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Eating meat; fish and dairy causes environmental destruction, damages human health, contributes to global hunger and inflicts immense suffering on billions of animals across the world. Viva! believes that the solution to all these problems is in our own hands: the best way to stop the destruction and the cruelty is to stop eating animals now – go vegetarian, or better still, vegan. Through popular campaigns, solid research, undercover exposés and effective media skills we have brought the reality of modern farming into people's living rooms. We have enlightened millions, shocked most and changed the diets of many. You can help with these successes.
 Party for the Pigs at Christmas fundraiser!
Join Viva! and celebrity patrons Rose Elliot and Wendy Turner-Webster at our Christmas Fundraising Dinner – to be held at Circomedia in Bristol on Saturday, December 13 – and enjoy a three-course vegan feast with wine, after-dinner speakers, fantastic auction and raffle, topped up by a spell-binding corde lisse performance, whilst helping raise funds for our campaign to end the factory farming of pigs. Deadline for booking is November 28 – see here for details.
 'Exotic meats off the
menu' wholesaler takes ethical lead
A LEADING British cash and carry company has
dropped the sale of ‘exotic meat’ to help preserve kangaroos facing
extinction. Booker
has been congratulated by Europe’s largest campaigning vegetarian
organisation, Viva! for taking the ethical decision to remove
kangaroo, ostrich and crocodile meat from their stock list. Click
here to read the full story. Picture credit Ray Drew.
Hundreds Turn Out for Welsh Day of Action for
Badgers!
 Animal
lovers were out in force on Saturday, September 20, in support for Viva!'s Day of Action for badgers. Events and door-dropping took place
across Wales on a gloriously sunny day.
England
may have said "No" to a 'cull' of badgers, but the Welsh Assembly are
stubbornly pressing ahead with plans to slaughter wildlife in a
misguided attempt to control bovine TB. The day was to raise support in Wales for
both badgers and common sense - and the response from the public was
overwhelmingly supportive. Read about the day and see pictures of the
day
here. You can also see the BBC report
here.
There are more ideas on how you can get involved in the general campaign
here. Also, check out Viva!'s shocking fact
sheet on badgers and cattle TB – and why going vegan protects our
wildlife –
here.
Caroline is Britain's Best Young Veggie!
Caroline Butterwick, 16, from Lutterworth has
been crowned Britain’s best young veggie in Viva!’s national
competition. Viva! youth campaigner, Fiona Galbraith, along with her
friend Piggles the pig presented Caroline with a trophy and a goodie
bag of prizes including a £50 voucher to spend at Vegetarian Shoes.
Her achievement also featured in Viva!ACTIVE, to receive a free copy
please email fiona@viva.org.uk.
To find out more about how you can get more involved with Viva!’s
work, please visit
www.vivaactivists.org.uk.
If you’re under 18 and would like to find out more about Viva! click
here.
Click Here to
Green Your Life to Help Save the Planet
Viva!’s 40-page magazine and
new webpages offer a green blueprint for change
The world is at a crossroads, most environmental
scientists believe, and there is little time left to mend our ways,
reports Viva!, Europe’s largest campaigning vegetarian organisation.
With carbon footprints the size of Goliath’s and rampant consumption,
we in the West need to dramatically change our lifestyle – and do it
quickly.
Viva!’s latest magazine and accompanying webpages–
Green Your Life
- shows how everyone can, almost overnight, dramatically reduce their
impact on the globe. The two greatest threats to the planet come from
diet and power generation and Viva! provides the why’s and how’s of
changing both. Following this lead will immediately slash your carbon
footprint and dramatically reduce global warming PLUS end your part in
all the world’s other accelerating environmental disasters.
Green Your Life has been produced in
co-operation with Ecotricity, the world’s first truly green energy
company, which invests only in wind generation. Click
here to read the
magazine in full online or
here to find out
more information.
Switch to Ecotricity (and help Viva! too)
Ecotricity is an electricity company with a difference. As green
energy pioneers, they are dedicated to building new sources of
renewable energy to fight climate change.
The company take the money their customers spend on electricity and
invest it in clean forms of power like wind energy. What's more,
they're the only green electricity company actually building these new
renewable energy sources.
As well as protecting the environment you shouldn’t have to pay a
penny more, that’s because with their New Energy tariff they promise
to match the standard price of your regional supplier. Best of all
Ecotricity will also donate £15 to Viva! for every supporter who makes
the switch. It’s really easy to switch and takes only five minutes.
Act now and sign up to Ecotricity at
www.ecotricity.com/viva or by
ringing 0800 0326 100. Remember to mention Viva! when you do.
It’s a Lifestyle thing…
Find out about the latest vegan products and win gorgeous goodies!
 How Many Animals Could You Save By Going Veggie?
Find out with Viva!’s state-of-the-art animation at our website, timetogoveggie.com. Designed especially for meat-eaters and the vegetarian curious (those that can make the biggest difference to the suffering of animals simply by not eating them), our new website is the perfect introduction to four big reasons to give up meat and fish: saving around 11,047 animals; improving your health; doing your bit to end environmental destruction; and helping people in the developing world to help themselves.
From the website you can invite those stick-in-the-mud carnivores you know to find out exactly what a difference to ending the suffering of animals and improving the world around them just with their knife and fork!
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