Why wool matters… Obviously, that line from this flyer in a shop window on Regent St in London caught my attention. I scoffed, walked past, then doubled back, returning to snap this image. We’ve been conditioned to romanticise wool, sidestepping everything about it, from what it is, how it’s obtained, its ecological impact, heck even…
Advocacy
No refuge
What’s happening at the animal sanctuary Sfattoria degli Ultimi near Rome is tragic and infuriating. It also encapsulates what it means to be an animal in our world: animals have no rights to their own lives because they’re categorised as objects. They have no more rights than our phones or handbags. What’s happening at Sfattoria…
Vegan Options: Beyond the Menu – for Women in the Food Industry magazine
I’m delighted to have contributed this opinion feature, “Vegan Options: Beyond the Menu“, about what to consider when designing vegan menus for the latest issue of the excellent Women in the Food Industry magazine. Winter 2021 is a bumper issue and shouldn’t be missed. Below is an excerpt. Click the link above or the photo…
Think like a Vegan: What everyone can learn from vegan ethics
We are delighted to launch our brand new book Think Like A Vegan: What everyone can learn from vegan ethics, with award-winning, crowdfunding publisher, Unbound. Our book will only be published if our crowdfunding hits 100%. So, we need YOUR help! Fund it here: https://unbound.com/books/thinklikeavegan/ And it’s just as crucial to share the link on…
It's About The Conversations
Co-authored with Damon McDonald and first published on Ecorazzi on 10 September 2018. Photo credits to Vegandale. Empowering, positive and unapologetic vegan advocacy while having fun at a vegan food and drink festival are not mutually exclusive activities. From the clever, and often laugh out loud funny, vegan artwork that reinforces the simple idea that to help…
What About Zero Waste?
The most recent green bandwagon is “zero waste”. Zero waste is generally understood to mean moving towards generating nothing that gets disposed of in the general rubbish. People are meant to reuse what they have, compost, recycle, not use plastic bags and so forth. This is all admirable and necessary and if, like me, you…
Notes From A Vegan Field
A version of this was first published on Ecorazzi on 16 October 2017. Sometimes, creative vegan education means talking to hundreds of people in one day and other times, it means talking to one. Go out there and do it. And sometimes you don’t choose activism; it chooses you. That’s what happened in Chicago this…
Zambia: Meds, Schools and Kids
Our recent trip to Zambia had been overdue. We went for a variety of reasons, including to help a volunteer medical mission, to see schools, meet students we had been supporting for a number of years and run a life skills workshop for young people. Although it took us 30 hours door to door to arrive…
Just Whatever
First published on Ecorazzi on 30 April 2017. I do not know what cows have done to Josh Tetrick, CEO of Hampton Creek, but it must be something egregious for him to exact revenge by using them in his company’s products. Yes, the darling of all vegans, the plant-based company originally established to replace eggs…
A Letter to… My non-vegan mother, who I still love
First published in Ecorazzi on 6 March 2017. The following is a response piece to the anonymous letter by a non vegan mother to her vegan daughter that was recently published in The Guardian. As always, the issue is not about us, but about them – the victims in all this – the animals. If…
