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There has been a lot said recently about rules not allowing vegan food products to use words such as milk and butter. We have just bought a vegetable spread marketed by Flora. The wrapping boldly pronounces it to be PLANT BUTTER with the U replaced with a drawing of a plant stem with two...

Anybody else been completely addicted to WORDLE? I have been living with this disease for a long time. What started as a gentle little mental exercise has developed into an absolute obsession. Your progress is recorded in two numbers; current streak and max streak. Once your current streak...

In a magazine recently I saw a Gordon Ramsay recipe for “Teriyaki-glazed duck with sticky plums” together with a half page photo of the result. The headline for the recipe was “Duck to die for.” In ball point pen beside the headline someone had written “The duck did.” which just about says it...

07.45 pm BBC Radio 4: “Steelmanning”: “Timandra Harkness is joined by Prof Kay Peggs from Kingston University to debate the merits of veganism.” This is a repeat of something I missed first time around. If you are in foreign parts you might be able to catch it on BBC iplayer. High hopes I...

The Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill is currently in the House of Lords. The sentience in the title means that all vertebrates will be considered to be capable of feelings such as pain and pleasure. This will have to be taken into account in our dealings with them. But don’t get too excited. It...

Many decades ago M&S had a great reputation in their department stores. Especially in their clothing and food sections. People were prepared to pay a little more for guaranteed quality. Then they lost their way. Grandma still loved them and to a lesser extent so did mother. But all the bright...

Oatly was today launched as a public company on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Its initial public offering price was $17 and it is currently trading just a tad short of $21. Great news for Oatly, great news for veganism, great news for cows and great news on greenhouse gas emissions. Roger.

After lunch today we tucked into our usual Easter egg except it wasn’t in the shape of an egg. Marks and Spencer provided us with vegan chocolate not in the form of a hen’s egg but shaped like an aubergine aka an eggplant. It made our day. Roger.

Fifty years ago today the British currency was decimalised. Back then the term Lsd usually had a very different meaning to what now comes immediately to mind. The d = pennies and there were 12 in a shilling. The s = shillings and there were 20 to a pound The L = pounds and they were worth a...

According to UK research done a year ago by Barclays 92% of plant-based meals are consumed by flexitarians who want to reduce their intake of animal products because of animal welfare concerns, health reasons and concern for the environment. This week Unilever announced an ambitious plan to be...

The Vegan Society has recently started a new campaign to alter the way animals are treated and to create a “future normal”. It is, of course, not aimed at vegans because we are already there. But if you want to check them out they can be found at Hello, Animal Lovers - join the Future Normal...

We haven’t eaten honey for some forty years so our memory of the taste might be somewhat dimmed but there was great excitement this week. In our health food shop my wife discovered VEGAN HONEA. And that old flavour is definitely there in abundance. Well worth a try. There are three varieties...

Many years ago I had a regular drinking companion. We would have a few beers and put everything to rights. During these sessions he developed “Ken’s Universal Theory of Regression”. This stated that once any species on any planet develops sufficient intelligence to destroy itself then it...

I have never been able to forgive Disney since their 1958 wildlife documentary “White Wilderness” was debunked. In the 1950’s people were perhaps even more gullible than today in believing just about everything presented to them. And like just about everybody else in the western world I...

I would like to suggest that there should be an archive system whereby threads which have had no new contributions in, say, the last year could be consigned. Recently there have been several cases of very old threads being responded to most frequently by absolute newbies to the forum. It makes...

For a long time now we have had a cock pheasant as a very regular visitor in our garden. In fact he is there at the moment. He is always welcome despite the very gooey deposits he sometimes leaves. We have tried to completely ignore him because we do not want him to become person friendly which...

In the UK the dairy industry is in quite a tizz because of the competition from plant milks. In an attempt to counteract the influence of Veganuary they created Februdairy. Publications such as Farmer’s Weekly adopted full throttle support but the mainstream media largely ignored it. Februdairy...

This morning I went for a walk on the moor in beautiful sunshine. While I was busily admiring the bilberry buds beginning their attempts at flowering I very nearly trod on a tiny grouse chick. It was far too young to be able to flee into hiding on my approach. It was wonderfully camouflaged and...

More and more companies in their different ways seem to be attempting to do their bit to help save the planet. WeWork is an American commercial real estate company. In 2018 they decided they would not continue to reimburse its employees expenses accounts for meals containing poultry, pork, and...

Veganville is a BBC1 three part series of programmes set up to show vegans attempting to convert residents of Merthyr Tydfil to veganism. In Wales sheep outnumber people by three to one. It was trailed as four vegans, with very different personalities, setting up house together for three weeks...