Reports & Materials
We have produced some fantastic materials which you can get your hands on - either to read up on the issues surrounding dairy or for information you can hand around to your friends and family (or the public!). Read below or order at www.vivashop.org.uk/materials.
If you'd like to order leaflets, please email liam@viva.org.uk.
Take a look below for reports, guides, posters and leaflets:
Reports
The Dark Side of Dairy [PDF]
The Dark Side of Dairy lifts the lid on modern dairy farming, shattering its benign image and exposing the immeasurable mental and physical suffering inflicted on millions of cows and their calves every year. Fully referenced and full colour, the report is an easily digestible and informative overview of Britain’s dairy farming industry.
White Lies
This report features forewords by Professor Jane Plant (Your Health in Your Hands fame); Professor Colin Campbell (The China Study). It includes the latest research on dairy’s link with cancer, the impact that its growth hormones have on human health, how dairy causes heart disease, diabetes and obesity. It will challenge the idea that children need milk, and how the welfare of dairy cows is affecting consumers is exposed. Life-saving reading!
Break Free
How to build healthy bones and what really matters in the prevention of osteoporosis. A groundbreaking scientific report.
The Kids Are Not Alright
The Welfare of Dairy Goats and Human Health Consequences of Consuming Goats' Milk.
Think that goats' milk is the healthier and kinder alternative to cows' milk? Think again. Viva!'s new fully referenced report blows the lid of this rapidly intensifying industry.
One in Nine
This fully-referenced scientific report from Viva! Health (formerly VVF) explains how breast cancer cases are continuing to rise and looks at how diet affects your risk of what has become a major killer in the West. The title, One in Nine, refers to the number of women in the UK who will get breast cancer in their lifetime! Find out how red meat and dairy are linked to breast cancer and how you can protect yourself with a diet rich in plant-based foods.
The Big-D report
The Big-D: Defeating Diabetes through Diet is a unique report on the role diet plays in the development and treatment of diabetes. Both diabetes types - 1 and 2 - can be significantly improved through diet. While type 2 can be reversed, type 1 can be managed to an extent where the need for medication is reduced to minimum. The report also looks at the role of milk in the development of type 1 (juvenile onset) diabetes.
Guides
How to be Dairy Free
Discover the delights of dairy free cuisine with our new step-by-step guide How to be Dairy Free. Informative and easy-to-read, it includes 20 mouthwatering dairy free recipes as well as helpful shopping and cooking tips.
Easy to be Dairy Free
Pocket-sized shopping advice for new vegans and information on why dairy damages health.
L-Plate Vegan
The ideal guide for new vegans. This excellent and practical booklet explains how to replace dairy products and eggs. Not a recipe book, this guide gives masses of ideas for breakfasts, lunches, main meals and ready-made foods available from supermarkets.
Break Free guide
This guide will provide you with all the theoretical and practical information on healthy bones you need. Written in a very easy to read way it explains what the key players in bone health are and how you can achieve healthy bones at any age, even if your bone health is already compromised. Suitable for parents wanting to ensure their children will grow up big and strong and people suffering from osteoporosis (or osteopenia) alike, this guide has sections on bone-healthy eating for each group and offers a menu planner.
A Fighting Chance
This easy-to-read colourful guide summarises the key findings of the Viva! Health’s scientific report on breast cancer and provides vital information on which foods can help fight cancer. Also includes a seven-day meal plan with inspiring healthy recipes including Tortilla Wraps with Mango Salsa, Quinoa Superbowl salad and the fabulous Summer Berry Compote.
The Big-D: defeating diabetes with the D-Diet
This easy-to-read guide summarises the key findings of the scientific report above on diabetes and compliments it with a seven-day meal plan, recipes and practical shopping tips. Learn the secrets of the only diet that can reverse diabetes or minimise your chances of developing it. Includes deliciously easy recipes from healthy snacks - Smoky Bean and Broccoli Pate to heart-warming mains - Butternut Squash with Garlic Thyme Aduki Beans.
Boning up on Calcium fact sheet
This fact sheets explains how calcium from cows' milk can harm and why plant calcium is best.
Being dairy-free pack
Contains:
It’s easy to be dairy-free! 48 pages of brilliant shopping advice for new vegans and plenty of information on why dairy damages health.
How to be dairy-free. 20 vegan recipes – colourful, simple and utterly delicious (36 pages).
Boning up on Calcium. A fact sheet containing all the information you need to know on calcium.
Posters
Cut Out the Middleman A4
A4 sized poster of Viva!’s new billboard, which is sure to turn heads, features a well-dressed businessman suckling straight from a cow under the slogan ‘Cut Out the Middleman. Milk – still think it’s natural?’
Britain's Hardest Working Mother A2
Mother's Day is the perfect opportunity to highlight the suffering of the poor overworked dairy cow and her calves. By leafleting on your local high street on the day, when the streets are throbbing with shoppers, you'll alert hundreds of people to the misery behind every pint of milk. Our eye-catching poster are sure to grab the attention of even the most tunnel-visioned shoppers.
Missing A4
A4 sized poster to alert consumers to the seedy kidnapping ring behind every pint of milk. The eye-catching posters, featuring the picture of a newborn calf under the heading ‘MISSING’.
Leaflets
The Dark Side of Dairy
Alert others to the secret suffering of dairy cows with our full colour leaflet The Dark Side of Dairy. Perfect to distribute to friends, family and colleagues or to put on display, it sheds new light on the life of the modern dairy cow and shows why the ‘white’ stuff isn’t the right stuff!
Death by Chocolate (Cadbury)
Our new leaflet, detailing the horror we found during recent investigations on farms supplying confectionery giant Cadbury. Details the grueling cycle of pregnancy and lactation forced upon dairy cows, and of the shooting of 'useless' male calves. Great catch all leaflet to let people know the dangers of the dairy industry!
Milk Gotta Lotta Grot leaflet
New Viva! leaflet highlighting the cruelty of the dairy industry and the unhealthy effects of drinking cow's milk.
Mothers Want Their Babies Back
Great for using around Mother's Day to highlight the problem, but suitable for use all year round. This leaflet details the cruel cycle of impregnation and separation that dairy cows are forced into just to put milk on the shelves.
Postcards
Cut Out the middleman postcard
Postcard featuring a well-dressed businessman suckling straight from a cow under the slogan ‘Cut Out the Middleman. Milk – still think it’s natural?'
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