Health in the media
The story implies that eating meat could help your mental health, but that's not what the study it was based on actually says – a classic case of sensational headlines exaggerating the scientific research.
The review this...
Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Eating Animals and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast and Aaron S Gross, founder of Farm Forward and an associate professor at the University of San Diego, came...
Head of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Inger Anderson says the current drop in greenhouse gas emissions is the result of a tragic economic slowdown and human distress. What we need, Anderson says, is a long-term cleaner and greener...
Like a detective novel, the story picks apart the mystery of where this new virus came from and why it was able to jump into humans.
First off, they smash the myth that SARS CoV-2 was made in a lab, there’s no evidence for that. Quite soon after it emerged, scientists were able to...
A huge body of scientific evidence supports plant-based diets, for both human health and environmental benefits. Yet one article after another, on the BBC Future website, uses flawed studies, often funded by the meat and dairy industries, to draw ill-conceived conclusions while ignoring the...
As a vegan with a PhD, who works alongside many sharp and bright vegans at Viva!, I have strong anecdotal evidence to the contrary, but let’s have a look at the argument anyway....
The H5N8 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus was detected in a turkey flock of 40,000 birds and local media reported that the outbreak might result in them all being slaughtered....
In a speech billed as a ‘meat fight-back’ at the Oxford Farming Conference, Alice Stanton, professor of cardiovascular pharmacology at the Royal College of...
The landmark legal case was brought by Jordi Casamitjana, who believes he was unfairly dismissed by the League Against Cruel Sports after he raised concerns that its pension fund was being invested in companies involved in animal testing. In the first of a two-part employment tribunal,...
In ‘The unhealthy truth about non-dairy milk’ all kinds of disparaging and inaccurate comments about plant milks were thrown about. For example, how nutritionally inferior they are, how they are...