Compassionate World Blog Round Up – October 23
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From the game-changer that is cultivated meat to ending the cage age, and from the magic of nature to the sentience of animals that share our world, plus a whole lot more…
Opinion Articles
- The Case for Lab-Grown MeatIn September 2019, the International Space Station was undertaking an extraordinary mission: to produce the first beef in space.
- ‘Ghost food waste’ is another reason why the UK must ban rearing of farm animals in cagesIt might sound like a space-saving idea, but more than half of the UK’s cropland is devoted to feeding farm animals kept in cages
- Animals are sentient. Just ask anyone who knows about cowsInsects are fascinating, trees make us happy and sea eagles are just magical
- From Glasgow’s Ruchill Park to Costa Rica, the beauty of nature can lift your spiritsInsects are fascinating, trees make us happy and sea eagles are just magical
- How food poverty is being fuelled by our obsession with factory-farmed meatNearly 800 million people are going hungry even though there is more than enough food in the world to feed everyone
Blogs
- Why The Scottish Government Is Right To Lead On Ending The Cage Age9 Like on Social: How many of us realise that lurking behind a box of ‘fresh’ eggs might be a tale that is far from ‘sunny side up’? Despite years of progress, there is still a stubborn rump of the […]
- Climate Change Happening Fastest in Europe & Why It MattersIt’s a sobering thought. Climate change isn’t so much creeping up anymore as coming at us in leaps and bounds. Europe is now the fastest warming continent in the world.
- Why Eating Insects Won’t Save the PlanetOf all the Royal spectacles I’ve seen, this was my least expected: King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands with his hands plunged in maggots.
- Dr. Amir Khan puts Food and Health under the MicroscopeLast Saturday (15th March), it was a great honour to welcome Dr Amir Khan to the stage of the magnificent Sheldonian Theatre to deliver our 2024 Peter Roberts Memorial Lecture, hosted by the Oxford Literary Festival.
- What David Attenborough Taught Me About HopeDeep among forest-clad slopes of Rwanda’s Virunga Mountains, a young David Attenborough was creating one of the most iconic moments in wildlife history.
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