With only around 1,000 people taking to the streets at this year’s National Animal Rights March in London – compared with 12,000 at the last similar (pre-pandemic) event in 2019 – the drummers were more important than usual. Events like this are all about creating a vivid spectacle to attract the attention of the publicContinue reading “A smaller post-pandemic National Animal Rights March but just as passionate about a more compassionate world”
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‘We need to avoid having cult figures in the vegan community and to acknowledge the work of women’
An occasional series in which ordinary people talk about living a plant-based life The latest contributor to our series is Zack Polanski, 36, a London Assembly candidate for the Green Party whose veganism is closely aligned to his environmental activism How long have you been vegan? I’ve been vegan for four years and was vegetarian forContinue reading “‘We need to avoid having cult figures in the vegan community and to acknowledge the work of women’”
12,000 march in London to highlight cruelty – and environmental destruction – of industrial farming
I’m not a great one for being in a crowd; not much of a “joiner”, full stop. And yet yesterday I happily found myself joining the 12,000-odd vegans walking through London for this year’s Animal Rights March. I went along out of interest, as a way of getting out of my comfort zone, and endedContinue reading “12,000 march in London to highlight cruelty – and environmental destruction – of industrial farming”
Bardo Burner 