Vegan Week

According to Scandi' company 'Frida', this is the question we've all been too afraid to ask! Dominic, Mark & Ant dissect this one, plus eight other stories from the last seven days in the vegan & animal rights space. **************** Enough of the Falafel is a community of people who love keeping on top of the latest news in the world of veganism & animal rights. With the Vegan Week po...

Many conversations between vegans, or about veganism, begin with someone stating how long they have been vegan for. But is this a good idea? And when does the vegan clock start...or re-set?! In this episode Julie, Dominic & Ant discuss their approaches to "how long I've been vegan for", as well as the implications of their choices. As ever, we love hearing your views on the topics under discus...

But what about freedom of choice?!?!?! In this week's vegan & animal rights news wrap, Dominic, Richard & Ant discuss a 'set-to- between Sir Sadiq Khan and Zack Polanski on the subject of plant-based-by-default public canteens, as well as eight other stories from the last 7 days. **************** Enough of the Falafel is a community of people who love keeping on top of the latest news in t...

How do you feel about your new vegan pal, Cynthia, who is into fast fashion, is a Coca Cola shareholder and drives around a 4x4 on the weekends just for fun? In this episode, Elena, Mark & Ant explore how compassion & ethics interplay with other areas of our lives, away from animal rights. Can you be vegan and not recycle? Does everything you own need to be second hand? And now we think ab...

In the UK this week, the RSPCA and Cats Protection UK have publicly spoken out against cat cafes; the businesses where customers can pay for the privilege of sipping lattes alongside (generally) rescued cats. But how are Dominic, Julie & Ant feline about this, and the rest of the week's animal rights news?! **************** Enough of the Falafel is a community of people who love keeping on top...

Available to watch for free on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adue0xef8pY), this latest documentary from Dan Richardson & Giles Alderson looks at the huge range of people following a vegan lifestyle & the reasons one might do so. In this episode, Julie, Paul, Dominic & Ant discuss their thoughts on the film  See the IMDB summary here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9614434...

This was the week that two PETA protestors received the beating of all beatings whilst protesting the selective breeding that is synonymous with Crifts Dog Show; one was repeatedly punched by security services; the other was thrown out of his wheelchair. Just the positive PR that dog breeding needed, right?! As well as this story, Elena, Mark & Ant  look at eight other news articles from...

Yes, there's another potential link to animal abuse in the things you buy! Just when you thought you'd done all your checks...turns out that the xanthan gum you'd triple-checked the ingredients list for...was fed to some innocent mice until they could take no more. FFS... In this episode, Julie & Ant explore how & why some foods are tested on animals, some of the ways to find out whether y...

This week, Dominic, Paul, Julie & Ant start off by discussing the perculiar & sinister-sounding art installation involving three piglets being starved...to draw people's attention to animal abuse in animal ag. But the plot thickened almost as much as the artist himself, as the piglets were subsequently stolen by animal rights protestors. As well as this story, we also look at nine other ne...

Julie, Paul & Ant are heading into the DeLorean and setting course for 2010, where a 12 minute claymation film has just been released in Australia. Are we just being sentimental in watching this one, or are there things that can be learned from this short? Watch the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg3kezDhxJA&t=1s See the IMDB summary here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1743235/...

All those people sitting in Nandos are only there because of the company's love for the environment, right?!  In this episode, Ant & Julie examine the latest campaign against the chicken restaurant by environmentalists, concerned about the impact of the poultry industry on the nearby River Wye...but is there any mention of alternatives that might actually improve outcomes for these innoce...

Considering how straightforward the answer could be, this question comes up quite a lot. Shouldn't we be encouraging beekeeping, if bees are threatened? It doesn't hurt a bee to eat some of its honey, surely? In this episode Kate, Paul & Ant discuss their responses to this question, share reasons why you really don't want to be supporting any kind of beekeeping & discuss how to respond to...

Always great to see a court case resolving to allow animal rights protests to continue; in this episode, Paul, Julie & Anthony discuss the case of John Curtin, who- along with Camp Beagle at MBR Acres in the East of England- have been allowed to resume their campaign against animal breeding and testing industries. We also look at eight other stories from the vegan & animal rights space fro...

Should vegans be attending Vegan Camp Out in lieu of the news that the venue is closely entangled with animal cruelty? When will Sweden catch up with the rest of the vegan world? And who exactly are these "vegans" who are swimming around and killing lionfish? This is our fifth Listener Mailbag episode where Ant, Kate & Julie read & respond to your messages. We love hearing your views on th...

Dairy farmers in the US are warning that if Donald Trump's new deportation measures take full effect...there might not be anyone left who is willing to do the dairy industry's dirty work. Paul, Kate & Ant dissect this, as well as nine other stories from the week's vegan & animal rights news, as they ponder: Whilst it may indicate another bell tolling for the dairy industry, can we really c...

What do you do when a vegan in your life does something that...well...just isn't really that vegan? Does it depend on how 'serious' the 'transgression' is? And by even thinking in this way, are we falling into 'vegan policing'? Or just keeping it real for the animals? In this episode Mark, Julie & Ant talk about specific times in their lives when they've weighed up whether to say something or...

Nine stories from the last seven days of veganism and animal rights for Julie, Kate & Ant to dissect this week including the names of Czech sausages, mountains with legal personhood & anmal agriculture's latest attempt to become even more depraved, as it stoops to new lows with its feed in the UK. **************** Enough of the Falafel is a community of people who love keeping on top of th...

Raising Hare was a short podcast series from BBC Sounds available in January 2025, based on a book written by Chloe Dalton. It documented a real life story of the author, who in the first lockdown of 2020, found an ailing infant hare (a leveret) in a field near her home. What follows is a story of constantly weighing up what the right thing is to do with a wild animal that needs help, but also is...

A recent study has shown that including carbon-footprint data next to supermarket products makes people significantly more likely to choose plant-based equivalents of meat, cheese and milk. Will this happen in reality, and how could other existing e-commerce tools be used to benefit animals? In this episode, Julie, Mark & Anthony examine this, as well as nine other stories from the vegan &...

We hear lots at the moment about how AI is being used to regulate animals' feeding schedules and evaluate carcasses for diseases...but could Artificial Intelligence instead be used to help liberate animals? Carlos & Ant talk AI, with only occasional help from a vegan bot... As ever, we love hearing your views on the topics under discussion (or anything else!) so do drop us your thoughts via en...

In our fifth episode of this second series of 'Going Vegan', we speak to Elena who tells us about growing up in rural Spain, how an unexpected parallel between her twin sister's academic textbook led her to vegetarianism, and how the waters became muddied when a real desire to live as a vegan for moral and ethical reasons...was paired with disordered eating. We're incredibly grateful for Elena's v...

Blimey, that was a bit of week wasn't it?! In this episode, Julie, Dominic & Anthony examine a blustering week full of some of the most controversial and divisive stories we've seen since we started Enough of the Falafel: Angry shoppers yelling at Animal Rising demonstrators, dead piglets being dropped on doorsteps, elephants being denied legal personhood, and Julie getting suspicious that Dal...

Saving & prolonging the lives of innocent non-human animals is valuable & heart-warming work. But with tens of billions of animals needlessly losing their lives to human exploitation every year, could the finite resources of the vegan movement be applied more effectively? Ant, Carlos & Mark explore this thorny question in this episode. Reference is made in this episode to the following...

Join us in Series 2 of the Going Vegan show for conversations with people about their vegan journeys: The first signs that veganism might be an option for individuals, making the switch, the challenges, the surprises...and everything in between! In our fourth episode of this second series, we speak to regular contributor to the show- Mark- who tells us about his many decades involvement in the ani...

The terrible wildfires raging across California at the moment are truly awful news, for human and non-human animals alike. One tiny kernel of positivity amidst the horror however is the actions of plant-based pop-up Vurger Guyz, who have provided over a thousand plant-based meals to some of those affected by the tragedy, as well as receiving support from actor Tabitha Borwn, and plant-based giants...