Welcome to the Vegan and Vegetarian Guide to the Thames Valley - the most comprehensive and up-to-date on the web.
Thames
Valley Vegans and Vegetarians are a social and
active vegetarian group based around Reading. We love food and
socialising and are one of the largest and most popular
vegetarian groups in the UK. So join in just by booking to come
along to one of our events.
We also promote vegetarianism through encouraging local businesses, communicating with local press, school talks, raising funds for the various vegetarian organisations and spreading the word.
News
Local vegetarian politicians runs for election.
Green Party candidate Rob White is standing in this years parliamentary and local elections.
True Food Coop has a shop
The every popular Truefood Cooperative now has a real shop in Emmer Green.
Unsung Hero Award at Eco Veggie Fayre
You may not have heard of Tim Barford, but you will have heard of the Bristol Vegan Fayre and nationwide Eco Veggie Fayres. Timbo is the driving force behind all these, bringing veganism and eco-conscienceness to the masses like no one else, so has been awarded the Activeg Unsung Vegan Hero Award 2010. The prize was two nights bed, breakfast and dinner for two people at the luxurious Lancrigg Hotel in the Lakes.
Voe for a Meatless Monday for Reading
Would you give up eating meat one day a week if it helped save the planet?
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Make your own Christmas pudding!
Here on Thames Valley Veggies' website we've got a festive recipe for you. Making your own Christmas pudding is well worth it with this one! It's vegan and delicious.
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Help needed for the Reading Veggie Eco Fayre
The Week before the fayre is very important for publicity.
We would like volunteers to help with door to door delivery of leaflets on the 12th December.
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Kingwood Common Preservation Group formed
Plans are being made to fence Kingwood Common and allow cattle to be raised on it. The Kingwood Common Preservation Group has been formed to fight this attack on common land and the environment.
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Study claims meat creates half of all greenhouse gases
In a paper published by a respected US thinktank, the Worldwatch Institute, two World Bank environmental advisers claim that instead of 18 per cent of global emissions being caused by meat, the true figure is 51 per cent.
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The Butcher's Cat - why do we treat different animals so differently?
The Vegetarian Society has a great new website exploring why we have some animals as pets and eat others. It's called the Butcher's Cat.
News from ActiVeg
- Eat less meat to save 18,000 lives, warns government's medical chief
- Moby's more than a musician: New book 'Gristle' explores food safety, factory farms, veganism
- Whitaker's slimmer figure result of vegetarian diet
- Vegan candidate stands for election in Redditch
- ‘Food for All – The Vegetarian Society’s Hospital Caterers training course’ - we need your vote.
- Jon Thor Birgisson: 'I like being a social outcast'
- Cute animals are just as delicious as ugly ones
- Martin Shaw and Viva! fight for ducks
- Cigarettes ‘still being tested on lab animals’
- 30 Days of Veganism: The Halfway Update