Articles from Members' Newsletters
For many years Oxford Vegetarians published a quarterly members' newsletter. Latterly entitled The Oven (shorthand for Oxford Vegetarians Newsletter) it usually comprised four pages including a front page editorial, reviews, a members page, and general articles of interest to vegetarians and vegans.
Publication of The Oven in printed form ended with the April 2006 issue. Members with an email address now receive a regular email newsletter covering much the same ground as The Oven and previewing forthcoming events. However, many of the articles from members' newsletters remain pertinent and links to a selection of them can be found below, the most recent are at the top. Opinions expressed in these articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oxford Vegetarians as a whole. A selection of reviews from members' newsletters, plus some new ones, can be found by clicking here.
Note from web-editor: The articles below are currently in the process of being transferred from our existing site at IVU. At present, they can be accessed via here (the links below are not currently in use).
- The Future of Food: the environmental impact of dietary choices (Paul Freestone, March 2008)
- Vegan Diets for Children: Unethical or Beneficial? (Paul Appleby, March 2005)
- Three giants of the vegetarian/vegan movement (Paul Appleby, March 2005)
- Goliath will deliver you from the evils of the nanny state (Paul Freestone, December 2004)
- Eat Less Meat (Paul Appleby, June 2004)
- What if we were all vegan? (Paul Appleby, April 2004)
- Vegetarian diets given a clean bill of health (Paul Appleby, June 2003)
- Veganism and the study of animal science (Christina Wells, June 2003)
- On the trail of the red lentil - a vegetarian in California (Pat Lewis, March 2003)
- A sustainable diet (Paul Appleby, September 2002)
- Uhuru Wholefoods (Annette Mngxitama, January 2002)
- Main findings from the Oxford Vegetarian Study (Paul Appleby, July 1994, April 1996, July 1998 and December 2001)
- We cannot be complacent consumers (Tracy Lean, September 2001)
- A diet to lower cancer risk (Paul Appleby, September 2001)
- Food and Mouth Disease - Time for Action (Paul Freestone, June 2001)
- Jocastta Tosspot-Smythe - the diary of a top TV celebrity chef (Paul Freestone, December 2000)
- The Millennium Vegetarian Pledge (Paul Appleby, January 2000)
- Five a Day? (Kate Pugh, October 1999)
- Dr Ryde's Casebook (David Ryde, April 1998, July 1998 and January 1999)
- Winter Blues (and how to beat them) (Paul Freestone, January 1999)
- A Global Stampede to the Meat Counter (Paul Appleby, October 1998)
- The Nutritional Properties of Soya Beans (Paul Appleby, June 1998)