VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR AWARD 2010
Voting is now open for VegVic's '2010 VICTORIAN VEGETARIAN
RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR' Award. Click
here to vote!
OFFICE HOURS UPDATE!
The VNV Office opening hours have changed. We are now open on
Thursdays from 11am-3pm. Other times may be possible by appointment.
(more)
SIGN UP AS A MEMBER AND GET A FREE NUTRITION
CONSULTATION! Miranda
Bone is a Nutritionist, with an interest in vegetarian and vegan
nutrition. She is very generously offering a FREE half-hour
nutrition
consultation to all new VegVic Supporting Members! (more)
VEGVIC KIDS AND FAMILIES
INFORMATION DAY
If you're part of a vegetarian or vegan family or are interested in learning
more about raising vegetarian or vegan kids, come along to our information
day (and bring your kids)! Meet other veg*n families, learn and have fun! Venue: 2nd floor, Kindness House, 288 Brunswick
Street, Fitzroy Date & Time: Saturday, 31 July. 1pm - 5pm Bring: Yourselves, your children (if you have them), plenty of enthusiasm,
and a plate of vegan food (with a list of ingredients) so everyone can share. Contact: To RSVP, or for more info, please email
Miranda Bone at miranda@vegetarianvictoria.org.au.
We'll open with a welcome, and some presentations from veg*n parents,
followed by the picnic and time to just mingle and get to know one another.
If you would like to help out by presenting your veg*n family story, we'd love
to hear from you.
There will be organised children's activities such as colouring, book
reading, origami, simon-says, 'knot', and similar games, but if you'd like,
please bring toys or games that your kids would like to share with new-met
friends.
It is a great chance to swap stories and tips about raising veg*n kids, and
to talk about nutrition. VegVic volunteer Miranda Bone is a nutritionist, and
there will also be a dietitian present, both happy to answer any questions.
NEW MEMBER DISCOUNTS!
Over recent months we've been surveying
Victoria's vegetarian restaurants,
cafes and other businesses and
we're very happy to announce twelve additional businesses are now offering discounts to
Vegetarian Victoria
Members!
The businesses are:
- Aum Shanti Gallery & Vegetarian Café
- Calmer Sutra Teahouse
- Coco Loco
- Crossways Food For Life
- Global Vegetarian
- Gopal's Vegetarian Restaurant
- Las Vegan Bakery & Cafe
- Lord of the Fries
- Melbourne Uni Food Co-op
- Nostralis Wholemeal Pizza
- Organically Grown
- Wild Yam Healthfoods & Café
For details on each business and the discount being offered please refer to
our Membership
page.
NEW NAME FOR VNV - 'VEGETARIAN VICTORIA'! In February 2010 'Vegetarian Network
Victoria' changed name to
'Vegetarian Victoria'. In line with the name change we are creating
a new
website at www.vegetarianvictoria.org.au
- stay tuned!
HELP END THE ABUSE OF FACTORY FARMED ANIMALS, FOREVER
Each year, 500 million animals in Australia are condemned to lives of
misery behind the closed doors of factory farms. Animals Australia is
currently running a national campaign to end this single biggest cause of
animal suffering in Australia. [more]
A TV ad is being run as part of the
campaign to help raise the awareness of consumers. [more]
'EATING UP THE WORLD' BOOKLET
At the 2009
Sustainable Living Festival VNV launched its booklet highlighting the effects of animal
products on the planet. The booklet has been so successful that
another 50,000 copies are being printed! That's 130,000 copies so far!
The 16 page booklet,
titled 'Eating up the World: the Environmental Consequences of Human
Food Choices', raises issues of land exhaustion, air pollution, and
ocean depletion among others such as species extinction, water, energy
and materials expenditure, and the social impacts - all stemming from
human dietary choices. The revised edition of the booklet is now available online. (more)
ABOUT
VNV
Vegetarianism is more than
just tofu, sandals and herbal tea! ABOUT VNV Vegetarian Network Victoria Inc. (VNV) is a not-for-profit organisation
based
in Melbourne, Australia. It is run by people who care about human health,
animal welfare and the environment. VNV is devoted to promoting
the many
benefits of vegetarianism and providing quality service, support and
up-to-
date information to vegetarians, vegans and the general community.
(more) VNV MEMBERSHIP To keep up-to-date
with what we are doing we encourage you to become
a Supporting
Member, or subscribe to our free newsletter - VNV
Matters. YOUR SUPPORT IS NEEDED! VNV is run entirely by volunteers. Your support can play a vital role in our
work.
VNV needs support through Memberships,
financial donations and voluntary
assistance. If you can assist in any capacity please contact us!
This website has been selected for preservation by the
State Library of Victoria and is archived regularly in
Pandora, Australia's Web Archive.
