Tag Archives: plant-based

Veganuary – is it a game changer?

Posted on January 6, 2023 by There's an Elephant in the Room

Note: For the purpose of this blog, the term plant-based is used to describe items composed entirely of plants. This is to differentiate from those unscrupulous suppliers that disingenuously use the term to describe products which contain animal derivatives but … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy | Tagged big brand, campaign, consumer demand, diet, ethics, fad, festival, food festival, health, human, lifestyle, plant based diet, plant-based, plant-based eating, profit, respect, rights, supermarket, veganism, Veganuary, victims | 8 Comments

On ‘personal choice’ and trying to be a ‘popular’ vegan

Posted on November 13, 2021 by There's an Elephant in the Room

I’m sure we’ve all heard – or maybe even used at some time – the tired old assertion about ‘my personal choice’? My first hearing was when it was actually snarled at me through gritted teeth by a former … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakening to veganism, consumer demand, Global disasters | Tagged animal rights, climate disaster, diet, disaster, ecological disaster, end of life as we know it, extremism, famine, fire, flood, Flooding, food shortage, human superiority, justice, moral choices, personal, personal choice, planetary collapse, plant-based, speciesism, truth, victims, violence, wildfires | 5 Comments

Lies, damn lies, and statistics*

Posted on March 27, 2021 by There's an Elephant in the Room

Summary (for clear image) February is the month that FAO (The Food and Agriculture Organization, a specialised agency of the United Nations) publishes the annual global statistics of the number of land-based individuals slaughtered in the latest statistical year, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Global disasters, Statistics | Tagged amphibians, antibiotic resistance, avian flu, chickens, climate, climate catastrophe, data, diet, health, increase, insects, media hype, motive, not a diet, pandemic, plant-based, plant-based eating, plant-based options, slaughterhouse, species extinction, Statistics, veganism, wishful thinking, zoonotic, zoonotic disease | 3 Comments

‘Transparency in advertising’ – bring it on

Posted on August 9, 2019 by There's an Elephant in the Room

As expected the animal use industries are mounting an increasingly bizarre pushback against the labelling of substances for which they long ago co-opted names. There are frequent media outcries about who has the right to use words like ‘milk’, ‘sausage’, … Continue reading →

Posted in Addressing resistance to change, Global disasters | Tagged advertising, breast milk, burger, climate, climate change, climate crisis, climate emergency, dairy, diet, environment, environmental destruction, extreme weather, guidelines, health, healthy, marketing, milk, nutrition, plant based diet, plant-based, plant-based eating, plants, sausage, supermarket, sustainability, transparency, transparency in advertising, truth in advertising, vegan, veganism, weather | 7 Comments

With friends like these …

Posted on January 26, 2019 by There's an Elephant in the Room

Updated 2022 During this month of the media year when veganism is widely misrepresented as a dietary fad, a consumer bonanza with a menu choice that we can ‘try out for size’, there are always articles and interviews circulating where … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrity culture | Tagged animal rights, animal use, celebrities, celebrity, extreme, extremism, husbandry, misinformation, plant-based, plant-based eating, raising awareness, slaughter, slaughtering, Statistics, Tom Regan, vegan, veganism, vegetarianism, violence | 3 Comments

New Year 2019, and I’m hoping for a miracle

Posted on December 30, 2018 by There's an Elephant in the Room

I usually do a blog at this time of year – it’s an apt time to reflect on the changes that have taken place and a chance to evaluate the slow but steady progress that we’re making towards a vegan … Continue reading →

Posted in Festivals, Global disasters | Tagged 6th extinction, abyss, agriculture, animal rights, animal use, business continuity, catastrophe, climate, climate change, consumer demand, crisis, disaster planning, extinction, extreme weather, farming, global warming, gore, human superiority, human supremacy, miracle, New Year, peril, plant-based, plant-based eating, regulations, slaughter, supply and demand, vegan, veganism, weather | 3 Comments

Inspiring veganism

Posted on August 26, 2018 by There's an Elephant in the Room

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to yearn for the endless immensity of the sea. ~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery Today I read … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy | Tagged commitment, compromise, consumer demand, environment, farming, health, passion, plant-based, sentience, sentient, tick list, trade off, vegan, veganism | 3 Comments

In a nutshell – a plant based diet and health

Posted on November 10, 2016 by There's an Elephant in the Room

Links checked 27/10/2022 Veganism is the word given to living in a way that reflects our opposition to the violence inherent in all of the uses to which our species subjects individuals of all other species, promoting justice for all … Continue reading →

Posted in Health and plant based eating, In a nutshell | Tagged commodification, diet, health, nonviolence, plant-based, resources, sentience, vegan, veganism, vegetarianism, violence | 89 Comments