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Animal Justice: Game and Trophy Hunting and Poaching
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound, in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may...
Oct 12, 20164 min read


Animal Justice: Pigs, Cows and Sheep
“The problem is that humans have victimised animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims. They are not even...
Sep 25, 20169 min read


Animal Justice: Birds and Eggs
“Michael Pollan likens consumer choices to pulling single threads out of a garment. We pull a thread from the garment when we refuse to...
Sep 10, 20169 min read


Animal Justice: Milk and Other Dairy Products
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or...
Aug 29, 20165 min read


Animal Justice: Fish and Other Seafood
“If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what...
Aug 19, 20166 min read


Animal Justice: Domestic Animals and Pets
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal” – Animal Farm, George Orwell The Myth of Animal Consent Even privileged animals...
Jul 31, 20164 min read


Zero Waste Living: Inside Your Home
“It’s pretty amazing that our society has reached a point where the effort necessary to extract oil from the ground, ship it to a...
Jul 10, 20167 min read


Do You Honestly Believe you’re Going to Make a Difference?
“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything. But still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not...
Jul 2, 20163 min read


But from an Evolutionary Perspective, Aren’t we Omnivores?
“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are...
Jun 16, 20164 min read


C’mon! What’s Wrong with Honey?! (And Other Weird Animal Products)
“The term vegan was coined by Donald Watson in 1944 and was defined as follows: Veganism is a way of living which excludes all forms of...
Jun 12, 20164 min read


I Could Go Vegetarian for the Environment, but Veganism is Just Too Far!
“Over your lifetime, your individual greenhouse gas contribution will only increase the temperature of the planet by about a half a...
May 29, 20163 min read


The Environmental Impact: Animal and Food Waste
“Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a...
May 19, 20163 min read


The Environmental Impact: Land and Deforestation
“People who do not sustain trees will soon live in a world which will not sustain people” – Bryce Nelson My mum affectionately refers to...
May 7, 20165 min read


The Environmental Impact: Oceans
“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that...
Apr 22, 20163 min read


The Environmental Impact: Water
“We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet – for the sake of hamburgers” – Peter Singer *660 gallons equals almost...
Apr 15, 20163 min read


The Environmental Impact: Greenhouse Gas Emissions
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet” –...
Apr 3, 20163 min read


But I’ve Heard Soy Products Are Bad For You?
“The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison” – Ann Wigmore The World...
Mar 7, 20165 min read


But What Do You Actually Eat?
“I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival” – Al Gore In Australia, if I go out for a...
Feb 26, 20163 min read


But Where Do You Get Your Protein?
Luckily we know that you can get your protein source from many different ways, you can get it through vegetables if you’re a vegetarian....
Feb 21, 20163 min read
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