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Modern Critics Rally Against “Inhumane” Greek Easter Lamb Feast

For Greeks, the annual roasted lamb, slowly turning on the spit on Easter Sunday, is not only a mouth-watering delicacy but also part of a centuries-old tradition written into the national psyche. The event brings together family and friends outdoors and...

Vegans Protest Against Meat-eating in Athens As Greece Celebrates Tsiknopempti

Vegans demonstrated against meat-eating in central Athens on Thursday morning, a day that is celebrated in Greece as "Tsiknopempti". Today is the Thursday prior to Lent when people celebrate the eating of meat before the beginning of the forty-day...

Vegan Campaign on Athens Metro Gets Mixed Reactions (photos)

Posters by a Greek vegan group that appeared in the Athens Metro during the last week caused mixed reactions by commuters. The posters, part of a larger campaign by the group greekvegans.gr, depicted among others a calf with his mother,...

Greek Vegans Decide to Shock Displaying Severed Cow's Head

Greek vegans protested in Athens against the killing of animals for food, by displaying a bloodied severed head of a cow. The protest designed to shock, achieved its aim as the photographs made the rounds in the Greek social media...

Greek Activists Protest the Slaughtering of Lambs for Easter (video)

Dozens of Greeks on Sunday protested silently the slaughtering of lambs for Easter on Ermou Street in Athens. The activists were silent and stood in the capital's main shopping street holding placards with written messages on pictures of lambs. The messages...