News
Monthly meeting - Saturday 25 October at Mod Pop Cafe
Come to our monthly meeting, on the last Saturday of the month, from 1.30pm. We now meet regularly at Mod Pop Cafe so come along and try one of Martin's vegan treats. I recommend the breakfast. We will try and nab a big table so make yourself known to us!
Celebrate World Vegan Day with MVS!
Come and join us and celebrate World Vegan Day! We are having a party at Mod Pop Cafe, Oldham Street, from 7pm to about 11pm, Vegan wraps and stew, live music and cake! Please bring your own booze, and a vegan cake if you wish. We can never have enough cake. Entrance is only a fiver; tickets from Linda (at our next meeting), from Martin at Mod Pop Cafe or pay on the door.
Cordon Vert cookery school
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Positive review of The Greenhouse
Glowing review of The Greenhouse from the Manchester Evening News
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8th Day review - Manchester Confidential
Uncomplimentary review by online magazine Manchester Confidential
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Eating out with Dave Spikey
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Simon Rimmer interview
An interview with Simon Rimmer, owner of Greens veggie restaurant in Didsbury
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Review of one of our favourites Dandelion & Burdock
Positive review of Sowerby Bridge's finest, Dandelion and Burdock
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Veg has the edge
News from ActiVeg
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Cigarettes ‘still being tested on lab animals’
Animal testing is still carried out by major cigarette companies, it has been alleged.
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Wild monkeys 'sent to british laboratories'
Wild monkeys are being illegally trapped and plundered from the forests of southâeast Asia for use in British research laboratory experiments, fear animal welfare Âcampaigners.
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Don’t mock my lentils: vegans to get discrimination rights
Vegans and teetotallers are to be given the same protection against discrimination as religious groups, under legislation championed by Harriet Harman, the equalities minister.
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The Cove film-makers break up alleged whale-meat smuggling operation
The documentary-makers exposed an alleged whale-meat smuggling operation at the US sushi restaurant The Hump.
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Eco Oscars Launched - Never mind the Actors, here are the Real Superheroes
The real heroes of the planet step up into the limelight on the same day as the Oscars with the announcement of the Eco Veggie Awards 2010, honouring the movers and shakers of the Green, Fair Trade and veggie circles -ÂÂ the people, organisations and products that are making a difference right now
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Bristol Eco Veggie Fayre to "Unite the City's Campaigners" for the first time
The first ever Bristol Eco Veggie Fayre aims to "ÂÂunite the city'Âs campaigners"ÂÂ for the first time, claims the organiser Tim Barford, from Bristol based hemp company Yaoh.
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Heather Mills - Can She Cook? Yes She Can! Veggie Cookery Demo at 3pm at The Brighton Eco Veggie Fayre March 20th 2010
Charity campaigner Heather Mills can not only skate â she can cook too, and will be doing just that during her 3pm Cookery Demo at The Brighton Eco Veggie Fayre on Saturday March 20th at The Hove Centre.
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30 Days of Veganism: The Halfway Update
Itâs been two weeks since I started an experiment where I, a lifelong animal product consumer, attempted to go vegan for 30 days.
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Why Eating Meat-Shaped Vegetarian Food Is Like Having Sex with a Blow-up Doll
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We're living in a time when you can eat fake meat that tastes so real you'd swear an animal had to die for it.
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Foodie fight: The meat debate
Why don't we eat dogs? That is one of the questions posed in Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, Eating Animals. He raises the question to try to get us to think differently about what we eat.
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