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As the environmental and health implications of eating animal products are becoming more known worldwide, more and more people are choosing to adopt a vegan diet. The University of Oxford even says that avoiding meat and dairy is the one biggest thing you can do to lower your carbon footprint. There is no right way to go vegan, but there are some useful things to know to help your journey be an easy one. Here are some top tips that can make your transition a smoother ride. 1. Learn How to Replace Dairy Products If you are a fan of cream, milk, butter, and cheese, you’ll want to learn how to replace those foods with non-dairy equivalents. Fortunately, there are lots of choices! Not only can you often buy plant-based equivalents of these foods in your local supermarket, but you can easily make vegan dairy yourself. Replacing cheese There are many  vegan cheese recipes  you can learn to make at home if you don’t want to buy ready-made products. Ingredients such as nutritional yeast provid

Over three decades-plus of automotive journalism, there have been occasions when having a particular car outside my door made me nervous, writes Brian Byrne. Mainly due to its price, and my responsibility for having the vehicle in my care. Most recently, such a car was the Mercedes-Benz S 580 e. Thankfully, I returned it at the end of my time in the same pristine shape as I had received it. Provided you don’t aspire to the even more rarified Maybach-Mercedes, the S-Class in any form is not just the top Mercedes-Benz model, it is also arguably the benchmark for its rivals to attempt to match or surpass. Whether they succeed in that is very much a personal subjective matter, as cars at any level tend to be. But there’s no doubt about the exclusive cachet to the S-Class. When I first reviewed the current S-Class back in late 2021, I mentioned what I saw as an unexpected positive in that the styles of Mercedes saloons have all become alike — it’s not always easy to identify at a glance whe