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We hope you are safe and well. Read about our next online event and a range of articles we think you will find interesting. You may also wish to read a blog post from PETA about why animal rights activists must stand up against systemic racism. #BlackLivesMatter

• 17 July: 3VV Online party
• Plant Based Health Professionals write open letter
• Worth Valley Vegans: a new group starts up
• Video: Prof Harries and her accurate COVID-19 tests
• Video: Talk on origins of infectious diseases
  
• Tips for managing unwanted animal guests in the home
• Get a voucher for switching to a vegan energy supply

Phil and 3 Valley Vegans

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You are invited to our online chat about cooking, growing or eating a healthy vegan lifestyle especially during COVID-19.

Tell us:

• How inventive you’ve needed to be in your cooking
• Have you tried any new recipes you’d like to share?
• Have you planted anything new in your growing space?
• What are you most looking forward to (from a vegan perspective)?

If you have any thoughts on these (or not!), please join us for our Online Party:

• Friday, 17 July from 8pm
• Online using Zoom Video Conferencing and streaming to Facebook
• Free (using your computer or phone and internet connection)

Artwork by Duck Whistle, animal icons from Freepik

On World Nutrition Day in May more than 200 NHS doctors and other health professionals wrote an open letter to NHS leaders and the UK Government urging them to make radical changes to the current unsustainable and unhealthy food system. The letter received considerable attention on social media and was also published in The Metro.

The letter was written by Plant Based Health Professionals. It proposes changes such as the banning of subsidies and introduction of taxes for junk food, soft drinks and animal farming; banning of advertising which increases the consumption of unhealthy foods and importantly the introduction of subsidies to move towards a predominantly whole food plant based diet in order to improve human and planetary health.

A new group has formed to bring together people in the Worth Valley and Keighley area, who care about animals, the environment, and health, to share ideas and information, to support others in adopting a vegan lifestyle and to campaign to end all animal cruelty.

Members of the group or anyone who wishes to join is welcome to share ideas for how to spread this message. Please read our guest blog post by Anne Taylor for more details.

Image: Open Street Map

Professor Lorna Harries of the University of Exeter, and Carla Owen, CEO of Animal Free Research UK (AFR), recently discussed the Animal Free Research UK funded COVID-19 project that Professor Lorna is leading (1 hour). Lorna and her team are optimising a test that will not only detect the COVID-19 virus but will also provide an accurate count of its viral load, meaning clinical risk can be predicted and infection status monitored. 

AFR says "This is a fantastic opportunity for you to hear the latest developments and discoveries in human relevant research direct from our scientists and researchers who are all paving the way for the new approach to testing and research that we all want – a kinder science."

In this hour-long video from 2008, Dr. Michael Greger talks about why we have infectious diseases such as AIDS and flu and the reveals details of their origins. You may be surprised. 

Dr Michael Greger’s credits include Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture of The Humane Society of the United States, author of How Not To Die and founder of nutritionfacts.org. Video courtesy of HSUS.

Image: Humane Society of the United States, via YouTube.

Sometimes birds, rats, mice and other animals move into our homes uninvited. Moles, grey squirrels and foxes may change our gardens and outdoor spaces. It can be quite easy to deter some of these visitors. Animal Aid has a list of advice sheets for humane ways to deter wildlife from our homes. They also have a report Alternatives to Culling with further information.

Image © 2020 Animal Abuse Injustice and Defence Society.

Vegan Life Magazine have an offer. Switch to Ecotricity and you'll receive a free £50 voucher to spend at The Vegan Kind Supermarket. Terms and conditions apply.

Please note, 3 Valley Vegans has not been approached by anyone, we are reporting a deal which we found and think you will enjoy.

We would like to remind you that 3 Valley Vegans have a Facebook page, a Facebook group and our own website...

Our Facebook page is open to the public and is updated with lots of  events both local and national, interviews, videos, information, news and tips from the wider vegan community. 
To like, or visit this page please click:

Facebook Public Page

The Facebook group is a closed group and is a good place to air and vent any local vegan issues.
Information relating to local shopping and/or eating out can be posted by members of this group and also if any businesses in the local area would like to promote any vegan products or offers then this is the group to use.
If you would like to join then please click:
Facebook Private Group

On our website you will find local eating guides, recipes, up coming and past events, blogs and lots of vegan articles.
What our group is all about is detailed on this side and our location and contact details. 
To visit the website please click on link:

Website

Eating out and shopping can be tricky when you're vegan, especially when just starting out. To make things a little easier, we have compiled a list of vegan-friendly eateries and shops in Calderdale:

View our Guide to Eating Out in Calderdale

View our Vegan Friendly Calderdale Shopping Guide

View our Coronavirus Eating and Shopping in Calderdale Guide

Have we missed anything off these lists? Please send your suggestions to tech@3valleyvegns.org.uk