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Being Vegan - Vegans won't eat any dairy products, eggs or honey, even though animals have not been killed to supply the product. This is because vegan ethics reach deeper into the moral maze about what kinds of animal treatment causes suffering.

In fact, dairy cows do suffer quite considerably as a result of being constantly "primed" for milking throughout their lives, so even plain vegetarians should seriously consider abstaining from dairy products.

Again, eggs are an area of justifiable concern. Questionable farming techniques generate far too many grey areas regarding the treatment of hens. Battery hens live in appalling, cramped conditions and have a very short life because of this.

Through lack of proper nutrition and exercise, they suffer broken bones and to increase their laying cycle they never see real daylight. If you can get to being a vegan after being veggie for a while then great, but make sure you know how to replace the nutrients that you would have got from eggs and dairy.

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.

New reviews coming for v Bites , Terre a Terre, & Food for friends, sadly The George has gone so low down in standards we don't want to risk eating thier food. We will keep you updated with the new reviews. If you are going to London then sadly Eat & 2 Veg has closed down, we will keep you posted if they open up again somewhere elses. Also Red Veg has closed down, but has opened a store in Brighton Lanes. Please mention Just Vegsn when you go to places and come back and put a review on our new site, which by the way hope you like, it, sad we had to lose the previous blogs, but hey, life goes on. We are currently planing a night out at V Bites Hove, and we will post you back the dates and times once we hear back from them. You can now upload much more to the new site and we have a little something extra coming for you soon, but !!!! you will have to wait on that one for a while as we think you will like it a lot.