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If you want to eat a greater variety of vegan foods, make an effort to explore various cuisines from around the world. You will thereby discover countless delicious vegan meals relying on all manner of ingredients, cooking techniques, and seasonings.
There’s certainly no single best cuisine for vegans. But some parts of the world are far more vegan-friendly than others. If you’re vegan or moving in that direction, it’s helpful to know the cuisines that offer the most satisfying plant-based meals.
To help you on your way, check out our guides below. They’ll enable you to discover the best vegan options when dining out. They also offer exciting ideas for regionally-inspired dishes you can cook at home.
Vegan-Friendly Cuisines
• Ethiopian Food
• Indian Food
• Italian Food
• Japanese Food
• Mexican Food
• Middle Eastern Food
• Soul Food
• Thai Food
Top Cuisines for Cooking Plant-Based Meals at Home
If you want to learn how to cook a particular cuisine, consider starting out with Mexican food. There are just so many delicious and healthy vegan options. What’s more, many Mexican dishes are remarkably easy to prepare.
When you’re ready to progress to other cuisines, you’ll have no shortage of enticing possibilities. See the “Cuisines from Around the World” section of our recommended cookbooks page for more than a dozen fantastic titles. If you want to explore a variety of cuisines from dozens of countries, get a hold of Vegan Eats World by Terry Hope Romano.
Finding Vegan-Friendly Restaurant Food
When dining out, Middle Eastern food is the most consistently vegan-friendly major cuisine. Nearly everything that isn’t meat is commonly vegan, especially falafel, hummus, tahini dressing, and lavash bread or pita. Many Middle Eastern restaurants also accompany your dish with an assortment of fresh vegetables, plus Kalamata olives and pickled turnips.
Our How to Go Vegan guide offers detailed guidance on the most vegan-friendly restaurant cuisines. Time spent exploring these menu offerings pays off in all sorts of ways, and enables you to eat better than ever before. Each new meal you try increases your exposure to delicious foods embraced by cultures around the world.
For further reading please see our introduction to vegan cooking and our guide to the best vegan foods.
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Hi all;
First; I have not really been able to post much over the last few days because of a big drop down on the system here – so apologies and I hope to get it fixed on 13/5. Fingers crossed !
UPDATE 13/5 – All seems to be fixed this morning – maybe some posts now ! – Mark
Here are a few things just sent to me by Juliet – Founder and CEO of ‘Viva !’ here in England. I am writing this tonight (12/5) with the hope that if the system is back on tomorrow, then I can copy and post. Until then it has to wait.
The new Viva ! campaign is called ‘Three in Four’. As new and deadly diseases infect humans, and are appearing all the time; 3 in 4 of them come from animals. It is not the fault of the animal, simply the systems used by humans to keep them and slaughter them – intensive farming and slaughterhouse systems.
Is this not verified by the big infection rates for Covid 19 that we have seen in US slaughterhouse workers over the last few weeks ? – and as always, the ‘just animals’ from intensive systems; that are put through wood chippers and their mushed bodies spread all over the land.
In the mid 19th century, 1855 to be exact; a German pathologist; one Rudolf Virchow, was the first to discover that infectious diseases could be transmitted between animals and humans – a method that became known as ‘zoonoses’. In August 1958, more than a century later, the ‘World Health Organisation’ (WHO) expert committee on Zoonoses met in Stockholm, Sweden. The outcome of the meeting was a stark warning; the prevention, control, and eradication of these diseases were ‘responsibilities of considerable magnitude in every country’.
Move to 2020; now; and we are experiencing globally the disease called ‘Covid 19’.
Animal farming is killing us. 3 of 4 of the worlds new or emerging diseases are what is called ‘Zoonotic’. These diseases are responsible for 2,7 million human deaths per year and are largely transmitted through the wildlife trade and factory farming. In other words, most pandemics are due to people eating animals. So despite knowing the reasons of disease spread for over 150 years; now more than ever before, we are subjecting animals in terrible confinement in factory farms – the very cause of the problems, simply because some of us still wish a burger or sausage for their meal. It is a dangerous game; and cramming animals together in markets; and subjecting them to factory farming, only increases the risk of in house disease infection, as well as the mutations to the human species which results in infectious diseases.
Today, around 90% of all animals farmed for food and dairy across the world are kept in factory farms; where infections can easily spread, mutate and become infectious to humans. Because of the massive numbers of farmed animals involved; such as your typical chicken or pig production system, where huge numbers of animals are crammed together, jammed into farrowing crates, covered in their own waste; and forced to lie on hard slatted floors; pumped full of antibiotics, and surviving in a close environment which easily transmits disease and sickness from one animal to another; is it any wonder that intensive animal farming is killing us ? The huge complexes which imprison these intelligent animals and who at the end of the day only want financial profit, talk the talk when it comes to ‘animal welfare’. But the reality is rather different. The Viva ! 3 in 4 campaign is hitting the streets in the UK; and it calls for an end to intensive farming and for people also to go Vegan; to stop the suffering.
Covid 9 is showing us the bad side of intensive animal farming; we need to learn from it, and quickly, before intensive animal farming kills us all.
Regards Mark
‘The majority of these diseases are the result of human activit
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A mutant bird flu 90 times deadlier than Covid-19* is ‘poised to emerge in humans’ from factory farming, a new report has warned.
The report, titled Zoonoses: a ticking time bomb, was published by animal advocacy organization Viva! and led by senior health researcher Dr. Justine Butler.
It cites scientists who believe the new mutant strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus could prove 90 times more deadly than Covid-19, and would be capable of killing six-in-ten of those infected.
Zoonotic diseases
According to Viva!, zoonotic diseases – those which spread from animals to humans – are ‘developing with increasing frequency’, with three out of four new or emerging infectious diseases in people coming from animals.
A statement sent to Plant Based News said: “Scientists are concerned that the global explosion in factory farming and wildlife markets could make the transmission of mutated strains of the H5N1 bird flu virus to humans much easier.
“They include familiar illnesses and diseases such as the common cold, influenza (flu), polio, AIDS and measles alongside other lesser known ones such as SARS, MERS, Nipah virus and Ebola.
“Most recently, Covid-19 has joined this growing list, having jumped from bats or other wild animals, to humans, leading to the current pandemic.
There are over 200 zoonotic diseases and 56 of them affect some two-and-a-half billion people and cause nearly three million deaths every year.”
‘The writing is on the wall’
In Zoonoses: a ticking time bomb, Dr. Butler writes: “The majority of both zoonoses and antibiotic-resistant diseases are the result of human activity, with factory farming and wild animal markets lying at the heart of the problem. The solution could not be easier – go vegan now!”
Zoologist and Viva! director Juliet Gellatley added: “The writing is on the wall. The global explosion in factory farming and wildlife markets has left humankind exposed to catastrophic pandemics that could kill millions of people.
“For the sake of generations to come we must heed the science and end our collective dependency on the horrific abuse of animals.”
For more information on zoonotic diseases visit viva.org.uk/3-in-4
*According to Viva!, the death rate of those infected by coronavirus is thought to be 0.66 percent. The death rate for those infected by a mutant H5N1 strain could be 60 percent. This equates to a H5N1 infection death rate 90.9 times higher.
As of this writing, almost 2 million humans have been infected in the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic, and well over 100,000 have died as a result.
Even so, although the true numbers are unknown, only a fraction of a percent of all humans have been sickened, and less than 6% of those infected have died.
The majority of the 7.7 billion humans wrecking havoc on our planet and torturing and murdering hundreds of billions of non-human animals annually are continuing to go about their evil business as usual.
If one believes, as we do, that humans are the real virus infecting planet earth, we can only bemoan the fact that so many humans will likely remain viable throughout the current pandemic.
The source of the current pandemic of Covid-19 is believed to be a “wet market” in Wuhan, China. In a wet market, all kinds of animals, live and dead, are for sale for consumption, many of them still alive in cages, many killed on the spot. The virus is believed to have originated in bats before moving to an intermediary animal widely consumed by humans after sale in these markets.
These markets contain fish packed into shallow tubs that splash water all over the floor. The floors and counter tops of stalls are slick and red with the blood of animals killed, skinned and gutted as customers watch. Live turtles and crustaceans climb over each other in desperate bids to escape filthy plastic boxes. Birds and mammals scream as they are killed; sick and wounded animals crammed into small cages stacked high drip blood, pus, feces, and urine onto other animals in cages below.
In the eyes of all of them there is misery and terror. Water, blood, fish scales and animal guts are everywhere. Melting ice adds to the slush on the floor.
For years, scientists have warned that filthy markets crammed full of sick animals are breeding grounds for new, antibiotic-resistant “superbugs.”
Some studies claim that by 2050, more people will be dying from these infectious diseases than from cancer. What the world is witnessing in horror in 2020 will someday be common. The United Nations has found that 70% of new human diseases, such as HIV(chimpanzees), Mad Cow Disease, Avian Flu(birds), Ebola(bats) and Swine Flu(pigs) were directly linked to animals used for food.
Amid the Coronavirus pandemic, we continue to be stunned by the lack of serious reporting on the source of the problem.
Finally, after weeks of sparse coverage, we are beginning to see the issue come to light through figures that have captured the world’s attention, like Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who stated that..
“It boggles my mind how when we have so many diseases that emanate out of that unusual human-animal interface [wet markets], that we don’t just shut it down. I don’t know what else has to happen to get us to appreciate that.”
The writing has been on the wall for years. Animal agriculture, in all of its manifestations — from the disembowelment of pigs, slaughter of cows, killing of chickens on assembly lines, to the bloodthirsty “sport” of hunting — is a ticking time bomb.
And its not only, or even primarily, infectious agents that are doing the killing. Heart disease and stroke, also the direct result of a flesh-based diet, kill 18 million people worldwide each and every year.
We humans have a “vaccine” (a plant-based diet) for this major killer and yet knowingly fail to utilize it.
Unless humans change the way they live with animals, no amount of soap and hand sanitizer, social distancing or ventilators is going to save them as a species.
Maybe that’s a good thing.
I have no comment on this excellent article, just an addition:
We hear from the media every day … “If we stick to the measures, we will soon be able to return to” normal “life …” At the latest, it will become clear to everyone that we have learned nothing.
We didn’t have a normal life before. That’s why we have a deadly pandemic today.
It is not normal to keep, massacre and eat millions of animals in miserable conditions.
It is not normal to burn the tropical forests to create feed for animals that are used as food for the rich countries.
It is not normal to fell forests and cause the death of a thousand wild animals.
It is not normal to decide about the life and death of other non-human animals, it is the fascist right of the stonger!
Exploitation is a painful and murderous act.
It’s time for us to abolish it.
And not just for fear of pandemics!
My best regards to all, Venus
one of the most important rules for proper education of your children is to teach them to respect every life
Regards and good night from Venus
Prevents the capture of monkeys in the Philippines for the animal testing laboratory!
The Philippines has played little role in catching, breeding and exporting monkeys to the animal testing laboratory in recent years.
The authorities now have an application to catch long-tailed macaques from the wild in order to for sale for corona research. This must be prevented!
Please sign and share the petition!
[photo credit: Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals]
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in the Philippines has received at least one application asking to capture wild long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis spp. philippensis) for research purposes. This could mean a revival in farms breeding and exporting macaques for research, using newly trapped monkeys as a source.
Sign now so that the Philippines government is made aware of the international concern about the capturing of its native wild monkeys for research or any purpose.
Primates are intelligent and social animals and capturing and removing them from their native habitat and family and social groups is cruel and can result in injuries and even death. Several official bodies and organisations recognise the suffering involved in the capturing of wild non-human primates.
For example, the International Primatological Society:
“the capture of nonhuman primates from the wild is stressful for the animals and increases the suffering, risk of injuries, spread of disease and even death during capture, storage and transport”
Action For Primates and The Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) appeal to the DENR to protect wild populations of its indigenous primates, not remove them from their native habitat.
Macaca fascicularis spp. philippensis is listed under Appendix II of CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora).
The Philippines, as a signatory to CITES, has a responsibility to safeguard the conservation status of the species. Furthermore, according to the most recent assessment by the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, Macaca fascicularis spp. philippensis is also listed as ‘Near Threatened’ with a population that is decreasing.
Threats identified for the decline in this species were given as hunting and habitat loss.
The DENR, in considering whether to grant a permit to capture the wild macaques, cites an increase in the monkey population and conflicts with people. Instead, we urge the DENR to adopt a humane approach to deal with any human-macaque conflict (!!!)
There are methods that can be used effectively to resolve conflicts humanely, including reproduction control, relocation and public awareness and education about measures people can adopt to discourage macaques from coming into their communities.
My comment: The human species are becoming more and more and the animal species less and less.
We enslave the animals for our own purposes, we rob their freedom, their habitat and, in the end, their lives, and then we have the audacity to speak of conflict.
If something does not suit human animals, we talk about conflict and deliberately confuse effect with the cause of the conflict.
Whole families of Macaca philippensis are now to be torn apart to test for a virus that does not infect animals!!
That’s what the laboratory mafia and its researchers call “science”.
Should we trust these chess heads in our health?
A macaca alone has the intelligence that all laboratory researchers would bring together.
Please sign the petition, we may be able to prevent the Philippine government from catching and selling these animals to unscrupulous laboratory traders:
My best regards to all, Venus
It is not only since Corona that wild animals are spreading in cities. In Wernigerode (a town in the district of Saxony-Anhalt, in central Germany), foxes roam through a residential area and undermine garages.
At dusk the animals become active: Several stray foxes have been causing uncertainty in the city for several weeks.
A “real plague” is reported by a local resident (!!!)
In families, the red fur animals roam between the houses and dig their burrows under garages. The resident himself has filled a hole under his garage for the fourth time in just a few weeks, and has now set up a waste paper bin in front of it – “so that at last there is peace and quiet,” (!!!) he says.
What worries residents in particular: They fear that the adaptable predators could transmit diseases such as rabies (!!!). And that the animals lose their shyness.
“Since the beginning of the Corona crisis – and the associated restrictions on public life and traffic in our district – we have seen it more and more frequently,” he explains.
Calls to veterinarians and other agencies have so far brought nothing.
City administration recommends scare
As the spokesman for the town hall says: “Prevention of predators is the responsibility of the private property owner and can be done relatively easily with the use of frightening agents. I also had contact with a local resident to whom I recommended this measure. The tip was gratefully received and should be implemented. “
Furthermore, the spokesman for the city administration recommends that those affected adjust their behavior: closed compost heaps, for example, are helpful in order to provide the survivors with no food. This also includes not storing leftover food in the garden and avoiding open feeding of pets outdoors. “Sometimes foxes are even fed, that should be avoided!”
According to the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, the red fox is not subject to any species protection regulations in Germany.
According to the German Wildlife Foundation, these predators are not threatened, “but are among the big winners in our cultural landscape”.
They have spread rapidly in large cities.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, rabies had partially decimated the fox population.
Germany has been rabies-free since 2008, according to the World Organization for Animal Health.
And I mean... Of course, none of the residents wonder why the foxes leave the forest.
They are refugees.
We have driven them out and fought since the first day of their lives.
We have not wondered what we would do if others stole our houses, our country, if our children were murdered so that others could build their houses or businesses.
We are the only animals that accept coexistence when we rule and dominate.
The only real plague that I know, is the human plague.
My best regards to all, Venus
“You know what’s more insane than slaughterhouses? Meat-eaters, walking around, acting like their lifestyle isn’t causing any harm.” – G. Yourofsky.
And I mean…Regardless of whether you consider meat consumption as normal.
The fact that all governments shamelessly cheat meat consumers with lies and false information about the dangers in animal farms and slaughterhouses is more than insane
That`s why meat konsumption is collaboration with the world dictatorship “meat mafia”.
Best regards to all, Venus
❤️ Animals are masters of feelings.
We have a lot to learn from them
Regards and good night from Venus
Exclusive: ‘Zoonoses often take that route… and the more you have of a thing, the more that thing is going to be the likely conveyor,’ says UN environment chief
Industrial animal farming has caused most new infectious diseases in humans in the past decade – and risks starting new pandemics as animal markets have done, experts are warning.
Experts from both the UN and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) have pinpointed animals or food of animal origin as a starting point for emerging diseases, such as Covid-19, which has killed more than 270,000 people worldwide.
And a separate report has cautioned that replacing Asia’s open-air slaughter markets with factory farming for meat would create similarly dangerous conditions for highly virulent flu strains to breed.
Valentina Rizzi, an expert in disease at the EFSA, said: “The diseases transmitted directly or indirectly from animals – including livestock – to humans are called zoonoses. A big proportion of all infectious diseases in humans are originating from animals, and more specifically the majority of emerging new infection in humans in the last 10 years really come from animals or food of animal origin.”
Inger Andersen, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) told One Earth: “The virus usually originates in the wild, is transmitted often by wild birds, bats etc into livestock – domesticated animals.
“We see it more frequently in pigs than poultry but you do see it elsewhere, too, in other animals. Of course we can’t deny that these zoonoses often take that route – this we know from science.
“And the probability is the more you have of a thing, the more that thing is going to be the likely conveyor.”
The UNEP warned in 2016 of new diseases from animals, amplified by the world’s rising population of livestock for meat and dairy.
Ms Andersen said the more we as consumers demand protein from livestock and meat, the more the market would respond.
The experts spoke out as governments worldwide are facing a clamour of calls to ban live animal slaughter markets, such as that in Wuhan, linked to the emergence of the coronavirus. The World Health Organization has been pressured to intervene.
The Independent‘s campaign Stop the Wildlife Trade is calling for the trade to be strictly controlled and regulated.
Viruses such as Covid-19 have been linked to street stalls in southeast Asia and India, where animals are susceptible to disease because the stress caused by such close confinement and the sight of others being slaughtered is believed to weaken their immune systems.
A new report, called Is the next Pandemic on our Plate?, says the similarly crowded conditions of industrial agriculture play a key role in the emergence of pathogens.
Peter Stevenson, chief policy adviser at Compassion in World Farming and author of the document, said policymakers “must resist arguments that wet markets should be replaced by factory farming, or that industrial farming is needed to provide cheap food to feed the growing world population”.
The paper sets out ways to switch to keeping animals in “health-oriented” systems in which the wellbeing of the animal is prioritised so stress and disease vulnerability are reduced.
Such systems would also mean less soil degradation, water pollution, biodiversity loss and deforestation, Mr Stevenson argues.
Food should be regarded as a public good, not as a tradeable commodity, according to the report, which suggests economic policies that would allow for sustainable agriculture and a “nutritious, equitable” food system.
“Maintaining a flawed global food system can and will lead to further pandemics,” he said.
Earlier this week researchers led by the University of Sheffield and Bath warned that intensive farming, involving overuse of antibiotics, high numbers of animals, and low genetic diversity are hotbeds for pathogens to spread.
