by Andrew Knight | Mar 21, 2025 | News 2025
Billy Nicholles and I considered the environmental impacts of vegan vs. meat-based pet foods, in a Plant-Based News article. We considered the meat- and plant-based ingredients within commercial pet foods, and the role of animal byproducts. We even considered emerging...
by Andrew Knight | Jan 2, 2025 | News 2025
In Oxford Open Climate Change, we proposed that the pressing nature of irreversible climate change requires rethinking our food systems. Said the Editor, “This is a compelling piece of work, and I anticipate that it will make a valuable contribution to the field.”...
by Andrew Knight | Dec 30, 2024 | News 2024
This article in The Conversation summarised the environmental benefits, food energy savings (additional people who could be fed) and number of ‘food’ animals who would be spared from slaughter annually, if the world’s pet dogs and cats were transitioned on to...
by Andrew Knight | Oct 3, 2024 | News 2024
In this article Billy Nicholles and I rebuted common critiques of vegan pet diets, notably by veterinary nurse Robyn Lowe of Veterinary Voices UK in her 2023 blog: Vegan diets are healthier and safer for cats and dogs – or are they? Nicholles B and...
by Andrew Knight | Sep 8, 2024 | News 2024
By 2024, 10 scientific studies had demonstrated good health outcomes in dogs fed vegan or vegetarian diets, and the British Veterinary Association had endorsed nutritionally-sound vegan dog diets. Yet no studies had calculated the size of the health benefits that...
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