Here are my thoughts on last week's International Animal Rights Conference (IARC) 2026, an inspiring and important annual coming together of the international animal rights movement IARC is a long-established coming together of activists (this was its 15th year). The [...]
It was a pleasure to talk to Arjan Smits of Plenty Food about its long-standing work to support plant-based food projects in Africa, Asia and South America For more than two decades, Plenty Food has been proving that small organisations [...]
Non-profit, Sentient, has a five-year plan to professionalise and ramp up investigations in India. Martin Whybrow spoke to CEO, Abhishek Pandey, about what's needed When it comes to investigating animal cruelty in India, the scale of the challenge can seem [...]
From promoting veganic farming to helping workers transition from slaughterhouses, Ethical Vegan's Community is a force for good in eastern Uganda. I spoke this week to founder, Nabifo Brenda Bukoma (above, centre) To date, 21 people have transitioned from slaughterhouse [...]
There is an ‘animal sanctuary’ that at the end of August has its annual fundraising day, complete with a meat barbeque. A glance at its facebook page shows this isn’t a one-off. Understandably, many in the vegan community are outraged. [...]
When I caught up with Ayan Banerjee this week, he had completed 2935 kilometres in 116 days as he walks the entire coastline of India to spread the message about veganism. This is outreach on an epic scale. In total, [...]
Usually when I do an interview, I will include a photo of the person. I haven’t done so this time and I won’t even tell you his name. This is because ‘MJ’ is one of only a handful of people [...]
Last week the stars aligned so that in London it was possible to start the day with a vigil at a slaughterhouse in East London, move on to a protest organised by The Humane League outside Unilever (eggs from caged [...]
The big generalist animal welfare charities are fine, but one of the things I loved when researching my book was finding those individuals who have come to focus on a particular area or species. Prime examples are the likes of [...]
When researching my book on the UK animal rights movement, it was great to find individuals and groups who were doing something different from everyone else. The Vegan Land Movement (VLM) is not, single-handedly, going to change the world. Buying [...]
