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Category Archives: B12

Ernest Mann: Warbucks Intra-Family Communique

House of the United States of America: Warbucks Intra-Family Communique I know that you don’t like to think this, but we are much like humans. We are subject to the human frailties. We forget. We get slip-shod. We fall short of our disciplines. You have selected me to be the family coordinator and I agreed [...]

Trevor Blake: Allez Cuisine!

Food, animals and opinions about food and animals in the news, compiled by a team of experts for your convenience… Baylen Linnekin: Jamie Oliver’s Ministry of Food Control Oliver launched the Feed Me Better campaign, which he designed with the admirable goal of getting British school kids to eat healthier food. But while he could [...]

Zoe Williams: Did you fall for Swaddles organic swindle?

This week Stansfield was given a 27-month prison sentence for his misdeed – buying perfectly ordinary food (pork pies, salmon, chickens …) from high street supermarkets, re-packaging it in reassuringly expensive wrapping, calling it organic, and selling it on at inflated prices to other retailers and via mail order. His wife and Russell Hudson, the [...]

Vegan profile

Most likely to be female and under 35. 78% of vegans went vegan between the ages of 16 and 34, with 52% between the ages of 16 and 24. [Statistics on when people stop being vegan, if they do, would be interesting.] Vegan profile

Alisa Mullins: Obama and the Fly, Part Deux

As we all know, human beings often don’t think before they act. We don’t condemn President Obama for acting on instinct. When the media began contacting us in droves for a statement, we obliged, simply by saying that the president isn’t the Buddha and shouldn’t be expected to do everything right—if not for that, we [...]