by Andrew Knight | Apr 19, 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 | 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...
by Andrew Knight | Aug 2, 2024 | News 2024
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...
by Andrew Knight | Jun 3, 2024 | News 2024
Control methods are applied worldwide to reduce predation on livestock by European red foxes. Lethal methods are intended to kill foxes and can inflict suffering. Non-lethal methods can also inflict suffering and can unintentionally lead to death. Moral debate about...
by Andrew Knight | Apr 12, 2024 | News 2024
A major scientific study by Emily Davies and I has just vindicated the position of celebrity naturalist and TV presenter Chris Packham, who claimed in the High Court in 2023 that circus environments can be harmful to the welfare of tigers. Packham had previously...
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