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Where’s the Beef? Not in Danish Diets.
For those of us in the UK, mentioning Danish livestock production almost inevitably leads to thoughts of Danish bacon (be still my beating heart) – a considerable proportion of their 90% of domestic...
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Cows, Cows, Everywhere, and Not a Steak to Eat. What Happens if We All Become...
I have previously blogged about the potential impact of us all becoming vegan with reference to the U.S. beef and dairy industries, but given the recent haranguing of several Twitter friends (and...
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Having Your Beef and Spending It? Don’t Let Moral Indignation Overcome Common...
My Twitter feed has lit up like a firework this week with the news that cows are being murdered to produce the new plastic British £5 notes. Or, to correct the sensationalism with science, the notes...
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The Future’s Bright; The Future’s…Meaty? A Response to Breakthrough’s Essay...
This week I was asked to respond to an excellent Breakthrough article on the environmental impacts of beef production. As ever, I hope the comments below provide food for thought (pardon the pun) and I...
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Low Meat, Faux Meat or No Meat – Should Retailers Really Reward Us for Buying...
There’s no doubt that eating more fruit and vegetables is a positive idea. Nationally we still don’t hit our 5-per-day and lifestyle diseases are major causes of premature death. However, as...
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Cattle, Cowgirl Boots And Cancer
Last week I was lucky enough to chat with the fabulous Will Evans, a Welsh cattle and hen farmer on his Rock and Roll Farming podcast. Unlike most of my media interviews, which are focus entirely on...
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How Many Vegans Does it Take to Change a Dairy Industry? It Depends How We...
The Advertising Standards Authority in the UK have just ruled that it’s permissible for vegan campaigners to use emotive terminology to describe dairy production, on the grounds that the claims made do...
View ArticleHow to Argue with Vegans – A Cut-Out-and-Keep Chart (new and improved!)
I will never criticise anybody for being vegan, vegetarian, pescetarian, flexitarian or any other diet. Always put popcorn on top of tomato soup (don’t knock it till you’ve tried it…) or fancy a...
View ArticleOne vegan does not a movement make – less than 3,000 omnivores confirmed to...
Well, the official numbers have been published for #Veganuary, the 2018 attempt to entice people away from meat and towards the heady delights of almond juice and bean curd. The campaign has been cited...
View ArticleWhy have standards when you can have double standards?
Apparently it’s World Vegan Month (WVM). This may come as a surprise to those who have adopted vegan diets, not out of choice, but simply because they cannot afford or have access to animal products,...
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