Will Appelbe sits down with Alice Shopland, the founder of Aotearoa plant-based food company Angel Food. Alice launched Angel Food in 2006, and has since built a strong brand and a reputation as one of Aotearoa’s leading vegan cheese manufacturers. In 2014 they launched their dairy-free mozzarella, which was the …continue
On this episode of Knowing Animals, we are joined by Lynda Korimboccus. Lynda is a postgraduate anthrozoologist who has been recently appointed the Student Editor in Chief of the Student Journal of Vegan Sociology. We discuss her paper “Pig-Ignorant: The Peppa Pig Paradox. Investigating Contradictory Consumption in Childhood”, which was …continue
Trev and Davita discuss the recent controversies with social media influencers in the animal rights movement, ranging from transphobia, to anti-semitism and dodgy donations. We discuss all this while trying not to get sued! For more discussion on social media influencers, look up these pages: The cranky vegan – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTTlQEjQKByIegGc_CP2z1w Animal Rights Zone …continue
Hakeem Jimo joins us this week for an insightful and inspiring conversation about Nigeria’s growing vegan movement and the meat alternative making a splash there: Vchunks. Hakeem tells us all about developing Vchunks specifically for the Nigerian palate. Not an […] Your browser does not support the HTML5 audio player. …continue
Dr Diana Fleischman is an evolutionary psychologist & an author. Until recently she was a senior lecturer at the University of Portsmouth. Her field of research includes the study of disgust, human sexuality, hormones & behaviour. She is involved in the effective altruism & animal welfare movements & identifies as …continue
Cultured, clean, cell-based, lab-grown, whatever you’d like to call it — the production of “real meat” without the “real animal” on the surface seems to be a promising technology offering abundant food on a global level, repair of the environment, and oh yes, reduction of animal suffering. The largest meat …continue
