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Increased media interest in plant-based diets means that the words vegetarian, vegan and Top tips to avoid single use plastic even flexitarian are all terms with which we are If you’re considering eating more becoming much more familiar. There is no doubt • vegetarian food yourself, or even giving that consuming more plants and less meat helps up meat and animal products entirely, get the environmental impact of our diets and is a inspired with the fantastic array of recipes healthier way of eating. available online from your favourite chefs. The vegetarian and vegan movement has now Tie in a promotion with World Vegetarian become almost mainstream with a growing veggie • Day on 1st October and World Vegan Day presence on menus all over the UK and exciting on 1st November or consider a weekly and imaginative food options available way beyond vegan special on #meatfreemondays. the inevitable nut roasts of the past. With festivals such as VegfestUK and Blackpool Vegan + Green • Try stocking vegan versions of regular Festival along with a general push for healthier meal products so you can simply adapt existing options, incorporating not only vegetarian but also dishes: you can now obtain non-dairy vegan dishes has become pretty much essential for mozzarella, for example, and most customers restauranteurs and increasingly café proprietors too. will be happy to pay a little more for specialist vegan ingredients if necessary.

Livestock farming causes one of the • If there is little local competition on the vegetarian and vegan front, make sure top 3 climate changing emissions you shout about your offer – it gives your business a real edge and will attract loyalty and custom from those seeking non- The meat, egg, and dairy animal-based menus. industries account for 65% of all nitrous-oxide emissions Useful websites https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable- business/2014/nov/28/business-and- 51 percent of chefs in the US entrepreneurs-seize-opportunities-in-rise-of- introduced a vegan option in 2018 veganism https://www.theguardian.com/ lifeandstyle/2010/jul/18/vegetarianism-save- planet-environment http://www.wearesovegan.com/

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