16 Nov Respect For Our Food
This article is based on my recent meeting with Allan Jenkins, Editor of the Observer Food Monthly, for my Big Table podcast....
05 Nov Big Change Starts With Recognition
Big change starts with recognition. It was encouraging then to see animal welfare being recognised as an issue of importance in China at the recent World Conference on Farm Animal Welfare in Beijing....
16 Oct Eating the Planet
“How come that a species capable of creating a rocket that goes to the moon is destroying its only home?” Jane Goodall PhD, DBE, UN Ambassador for Peace. “I just eat less meat, hardly any meat at all” Sir David Attenborough, who thinks it is...
04 Oct Hope and Inspiration for World Animal Day
This article is based on my recent meeting with world-renowned primatologist and foremost expert on chimpanzees Dr Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger for Peace, for my Big Table podcast....
29 Sep WALKING FOR WILDLIFE AND ALL LIFE
Last Saturday, 22nd September, thousands of people gathered in Hyde Park, London and made history by participating in the first People’s Walk for Wildlife....
25 Sep STANDING UP AGAINST CAGE CRUELTY
Launching the biggest ever campaign for farm animals I am hugely excited to be in Brussels for the launch of our biggest ever campaign: to end the cage age. Today we will stand shoulder to shoulder with more than 120 other organisations from 26 countries...
21 Sep Food, Festivals & Feelings
This blog is based on my recent meeting with Grace Dent, award-winning restaurant critic, journalist, author and broadcaster, for my Big Table podcast....
07 Sep FOR THE LOVE OF ALL NATURE
This article is based on my recent meeting with Chris Packham for my Big Table podcast....
04 Sep FACTORY FARMING, HONEST LABELLING AND STRICTLY
This blog is based on my recent meeting with Deborah Meaden for my Big Table podcast....
28 Aug FIRST ‘LUCY’S LAW’, NEXT FACTORY FARMING, MR GOVE?
What an absolute joy to hear of the success of the campaign for 'Lucy's Law' this week. Hats off to all involved in a brilliant campaign to persuade the government through Defra Minister, Michael Gove, to ban 'puppy farming' in England. The law, subject to consultation,...