Welcome to the site for all things activist and vegan in and around Oxford - and sometimes further afield.
Upcoming events that we know of locally are shown below. Follow the Links on the right to see what else is happening around the country.
News
Lab Opens in Secret [click for more]
We all new it was coming; it was just a question of when. For a number of months, hidden behind the building site screens, surveillance cameras and police patrols, so-called scientists have already started torturing animals in the name of progress. Today we learnt that the lab has been opened 'unofficially'. More news as we get it. Shout out to the people on the weekly demo outside the lab today despite the atrocious weather. [click title for more]
Debate: A Future Without Fossil Fuels - Exeter College Wed 12th Nov
The Oxford People and Planet crew have organised what will be an interesting debate entitled A Future Without Fossil Fuels at which anyone is welcome to attend
Exeter College, 7.30pm - See Events listing for more detail/contact info
Dairy under threat from soya?
Dairy world now feels its under threat from soya... scarily defensive!
Check out this story on www.ap-foodtechnology.com.
News from ActiVeg
- Heather Mills dons overalls to paint the walls of her new vegan restaurant
- The Effect of a Plant-Based Low-Carbohydrate ("Eco-Atkins") Diet on Body Weight and Blood Lipid Concentrations in Hyperlipidemic Subjects
- Cancer incidence in British vegetarians
- Eat red meat just three times a week, says World Wildlife Fund
- Vegetarians less likely to develop cancer than meat eaters, says study
- New Zealand: Govt rules out further milk safety probe
- I don't eat meat - and look at me
- Peanut butter 'good for the heart'
- Medical news: Vegetarian diets prevent disease
- Historic 1.5 million-strong petition calls for road map to end animal experiments