Strange bleats and whinnyings like I’ve never heard draw me towards a lush spring paddock. Scores of goats mill around munching grass, or chilling. They are not the bleaters. The peculiar noises come from a pair of long-necked, quiff-topped quadrupeds straight out of Dr Seuss… chasing each other from one side of their dandelion-speckled patchContinue reading “A Norfolk sanctuary for animals saved from the abuses of people”
Category Archives: Vegan issues
Advertising Standards Authority highlights cruelty of the meat industry (and its own hypocrisy)
At first glance – as a vegan, at any rate – it was easy to be irritated by news last week that Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority had banned a TV advert by Vegan Friendly UK on the grounds that it was “likely to cause distress” to viewers. It’s not a particularly gruesome ad, showing aContinue reading “Advertising Standards Authority highlights cruelty of the meat industry (and its own hypocrisy)”
Camping out with 12,000 vegans – a joyous way to celebrate the return to post-pandemic ‘normality’
I’m going to fess up straight away and admit I attended the UK Vegan Campout 2021 in absolute decadence. Hiring a six-person campervan for two of us meant we avoided the epic queues to fulfil the basic human needs of eating and toileting at a festival of 12,000 hungry vegans at Newark Showgrounds in Nottinghamshire.Continue reading “Camping out with 12,000 vegans – a joyous way to celebrate the return to post-pandemic ‘normality’”
An awkward compromise for vegan cat owners: the pet meat industry
I’m a vegan with four cats. Every morning, one of the first tasks of my day is a gruesome one, as I rip open pouches of meat and squeeze them into bowls; every morning I go against everything I believe in, every principle by which I live the rest of my life, and I doContinue reading “An awkward compromise for vegan cat owners: the pet meat industry”
Bardo Burner 