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A Look Back at 2024

A look back at 2024 - Key Actions With joy and excitement, we begin the new year, reflecting on the successes of 2024 and the many new actions waiting for ...

Understanding Consumer Attitudes Towards Veganism and Sustainability in 2024

The global push for sustainability is reshaping the food industry, with plant-based eating gaining momentum across Europe. Veganuary, the campaign encouraging people to try a vegan diet in January, has ...

More than 130 organisations call for EU Action Plan for Plant-based Foods

More than 130 groups representing farmers, health professionals, consumers, animal welfare and environmental interests have written to European Commissioner for Agriculture and Food, Christophe Hansen, urging him to develop an ...

Solving a problem that didn’t exist: how plant-based label bans confuse consumers

When the French government introduced in 2021 a decree that prohibited the use of “meaty” denominations for plant-based foods, the rationale it presented to justify the new law largely rested on the ...

Press Release: Official Launch of HellasVeg’s Competition in Thessaloniki “Veg.contest Thessaloniki 2024 – The City’s Gastronomy is Changing”

The Association of Greek Vegetarians "HellasVeg" announces today, Monday, March 11, the official launch of the contest "Veg.contest Thessaloniki 2024 – The city's gastronomy is changing," to highlight the best ...

Mapping of restaurants with vegetarian and vegan meals. First stop is Thessaloniki

The demand of vegetarian and vegan dishes is increasing more and more, and the need for more plant-based products in restaurants as well. However, one of the problems identified in ...

Extensive media coverage of HellasVeg’s research on the eating habits of Greeks

There was extensive coverage by mass media of the primary research conducted by HellasVeg, in June 2022, regarding the eating habits of Greeks, based on the consumption of meat on ...
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Press Release: HellasVeg announces a study on the vegetarian dietary habits of people in Greece.

The Hellenic Vegetarian Association (HellasVeg) was founded in Thessaloniki in 2021 with its main goal being the promotion of vegetarianism, at a national and European level.Within its first year of ...

Strategy ‘’farm to fork’’: One more victory for the plant-based industry

After HellasVeg and EVU’s intervention towards Members of the European Parliament to avoid the suggested amendments that affected in a negative way the plant-based sector, the initial text of the ...

Dietary choices with devastating consequences

Nowadays, we are facing unprecedented phenomena occurring in the planet. Powerful earthquakes, conflagrations, floods, are some of the most characteristic examples of those phenomena. However, the environmental disaster is caused ...
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Europe’s beating cancer plan with veganism being the alliance

In the introduction of a thirty-one-page document, European Union notices that approximately three million European citizens are diagnosed annually with cancer and almost one million passes away, the total annual ...