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Swedish airline goes meat free on Mondays
Malmo Aviation has become the world's first airline to join in with the Meat Free Monday campaign. For more information.
Festival goes meat free for Morrissey
Organisers of a Belgian music festival have agreed to go meat free for the day when Morrissey is playing. Read more here. Venues in Scotland are also following suit.
Veggie heaven at Bayern Munich?
Bayern Munich, the fourth richest football club in the world, has been recognised as providing the best meat free food for football supporters in Germany by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Read the full story here.
School goes meat free on Mondays
Get them! Pupils at Gordonstoun School have voted to introduce meat free Mondays into their canteens. Read the full story here.
Football club bans red meat
Forest Green Rovers, a football club from Gloucestershire who play in the Conference, just one step below League 2, have now banned players and supporters from eating red meat at their home stadium. And to top it all, their chairman is a vegan! Read the full story here, with a bit of comment here.
Golfer Phil Mickelson has gone vegetarian!
Golf?! Perhaps not the obvious sport of choice for young veggies but this is a world class athlete we're talking about here, 4 major championship wins, including the US Masters on 3 occasions, and we wish Phil Mickelson all the best with his new diet.
Read the article here.
Indian schools ban leather shoes!
Here's an interesting and thought provoking story. I wonder what head teachers in this country would think of a similar rule? Perhaps we should ask them!
Read the article here.
More meat free Mondays
The news just keeps getting better, San Francisco has become the first city in the United States to promote meat free Mondays. Isn't it about time that we all wrote to our local councils and asked them to follow suit?
Read the article here
Winter Olympic medal success
Vegetarian Hannah Teter not only claimed a silver medal in the Vancouver Winter Olympic’s halfpipe competition but she's also set up her own charity to improve water quality and sanitation in Kirindon, Kenya... inspiring stuff!
Read the article here.
More meat free Mondays
Big up the students at three of Oxford University’s colleges who have voted in favour of introducing meat free Mondays to their places of study. Shame on you Magadalen, and what are you other 34 colleges waiting for?
Read the article here.
Scouts support Christmas Chicken
Top marks to the 1st Bridlington Cub Scouts for supporting their mascot and all other chickens at Christmas.
Baltimore schools go meat free on Mondays!
So American meat free Mondays have a long patriotic tradition dating back to the First World War eh? Interesting...
Belated congratulations to Baltimore City Public Schools who have been recognised as the first school system in the United States to observe Meatless Mondays!
Belgian city goes meat free every Thursday
Much respect to our European neighbours in the Belgian city of Ghent who have decided to officially nominate Thursday as their weekly meat free day. As part of the deal, schools in the city will have to provide vegetarian lunch options, everyone taking part will be given a free veggie goodie-bag and cooking classes are being arranged for individuals and professional chefs.
Newsround: Press packer James becomes a vegetarian
11 year old James Maxwell has made the headlines on BBC’s Newsround website for his decision to become vegetarian and campaign against animal cruelty on factory farms. He's received an award from the People For Ethical Treatment of Animals in recognition of all his work and we think he ’s great too!
Half of baseball buys into veggie hotdogs
All hail Johanna McCoy! This really dedicated woman has already spent eight years on her mission to get veggie hot dogs included on the menu of every American major league baseball ground. Now I’ve always been more of a cricket man myself, but this woman is an inspiration to anyone like me who has ever struggled and failed to find veggie food at a sporting venue! Will start writing my letter to the MCC (the bosses of cricket) now!
