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Vegan Quarantine: Day 94

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Welcome to Vegan Quarantine: Day 94. This daily video series is my way of keeping spirits high within the vegan community while also supporting independent business, charities, and musicians.

Links for everything discussed are included below.

The Vegan Society has a new podcast called The Vegan Pod. Watch episode one here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csGqIq7M5_0

Vegan Mob – Vegan BBQ and Soul Food restaurant in Oakland, CA is experiencing runaway success. Read more about them here:
https://tinyurl.com/y6uxps6y

V Rev Vegan Diner is giving their seitan fried vegan chicken recipe to anybody who donates to one of a list of racial justice charities. Find more info on their Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBNei6MFO9b/

Recipe of the day. Vegan moussaka:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/vegan_moussaka_52413

Music recommendation of the day. State of the Union (STFU) by Public Enemy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQvDRe79F8k

You can support these daily videos by donating to my PayPal:
https://paypal.me/pools/c/8oikSipsfP

You can become a FGV Patreon supporter here:
https://www.patreon.com/FatGayVegan

Vegan Quarantine: Day 93

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Welcome to Vegan Quarantine: Day 93. This daily video series is my way of keeping spirits high within the vegan community while also supporting independent business, charities, and musicians.


Links for everything discussed are included below.

Check out the Live Vegan For Less information project from The Vegan Society:
https://www.vegansociety.com/…/live-veg…

Vdogs is a vegan sausage company in the UK and you can order online:
https://www.vdogs.co.uk/shop/

Animal Equality UK is hosting an online quiz on June 30. Sign up on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/664524500767370/

Recipe of the day. Soaky black bean brownies:
https://veganculinarycruises.com/soaky…/

Music recommendation of the day. Buy Björk‘s entire back catalogue via Bandcamp before Friday night and all proceeds go to Black Lives Matter UK:
https://bjork.bandcamp.com/music

You can support these daily videos by donating to my PayPal:
https://paypal.me/pools/c/8oikSipsfP

You can become a FGV Patreon supporter here:
https://www.patreon.com/FatGayVegan

British Library goes vegan for a day

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The British Library is embracing veganism by offering staff and visitors an exclusively all-vegan food and drinks menu at its Kings Library Café this Thursday (August 30, 2018).

The world’s oldest library is supporting The Vegan Society’s Plate Up for the Planet campaign that encourages people and businesses to take up to a seven-day vegan challenge.

The King’s Library Café, located in the Kings Library, will be serving dishes such as mock chicken katsu curry, Caribbean jerk tofu and pandan panna cotta, as well as hot drinks with soya milk between 10:45am and 5:00pm.

Louise Davies, Head of Campaigns, Policy and Research at The Vegan Society, said: “We are very excited to have such a respected institution as the British Library promoting the environmental benefits of the plant based diet with a vegan offering at its café.

“With the weight of evidence showing that going vegan is the most significant thing an individual can do to reduce impact on the planet, it’s time people and companies alike took action on this issue.

“We need to be far bolder with our food choices if we are to protect our precious planet, and our Plate Up for the Planet campaign encourages people to do just that.”

Chantelle Nicholson, chef and author of vegan recipe book ‘Planted’, will give a free vegan cookery demonstration at 1pm on the day and sign copies of her book.

The Vegan Society will hold a stall by the café, handing out literature and giving out flavoured roasted peas from Brave Foods to people who sign up to their seven-day planet-changing challenge.

You can find the café by the King’s Library, located on the first floor of the British Library.

You can see the exact location of the library thanks to Google Maps.

Dead animals are not art

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Lie down with roadkill, wake up with fleas.

It will be interesting to see how The Vegan Society responds to this situation.

BrewDog is expanding rapidly and part of that expansion involves raising equity in the USA. Long story short, the company’s equity scheme likes to reward investors with rewards such as discounts at their bars and so on. They had also promised a very special money-can’t-buy gift for their top investors in the USA.

Fast forward to today and the company posted details of the special reward on social media platforms as well as its website.

I’m going to leave a bit of space before I post the photo as a buffer zone for anyone who would like to check out now before they are faced with a dead animal.

Do not scroll down if you don’t want to see dead animals.

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Yep. The special reward for top investors is a limited beer housed inside an animal corpse.

The company explains on its website that roadkill has been used. Listen, I’m not here to debate if this is ethical or even in good taste. I know some people think animals should not be glorified as decorations or trophies and I also know some people are fucking horrendous pieces of shit who can fuck off.

You know which side of the line you fall.

Now, the real reason for this blog post is to ask The Vegan Society to rapidly and loudly remove themselves from any association with BrewDog.

The beer company recently started using the trademark of The Vegan Society on all of its vegan-suitable bottles.

Surely The Vegan Society is not interested in taking money from, or promoting, a company that uses the bodies of dead animals as a marketing gimmick?

I think we are all looking for swift action here.

Also, that’s me done being one of the most vocal supporters of BrewDog. I’m out.

You can see the original tweet here.

You can read about the special gift online.

How many vegans in Great Britain?

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An email popped up today from The Vegan Society with the following information:

Dietary vegans in Great Britain 542,000

Lifestyle vegans in Great Britain 360,000

The Vegan Society have reported that a survey was carried out earlier this year across England, Wales and Scotland by a professional survey company and the findings determined those are the ‘ballpark’ figures of the number of vegans in Great Britain.

The Vegan Society have extrapolated further findings from the research and have highlighted the following:

  • The results show that well over one and a half million people are vegetarian or vegan.
  • Over half a million people follow a vegan diet.
  • More than a third of a million avoid all animal products. That includes food, clothing and other products.
  • Over half a million vegetarians are looking to reduce their consumption of animal products.
  • There are approaching a million vegetarians and vegans who avoid leather, wool and other animal fibres.
  • There are almost twice as many women than men who are vegan.
  • Of all vegans 42% are in the 15-34 age group compared to only 14% of those over 65.
  • 88% of all vegans live in urban areas against 12% who live in rural areas.

There is apparently more detailed analysis published on the charity’s website but the link was not working for me, so please do share in the comments if you find a functioning link to the full facts and figures.

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UK brewery announces vegan label

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One of the fastest-growing beer companies in the UK has recently announced it will start labelling its vegan-suitable brews with The Vegan Society trademark.

To call BrewDog a runaway success would be a severe understatement. Since the business opened its first bar in 2010, it has expanded at breakneck speed and now has thirty retail outlets and bars across the UK.

Add another 14 international outlets to the mix and even more openings in the pipeline, it is clear that BrewDog has firmly established itself as boozy force with which to be reckoned. Heck, even the beer specialist on my street here in Mexico City stocks BrewDog!

It is exciting to see such a successful enterprise take veganism seriously and with BrewDog announcing it will start including The Vegan Society trademark on their bottles and tap handles, the job of compassionate drinkers and shoppers all over the world just got that little bit easier.

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Click here to see if a BrewDog shop or bar is near you and look out for the newly-labelled bottles in supermarkets and beer retailers everywhere.

Now, if they could just get rid of the three non-vegan beers in their line-up (Jet Black Heart, Dogma and Electric India), I’d invest in their Equity for Punks scheme in a heartbeat.

Read about BrewDog labelling vegan beer here.

Follow BrewDog on Twitter and Instagram. Like BrewDog on Facebook.

Find out about The Vegan Society trademark here.

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Why World Vegan Day needs your vote

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‘Tis the Season to be Silly: Why World Vegan Day needs your vote

I practically choked on my muesli this time last week, when a Facebook post announced a proposal to change the date of World Vegan Day.

As the creator of World Vegan Day, this was news to me.

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