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Daily archives for June 9th, 2011

Move Over Lady Gaga’s Meat Dress

Jun09
2011 Written by maggie

PETA’s Fashionable Salad Dress

PETA (People for the ethical treatment of Animals) are promoting vegetarianism in China by dressing up an actress in a dress made of salad leaves.

The actress claims that since being vegetarian she feels much lighter, however at first she gained weight by eating to much starchy foods, but has now got it under control.

China’s meat consumption has quadrupled over the last 40 years because living standards have risen,  but as a side effect the number of heart disease and cancer cases has also gone up dramatically.  China are not quite as bad as the west for consumption but it is a growing nation.

It sounds like a fun meat free campaign,  maybe people will have a strong reaction in a good way, rather than that horrid meat dress worn by Lady GAGA which I think made many people feel quite ill.

The Telegraph have a video of the actress in the dress here is the link.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/8565676/Actress-dresses-in-salad-for-meat-free-campaign.html

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Veg.Out Pastries

Jun09
2011 Written by maggie

Veg.Out Pastries

Sold in Holland & Barrett these pastries are a port in a storm,  as most towns have a H&B store but do not have a Veggie Restaurant.

The pasties are very heavy on the pastry,  the filling is a bit mean but they do fill you up when there is little other choice.

The Steakless Bake is like a traditional flavour with steak style chunks in gravy.  The Jerky Jamaican Bake is a mixed vegetable dark savoury flavour with a barbecue taste.  The Jumbo SOS Roll is like you would expect a vegan sausage roll to taste.

I personally prefer the SOS roll out of all three, the texture is nice and the pastry is not as heavy as it is on the pasties.

Suitable for Vegetarians and  Vegans and is Dairy Free.  The pasties are 320kcal for 100grams.  Suitable for freezing.

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Morrissey Meat Free Gig

Jun09
2011 Written by maggie

Morrissey Meat Free Festival

The Lokerse Feesten in Belgium have booked Morrissey on condition that the venue only serves veggie food.

Morrissey famously walked off stage in California because he did not like the smell of the barbecue meats wafting over to the stage. Good on him I say. I hate the smell of the meat cooking, it turns my tummy over.

I once saw Morrissey in a Vegetarian Restaurant in London (Eat and 2 Veg) when he entered there was a hush amongst conversation and he drifted to the back of the restaurant to his table. Sadly this restaurant closed last year. That is my only claim to know anything much about this guy, I am not a fan of his music but I certainly respect his food ethics.

From the Festival Website

Meatless day at Lokerse Feesten! The Lokerse Feesten have had their eye on Morrissey for a very long time. For this edition we finally managed to get him over and we are very pleased about this. Further to that, the addition of Morrissey to the line-up meant a welcomed catering challenge for 1 day. As more and more people are introducing veggie days in their diet, we considered 1 meatless-day out of 10 Lokerse Feesten days a healthy break for all. Our food stalls will be serving you an array of healthy vegetarian dishes.

I am glad that the festival organisers have risen to the challenge. Lets hope it goes well and they do it again.

Here is the festival info http://www.lokersefeesten.be/en/home

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