Year: 2024

A delicious Mexican inspired recipe and special offer from our friends at Vegan Food & Living to keep you inspired well beyond May! These tacos feature black beans as the star ingredient, which are loaded with protein, fibre and nutrient-dense. And with a kick of chipotle chilli, this dish is packed with flavour. Give it […]

The farmer retired from pig farming, and his transition away from farming was captured in the 2017 documentary, The Last Pig. This award-winning film chronicles his final year on the farm, capturing in intimate detail the farmer’s personal upheaval as he questions his beliefs and the value of life. The farmer sent his last pigs to Catskill Animal Sanctuary, which included Mario […]

The COVID-19 coronavirus has killed thousands of people around the world, and its origin in animals and global spread should remind us how inextricably linked we are with other life on Earth. We share the same planet and breathe the same air, and we also exchange microbes including germs. Now, with our burgeoning human population […]

Antibiotic resistance is now considered a global public health crisis. Some researchers are predicting that by 2050 our resistance to antibiotics will cause up to 10 million deaths every year, outdoing cancer as the leading cause of death worldwide. Antibiotics are (over) used in farming and agriculture due to the intense farming processes that exist […]

Vegan bodybuilder Niamai Delgado – who will appear in upcoming film The Game Changers- is the latest big name to appear on the Plant Based Newspodcast. During the interview with PBN Co-founder Robbie Lockie, Delgado revealed that he’s never eaten meat, and talks about the physique he biult without the use of steroids. According to […]

LSE’s student union has voted to petition the university to join Goldsmiths and the University of Cambridge in implementing a ban on beef across campus. Student activist Phoebe Woodruff lead the initiative which will see the university replace beef with vegan options. “More students than ever are looking to limit their environmental footprint – and […]

College dining halls typically feature meat-heavy menus with a few vegetarian or vegan options, but Oxford students are hoping to change that. Students voted to ban lamb and beef from the majority of campus eateries with the goal of making the university more environmentally-friendly. Three Oxford students motioned for the student union to ban lamb […]

We grappled with whether we should still run No Meat May during a global crisis. We questioned if it was appropriate to run a behaviour change challenge while many people are without work, and many of our partner businesses have closed their doors. With lives and livelihoods being lost, we wondered whether the world would […]

US sales of plant-based food surged by 11 percent in 2019, bringing the total plant-based market value to $5 billion, according to new data released today by the Good Food Institute (GFI) and the Plant Based Foods Association. During the same period, dollar sales for the total U.S. retail food market grew just two percent incomparison. The largest category in […]

Results are in! With each of our 65,055 registered participants for No Meat May 2021 saving approximately 31 land and sea animals, a collective total of 1,984,178 living beings. On average each person who signed up encouraged one friend or family member to join them for a month of incredible food – with an estimated […]