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
What hotel practices, Jeremy Vine and Gordon Ramsey have in common(Read More)
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)
Open letter to: Priestlands School in Lymington, Hampshire County Council and parents of vegan children attending the school
The Metro reported on 21 January 2018 that a school in England “reared four pigs” and “is now going...(Read More)
Under Construction: Building on Vegan Rights in the UK Construction Industry
The engineering sector, and the construction industry in general, have never been considered as vegan friendly environments. Even just...(Read More)
Why vegan rights?
In 2012, Dr Jeanette Rowley founded the International Vegan Rights Alliance (now the International Rights Network). Her vision...(Read More)