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• No more cordon blur: France tries again to ban meaty language on vegetarian products -- The Guardian (05 September 2023)
  
  
• UK drought: Why we need to get used to wonky vegetables-- BBCNews (17 August 2022)
  
  
• Is a vegan diet healthy for children? -- BBCFuture (31 May 2022)
  
  
• Can Fruits and Vegetables Boost Brain Health? -- The New York Times (09 August 2021)
  
  
• National Food Strategy: Tax sugar and salt and prescribe veg, report -- BBCNews (15 July 2021)
  
  
• Bittman, Mark. 2021. Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal. NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
  
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• The Beginner's Guide to the Vegan Diet -- Mosaic (07 January 2021)
  
  
• Here are the 10 Plant-Based Food Trends That Will Be Big in 2021 -- The Beet (31 December 2020)
  
  
• Vegan meatless meat is going mainstream. Beyond Burger and Impossible Foods have big competition -- Vox (29 December 2020)
  
  
• Are Vegan Burgers Better for You? Dr. Kim Williams Has the Answer -- The Beet (29 December 2020)
  
  
• Study: Fix to food climate problem doesn't require veganism -- MPRNews (05 November 2020)
  
  
• The wurst is over: why Germany now loves to go vegetarian -- The Guardian (27 September 2020)
  
  
• Japan’s ancient vegetarian meal -- BBCtravel (08 September 2020)
  
  
• Activists sour on Oatly vegan milk after stake sold to Trump-linked Blackstone -- The Guardian (01 September 2020)
  
  
• Vegan seafood: The next plant-based meat trend? fish -- BBCworklife (02 June 2020)
  
  
• It's time to dismantle factory farms and get used to eating less meat -- The Guardian (19 May 2020)
  
  
• Nicotine style ‘meat patch’ developed to help wean consumers off carnivore diet -- FOODnavigator (06 February 2020)
  
  
• Why vegan junk food may be even worse for your health -- BBCfuture (29 January 2020)
  
  
• Shiitake happens: vegans fuel boom in exotic mushrooms -- The Guardian (25 January 2020)
  
  
• Are there health benefits to going vegan? -- BBCfuture (23 January 2020)
  
  
• Vegetarianism goes back to its African roots -- The Guardian (15 January 2020)
  
  
• Burger King's new plant-based burger is not suitable for vegans -- The Guardian (5 January 2020)
  
  
• Ethical veganism is philosophical belief, tribunal rules -- BBCNews (03 January 2020)
  
  
• It’s Called ‘Plant-Based,’ Look It Up -- The New York Times (28 December 2019)
  
  
• A birthday candle in a banana: why fruit is by far the most offensive vegan dessert -- The Guardian (15 December 2019)
  
  
• Man sues Burger King for cooking vegan burger and meat on same grill -- The Guardian (19 November 2019)
  
  
• The vegan revolution: why the latest 'meat' is made entirely from thin air -- The Guardian (13 November 2019)
  
  
• The New Makers of Plant-Based Meat? Big Meat Companies -- The New York Times (14 October 2019)
  
  
• The vegetarian Maasai: Life in a culture based around meat -- BBCNews (11 October 2019)
  
  
• Is the New Meat Any Better Than the Old Meat? -- The New York Times (21 September 2019)
  
  
• Want to eat much less meat? Take the top vegan tips from the world’s tastiest cuisines -- The Guardian (29 August 2019)
  
  
• Stop Mocking Vegans -- The New York Times (28 August 2019)
  
  
• The Vegetarians Who Turned Into Butchers -- The New York Times (02 August 2019)
  
  
• Burger King to sell plant-based Impossible Whopper across the US -- The Guardian (01 August 2019)
  
  
• Hmong farmers, HealthEast write prescription for better health: Veggie boxes -- MPRNews (25 July 2019)
  
  
• What’s Meat Got to Do With It? -- The New York Times (25 July 2019)
  
  
• Pro-meat protesters fined for eating raw squirrels at vegan stall -- The Guardian (23 July 2019)
  
  
• Why is Arkansas waging war on veggie burgers?-- The Guardian (02 July 2019)
  
  
• Would this burger tempt you to eat meat? -- BBCNews (12 July 2019)
  
  
• Arby’s Has an Answer to Plant-Based Meat: A Meat-Based Carrot -- The New York Times (16 July 2019)
  
  
• The Fish Is Boneless. (Fishless, Too.) -- The New York Times (10 July 2019)
  
  
• I’m paranoid it’s meat’: the rise of vegan conspiracy theories -- The Guardian (02 July 2019)
  
  
• What if eating meat is not only wrong – but obsolete? -- The Guardian (05 June 2019)
  
  
• Beyond Meat: Shares in vegan burger company double -- BBCNews (02 May 2019)
  
  
• Is plant burger firm Beyond Meat really worth $1.5bn? -- BBCNews (30 April 2019)
  
  
• US vegan food-maker Beyond Meat eyes $1bn valuation -- BBCNews (23 April 2019)
  
  
• Burger King’s plant-based Whopper gets glowing review – from a meat lobbyist -- The Guardian (08 April 2019)
  
  
• ‘Veggie discs’ to replace veggie burgers in EU crackdown on food labels -- The Guardian (04 April 2019)
  
  
• Behold the Beefless ‘Impossible Whopper’ -- The New York Times (01 April 2019)
  
  
• Inside the impossible burger: is the meat-free mega trend as good as we think? -- The Guardian (14 March 2019)
  
  
• How the vegan food trend made a star of the stinking jackfruit -- The Guardian (16 February 2019)
  
  
• 'I went vegan to hide my eating disorder' -- BBCNews (10 February 2019)
  
  
• Environmental campaigners have offered Pope Francis a $1m donation to the charity of his choice if he accepts -- The Guardian (06 February 2019)
  
  
• Food Movements in Veganuary: How Veganism became the fastest growing food movement in the world -- Bloomsbury Food Library (02 February 2019)
  
  
• New plant-focused diet would ‘transform’ planet’s future, say scientists -- The Guardian (16 January 2019)
  
  
• The A-Z of vegan food: a beginner’s guide -- The Guardian (12 January 2019)
  
  
• Lab-grown meat of the future is here – and may even sustainably fill demand -- The Guardian (29 November 2018)
  
  
• Eating You Alive -- Paul David Kennamer Jr., Director (release date: 5 April 2018, 108 min.) Top Documentary Films Information
  
  
• Viewpoint: Why do people mock vegans? -- BBCNews (26 November 2018)
  
  
• Swapping t-bone for tofu - but does it add up? -- BBCcapital (12 November 2018)
  
  
• Vegetarian meat substitutes 'exceeding salt limits' -- BBCNews (23 October 2018)
  
  
• Would you eat slaughter-free meat? -- BBCNews (15 October 2018)
  
  
• Whole Foods v vegans: Berkeley store gets restraining order against activists -- The Guardian (05 October 2018)
  
  
• Now the vegan diet is taking over the British vegetable patch -- The Telegraph (29 September 2018)
  
  
• Don’t save Aquafaba for Scrabble - here’s how to use the vegan miracle ingredient -- The Guardian (25 September 2018)
  
  
• Six held in France over vegan attacks on Lille shops -- BBCNews (12 September 2018)
  
  
• How the Big Mac is changing: The global rise in veganism has even reached the fast-food -- BBCcapital (10 September 2018)
  
  
• Will going vegan make you healthier? -- Michael Mosley, BBCNews (05 September 2018)
  
  
• Got Milk? Or Was That Really a Plant Beverage? -- The New York Times (31 August 2018)
  
  
• If you want to save the world, veganism isn’t the answer -- The Guardian (25 August 2018)
  
  
• Europe Deals A Blow To CRISPR Technology, U.S. Approves 'Bleeding' Veggie Burger -- NPR The Salt (04 August 2018)
  
  
• All-plant Impossible Burger and its 'blood' are safe, FDA says -- MPRNews (26 July 2018)
  
  
• Memo From the Boss: You’re a Vegetarian Now-- NYTimes (20 June 2018)
  
  
• The 'vegetarian' mutton curry that unites Bengalis -- BBCNews (13 July 2018)
  
  
• France: Butchers demand protection from vegans -- BBCNews (26 June 2018)
  
  
• Americans waste 150,000 tons of food each day – equal to a pound per person -- The Guardian (18 April 2018)
  
  
• Chef who butchered a deer leg in front of vegan protesters: 'We won't change' -- The Guardian (12 April 2018)
  
  
• Go vegan, save the world? Study highlights benefits of eating more plants -- MPR, TheSalt (04 April 2018)
  
  
• The myth of the Indian vegetarian nation -- BBCNews (04 April 2018)
  
  
• The unstoppable rise of veganism: how a fringe movement went mainstream -- The Guardian (01 April 2018)
  
  
• Can the ad industry persuade us to eat more vegetables? -- BBCNews (27 March 2018)
  
  
• I’m obsessed with mock meat and I’m not even a vegetarian -- The Guardian (26 March 2018)
  
  
• Seeds Only a Plant Breeder Could Love, Until Now -- The New York Times (27 February 2018)
  
  
• I’m obsessed with mock meat and I’m not even a vegetarian -- The Guardian (26 March 2018)
  
  
• Finding Produce in Alaska’s Long Winter Takes Wiles and Luck -- The New York Times (20 February 2018)
  
  
• With William Sitwell's Waitrose Resignation, Have Anti-Vegan Jokes Had Their Last Laugh? -- HuffPost UK (11 January 2018)
  
  
• Vegetarian, Best Diets Overall -- U.S.News (03 January 2018)
  
  
• From vegan to 'Keto' and Mediterranean: experts rank 2018's best diets -- MPRNews (03 January 2018)
  
  
• Health mutt: proposal to put shelter dogs on vegan diet divides Los Angeles -- The Guardian (29 December 2017)
  
  
• Only one in 10 Americans eat enough fruits and vegetables, CDC study finds -- The Guardian (17 November 2017)
  
  
• Could AI help to create a meat-free world? -- BBCFuture (15 December 2017)
  
  
• EU to set legal definition of vegetarian and vegan food -- FOODnavigator (03 November 2017)
  
  
• Vast animal-feed crops to satisfy our meat needs are destroying planet -- The Guardian (05 October 2017)
  
  
• Good Vegan, Bad Vegan -- NYTimes (02 October 2017)
  
  
• World Vegetarian Day: October 1
  
  
• What would happen if the world suddenly became vegetarian? -- BBCFuture (30 September 2016)
  
  
• Impossible Burger’s ‘Secret Sauce’ Highlights Challenges of Food Tech -- The New York Times (08 August 2017)
  
  
• Vegan activists tearfully protest as pigs head to slaughter – in pictures -- TheGuardian (04 August 2017)
  
  
• Industrial meat production is killing our seas. It's time to change our diets -- The Guardian (04 August 2017)
  
  
• Meat industry blamed for largest-ever 'dead zone' in Gulf of Mexico -- The Guardian (01 August 2017)
  
  
• 'Seductive names' make vegetables more appealing -- BBCNews (13 June 2017)
  
  
• The consequences if the world decided to go meat-free -- BBCFuture (12 June 2017)
  
  
• A veggie burger that bleeds? Now the ‘clean meat’ revolution is cooking on gas -- Brian Kateman, The Guardian (18 April 2017)
  
  
• The Global Dangers of Industrial Meat -- Civil Eats (29 March 2017)
  
  
• German council asks veggie event to serve sausages -- BBCNews (22 February 2017)
  
  
• German town hall stops fox song after vegan complains -- BBCNews (10 February 2017)
  
  
• Six reasons to go vegan, according to science -- The Telegraph (06 January 2017)
  
  
• Cambridge Rainbow vegetarian cafe refuses new £5 note -- BBCNews (03 December 2016)
  
  
• Britain’s New £5 Note, Stronger and Safer, Isn’t Suitable for Vegetarians -- The New York Times (30 November 2016)
  
  
• The Veggie Burger’s Ascent -- The New York Times (30 August 2016)
  
  
• You Say Tomato… Why Some Fruits Are Forever Doomed to Be Called Veggies -- Conversation (30 August 2016)
  
  
• Italy proposal to jail vegans who impose diet on children -- BBCNews (10 August 2016)
  
  
• Italian baby kept on vegan diet taken into care after being found malnourished -- The Telegraph (10 July 2016)
  
  
• Want Kids To Eat More Veggies? Market Them With Cartoons -- NPR, The Salt: What's on Your Plate (07 July 2016)
  
  
• The two word games that trick almost everyone -- BBCfuture (05 May 2016)
  
  
• The great cabbage myth -- BBCNews (06 April 2016)
  
  
• Some Cultures Hardwired for Vegetarian Diet -- Discovery News (29 March 2016)
  
  
• Ancient Pompeiians Had Good Dental Health But Were Not Necessarily Vegetarians -- Forbes (30 September 2015)
  
  
• Vegans Go Glam -- New York Times (29 September 2015)
  
  
• U.S. doesn't have enough of the veggies we need -- MPRNews (19 September 2015)
  
  
• The (Fake) Meat Revolution -- New York Times (19 September 2015)
  
  
• Which oils are best to cook with? -- BBCFuture (28 July 2015)
  
  
• Why Domino's only sells vegan pizza in Israel -- Tova Cohen, The Christian Science Monitor (21 July 2015)
  
  
• Cauliflower -- PBS Food (21 April 2015)
  
  
• Why Does Asparagus Make Your Pee Smell? -- PBS Food (10 June 2015)
  
  
• What Was in the Real Paleo Diet Way Back When? It Wasn’t Just Meat -- Washington Post (29 June 2015)
  
  
• Bronze Age Humans' Diet and Arrival of New Crops in Iberian Peninsula -- ScienceDaily (26 June 2015)
  
  
• The Rise of Africa’s Super Vegetables -- Nature (09 June 2015)
  
  
• Roman gladiators ate a vegetarian diet - and washed it down with a 'sports drink' of plant ashes and vinegar -- Victoria Woollaston, MailOnline (21 October 2014)
  
  
• The Vegetarian Lesson -- Chad Levin, Chronicle of Higher Education (14 August 2011)
  
  
• Why do some people find it more ethical to kill and eat plants rather than animals? Why should I value animals more than plants? -- Alex K. Chen, Quora (09 August 2014)
  
  
• Did Neanderthals Eat Plants? The Proof May Be In The Poop -- NPR (26 June 2014)
  
  
• Oldest human faeces show Neanderthals ate vegetables -- BBC News (25 June 2014)
  
  
• The Neanderthal Meal: A New Perspective Using Faecal Biomarkers -- PLoS ONE (25 June 2014)
  
  
• What Discovery of Oldest Human Poop Reveals About Neanderthals' Diet -- National Geographic (25 June 2014)
  
  
• What Did Ancient Egyptians Really Eat? -- Inside Science (08 May 2014)
  
  
• New research on plant intelligence may forever change how you think about plants -- PRI Science Friday (10 January 2014)
  
  
• Vegetarians Live Longer -- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (18 October 2012)
  
  

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• I'll Have My Burger Petri-Dish Bred, With Extra Omega-3 -- Susan Kruglinski & Karen Wright, Discover (October 2008)
  
  
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