• Consumers misled over animal testing says UK charity

  Consumers would boycott beauty products if they were aware that their ingredients had been tested on animals, according to a UK-based animal welfare group Uncaged.

• Introducing the cheese mite
• Frozen party food galore!

  Having a party? There are some excellent solutions locally that we've discovered - frozen vegan nibbles that you cook up quickly on the day. Read on ....

• Cafe Iguana is no more

  Cafe Iguana will not reopen. The fate of bar Iguana (which was never particularly veggie) is unknown.

  The premises are being fitted out as a shop. The cafe was not great as it was overpriced and badly run, but it was friendly and it was veggie! So we are sad to see it go. It did a good trade despite such bad reviews and high prices, which goes to show that there's a strong market for a veggie cafe in Reading.

• BUAV: Animal testing survey puts Henley candidates under the spotlight

  Henley by-election candidates from all five main political parties are considering their views on animal testing after being contacted by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV).

News from ActiVeg

• Miracle diet from the Med

  Adopting elements of a Mediterranean-style diet, which is high in fruit and vegetables and low on red meat and dairy produce, can reduce the risk of cancer by almost a quarter, according to a major study of people's eating habits.

  Check out this story on www.independent.co.uk.

• Badger cull proposals rejected

  The government has decided against a cull of badgers in England to control TB in cattle, the BBC understands.

  Check out this story on news.bbc.co.uk.

• Extinction risk 'underestimated'

  The risk of extinction for many species may have been seriously underestimated, according to new research published in the journal Nature.

  Check out this story on news.bbc.co.uk.

• Elite Island athletes who are vegetarians

  A group on Vancouver Island is showing athletes don't need meat to compete.

  Check out this story on www.canada.com.

• Rotting cheese recycled in Italian food scam: report Photo: bricolage108

  Eleven thousand tonnes of rotting or out-of-date cheese from European dairies were mixed with fresh products and resold, according to an Italian police investigation reported by La Repubblica on Friday.

  Check out this story on afp.google.com.

• Peta: the fur will fly

  Hijacking an Easter float as a bunny, pelting Anna Wintour with tofu … Dan Mathews' use of shock tactics and celebrity has made animal rights positively sexy.

  Check out this story on www.telegraph.co.uk.

• ‘Germ warfare’ fear over African monkeys taken to Iran

  Hundreds of endangered monkeys are being taken from the African bush and sent to a “secretive” laboratory in Iran for scientific experiments.

  Check out this story on www.timesonline.co.uk.

• Animal crackers

  Queen of Mean Leona Helmsley had little time for humans but she loved dogs. Last week it emerged that not only had the New York hotel magnate left her own white Maltese bitch, Trouble, some $12m in her will.

  Check out this story on scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com.

• No need to give up meat to save planet: Tony Blair Photo: Martin Heigen

  Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has distanced himself from the idea that he should become a vegetarian as a way of highlighting the dangers of deforestation in his role as a climate change campaigner.

  Check out this story on uk.reuters.com.

• Morrissey smells meat

  Check out this story on www.digitalspy.co.uk.

• Soju say you're a pescatarian? US dictionary adds new words Photo: bricolage108

  Maybe fish eater will now start to stop abusing the word "vegetarian".

  Check out this story on afp.google.com.

• Meat and milk prices will rise to reflect environmental costs Photo: Martin Heigen

  The price of meat, milk and other British farm products will have to rise to reflect the environmental cost of producing them, a government study has concluded.

  Check out this story on www.telegraph.co.uk.

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