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This article was published here. A month after Rishi Sunak announced the government’s smoking ban, its inclusion in the King’s Speech marks its first step towards becoming law. The government will propose a bill increasing the minimum smoking age by one year every year, so that as the next generation …

This article was published here. Les écologistes souhaitent aujourd’hui que nous arrêtions de manger de la viande. En raison de l’inquiétude croissante suscitée par le changement climatique et de la volonté qui en découle de réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre pour obtenir un bilan « zéro carbone », …

This article was published here. In recent years, many have felt their wallets squeezed by skyrocketing food prices. The economic fallout from the Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine and other factors combined to create very high levels of food inflation. But recent data suggests the trend is changing, with …

This article was first published here. Quel est le véritable impact de ces nouveaux régimes alimentaires ? Pour sauver la planète du changement climatique, de nombreux défenseurs de l’environnement affirment que nous devrions devenir végétaliens. Ils attirent l’attention sur les émissions de gaz à effet de serre provenant de l’élevage de …

A recent viral WhatsApp message contained a number of false statements about palm oil, leading to a needless health scare among many. Palm oil is a common product used in food products and toiletries sold around the world, but it sometimes falls victim to scare stories which have no basis …

This article was first published here. Le véganisme est aujourd’hui une tendance croissante dans le monde occidental, en particulier chez les jeunes. Les végétaliens vantent les bienfaits d’un régime alimentaire à base de plantes pour la santé. Ils sont également nombreux à observer l’impact environnemental de l’élevage sur les émissions …

This article was first published here. Palm oil is a very common product. It appears in thousands of food products and is sold and used all around the world without issue. Unfortunately, there is a lot of misinformation surrounding palm oil. Some people, possibly with a vested commercial interest in …

This article was first published here. Veganism is on the rise. There are tens of millions of vegans in the world, amounting to more than 1% of the world’s population, per some estimates. With demand for plant-based foodstuffs soaring, meat and milk substitutes are selling faster than ever before. According to the Good Food Institute, global retail sales …

This article was first published here. Making meat unaffordable would be bad for our diets, the environment and our basic freedom of choice. Before prime minister Rishi Sunak announced plans to water down the UK’s Net Zero policies last week, there had been an implicit agreement between the major parties not …

This article was first published here. Greenhouse gas emissions from meat production are a disaster for climate change, but plant-based meat substitutes like soy are sometimes even worse for the environment. To protect both the planet and consumer choice, look to innovation in lab-grown meat technology. Meat is killing the …

This article was first published here. When was the last time you ate meat? Or an egg? Or cheese, or butter, or milk? Not long ago, probably. Despite breathless sensationalist media coverage, the vegan movement (or, to call it by its trendy new name, ‘going plant-based’) has still captured only …

This article was first published here and here. ‘Green’ foods have their environmental downsides, too. Better to pursue efforts to make beef and milk production more emissions-free. Environmental campaigners are keen to tell us the greenhouse gases emitted by mass animal farming play a significant role in warming the globe. …

This article was first published here. Wokeness seems to be taking over the Western world. Everywhere you look, from Disney to Budweiser, liberals are in competition about who can say and do the most deranged progressive things. Fully-grown adults subscribe to obvious nonsense and the left shamelessly pushes fake truths in the public …

This article was first published here. Veganism is all the rage. Advocates of the vegan lifestyle often make bold claims about its transformative positive health effects, including weight loss, mood-boosting, and even reducing the risk of cancer and diabetes. But a little digging into the everyday reality of eating no animal products …

This article was first published here. Despite what vegan virtue-signalers would have you believe, ditching dairy won’t help save the planet. Now that the myth that our everyday purchasing choices and diets can stop the changing climate, veganism has become synonymous with saving the planet. As more and more people …

This article was published here. Virtue-signaling by well-known brands is nothing new. But if we leave the growing culture of corporate virtue-signaling unchecked, it could have profound consequences for society, thanks to those brands’ legion of followers: a group sometimes called “soy boys.” “Soy boy” is a pejorative social media …

This article was first published here. It is now three and a half years since Britain left the European Union. Brexit spelled the end of decades of subservience to intervention and bureaucracy from Brussels. While lots of the benefits are still waiting on the sidelines, delayed by political obstacles, the …

This article was first published here. The Daily Star, a staple of any good newspaper stand, has launched a campaign called Your Chippy Needs You, highlighting the plight of Britain’s fish and chips industry. It quotes the National Federation of Fish Friers, which fears 1 in 2 chippies could go bust …

This article was first published here. The actions of the Chinese government in recent years should shock us all. The Chinese Communist Party is committing a genocide against Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang region. It has flagrantly tossed aside basic liberties such as freedom of the press in Hong Kong, in favour …

This article was first published here. Nothing is truly predictable in electoral politics, but the chances of Labour overcoming a record-breaking electoral deficit to win the next general election look much higher than they did three and a half years ago, when Boris Johnson won his Brexit majority. Sir Keir …