Some time at the end of 2018, I ate my last piece of bacon. Never again in my life would a piece of delicious fried flesh pass between my lips...and do I have any regrets? Only that I didn't do it sooner. Vegetarianism came to me quite late (I was 28 when I finally made…
Continue reading ➞ Fine, eat animals if you must but don’t support factory farming
Some people came out of lock-down with nothing to show but a deepened loathing for society, twitchy screen-eyes and some early symptoms of scurvy. Not me. I put my time to good use and, with the help of a slow masticating juicer, a smoothie making machine and having a long list of more pressing tasks…
Continue reading ➞ I’ve invented a nutritious & delicious vegan milkshake and you have to try it
I have no idea if I've learnt 11 things. This is a very specific number of learnings but it's what I typed, so let's go... 1. My happiness depends almost entirely on food (immediate access to, or the impending approach of). I really like food. Now that I can't eat very much of it, I've…
Continue reading ➞ 11 things I’ve learnt one week into the Fast 800 Diet
This morning I weed on a stick and it turned pink. To bring you up to speed (god forbid you should miss something on this riveting journey of mine) it's day 4 of the Fast 800 diet, which I've decided to follow for 6.5 weeks over Lent. It's really hard to write these blogs because…
Continue reading ➞ The day I finally accessed my body’s fat stores (Fast 800 diet)
Japan has just announced that it's leaving the International Whaling Commission to resume commercial hunting in July 2019. As a middle-class, white British national living a privileged life of questionable significance in Britain, my opinion on the matter of Japanese whaling is of no real importance whatsoever. I have only been to Japan once, as a…
Continue reading ➞ Save Japan’s whales, kill the politicians
