Chicken farmers lose out to vegan crowdfund project
POSITIVE NEWS: Power to the people, or rather power to the vegans! The Vegan Land Movement (VLM) has revealed that its latest crowdfunded land buy-out actually blocked the plans of two chicken farmers, one of whom was looking to build a facility with a turnaround of an estimated 20,000 birds per year.
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Scrap Factory Farming: a ‘David and Goliath’ story to shape the future?
It is the kind of story we can all get behind: a small group of activists with a big vision - and even bigger hearts – enlists the help of a high-profile lawyer to take on the Government and present a legal challenge that could very well change the future for humans, non-human animals and the planet. In the first of our Grassroots Focus series, we spoke to David Finney, Jane Tredgett and Peta Smith, volunteers at Humane Being, about the launch of the pioneering Scrap Factory Farming campaign.
Is a landmark vegan crowdfund the sign we were all waiting for?
A bunch of crazy vegans got together and decided to do something amazing: convince the public to chip in and buy a plot of land once used for grazing dairy cows to turn it towards something plant-based. Is their crowdfunding victory a fluke, or is it a sign that the world is finally changing? Jackie Norman looks at other projects at the vanguard of alternative land use.