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Article: pet food environmental sustainability

Article: pet food environmental sustainability

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...
Article: vegan pet health

Article: vegan pet health

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...
Article: vegan dog health

Article: vegan dog health

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...
Chapter: pet food sustainability

Chapter: pet food sustainability

This open access chapter within the 2024 book Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets edited by D’Silva and McKenna summarises the key results of my recent study on the sustainability of vegan vs. meat-based pet diets. These benefits are game-changingly large....
Letter: octopus farming

Letter: octopus farming

Co-signed by 100 scientific and academic colleagues, this letter published in Science called on the US Congress to support the OCTOPUS Act of 2024 and ban commercial octopus farming and the importation of commercially farmed octopi or their products within the US....
Article: vegan pet food: nutritional soundness

Article: vegan pet food: nutritional soundness

A response to a recent study by Daina et al. (2023) asserting nutritional inadequacies in vegan pet diets based on the analysis of only three specific diets — a sample insufficient to draw the sweeping (and incorrect) conclusions made. Also summarises the current...