Hi all, exciting news for us! WE GOT AN ALLOTMENT!!
We don’t have much outside space at our house and almost no sun, so growing veg has been hard for us so far.
Now we have an allotment we plan on growing our own fruit and veg “stock free organic” style, aka vegan organic/veganic.
According to science, not all bamboo products are more sustainable than their non-bamboo alternatives. Shipping bamboo products over from China has a big environmental impact so the products need to be eco enough to mitigate that. Here’s some science and some bamboo pet products to consider!
Continue reading “Bamboo-zled: are bamboo pet products eco?”
It’s Word Vegan Day! Want to know what would happen if everyone went vegan? Or just 25%? Want to know if it’s actually healthy? Or if Vegans need to engage with anti-poverty campaigns to achieve their goal? Well you are in the right place!
I read a fascinating scientific paper in the Lancet today [1] which models the impact of changes in diet across the whole world, depending on the motivation/specifics. It predicts changes country by country depending on how they farm and eat right now, which is WOW SUPER COOL (and so so nerdy)! Here’s a summary of what they did and 10 lessons I learned.
Continue reading “10 lessons from science on World Vegan Day”
Do you get stressed? Well, so do your pets – but they communicate it differently. Unlike humans who shop, over eat, drink too much and shout at people when they or stressed (just me then?) dogs and cats have a very different language.
It’s especially important over the Halloween to new-years party period that we keep an eye out for the signs and symptoms of stress and provide support and treatment for out companion animals.
Yesterday we heard the heartbreaking news that restricting climate change to 2.0 degrees, which we weren’t on track to achieve anyway, won’t be good enough to prevent the worst damage. I wrote an article delving into the details.
Here is something more positive: a guide to what YOU can do about climate change, starting right now. Some of the things are really easy!
The short-version is: go vegan, get a veg box, be really rude to people to by air-freighted food, drive less, walk more, switch to good energy, wear jumpers and insulate stuff. All of these things are good for your health and for the health of other people too! Kaboom!
Here are the beautiful views we saw driving home from the North Yorkshire vegan fair on Saturday. The trip from Harrogate to Clitheroe in the snow at sunset was absolutely beautiful.
You can read all about the fair here, and check out upcoming events here.
Another grand day out at a Vegan Fair, today we got to visit Harrogate, Joey’s Birthplace. Here are some of the amazing things we saw.
What else is there to say. Unicorns. Cupcakes. Vegan. Yay!!
These marvels are made by Scrummy Crumbs vegan bakery.
This series of blogs looks at the scientific research into whether vegetarian and vegan dog food is healthy for your dog.
This article focuses on a discussion / review paper by W.Y. Brown published in the journal Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition, in 2009. You can download the paper here.
The best way to judge a dogs diet is to ask:
Dogs are omnivorous: their nutritional needs can be met by a plant based diet.
Provided the food is made from good quality, digestible ingredients and the dog enjoys their food, then vegan dog food is a healthy option. Even for very active dogs! Continue reading “Can dogs be Vegan? What do scientists say?”
Hey everyone, here’s a quick getting to know you blog! Ethical Pets is run by Joey and Anna: it’s a small, family run independent company.
Here’s 10 reasons why we do what we do here at Ethical Pets. Running a small business is hard work: this is what motivates us!
This series of blogs looks at the scientific research into whether vegetarian and vegan dog food is healthy for your dog. This blog summaries at a scientific study published in 2009, in the British Journal of Nutrition by W. Y. Brown et al.
The paper is called “An experimental meat-free diet maintained hematological characteristics
in sprint-racing sled dogs”
You can download the paper here.
A nutritionally complete vegetarian / vegan diet is fine for dogs, even very active dogs like racing huskies. The huskies fed a vegetarian diet had the same blood test results as those fed on a meat diet. They all the dogs did same amount of exercise. Vegetarian and meat based foods have similar ingredients.
Continue reading “Is vegan dog food healthy for dogs? What does science say?”
