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30 UK Nursery Schools Now Provide Free Vegan Staff Meals
In a bid to protect the environment, Tops Day Nurseries now provides free vegan meals and snacks during meetings and training. The nursery school group—made up of 30 individual nurseries—provides childcare for more than 3,500...
Can Animal Dissection Be Replaced? The Cruelty-Free Alternatives Paving the Way
Educational animal dissection is a controversial topic. Proponents defend its educational merit, while critics question the ethics, environmental impact, and overall necessity of the practice. But what is the reality of animal dissection, and...
How One Mom Got a Scottish School District to Go Vegan
All schools in the council area of West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, now offer vegan food options thanks to one mother's campaign. Alexis Kasravi has been trying to get plant-based meals for her five-year-old daughter Mia for...
Cambridge Uni Emissions Drop 33% After Ditching Red Meat
Cambridge University's environment-minded decision to remove red meat from its menu has led to a reduction in carbon emissions. The leading UK-based institution announced in 2016 that it was removing beef and lamb as part...
This Vegan Restaurant Is Operated By Woke AF Kids
A vegan restaurant has opened in Phoenix, Arizona, and it's run by children from a local school. Healthy Roots Cafe is a healthy educational kitchen, staffed by pupils from V.H. Lassen Elementary School, serving locally-sourced...
British Kids are Going Vegan at 2x the Rate of Adults
Kids in the UK are going vegan at twice the rate of adults, a new survey has found. A nationwide survey of 1,500 British children has uncovered that one in ten kids between the ages...
Why Your Child’s Kindergarten Is Probably Going Vegan
An increasing number of kindergartens in the United States are adopting vegan lunch menus. The New York Times (NYT) reports that in Seattle, a kindergarten named "Our Beginning" adopted a plant-based menu last year primarily...
62 New York State School Districts to Take 2 Week Vegan Challenge
Sixty-two state school districts in New York will take part in a plant-based healthy eating program called the Good Life Challenge, The Daily News Online reports. The challenge sees school staff enjoying vegan and vegetarian food...
Suzy Amis Cameron’s Vegan Project ‘One Meal a Day’ Launches in North Carolina
Suzy Amis Cameron's new One Meal a day for the Planet (OMD) project has launched in North Carolina, the top factory farm state in the nation, in a bid to bring more vegan and...
Sprouts Farmers Market’s Farm2School Initiative Gives Florida Community $10,000 to Teach Kids About Vegan...
American supermarket chain Sprouts Farmers Market has granted $10,000 to the nonprofit group Temple Terrace Farm2School, enabling it to launch a mobile kitchen which will bring plant-based health education to local youth. Founded in 2013,...
School Boards Urged to Require Vegan Options At Every Meal
A new report by the international network of environmental organizations, Friends of the Earth, is urging school boards across the country to require vegan options at every meal, as part of its new recommendations to secure...
Schools Must Now Serve Meat-Free Meals At Least Once a Week in France
Schools across France are set to offer a meat-free menu at least once a week for a two-year trial period. During the trial, the French Government and catering companies will monitor the new veggie menu's impact...
17 Essential Vegan and Eco-Friendly School Supplies to Save the Planet This Semester
We've all been here - the last in line at the office supplies store after the first day of school, staring down a queue that seems to extend for miles. You could use this...
Miami-Dade Public Schools Expand Vegan Lunch Options for New School Year
Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the fourth-largest school district in America, has revamped its menus to include more vegetarian and vegan school lunch options. The Floridian district, which includes more than 460 schools, aims to...
New Zealand Preschool Wins UNESCO Award for Vegan Menu
The Rotorua's Tiaki Early Learning Centre in New Zealand has been serving its students a vegetarian menu since 2015. But its recent shift to a fully vegan menu, and efforts to become a fully zero-waste facility,...
Schools in Four Brazilian Cities to Make History and Go Vegan in 2019
School cafeterias in Brazil are transitioning to vegan menus, the Humane Society International (HSI) has announced. The transition will be seen in four cities and will be completed by 2019. The schools are participating in...
35 L.A. Schools Commit to Vegan Lunch Menu Due to Student Demand
Following speculation, The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) have stated they are officially going to be rolling out vegan lunch menu options to 35 schools as of January 2018, according to VegNews. Vegan options...
LA’s Vegan School Lunch Program Could Be Served to 650,000 Students Due to Popularity
The vegan school lunch pilot program that launched at the start of the 2017-2018 school year in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has been so successful this year that the district’s Food...
School Reduces Meat and Ups Vegan Options to Tackle Climate Crisis
California is striving for a cleaner and greener future, the San Francisco Examiner reports. With ambitions to cut their carbon footprint, Oakland Unified School District made an inspired change toward plant based menus at...