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FOOD FACTS : Vegan food provides a balanced diet provided you don’t just cut out certain items and not replace them with the correct vitamins and nutrients. DRINK FACTS: Beer & wine. It’s a sad fact that a lot of beer especially beer brewed in the UK is not suitable for Vegetarians or Vegans. Some wine & beer contains some really nasty ingredients to say the least. Drinks you should stay well clear of. Stella, Kronenbourg, Guinness, Fosters are all non veggie and therefore not vegan at the same time. There are too many to list on here at the moment, but we plan to have an updated section on this & other foods as they become known to us. If you are not sure about items you are going to buy from a shop, then if you go to the coop or asda you will find a list usually, which will help you. |
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The following list are all certified as acceptable for vegetarians and vegans by the breweries
Aston Manor Lager - can
AyingerBrau - keg
AyingerBrau D. Pils - keg & bottle
AyingerBrau Very Strong - bottle
Becks - keg, can & bottle
Brewster Lager - can
Budweiser (UK) - keg, can & bottle
Burtonwood Dagen - can
Carlsberg - keg, can & bottle
Coors Extra Gold - keg, can & bottle
Cornish Pilsner Lager - can
Henri Funck - bottle
Grolsch - keg, can & bottle
Guapa Lager - bottle
Hall & Woodhouse Hectors - can
H & W Forum - can
H & W Compass - can
H & W Skona - can
H & W Royal Hofbrau - can
Harp - keg, can & bottle
Harp Extra - keg
Heineken Export - keg, can & bottle
Holsten Pils - can & bottle
Kingfisher Indian Lager - keg
Knight's - can & bottle
Labatt's Canadian - keg
Labatt's Ice - keg, can & bottle
Labatt's Blue - keg, can & bottle
Labatt's Rolling Rock - keg, can & bottle
Lincoln Green Organic - can
Lowenbrau Pils - can & bottle
Lowenbrau Strong - keg Mousel - bottle
Newquay Steam Lager - can & bottle
Norseman - can
Pinkus Special Organic - bottle
Prinz Strong - keg
Redruth Brewery Pilsner - can
Sam Smiths Natural Lager - can & bottle
Scorpion Dry - can & bottle
Skol - keg, can & bottle
Tennent's Gold Bier - bottle
TQ Lager - bottle
Tuborg Gold - keg, can & bottle
Tuborg Pilsner - keg, can & bottle
Avalon Vineyard - bottle
Biddenden Vineyards Ciders - bottle
Bulmers (ex Kings Acre) - keg & bottle
Dunkertons Ciders and Perries - bottle
James White Dry - keg & bottle
James White Extra Strong - keg & bottle
Merrydown Original Dry - bottle
Merrydown Original Gold - bottle
Merrydown Original White - bottle
Newquay Steam Cider - can
Scrumpy Jack - keg
Strongbow - can & bottle
Weston & Sons Cider - keg & bottle
White Lightning - can & bottle
Woodpecker - keg, can & bottle
Tips to Reduce Your Primary Footprint
1. Holidays
Don't go by air
2. Electricity
Sign up to renewable energy
3. Gas
Try using solar water heating - this can reduce your gas bill by up to 70% over a year.
4. Travelling around
Use public transport as much as possible. Find out about your local bus services and then use it.
5. Car Share
Sign up to a car share scheme to reduce your travel footprint
Tips to Reduce Your Secondary Footprint
When you buy goods - consider where they have been made and the materials and processes used to make them. Items that have high emissions in the manufacture or delivery should be avoided when ever possible. Things such as:-
1. Bottle water
Tap water is safe to drink in most European and North American countries, yet people still insist on buying bottled water. If the bottle is labelled as being from volcanic springs - you can bet that it has probably been imported from some distance. Imagine the carbon footprint of the flight / shipping of the water! And that's before adding in the emissions due to making the bottle and / or recycling it.
2. Food and drink from far distances
When you go to the supermarket, look at the label to identify which country the food is from. There is no need to buy New Zealand apples in the UK in the Autumn - but people do!
Think twice about buying a bottle of wine from the other side of the world - you may be able to find much more local wine, which will have travelled far fewer miles.
Better still try growing your own fruit and vegetables in your own garden. Planting an apple tree will not only provide you with lots of fruit, with zero carbon footprint, but the tree itself with breath in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere - making these fruit effectively carbon negative!
3. Meat eating
Reduce your consumption of meat, especially red meat.
4. Clothes from far off lands
Check the clothes labels before you buy. If they come from more than 1000 miles away, keep looking!
5. High packaged items
Avoid goods and services that have unnecessary packaging! Need we say more?