Restaurants and Pubs: We Want More Vegan Options, Please! We Kindly Ask That You Switch to 100% Vegan Menus As Soon As Possible!

Vegetarians just don't eat anything that comes from a dead animal. True vegetarians don't eat meat, fish, gelatine or some cheeses that contain rennet from a calf's stomach. Some vegetarians also don't wear leather or suede, and most wouldn't generally, intentionally wear fur. Vegans, on the other hand, don't eat, wear or use any animal product as far as possible and practicable, including meat, fish, dairy, eggs, honey, silk, leather, suede, wool or fur. Vegans also don't buy cosmetics, household products or personal care products that have been tested on animals, the ingredients have been tested on animals or that contain animal-derived ingredients. While it may sound very hard to be vegan, there are actually a lot of foods and products that vegans can eat and use. Veganism has soared in popularity in recent years and there is now a lot more in the way of vegan food and other items. Of course, fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, grains, tofu (a product made from soybean curd that is popular with vegans and veggies), tempeh (a product made from fermented soybeans that is also popular with vegans), beans, pulses and also most bread are all vegan. There are also a lot of vegan alternatives to non-vegan products, such as faux meat (including vegan alternatives to bacon, ham, sausages, roast meat, pepperoni, chicken and turkey slices, chicken nuggets, hotdogs, fish fingers, fish and chips, burgers, salmon, prawns and shrimp), vegan cheeses, at least 30 different plant-based milks, egg alternatives, vegan cakes, cookies, chocolates, sweets, ice cream, cream, yogurts, cheesecakes, alternatives to honey and also man-made honeycomb and vegan donuts, cookie dough and churros.
People go vegan for a few different reasons. Some people go vegan due to environmental concerns, about the negative effects of animal agriculture on the planet. Some people adopt a plant-based diet, believing that it will have health benefits for them. However, the biggest reason why people go vegan is out of compassion for animals, and moral and ethical beliefs against animal cruelty.
The animals involved in the meat, fish, dairy, eggs and honey industries are abused, exploited, mutilated and slaughtered violently and unjustly. Dairy cattle are forcibly impregnated, only to have their calves kidnapped away from them when they are too young, despite the anguished bellows and cries of both the mother cows and and their calves. The male calves are not wanted for dairy as they don't produce milk. They are sometimes kept to grow into beef cattle. Sometimes, they are used for veal. One method of producing veal is to deliberately feed the calves an iron-deficient, liquid-only diet after they would have naturally moved onto solid foods. They become severely anaemic. They are then slaughtered at a very young age. Sometimes, however, the male calves are simply taken and shot, and then disposed of like rubbish. After just around five years, the bereaved mother cows are sent to the slaughterhouse, where they are bolt-gunned in the head and then slashed across the throat. If allowed, they could live for 20-30 years.
Piglets have their ears, teeth and tail cut, and male piglets are castrated, all without a drop of anaesthetic. Pigs are bred, genetically engineered, fattened and injected with hormones in order to make them put on unnatural, unhealthy and uncomfortable amounts of weight. Mother sows are confined to farrowing crates or, on some farms, sow stalls (sow stalls are banned in the UK, if I am right. However, they are not banned everywhere, and some farms may break the law). Piglets are usually still quite young when they are taken to the slaughterhouse, where they are put into gas chambers (where they may scream in agony as they burn on the inside) or electrically stunned and then hoisted up, hung upside down and then have their throats cut.
Chickens may be debeaked (where legal, or if the farm breaks the law) with a red-hot blade. They may feel the pain for the rest of their (short and terrible) lives. They are kept indoors, in intensive conditions, or allowed outside. If they don't die beforehand due to illness or injury, their fate is to end up at the slaughterhouse, where they are electrically stunned or gassed and then have their throats cut. Sometimes, the farmers may even keep the lights on inside the chicken sheds in order to keep the chickens awake so that they eat more and put on more weight more quickly.
Ducks on intensive farms never get to fly. The ducks who are not used for breeding never get to mate, and some can barely walk because of leg deformities. These ducks never see water, except in their drinkers.
Sheep are sometimes violently abused for their wool. Lambs and sheep are slaughtered for lamb and wool.
Wild turkeys can fly, but domesticated ones can't because of their weight. We did this to them. Turkeys are electrically stunned or gassed and then have their throats cut at slaughterhouses.
There is a lot of demand for vegan food. There are around 79 million vegans in the world. Every year, hundreds of thousands of Britons sign up to Veganuary, a campaign that encourages people to go vegan for the whole of January, to give them a taster of veganism that may lead to their going vegan in the long-term. Vegan takeaway ordered has skyrocketed. In the first week of 2021, orders of vegan food from Deliveroo by 123%. UBS research found that the number of people who tried vegan alternatives rose from 48% to 53%. A record half a million Britons signed up to Veganuary this year. Deliveroo's vegan orders spiked by 163% in 2020. 7.2 million Britons now don't eat meat. The number of vegans in the UK has increased by 445,428 (40%) people. Vegans and vegetarians appear to be set to make up a quarter of the UK population by 2025. 13 million Britons will be meat-free by the end of 2021.
Please work towards becoming 100% vegan businesses as soon as possible.
Thank you.