Ethical Voice for Animals Newsletter No. 63, 27th August 2010
Last week, we were off to Glasgow to talk about Veganism at Argyll Hotel's Pamper me Silly Fayre. A great response from everyone – we met some folk who were already thinking about veganism, and even folk who thought meat was manly (we convinced them otherwise!). Gluten-free vegan diets were of particular interest too (gluten-free vegan bread is so hard to find!) so if you have tips to share give us a shout. The most remarkable thing when meeting omnivores is the extent to which the health benefits of a vegan diet are unknown. Almost everyone is shocked to hear the links between animal protein and the epidemics of heart disease, cancer, hypertension, obesity (etc…) we are now facing. So after a fair bit of awareness raising and eye-opening facts, we are pleased to report another successful day.
We also met up with the lovely Glasgow Vegan meetup group last Saturday for a trek up Blackford Hill. Fun times were had - keep your eye on the calendar for more meetups with other groups across Scotland.
Finally, we've got our street collection coming up on Tuesday in the Meadows/Morningside area. Please do consider helping, because we run on a shoe-string budget! Dress up as a bunny or hand out leaflets or just talk to people – vital awareness raising work along with fund-raising too, so a couple of hours of your time will be greatly appreciated. ...more
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Ethical Voice for Animals (EVA) is an animal rights group based in Edinburgh - set up in 2007. You can find out more about our anti-fur, anti-vivisection and vegan campaigns here.Our activities over the years have included stalls, protests, school talks, demos, vigils, discussion groups, talks and lastly but not the least - the compassionate living fayre in Edinburgh. See what we are upto just now and what we achieved in 2009-10 But these are just differnt outcomes - most importantly, we believe our work is to bring people together and provide common ground across Scotland to campaign for animal rights. Join us here
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