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The Vegans Who Stand Outside Slaughterhouses

I thought long and hard about it before I went to my very first slaughterhouse vigil, otherwise known as an ‘Animal Save‘. Would it be helpful for animal rights? Would it be detrimental to the animals in the trucks? Would it make my activism better or worse in the future? Would it negatively effect my […]

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‘Diseased meat could go undetected’ due to new inspection rules

In light of an increased risk of infected pork, the European Food Safety Authority (an agency funded by the EU, who follows scientific advice from the Food Standards Agency), has perhaps rather ironically supported new regulations which are considered by many meat inspectors to be a backwards step in the industry. Before 1st June 2014, […]

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Carnism

“We have been socialized into this dominant carnistic culture where we’ve been taught to put dead animals and their excretions into our mouths from the moment we are weaned. And we are taught to block out anything that would help us make the connection that when we eat animals, we are eating someone and not […]