Can the West claim the high moral ground against China when it comes to treating animals?
This is the ideal time to talk about the risks of all animal agriculture, rather than reigniting old forms of racism against Chinese culture that should have been retired long ago. As soon as the news broke about the coronavirus – a highly transmissible and...
Thousands of horses being killed for this meat dish
Unwanted horses are imported, by the thousands, loaded in cramped crates then flown across the ocean to Japan, to end up as a sashimi dish. There’s a dark secret that is being kept for lucrative reasons. Unwanted horses are being imported, by the thousands, in a...
Why we should be banning the wildlife trade immediately
We have a virus that we don’t seem to understand or are able to control and all because of the trade and consumption of wild animals. Between all the uncertainty about COVID-19 (the coronavirus), there is one thing that we know for sure: it originated from the cruel...
What’s behind the meteoric rise of the vegan sausage roll?
A few years ago, vegan fast-food choices were limited – yet now the vegan sausage roll is a high-street staple. Blair Azzopardi knows his sausage rolls – those British staple snacks that are essentially sausages inside a baked pastry log. He ate his fair share of the...
What to do if your children are stressed out about the climate crisis
Are your kids stressed out about the current climate emergency? Here are some helpful guidelines on what actions to take. When my nephew, Sam, was four years old, he said to his mother one night before bed, “Mom, I don’t want to be alive anymore.” His mother pulled...
