Don't you love crumpets with a dollop of marg and maybe some peanut butter? Yum! These bread products always appeared to be vegan in the past, whatever packaging they were in. But no longer. Activeg tells you which ones to look out for...

Sir Paul McCartney’s girlfriend Nancy Shevell has given up meat in an effort to prove she is serious about her relationship with the animal lover.

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People taking part in the Chinese Annual Vegetarian Festival pierce themselves with knives, guns, spades and trees as a ritualistic self-infliction of pain.

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Millions of Britons are increasing their chances of getting cancer because they do not know that alcohol, processed meat and poor diet can cause the disease. Many people are confused about what raises or reduces someone's likelihood of becoming a victim of the country's second biggest killer.

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Under the banner of the Animal Liberation Front and with military precision, five activists carried out an international campaign of blackmail for six years against companies and individuals linked to Huntingdon Life Sciences, a court heard yesterday.

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Eating meat and dairy products may increase the risk of prostate cancer, research suggests.

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To celebrate 64 years of veganism (64 years since Donald Watson founded The Vegan Society and created the word 'Vegan') Foods for Life Nutrition has devised a special birthday healthy vegan 'Pizzaz Pizza' recipe.

Shops should axe environmentally damaging foods such as meat, dairy and air freighted products, says Food Ethics Council.

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Macca isn't happy that they're using the band's pictures to 'flog burgers'.

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Direct Foods have been bought out by Symingtons who have renamed Sosmix ‘Meat Free Sausage Mix’ – and added cow’s milk! Now thousands of vegans and dairy allergic people will have to forgo the wonderful experience that was Sosmix.

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Leona Lewis turned down a massive $1 million offer to open the Harrods sale, because of her strict vegetarian principles.

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