If you picked up the age today and turned to page 8 of the "The Green Issue," you would have found a whole section on 'food ethics!' A two page spread, in fact! The Age even went as far as calling food ethics, "the cause of the moment."
It included info on how to cut down on your meat intake, damning statistics in regard to the amount of water wasted by Victoria's dairy industry (35% of Victoria's total irrigation), ALY's 'Slap the Butcher campaign' and lots of information on the cruelty of factory farms - particularly sow stalls and broiler & battery farms.
Now, as if that wasn't good enough, 2 pages prior to this 2 page spread you will find ANOTHER 2 page spread on 'the ethics of eating.' And although it was not limited to vegetarianism/veganism (instead including the advantages of eating local produce, free range meat and steering off unsustainably farmed fish etc), there was a whole column on veganism! Accompanied with the column was a link to the VNV website! So you never know, maybe a few more people will be joining us after reading through these articles.
Francis was also included in the article and some information on the "Slap the Butcher" campaign... which I'm sure we all think is pretty cool
Just thought I'd share my surprise at this wealth of information in a mainstream publication with the rest of you
