“How do you know if someone is vegan?...Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.” Or so the internet meme goes. If you have happened to stumble...
Water, a vital substance for human survival, used by the body for balancing internal temperatures, cell health and cell survival,...
Greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, are those which trap solar energy within the Earth’s atmosphere. In...
We are in a climate crisis. Our planet is warming and as a result, our climate is changing and our environment becoming increasingly...
Recognising that our consumption of meat causes animals to suffer is a source of discomfort for many people. After all, we love animals,...
To think that our food has caused the suffering of an intelligent, thinking and feeling animal is morally troublesome for many of us....
When faced with the paradoxical nature of our love for animals and our appetite for meat, the resultant dissonance can be resolved in one...
During the summer solstice, people all across China gather in the South East province of Guagnxi to celebrate the controversial Yulin...
In my last blog, I explored the denial of animal sentience as a mechanism for dissonance reduction, specifically related to the meat...
“The question is not, can they reason? nor, can they talk? but can they suffer?” For centuries, animal sentience has been the topic of...
Often times, when we talk about the negative consequences of animal agriculture, the focus of our discussion centres around three common...
As the world watches on at the 220,000-ton container ship stuck in the Suez Canal, the spotlight is beginning to turn to the emerging...
I’d like to start this piece, with a short thought experiment. Imagine you are about to sit down to your evening meal. Tonight, you’re...
According to Psychology, inconsistency between our morals and our actions causes an internal tension known as dissonance. Like hunger,...
Rooted in our biology is a natural tendency to love animals. Scientists have called this Biophillia, meaning the love of life and living...