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Children Who Want to be Vegans
According to research by BBC Good Food, more than a fifth of children in the UK would like to be vegan or have already made this choice. The study, which polled more than 1,000 children aged between 5 and 16 years, found that 8 percent have already embraced a vegan...
Nuts and Seeds Protein is Good for the Heart
While nuts and various types of seeds make great alternative snack foods to enjoy between meals, their protein has the potential to enhance life. According to a study conducted by researchers in California and France that was published by the International Journal of...
Continuing Professional Development at Craniosacral Therapy Educational Trust
The Craniosacral Therapy Educational Trust (CTET), founded in 1989, has been at the forefront of offering Craniosacral Therapy (CST) practitioners continuing professional development courses aimed at growing their knowledge and skill base. CTET graduates also have the...
Animal Welfare’s Contribution to a Sustainable World
The United Nations (UN) adoption of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 was a landmark moment, given that the member states had committed to working towards achieving a future without hunger and poverty, safe from the negative effects of climate...
Meeting Britain’s Vegans and Vegetarians
Vegetarianism and veganism are becoming increasingly popular in the UK. Between 2014 and 2019, the total number of vegans in Britain quadrupled. Tracking data from the UK government suggests that approximately 2-3% of the population of the UK now follows a vegan diet,...
Animal Welfare: What Are Animal Rights?
Animal rights describes a set of principles based on the understanding that animals are sentient beings who have the right to live their lives free from abuse, violation and being used to meet the desires of humans. We can support animal rights by taking measures in...
Farmed Animals: The UK Meat Market for Pigs, Sheep and Deer
Vegetarians and vegans believe that humans do not have the right to raise animals simply for the purpose of slaughtering and eating them. Over two million land animals are killed for food every day in the UK, and many of these spend their short lives in industrial...
Animal Rights: Animal Ethics
Human ethics is a philosophy and practice that explores how human beings should live and behave towards each other. Animal ethics is the same, but includes all sentient creatures. A definition of sentience can be found in the embedded short video. Animal ethicists...
Vegetarianism: The Consequences of Farming Animals for Meat
In the UK, there are more than 600,000 tonnes of fish and two million land animals killed each year to fulfil our human appetite for meat. Nevertheless, many vegetarians are choosing their lifestyle out of compassion and believe that slaughtering animals for meat is...
Exploring Animal Rights
As part of our basic human rights we expect others to treat us with minimum standards of care and respect, and in return we try not to harm to other people. Fundamental human rights are concepts that most people can understand, including not exploiting others, the...