This is not a happy story. So many of them rarely are. Too many. I chose to live as a vegan in May of 2012. This decision was the culmination of of two years of exposure to online vegan arguing points, to the ongoing live export crisis, and due to…

They’re cute, they’re cuddly, and they’re wholly dependent on you. But lambs are complex to raise, and they don’t remain this way forever. Are you able to commit to providing the intensive care they require? …

The silencing of the lambs. Lamusz joined our home yesterday, but the industry responsible for his birth silenced him within hours of arrival. A frantic message hit the inbox. “Bringing a lamb, they’re really bad, be 15.” Not a second past fifteen minutes, a lamb was bundled through my front…

“In the long run, the practice of solidarity proves much more advantageous to the species than the development of individuals endowed with predatory inclinations.” -Pyotr Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A factor of evolution. If there is one thing that has become apparent since the arrival of Covid 19 (C19) in our…

Chains and locks represent a theft of freedoms and autonomy. But on a cold morning in the forests of takayna, for me the lock and chain became something else entirely. It was dark. The kind of dark unique to an ancient rainforest yet to stir with the coming of dawn…

Reports surfacing from the Van Dairy company relating to animal welfare and environmental issues come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the ongoing failings of this company, the dairy industry, and the state Liberal government. CW: this article contains images and descriptions of cruelty to animals. On April 9…

Swimming with a blue-ringed octopus opened my eyes to the wonders of cephalopods and helped me towards my future vegan self. In 2020 the critically acclaimed film My Octopus Teacher was released on Netflix. The documentary captured the relationship formed between Craig Foster and a free-living common octopus whom he…

Mainstream veganism is an MLM built upon the cult of personality: there, I said it. (no, this isn’t an excuse to not go vegan) In September 2020 I wrote an article entitled Animal rights shit:” is activism over? This was in response to a mainstream celebri-vegan flippantly referring to online content dedicated to the liberation of other animals as “animal rights shit” as they pushed…

On August 22, 2020 the body of deceased 34 year old Ugandan asylum seeker Mercy Baguma was found in her Glasgow flat, after the cries of her malnourished 1year old son were overheard by neighbours. Baguma had lived in extreme poverty having lost her job after her right to work…