Vegan meal for a 6-hour flight!
Vegan passenger was given fruit and nuts on 7,400km KLM flight from Ghana to London Heathrow. This is pathetic. We have a long way to go before veganism is accepted and serviced properly by...
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Meat-eating (flesh-eating) habits die hard
I want to be vegan but I was raised in the 1950s on bacon sandwiches and roast beef for Sunday dinner. This is deeply entrenched into my brain and it is very hard to...
Anti-meat protestors disrupt ceremonial troops wearing bearskins
This is a video of a protest group called Animal Rebellion disrupting a military procession of bearskin-wearing ceremonial troops in the UK marching down The Mall which runs from Buckingham Palace to Trafalgar Square....
James Cromwell glues hand to Starbucks counter in protest
James Cromwell is a well-known movie star. He played the farmer in the film Babe and and he starred in the family drama Succession which has been a mega-success. In Succession he played and...
Manufacturers turn vegan food into junk food
As is so typical of commercialism and capitalism, in this instance the manufacturers of vegan food have managed to make it unhealthy, perhaps even more unhealthy than what we consider to be unhealthy foods....
Increasingly popular vegan and vegetarian foods results in more cruelty against macaques
More people than ever before are becoming vegetarians or vegan. They want to do something to stop the meat-trade which contributes to global warming through forest destruction and methane production and which incorporates cruelty...
Extreme vegans don’t allow horse riding
It seems that being vegan means different things to different people. There is a spectrum of opinion within the vegan community which I find interesting because the dictionary definition of ‘vegan’ is very precise....
Dogs are omnivores as confirmed by their Bronze Age diet
A recent study found that when humans transferred from being hunter-gatherers to farming their pet dogs’ diet changed from meat to plant-based foods. When grey wolves first became domesticated and became domestic dogs they...
Vegans 40% more likely to suffer a bone fracture
It’s all over the news and it’s going to have quite a big impact on the rapidly growing vegan movement. Food manufacturers have had to catch up. People are concerned about the environment and...
Tax meat to stop disease and to protect the animals and the environment
PETA and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services both say, as do many others, that meat should be taxed in the same way that cigarettes, alcohol and gasoline (petrol) is currently...
“I can walk past a field of animals with a clear conscience” – Paul McCartney
There has been a 360% increase in the number of vegans in Britain over the past decade. The young people of the country are leading the movement. So why do people go vegan? Perhaps...
Veganism and vegetarianism linked to anorexia nervosa in girls?
Anorexia nervosa in student girls may be linked to a vegan or vegetarian diet because they choose that diet to lose weight as it is low in calories.
Fourfold increase in vegans in UK since 2014
There has been a quadrupling in the population of vegan Britons since 2014 until last year, 2019. This represents about 1.2% of the population. With that impressive back story, it is pleasant to report...
The retreat from flesh-based meat gathers traction in Great Britain
In America, there is a genuine surge in the retreat from meat as it is called. People are becoming more interested in eating plant-based meat products which look and taste just like the real...
Meat is the new coal – vegans smell victory in the retreat from meat
The retreat from meat has traction. “Meat is the new coal”, said Jeremy Coller, the founder of Coller Capital, a private equity fund which exerts pressure on the food industry to face up to...