http://www.viva.org.uk/rss/news.xml Viva! Media Releases en-us Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:31:57 GMT Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:31:57 GMT info@viva.org.uk info@viva.org.uk http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=274 http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=274 A BRISTOL garden and leisure centre has been congratulated by campaigning animal group Viva! for dropping foie-gras made from the livers of force-fed ducks, from its food hall.Cadbury Garden Leisure, of Congresbury, decided to remove the cruel delicacy dubbed torture in a tin by Viva! following pressure from a local supporter of the group, which is based in Bristol.Irene and Mike Mason of Nails... Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=265 http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=265 LEADING animal group Viva! are calling on the Government to end the painful mutilation of British piglets this Christmas after filming the practice on a British farm in the past few months. It is believed that this is the first time the disturbing practice has been recorded in the UK.Viva!'s ground-breaking undercover investigator filmed horrific scenes of piglets under seven days of age having t... Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=268 http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=268 Viva! will bring the 31st Incredible Veggie Roadshow to Cambridge Guildhall, 3 Parsons Court, Wheeler Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QB on Saturday, February 4, 2012. The Incredible Veggie Roadshow promises to showcase the very best in veggie and vegan lifestyles, from food and cookery, health and nutrition, to clothing and accessories, brought to you by dozens of stall holders and businesses from across... Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=266 http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=266 POSH department store Harvey Nichols is stooping to new lows for a quick Christmas 'buck' according to animal lovers by selling pt made from our friend Rudolf.Europe's largest campaigning animal group Viva! are demanding bosses at Harvey Nics take Reindeer pt from London company Edible off the shelves immediately.The pt made of 'selected cuts of reindeer, and seasoned with cognac and spices' i... Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=263 http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=263 CHERISHED actor and animal lover Martin Shaw has thrown his weight behind a consumer boycott of English dairy products in protest against plans for a 'cull' of badgers in two pilot areas announced by the Government today by Caroline Spelman.The move is being spearheaded by campaigning group Viva! for which he is a patron as DEFRA publish plans to target the animals who are blamed by the dairy i... Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=267 http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=267 [img]http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/foiegras/images/logo.gif[/img]Bath and North East Somerset Council received 1,890 signatures, gathered by the Bath Animal Action group, calling on them to reject the dish, which consists of the liver of a duck or goose who has been fattened by force-feeding.The long-running campaign, which began in 2009, was also supported by Bristol-based animal group Viva!, ... Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=262 http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=262 THERE will be no meat-free days in French Schools for six million children following a new decree from the French Government all school students will have to eat meat if they want lunch at school. Taking a packed lunch is not an alternative as they are also banned. Following a law voted in last year, the French parliament has issued a decree (October) that it is forbidden to serve vegetarian meal... Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=261 http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=261 Having cleared UK supermarket shelves of kangaroo meat, UK-based Viva! then turned its attention to kangaroo leather, attacking Adidas for its use in top-of-the-range football boots. Viva! has worked closely with the AWPC (Australian Wildlife Protection Council) and both organisations have issued a guarded joint congratulation to the German giant for its ethical decision to move away from the use ... Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=260 http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=260 ANIMAL lovers from Bristol will be taking part in a national Day of Action to raise awareness of the death of male calves in the dairy industry tomorrow (Thursday, September 29).Members of veggie group Viva!, based in Stokes Croft, will be holding a peaceful demonstration with banners and leafleting in Broadmead, by Tesco, on the corner of Union Street.At noon they will be staging a farmer 'shooti... Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=259 http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=259 EMMY nominee Kate Winslet has come under massive criticism from Europe's largest veggie campaigning group, Viva!, after callously gloating in the American press about butchering a chicken.Winslet told media including ABC news, the Boston Globe and the Huffington Post that as the email came through telling her she had been nominated, she was hacking up a chicken at a cookery class in England.The ac... Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=258 http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=258 EUROPE's largest vegetarian and vegan campaigning group are to host a fantastic roadshow in Liverpool this winter, celebrating the very best of veggie living. Viva! will bring the 30th Incredible Veggie Roadshow to Liverpool Town Hall on Saturday, November 26.The events have been running since 2004 during which Viva! has opened up the doors of how to eat meat-free to thousands of people across th... Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=257 http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=257 CONSUMERS will be shown for the first time the bloody secrets held by one of the nation's favourite confectionary brands Cadbury.During a three month undercover investigation of dairy farms who supply the company with milk by animal group Viva!, baby male calves are shown being torn from their mothers and callously shot. This is because their milk is needed for the 250 million bars of Dairy Milk ... Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=256 http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=256 NEARLY 50,000 badgers could be killed over 4,950 km2 of England if Government plans for a 'cull' are fully implemented in the coming years.Campaigning animal group Viva! has learned the true scale of farmers' plans to kills thousands of badgers in parts of England. If the plans get full go ahead, badgers will be shot in a total land area much larger than Cornwall(1,2).Around 49,500 badgers(3) woul... Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=255 http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=255 CONSUMERS are being urged to boycott all English dairy products, in a move by a leading animal group that could cost the industry tens of millions of pounds.Viva! announced the move in response to today's decision by the Government to press ahead with the slaughter of badgers in parts of England, in a misguided effort to curtail the spread of bovine TB. The group say they expect a significant back... Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=254 http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/display.php?articlepid=254 LEADING animal campaigning group Viva! has warned that any 'culling' of badgers in the South West could have serious and long-lasting implications for an industry worth far more to the area than dairy farming(1).Although the group is not calling for a boycott of tourism it maintains that a badger 'cull' would not only be cruel and unnecessary, it could be a PR disaster for the area and put off man... Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT