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I know you've most probably had this question before, but I'm in a real fix!

Does anyone know of anywhere that stocks moderately priced (I'm talking <£50/60 here) size 13 Vegan trainers?

Seriously, I've never had trouble finding any before and typically, just when my only pair become irreprably fucked I can't!. All the 'No Sweat' types I've had before don't seem to come in size 13 anymore!

Please, if anyone knows anything please tell! I'm fit to crying. Being in a net cafe, that's going to be somewhat embarassing.

On a recent holiday I was shocked to learn that an old favourite chip shop of ours cooks with beef dripping. I never knew chippies did this. Is this the same thing as lard? Now since becoming vegan it is one of my pleasures to have a bag of chips n holiday, but I spose they could get fried in with the fish too, I don't know what they get up to behind the counter. Am I gonna have to eliminate the english chippy too? A hell of a shame if so, but I spose the good thing about this veganism is it stops you eating crap.

Hiya,

I'm going to London this weekend, does anyone have any suggestions of places to eat? I've had a look on Happy Cow and in the tags for previous posts, but is there anywhere that I really shouldn't miss? I'm going to be in the Covent Garden area, around Marylebone, and Bankside at various times so bonus points if you can suggest things around there!

Cheers!

Sosmix seems to have vanished. My local wholefood shop tells me it's been discontinued and they've not been able to contact the manufacturers to find out what's occurring, leading them to think that Direct Foods has gone bust. Clearly this is a matter of national importance.

Hello!

If anyone's around Nottingham (or even if not), there's a vegan skill share at the Sumac Centre this Saturday.

More information here:
http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1347

Workshops, talks, baking, fun, frolics and cake, yay!

It should be a good chance to meet nice people and eat nice food anyway :)

I was making toast today & I had the biggest craving for a dirty cheese toastie, y'know the kind where you use really shit cheese and it goes insanely melted like plastic would?

Welll, that craving hasn't gone away haha, so does anyone know of any decent vegan cheese available in the UK that actually melts?

"People should consider eating less meat as a way of combating global warming, says the UN's top climate scientist.

Rajendra Pachauri, who chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will make the call at a speech in London on Monday evening.

UN figures suggest that meat production puts more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than transport."

Read the rest at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7600005.stm

I've just been reminded that it's the London Vegan Festival this Sunday (7th September), Kensington Town Hall, from 11am-8pm. Apparently there is lots of free food and chocolate. I've never actually been due to it always clashing with something else, but the opportunity for free chocolate is not to be passed up! Also it is pleasantly close to Whole Foods so I can nip in there for the Chocolate Spread I Can't Live Without before going. Yay!

If you want to grab me and say "Hi, you're baratron from livejournal!", I look like the picture in the photo. I will also have a small herbivorous stegosaurus and a blue walking stick with me, and strange coloured Vegetarian Shoes fake Doc Martens (can't predict now whether they'll be blue or purple, depends on my mood on the day :P ). I would rather you don't actually call me baratron because that is the name of a foul and arcane piece of lab apparatus, and my actual name is helen-louise.

Is anyone else having severe trouble accessing the Animal Free Shopper online? I have a functioning login for the Vegan Society's online shop, but I simply cannot get this to be recognised by the Animal Free Shopper site. It's a pain in the arse when I need to know urgently which type of rice krispies are vegan because I'm cooking for people who might be stricter than I am!

Hi all, just thought I'd post here on the off chance that some of you might be able to help out or might know someone that could.

Walthamstow greyhound tracks have now closed FOR GOOD. Hooray! However, this means that there are a lot of dogs who need rehoming. If I lived in a pet-friendly establishment then I'd jump at the chance to own one of these gorgeous animals; however, I do not.

Below is a copy of the email that I received this morning. I'll be crossposting it all over the goddamn place...
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Following the closure of the Walthamstow greyhound stadium in the UK last Saturday, Greyhound Crusaders/SWAP team UK have been in touch with the person who is in charge of re-homing all the unwanted greyhounds. We have been informed that there are 160-170 greyhounds needing forever homes. 100 of those greyhounds are being kept at a trainers kennels and the rest are being taken in by Retired Greyhound Trust kennels. £150,000 has apparently been given to help the re-adoption of these greyhounds.
Forever homes are now needed. We are not appealing for rescue places at rescue centres as we have been told that the greyhounds are already in rescue and need to go straight to forever homes.
If you would like to adopt a greyhound please email us at greyhoundcrusaders@googlemail.com or southwestanimalprotection@yahoo.co.uk and we will put you in touch with the re-homing co-ordinator. Homechecks will be carried out. If you have cats please advise the rescue as cat friendly greyhounds will be found.
Greryhounds make the most wonderful companions, they are couch potatoes and contrary to popular myth they do not need loads of exercise, two twenty minute walks a day are recommended. Many are wonderful with children and can be great fun to have around.
The mere fact that these greyhounds who are now redundant and are being put up for re-adoption by their owners/trainers prove that these racing dogs are viewed as disposable commoditites!!!

Please, if you have room in your home for another dog please consider adopting a greyhound today.
Please send this very special appeal to all your contacts across the UK for maximum coverage. Please also see the appeal below from Greyt Exploitations.
Many thanks for your support.
Greyhound Crusaders/SWAP team UK
We all make the difference

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You've probably all seen this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7551125.stm

Ever feel like you just want to scream at the stupidity of it all?

Ok I get the picture, enough about bee cruelty now. What are the alternatives and where can I get them? What Agave nectar like?

I haven't been in the UK for a long long time. I remember that the in store bakeries of the various supermarkets would change the recipes of their doughnuts from time to time and sometimes they would be vegan. I miss those British doughnuts, all we can get here in the US are donuts, and NONE of those are vegan (I hear that US style donuts are taking over there, too).

Now, I have a friend who is traveling to Sheffield soon, and has offered to bring stuff back for me, but I can't find any clue online as to whether Tesco, Sainsbury, or Asda's in store bakery doughnuts are vegan at the moment. Does anyone know?

Hello everyone, I've just joined up to this community!

I thought that perhaps I would ask whether anyone here owns or has used a Soy Milk machines where you put in dried soy beans and it makes soy milk.

I know that there is a lot of undrinkable soy milk out there, so am pretty cautious about buying the wrong one, and all reviews on the Internet seem to be from manufacturers promoting their own products.

I've been toying with the idea of becoming vegan lately - collecting recipes, browsing communities and websites, all that good stuff. It's left me a little curious about people's experiences.

What made you decide to become vegan? How did you approach it - dive right into the deep end or phase things out one by one? Did you create a nice stockpile of vegan food first or did you end up living off of chips and baked beans for a few weeks? What advice do you wish you'd been given when you were just starting out?

At the moment I've been vegetarian for the past six years, but I'm becoming horribly lazy about it - even eating fish occasionally. I'm wondering if going vegan, at least for a little while, will kick me back into being healthy and more conscious about the impact of what I'm eating.

If anyone's looking for a bargain, I've just listed some 'Bump' shoes from Vegetarian Shoes in a size 8 on eBay here.

Hello everyone! I'm just getting ready to (finally) move out and go to uni, and I'm going to be living in halls at St Andrews University.

As this is my first time living alone and on a budget, I was wondering if you kind folks would be willing to share cheap and healthy recipes with me, preferably quick, as I am a lazy student. I'm not a fussy eater when it comes to vegetables or anything, the only constraints are time and money and the fact that I'm going to be cooking in a crappy shared kitchen in halls.

Also, if anyone from St Andrews or the wider Fife area could tell me where I can find decent vegan food outwith Tesco/Asda. I'm moving down from Aberdeen, so I'm used to having a bunch of awesome places to shop and I have no idea really what St Andrews has to offer. I was a part of the Aberdeen Uni Vegan and Vegetarian Society, does anyone know if St Andrews Uni has one? I haven't seen anything on the student association website... but you never know.

thanks for any/all help!

A whole group of us are going on a business trip to the US in September, on US Airways. Our secretary booked a vegan meal for me when she booked the trip on Trailfinders, but they've just called her back to say that the airline have contacted them to say that they don't do vegan meals.

It's not so much that that's pissed me off as their explanation, which is basically:

We now have a stock of vegetarian meals on board for vegetarian passengers, so vegetarian passengers aren't required to book a meal in advance. Because of that, we do not take bookings for vegan meals.

Our secretary was unable to establish whether or not they meant that they couldn't confirm that they would be able to offer me a vegan meal, or whether they would offer me a meal, but couldn't confirm that it would be vegan. I suspect the latter, and think it sounds like maybe they've got a bit confused over the whole vegan/vegetarian thing.

I have no problem with them stocking vegetarian meals. I guess maybe it doesn't occur to many vegetarians to book a vegetarian meal in advance. But I don't see why catering more flexibly to one type of customer requires them to completely stop catering to me. I've flown quite a few times over the last fifteen years, and this is the first time this has ever happened. Kenyan Airways managed to come up with vegan meals. I can't see why an airline from the richest country in the world can't.

But like I said, I'll bring some sandwiches. Just got to hope that they don't get confiscated by security.

Hi, thanks to everyone that helped with my question about vitamin A, I just want to ask though if anyone knows if most clothes in high street stores that are red or have red in them are made with cochineal and so non-vegan?