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GOING VEGGIE

CHANGE YOUR DIET. CHANGE THE WORLD

Going vegetarian is the most effective single thing you can do to make this world a kinder, fairer and better place and it improves your own health. There has never been a better time to make the change: the choice of food available to vegetarians has never been more varied or more appetizing – and the scale of destruction caused by the global meat business has never been greater. Join the millions of people who have already chosen to celebrate life, and turn vegetarian today. Find out everything you need to know right here, from why going veggie is so important to where you can find the best vegetarian food.

GOING VEGGIE: FOUR GREAT REASONS

Saving Animals

In the UK alone, 850 million animals and hundreds of millions of fish are killed every year to put meat on tables – that’s more than three million animals a day. Before they are slaughtered, hundreds of millions lead desolate, disease-ridden lives on factory farms. Turning vegetarian means you’re no longer a part of that cycle of death.

Find out more about how the meat business brings misery and suffering to hundreds of millions of animals

Saving the Planet

Rainforests are cleared for grazing; methane from livestock causes global warming; soil is eroded by cattle; slurry poisons waterways; and the seas are laid to waste by overfishing. The global appetite for meat and the industrial techniques of the meat industry are destroying the Earth.

Find out more about how eating meat and fish is ravaging our environment on land and sea

Saving Others

While 750 million people go to bed hungry every night, one-third of the world’s grain is fed to farmed animals. A typical Western meat-based diet can only feed 2.5 billion people: a plant-based diet will feed every one of us.

Find out more about how eating meat contributes to poverty and starvation

Saving Yourself

Vegetarians live longer and suffer less from diseases such as hypertension, obesity, coronary artery disease, certain kinds of cancer and diabetes. Vegetarian diets can even be used to treat illnesses.

Find out more about how a vegetarian diet will benefit your health


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The Sands B+B offers delicious vegetarian/vegan organic breakfasts, evening meals by arrangement. We are opposite a little footpath which runs down to a safe sandy beach on the Jurassic coastal path.
 
B&B – LONDON: Centrally located in comfortable family homes. Direct transport to West End, theatreland and airport. Lots of restaurants and shops. TV in rooms. Double room £50 pn, single room £36 pn. Children’s reduction. Continental breakfast. Tel: 0207 385 4904 www.thewaytostay.co.uk
 
 
AWEN  VEGETARIAN  B&B (Abercarn, Gwent, S. Wales, NP11 5AS)   16th century Welsh longhouse. Oak Beams, Sumptuous Four Poster Bed.  Sleeps up to 5 in two rooms. Stunning countryside for walks. Close to Newport & Cardiff.   Phone: 01495 244615 • Email: info@awenbandb.com • Web: www.awenbandb.com
 
St Johns Lodge Windermere Guest House Ideally situated. 10 minutes walk from the lake and minutes from secluded woodland. Easy walk to good selection of restaurants, pubs, tea rooms and cinema and close to all amenities. Vegetarian owners offer daily choice of over 15 vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free homemade breakfasts. Fair-trade tea and coffee. This pretty guest house caters exclusively for non-smokers.   Free access to nearby luxury leisure club Free internet access including 24-hour wi-fi   St Johns Lodge, Lake Road, Windermere LA23 2EQ T: 015394 43078 E: mail@st-johns-lodge.co.uk www.st-johns-lodge.co.uk
 
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swampys The brand new veggie food company From the same people who brought you Red Star Natural Liquid Soaps. We are planning to open our first outlet by July 2008.  From there we will expand around the UK. From there we will expand around the world. We are looking for potential investors, people who are interested in what we stand for rather than the money they stand to make. Minimum investment is £100. If you want to be part of something revolutionary with a sense of humour & purpose, if you want to see veggie food on the high street, if you think you can risk a few quid on a project with the loony who turned down Dragon's Den AND Wife Swap in charge, if you are prepared to put your money where your mouth is, call: 01384 873748 – 07729 121362 – swampys@gn.apc.org And just in case you haven’t heard of us before, www.redstarnaturalliquidsoaps.co.uk
 
Guest House for sale – York – Vegetarian/Vegan/Organic/Fairtrade
 

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In this section:
Introduction
Why go veggie
How to go veggie

Order a Vegetarian Starter Pack

"But What About?"
The twenty most commonly-asked questions about vegetarianism.


Viva! Guides
All of the information on these pages is available in Viva!’s range of Guides, comprehensive and inexpensive booklets covering everything you need to know about the whys and hows of going veggie. Written by experts in their field, each one is packed with vital information. You can view them all here and then order them online if you want a hard copy to refer to, give to friends or fill your bookshelves! Click here for a full list.

Want to know why you should go veggie?

Read the classic vegetarian book, the Silent Ark by Viva!'s founder Juliet Gellatley. It's a hard-hitting personal story and is riveting, bold and persuasive.

"This is an important book...that tears at the heart, enlivens the mind and is a large step towards undestanding for, having read it, one becomes hooked on putting things right."
Carla Lane.

For a must read on the main veggie issues - from animals and health to the environment and developing world click here to access the Silent Ark. 



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