Last week chef Laura Goodman posted a couple of tipsy comments on Facebook and Twitter and reaped the social media whirlwind. “Spiked a vegan a few hours ago” she said on Facebook. “Pious, judgmental vegan (who I spent all day cooking for) has gone to bed, still believing she’s a vegan” she posted on Twitter.  Not surprisingly, there was an outcry.

Laura, who co-owns the restaurant with her partner, was bombarded with hate mail and death threats and was forced to resign.   Her partner said that Laura didn’t actually put meat into a vegan’s food, but that one of the vegan party herself ordered and ate a pizza which wasn’t vegan.

Whatever the truth, I’m sure Laura deeply regrets her ill-advised post.  But what’s going on here? Why is there such hostility to vegans in the restaurant industry? Read more ›

Meet Saharla Ismail and Sarah Starling, our Veganuary challengers.

We had a great response to our call out Read more ›

In the last 10 years, the number of people with diabetes has more than doubled. It is estimated that, in 2016, the number in the UK was 4.5 million. Of those, 10% have type 1 diabetes which is not preventable.  However, 90% have type 2 diabetes which, in most cases, is.  According to Diabetes UK the disease is “the fastest growing health threat of our times and an urgent public health issue”.

But here is some good news: a vegan diet can reverse type 2 diabetes.  Read more ›

What The Health?, the new Netflix documentary, has allegedly been turning dedicated meat-eaters into vegans overnight.  I was naturally curious to see what it was all about.

From the same team that brought us Cowspiracy, which exposed the horrors of the dairy industry, What the Health? focuses on the all too cosy relationship between the American food and drug industries. Big Farmer and Big Pharma are very close indeed and the health of that nation is suffering. Read more ›