Book: animal welfare – 100,000+ downloads

Book: animal welfare – 100,000+ downloads

Our new textbook, the 2023 Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare, which is freely available online, has now surpassed 100,000 chapter downloads! And the complete textbook has been downloaded around 10,000 times. It is now one of the world’s leading textbooks in animal...
Article: climate change and diet

Article: climate change and diet

Our major new study on climate change solutions has just been published in leading open access scientific journal Heliyon. Our planet is in a state of emergency and we only have a short window of time (7-8 years) to enact meaningful change to prevent a global climate...
Technical letter: vegan cat health

Technical letter: vegan cat health

This technical letter, published in a leading UK veterinary journal, summarised the evidence extant by Oct. 2023, about health outcomes of cats on vegan vs meat-based diets. Three studies had shown equivalent or superior health outcomes, when vegan diets were used....
Article: pet food environmental sustainability

Article: pet food environmental sustainability

What would the environmental benefits be, if the world’s dogs, cats and people all consumed vegan diets, and how many additional people or pets could be fed with the food energy saved? How much livestock consumption is due to pet food? After analysing pet food...
Article: pet food environmental sustainability

Article: cell-based seafood

Cell-based seafood is produced by taking cells from live aquatic animals and cultivating them in appropriate growth media within bioreactors. Resultant products have identical DNA and tissue and appear safe for human consumption. They might present a viable...