the UK’s first plant-based school kitchen was incepted. The company is run by Anna and Gary Hardley, the duo who presently have a vegan restaurant in the area.
After working with The Vegan Society, Jigsaw Education Group has produced a resource pack on ethical veganism for use in schools
Tim Spector, Chris Packham, George Monbiot, and health experts have signed a new open letter urging the NHS to go plant-based
They would live in sanctuaries as their population would dwindle to the point they may cease to exist while we protect the environment of the wild bovines.
A new report has found that the sizes of wildlife population around the world have shrunk by an average of 73 percent since 1970.
This is r/onguardforthee being no different from r/canada when animal rights are brought up.
As a vegan, you'll be hit with various questions and criticisms from non-vegans in your life. Some of these questions will be asked sincerely. Other will be
Vegan diets can contain more UPFs on average – but this might not be a problem.
Meat-eaters put themselves through an extraordinary array of mental contortions to defend their habit. Here's why it's so hard to put down the burger.
Congratulations! I can’t wait to see where this goes! I’m exited for all the unique features you’re going to cook up!
Unfortunately there are way too many hypocritical environmentalists that are against veganism.
214k everyday people have endorsed the plant-based treaty though.
Percentage would've been a better term.
If we're assuming the total population of Canada to be at 41.737 million with the vegan population to be at 6.7% during the year 2024 with annual increases of 1.05% = 438,200 of people becoming vegan then the target of 31% would instead be met at 2050.
So its necessary to increase the rate by 47.7% to met the 2031 target.
A group of more than 21,000 scientists from around the world say reducing meat and going vegan can protect the environment and fight climate change.
Also I'm pleased to see Vox is becoming more pro-vegan.
Hopefully the meat industry pulls out of California like Exxon did.
In Sonoma County and Denver, activists are putting animal welfare on the ballot.
The biggest factor that influenced the participants who have remained vegan was discovering that it was easier to make the change than they expected.
Since cutting down on animal products, 65 percent reported experiencing overall improvements in their health. Energy levels and mood were the areas where most positive effects were felt.
Most people who took part in Veganuary this year are still eating significantly fewer animal products, with almost a third having gone vegan.
An animal agriculture panel at NYC Climate Week was confronted by a scientist for “greenwashing” the sector's potential sustainability
The China Vegan Society's new certification program verifies vegan-friendly brands and foods that don't use any animal products in production
More people around the world are thinking more carefully about their eating habits, in particular their meat consumption, and turning to vegetarianism or veganism. While some people are choosing a meat-free diet because they do like animals being killed for their food, others are choosing vegetarian...
Heres more of that vegan theory with future goals we can achieve.
2025: The management of Loblaws is massively fined and the company is broken up into multiple grocers with 55% of the stores falling under a crown corporation with the other 45% becoming local cooperatives effectively bringing down the cost of groceries greatly for everyone.
2026: In this future timeline vegans are very effective in their messaging with CBC finally caving into pressure by becoming a vegan news organization.
2027: The $2 billion in animal agriculture subsidies have been dropped in 2027.
2028: The population becomes more centre and left wing in their views.
2031: Two extensive electric train networks owned by the public have been built in collaboration with first nations peoples to reach the Arctic Ocean where the ships are loaded to provide better logistics to the communities of Nunavut. The train tracks all over the two western territories with connections to the southern lines from British Columbia and Alberta.
2032: Nunavut has much better access to produce thanks to the railway and increased funding to the smaller airlines with the crown corporation of Air Canada keeping the shipping rates lower and the people are currently in the process of veganizing all their meat-heavy traditional dishes.
2033: StatCan data shows British Columbia becoming the first vegan majority area in North America with 50.01% of the population identifying as vegan.
2035: Canada reaches the vegan penetration rate of 31%.
Another counter point is there is no proof computers can process pain, since they do not have pain receptors.
Advocates hope the graphic videos help rally support for a ballot initiative to ban slaughterhouses in Denver.
Many of us care for animals and feel empathy when they suffer. At the same time, many of us also accept their suffering and death when it happens in the name of science.
That poor rhesus monkey 😭
Now's the chance for meat eaters to prove they dont eat from factory farms.
Here is an article for this topic:
https://plantbasednews.org/culture/ethics/are-condoms-vegan/
Jotaro with the caption vegan approaches Dio with the caption of Blood drinker
The Disturbing Secret Behind the World’s Most Expensive Coffee
It’s the world’s most expensive coffee, and it’s made from poop. Or rather, it’s made from coffee beans that are partially digested and then pooped out by the civet, a catlike creature. A cup of kopi luwak, as it’s known, can sell for as much as $80 in the United States.
Found in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, the civet has a long tail like a monkey, face markings like a raccoon, and stripes or spots on its body. It plays an important role in the food chain, eating insects and small reptiles in addition to fruits like coffee cherries and mangoes, and being eaten in turn by leopards, large snakes, and crocodiles.
At first the civet coffee trade boded well for these creatures. In Indonesia, the Asian palm civet, which raids commercial fruit farms, is often seen as a pest, so the growth in the kopi luwak industry encouraged local people to protect civets for their valuable dung. Their digestive enzymes change the structure of proteins in the coffee beans, which removes some of the acidity to make a smoother cup of coffee.
But as civet coffee has gained popularity, and with Indonesia growing as a tourist destination where visitors want to see and interact with wildlife, more wild civets are being confined to cages on coffee plantations. In part, this is for coffee production, but it’s also so money can be made from civet-ogling tourists.
Researchers from Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit and the London-based nonprofit World Animal Protection assessed the living conditions of nearly 50 wild civets held in cages at 16 plantations on Bali. The results, published Thursday in the journal Animal Welfare, paint a grim picture.
From the size and sanitation of the cages to the ability of their occupants to act like normal civets, every plantation the researchers visited failed basic animal welfare requirements. “Some of these cages were literally the tiniest—we would call them rabbit hutches. They’re absolutely soaked through with urine and droppings all over the place,” said Neil D’Cruze, one of the researchers.
Some of the civets were very thin, from being fed a restricted diet of only coffee cherries—the fruit that surrounds the coffee bean. Some were obese, from never being able to move around freely. And some were jacked up on caffeine, D’Cruze said.
But what he found most disturbing was the wire floor many of the animals were forced to stand, sit, and sleep on around the clock. “If you’re standing on that kind of wire mesh all the time, it’s going to cause sores and abrasions. They have nowhere to go to get off that flooring,” D’Cruze said. “It’s a constant, intense source of pain and discomfort.”
Additionally, many of the civets had no access to clean water and no opportunity to interact with other civets. And they were exposed to daytime noise from traffic and tourists, which is particularly disturbing for these nocturnal animals. Wild or Caged: Who Knows?
All of this for a luxury item—and a second-rate one, at that. Part of what makes kopi luwak so special, experts say, is that wild civets pick and choose the choicest coffee cherries to eat. Keeping civets in cages and feeding them any old cherries leads to an inferior product.
Besides, says one coffee expert quoted in an article for the Specialty Coffee Association of America, the trade organization for gourmet coffee roasters and baristas, kopi luwak just isn’t that good to begin with. Although the civets’ digestive process does make the coffee smoother, it also removes the good acids and flavor that characterize a specialty cup of coffee.
There’s now no way to tell whether a bag of kopi luwak was made from wild or caged civets. A BBC undercover investigation revealed in 2013 how coffee from caged civets in inhumane conditions ends up labeled as wild civet coffee in Europe.
Even Tony Wild, the coffee trader who introduced kopi luwak to the West, warns against it in an article for the Guardian. It has become increasingly industrialized, abusive, and faked, he said.
No certification scheme exists to ensure that coffee labeled “wild” is actually that. And other coffee certifiers working to ensure environmentally responsible farming and production refuse to certify any kopi luwak whatsoever.
The Sustainable Agriculture Network standards, or SAN, which the New York-based Rainforest Alliance and other well-known coffee certifiers use to issue their stamps of approval, forbid the hunting and capture of wild animals on farms. The prohibition of caged civets is specifically singled out in the SAN guidelines for coffee in Indonesia.
UTZ, another major sustainable coffee certification standard, also forbids caged wildlife on farms and will not certify any kopi luwak.
Alex Morgan at the Rainforest Alliance, which uses SAN standards, says it’s too risky to certify kopi luwak. It’s just too hard to establish whether the beans are 100 percent wild-sourced or not.
“My personal advice is generally to avoid it,” he said. “More likely than not it’s going to be coming from a caged production landscape.”
There’s often exploitation and it’s hard on the environment.