A registered charity since 1992, we advocate for the move toward a plant-based diet for environmental sustainability, better health, and compassion toward animals.
"We asked more than 1,000 young adults in the UK (with an average age of 23) whether they had thought about stopping eating meat when they were still at school. Half of our participants (48.5%) said they had thought about this. Surprisingly, 50.4% of those participants actually did stop eating meat for some period of time.
This finding opens a range of possibilities for encouraging and supporting people to eat more sustainably."
"The diet promotes more vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes and nuts, with only modest amounts of meat, fish, poultry and dairy. If you imagine a plate, half would be filled with vegetables and fruit (more vegetables). Most of the remaining half would be whole grains and plant proteins."
https://www.msn.com/en-in/health/other/plant-based-diets-are-better-for-people-planet/ar-AA1O3sIr
"The best we can hope for is that braver politicians in our own countries seek to insulate us from the worst impacts. A crucial step is to encourage a shift to a plant-based diet. People struggle to see the relevance, but it’s simple. A plant-based diet requires far fewer resources, including just a quarter of the land a standard western diet requires and much less fertiliser and other inputs."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/25/big-corporations-global-food-system-war-iran
See also See also https://www.farminguk.com/news/uk-food-supply-at-risk-of-catastrophic-failure-by-2030-report-warns_68225.html
"Despite centuries of underestimation, scientific evidence shows that many animals exhibit sophisticated cognitive and social behaviors. They form lasting social bonds, collaborate to solve problems, display mourning behavior, use tools, remember complex information, learn flexibly, and communicate with intention."
https://slguardian.org/humans-are-animals-but-animals-are-more-human-than-we-think/
"[F]ish schools are not disorganized entities; they are highly ordered structures that are based upon simple yet consistent rules.
Through their memory, selective attention, leadership roles, and bodily interactions, fish have developed a system that is at once stable yet flexible."
Decades of research reveal fish schools operate on decentralized intelligence, with simple neighborly interactions dictating movement. Collective memory and temporary leadership, arising from cascades, allow for stability and predator response. Schooling also offers energy benefits through shared water currents, demonstrating a highly ordered, flexible system.
"Across our dataset, including animals separated from human beings by hundreds of millions of years of evolution, people tended to agree with the animals about which sound was more pleasant.
Amazingly, the stronger the animal’s preference, the more likely humans were to agree. We also found that people were measurably faster to click or tap on the sound that animals found more attractive, suggesting a subconscious aspect of these preferences."
Many aspects of animals that people find beautiful evolved to be attractive to the animals themselves. A new study hints at a common aspect of perception that dates back hundreds of millions of years.
It's far, far beyond tragic.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/483200/james-talarico-meat-texas-bbq-livestock-cattle
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"Research across several disciplines suggests that such bonds may come from cognitive flexibility and ecological advantage, rather than simple instinct, and evidence from field studies and controlled behavioral experiments shows that cross-species social relationships occur more often than previously observed and may play a meaningful role in survival and cooperation."
Animals are forming lasting social bonds with different species, engaging in cooperative hunting and peaceful companionship. Research suggests these cross-species relationships stem from cognitive flexibility and ecological advantages, offering mutual benefits and playing a role in survival and cooperation. Evidence from starlings, octopuses, and domesticated animals highlights adaptable social strategies shaped by shared habitats and learning.
""Invertebrates probably are more complex and have some form of cognition, more than we might expect," says Lo. "Even though they've got tiny brains, they can develop quite human-like characteristics." Or as Osaki puts it, humans may not be as special as we like to think."
