- [Reporter] This week, Tesco is shutting down
meat counters due to lack of demand.
Vegans are standing up against recent abortion bans.
Canadian fast food chain Tim Hortons
trials Beyond Meat breakfast options.
And this late American icon may have
left all of her money to animals.
All that and more on LiveKindly's Weekly Vegan News.
Tesco is shutting down meat, fish,
and deli counters across the UK.
Several locations have already shut down,
and it appears to be due to lack of demand.
Tesco CEO Jason Tarry told Cornwall Live
"We're making changes to our UK stores and head office
"to simplify what we do and how we do it so we're
"better able to meet the needs of our customers."
Tesco has become a leader in vegan
product launches over the past year,
appealing to the rise in consumer demand
for healthier, more sustainable, meat free food.
Tesco's own brand vegan ready meal range
Wicked Kitchen launched last year
and more than doubled sales projections.
By August 2018, Tesco shoppers had purchased
four million vegan Wicked Kitchen meals.
Product developer for Tesco Kate Ewart
said in a press release "We know from our data
"that flexitarianism is on the rise,
"and many more customers are dabbling
"in cutting out meat for a day or so
"during their weekly diet."
Coming up, Edinburgh is getting a 100% vegan supermarket.
New anti-abortion legislation has divided the nation.
The most restrictive bill was signed into law
by Alabama's Republican Governor Kay Ivey.
It prohibits abortion in almost
every circumstance, the Washington Post reports.
Pregnancy from both rape and incest are not
considered exceptions to Alabama's ban.
Millions have taken to social media
to voice their concerns, including a number
of vegans and animal rights activists.
- I just never want anybody to be quiet, to shut up.
We have our voices for a reason.
- [Reporter] Vegan journalist Elizabeth Enochs
wrote for the The Establishment last November,
"Of all the feminist (censor beep) I've done
"in the past three years, going vegan
"takes the cruelty free cake.
"Nothing else has empowered me to set
"healthy boundaries and call out
"sexist (censor beep) like extending
"my circle of compassion to farmed animals."
Natalie Portman recently spoke up
for farm animal rights and linked it
to feminism in a speech to 16,000 students.
99% of America's animal products
come from factory farm settings where
animals are not afforded natural behaviors,
including nurturing their offspring.
Dairy cows are repeatedly impregnated
in order to force lactation,
going from one pregnancy to the next.
Antibiotics and growth hormones lace
their feed in order to spur growth
and production, but most calves never see
their mother's copious amount of milk
that's collected for sale to humans.
The egg industry is similarly unnatural.
Battery hens are forced to lay nearly 1500%
more eggs than they would in a natural setting.
A number of vegan men are speaking out too.
Musician, author, and restaurateur Moby,
Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker,
and five time Formula One racing champion
Lewis Hamilton, shared the men shouldn't
be making laws about women's bodies
wallpaper post to social media.
Edinburgh is getting a vegan supermarket this summer.
The new destination for plant based
groceries will stock specialty foods
like vegan meat, dairy free milk and cheese,
snacks, and fresh produce.
Shop owner Alastair Corbett confirmed
the new supermarket on Facebook,
asking others to help decide on a name.
Easter Greens, named after the road in Leith
it's due to open on, is taking the lead.
Edinburgh has steadily grown into a travel
destination for plant based food in recent years.
The city's evolution may have to do
with the public's growing awareness
of animal agriculture's negative impact.
One study found that 50% of residents
in the Scottish Highlands are reducing
meat consumption to combat climate change.
Edinburgh was named one of the top
three cities for vegan eats earlier this year.
The Scottish capital had 160 vegan friendly
restaurants at the time of ranking,
more than any other city in the nation.
Tim Hortons is testing vegan breakfast sandwiches in Canada.
The iconic Canadian fast food joint
is testing Beyond Meat sausage patties
at a select 60 restaurants across Toronto.
The test includes two options:
the Beyond Meat breakfast sandwich
and Beyond Meat farmer's wrap.
COO Mike Hancock told the Financial Post
"I think we're going to be one of
"the most affordable products on the market.
"The chain worked with Beyond Meat
"for a year to develop its meat free menu items.
"We've got 4,000 restaurants.
"We've got restaurants in some of the most
"rural parts of the country.
"There's folks who want these kinds
"of alternative protein, but don't
"currently necessarily have access to it."
Coming up, this late American icon
may have left all of her money to the animals.
This Amazonian tribe just won a case
to save Ecuador's rain forest.
The Ecuadorian government intended
to auction off the Waorani land
to major oil companies, but a legal
challenge stopped it in its tracks.
The Waorani people claimed the government
to not consult them about the use
of their land for oil auction.
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The Ministry of Energy and Non-Renewable Sources
maintain they did visit the tribe
to seek consent, but Mitch Anderson, the founder
of NGO Amazon Frontlines explained that visits
were not taken seriously by government officials.
He told the New Yorker that no effort
was made to learn or speak the local language
and the visits were short.
"The consultations were treated as a box
"that needed to be checked off."
In April, the court agreed that informed consent
had not been given by the Waorani people.
Half a million acres of Amazon rain forest,
home to unparalleled biodiversity,
are now protected from oil drilling.
(speaking foreign language)
Animal rights activist Doris Day
passed away on May 13th and she
might have left all her money to the animals.
♪ The future's not ours to see ♪
♪ Que sera sera ♪
- [Reporter] Doris Day was a vegetarian
and lived to be 97 years old.
Given her long life of rescuing and caring
for animals, some have speculated that
she might have left her fortune to
the cause that she kept close to her heart.
The star's love for animals was evident throughout her life.
While filming Alfred Hitchcock's
The Man Who Knew Too Much in 1956,
Day was concerned about the starving
animals on and nearby the set.
She refused to continue working until they were assisted.
By the 1970s, Day retired from the
entertainment industry to focus on animal activism.
- Our shelters are unbelievably overcrowded,
and we can and must do something about it.
- [Reporter] In 1978 she founded
the Doris Day Pet Foundation,
now called the Doris Day Animal Foundation,
that focuses on humane education
and offering grants for spaying and neutering pets.
In 1987, she founded the Doris Day Animal League,
a non-profit that works to minimize
animal suffering through legislative changes,
tackling issues such as animal testing.
In 1995 she founded Spay Day USA which is now
run by the Humane Society of the United States.
In 2011, the Doris Day Horse Rescue
and Adoption Center was opened
in her name, and the star donated $250,000.
Vegan rock icon Paul McCartney remembered Day
with a heartfelt message on Instagram.
"She was a true star in more ways than one," he wrote.
"Visiting her in her Californian home
"was like going to an animal sanctuary where her
"many dogs were taken care of in splendid style.
"She had a heart of gold."
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