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…
Essays
Vegan 101: My Favourite Vegan Cookbooks and Vegan Food Blogs
A few readers of our book, Think Like a Vegan, sent us messages asking about vegan cookbooks and vegan food blogs to help them learn about vegan food. I’ve written a few of these types of lists over the years. It’s time to pull them together properly.
Pablo Escobar’s hippos are … still only hippos
Truly transformational change for animals will come when the legal status of animals is no longer property. I long to see case law shifting in that direction. Despite headlines and online chatter, I don’t believe the recent court order about Pablo Escobar’s hippos gets us much closer. When I began seeing the headlines about the…
Canada Goose: it’s not what you think
In the last 24 hours, the Veganverse and news media have been announcing the publicly traded jacket company, Canada Goose, is ending all use of fur on its jackets. This is simply incorrect. Is it poor reporting? Poor reading skills? I don’t know. I’m not surprised. I’m used to looking things up myself and have…
Oatly vs PureOaty
The recent Oatly vs “family owned” PureOaty trademark infringement case is getting people upset. What’s the deal here?
The real bit of news the media seems to have missed about the EU votes on dairy labelling
On 23 October 2020, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) rejected proposed Amendment 165 to the EU’s common agricultural policy restricting the terms steak, sausage, escalope, burger, hamburger and those terms related to poultry items and cuts for use exclusively in connection with products made from animal products. This was excellent news for vegan and plant-based food manufacturers. MEPs also voted on and…
Quoted in The Vegan Review
I was quoted extensively in The Vegan Review about dairy labelling laws in Europe in this piece “Why Alt-Milk Isn’t Milk, According to the EU“. I will be revisiting this issue soon in light of the recent vote by the EU Parliament denying the meat lobby’s calls to extend such labelling restrictions to things like…
Notes on the 2020 BFI London Film Festival
These are my notes from LFF 2020. They were written either immediately after my seeing the film or shortly thereafter. I’m not a film expert, so these are impressions rather than full-blown reviews. Because of the novel coronavirus, I watched these films at home, on my own, with my two cats as fellow viewers. The…
Support UK vegan food businesses
Early on when lockdown was about to begin in the UK, a friend asked how to support UK vegan food businesses. She asked whether I knew which were delivering or doing no-contact collections. I knew of some and quickly realised there were many! I needed to get organised. So, I started a list and update…
Notes on the 63rd BFI London Film Festival 2019
These are my notes from LFF 2019. They were written either immediately after my seeing the film or shortly thereafter. I am not a film reviewer, so these are impressions rather than full-blown reviews. Continuing from last year, I once again noticed the continued increase in stories about women and made by women. There was…
