Back in July, my Dublin-based omnivore boyfriend chanced upon a work assignment in ultra-cosmopolitan Singapore. Naturally, before agreeing to meet him there, I made him promise to take me to all the vegetarian and vegan restaurants in Singapore we could possibly fit into our nine and a half days together. He conceded, on the conditions...
After fours years of trying—and it pains me to say this—I’m still a transitioning vegan. Since embracing the non-violent lifestyle in the summer of 2013, I’ve been regularly stumped by the various obstacles that seemingly prevent me from upholding the cause in the right ways. Apart from maybe making people I meet vegan-curious as they...
Formed in England by Donald Watson in 1944 out of a collective moral distaste for how industrial meat, dairy, poultry, and fish farming treated animals, the Vegan Society united like-minded individuals in renouncing animal cruelty by rejecting all kinds of animal and animal-based food, clothing, bath and body products, and other everyday items. It aimed...
In 1804, Earth’s human population was 1 billion. This figure reached 2 billion in 1927. Then, it soared to 3 billion in 1960. It proceeded to hit 4 billion in 1974, 5 billion in 1987, and 6 billion in 1999. As the years passed, it’s taken less and less time for this headcount to increase...
So you’ve decided to embrace social and environmental sustainability by eating only food that has been grown, raised, and sourced ethically and sustainably. This is fantastic news! Animals in farms, oceans, and forests, labourers forming the chains that supply you with your fresh meat, produce, grains, and nuts, inhabitants of regions across the world that...
Eating is such an intrinsically biological impulse. As living things, our bodies feed in specific, regular patterns, where our guts extract nutrients and vitamins from the tasty morsels we‘ve polished off and digested, and send these precious goodies out into our bloodstreams. Once on the loose in our blood vessels, these molecules travel to our...