meat Free Monday, not because she thinks that it is an ethically sound thing to do, but because she’s trying to appease Stella McCartney with this token gesture: “Kate Moss isn’t going to win points ... ...

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“Faux” Fur May Contain Dog Hair

Found via DiscoveryNews: So-called “faux” fur may actually contain dog hair, according to Humane Society of the United States investigations. Inspectors for the Humane Society say fur from a canine species known as the raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) was found on garments labeled as being “faux-fur.” During the recent...

Events

ScouseVeg Monthly Meeting – February 2010

What ? The monthly ScouseVeg social gathering. Where ? The Egg Cafe, 16-18 Newington, Liverpool   Map/Directions When ? Friday February 5th, 2010 From 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm More info: Scouseveg’s monthly meeting at The Egg Cafe in city centre Liverpool. Join us for an informal gathering, and meet some like-minded people. Families ...

News

Food For Life – Haiti Relief

Food For Life - Haiti Relief

Hannah Moorcroft writes: “Dear all at ScouseVeg, I’d like to tell you about an absolutely amazing, ethically sound organization called “Food for Life”. This is the worlds largest vegetarian/vegan food relief. Serving more than 1.500.000 veg meals daily. Food for Life operates in more than 50 countries and includes orphanages...

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The Second Annual Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale

The Second Annual Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale

Time to bake some muffins people: Hi, this is Gary Loewenthal from Compassion for Animals, a Washington, DC-area grassroots animal advocacy group (www.compassion4animals.org – perpetually under construction). I wanted to invite you to participate in the second annual Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale, April 24 through May 2, 2010 (www.veganbakesale.o...

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Monsanto GM Corn Linked to Organ Damage in Animals

Monsanto GM Corn Linked to Organ Damage in Animals

Experimentation on animals by feeding them corn – but genetically modified corn which led to organ damage. Found via Naked Capitalism: … We (International Journal of Biological Sciences) investigated three different GM corn namely NK 603, MON 810 and MON 863, which were fed to rats for 90 days. The raw data have been obtained by Europea...

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Vegan*Psicótik*Sound*System

Vegan*Psicótik*Sound*System

Back in October last year the good people at vegan psicotik sound emailed to tell us about vegan (music) podcasts that they do. I loved this, right down our street this is and I told them that I’ll get something posted. And then I promptly forgot. But luckily in the middle of December they contacted me again ... ...