More than one million people in Taiwan have pledged to help cut carbon emissions by being a vegetarian. Taiwan’s population is about 23 million, and the one million vegetarians would reduce at least 1.5 million tons of carbon emissions in … Continue reading
Mothers who eat a junk-food diet in pregnancy may seriously damage the long-term health of their child, according to research published today. The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust, was carried out on rats, but scientists say they have every … Continue reading
There’s been much in the British press lately framing Prime Minister Gordon Brown hectoring the country to not waste its food. Sadly, an important message is being clouded by the hostility of the press and its tendency to trivialise and … Continue reading
The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. Photo taken by the Grumpy Vegan at Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s home, Monks House, in East Sussex.
Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. Photo taken by the Grumpy … Continue reading
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. Photo taken by the Grumpy Vegan at Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s home, Monks House, in East Sussex.
