The Grumpy Vegan fondly recalls watching the satirical television program, Spitting Image, from the mid-1980s until he left for the U.S. in 1987. The show featured human-sized puppets designed by the cartoonists Peter Fluck and Roger Law. The puppets were brilliant. The writing wasn’t always great but when it was it was frighteningly powerful. For example, lurking on You Tube are many extracts, including this prescient one featuring the first George Bush answering questions on a spoof version of a real serious quiz show, Mastermind. Watch and laugh and then weep.
Grumpy From Birth But Vegan Since 1976
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- Kim Stallwood is an independent scholar and author on animal rights. His forthcoming book, Animal Dharma, explores what it means to care deeply about animals. Starting in 1976, he has held leadership positions with some of the world’s foremost organisations in the UK and US, including CIWF, BUAV, PETA, The Animals’ Agenda, Animals and Society Institute and Minding Animals International. A vegetarian since 1974 when as a student he worked in a chicken slaughterhouse. A vegan since 1976. His evil twin is the Grumpy Vegan.
