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Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity

@vivacharity.bsky.social

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🐷 Campaigning for animal rights and helping people go vegan. 🌱 Exploring the latest research in plant-based health, and environment impacts of animal agriculture. 🙏 Promoting vegan recipes and lifestyle tips. Become a Viva! supporter: viva.org.uk/donate

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Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · Sep 11

🚨 NEW INVESTIGATION: #CRANSWICK FARMS EXPOSED

Cranswick is proud of their ‘Great British Taste’. But the truth is that British pig farming is a national disgrace.

➡️ See for yourself: viva.org.uk/cranswick

#BritishPork #GreatBritishTaste #GoVegan

Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 22h

Global adoption of the diet could prevent at least 15 million early deaths a year in adults 🤯

AND it would slash food-related climate emissions by half 🌱

🍽️ Take a look: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 1d

✨ SALE ✨ We've discounted most of our vegan clothing designs!

Grab a bargain 👉
vivashop.org.uk/collections/...

Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 1d

Factory farms are breeding grounds for disease. It's time to ditch cruel and dangerous factory farming and go vegan.

It's getting more and more urgent.

➡️See for yourself: scientificamerican.com/article/bird-flu-and-human-flu-viruses-could-mix-in-cow-udders-and-spark-a-pandemic

Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you to the Newbury team for their fantastic outreach! 🌱

Could you join a vegan outreach team near you? 👉 viva.org.uk/viva-volunteer-community/outreach-hosts-and-supporters

#ukvegan

Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 2d

Great news 🎉 RAF personnel have won the right to wear vegan uniforms at work!

Well done to all those who campaigned on this 👏

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Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 3d

Public Health England recommend that during autumn and winter, everyone in the UK needs a dietary source of vitamin D. Are you getting enough? Take a look 👇

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Viva! - Vitamin D

Vitamin D, known as the 'sunshine vitamin', is important for regulating levels of calcium in the body along with many other important functions. So, how much do we need?

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Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 3d

Both deserve a life free from exploitation. #animalrights #sentience

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Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 3d

It's pumpkin (spice) season!🍂 Eat seasonally this autumn with these 10 autumnal foods 👉 viva.org.uk/health/blog-...

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Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you to the fantastic Bath outreach team! 🙌

If you'd like to get involved with upcoming outreach, find out more here: viva.org.uk/viva-volunteer-community/outreach-hosts-and-supporters

#veganoutreach

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Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 5d

New vegan chocolates have landed! 👀 Shop here 👉 vivashop.org.uk/collections/food/category_chocolate

#veganfood #veganchocolate

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Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 5d

🌱 A huge landmark study!

🩺 Younger vegan women had a 31% lower risk of breast cancer.
🩺 Younger vegan men had a 43% lower risk of prostate cancer.

➡️ viva.org.uk/health/health-research/the-vegan-advantage-insights-from-80000-adventists

Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 6d

💥 Vegan activism stickers 💥 Perfect to jazz up your notepad, phone, laptop or water bottle 🌱

➡️ Get yours here: vivashop.org.uk/collections/stationery/type_stickers+category_stickers

#veganism #vegan

Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 6d

We are not cows, we don't need their milk 🙏

#dairy #milk #akala

Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 6d

One of the best things you can do for your health (and for the animals) is make the switch to a plant-based diet.

➡️ Read which diseases in our latest blog: viva.org.uk/health/blog-health/reduce-the-risk-of-8-diseases-with-a-vegan-diet

#plantbased

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Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you to the Leeds team for their fantastic outreach! 🙌

Get in touch to hear more about outreach in your area 👉 viva.org.uk/viva-volunteer-community/outreach-hosts-and-supporters

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Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 7d

✨ Don't miss out! There's free UK shipping on our teemill store this weekend! Ending midnight Monday 👉 viva.teemill.com

#veganclothing #vegan

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Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 8d

'An Audience with Juliet Gellatley' is now yours to watch on YouTube 🌱

Venture back in time to Juliet's first experience of entering a factory farm. Watch now 👇 #vegantalks

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An Audience with Juliet Gellatley

Viva!'s Juliet Gelatley transports an audience back to her first experience of entering a factory farm. Explaining how it felt to be a young teenager traipsing through rows and rows of pigs confined…

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Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 8d

Today is the World Day for Farmed Animals and we're reflecting on the fact that the UK is meant to be a nation of animals lovers...

We're all against animal cruelty, but most people conveniently turn a blind eye to routine cruelty towards farmed animals.🤔

It's time to #govegan

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Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 9d

Randal Plunkett's talk from our Triology of Talks event is now LIVE on YouTube! 🌳

‘The Magic of V-Wilding’ explores the remarkable transformation of the Dunsany estate through vegan rewilding, leading to a revival of the natural world. Take a look 👇

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The Magic of V-Wilding by Randal Plunkett: A Talk for Viva!

Randal Plunket, the 21st Baron of Dunsany, discusses how he is transforming his inherited estate into a wildlife haven through the "rewilding movement", a form of environmental restoration that he…

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Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 9d

You can write a will for free with us. 🙏 A gift to Viva! means you can continue supporting the animals long into the future.💚

✍️ Find out more: viva.org.uk/will

#freewillwriting #vegan

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Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 9d

Such a huge loss for the world. Thank you Jane Goodall for being not only one of the best ethologists ever known but also a gentle and determined advocate for chimpanzees and all animals. You will be greatly missed.

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Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 10d

Juliet's talk at Vegan Camp Out is now LIVE on YouTube 👇

‘David Vs Goliath: The Vegan Movement taking on the Meat Industry’ is an incredible insight into the state of play in the UK and tactics used by a trillion dollar giant. #vegantalk

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David vs Goliath: The Vegan Movement Takes on the Meat Industry by Juliet Gellatley

Viva! founder and director Juliet Gellatley delivers a searing indictment of the meat industry, describing it as a "vast machinery of greed" that desecrates the sanctity of life. Drawing on decades…

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Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 10d

A new independent report, commissioned by The Wildlife Trusts, has investigated the cumulative impact of the UK pig and poultry sector on the wider countryside.

The solution? #govegan

➡️ See for yourself: wildlifetrusts.org/news/huge-impacts-uk-pig-and-poultry-farming-revealed-first-time

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Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 10d

Health warnings have been on tobacco products for years, shouldn't we have health warnings on processed meat packaging too?

Processed meat is a group 1 carcinogen - categorised by the World Health Organisation. This is the same category as tobacco and asbestos.

#health

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Viva! | Vegan Campaigning Charity @vivacharity.bsky.social · 11d

The Viva! Exeter outreach team continues to grow! 😍

Thank you to James Shipway for organising the event, and thank you to the team for their powerful activism for the animals: Lucy O'Brien, Paul Youd, Wendy Kindell, Adrian Wright, Vicky Alhadeff, Jo and Kevin. 🙌