East Midlands Vegan Festival
Pat | 11.12.2008 00:10 | Animal Liberation | Climate Chaos | Sheffield
Pictures from 2007 event
The event has been organised by Nottingham Animal Rights, and sponsored by The Vegan Society and Nottingham based Veggies Catering Campaign, 3-times winner of the Best Vegan Caterer award.
'Veggies' are coming up to their 25th year. Back then vegan caterers and businesses were few and far between but now the list of vegan companies in the U.K is endless. Events like The East Midlands Vegan Festival are happening all over the country. In the last few weeks Veggies has supported similar events in Wolverhampton, Lincoln and London's Kensington Town Hall. The response from members of the public is always fantastic.
The festival will include vegan food sampling, cookery demonstrations, talks, cosmetics, toiletries, ready meals, cakes and other vegan delights that most would consider impossible - vegan 'fish' and chips, vegan creme eggs and vegan marshmallows to name but a few!
Beth Hewis, event organiser said of the event, 'the trend of being vegan is growing all the time, many people are turning to the diet for very important reasons, for some it is because of an intolerance to lactose, for others it is environmental reasons and the realisation that producing meat has a massive carbon footprint. For many veganism is about reducing animal suffering and we hope that our event will show people how easy it is to give up the meat and dairy. Vegan products are so readily available now and it isn't just health food shops that are stocking vegan products.'
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Beth Hewis Tel: 01773 712999 or 07941 989901
http://www.eastmidlandsveganfestival.co.uk Veggies: 0845 458 9595
http://www.Veggies.org.uk Vegan Society: 0845 458 8244
http://www.vegansociety.com Nottingham Animal Rights
http://www.myspace.com/nottinghamanimalrights Nottingham Vegan Guide
http://www.vegan-nottingham.co.uk/ All things vegan in Nottingham
http://www.veggies.org.uk/nvvs Vegan Business Connection
http://www.veggies.org.uk/vbc.htm Stalls include:
All Love & Lib
Animal Aid
Bodytalk - Complimentary therapies.
Brinsley (farm) Animal Rescue and Women's Aid Pet Welfare
Campaign for Eco-veganism
Chocolate Skye's (creme 'eggs' & marshmallows!)
CND
Dotty's - subject to getting help for them
Eden Farms
Good Food Place - ready meals.
Green Box Shop
mm...deli
Notts & Derby Hunt Sabs
Pop My Cherry - vegan cakes
Plamil - chocolates, spreads, milk & mayo
Raffle & Tombola
Screaming Carrot
Something Fishy & Victoria Cake Experience
Squeek
Sumac Centre
Sweet Vegan
Uncaged
Vegan Peak Feast Kitchen
Vegan Society
Veggie, vegan, animal rights networking stall
Veggies Catering Campaign
Vegan Society
Viva!
Yaoh
Pat
e-mail:
veganfestival@veggies.org.uk
Homepage:
http://www.eastmidlandsveganfestival.co.uk/
Additions
Not just a load of old lentils
15.12.2008 19:52
On Saturday 13th December no less that 1,990 people had that question answered at the East Midlands Vegan Festival. Not just what, but why, where and how, with a program of talks, including:
* “Vegan Education in Schools and Colleges”; Rob, Vegan Society - Information and resources for teachers, students and parents too.
* “By-products of the Livestock Industry”; Jon, Brinsley Animal Rescue - Meet your meat. The work of a local farmed animal rescue.
* “Campaign for Eco-Veganism”; Kevin, Midlands Vegan Campaigns - Livestock has the biggest impact on the climate and other global issues.
* “Vegan Nottingham” - Info on our campaign projects including: Vegan Nottingham Guide; Free Food Giveaways; Veggies Campaigns"
* “Truffle Making & Cake Baking Tips” - Elsa, Pop By Cherry
* “Pizzadillas & Vegan Fried Egg”; Alex, Kiss My Asparagus
* “Fridge Cakes & Vegan Cookie Tips”; Eva, Kiss My Asparagus
* “Vegan Q's & A's” - our panel of experts answered ‘where, what, how and why to enjoy vegan living’.
Thanks to Bartosz Kali for sharing this gallery of photos from the event at
http://bartoszkali.co.uk/galleries/. Huge thanks to everyone from a broad coalition of Nottingham's animal rights, vegan and environmental campaign community who made the event such a huge success.
Join us on Thursday 18th at the Sumac Centre to debrief, to make plans for next year (probably December 12th) and to party into the night!
Pat
Homepage:
http://www.eastmidlandsveganfestival.co.uk/