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Outrage At Anti-Vegan Who Ate Raw Pig's Head At VegFest
Outrage has sparked after an anti-vegan ate from a raw pig's head, at Brighton's annual VegFest event. The raw-meat-eater, an infamous YouTuber called Sv3rige, performed the same stunt last year at a vegan food festival in Amsterdam, and is now planning an 'Anti-Vegan' tour across the UK and Australia.
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Milk Sales Plummet by $1.1 Billion in 2018
Sales of dairy milk plummeted by $1.1 billion in 2018 according to statistics revealed by the Dairy Farmers of America during its annual meeting. In 2017, sales of dairy products amounted to $14.7 billion and dropped by eight percent to $13.6 billion in 2018. Despite claims that low milk prices are to blame, the dairy industry is facing extinction due to a consumer shift toward plant-based alternatives.
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'We Can't Go On Eating Meat Like We Have' Says David Attenborough
The broadcaster, who was interviewed for the upcoming issue of Radio Times magazine said people need to be responsible when it comes to trying to keep the planet healthy.
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The butcher who went vegan in secret
After about 15 years working in the meat industry, butcher Brian Kavanagh found he was concealing a secret. Much of his adult life had been spent shaping, slicing and trimming animal products by the slab without a qualm - a career that began when he was just 16 in a small family-run butcher in Burnside, South Lanarkshire.
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Taco Bell Is Testing A New Vegetarian Menu, Including A Vegetarian Crunchwrap And Quesarito
If you’re a vegetarian in the Dallas, TX, area, you’ll want to head to a Taco Bell near you ASAP. The chain is testing a menu that features some Taco Bell favorites catered to a meat-free diet, beginning Thursday, April 4. The menu will offer two new items: a Vegetarian Crunchwrap Supreme and a Vegetarian Quesarito, both of which are American Vegetarian Association-certified, according to Taco Bell. The 7-Layer Burrito is also featured on the menu.
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Woody Harrelson producing vegan documentary series Wicked Healthy World
The series, executively produced by Harrelson, will feature vegan chefs, farmers and innovators from all over the world, exploring how we can work together towards a sustainable food system. Derek and Chad Sarno, vegan chefs behind the brand Wicked Kitchen, will be heavily involved in the docu-series, travelling the globe to find inspiring individuals who can teach us about the plant-based movement.
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Tips for New Vegans
It’s important to include some high-calorie, high-protein foods in order to feel satisfied. Simply removing animal products from a typical American diet is going to leave you with mostly low-calorie foods such as salads, vegetables, and fruit. Eating only these foods could quickly leave you feeling hungry and weak, and thinking a vegan diet is a real challenge.
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Anne Hathaway says her brain felt like a ‘computer rebooting’ after breaking vegan diet
Anne Hathaway first went vegan in 2012 as a way to lose weight for a movie role. Almost immediately, the actor struggled with low energy levels — a reality that prompted her to ditch the diet altogether nearly two years later. Hathaway recounts the moment she abandoned her veganism in a recent interview with Tatler magazine.
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Pizza Huts Across U.S. to Have Vegan Cheese by End of Summer
“We have been testing the marketing when it comes to vegan cheese for quite some time, and we’re just about ready to make the leap!” Pizza Hut told us in a recent e-mail exchange. “We plan to have vegan cheese available at all of our U.S. locations by the end of summer, most likely in August.” They note that “we’ll have an official announcement with a precise date in the very near future!”
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Shares in vegan firm soar 163% on first day
Beyond Meat's stock market value hits $3.8bn as shares in the US firm start trading on Wall Street.
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Beyond Meat is going public. Meat alternatives are going mainstream.
Beyond Meat, the plant-based meat company, started publicly trading Thursday morning, and the stock more than doubled in value right out of the gate — it’s now trading at $60, when just last week the company was estimating it would start selling at $19 to $21.
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Beyond Meat Is Now Worth More Than All the Peas in America
Beyond Meat stock is busting out on its first day of trading. The company priced its initial public offering at $25, its shares opened at $46, and the stock was trading at about $67 per share late Thursday afternoon. The 140% one-day gain is better than the first-day performance of such hot recent IPOs as Lyft (ticker: LYFT), Pinterest (PINS), and Zoom Video Communications (ZM).
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Beyond Meat soars 163% in biggest-popping U.S. IPO since 2000
Beyond Meat Inc. stock skyrocketed Thursday in the best-performing public offering by a major U.S. company in almost two decades. Shares of the plant-based meat maker — which priced its IPO at $25 a share Wednesday evening — started trading at $46 a share shortly after noon on the Nasdaq, and surged to $65.75 by the end of the session, for a gain of 163%. Prices hit almost $73 a share at their intraday peak. Shares were up another 4% after hours.
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Half A Billion Fewer Animals Were Killed Per Year Since 2007 Because People Are Eating Less Meat
Have you transitioned to a plant-based diet? Do you make an effort to reduce the amount of animal products you are consuming on a regular basis? If so, it is thanks to you that 500 million lives have been spared this year, and with continued awareness, that number continues to rise.
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Boise restaurant goes vegan after owner sees graphic, ‘heartbreaking’ animal-rights film
It was past midnight when Maria Bahruth suddenly decided something that could make or break her small Downtown Boise restaurant. The High Note Cafe’s owner had gotten 15 minutes into watching “Dominion,” a graphic animal-rights documentary available on YouTube. Bahruth, who calls the 2018 Australian film “heartbreaking,” suddenly found herself baring her soul on the restaurant’s Facebook page.
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Impossible Foods’ meatless burgers have made it a $2 billion company
Impossible Foods, the alternative meat company that makes the Impossible Burger, announced today that it has raised an additional $300 million to take plant-based meat mainstream. The new round of funding was first reported by Reuters. It’s a big fundraising haul, one that reflects the intense investor demand right now for alternatives to conventional meat. The new round of funding values the company at $2 billion, insiders told Reuters.
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Burger King is bringing the Impossible Whopper to three new cities
The Impossible Whopper is now available in four cities. Burger King is now selling the meatless, plant-based burger patty at some restaurants in Miami; Columbus, Georgia; and Montgomery, Alabama; the burger chain announced on Tuesday.
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Parents who raise children as vegans should be prosecuted, say Belgian doctors
Doctors in Belgium have called for parents who raise their children as vegans to face prosecution after a number of deaths in schools, nurseries and hospitals.
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Not milking it: how vegan cheese finally caught up with modern appetites
Like other facets of the mushrooming plant-based foods industry, sales of vegan cheese have skyrocketed in recent years
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Should Vegans Avoid Avocados And Almonds? Here's The Science
A video recently doing the rounds on Facebook included a segment from the BBC comedy quiz show QI. The video asks which of avocados, almonds, melon, kiwi or butternut squash are suitable for vegans. The answer, at least according to QI, is none.
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