VeganFoodLivingApril2021

Jammy dodgers

By The Hairy Bikers – Si King and Dave Myers
Serves 4 | Prep 20 mins plus chilling
Cook 10-12 mins | Calories 421 (per serving)

175g (11⁄3 cups) plain (all-purpose) flour, plus
extra for dusting

50g (scant ½ cup) icing (confectioner's) sugar

finely grated zest of 1 orange

a pinch of salt

100g (scant ½ cup) dairy-free spread,
well chilled

2 tbsp aquafaba (the water drained from a tin
of chickpeas)

3-4 tbsp jam

1 Put the flour and sugar into a bowl with the Brownies
zest and a generous pinch of salt. Mix, then
add the spread and rub it in until the By The Hairy Bikers – Si King and Dave Myers
mixture resembles coarse breadcrumbs. Serves 6 | Prep 15 mins | Cook 25 mins | Calories 529 (per serving)
Add the aquafaba and combine until you
have a smooth, soft dough. 275ml (1 cup plus 2 tbsp) 1 Preheat the oven to 180°C/Gas Mark 4.
plant-based milk, any sort
2 Divide the dough into four pieces and 2 Line a 20x20cm (8x8in) brownie tin with
knead lightly to make sure each one is 150ml (2⁄3 cup) groundnut baking paper or brush the tin with
smooth and crack free. Wrap in clingfilm or walnut oil cake-release spray.
and freeze for 15-20 minutes.
2 tsp vanilla extract 3 Whisk the milk, oil and vanilla extract The recipes on
3 Preheat the oven to 160°C/Gas Mark 3 together in a bowl and set aside. page 98-99 are
and line two or three baking trays with 2 tbsp ground flaxseeds taken from The
baking paper. 4 Mix the ground flaxseeds with the hot Hairy Bikers'
60ml (¼ cup) hot water water and leave to stand for 5 minutes. Veggie Feasts by
4 Remove a piece of dough from the freezer. Si King and Dave
Generously dust your work surface, rolling 125g (1 cup) plain 5 Whisk all the remaining ingredients, Myers, photography
pin and the top of the dough with flour and (all-purpose) flour except the chocolate chips and the nut by Andrew
roll the dough out to a thinness of 3mm butter, together in a separate bowl. Hayes-Watkins,
(1⁄8in). Cut out 6cm (2½in) rounds and place 125g (1¼ cups) cocoa published by Seven
them on a baking tray. Using a small cookie powder 6 Beat the flaxseeds into the wet Dials. (RRP £22.)
cutter (any shape you like), cut out a small ingredients, then add the dry mixture and This book contains
piece from the centre of half the biscuits. ½ tsp baking powder fold in as gently as you can. Add the non-vegan recipes.
Set aside any offcuts. chocolate chips.
100g (½ cup) light soft
5 Repeat with the other three pieces of brown sugar 7 Scrape the mixture into the prepared tin.
dough, kneading gently before rolling. Dot spoonfuls of the nut butter all over the
When you have used them all up, knead 75g (1⁄3 cup) caster sugar batter, then swirl it through, using the tip
the offcuts together until smooth – try not to ½ tsp salt of a knife. Don’t mix it up too much!
work the dough too much.
150g (1 cup) vegan 8 Bake for 20-25 minutes until the brownies
6 Chill again before rolling out and cutting chocolate chips have just set. Leave to cool completely,
rounds as before. then cut into squares. If you want them
100g (1⁄3 cup) nut butter, extra fudgy, put them in the fridge for
7 Bake for 10-12 minutes – in this time they any sort several hours. Otherwise, transfer to an
won’t take on much colour on the top. airtight container.
Remove from the oven and leave to cool
and crisp up for a few minutes.

8 While still warm, spread about half a tsp of
jam on the bottom biscuits (the ones
without the centre cut out), leaving a 5mm
(¼in) border all the way round. Place the
biscuits with the centres cut out on top. The
jam should just spread to the edges but not
spill over. Leave to set.

18g 4.6g 0.05g 22.1g 4.6g 23.9g 7.4g 0.6g 15.7g 13.8g
Total fat Saturates Salt Sugar Protein Total fat Saturates Salt Sugar Protein

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D espite the battery cage being single unit leads to widespread andemic, poultry farmers in the UK Above The image of
banned in 2012, the UK still respiratory disorders – have been facing a lockdown of hens freely roaming
confines more than 16 infectious bronchitis (IB) and another kind. In early November around a green pasture
million hens to what are infectious bursal disease being 2020, the risk level for avian influenza is not usually matched
known as enriched or colony cages. the two most common. IB will (or bird flu) was raised from ‘medium’ by the reality of massive
Between 40 and 80 hens are housed in usually infect every bird in a to ‘high’ and a national Avian sheds containing tens
each cage, with little more than a flock once it takes hold and can Influenza Prevention Zone declared. of thousands of birds
postcard size of extra space compared lead to the deaths of a quarter of Legal requirements for enhanced and one 'pop hole' to
to a standard battery cage. Although all birds in the flock. biosecurity were implemented and every 800 birds.
enrichment, such as nesting screens, more than 155,000 birds were culled
scratch pads and perches are provided, As more supermarkets pledge as a result of numerous outbreaks. Lex Rigby
the reality is that most birds are unable to go free-range by 2025, the size As Head of
to access them due to strict pecking of these units are getting bigger Avian influenza is highly contagious Investigations, Lex is
orders in the colony. As a result, many – with multi-tiered systems on between birds, transmitted when an responsible for
hens are denied the freedom to carry the rise. One recent application, infected wild bird comes into contact coordinating,
out natural behaviours like scratching, for example, is proposing to build with farmed poultry or vice versa, and conducting and
dust-bathing and roosting. three huge 250-metre sheds to like Covid-19 it is a zoonotic disease delivering key
Campaigns against the ‘cage age’ house in excess of 190,000 that can spread to humans. Strains of investigations to
and the refusal of some supermarkets ‘free-range’ birds. The bigger the this disease that have infected humans support Viva!'s
to sell caged eggs has led to a rise in sheds, the more birds they can house, include H5N1, H7N9 and H9N2. Since campaigns, with the
free-range egg production systems. but it doesn’t mean better welfare. 2003, there have been 861 reported ultimate aim of
Now making up around 56% of the UK cases of H5N1 human infections and growing veganism in
egg market, free-range eggs are sold to BEHAVIOUR PROBLEMS 455 deaths. Although instances of the UK and increasing
consumers as an ‘ethical’ alternative. humans spreading the virus to support for Viva!.
However, the images of happy hens Previous investigations carried out by others are rare, it has been recorded viva.org.uk
exploring rich green foliage and Viva! have uncovered awful conditions as having a 60 per cent mortality
preening their thick brown feathers are where large numbers of birds were rate in infected patients.
incredibly misleading. found crammed into stinking sheds
with little environmental enrichment. From 14 December 2020, all
INTENSIFIED EGG-LAYING At one free-range farm there were bird-keepers had to keep their
numerous hens, practically bald from birds indoors in a government
Descended from wild jungle fowl more extensive feather-pecking, that never crackdown to limit the spread of
than 8,000 years ago, modern hens ventured outside. Feather-pecking can the disease – including free-range
have been selectively bred to produce start when the chicks are just a few poultry farmers. In removing access
unnaturally high numbers of eggs for weeks old and develop into injurious to the outdoors, free-range egg layers
human consumption. Hybrid breeds feather-pecking or IFP, which rapidly are no longer afforded any greater
include the Golden Comet, Leghorn, spreads and leads to severe injury. A ‘freedom’ than barn-raised birds,
Australorp and Rhode Island Red, who visibly open wound, or blood coming which made up about 3% of the
unlike chickens bred for meat from one, can in some cases then drive market. Despite the change, eggs
(otherwise known as broilers), are the hens to cannibalism – despite all produced by the effected birds were
prized for their 250-300 eggs a year having their beaks trimmed at birth as allowed to be marketed as free-range
– which is around 20 times more than a preventative measure. for another 16 weeks. Only after that,
their wild ancestors. and if no circumstance change, will
The main reason for stereotypical they be downgraded and need to be
This ramping up of a hen’s and aggressive behaviour like this in relabelled as ‘barn-produced’.
egg-laying capacity has hijacked her laying hens is squarely down to the
body and the physical process of laying unnatural way they are kept, which – Of all the animal products humans
that many eggs takes a devastating toll. even in higher welfare cases – does not consume, eggs are generally thought to
Whether caged, free-range or organic, reflect their natural state, nor allow be one of the least harmful and when
the consequences are the same – egg them to express natural behaviours. we’re offered promises of happier,
peritonitis (infection and inflammation healthy hens enjoying the great
in the abdominal cavity), prolapses, BIRD FLU OUTBREAKS outdoors, we justify their continued
osteoporosis, keel bone fractures due exploitation. Yet just because a hen is
to a lack of calcium and even cancer. As with all forms of factory farming, free from a cage doesn’t mean she’s
the intensification of egg-layer units free from pain and suffering.
FREEDOM TO ROAM has created a breeding ground for
disease. Frighteningly, some diseases
Unlike birds reared in caged systems, in chickens can also be passed onto
free-range hens must have access to humans, with fatal consequences.
the outdoors. Yet the required
minimum of one ‘pop hole’ per 800 While most of us have been
birds and the territorial nature of preoccupied with the coronavirus
chickens means dominant hens guard
the holes; a high percentage of the rest To find out more
never see outside. The barns, or rather about the life-cycle of
industrial sheds, in which these birds egg-layers and what
spend the vast majority of their short
lives are severely overcrowded, usually happens to the
artificially lit and have high levels of unwanted male chicks,
ammonia due to waste build-up.
Housing tens of thousands of birds in a visit: viva.org.uk

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mStandeingain tthe aisle

Clea Grady explains why it might be a good thing when
you can’t find the vegan section in the supermarket

F ood shopping changes when you go put their products in the same chiller as their us to change. And change quickly. We don’t
vegan. Do you remember the days when
you would wander aimlessly from aisle to meat counterparts, then Beyond Burger just want vegans buying vegan food. Everybody
aisle, the entire supermarket your oyster,
picking things up and pondering them? Once refused to sell to them. A big stance for a vegan needs to! Plant-based options are more
you’re vegan though, you turn into a shopper
who acts more like a highly trained burglar or company! And guess what? It worked. In 2018, abundant, more exciting and more readily
spy, with pre-programmed geo-coordinates of
every plant-based product and ingredient. one of the largest retailers in the US reported available than ever before, but unless non-
Herbivores can scoot around the edges of an
average supermarket, swoop down the aisles that “out of all grocery stores in southern vegans see them they’re not going to know they
that contain our bounty and past those that we
know house nothing but disappointment and California in the five weeks up to 17 April this exist. And vegans will always know that they
death. It’s practically a superpower.
year, the Beyond Burger was the number-one- exist. It’s like the Bat Signal. When a new range
But what if we turn that scenario on its
head... If it’s possible for us, as vegans, to avoid selling beef patty”.1 or product launches,
several aisles of food, surely it’s possible for all
the non-vegans to avoid our little, and usually MONEY TALKS “I don’t need to see vegans ensure it gets its
green-marked, areas? “That’s a good thing”, own additional and louder
you say? The vegan-friendly areas are easy to
find and who wants to see, or even have to That’s another thing we the deli counter, line of marketing. On social
acknowledge, all that vacuum-packed flesh? I need to remember when media, across WhatsApp
hear you. It makes my life easier and more
palatable too, but I suggest that, as vegans, we questioning the layout and I can smell it” groups, in group chats and
have a responsibility to toughen up and look at ease of our local and on message boards, it goes
the big picture, because this is not about us.
national supermarket off. A new cheese? We
Whether we want to admit it or not, if
someone’s doing a mad dash to the shops to aisles: vegan food isn’t only eaten by vegans. know about it. New sandwich options at M&S?
grab their family dinner, they’re
unlikely to head to the free-from The bigger hitters are noticing this through We’ve got one for lunch today. A new takeaway
section and have a good nose
around. They’re going to go their cash registers. In 2019, Tesco moved listed on Deliveroo? We had it delivered last
straight to what makes
their kids happy. What vegan burgers, sausages and other meat Friday night, thanks. It was the business.
reason, therefore, have
non-vegans got to visit alternatives into the meat aisle, stating that Vegans will never miss out. But the non-vegans
our tiny green annexe?
We’re relying on the they wanted to ‘play an active role’ in will and, more importantly, so will the animals.
fact that people will
want to. Yes, of course encouraging their customers to eat less meat. They’ll miss out on their lives.
some will – you and I
found it after all – but But we also know that means they’re Change is often uncomfortable, but most of
imagine how many more
might have their interest piqued if recognising a trend; a change in how people us didn’t choose to be vegan to be comfortable.
they could see what amazing options
are now available to them! If they don’t know are spending their money. We’re made of strong stuff. If anyone has got
they exist, how or why will they ever try them?
Supermarkets are all about money, so when the strength and stamina to face the flesh and
That’s the very reason the makers of the
(now legendary) Beyond Burger insisted that we start seeing significant changes like this it’s smile anyway, it’s the herbivores. We can’t
retailers stocking their burgers displayed them
right alongside animal products. In fact, they a cause for celebration. It’s a reaction hashtag the hell out of #plantbasedmuscle and
went further than that. If a retailer refused to
to a tidal shift – one that the then run away screaming. We have to be the

animal rights movement has living, breathing and brilliant example of what

been working towards it is to choose better and live better.

tirelessly, for decades. Regardless of where the animal products are,

When this move by Tesco we have to walk past them. Yes, we can avoid

featured in the particular aisles, but we still know they’re there.

newspapers in 2019, it I don’t need to see the deli counter, I can smell

was also reported that it as soon as I walk in the door. I live for the day

“21 per cent of when I can walk into a shop and never smell it

households have again. Until then, I will celebrate the fact that

reduced their meat intake veganism is growing surely and steadily out of

in the past two years”.2 its hiding place, and right out into those bright

Recognising that their fluorescent lights. And I hope you will too.

competitors were onto

something, Sainsbury’s followed CLEA GRADY
suit and adopted similar tactics.
What happened on social media? Instead of Clea is a writer, marketer
celebrating, many vegans complained. How and activist who has been
disappointing. For such outward, forward- vegan since 2014, and
thinking individuals, we can’t half be narrow- vegetarian since she was
minded in our righteousness. 12. She is passionate
The animals and our planet don’t need us to about inspiring others to
be righteous. The animals and our planet need go vegan, and believes
that good food, empathy and kindness are
the best forms of activism.

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Below When a parent
is out shopping for the
family dinner, where’s
the best place for them

to be presented with
vegan options?

REF 1 www.forbes.com/sites/
katrinafox/2018/05/07/should-vegan-
products-be-sold-alongside-meat-and-dairy-
items-in-retail-stores/?sh=426e06923204;

2 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/
article-6888861/Tesco-supermarket-moves-

vegan-products-meat-aisle-encourage-
switch-plant-based-diets.html

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seVen REasoNs

TO FOr

VegANgO THE

PlaNET!

Dr Justine Butler, Senior Researcher & Writer at
Viva! Health, explains why going vegan is one of the
easiest and most effective changes you can make to
help combat climate change and save the planet

CLIMATE WILDLIFE LOSS DEFORESTATION

1 Governments have 2 We are currently 3 Known as the lungs of the
agreed to try to limit experiencing Earth’s world, forests take carbon

global temperature rise sixth mass extinction. out of the atmosphere

to less than 2°C, or ideally 1.5°C, One million animal and plant and release oxygen – we lose them

above pre-industrial levels – above species, more than ever before, are at our peril! Trees store carbon in

which there may be devastating threatened with extinction, says their branches, trunks and roots,

consequences. We’re already the UN Intergovernmental Panel but also in leaf litter and forest

above 1°C and close to 1.5°C. on Biodiversity and Ecosystem soil. It is slowly released when they

To avert environmental disaster, Services (IPBES). Why does it die and rot. However, when vast

we must act urgently. Dr Peter matter? Bacteria, fungi, insects, birds, expanses of forest are felled and

Scarborough from the University mammals, sea creatures, plants and burnt – slash and burn deforestation

of Oxford says that going vegan trees all make up complex ecosystems – huge quantities of carbon re-enter the

could halve your greenhouse gas that perform essential ‘services’, such atmosphere almost overnight. Animal

emissions from food. Environmental as nutrient recycling, soil generation, agriculture is the biggest driver of

researcher Joseph Poore, also pollination and seed dispersal. The deforestation as forests are cleared

from the University of Oxford, air we breathe, the water we drink, to make way for growing animal

agrees. He assessed the impacts of and the food we eat all depend on a feed (soya) and grazing. According

food and found that going vegan rich biodiversity. IPBES Chair, Sir to satellite data from the University

could reduce your food-related Robert Watson, says: “The health of of Maryland, an amount of pristine tropical

greenhouse gases by up to 73%. ecosystems on which we and all other rainforest equivalent to the size of a football

Poore says: “A vegan diet is probably species depend is deteriorating more pitch was lost every six seconds during 2019.

the single biggest way to reduce rapidly than ever”. But scientists

your impact on planet Earth.” agree, there is still hope if we act now. MARINE LIFE Overfishing, increasing acidity and

LAND USE We’re running out of space to grow food, yet a 5 rising sea temperatures are having a devastating impact
on marine biodiversity. The United Nations Educational,
4 third of the world’s cereal crop is fed to animals to provide meat, fish Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) says that

and dairy. It’s a grossly inefficient use of land and resources. Joseph “By the year 2100, without significant changes, more than half of the

Poore says that meat, fish, eggs and dairy use about 83% of the world’s marine species may be on the brink of extinction”. Increasing

world’s farmland, but only provide 37% of the protein we eat and 18% of calories. acidity, caused by rising carbon dioxide levels, is dissolving the

If meat consumption continues to grow, by 2050 global food production must shells of some sea creatures, making survival unviable. Rising sea

increase by 70%. There isn’t enough land for this. Europe can grow enough temperatures are killing coral reefs and increasing the flooding risk

vegetable protein to feed all the people here, but not enough to feed the animals for up to 300 million people. Phytoplankton (microscopic marine

we eat, so soya and other crops are imported for animal feed from places such as algae) are declining at around 1% every year, according to NASA

the Amazon rainforest – linking steaks and burgers directly to deforestation. satellite data. These microorganisms take carbon dioxide out of the

atmosphere and produce about 50% of all the oxygen on Earth. If

104 VEGANFOODANDLIVING.COM this continues, it won’t just be phytoplankton getting into hot water!

FOOD WASTE WORLD HUNGER

6 The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations says that around 7 Around 700 million people
a third of all food is thrown away. In the UK, the average family throws away around the world go hungry
£700 worth of perfectly good food every year. Squandering any food is wasteful, but every year and it’s estimated
when meat, fish, dairy and eggs are thrown away, all the grain and water used to produce them that a staggering three billion people
is wasted too. Unsustainable animal food production is bad enough, without producing it just cannot afford a healthy diet. If we cut out
to be discarded. Food isn’t rubbish and doesn’t belong in landfill. Saving food means you’ll the middleman and ate crops ourselves
be contributing to a better legacy for generations to come. Going vegan and saving food? instead of feeding them to animals, we
Now that’s a legacy to be proud of. could feed an additional four billion
people – more than enough for everyone
for many years to come! We all know how
wasteful old gas-guzzling cars are – how
long before livestock farming is viewed in
a similar way?

PLEASE SHARE ONE REASON PER DAY FOR
SEVEN DAYS ON YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS!
In evolutionary terms, humans were late to the party, but our arrival has
certainly been felt, from one side of the planet to the other. We urgently
need action rather than targets, goals and empty words. We know what
needs to be done – what’s lacking is the political will to adopt a new
approach and a genuine commitment to pursue it. Stand up for nature
and go vegan today! Viva! Health is a part of the charity Viva!, Europe’s
largest vegan campaign group. e monitor scienti c research linking
diet to health and provide accurate information on which you can make

informed choices about the food you eat – viva.org.uk/health

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Below European
mink in the wild
are now a critically
endangered species.

Mink eyelashes...

The Beauty Trend That’s
As Cruel As A Fur Coat

Sascha Camilli discovers that even false eyelashes can
be a cause of animal cruelty if they come from mink

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false eyelashes, we may be unaware of the fact and it remains likely that those mink lashes

that the word “mink” on the packaging doesn’t derived from the very same farms that

stand for a colour or a style – it means that the produce the mink coats that faux-lash wearers

eyelashes are made of... fur. That’s right, mink would never buy. But even if the brushing

eyelashes are the equivalent of wearing fur on claims were true, the process could certainly

your face. not be called cruelty-free. Mink, as wild

Whether you get “Mink eyelashes animals, have no need
yours at home or at a are the equivalent to be brushed. They are
salon, false lashes are a naturally afraid of
common staple in many humans, and any

of wearing fur onbeauty routines (or at handling would cause
them a high level of
least the pre-lockdown

version of them). But your face” stress and probably
how often have you seen cause them to lash out.

anyone question what Few people are also

the lashes are made of? Most people wearing aware of the fact that European mink are a

them assume that faux lashes are crafted from critically endangered species. In 2015, the

synthetics. Many don’t question it at all. But species was placed on the extinction red list

the truth behind mink lashes is, unfortunately, put together by the International Union for

anything but glamorous. Conservation of Nature. Numbers of

“When it comes to animal suffering, there European mink are falling fast – as a species,

is no difference between mink eyelashes they currently take up only 20% of the range

and a mink coat”, says PETA Director Elisa they used to occupy. Once you learn this

Allen. PETA and its international affiliates information, exploiting these animals just to

frequently campaign against the use of produce vanity items like false eyelashes can

mink lashes, on the grounds of the very hardly be justified.

same cruelty to animals that we see in the PANDEMIC FUR BANS
fur trade. Mink lashes are likely to

originate from fur farms – that’s where Mink farming has also come under fire in

approximately 85% of the world’s fur recent times due to its connection to the

comes from. Mink who are bred coronavirus pandemic. Ever since the first

into a life on fur farms live in cases of Covid-19 were discovered – and

extremely cramped conditions in possibly transmitted to workers – on Dutch

barren wire cages, without access to fur farms, outbreaks of the virus have swept

grass for bedding or water through the industry. Among other countries,

to swim in (which, as cases have been found in Spain, the US,

semi-aquatic Sweden, Italy, Greece and Denmark, where a

animals, they new, mutated strain of the virus was detected.

naturally need). Experts warned that this new version might

Footage taken make a forthcoming vaccine less effective. In

undercover at fur the months that followed, temporary or

T oday, you’d have a hard time finding farms has revealed severely neglected animals permanent fur-farming bans were introduced
someone who’s still willing to wear
animal fur. Virtually all the biggest with untreated open wounds and missing in the Netherlands, Poland, France, Denmark,
names in fashion – Gucci, Michael Kors,
Armani, Chanel, Prada, Versace, and many limbs from fights with cage-mates. Captivity and Sweden. The industry appears to be
more – have publicly shunned it. Entire
countries are banning fur production, and the drives these curious, inquisitive animals mad, nosediving – and for good reason.
state of California has gone one step further
and even banned the sales and import of it. causing them to resort to cannibalism and Progress is happening in the beauty
The #FurFreeBritain campaign is aiming to
do the same in the UK, which would be in line self-mutilation. Animals on fur farms are industry too: amid the criticism towards the
with even the most regal of Brits – Queen
Elizabeth II has stopped buying animal fur. commonly killed by gassing, poisoning, fur industry, beauty brands are moving away

It’s peculiar, then, that fur keeps showing or by bludgeoning them to death – the from mink lashes. Labels like Sephora, Tarte,
up in a different area of our lives, far away
from our wardrobes. As many of us put on most cost-effective methods that keep Urban Decay, Too Faced, and Velour – the

the pelt intact. brand worn by Meghan Markle on her

NO SUCH THING AS ETHICAL wedding day – have all confirmed that all
false lashes they sell are made from vegan

Beauty brands selling mink lashes tend to materials. As the industries that exploit

promote a narrative of “ethical” lashes, animals for vanity continue to come under

obtained by “brushing” the mink. They don’t fire, it’s more clear than ever that the future of

often disclose any evidence to support this, both fashion and beauty is fur-free.

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Far Right Take a
wander through the
cobbled streets of Riga
Old Town

Right Art Nouveau
architecture in Riga

Below Wooden
architecture in Riga

Bottom Aerial view
of Riga centre from

St. Peter’s Church

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When it comes Where to eat & drink
to vegan food,
Riga, the capital MR FOX
city of Baltic If you fancy breakfast out, head
beauty Latvia, is
brimming with to Mr Fox which co-owner
options. Yasemen Karina originally set up to
Kaner-White spent showcase the healthy food she
four days in Riga makes at home for her family.
feasting, exploring Expect everything made from
and meandering
through green scratch; I opted for tasty
parks while gazing buckwheat pancakes, berries
at the impressive
eclectic array of and homemade date sauce.
architecture. From mrfox.lv
intricate Gothic
to flamboyant MIIT CAFÉ
Art Nouveau and For a coffee stop, Miit Café is the
quaint wooden one, originally a cyclist bar, then a
architecture, when vegetarian café, now they have a
walking in Riga the vegan offering daily, including
tip is to look up not sumptuous cakes and some say the
to miss anything best coffee in Riga, as well as a
selection of unusual beverages
including cascara; a tea made from
the dried skins of the coffee fruit.
miit.lv

THE BEGINNINGS
The Beginnings is a plant food-focused restaurant, a juice and smoothie bar and shop
selling a wide range of healthy take-away food and whole food products from bread
to granola. I had a green smoothie alongside a delicate starter of a nori wrap with veg,
houmous and cashew sauce, followed by a hearty seasonal creamy chanterelle mushroom
and rice noodle dish; the fresh dill hinting at a Latvian twist. The original concept was to
emulate a nutritionally balanced diet from the worlds’ Bluezone areas, therefore 95%
plant-based. A sweet treat of three chocolate balls; superfood, marzipan and fruit and nut,
with a matcha tea completed the delicious meal. thebeginningsrestorani.lv

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Where to eat & drink continued...

TERAPIJA GREEN PUMPKIN NIRVANA BHAJAN
I had dinner at a favourite local The restaurant is owned by a young This restaurant feels like Bhajan’s owners were inspired on
haunt; vegan restaurant Terapija, walking into a spa-meets-souk, yoga retreats in Germany to come
meaning therapy, due to owner couple who became vegan three with chanting music, Moroccan back and share their knowledge of a
Elina being a psychologist. I picked years ago. Imposing real birch trees rugs and incense burning, as well as clean way of living. The wholesome,
traditionally Latvian dishes that are fantastic food. The owners are fresh food is inspired by India, but
veganised – carrot ‘salmon’ (thinly are pillars throughout the large raw vegan themselves and offer a they also serve a mean cold beetroot
sliced carrots) on homemade restaurant. A business lunch offer daily changing menu of three soup infused with cashew ‘kefir’. The
focaccia with dill sauce, chilled for just 5.50 euro includes a soup, delicious dishes and cakes.
beetroot soup, Russian salad and a I relished their raw kimchi cakes are incredible with the
fabulous soy fillet with sour cream main and cake. For a Latvian with pesto salad, followed by buckwheat muffin and banana
and sauerkraut. It’s worth taking inspired dish, go for the potato warmed cauliflower curry purée, Oreo brownie, chocolate
some smalkmaizites (sweet buns) cookie with almond and Snickers
home – poppyseed is traditional. rosti, though I loved the and chocolate cake.
watermelon and tomato gazpacho www.nirvana.lv muffin among the best.
soup, followed by southern fried facebook.com/bhajancaferiga/
oyster mushrooms, peanut sauce,

coleslaw and chips.

Top eight things to do

❶ Mežaparks the Riga Contemporary Arts Biennial is on, Where to stay
every two years, and for an interesting view
Venture north of the city centre for an into the life of artistic couple Romans Suta Riga is an easy place to navigate by foot. Locate
enchanted walk in the Mežaparks (forest). and Aleksandra Belcova, visit the artists’ yourself in a central hotel, such as AC Hotel by
The park is a destination of its own; in winter apartment, which is now a museum named Marriott, and you are minutes from everywhere
you can enjoy the two Nordic skiing tracks, after them. you’d want to go (www.marriott.co.uk/hotels/
ice rink, and Riga’s first alpine skiing and travel/rixac-ac-hotel-riga).
snowboarding track and in summer you ❻ Balasta Dambis
can picnic, sunbathe or swim in the lake DISCOVER MORE
and there’s much more to do too. Balasta Dambis street should not be
missed for its iconic, renovated 300 year-old For more information, visit these websites
❷ Night market wooden houses. www.latvia.travel

The Riga night market, open from 5pm to ❼ City tour www.rigafreetours.com
7.30am, is worth a look, selling tomatoes in www.rigabiketours.com
all varieties, foraged mushrooms, berries and Get an overview of the city and join a free
more; be among the locals and explore. Riga Tour, the Old Riga tour or Alternative latgale.travel/listing/
Riga, by foot or rent a bike. nature-park-daugavas-loki
❸ Central market
❽ Rooftop bar Yasemen Kaner-White
The Central Market, one of the largest in the Yasemen Kaner-White is the
EU, with five different pavilions, is a must see, See the city from above and go to a author of Lemon Compendium
either for sightseeing or stockpiling black rooftop bar; Herbarijs, Radisson Hotel’s and a freelance food and travel
bread and other goodies to take home. If bar or Gutenberg Hotel bar all offer writer and broadcaster. She
you’re a foodie, don’t miss the AUGam spectacular views. founded vegan product Carosesa
plant-based food festival, which happens @carosesabutter and she can be found sharing
four times a year in Riga. + Try and visit the her globe trotting food and travel musings on
up-and-coming Instagram @yasemenkw
❹ Andrejsala Port Latgale region

Have a walk by the water in Andrejsala Port Around 3 hours from the city
to feel the breeze from the Daugava River, centre, little known Latgale is
which connects with the Baltic Sea. ideal if you love wide open
spaces to camp and hike and
❺ National Art Museum breathe in nature.There are plenty of vegan
shops in Riga to buy food if you rent a cabin
Take in the art scene and go to the National in Latgale for a remote haven.
Art Museum.You could plan a trip when

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JA SMI J N ʼS FOOD FOR T HOUGH T

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

Jasmijn de Boo, Vice President of ProVeg International, tackles
the sensitive subject of what you're allowed to call 'milk'

B y the time you read this, Amendment decade, as consumers have started moving in a dairy products are comprised of more
171, also known as the Plant-Based Dairy
Censorship Amendment, will either have more plant-based direction. And nowhere is physically homogeneous substances than other
been passed or opposed by the EU
Commission and Council. It is my deep this more evident than on the ‘dairy’ shelves of animal-based products, it will be much quicker
and sincere hope that this ludicrous
amendment, which further extends the ban on supermarkets. Plant milks, which were barely and easier to use culturing processes to produce
the use of ‘dairy terms’ by plant-based
products, does not receive EU approval. a sales category 20 years ago, now occupy nature-identical milk, compared to meat, for
Regardless of the outcome, the response of the
dairy industry reveals it to be out of step with extensive shelf space, sometimes more than example, with its complex tissue structures,
the times and may ultimately lead to it
becoming another Kodak, as it fails to adjust to conventional dairy milk. bone, and sinew.
new markets and changing cultural habits.
While there is no doubt that the proposed Most of these plant milks are produced by In the US, Perfect Day’s ice cream product
legislation, which has received much support
and lobbying from the conservative dairy plant-based companies, save for dairy giants has already received approval from the Food
industry, has one eye on the threat posed by
cultured-milk products, the industry would be that have acquired well-established plant-based and Drug Administration, and although
far better poised for future relevance and
profits if they engaged with these cultural and brands (such as Alpro, which was bought by approval processes are far slower in Europe
technological developments. The sector is
trying to get special treatment in the name of Danone). On the whole, this oddly disinterested (mostly for good reason), there are no
‘consumer protection’. However, it is clearly
not consumers that they are trying to protect, approach of the European dairy industry indications that national governments in
but rather their own dairy profits.
contrasts sharply with the meat industry, Europe will oppose cultured foods. In fact,
CULTURAL EVOLUTION
which, in many countries, has begun to engage cultured-food research has received funding
One of the industry’s central arguments refers
to the importance of Europe’s food culture, with the demand for plant-based products. For from numerous governmental and EU
and I in no way dismiss the value that
Europeans and their governments place on example, in Germany, one organisations in Europe, all
food and its production. It is this approach
that has ensured that food in European “PLANT MILKS HAVEof the leading producers of of whom recognise the need
supermarkets contains far fewer additives and for less resource-intensive
synthetic chemicals than in more poorly plant-based meats is a
regulated countries such as the United States
and, as such, has helped to maintain the health BECOME A MAINSTREAMtraditional meat company. food production. Regardless
of those who live in Europe. However, of labelling concerns, once
arguments that use culture as a defence often This contrast is particularly
lose sight of the fact that culture is not strange because plant milks the cultured-milk floodgates
something that is static, but rather a process,
which, while building on the past, always have already become a CONSUMER PRODUCT” open, the dairy industry
continues to evolve – and this is particularly mainstream consumer will face an existential threat
true of food culture. A culture that does not
evolve is effectively a dead culture destined for product – regardless of that makes the challenges
museums and history books.
whether they are legally recognised as such. currently coming from the plant-based sector
TAKING OVER THE SHELVES
As plant-based yoghurt follows in the look like a walk in the park on a balmy
Culture is also derived from and reflected by
popular habits and behaviours. Bearing this in footsteps of plant milk, with cheese sure to spring day.
mind, it should be evident to anyone paying
attention that food culture in Europe has follow now that food producers are beginning ProVeg advocates increasing the production
undergone a radical change over the last
to crack the code for convincing cheese and consumption of plant-based and cultured

products, it surely makes little sense in the long solutions to dairy in order to address the

term for the dairy industry to stand in such climate burden of animal-based products.

staunch opposition to these developments. It Plant milks also have numerous health

would make more business sense for dairy benefits when consumed as part of a varied

companies to begin supplementing their and balanced diet. (You can read more about

product lines, particularly since the dairy this in our Plant Milk Report, available on the

industry has been relying on shrinking margins ProVeg website.) Together with other

for decades, margins so tight that they, together organisations, and with the support of the

with hygiene regulations, have put most plant-based sector, we strive for a level playing

independent dairies out of business. If field for such products in the European

European dairy producers are threatened by market, which will ultimately benefit the

the plant-based sector, they should be terrified consumers that the dairy industry is

of cultured-milk products. Because milk and supposedly ‘protecting’.

JASMIJN DE BOO

Jasmijn de Boo, MSc, DipEd, MRSB has worked internationally in the field of
animal protection, education and veganism since 1999. She founded and led
the UK political party ‘Animals Count’ from 2006 to 2010 (rebranded ‘Animal
Welfare Party’, led by Vanessa Hudson). Jasmijn was the CEO of The Vegan
Society from 2011 to 2016; and CEO of Save Animals from Exploitation (SAFE)
in NZ for one and a half years. Jasmijn joined ProVeg International’s Executive
Team as International Director in April 2018 and became Vice President,
ProVeg International in May 2020. She supports the ProVeg offices in South
Africa, Spain, UK, Netherlands, Poland, Germany and the US, and the China
programme, and she oversees the expansion to India, and Belgium, as well as
the international Communications team and Grants programme.

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