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Jun 13, 2024 | 
veganfoodandliving.com | Helen M. Greaves |Lex Rigby
Alarmingly, Octopus farms are on the horizon – but there’s more to these strange-looking sea creatures than meets the eye. Viva!’s Lex Rigby explores why we should keep them out of our food systemWhy do octopuses get such bad heartburn? Because they have three hearts!Terrible joke, yes, but it’s just one of many incredibly cool facts about those aptly named eight-legged invertebrates that roam our oceans.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
veganfoodandliving.com | Helen M. Greaves |Lex Rigby |Justin Kerswell
Kangaroos are a well-loved symbol of Australia, but the persistence of the kangaroo cull shows that they’re not immune to the perils of human beings. Native to the Australian landscape; uniquely adapted to survive extreme climates; proudly displayed on the country’s coat of arms; emblazoned on the tail of the national airline; and the victims of the largest mass slaughter of land-based wildlife on the planet.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
veganfoodandliving.com | Molly Pickering |Lex Rigby
We are marking International Women’s Day by celebrating the vegan women who inspire us through activism, entrepreneurship, and aspirational food. International Women’s Day is a celebration of generations of women who have fought for gender equality across the globe, as well as shining a light on gender inequalities that continue to exist around the world.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
veganfoodandliving.com | Helen M. Greaves |Lex Rigby |Valentine's Day
‘Red Tractor assured’ is widely accepted in the UK as a mark of quality and high welfare, but does it really mean anything? Lex Rigby looks at whether our food assurance systems can be relied on – or, even worse, are they corrupt? Food assurance schemes aim to convey positive messaging about food safety, animal welfare and environmental protection to reassure consumers that their food has been produced under stringent guidelines.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
plantbasednews.org | Lex Rigby
I hear you; it’s hard going it alone! You’ve just completed Veganuary, a month-long challenge to eat a plant-based diet and you’re wondering whether you have it in you to continue. Well, of course you do! There’s no need to feel overwhelmed; try to remember why you embarked on the journey in the first place and use that motivation to help keep up the momentum. It’s a new year, it’s a new you.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
viva.org.uk | Lex Rigby
A gifted empath, an imaginary friend (or is he?), a widowed ex-witch, an unknown enemy and a planet on the brink of collapse. Welcome to the captivating world of The First Ethereal – a gripping fantasy fiction novel, with a sprinkling of veganism thrown in, from the wonderful E L Williams. The story opens as Lilly awakens from another nightmare in her tiny basement flat.
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Dec 30, 2023 | 
veganfoodandliving.com | Rachel Smith |Lex Rigby
Fun and games or a cruel sport? Lex Rigby looks at what goes on within the greyhound racing industry…The starting gun fires, the mechanical hare speeds along a rail and the greyhounds leap out of their boxes in hot pursuit around an oval track. It’s over in 30 seconds and the hare never loses. This is modern greyhound racing. A so-called ‘sport’, closely tied to the gambling industry, that evolved from hare coursing – bloody hunts that were banned in the UK under the 2004 Hunting Act.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
veganfoodandliving.com | Rachel Smith |Lex Rigby
When you’re an animal lover, getting rid of unwanted visitors can be an ethical minefield. Lex Rigby from Viva! explains how to do pest control humanelyPigeons, mice, rats, ants, squirrels, wasps, slugs as well as foxes are often regarded as pests due to their outstanding ability to thrive in human society. To some people, their mere presence is considered a nuisance and it comes as no surprise that we’ve sought ways to control and even eradicate them.
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
veganfoodandliving.com | Rachel Smith |Lex Rigby |Helen M. Greaves
'I don’t eat anything with a face’ goes the saying. But what if a creature doesn’t have a face? Lex Rigby weighs up the argument of whether oysters are vegan or not. As a vegan, when it comes to eating animals it’s an open and shut case. But what if the animal doesn’t have a face or a centralised nervous system, and is often argued to be more plant-like than animal-like? “Are oysters vegan?” is not a trick question.
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Jul 15, 2023 | 
veganfoodandliving.com | Helen M. Greaves |Lex Rigby
Lex Rigby from Viva! investigates what has been happening in the countryside since the passing of the Hunting Act 2004 - which outlawed hunting with dogsOpposition to the cruel hunting of wild animals with dogs dates back almost certainly as long as hunting itself. Yet it took close to a century of political campaigning for legislation to pass that would supposedly eradicate such blood sports in England and Wales.
