beer-battered vegan fish

Cod is one of the most popular fish choices in England, despite 90% of cod (and tuna) in our seas already having been caught. Fish farms are not the answer, as they are cruel (fish can’t swim around) and spread disease. This recipe for beer-battered vegan fish (Loving It Vegan) uses celeriac vegetable (over hard-to-find banana blossom) which is nice with chips and vegan tartare sauce.

Avoid seaweed for thyroid/iodine issues. Read food safety for people & pets (many human foods are unsafe around animal friends). 

Cod (and haddock) are the most common fish choices at the UK’s 10,000 chip shops: some are even selling spiny dogfish (a kind of shark) without telling customers. Most fish from chip shops is sourced from Iceland and Norway (mostly from one trawler). Yet when asked, just a third of MPs knew that most fish sold is from waters beyond the UK and EU. Read more on vegan fish & chips!

vegan fish chip sandwich

It’s a big multi-national company but to be fair, Quorn does offer good palm-oil-free fish alternatives. Try a Fishless & chips sandwich (bake their fishless fingers and chips in the oven, then mix cabbage, carrots, herbs, mustard and garlic with vegan mayo to make your own coleslaw, and serve in a bun).

where to buy plant-based cod fish

moving mountains vegan fish fillet

Moving Mountains is a popular brand of ‘fish fillet’ free from palm oil and mostly in sustainable packaging. Founded by a vegetarian who was told by his doctor that he had to give up dairy to get well, he now runs a successful food brand that’s sold wholesale to shops, pubs, restaurants and hotels. Recycle packaging at supermarket bag bins, if your kerbside does not collect. 

moving mountains fishfree

Although most items replace meat, the company makes good fish fillets (nice with chips and peas) and no-fish fingers (as good as the Captain’s!) Lovely in a sandwich or dunked in ketchup.

fishpeas

Fishpeas sells ‘canned fish’ for vegans including white fillet in oil, wheat pollock and tuna. Sold in tins, these are made with pea protein and come from Latvia.

Sea & Believe is an Irish company producing ‘plant-based cod’ and goujons from seaweed. This company is even retraining fishermen in Ireland to become seaweed farmers, to provide hundreds of jobs in rural communities.

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