• Massive Turnout for Indian Cookery Demo/Workshop
  Our August get together attracted by far the most people ever seen at our meetings. Hardly surprising since it was an Indian Cookery Demonstration and Workshop! Anita Sharma-James of The Spice Trade showed us how to make vegetable pakoras, then everyone had a go themselves and spent all evening sampling the delicious results!
  
  Click here for a full report and see our gallery of photos from the evening.
  
• RVV Review of 2007
  Despite being a fairly small group, we have managed to stage(or take part in) approx 50 events of one kind or another during 2007 - everything from socials, group meals & speaker meetings to food sample stalls, leafletting and big environmental marches! Our activities have made many 1,000`s of people more aware of the benefits of vegetarian/veganism and we have no doubt that many people have changed their diet as a result.
  
  We have put together a Review of 2007 which is basically a summary of everything we`ve been doing in the last 12 months. Click the link above to read the review. If you would like to help us make 2008 even more successful, please come along to one of our meetings or contact us.
  
  We wish you all a Happy & Healthy New Year!!
• Stock-Free Organic Growing for a Sustainable Future
  On Wednesday 5 March we hosted a talk and presentation about growing crops and gardening without the use of chemicals or animal products. It`s a myth that organic growing requires the use of animal manure to fertilise the soil. We learnt how Stock-Free Organic growing is better for human health, animals and the environment. Read more on the Vegan Organic Network website. 
• Indian Group Meal Enjoyed by All
  On Wednesday 23 January, 9 members of Redditch Vegetarians & Vegans enjoyed our first group meal out of 2008. The recently opened Redolence Spice was the venue, an Indian restaurant in Redditch town centre. For a very reasonable price, we tucked into a delicious 3 course meal and we look forward to returning for more of the same later this year. See more photos here.
• Pancake Flippin` Fun in February!
  Our monthly meeting in February took the form of a dairy-free pancake cookery demonstration and workshop. Lots of us had a go at making dairy-free pancakes and we all sampled the mouth-watering results - it was great fun!! Click here to see a gallery of photos from the event.
  
  

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  Check out this story on www.independent.co.uk.

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  Check out this story on www.indymedia.org.uk.

• The new series has a new exciting format and we’re looking for people to take part in this returning documentary series all about how the meat we eat is bred, killed and finally cooked.

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  Check out this story on www.guardian.co.uk.

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  Check out this story on www.envirolink.org.

• Statement from the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) Clarifying Processed Meat-Cancer Link

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  Check out this story on www.earthtimes.org.

• The Court of Appeal has today issued a ruling giving researchers the power to choose what information they reveal to the public about animal experiments - delivering a devastating blow to reasoned debate about this controversial subject and a major step backwards in a democracy.

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