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Team fox

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In case you didn’t know, the Prime Minister is leading the charge to relax laws governing fox hunting.

Read this and feel outraged.

The vote to relax these laws which will allow the widespread harassment and murder of foxes is happening within days.

It is CRUCIAL that you contact your MP and demand that they vote against any such relaxation of hunting laws.

You can visit one of the following websites that will help you contact your MP:

PeTA UK

Animal Aid

League Against Cruel Sports

Viva! Campaigns

We must work together to stop the Hunting Act from being repealed or relaxed.

I know we get asked to sign a lot of petitions and take a lot of action over the Internet and it is easy to feel swamped by information.

But I implore you to click on one of the above links and take 5 to 10 minutes out of your day to send a loud and clear message to your MP.

We need to protect foxes from cruel hunts.

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Compassionate feast

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This is not a vegan meal you will be able to get your hands on, unless I can talk my mother-in-law into staging a supper club with me.

We recently celebrated both Josh and his sister Sophia completing their university degrees, so that meant a jumbo vegan meal with the family to mark the occasion.

Check out the glorious Middle Eastern inspired meal Sara prepared for our party. Don’t drool!

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Dairy is crueler than meat

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This isn’t going to sit well with a lot of readers but I’ve got something I want to get off my chest.

I believe the dairy and egg industries are responsible for much more harm and suffering than raising and killing animals solely for meat.

I think a meat eater who doesn’t eat dairy or eggs is far less complicit in animal suffering than a vegetarian who consumes dairy and eggs every day.

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Highly skilled food transportation

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I’ve developed incredible skills when it comes to transporting chilled and frozen vegan food from one part of the planet to another.

You could be forgiven for thinking a flight from Los Angeles to London is too much time in the air for frozen food to make it back safely, not to mention the long periods at either end getting to and from airports.

But I’m FGV and nothing stands in my way when it comes to the food I love.

All of the goods you see below were frozen and wrapped in multiple plastic bags before being swaddled inside my favourite Harrington jacket and crammed into a suitcase.

Every single item made it back to my London home still frozen.

Check it all out below. I’m off to eat it all!

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London Vegan Beer Fest tickets

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London Vegan Beer Fest 2015 is coming up quick and plans have me busy.

Breweries are booked. Bands are booked. DJ has been arranged. Merch stand is being fired up. Food menu is being planned. It is all systems go. (Plus I have a very special announcement coming up soon!)

If you haven’t had a chance to scoot on over to the ticket website and view the entry options, I’ve listed them all below for you:

  • Early buyer general admission – 1pm entry – £5.00 plus booking fee
  • General admission – 1pm entry – £10.00 plus booking fee
  • VIP early entry and balcony seating – 12pm entry – £20.00 plus booking fee (only 20 remain – only ticket to have guaranteed seating)

Click here to book your London Vegan Beer Fest tickets now!

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We did it!

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A few days ago I put a call out to concerned vegans. A vegan food business took a knock (really) and I wanted to rally the troops and make a sizeable donation to help them back on their feet.

Guess what?

We reached the target set of £500 in just a few days. I have already transferred the funds over to Veg Instead, so hopefully the hungry vegans of Croydon will have their favourite street food back again soon.

Greg of Veg Instead wrote in response: 

The response has been really touching and the money will be really helpful. Please say thanks to your followers on our behalf.

How lovely! Vegans helping vegan business. We did it.

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Vegan food stand accident

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Scary news out of Croydon.

The traders running vegan street food market Veg Instead had an extremely fortunate escape from serious injury today when a car crashed into their business.

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According to London Evening Standard:

An unmarked police car crashed into a south London market stall amid a police chase following an armed robbery this morning.

The black Citroen hit a stallholder and then smashed through a vegan food stand at Surrey Street Market in Croydon just after 9.10am.

You can read the full story here.

As soon as I found out about this accident (thanks Oliver for the tip), I phoned stall owner Greg to check if everyone working this morning was OK. He assured me all was fine as far as physical wellbeing goes, however most of the Veg Instead equipment was destroyed.

This is where the vegan community comes in to help fix this situation.

I have set up a Just Giving page to raise the funds to replace the destroyed equipment. Greg estimates the damage at around £500.

Click here to donate now.

We have the collective power to get Veg Instead back on the road instantly. Insurance claims can take weeks and every day they wait to reopen, Veg Instead are losing income and Croydon is without a vegan food option on its streets.

All we need is 500 people to give £1 and I know more than 500 people will read this story. We can and should use our vegan might to sort this out.

Donate now.

You can like Veg Instead on Facebook

You can follow Veg Instead on Twitter

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Hometown

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Did you all know that I am from Australia?

I grew up in a city called Brisbane. Actually, I spent my younger years in a seaside town called Redcliffe just north of Brisbane and later moved to the Queensland capital as a teenager.

Where you grow up always holds a unique place in your memories, so it was exciting to hear I had been mentioned in my hometown newspaper in connection to my blogging and event planning in the UK.

Check it out!

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Nottingham, here I come!

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Vegan Roadshow is gearing up to be an exciting journey around the UK for a merry band of travellers.

This July, I am hitting the road with Australian vegan band Love Like Hate and activist group Animal Equality for a series of events around the country. We have dates scheduled in London, Leeds, Newcastle, Glasgow and Oxford, plus we are adding new dates over the coming weeks.

Like this one in Nottingham!

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I am thrilled to be teaming up with legendary vegan trailblazers Veggies Catering Campaigns for the July 21, 2015 stop of the tour at the Sumac Centre.

Veggies are pioneers in the UK. They have spent decades educating people on vegan issues through compassionate catering. You will be hard pushed to find a more ethical undertaking than this food, activist and education enterprise. Read about all the levels of their awesomeness here.

So what is going to happen at the Nottingham stop of the tour?

Love Like Hate will be performing a special semi-acoustic live show, Veggies will be selling their tasty vegan treats, Animal Equality will be spreading news of their outreach work and selling merchandise while I will be chatting to anyone who will listen.

The Nottingham stop of Vegan Roadshow is a powerhouse collaboration between some of the busiest names in vegan UK. Support independent vegan musicians. Support vegan caterers. Learn and share information. Be there!

Click here to donate via the Vegan Roadshow Indiegogo campaign and claim your Nottingham ticket.

Follow Veggies on Twitter

Like Veggies on Facebook

RSVP to the Nottingham Vegan Roadshow Facebook event and invite friends

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Bake with FGV

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One of my favourite events I’ve hosted was a collaboration with Le Pain Quotidien. The restaurant chain asked me to join them for a fabulous cooking class in their Borough location a few months ago and it was a dream event. Fantastic food, friendly people and some expert food preparation knowledge shared.

I had such a wonderful time so of course I jumped at their offer of being part of another vegan cooking class, this time at my local LPQ in Chiswick.

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