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This article first appeared on the author’s Planetary Vegan website on 15th March 2018. Paul Hawken is an American journalist, author and activist. He recently visited my home country, Austra...

https://terrastendo.net/2018/09/28/drawdown-let-down/

This post first appeared on the Planetary Vegan website on 2nd July 2018 Climate Council of Australia is a high-profile climate change campaign organisation, whose “Chief Councillor” is forme...

https://terrastendo.net/2018/07/25/climate-councils-head-in-the-sand/

The Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) describes itself as “an active, powerful lobby group dedicated to the interests of farmers and making a difference to communities”. On 5th January 2018,...

https://terrastendo.net/2018/01/23/animals-farmers-and-cartesian-scientists/

This post highlights some material from this site’s memes and charts page, focusing on animal slaughter and meat production figures from 1961 to 2016. Although there appears to have been signif...

https://terrastendo.net/2018/01/10/the-global-juggernaut-of-animal-slaughter/

I did not expect to see significant improvements for animals in the Victorian government’s recently released Animal Welfare Action Plan, so I was not surprised when I read it. It has outlined ...

https://terrastendo.net/2018/01/07/is-this-action-plan-designed-for-animals-or-business/

In my article “When is a plant-based diet not plant-based and what about health?“, I expressed concern about the fact that Melbourne-based food sciences academic, Katherine Livingstone, had i...

https://terrastendo.net/2017/12/28/is-vegan-a-better-term-than-plant-based-for-an-animal-free-diet/

The following email was sent to Youth Food Movement Australia on 1st December 2017: Hello, I refer to your Facebook comment of 21st November 2017, inviting me to contact you at this email address...

https://terrastendo.net/2017/12/01/open-email-to-youth-food-movement-australia/

I have written three articles dealing with Youth Food Movement Australia (YFM) and its relationships with the animal agriculture sector. Links to the articles can be found below this post, which ...

https://terrastendo.net/2017/11/11/some-questions-for-youth-food-movement-australia/

I have written previously of my concerns regarding the practices of Youth Food Movement Australia (YFM). Those concerns relate primarily to YFM’s close relationship with the meat and dairy indu...

https://terrastendo.net/2017/11/04/herding-youth-toward-dairy/

The latest campaign by Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC) maintains the group’s almost complete lack of interest in the massive contribution of animal agriculture to: (a) climate change;...

https://terrastendo.net/2017/10/21/aycc-grossly-understates-livestocks-climate-and-reef-impacts/