Vegan news

A report recently released by a government inquiry into agriculture acknowledges that "there are some Australians who do not consider it appropriate to use animals for commercial purposes." The submission ...

The council of the Italian city of Turin plans to make the city more vegan. This could be a great model for cities in Australia as well. Based on the ...

Casey Taft is a psychologist who works with clients to prevent violent behavior. In his article, "How Do We Best Promote Veganism?: A Psychologist's Perspective", he pulls together many of ...

Recently a large Australian agribusiness applied to create a "Free Range" trademark for beef cattle. In a submission opposing the trademark, Vegan Australia highlighted some of the many detrimental impacts ...

How do people justify "loving one, but eating the other"? Maya Gibson looks at the psychological research into how individuals can hold two contradictory beliefs at the same time. Most ...

Sam Tucker is the Australia & New Zealand Outreach Coordinator for Vegan Outreach, a nonprofit animal rights group that hands out leaflets about veganism and animal farming to students. He ...

A new short thriller/documentary, Swine, has just been release by Viva! The film exposes the impending crisis of antibiotic resistance developing in factory farms. "For years the factory farming industry ...

In recent years, many large institutions have been "going green". They have made public commitments to sustainability and are divesting from carbon intensive industries and introducing measures to reduce their ...

Animal farming will be banned in New South Wales from July 1 next year, with Premier Mike Baird saying the "widespread and systemic mistreatment of animals" cannot be tolerated. Key ...

In a recent article in The Land the Cattle Council of Australia claims that eating 455g of cooked red meat per week is healthy. They claim that this is consistent ...

Excerpt from The World Peace Diet by Dr Will Tuttle, from the section titled "The Culture of Denial", explaining how deeply humanity's denial of the suffering of animals affects us ...

90% of deaths in Australia are caused by chronic diseases, such as heart disease, stroke or diabetes. Many of these diseases are caused by lifestyle behaviours, with diet and nutrition ...