Vegan Politicians: Dublin: John Lyons . . . (John is an elected member of Dublin City Council (in 2024) and is a member of Independent Left – a party with a clear animal rights message.) Paul Gogarty . . . (Former TD and local politician in Dublin mid-West. Paul has been a vegan or vegetarian for most of his life according to his website.) Cork: Liz Coakley Wakefield . . . (Green Party candidate for Cork South West. Liz has been vegan for over 40 years.) Harriet Burgess . . . (Green Party candidate for Macroom. Harriet is a vegan.) Limerick: Gerben Uunk . . . (Gerben is a vegan and co-fou ..read more

Please note that there may be other vegan breakfast cereals not listed here. Cereal: Kellogg’s Rice Krispies Multigrain Strawberry and Apple Kellogg’s Rice Krispies Multigrain Blueberry and Apple Whole Earth Organic Cornflakes M&S High Protein Vegan Chocolate Crunch Weetabix and Shreddies: Weetabix Weetabix Chocolate Weetabix Banana Oatibix Nestle Shredded Wheat Nestle Shreddies Original Nestle Shreddies Coco Nestle Shreddies Frosted Porridge: Ready Brek (original) Foods of Athenry Sunshine Start Flahavan’s Progress Oatlets Flahavan’s Quick Oats Red Berry Flahavan’s Immunity Boost Po ..read more

There are 2 things to look for when buying toiletries, cosmetics or cleaning products: Is the company cruelty-free – ie. it does not do any animal testing. Is the product marked vegan (or does it contain any animal-derived substances). Many people assume that if a product is marked ‘vegan’ this means that it is not tested on animals. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Some companies who carry out animal testing do still mark some of their products ‘vegan’. This is confusing, and while companies are wrong to do this they are not acting illegally. Non-vegan ingredients in products: Th ..read more

To print the spreadsheets you need to create an Excel (or other) spreadsheet on your desktop, and copy and paste the selected data into your own spreadsheet. Create a spreadsheet on your desktop and widen each of the first few columns so that you will be able to see the data when it is copied in. Go to the website and open the spreadsheet you want to copy from. Place the cursor on the top left of the sheet. Hold down the Control key (Ctrl) and use the down arrow to highlight the contents of the spreadsheet.  (You can also use Ctrl-c  or  Ctrl-a). Go to your desktop spreadsheet ..read more

Q:  Humans have always eaten meat. Isn’t this natural? During most of our evolutionary history, humans were largely vegetarian, with plant foods like potatoes making up the bulk of our ancestors’ diet.  Archaeologist Dr. Richard Leakey says our prehistoric ancestors started off on a plant based diet: “You can’t tear flesh by hand, you can’t tear hide by hand, and we wouldn’t have been able to deal with the food sources that required those large canines”. The more frequent addition of modest amounts of meat to the early human diet came with the discovery of fire, which lowered the ris ..read more

Q:  Are animals conscious? In July, 2012, a group of scientists gathered at the University of Cambridge for the first annual Francis Crick Memorial Conference. Crick, who was the co-discoverer of DNA, spent the latter part of his career studying consciousness. The outcome of the meeting was the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness which concludes that “non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not ..read more

Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Agriculture is responsible for 37.5% of the country’s emissions, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The average dairy farm in Ireland emits 502 tonnes of greenhouse gases per year. This is three and a half times more than the average for beef farms, and for sheep farms, and it is four times more than the average for tillage farms. (Teagasc report) Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture are proportionally higher than any other country in the EU. Ireland emits more GHG than the poorest 400 million people in the world combined. (Trocaire) Biodiversity ..read more