• Introducing the cheese mite
• Frozen party food galore!

  Having a party? There are some excellent solutions locally that we've discovered - frozen vegan nibbles that you cook up quickly on the day. Read on ....

• Cafe Iguana is no more

  Cafe Iguana will not reopen. The fate of bar Iguana (which was never particularly veggie) is unknown.

  The premises are being fitted out as a shop. The cafe was not great as it was overpriced and badly run, but it was friendly and it was veggie! So we are sad to see it go. It did a good trade despite such bad reviews and high prices, which goes to show that there's a strong market for a veggie cafe in Reading.

• BUAV: Animal testing survey puts Henley candidates under the spotlight

  Henley by-election candidates from all five main political parties are considering their views on animal testing after being contacted by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV).

• Our diet of destruction

  Huge areas of the Amazon rainforest are being cut down to satisfy global demand for soya. But how did this crop and a handful of others come to dominate our diet so completely?

News from ActiVeg

• Photo: bricolage108

  To celebrate 64 years of veganism (64 years since Donald Watson founded The Vegan Society and created the word 'Vegan') Foods for Life Nutrition has devised a special birthday healthy vegan 'Pizzaz Pizza' recipe.

• Supermarkets urged to reduce choice and meat sales Photo: Martin Heigen

  Shops should axe environmentally damaging foods such as meat, dairy and air freighted products, says Food Ethics Council.

  Check out this story on www.guardian.co.uk.

• eatles' Paul McCartney slams McDonalds

  Macca isn't happy that they're using the band's pictures to 'flog burgers'.

  Check out this story on www.nme.com.

• Make sosmix vegan again

  Direct Foods have been bought out by Symingtons who have renamed Sosmix ‘Meat Free Sausage Mix’ – and added cow’s milk! Now thousands of vegans and dairy allergic people will have to forgo the wonderful experience that was Sosmix.

  Check out this story on www.petitiononline.com.

• Leona Lewis rejects Harrods offer for vegetarian beliefs

  Leona Lewis turned down a massive $1 million offer to open the Harrods sale, because of her strict vegetarian principles.

  Check out this story on www.marieclaire.co.uk.

• A car-sharing nation of vegetarians .... Photo: Martin Heigen

  Professor Jan Bebbington, director of the St Andrews Sustainability Institute, has visualised the effect of climate change on Scotland in 50 years.

  Check out this story on news.bbc.co.uk.

• Emaciated' horses found at farm

  Horses belonging to a breeder in Gloucestershire were found emaciated and living in filthy conditions, a magistrates' court has heard.

  Check out this story on news.bbc.co.uk.

• Parkinson's linked to vitamin D

  Scientists are testing whether vitamin D supplements can ease symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

  Check out this story on news.bbc.co.uk.

• Common fibre a 'true superfood'

  A fibre found in most fruit and vegetables may help ward off cancer, experts believe.

  Check out this story on news.bbc.co.uk.

• Closure call for tuna 'disgrace'

  Major tuna-fishing nations have backed calls for temporary closure of the Mediterranean tuna fishery, branded a "disgrace" by a recent expert report.

  Check out this story on news.bbc.co.uk.

• Call for ban on primates as pets

  A loophole in animal welfare laws that allows primates to be kept as household pets should be closed, an MP has urged.

  Check out this story on news.bbc.co.uk.

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