{"id":1171,"date":"2007-12-07T14:31:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T14:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tashuk.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/07\/the-east-midlands-vegan-festival\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T14:31:59","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T14:31:59","slug":"the-east-midlands-vegan-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/1171","title":{"rendered":"The East Midlands Vegan Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press Release for immediate release.
\nFrom ‘The East Midlands Vegan Festival’<\/p>\n

On 8th December Nottingham will see it’s 4th ‘East Midlands Vegan Festival’ held at Nottingham’s Council House in Market Square.\u00a0 The event will run from 11am until 5pm and hopes to attract well over 2,000 people.\u00a0 The event is sponsored by ‘Veggies’, one of the U.K’s first all-vegan catering companies, set up in Nottingham over 20 years ago.\u00a0 The company is still going strong and has just won the Vegan Society award for ‘Best Vegan Caterer’ for the second successive year.\u00a0
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\nThe event has everything to offer those thinking of having a cruelty free Christmas from sumptuous dairy free chocolate to shampoo not tested on animals. The festival will also feature talks on nutrition and animal welfare.\u00a0 Food samples will be available on the day for those wanting to try some of the delicious vegan foods now available.
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\nPatrick Smith, co-founder of ‘Veggies’\u00a0 said, ‘when Veggies first set up we were one of the only companies in the U.K to be providing a vegan service but now there are over 300 vegan companies out there, the festival is about celebrating the vegan lifestyle and showcasing all the vegan products available in the East Midlands.’
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\nThere are now said to be more than 1 million vegans in the U.K and many people are taking up the diet not only for animal welfare reasons but for health and environmental reasons.
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\nBeth Hewis, one of the event organisers said, ‘veganism just makes sense and as an environmentalist and an animal welfare campaigner I realised that eating meat is both unethical and unsustainable.\u00a0 For 1kg of beef we need nearly 21 square metres of land yet for vegetables it’s just 0.3. I know so many people thathave turned vegan for so many reasons and these days it is so easy to go vegan’.
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\nENDS
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\nFor a list of stalls that will be attending and further info:
\nwww.eastmidlandsveganfestival.co.uk<\/a>
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\nfor further information on veganism:
\nEvent co-ordinator Beth Hewis 01773 712999
\n‘Veggies’ caterers 0845 458 9595<\/p>\n

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