Want to have fun on New Year’s Eve in London?
Once again, I’ve joined forces with legendary vegan venue Karamel of Wood Green to host my New Year’s Eve celebration.
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Vegan Halloween supper club in London
One of the best places to eat in the UK is Dauns. No question about it.
Dauns is a 100% plant-based Scandi cafe, coffee shop, and cocktail/wine bar. Oh yeah… throw in a little sprinkling of vegan grocery and pantry items for good measure. Dauns has it all.
If you want to experience some of the best vegan food in the country, you might be interested in this special event being held at Dauns this Halloween 2025.
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Do you know about veganic gardening?
The word “organic” sounds like it should already be kind to the planet and animals. But here’s the thing many don’t realise: most organic farming still uses animal products such as manure, bonemeal, and fishmeal to fertilise crops.
That means even your organic carrots might have a little more connection to animal agriculture than you’d like.
That’s where veganic growing comes in. Sometimes called stockfree or vegan organic, this method takes the animals out of the process completely. Instead of bloodmeal or manure, veganic growers use compost made from plants, cover crops, hay, clover, and other local plant materials to enrich the soil. The result is food that’s grown in harmony with nature and free from the hidden ties to animal exploitation.
If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to grow your own food in a fully plant-based way, there’s a brilliant opportunity coming up.
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Giving Land Back to Nature: The Vegan Land Movement
There’s something irresistibly radical about the idea of taking land once used for animal farming and handing it back to the animals and plants. It feels like a quiet revolution that is making a real impact.
This exact thing is happening right now through a collective called the Vegan Land Movement.
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Eat Vegan And Help People In Need
We already know that making the choice to eat and drink vegan is all about compassion, but how about if your next vegan dining experience helped you to spread your compassion even further?
The good folk at Third Culture Deli have created a special menu item in order to help support an important emergency medical group doing important work.
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Vegan School Shoes Are A Thing
It always makes me happy to see companies making it easier for children to live kindly.
Wills Vegan Shoes has a range of vegan school shoes that prove it’s possible for kids to be comfortable and stylish while making cruelty-free choices all at once.
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Best Vegan Cheese Bundle Ever
I was going to start this blog post by saying something sassy about Christmas being just around the corner, but I don’t think you even need the Xmas excuse to treat yourself to this incredible vegan cheese collection.
Online vegan marketplace Saporia has gone above and beyond what we’ve seen previously when it comes to vegan cheese bundles and this ultimate collection is just superb.
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Spooky Season Fun for a Fabulous Cause
Here’s something to get your vegan heart thumping this spooky season.
On Saturday 1 November, compassionate people are getting together in Wood Green for an evening packed with trivia, karaoke, and community spirit. And it’s all to raise funds for the incredible Paul Watson Foundation, which works hard to protect marine life and habitats from exploitation.
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Why I Won’t Be Buying Redefine Meat
Being vegan isn’t just about what’s on my plate. For me, it’s about broader compassion and consistency. It’s about trying to make the world a little less cruel for everyone who lives in it. That’s not an easy task, and it’s something I get wrong from time to time.
But it’s also something I keep trying to do.
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When I learned about Redefine Meat’s public support for the Israeli military, I wanted to make a personal choice. This isn’t about a difference of opinion or a grey area in global politics. This is about a company that chose to donate its products directly to the IDF during one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in history. That’s not neutrality. That’s taking a side.
The more I read, the worse it felt. The company has received funding from the Israeli government, and in my opinion its public actions have aligned with a narrative that paints Israel as progressive and compassionate while Palestinians continue to suffer under bombardment, occupation, displacement, and genocide. Some people call this veganwashing, the use of a cruelty-free image to distract from cruelty elsewhere. And honestly, that label feels fitting.
Boycotts are complicated. I know that. We live in a globalised world where our purchases are tied up in so many systems that it can feel impossible to make every choice perfectly ethical. But we all draw our own lines. For me, this one is clear. I can’t hand over my money to a company that actively supports military action. I can’t celebrate a product made in the name of compassion for animals while ignoring the suffering of human beings.
Choosing not to buy Redefine Meat isn’t about purity or moral superiority. It’s about alignment. If my veganism means anything, it has to mean compassion that stretches beyond species, borders, and politics. It has to mean looking at the world and asking how I can make choices that feel humane. For animals, for people, and for the planet.
There are so many incredible vegan companies doing good work without this sort of compromise. That’s where my money will go. Because the more we expand our compassion, the more powerful it becomes.
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Vegan Mexican Sweet Breads in London
I can’t believe it has been a year already since I last wrote about Day of the Dead, but here we are!
Once again vegan Mexican bakery Pa’l Susto is hosting a special pop up stall inside legendary London cafe, The Black Cat.
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