Next week, the European Parliament will vote on a ban on 'meat names' for vegetarian and plant-based products. Worldwide, this has been heavily lobbied for years, especially by representatives of the meat industry. The Dutch Party for the Animals opposes the criminalization of 'meat-like names' at a national and European level: such a ban stands in the way of innovation and the promotion of plant-...
Bullfighting glorifies abuse, violence, and cruelty against animals and should absolutely not be included on the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage. This was recently announced by MEP for the Dutch Party for the Animals Anja Hazekamp together with sixty other MEPs in a joint letter to Audrey Azoulay, director of UNESCO. Hazekamp is calling on citizens around the world to let UNESCO know t...
Historian Philip Blom recently stated: “We are on a tipping point, and things could go either way. We are stuck in an economic system that can’t go on for much longer. It either ends in a catastrophe with new pandemics, wars about access to resources, you name it, or we’ll go in the other direction. But the fact that it will tip one way or another, that’s a given.”Signs of approaching tipping poin...