by Haafizah | Feb 23, 2023 | Blogs, HealthyLiving
Here are four reasons why you should ditch meat and dairy and choose plant-based alternatives if you want to save the planet. The competition is hot among developers to bring to market the tastiest and most “believable” plant-based analogs for traditional...
by Haafizah | Feb 23, 2023 | AnimalAgri, ClimateChange, GoodNews
The Netherlands is having to make big changes to its agriculture industry. Is it possible for major meat producing countries like the US to follow? Ingrid de Sain is one of thousands of dairy farmers in the Netherlands who says she sometimes lies awake at night. Since...
by Haafizah | Feb 23, 2023 | GoodNews
Students at Cambridge University have voted in favour of having an all vegan campus following an Extinction Rebellion campaign. A total ban on animal products could one day be on the cards for Cambridge University’s food services following an Extinction...
by Haafizah | Feb 22, 2023 | AnimalAgri, ClimateChange, GoodNews
Cattle-ranching, not cocaine, has driven the destruction of the Colombian Amazon over the last four decades, a new study has found. Successive recent governments have used environmental concerns to justify ramping up their war on the green shrub, but the research...
by Haafizah | Feb 22, 2023 | HealthyLiving
The baby formula industry has been working hard to convince mothers to choose formula over healthy breast milk. For decades, the commercial milk formula (CMF) industry has used underhand marketing strategies, designed to prey on parents’ fears and concerns at a...
by Haafizah | Feb 22, 2023 | Blogs, ClimateChange, GoodNews
A teenager from Arizona died after being exposed to weather above 40 degrees celsius. Climate change will cut short many lives, especially in poor communities. Last summer I packed my bags and left humid New York to spend a month reporting in the dry desert heat of...
by Haafizah | Feb 20, 2023 | AnimalAgri, Blogs
What the Chinese are doing is emulating and, in a sense, improving on a quintessentially American way of producing meat. Every few months in recent years, Western news readers have been treated to a macabre tale: companies in China building massive multistory pig...
by Haafizah | Feb 20, 2023 | ClimateChange, GoodNews
If we spend all of our time and resources being reactive to the impact of climate change, we will never solve it and we will be doomed. The world is at risk of descending into a climate “doom loop”, a thinktank report has warned. It said simply coping with the...
by Haafizah | Feb 20, 2023 | Blogs, VegansInNews
The production of eggs is bad for the planet and terrible for animal welfare and these celebs are letting people know about it. We agree with Trevor Noah: There isn’t anything the Swifties can’t accomplish. We encourage them to take on the egg industry next! Did you...
by Haafizah | Feb 19, 2023 | GoodNews
Being vegan is protected by international law thanks to article 9 in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. According to The Vegan Society, this 10th of February marked 30 years since veganism was first recognised by law. Legal recognition for vegans is...