Nottingham Green Festival
www.NottmGreenFest.org.uk
Nottingham Green Festival is delighted to see that Shambala Festival is the first mid-scale commercial festival to declare a meat free policy – a position established by the Green Festival, and the Peace Festival that preceded it, over 30 year ago.
Shambala has eliminated plastic, is 100% renewable powered, has 100% recycling target and has serious transport minimising policies.
They say that “Shambala HQ is a mixed bag, with vegans, veggies and meat eaters co-existing harmoniously together, but the whole team agrees that it is important to be bold with our environmental stance, and encourage this debate.”
They note that “The research available clearly demonstrates that overall, a meat-free diet has about half the carbon impact of a meat diet, and a dairy-free vegan diet has a third of the impact.”
Please, see the full discussion at http://www.shambalafestival.
With Shambala taking this stance, and explaining it so eloquently, we believe that the Green Festival should take the next logical step (which Sambala aims to take in due course) by having exclusively vegan catering.
As Shambala say: “We’re certainly not trying to tell everyone they should become vegan overnight. We are simply not serving meat at the festival to reduce the festival’s impacts, take a stance, and to encourage an important debate.”
We also note the successful launch of the Sneinton Vegan Market, held on the first Saturday of EVERY month, with over 15 all-vegan stalls, including 5 busy caterers. May 2017 will see a major Viva! Vegan Festival in Nottingham, with 150 stalls and 2000 visitors. Nottingham Green Festival will provide a great opportunity to support both these initiatives, with many mutual promotional benefits.
The Green Festival will feature 10 great caterers offering a wide range of vegan foods, as well as many ‘Artizan Food Producers’, including amazing cakes, pies, ice cream & ice lollys. Non-catering stall holders are invited to support this initiative and leave other animal products at home on this occasion, if they are happy to do so.
— TheEvolvingVegan (@EvolvingVegan) April 22, 2016
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