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Campaigning for plant-based food as the norm. Reducing meat & dairy benefits climate, biodiversity and human health, and massively reduces animal suffering.

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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
90% of UK pigs die in terror & agony from gassing. Does that put you off your bacon, sausages, pork & ham? Yes, it should. Don't buy it. action.projectslingshot.com/petition-ban... #DontBuyIt #ProjectSlingshot
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Sign the petition: Ban Gas Chambers for Pigs
We, the undersigned, demand that the Secretary of State for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) immediately ban the use of CO₂ gas chambers to kill pigs in UK slaughterhouse...
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
At last! The government consultation on 'trail' hunting is open. Everyone who's sick of wildlife crime masquerading as tradition, please respond! You can save & continue if you need to. consult.defra.gov.uk/defra/trail-... @leagueacs.bsky.social #TrailHuntLies
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Consultation on Proposals to Prohibit Trail Hunting in England and Wales - Defra - Citizen Space
This site contains consultations that are run by Defra.
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The true cost of cheap chickens, eloquently explained by #ChrisPackham. Don't want to contribute to environmental destruction & animal cruelty? Don't buy #Frankenchicken & don't eat animals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=whsQ... @thehumaneleagueus.bsky.social #EatingAnimalsisWeird #govegan #HumaneLeague
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The Thing About The Chicken
YouTube video by The Humane League UK
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This government must keep its manifesto promise to ban hunting with hounds! Foxes are being hunted and killed throughout the season in so-called 'trail' hunting. Please sign and share if you want better protection for our precious wildlife: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/th...
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The time for change is now: end fox hunting
Hunting was supposed to be banned over 20 years ago, but the hunts have carried on chasing and killing wild animals with dogs like the law never changed. This government was elected on a promise to fi...
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Top garden designer Cleve West is a great advocate for animals & #plantbased eating. He's currently featured in the #RHS magazine, The Garden. Find out more about his focus on compassion & sustainability here at @writersreview.bsky.social. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2020/06/lock...
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Special feature: Q & A with garden designer Cleve West on THE GARDEN OF VEGAN
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Can you sign and share this petition, supporting an effective ban on hunting wild animals with hounds? You can leave a comment, too. Let's see an end to this rural vandalism. c.org/tvx4PHYDPb #bloodsport #cruelsport #wildlifecrime #TrailHuntLies #banhunting #wildlife #HoundsOff
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We Can Make an Impact.
Support a New Hunting Act to Finally End Fox Hunting
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The consultation on the new hunting ban has been extended till tomorrow, so please complete it if you haven't already - doesn't take long. thenewhuntingban.com/open-consult...
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Open Consultation — The New Hunting Ban
Contribute to The New Hunting Ban's policy recommendations by taking this survey.
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The Vegan Society then (80 years ago) and now! Reception, speeches & exhibition in the House of Commons last night to mark the occasion. #vegansociety #vegan #plantbased #crueltyfree
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Please sign @animaljustice.bsky.social's petition calling on Angela Eagle MP to remove Cranswick's Tim Smith from two government advisory boards. No one profiting from #animalabuse should be advising policy! #ProjectPig #JusticeForPigs #cruelty act.animaljusticeproject.com/page/177792/...
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Give Tim Smith the Boot!
Given Cranswick's systemic violations towards pigs, Tim Smith must be removed from Government advisory boards.
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Watch this from Joey Carbstrong - the everyday, routine cruelties of the #dairy industry, here on a farm that supplies Cathedral City. Go #vegan if you don't want to subsidise #animalabuse.
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Please support @ciwf.org.uk by signing & sharing this open letter calling for a reduction in animal agriculture - one of the most wasteful industries on the planet, as well as causing suffering to unimaginable numbers of animals. See the letter, & who's endorsed it, via the link. #factoryfarming
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
It's #NationalVegetarianWeek. What was your reason for becoming #vegetarian, or - much better - #vegan? Mine: I could choose to support cruelty, or I could choose to avoid it. Simple as that.
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Absolutely right.
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Very sad news. Dr Jane Goodall was such an influential voice for animals and the natural world.
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Mark Wakeling of Amberwood Animals talks to @lindanewbery.bsky.social about his Oxfordshire animal sanctuary, his aims and concerns, and how he arrived at this stage of his life. www.lindanewbery.co.uk/2025/09/12/a... #animalsanctuary #animals #farmanimal #veganism #compassion #Oxfordshire
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Animal Advocate no.10: Mark Wakeling of Amberwood Animals
Mark Wakeling of Amberwood Animals talks about how his sanctuary was formed, his daily life there and how he sees the potential to change attitudes towards farmed animals.
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Excellent article by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on the pointless cruelty and vacuous macho gratification of bluefin tuna fishing, 'the UK equivalent of bullfighting.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @theguardian.com #cruelsport #bluefintuna #fishing #Falmouth #Cornwall
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Bluefin tuna are miraculously returning to UK shores – only to be tormented for ‘sport’ | George Monbiot
A tournament in Cornwall will pit anglers against these magnificent creatures, as part of a rising trend for so-called ‘sportfishing’, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Hunts call it 'autumn hunting' - but it's cub-hunting, or cubbing - unchanged since the so-called ban, and exposing 'trail hunting' lies. Foxhounds are trained to kill cubs. Watch this. @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @protectthewild.bsky.social protectthewild.substack.com/p/powerful-n... #banhunting
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Powerful new animation exposes fox cub hunting - narrated by Chris Packham
WATCH NOW
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
New study from Oxford University confirms links between meat consumption and a range of diseases. How much more evidence is required before meat-eating ceases to be the norm? www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-03... #health #nutrition #meatconsumption
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Regular meat consumption linked with a wide range of common diseases
Regular meat consumption is associated with a range of diseases that researchers had not previously considered, according to a large, population-level study conducted by a team at the University of
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Article on affordable superfoods in @theguardian.com today - and not one of them is animal-derived! Plant-based food is better for nature, better for climate, better for human health and certainly better for animals ... www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... #food #nutrition #plantbased #superfood
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Who needs quinoa? 17 overlooked and affordable superfoods, from peas and potatoes to popcorn and even sugar
Can’t afford goji berries, spirulina or turmeric – or just don’t like the taste? Most kitchens are full of healthy but unglamorous alternatives. Nutrition experts name their favourites
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Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Brilliantly put by George Monbiot. Fish are not 'seafood' or 'stocks'. They are not 'our' fish. Protection of marine habitats should be the default position. #Ocean #SirDavidAttenborough #MPAs #UNOceanConference
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I'm deep in this riveting book by @stuartgillespie.bsky.social - engaging, informative, illuminating, horrifying. How Big Food's greed exploits & destroys people & planet. Haven't got to the hopeful bit yet ... @canongate.co.uk #foodsystems #climateemergency #obesity #ultraprocessedfood
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Nature's calling - and we need to listen!
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Please sign & share!
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
On the day the Climate Change Committee confirms that meat consumption needs to drop significantly, it's good to see several #plantbased items on #ComptonVerney's menu today. Please add a #vegan hot sandwich though! #meatreduction #CCC #CCCreport
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Great! Such a simple, effective change. Let's see this everywhere! www.cam.ac.uk/news/removin...
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Removing beef and lamb from menu dramatically reduces food-related carbon emissions at Cambridge University
A Sustainable Food Policy at the University of Cambridge, which includes removing beef and lamb from the menu and promoting plant-based food options, has had a
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Today's Guardian 'If we had approached the 2nd World War in the same way we are approaching the Climate Crisis' - brilliant. Thank you Jon Davis! @theguardian.com #cartoonist #climatecrisis
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
A piece of good news - greyhound racing to be banned in Wales! England next, please ... put an end to this industry with its routine cruelties. Well done and thanks to everyone who campaigned for this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #greyhoundracing #greyhounds #cruelty #animalabuse
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Greyhound racing to be banned in Wales
Labour ministers say the sport - which has one track in Wales - will be banned as soon as possible.
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Great work by the League Against Cruel Sports. @uklabourparty.bsky.social it's time for a full and effective ban on this bloodthirsty 'sport' - wildlife needs protection, not persecution under the guise of tradition.
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Interesting article on shifting the default: what if meat wasn't always the 'normal' choice? How food is described and presented is so influential ... www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7447345 #plantbased #plantbasedbydefault
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We're being nudged to eat meat. What if the tables were turned?
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Please sign & share - government must take effective action on well-documented, routine abuse of animals on intensive farms. animalequality.org.uk/campaign/hol... #factoryfarms #cruelty #thepriceofmeat #intensivefarming #animalabuse
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End Illegal Animal Cruelty on UK Factory Farms | Animal Equality UK
Groundbreaking report presents body of evidence of legal violations across UK farms and slaughterhouses, revealing animal welfare scandal
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The always-excellent Philip Lymbery in the Scotsman on what's so wrong with government advice on meat-eating. www.scotsman.com/news/opinion... @philip-ciwf.bsky.social @ciwf.org.uk @thescotsmanpaper.bsky.social #plantbased #meatlobby #ADHB @teamlabouruk.bsky.social #plantbasedhealth
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Labour government’s ‘eat meat’ campaign flies in face of medical advice
While the NHS advises people not to ‘eat too much red, processed or fatty meat’, the Let's Eat Balanced campaign says red meat is an important part of a healthy diet
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
At the Sheldonian, Oxford, to hear #JoannaLumley and Philip Lymbery talk about what @ciwf.org.uk has achieved & their hopes for a better future for animals. So important to stand up for what you know is right!
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Are you paying for cruelty? Watch this short film to see how meat & dairy labelling conceals #factoryfarming and #animalabuse, and join calls for honest labelling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BhS... @ciwf.org.uk
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What The Label DOESN'T Tell You About YOUR FOOD
YouTube video by Compassion in World Farming
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Please support @wildjustice.bsky.social by signing this petition to ban driven grouse shooting - so harmful to environment and wildlife, especially birds of prey. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... #SAYNOMOOR #grouse #shooting #wildlife #bloodsport
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Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting
Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...
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Linda Newbery 📚✍️🌳🐝 🦊🦋📷Ⓥ @lindanewbery.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The climate crisis is inevitable. Without climate action the UK will fall behind and suffer economically in the long term. I've signed this letter calling on Keir Starmer and his government to back ambitious climate goals. Will you sign too? act.350.org/sign/ndc-ope... @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
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To Keir Starmer & world leaders: set ambitious climate goals!
To Keir Starmer and all other Heads of State, We co-sign the letter to demand ambitious national climate goals. These goals must stop the worst effects of global heating and commit to equitable just s...
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 09/12/2024
Hello friends and followers of IPES-Food. We have joined the fun on @bsky.app! We are the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems – a global thinktank & expert group guiding action for #sustainable #foodsystems around the world. Follow us for all things #food, #hunger, #climate.
Banner reading: IPES-Food: We're on Bluesky! Follow us! @ipes-food.org
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Good news for once! #bees #savebees
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
For #Veganuary (and any other month) Arabica at King's Cross is a great place to go for delicious #plantbased food. #vegan #Veganuary2025 #London #Londonvegans
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Why it's crucial to adapt food systems, especially by reducing animal agriculture, as part of climate change mitigation. academic.oup.com/oocc/article... #animalagriculture #plantbased #foodsystems #sustainablefood
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Solving climate change requires changing our food systems
Abstract. Humanity is facing an important existential threat—irreversible climate change caused by human activity. Until recently, most of the proposals to
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Well done @blenheimpalace.bsky.social for doing #Veganuary! Shift to 50% #plantbased like the #NationalTrust to build on that & reduce your carbon & environmental impacts. #Blenheim #@BlenheimPalace
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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The UK banned fur farming in 2000, calling it cruel and unnecessary. Yet £63 million worth of fur is still imported annually, funding gassing, electrocution, and toxic pollution abroad. It’s time to close this shameful loophole. Sign now! #FurFreeBritain petition.parliament....
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Petition: Ban Fur Imports into the UK
We ask the Government to ban the import and sale of all fur products in the UK. Fur farming is banned here due to cruelty, yet imports support suffering abroad. We believe that this ban would align UK laws with ethical and environmental responsibility, closing the loophole that fuels the fur trade.
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
New Year means #Veganuary! Who's in? Whether you're already #VeganForLife or just giving it a try, @veganuary.bsky.social and Viva! have great resources to help & support. #vegan #veganism #veganforanimals #veganforhealth #veganfortheplanet #veganfornature
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Massive thanks to @chrisgpackham.bsky.social and team who've been out today exposing the hypocrisy & lies of hunting. Let's hope 2025 will see it banned for good. #TrailHuntLies #wildlifecrime #bloodsport
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Time to ban this cruel sport for good, @teamlabouruk.bsky.social. Only a shrinking minority supports #bloodsport - hunts regularly commit #wildlifecrime, often in plain view. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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Calls for Labour to honour pledge to toughen anti-hunt laws
Government urged to ban trail hunting as data suggests illegal foxhunting is still widespread in England and Wales
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Will there be a dead turkey on your plate this Christmas? If so, how did that turkey live- and die? Shouldn't we celebrate #Christmas with kindness, not cruelty? Thank you @AnimalAid for the leaflets- some of which have found their way to Sainsbury's. #livekindlygovegan #veganChristmas
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Have you seen #FoodforProfit? Is there a #GreenScreen event near you? If you're near #Henley, you could see it this #Wednesday followed by a panel discussion with director Pablo d'Ambrosi! Looks at the industrialised animal abuse of #factoryfarming & the vested interests behind it - recommended!
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Ethical Consumer @ethical-consumer.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
In issue 212 we focus on vegan food and meat alternatives. This includes looking at whether meat-free products are UPFs and whether the soya in meat-free and plant milk brands are linked to deforestation. Get access to the latest issue here: bit.ly/4hNJhvW
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Yet another reason to reduce #animalagriculture- experts say it's a matter of when, not how, there'll be another major pandemic, and intensive animal-rearing units are the ideal breeding grounds for harmful pathogens.
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Absolutely right. We need a major rethink of how subsidies can be used to promote horticulture and reduce the many harmful effects of #animalagriculture.
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plantbasedfuture 🌿🌿🌿 @plantbasedfuture.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Wonderful news! No more fur, feathers or scales at #LondonFashionWeek! Huge thanks to @wap-uk.bsky.social and to everyone who campaigned for this. Let's keep fashion #crueltyfree - no animal should be exploited for human vanity.
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