Tag: vegan

• Sophisticated chocolate treats for a more sustainable Easter

  

  Chocolate eggs are a fun way to show your love, and to indulge yourself, but unfortunately the issues go beyond any impact on your waistline or the kids’ teeth. We’ve picked out a few of the most sustainable of the more grown-up Easter eggs.

• Is veganism the new normal?

  

  Greggs’ quorn ‘sausage’ roll may have offended Piers Morgan, but for others it signalled a new era. The Vegan Society reports a fourfold increase in the number of UK vegans since 2014, from 150,000 to 600,000. 42% of those switched in 2018.

• Go vegan – it’s good for you and great for the planet!

  

  Whether you’ve just resolved to give up meat for the 2018 new year, or have been avoiding all animal products for years now, it does no harm to review the benefits of veganism, both to you and the planet.

• Sustainability leadership in the luxury fashion world: Stella McCartney

  

  Stella McCartney is arguably the leader of sustainability in high fashion, and one of the first catwalk designers to embed sustainability, and in particular her sincere commitment to animal rights, throughout her entire business model.

• How sweet is your ice-cream?

  

  Ice-cream.  We all know it’s not that good for us.  But how good is it for the rest of the world? As with most foodstuffs, there’s a whole complex of issues surrounding the production of this tempting summer treat.  We take a quick look at a few of them.

• Easter Egg shopping list

  

  The annual festival of chocolate over-indulgence known as Easter raises more serious issues than pimples and weight gain for the ethical shopper. The cocoa trade is notoriously bedevilled by child labour, slavery and other workers’ rights issues.