Online Lifestyle Editor Amy Butterworth visits Exeter’s best kept (vegan) secret If you’re yearning for an escape from the claustrophobic hustle and bustle of Exeter’s city centre, then amble over to Fore Street to find Foodie Exeter’s best kept secret. It’s neatly tucked away in the quaint yet concealed McCoy’s Arcade, which makes it’s name, […]
Veganuary
Veganuary: Marketing ploy or a step towards saving the planet?
Meriel Clode interrogates the current trend of going vegan in the month of January Veganuary. Flexitarian. Welcome to the jargon of the ‘20s – a decade that has witnessed, in its first week alone, two horrifying consequences of climate change: the Australian bushfires and deadly flooding in Indonesia. Various studies on the causes behind climate […]
Veganuary
It’s been nearly seven years since I stopped eating meat, and I have to say that I don’t miss it (usually); this month, I’m taking on Veganuary for the first time. The initiative, launched in the UK in January 2014, encourages people to go vegan for the first month of the year, to “reduce the […]
Vegetarianism and Veganism: is it anything more than just a trend?
I ‘ve been a strict vegetarian for 9 years now, and have never looked back. Immediately after watching Jamie Oliver’s controversial BBC program “Fowl Dinners” one evening in 2008, my mum and I decided to try vegetarianism; something that seemed so foreign to us at the time as a family of near-carnivores. It was much […]
Veganuary and why it is a positive Exeter trend
Last January, I had never heard of Veganuary. If you had asked me about it, I would have told you that all I knew was that it was something to do with vegans and January – probably whilst I was shoving some chicken into my mouth. Fast forward one year and I am now a […]