Most of us love a good burger, but there are many issues from animal welfare to rainforest beef and soy, along with palm oil, fast food litter and health. Whichever burger you choose, served in toasted buns with lettuce, sliced tomatoes and red onions, and garnish with gherkins and vegan mayonnaise or ketchup, with an optional…
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plant-based alternatives to salmon fish
Not just humans, but a lot of wildlife eat salmon – from kingfishers to river otters. Harbour seals also like salmon, and until recently, they were shot dead in Scotland to ‘protect fish stocks’. This is not just unkind but also traumatised visitors to the seashore (including children) who would find dead seals. On a…
where to buy peanut butter (with no palm oil)
In England, we don’t eat peanut butter to the same extent as Americans (most people in the USA eat it everyday). But millions of people do spread it on toast, make a peanut butter sandwich or use it in cooking. But many brands contain (there is no such thing as ‘sustainable palm oil’) and its…
plant-based alternatives to tuna fish
Tuna is one of the more popular seafoods, but there are huge issues with over-fishing which causes by-catch (dolphins, seals, whales, sea turtles and sharks get caught in nets) and ghost fishing waste (discarded hooks and nets trap marine creatures and seabirds). Almost half of Pacific garbage is made of fishing nets (up to 5…