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The Growth of Vegan Restaurants in Europe 2020

In a previous article, the “London Vegan Restaurant Scene Evolution” we took a look at the exponential increase of vegan (and vegetarian) restaurants in the UK’s capital. We found out that there were major changes to the vegan scene in this city in 2015 and 2017, and that the number of vegan restaurants seem to be catching up with the vegetarian ones. In this article we continue this analysis and…

February 29, 2020 (Last Updated: January 16, 2023) By Ricardo

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London Vegan Restaurant Scene Evolution

London ranked No. 1 in the world on HappyCow’s Top 10 Vegan Friendly Cities List 2019. This doesn’t come as a surprise, many of us having already heard, or had the chance to experience first-hand, how wonderful the city’s vegan food scene truly is. The Top 10 Cities List was published in December of 2019, and after letting the results sink in, I couldn’t help but wonder: (1) When was…

January 18, 2020 (Last Updated: January 23, 2020) By Ricardo

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Watch: Mallorca, Spain Best Vegan Restaurants & Other Insider Tips

HappyCow’s Ken Spector traveled to the island of Mallorca, Spain and checked out the extensive vegan scene in the city of Palma. Ken interviewed several vegan business owners including Bagel’s Andrew Howlett, Lovegano’s Patrick Shell, Bon Lloc’s Juanjo Ramirez, and mymuybueno’s Justine Murphy, and VA De BO’s Joan De Deu Franco Esteva. He also interviewed a Palma, Mallorca local vegan. Below is our video containing interviews and highlights: Watch our…

May 1, 2018 (Last Updated: May 8, 2018) By Ken Spector

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Video: World’s First All-Vegan Ocean Cruise!

First All-Vegan Ocean Cruise / Tilbury, England to The Norwegian Fjords, September 25 – October 5, 2017 Team HappyCow joined a group of over 1100 mostly vegan people on the world’s first all-vegan ocean cruise organized by Dirk Bocklage and his team at Vegan Travel, Ltd. Below is our video containing highlights from the cruise. Join HappyCow’s Ken Spector as he interviews cruise director Dirk Bocklage and vegans traveling on…

November 22, 2017 By Ken Spector

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VegFest Colombia – Insider Tips And Highlights

Team HappyCow traveled to Colombia, checked out vegan restaurants and attended Veg Fest Colombia in Bogotá, Colombia on January 7-22, 2017. Ken interviewed Nadja Troeger, the founder and organizer of the 2 week event, and two local residents discussing highlights from the event and exclusive insider vegan tips. Veg Fest Colombia consisted of plant-based food and product booths, speeches, live music, hikes, city and fruit tours, and more! Below is…

February 16, 2017 By Ken Spector

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3,700,000 Vegans Adults In The USA

A crowd gathering at Vegan Street Fair in LA – source. The 2016 Harris Poll carried out for The Vegetarian Resource Group – breakdown here. Not a huge poll – but very encouraging results. Only persons over 18 were polled. Total US adult population aged 18 and over numbers is approximately 245 million. Approximately 8 million adults are either vegetarian or vegan. Approximately half of the vegetarians were also vegan. Approximately…

December 14, 2016 By John Edmundson

Celebrity Interviews/ General/ vegan history

VEGAN 2016 – THE FILM: A Growing Movement Under Attack

HappyCow features in this truly excellent documentary by Klaus Mitchell and the team at Plant Based News – click above to watch. The HappyCow section starts at time marker – 10.32 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/plantbasednews YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/plantbasednews Twitter: https://twitter.com/plantbasednews Instagram: https://instagram.com/plantbasednews …

December 13, 2016 By John Edmundson

Celebrity Interviews/ General/ vegan history

Jesse Eisenberg: Thanksgiving: Thanksliving

Thought provoking…… In a 2015 discussion with Conan O’Brien, actor Jesse Eisenberg talked about his family’s compassionate Vegan Thanksgiving tradition, replete with tofu and appealing stories of animal abuse. They opt for a vegan feast to honor the animals they’re saving by leaving them off their plates. …… …. .. Turkeys & Thanksliving – More on HappyCow! From 1901 – described in detail – here. …… …. .. From Dan Piraro much…

November 23, 2016 By John Edmundson

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Soya Milk 100+ Years Ago In Paris France

Sharing items in our Ernest Bell Library – a British article from 1913 – ……but once again the French were ahead of the game. There was an industrial scale French factory producing soya milk / tofu / other soya products – from 1908/9. …… Caséo-Sojaïne – Paris – France A salesperson’s calling card – circa 1910 Wiki – In 1908 Li Yuying AKA Li Shizeng opened a soy factory, the Usine de la Caséo-Sojaïne,…

November 17, 2016 By John Edmundson

Health/ vegan history

Tofu Ancient And Modern: Not Weird

I am posting these images today, because I like them! I also like tofu! THE BEAN CURD (TOFU) SELLER IN OLD JAPAN Ca.1890s – Attributed to Suzuki Shin’ichi the Younger, (鈴木真一, 1855–1912). On Flickr – here. Creative Commons License – here. From the collection of – Okinawa Soba (Rob). …… TOFU SELLER ON SNOWY DAY An item in our Ernest Bell Library – postcard – image from Japan – date…

November 16, 2016 (Last Updated: November 17, 2016) By John Edmundson

Animal Rights/ General/ vegan history

Philip Wollen The Blazing Speech With Chinese Translation

Philip Wollen, Australian Philanthropist, Former VP of Citibank, Makes Blazing Animal Rights Speech – from here. 澳籍大慈善家，前花旗銀行副總裁，菲利普屋倫就動物權益發表激情演説 Translated by Agnes Tam King Lear, late at night on the cliffs asks the blind Earl of Gloucester “How do you see the world?” 深夜裏，懸崖上，李爾王問瞎眼的格羅斯特伯爵，「你是如何看世界的？」 And the blind man Gloucester replies “I see it feelingly”. 盲人格羅斯特回答道：「我用我的感受去看。」 Shouldn’t we all? 這不正正就是我們該做的嗎？ Animals must be off the menu because tonight they are screaming in terror in…

November 14, 2016 (Last Updated: November 16, 2016) By John Edmundson

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Ernest Bell Reflecting On Humans

“Man is an almost hopelessly conceited animal. He thinks that not only the earth with all that it contains was created for his essential benefit, but also the sky, the sun, and indeed, the whole universe, as far as he has any knowledge of it, were designed for his purposes and welfare. The sun shines to warm him; the earth brings forth fruits to feed him; the mountains contain…

November 10, 2016 By John Edmundson

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Americans: Wear Your 1893 Vegetarian Badge With Pride

From the May 1893 issue of Henry S. Clubb’s magazine Food, Home and Garden. To be worn by vegetarians at the World’s Fair: Columbian Exposition in 1893. Glorifying Christopher Columbus / Cristoforo Colombo! ……. Wiki – The World’s Columbian Exposition (the official shortened name for the World’s Fair: Columbian Exposition, also known as The Chicago World’s Fair and Chicago Columbian Exposition) was a world’s fair held in Chicago in 1893…

November 9, 2016 By John Edmundson

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