Global Vegfest 2 Event Programme

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VEGFEST December 18th & 19th 2021

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Welcome

Welcome to Global Vegfest 2!

We’re thrilled to be hosting a second Global Vegfest right before the close of 2021, and it’s another exciting line-up of vegan activists, creatives & business folk from all over who are once again taking to the ‘Global Vegfest stage’ to share their insights, experience and educative knowledge to an ever-growing collection of vegans (and aspiring vegans).

VIVAS Vegan Women’s Leadership are joining us again, with a long list of speakers and panellists with the fabulous Katrina Fox hosting both a Saturday session and a Sunday session. The VIVAS livestreams will feature talks & panels such as ‘Women Making Waves in Sustainable Fashion’, ‘Careers in Animal Advocacy NonProfits’ & ‘How to Build Online Communities Through Video, and Video as a Tool for Activists’.

In a matter of days after Global Vegfest 2 concludes it’s livestreams, Veganuary 2022 begins, and as always it’s set to be the biggest yet. A global campaign itself, Veganuary proves repeatedly that the appetite for veganism & plant-based diets is still there for many, in increasing numbers. The encouragement in most of us that Veganuary provides is a great, uplifting way to start each year, and so for this Global Vegfest we have in part, non-vegans and the plant-based curious in mind - particularly with Benny Malone’s livestream ‘10 Reasons NOT to go Vegan

- and how to reply’ which focuses on common ‘arguments’ against veganism, and how these are often a mix of myths to be busted, and common distraction techniques.

We’ll also be hearing more from the good people over at Plant Based Health Professionals UK, who’s members will be conducting multiple talks over the weekend.

Rohini Bajekal will be introducing us to vegans who are thriving on their long-term vegan lifestyles with the panel ‘Vegan For Life: Real Life Stories of Healthy Vegans’. Then expanding on this theme, Rohini’s panel will be followed by Dr Leila Dehghan’s talk entitled ‘Vegan For Life: How To Thrive on a Vegan Diet’.

We will also be hearing from a collection of vegan activists from Ghana, Uganda & Kenya in the panel aptly named ‘Vegans in Africa’, where they will share with us their actions, experiences, observations and expectations of the future.

In addition to all of this, we can’t forget the VegfestUK Awards 2021, which have been voted on in the first two weeks of this month.

The results are in and we’re very excited on Day 1 of this event, to be able to reveal the winners of the VegfestUK Awards for another year! So be sure to tune in at 6pm UK time to find out who the ‘favourites’ are for 2021 with this exciting livestream, after which the results will be published online.

3 Livestreams: An eclectic collection of panels, presentations and performances all available free to watch online, with opportunities to engage, debate, comment and ask questions during the live sessions whilst watching. All the livestreams will be then be available to watch directly afterwards right here in the event programme.

Speakers: Find out a little more about all our participants at Global Vegfest with over 50 speakers and performers taking part over the weekend!

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Find out more: You can view this online event both live and afterwards right here in this event programme.

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What’s On?

Saturday

18th December

12:00 GMT Vegan For Life: Real Life Stories of Healthy Vegans 13:00 GMT Vegan For Life: How To Thrive on a Vegan Diet 14:30 GMT Veganism in Africa 16:00 GMT Women Making Waves in Sustainable Fashion 16:45 GMT Careers in Animal Advocacy Non-Profits 18:00 GMT VegfestUK Awards 2021: The Results

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Sunday

19th December

12:00 GMT Women Growing Veganism Across The Globe 12:45 GMT How To Build Online Communities Through Video, and Video as a Tool for Activists 13:30 GMT Vegan Activism Through Music 14:30 GMT 10 Reasons NOT To Go Vegan - And How To Reply 16:00 GMT Cookery Demonstration: Festive Delights 16:30 GMT Cookery Demonstration: Vegan Muhammara 16:50 GMT Cookery Demonstration: Christmas Berries Cake 17:30 GMT Vegan Compleating & The Plant Based Treaty

Saturday Livestreams

Vegan For Life: Real Life Stories of Healthy Vegans

About this panel: This panel hosted by Nutritionist Rohini Bajekal from Plant-Based Health Professionals UK will highlight the real life stories of healthy vegans. You’ll hear from VegFest Founder Tim Barford as well as PBHP members including vegan chef Nishma Shah, activist Annie Leymaries and health coach Annette Henry. We’ll explore the benefits of a healthy vegan diet as well as the tips to sustain this lifestyle from those who have been doing it for years and in some cases - decades.

Panellists:

Saturday 12:00 GMT

About Rohini Rohini Bajekal is a nutritionist (MA Oxon, MSc Nutrition and Food Sciences, Dip IBLM) and a BoardCertified Lifestyle Medicine Professional. She provides 1-1 evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle advice to her clients.

Rohini is Communications Lead at Plant-Based Health Professionals UK, an organisation providing education around the benefits of plantbased diets.

Annette Henry

I have been fully plant-based for 4 years following a long journey from giving up dairy about 20 years ago for health reasons (recurring endometriosis) through to shifting from a plant strong diet, to a wholefood fully plant-based diet. This final shift involved switching from a high raw, high fat, low fruit diet to one that includes much more fruit and no overt fat sources, again the change was prompted by a health challenge - post viral chronic fatigue. I am now a wholefood vegan.

9 Nishma Shah Hi, I’m Nishma. I became vegan around 22 years ago for ethical reasons. Prior to that, I was a no-cheese lacto-vegetarian, living in Kenya.

My cultural background is Jain – originally from India. Core to Jain dharma is the universal principle of ahimsa, i.e., to practise compassion (and non-violence) towards other living beings. The vegan lifestyle clearly aligns very well with ahimsa.

Tim Barford Tim went pretty much plant based in 1980 aged 17, as an act of political rebellion, before turning vegan in 1984, eating a wholefood plant based diet ever since. Stress related health challenges last year have led to a fresh approach to health & nutrition and Tim explains some of the changes he has made to diet and lifestyle to achieve optimum health.

Annie Leymarie In 1984, whilst working in Ethiopia (for the International Livestock Centre for Africa), I decided with two colleagues to adopt a vegan diet – for both environmental and health reasons. Ethiopia’s long tradition of vegan cuisine made it easy. I went on to work in Kenya, India and Nepal before returning to England, maintaining a whole food plant-based diet.

Saturday Livestreams

Vegan For Life: HOW TO THRIVE ON A VEGAN DIET

About this panel: “Vegan for Life: How to thrive on a vegan diet” hosted by Dr Leila Dehghan will bring together a panel of experts on plant-based nutrition to debunk common myths about a vegan diet and discuss the recent negative news propaganda. Dr Shehata, GP and lifestyle medicine physician, together with registered dieticians Chantal Tomlinson and Esen Boyacigiller and nutritional therapist Rita Castanhito provide evidence-based health advice on how to optimise your vegan diet.

Panellists:

Saturday 13:00 GMT

About Leila Dr. Leila Dehghan is a doctor turned nutritionist. After overcoming health challenges through diet, she obtained a Master’s of Science degree in Clinical and Public Health Nutrition from the University College of London. As a registered associate nutritionist, Dr. Dehghan takes a holistic approach to understand her clients’ needs and helps them optimise their well-being and prevent or recover from lifestyle diseases.

Mishkat Shehata

Mishkat is the CEO & founder of The Lifestyle Code Clinic. She is a certified Lifestyle Medicine physician and plant-based GP who holds a dual Masters degree in Public Health, a Diploma from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists & a Professional Diploma in Fitness & Weight loss. She is a Regional Director (London) for the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine. Her NHS practice is based in East Grinstead & Surrey.

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Chantal Tomlinson

Chantal Tomlinson has been a Registered Dietitian for 6 years and currently works as a Digital Health Coach. She believes in the power of making lifestyle changes to improve health. With 5+ years’ experience on a plant-based diet, she loves to share with others the joy and health that a plant-based diet can bring. In her free-time she loves to travel, play football, try new recipes and spend time with friends.

Rita Castanhito I am now a graduate of the renowned College of Naturopathic Medicine where I studied nutritional therapy. I am a member of the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT), member of Plant Based Health Professionals (PBHP) and registered with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC).

Esen Boyacigiller Esen Boyacigiller is a Turkish-American plant-based dietitian living in New York City. Her interest in plant nutrition was sparked from watching family members struggle with chronic illnesses. She received her Master’s in Clinical Nutrition from NYU and completed her Dietetic Internship at Tulane. Since then, Esen has worked at a skilled nursing facility and started her own private practice (eatwithesen.com). You can follow her on Instagram @eatwithesen.com.

Saturday Livestreams

veganism in africa

Saturday 14:30 GMT

About this panel: Veganism in Africa is growing and not least due to the efforts of a number of vegan activists, promoting veganism and plant based diets across Africa.

This panel introduces vegan activists from Uganda, Kenya and Ghana – all of whom feature in Issue 3 of Forca vegan Online Magazine – to share some of their experiences, successes and challenges with a wider audience.

Panellists: Rachel Kabue

About Tim Vegan since 1984, & founder of VegfestUK 20 years ago, Tim’s recent Lockdown projects have included publishing global vegan online magazine Forca Vegan during 2021, and in doing so touching base with dozens of vegan activists across the globe for the first time. This session, Tim chats with some of the most dedicated and influential vegan activists from Uganda, Kenya and Ghana.

My name is Rachel Kabue, founder, The Vegan Society of Kenya. I became vegetarian in 2011, after visiting India for a yoga teacher training course. While looking for vegetarian recipes online, I stumbled upon veganism, and this was the first time hearing about the lifestyle.

It resonated with me and I embraced the lifestyle in 2012. I started outreach and animal rights activism in 2013. After seven years of informal outreach, I finally registered the Vegan Society of Kenya in February of 2020.

Kyobe Ashiraf

I formed up a Corporate team aiming for networking and social cooperation with other people in the community as a leader. Being a vegan lifestyler, many of my friends adopted to and later suggested to make our team – a team of vegans – and to start using football as the method of raising awareness about Veganism and it has made much impact, with positive results. We wish to continue doing it indefinitely.

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Martin Stanley Adansi

My name Martin Stanley Adansi A.K.A THE UNAPOLOGETIC VEGTINO and a Marketing Specialist by profession. I’m a vegan and an animal rights activist striving to create an educational platform to bring people to understand the need to put an end to all forms exploitation of human and non human animals. I’m also the Director of the Animal Rights Organisation Ghana-AROG and a member of the Vibrant vegan Society of Ghana-VVESOG.

Tivai Seyenam Doe K.S. Nyamadi, aka Tivai hails from Ghana. I am a vegan, an Animal rights Activist & an Environmentalist, founder of the Vibrant Vegan Society of Ghana & Director/Organiser of Accra Animal Save, The African Vegan & co-founder of Seyenam foods(strictly vegan)

Zuu a.k.a The Ghanaian Vegan Zuu (aka The Ghanaian Vegan) has spent the last few years helping build brands and tell business stories. In this time he has cemented himself as an accomplished content creator. Two years ago he began his vegan journey and committed to sharing his experience while advocating for a plant-based lifestyle. Through social media, and various events, Zuu has managed to shine a spotlight on veganism in Ghana.

His pages offer recipes, nutritional facts as well as information on local restaurants.

Saturday Livestreams Saturday 16:00 GMT

women making waves in sustainable fashion

About Alicia

About VIVAS: VIVAS is a global community and media brand for vegan women driven by compassion, purpose … and a bit of sparkle!

Our mission is to help vegan women become better leaders – in your professional field, advocacy and life, and to provide a space where you can be supported in your endeavours.

Alicia Lai, founder of B_ Boheme. A pioneer of the vegan fashion industry, having worked in sustainable fashion for 14 years. Passionate about using innovative and sustainable vegan materials and processes at every stage of design and production. B_Boheme unites Alicia’s passion for veganism and the environment with her experience as a qualified podiatrist and her love of fashion, using her knowledge and expertise ensures each shoe is designed for comfort as well as style and sustainability.

About this panel: As awareness about the devastating impacts of fashion on the environment increases, consumers are looking for ways to be more sustainable with their purchases.

Join three pioneers in vegan, sustainable fashion to find out how they’re helping to create change.

15 Panellists: Sascha Camilli Sascha Camilli is the author of Vegan Style: Your Plant-Based Guide to Fashion + Beauty + Home + Travel. She is Senior PR Coordinator for PETA UK and the founder of the world’s first digital vegan fashion magazine Vilda. She was selected as one of Glamour UK’s Most Empowering Nu-Gen Activists in 2019.

Bel Jacobs Bel Jacobs is a writer and speaker for climate justice, animal rights and new systems in fashion. She is founder of the Fashion in Schools Project and co-founder of Fashion Act Now, an activist group born out of Extinction Rebellion, calling on the industry to Defashion Now.

For more information on VIVAS. Vegan. Women. Leadership, you can visit the VIVAS website here: thevivasnetwork.com

Saturday Livestreams

careers in animal advocacy non-profits

Saturday 16:45 GMT

Animal Advocacy Careers (AAC) is an organisation that seeks to address the career and talent bottlenecks in the animal advocacy movement, especially the farmed animal movement. It provides careers services for individuals at all levels of experience with animal advocacy. Co-founder Lauren Mee is keen to encourage more women to take up careers in this space and will discuss how to go about this.

Lauren Mee Founder & CEO of Animal Advocacy Careers, a non-profit which is dedicated to helping passionate individuals to maximise their positive contributions to animals with their career.

Lauren also took part in a Charity incubator and previously worked as a consultant for a global market research company before transferring her skills over to the non-profit space

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Vegfestuk awards 2021: the results

Saturday 18:00 GMT

It’s finally time to announce the winners! It’s been exciting to watch the hype surrounding the VegfestUK Awards 2021 over the last couple of months. Now the votes are cast, the polls are closed, and in this livestream we set out the winners for the 2021 awards in all their glory.

Not sure who was nominated?

You may not have a chance to vote now, but you can still look through this year’s nominees - all 210 of them to be exact - in the 2021 Brochure we’ve put together.

Click on the cover to open it up in a new tab.

Sunday Livestreams

women growing veganism across the globe

Sunday 12:00 GMT

About Hira

About this panel: Interest in veganism is spreading across the world and in many cases women are leading the way. Be inspired by this panel discussion featuring some of the luminaries in this space.

They will share how they are helping to grow the vegan movement in the global south, Africa and the Middle East.

Hira is a lifelong learner and educator, committed to innovation, well-being, and nature. As an independent educator Hira has created workshops to teach subjects like plant sciences for children and families.

Hira enjoys connecting science, art, health and biomedical engineering concepts to inspire ways of thinking about the world.

Sarah El Abiary Sarah El Ebiary is an Egyptian American attorney and social media manager who helped to create the Vegan Muslim Community and the Vegetarian/Vegan Society of Egypt, which guides thousands of members worldwide to live healthier plant-based lifestyles. She has been vegan for over 10 years and is passionate about climate change and animal welfare.

She is also an experienced vegan chef offering cooking classes and catering services in healthy raw food and plant based meals under the name #Yumcore.

19 Carolina Galvani Carolina has worked in over 30 different countries as an investigative journalist to several leading NGOs. Her work has been covered by some of the world’s most prominent media, such as the BBC, The New York Times, and The Guardia. She is a graduate of Unicamp in Brazil (in economics) and has a master’s degree in journalism from City University, London.

In September 2017, Carolina founded Sinergia Animal, an international animal protection organization working in Global South countries.

Sunny Satva My mission is to promote veganism and increase access to wealth creation opportunities across Africa. I became an entrepreneur in 2019; I am a bioengineer by training and worked in the biomechanics industry and the nonprofit sector. I began investing in African businesses in early 2021.

Vegan AF operations are powered through global investment in our impact crypto VAF. I hope to inspire others to support the Vegan AF movement so we all can look forward to an equitable and regenerative future.

Sunday Livestreams

how to build online communities through video, and video as a tool for activists

Sunday 12:45 GMT

The popularity of video as a tool for entertainment and education continues to grow. In this talk Manuela Senatore will teach you how to build online communities using video, as well as how you can use this medium to effect social change.

Manuela Senatore Manuela Senatore is a video producer and strategist at Skilla Productions (www.skillaproductions.com).

Before starting her agency, she had other visual media related roles including filmmaker, nonprofit communications pro, and correspondent/photographer for an international lifestyle magazine. She’s a member of New York Women in Film and Television and the Video Consortium.

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Sunday Livestreams Sunday 13:30 GMT

vegan activism through music About this livestream: In this session Tim will be joined by two fabulous vegan musicians - Ruby Moss and Barbara Helen.

Ruby joined us during Global Vegfest 1, and spoke with us about school life, the inspiration behind her songs and the reception they’ve had. Since then Ruby has some new releases, so we’ll be checking those out during this session.

Barbara performed as part of VegfestUK Summerfest Online 2020, our first ever online event, following her album’s release in 2019 - ‘Vegan Eyes’. Now Barbara is back with us, with new material of course, too.

Be sure to join us for this lively session!

Find out more: Ruby Moss article in Forca Vegan issue 3:

About Tim Long term vegan Tim has organised the UK’s highest profile vegan events over the last 2 decades, booking a number of top acts along the way, as well as staging several vegan talent contests in that time. Tim’s joint passion for both vegan activism and music is suited to host 2 fabulous vegan activists who are successful musicians in their own right.

Barbara Helen’s set from Summerfest 2020:

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Panellists: Ruby Moss

Ruby Moss is 14. Her musical career started when she joined St Patrick’s Cathedral Choir School in Dublin aged 8. She now plays piano, flute, guitar, button accordion and holds a prestigious organ scholarship with Dundalk Grammar School. Her first single Ruby’s Song/invisible went to #1 in the iTunes and Reverbnation singer songwriter charts.

Ruby’s songs are sold in aid of https://goveganworld.com/ and https://jigsaw.ie/

Barbara Helen My songs are inspired by living a vegan lifestyle and being active within the animal rights movement. I hope to illustrate and promote a contemporary view on animal rights. We are all Earthlings. I released my CD , Vegan Eyes, in 2019. You you can listen and download tracks from my Bandcamp Page and order my CD from my FB Page, Vegan Eyes.

All profit from sales funds my activism.

Sunday Livestreams

10 reasons not to go vegan - and how to reply

Sunday 14:30 GMT

About this panel: With Veganuary 22 once more on the horizon, now is a good time to brush up on your skills to counter some of the most common ‘anti vegan’ arguments put forward. And a handy tool for those challenging non vegan relatives over the xmas season playing ‘gotcha’. This session looks at 10 of the most common anti vegan arguments – and how to counter them effectively. Accomplished authors Emilia Leese (Think Like a Vegan) and Benny Malone (How To Argue With Vegans), both with considerable expertise in this field, join host and long term vegan Tim Barford (Basically Not a Lion) for a light hearted but super useful look into how to counter the most common anti vegan objections.

Find out more: Benny Malone’s book ‘How To Argue With Vegans’ is available online:

About Tim Although basically not a lion, Tim’s experience with multiple vegan & plant based approaches spanning the last 5 decades has of course met with multiple arguments against veganism. In this session Tim is joined by the expert Benny & Emilia to get to the bottom of some of the most common objections to veganism, and how best to counter them without a roar in sight.

Emilia Leese’s brand new book ‘Think Like A Vegan’ is available online:

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Panellists: Benny Malone

Benny Malone is the author of ‘How to Argue with Vegans’ – a comprehensive guide to debunking anti-vegan arguments.

Benny has been vegan for just over a decade and meat-free since he was a teenager. He enjoys reading philosophy, science and history and uses this knowledge to analyse vegan discussions and the arguments that arise.

Emilia Leese Emi writes essays on life, travel and veganism for a variety of online publications and is closely involved in a long-term forest rewilding project in the Scottish Highlands. She regularly hosts benefit supper clubs and is a speaker on vegan ethics at a variety of events. She also developed life skills and ethics workshops for underserved youth. She has been a corporate finance lawyer for over twenty years. She and her husband Roger, who is also vegan, live in London and the Highlands.

Sunday Livestreams

COOKERY DEMONSTRATION: festive delights

Sunday 16:00 GMT

Festive Delights. Don’t miss this festive cookery demo with V for Life Chef Alex.

He’ll be showing you how to make an impressive three-course vegan Christmas meal, as well as some tasty Christmassy treats.

Chef Alex Connell Alex has been a vegetarian for the past 30 years, 10 of which as a vegan.

Alex has had a variety of roles in the catering industry, from teaching in secondary schools, to preparing meals for the Youth Hostel Association, through to delivering training to professional chefs.

Most recently, Alex was the Principal Tutor at The Vegetarian Society Cookery School. In 2019, Alex joined the team of chefs working for Vegetarian for Life. He says: “Working in the care sector has its own set of challenges and rewards. I hope to able to pass on my passion for excellent vegetarian and vegan catering to chefs, managers and above all those we care for.”

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Sunday 16:30 BST

In this short livestream you will learn how to make a delicious, oil free dip, for your Christmas table. LivingveggiebyAnia will show you a traditional Middle Eastern recipe with a Christmas twist, perfect for your December festivities. Traditional Muhammara, originally from Syria, with a few tweaks will fit beautifully on a British Christmas Table. Slightly sweet, tangy and yet savoury with a hint of Christmas spice. We are sure you will fall in love with our version and, importantly, you can easily replicate the dish at home.

Ania Wojtkowksa Originally from Poland, Ania has been living in Singapore for the past seven years. In 2017 she began her journey to developed and expand the awareness of healthy eating and plant-based diets. To promote her aims she launched her company – LivingveggiebyAnia.

She graduated from Cornell’s Plant Based Nutrition by Dr Colin Campbell and Plant-based nutrition from Winchester University (UK) and attended numerous cookery schools across Asia. With easy to follow online cooking courses, nutritional workshops, private online consultations and Plant Power Academy she wants to spread the message that vegan food is not only healthy but tasty, easy to prepare and can change the quality of our life.

Sunday Livestreams

COOKERY DEMONSTRATION: Christmas berries cake

Sunday 16:50 GMT

This colorful and refreshing cheesecake will be the attraction of your party!

Decorated with some holly leaves biscuits, it will give this cake a wonderful Christmas touch!

This dessert is freezable, just finish the decorations on the day!

Danielle Maupertuis My name is Danielle Maupertuis, I am a Vegan Pastry Chef, Belgian (I was baptised in chocolate!) and worked as Executive Pastry Chef in 5 stars hotels in the UK and abroad. I created a range of vegan desserts, with a special focus upon taste and presentation. Author of a cookbook “Vegans deserve better than a fruit salad” through Olympia Publishers, and tutor at the Veg.Soc. Cookery school. Also, trying to be hepful in this critical situation, I created a YouTube channel “Danielle Maupertuis Vegan Pastry” : short and funny videos with vegan pastry courses for kids. www.freefromdesserts.com

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Sunday Livestreams

Vegan compleating & the plant based treaty

Sunday 17:30 GMT

About this panel: Food waste is a massive issue but rarely talked about – step forward author Ellen Tout, whose recent book ‘The Complete Book of Vegan Compleating: An A–Z of Zero-Waste Eating For the Mindful Vegan’ is full of recipes and tips for making the most of food without waste. Ellen will be sharing some of these tips along with some fabulous recipe ideas as well as some of the facts and figures surrounding food waste.

The Plant Based Treaty is a global collective response to climate change, health, food supply and animal welfare with a collaboration of hundreds of businesses and organisations and thousand of individuals. Anita Krajnc from Plant Based Treaty joins us to update us on their achievements in 2021 and plans for 2022.

About Tim Long term plant based eater Tim has a keen interest in the environmental benefits of plant based diets, and is a big supporter of collaborations amongst different groups within the vegan and plant based arena. He’ll be hosting this final session of the weekend, but his guests will be doing most of the talking.

Find out more:

Plant Based Treaty article in Plant Powered Planet issue 3

Ellen Tout & ‘Vegan Compleating’ article in Plant Powered Planet

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Panellists: Anita Krajnc

Anita Krajnc is co-founder of Toronto Pig Save and Executive Director of the global Animal Save Movement. The groups use a love-based community organizing approach to mobilize activists to bear witness to animals at the front gates of slaughterhouses. In 2019, Animal Save Movement expanded to include climate and health save chapters, moving the group’s focus beyond animal vigils to include campaigns such as the Plant Based Treaty initiative and the Stop Animal Gifting campaign.

Ellen Tout Ellen Tout is a sustainability writer and author of ‘The Complete Book of Vegan Compleating: An A–Z of Zero-Waste Eating For the Mindful Vegan’. Passionate about raising awareness of the role food waste plays in the climate crisis, Ellen realised there was a lack of vegan books about the topic. Her book is packed with practical and creative recipes, tips and tricks to ‘compleat’, showing how you can make use of all parts of fruits and vegetables, including those you might usually throw away.

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Hello and welcome to Issue 3 of Força Vegan Online Magazine, touching base with the 4 corners of the globe in this post-pandemic epoch overshadowed by the combined threats of climate change, corporate negligence and the consistent annihilation of billions of living beings and vast hectarage of wildlife habitat, confronted by the consistent actions of millions of committed activists and individuals fighting for change, for justice and for liberation.

Força Vegan continues its journey that began back in March 2021 and enhanced in May 2021 with a fabulous collection of news, views and reflections from a compact yet undoubtedly bijoux selection of contributors from across the globe.

Our gratitude and respect extends to all those living the change we want to see in the world, those working for a vegan future for everyone, and especially those featured in this collection of inspirational vegan and animal rights activism.

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A warm welcome to our readers from across the globe as we bring you our second issue of Força Vegan Online Magazine, dedicated to animal rights activists and vegan outreach throughout the world. Issue 2 doesn’t disappoint, delivering frontline reports from Gaza from the extraordinary Plant The Land Team, plus in-depth interviews with activist and healthcare professional Leila Dehghan, who also presents ‘Athletes, Food, Diversity’, and long term activist Alison Plaumer, recently making the global media headlines with Animal Rebellion. Simohamed Bouhakkaoui updates from Morocco, Maya Cohen – Ronen reports from Wellington New Zealand, Cina Ebrahimi describes first hand some of the recent protests in Seattle, Jenna Kamal brings us news from Dahar in Egypt, Nella Giatrakou features the upcoming Online AR summit in Kent, Roger Yates delves into the world of TikTok and we take time out to visit Tivai and the Vibrant Vegan Society of Ghana.

On a creative note, we were thrilled to catch up with vegan comedian Ishi Khan- Jackson, whilst The Art of Compassion features a brand new online...

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Welcome to Issue One (March 2021) of Forca Vegan – the free online vegan magazine that joins up activists and campaigns across the globe into a glorious celebration of all things vegan.

Born into a world emerging from Lockdown and the global COVID Crisis, Forca Vegan brings together a feelgood factor, information, education and a myriad of different voices and experiences from a multitude of global vegan activists. Removing barriers and focusing on solutions, Forca Vegan reflects a living, growing, unfolding history of liberation, understanding and evolution at a time like never before, and at a time like we never needed before. If we are to face the problems that lie in front of us and lie ahead, and change them for the better, we’ll all benefit from listening to a broader vegan fanbase and learning from these experiences, and turning these lessons into effective and consistent education & action.

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Welcome to our 3rd issue of Plant Powered Planet! Issue 3 brings us nicely towards the end of 2021, and what a year it’s been.

In this issue we focus on the recent COP26 in Glasgow, with a report from The Vegan Society on their extensive activities, we take a look at the Plant Based Treaty which is gaining traction steadily across the globe and we catch-up with Obki the Alien, now a COP26 Ambassador as well as star of their own TV show.

We extend a very warm welcome to guest writer Jordi Casamitjana, who has produced 2 excellent articles for this issue – a look at Ethical Consumerism, and an in-depth focus on Wildlife and agriculture. Short interviews with TV legend Jasmine Harman and actor Gary Webster are complimented by insights from Andrea at Wetnose Animal Aid and Victoria Featherstone Pearce, winner of the recent London Lifestyle Influencer of the Year Award.

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Issue 2 is full up with fantastic interviews and focuses on the best the plant based lifestyle has to offer the discerning 21st century individual, who values animals, environment and people when making lifestyle consumer choices. Our regular contributors Tony Bishop Weston (The Vegetable Plot) and Daniele Maupertuis (Vegans Deserve Better than a Fruit Salad) return with their summer special seasonal sprinklings of plant based gold dust, including asking the question ‘Are you eating too much ultra processed vegan pap?’ and a wonderful raw vegan cheesecake recipe, and we were thrilled to catch up with our star 3 guests for issue 2, BodyBuilder Robert Cheeke, Activist Juliet Gellatley and Actor Danny Hatchard.

The Vegan Organic Network make their regular appearance including more seasonal veganic gardening tips from author Piers Warren, Emma Fry once more takes us on a few vegan travel tips, and we take a look at new book ‘Feeding Your Vegan Child’ alongside the launch of new vegan snacks and motivational packs brand GoalPower, before getting to chat with The Vegan Vet about companion animals and plant based... READ MORE >

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Strawberry jam packed with the most fantastic vegans on the planet (well aren’t we all my lovelies?)…. We bring you ….. the best independent vegan owned business we must support, expert advice, travel, health and all needless to say with a massive positive vegan angle.

Super Toni Vernelli gives us the lowdown and updates on Veganuary and we catch up with the most fabulous new vegan clothing range on the block with an interview with the inspirational Lorri Delahunty from VEGAN Happy Clothing.

We find out more about what TV and radio presenter Kirly-Sue has been getting up to – especially with her vegan TV show filmed in the UK and Jamaica now on Amazon Prime. And my wonderful friend plant based chef Keith Squires tells us about the health benefits from working from home.

CEO and founder of Planet Arborist gives us fantastic advice for what to look out for Greenwashing wise…

And where else do you get to hear from the vegan doctors at Plant Based Health Professionals UK?... READ MORE >

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