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Daily Vegan 25: Time for ‘zero tolerance’ when eating out? – by Mark Gold
Some people are lucky enough to live in an area where there is at least one vegetarian restaurant serving a wide range of vegan options. (There are also a few around the UK that are completely vegan)....
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Daily Vegan 26: An obsession with shoes! – by Mark Gold
Why is it that when you tell people that you’re vegetarian or vegan, their first reaction is often to stare at your feet in the hope of spotting a pair of leather shoes? If they find any leather, it’s...
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My Vegan Journey Part Two: What Came Next – by Kate Hickman
After talking about her experiences of the Great Vegan Challenge 2013, Kate tells us what happened next on her vegan journey… With Christmas not too long after the Challenge, I worried whether I’d feel...
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Daily Vegan 27: The Vegan Ethic – by Mark Gold
The vegan ethic is not only about food, of course. It means questioning the clothes we wear, the hair and skin care products we use, and so much more. It’s about developing a thoughtful approach to the...
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Daily Vegan 28: It’s Christmas time… – by Mark Gold
Love it or hate it, it’s almost here again and, although it can be a bit of a tough time if you’re the only vegan in an unsympathetic family, it doesn’t mean going without. Nor, if you’re worried about...
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Daily Vegan 29: If slaughterhouses had glass walls… – by Mark Gold
Animals are routinely beaten There are many good reasons for becoming vegan, but the one that inspires most of us is, of course, a desire not to have any part in the horrific exploitation of animals....
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Daily Vegan 30: And now the end is near… and New Year resolutions – by Mark Gold
So how has it been for you? Interesting – even fun – we hope? Everyone at Animal Aid would like to thank you all for taking part, which we know you wouldn’t have done if you didn’t care about animals...
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Sanctuary Visit 2014 – by Ben Martin
Last Saturday (22nd Nov) a whole host of people taking the Great Vegan Challenge joined us for our annual visit to The Retreat Animal Rescue near Ashford in Kent. This wonderful sanctuary provides a...
View ArticleGetting Vegan Already – by Kate Fowler
It is six months since our last Great Vegan Challenge and there are six months to go until the next, but we remain busy! People don’t just go vegan in November, of course, and we are always ready to...
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Nearly there…
Can you believe it? The Great Vegan Challenge 2015 is almost upon us! With just days to go, it feels like only yesterday that I was wrapping up the last one, certainly not eleven months. But what an...
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Daily Vegan 1: The rise and rise of veganism – by Ben Martin
Donald Watson, co-founder of the Vegan Society I’ve been vegan for more than ten years and, as you can probably imagine, I’ve seen a lot of change in veganism in that time. When I started out, you had...
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Daily Vegan 2: The C-word, Part one – by Mark Gold
Ask most people what they’d most miss if they followed a vegan diet (or, in some cases, why they could never become a vegan) and the most common answer would easily be cheese. Indeed, cheese seems to...
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Daily Vegan 3: The C-word, Part two – by Mark Gold
The two most readily available dairy-free alternatives to cheese are called Sheese (produced by Bute Island Foods) and Cheezly (from VBites). Both come in several flavours, with ‘melting’ as well as...
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Daily Vegan 4: The C-word, Part three – by Mark Gold
Soft cheeses don’t seem to be such a problem for vegans to give up as the hard varieties. There are excellent dairy-free alternatives that are at least as good, if not better, than the real thing. The...
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Daily Vegan 5: The coffee problem – by Mark Gold
Soya milk is so popular and so much improved these days that nobody should have any difficulty finding it. Many non-vegans choose it for health reasons, because they are dairy-intolerant, or because...
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Daily Vegan 6: I scream, ice cream – by Mark Gold
OK, so after the first five entries from the Daily Vegan, the worst case scenario is that you are writhing around with the pain of cheese withdrawal symptoms and ready to do just about anything to get...
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Daily Vegan 7: Vitamins and minerals – by Mark Gold
Now for some serious nutritional stuff. No diet is perfect and, like everybody else, vegans have to be sure that they get enough, and a decent balance of, vitamins and minerals. So here’s a very brief...
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Daily Vegan 8: Junk food veganism – by Mark Gold
If you’re not interested in cooking, and ingredients such as gram and buckwheat flour sound too alien, then here’s a bit of advice for the potential junk food vegans amongst you. Eating a wide range...
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Daily Vegan 9: Reading the label – by Mark Gold
Led by the Co-op, some supermarkets and food companies (such as Sainsbury’s, M&S, Hovis, Blue Dragon and Baxters) label their products as ’suitable for vegetarians or vegans’ where appropriate. To...
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Daily Vegan 10: Supermarkets or wholefood shops? – by Mark Gold
Some people are happy to use supermarkets; others avoid them at all costs. Most of us end up somewhere in the middle – buying some foods from big stores and others from independent health/wholefood...
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