Saturday, April 18, 2009, 10am-6pm
The Royal Horticultural Halls, Lawrence Hall & Conference Centre, Greycoat Street, London SW1P 2QD
Cookery demos
Main Hall (raised dais)
10.50am-11.30am
Summer's Coming! Easy Al Fresco and Beautiful
Barbecues
(Recipe)
Rose Elliot
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Plantain Bhajis with Fresh Coconut Chutney
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Jamaican Jerk Sweet Potato
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Spice-Crusted Tofu with Maple Glaze
Noon-12.40pm
Saving Time, Saving Money... Fast, Fresh and
Fabulous Food
(Recipe)
Rose Elliot
1-1.20pm
Chocolate Truffles
Simple, Flexible and Sensational Chocolate
Truffles
(Recipe)
Gareth Blake, Hipo Hyfryd
How to make a simple chocolate
truffle using only four ingredients. This
stunning recipe can then be gobbled up on its
own or molded to your own personal desires,
whether it is a spicy chili truffle or a zingy
lemon and orange truffle.
1.45-2.30pm
Mighty 'Meatie' Meatless Meals in Mins!
Heather Mills
Delicious 'meatie' meals without a
shred of meat. Fabulous ideas for converting
carnivores!
2.50-3.30pm
Tradition in the Making
(Recipe)
Robert Whittington and Paula Young,
Green Valley
Organic Restaurant at Lancrigg Vegetarian
Country House Hotel
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Vegan
Fish and Chips
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Quinoa
Crumb Tofu Nori, Baked Sweet Potato Wedges,
Tartar Sauce, Tomato Ketchup
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Fig &
Almond Pudding, with Spiced Orange Sauce
3.50-4.30pm
L-Plate Vegans - Start Here!
(Recipe)
Rose Elliot
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Lentil
Shepherd's Pie with (vegan) Cheesy Mash
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Refried Beans with Tortilla Chips, Avocado and
Vegan Soured Cream
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Red
Pepper Hummus with Smoked Paprika
4.50-5.30pm
Piece of
Cake!
(Recipe)
Jane Easton, food & cookery co-ordinator, Viva!
and VVF
How to Make Crumb-tastic Vegan Muffins and Cakes
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Magic Muffins - they melt
in the mouth
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Big Vanilla Sponge - a
luscious beast of a cake
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Chocolate Berry Gateau,
bursting with chocolatey-berry gorgeousness!
Talks
Lecture Theatre, Conference
Centre
10.50-11.20am
Fish Oil or Snake Oil?
The truth about omega-3s and why essential fatty
acids from plant foods are healthier, safer and
better for the environment
Dr Justine Butler,
senior health campaigner, Vegetarian & Vegan
Foundation
11.30am-12.20pm
How to Cut Your Risk of Breast Cancer or
Prostate Cancer
And Why No Dairy is Best
Professor Jane Plant,
top scientist and author of best-sellers such as
The Plant
Programme,
Prostate Cancer,
Osteoporosis
and
Your
Life in Your
Hands
12.30-1.15pm
Get Healthy with Heather!
Why vegan diets give you more energy and pizzazz
Heather Mills,
anti-landmines and vegan campaigner,
director of Vegan Food Company and a patron of
Viva! and Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation
1.30-2.20pm
Why You Don't Need Dairy
Juliet Gellatley,
founder and director, Viva! and Vegetarian &
Vegan Foundation
2.30-3.15pm
Preventing and Treating Osteoporosis: the Role
of Diet
Professor Jane Plant
(see above)
3.30-4.15pm
Palm Oil:
Killing Animals, Displacing People and
Destroying the Environment
Andrew
Butler,
campaigns manager, Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics
4.25-5.05pm
White Meat:
White Lies!
Is white meat just another junk food? The latest
on how eating poultry really affects your health
- and how to have tasty, healthy
alternatives
Amanda Woodvine,
senior nutritionist, Vegetarian &
Vegan Foundation
5.15-5.50pm
Wild Thing!
How the fate of farmed and wild animals are
intertwined and why our diet is essential to
saving the world's threatened wildlife
Justin Kerswell,
deputy director, Viva!
Rooms 21-23, Conference Centre
10.40am-11.20am
Safer Medicines - Is Animal Testing the Best Way
to Ensure 21st Century Drug Safety?
A short film, talk and discussion give an
insight into just how far scientific methods
have come since the thalidomide tragedy 50 years
ago
Shelly Willetts, communications director, Safer Medicines Campaign
11.30am-12.20pm
Why SPEAK
Political
Can Make a Difference
Why a vote
for SPEAK Political is not
a wasted vote
Keith Mann,
SPEAK Political
12.30-1.15pm
Eat Green! Save Planet Earth
The planet is hotting up and all life is
threatened. How a vegan diet is essential to
saving our globe and to stopping global warming
Tony Wardle,
associate director of Viva! and VVF, author of
Diet of
Disaster, editor of
Viva!LIFE
and
VeggieHealth
1.30-2.20pm
Whales in
Culture and Culture in Whales
An insight
into differing treatment of whales and dolphins
around the world, their captivating lives
beneath the waves, and their future in a
changing marine environment
Claire Bass,
manager of the Global Marine Mammal Programmes
for the World Society for the Protection of
Animals (WSPA)
2.30-3.15pm
An Animals'
Ombudsman
Why animals
need a legal defender to protect them from
humans who are intent on harming them
Noel Sweeney,
top barrister specialising in human and animal
rights and author of
Animals and
Cruelty and Law
3.30-4.15pm
The Safety of
Soya
Debunking the
bunkum - and there's lots of it!
Dr Justine Butler,
senior health campaigner, Vegetarian & Vegan
Foundation
4.25-5.15pm
Mood Food
Why what you eat affects your mood, view of
yourself and the world. Why going vegan helps
you beat stress and the blues!
Juliet Gellatley,
founder and director, Viva! and Vegetarian &
Vegan Foundation and nutritional therapist
Room 33, Conference Centre
10.30-11.10am
Action for Animals!
If you're already vegetarian or vegan and want
to do more to help animals come along to this
talk and workshop. Be inspired and save (more)
lives!
Zephie Begolo,
campaigner, Viva!
11.20-11.50am
Congratulations for Shopping Ethically! (But How
is Your Money Invested?)
Vanessa Kelley,
Barchester Green Investment
12-12.40pm
Kidz 4 Animals
Under 18 and care about animals? Come to this
friendly workshop about how you can help save
lives - lots of free goodies will come your way!
Fiona Galbraith,
youth campaigner, Viva!
1-1.50pm
Vegan Organic
Wine Tasting With Vinceremos
An
introduction to organic, vegetarian and vegan
wines with an opportunity to taste some of the
best vegan wines on the market.
Sarah
Mitchell, Mail Order Manager,
Vinceremos Organic Wines
2.05-2.40pm
The World Peace Diet
Inquiring deeply into veganism takes us to the
core of our culture and beyond: to social
transformation, personal healing and inner joy
Dr Will Tuttle,
award-winning writer and educator and author of
The World Peace Diet, based in California
2.50-3.30pm
Have a Heart!
Preventing
and treating heart disease and stroke with a
vegan diet. How to understand, prevent and
reverse cardiovascular disease. Also great tips
on how to eat to save your heart
Amanda
Woodvine, senior nutritionist,
Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation
3.40-4.20pm
Going Veggie - the Way to Health, Happiness and
Better Sex!
Features Viva!'s celebrity
film, Not In
My Name and lots of practical and
helpful tips on making the change to being
veggie
Helen Rossiter,
press officer and assistant editor,
Viva!LIFE
and
VeggieHealth, Viva! and Vegetarian &
Vegan Foundation
4.30-5.10pm
Viva! - Victory for the animals!
An inspiring look at Viva!'s successes and what
the future holds
Justin Kerswell,
deputy director, Viva!
5.15-5.35pm
Animals can't vote, but you can!
Animals Count - a UK political party for people
and animals will be contesting the 4th
June European Parliament elections
Come to the public launch of our election
campaign - for more information, visit
www.animalscount.org.
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