International Rights Network conference: Milan 2019
The International Vegan Rights Alliance annual conference is known as the gold-standard meeting of legal minds concerned to protect...(Read More)
New EU law on plant-based food labelling threatens to prohibit the use of words and familiar containers
Due to the recent surge in demand for plant-based dairy and meat alternatives, both the meat and dairy industries...(Read More)
Validating Veganism in Resistant Legal Systems – Part 3
For Levinas, to be human is to respond ethically to others in close proximity and, infinitely, to express due...(Read More)
Validating Veganism in Resistant Legal Systems – Part 2
Key consideration 4 of the Ontario Human Rights Code requires applicants to show how their belief ‘addresses ultimate questions...(Read More)
Validating Veganism in Resistant Legal Systems – Part 1
An important principle of human rights is that under the right to freedom of conscience, holders of non-religious and...(Read More)
Why Vegan Rights? Are we once again making it all about “us”?
This is a question that is raised quite regularly in response to discussion of vegan rights. As vegan advocates,...(Read More)
Vegan rights and equality: why vegan associations around the world should give vegans a voice
The recent Go Vegan Scotland survey shows how entrenched speciesist prejudice manifests itself in discrimination and marginalisation of the vegan community. ...(Read More)
Clearing up the confusion: whose veganism counts in UK law?
I have been involved in a few discussions recently about whose veganism would have the support of UK law....(Read More)
The relationship between the alienation of vegans and equality law
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Animal farming in schools and the right to education according to ethical convictions
This week, it was reported in the news that vegans were outraged that pigs, raised on school property and...(Read More)