VOICES: Imagine a time when all schools and public sector menus included at least one vegan option. In Portugal that’s a reality, so why not the UK? Laura Chepner, chair of The Vegan Society’s Education Network, tells us about their new ‘Vegans Assemble’ campaign.

The evidence that children don’t want to eat animals is mounting. A new study by researchers at the Universities of Exeter and Oxford has found that children make fewer moral distinctions between different species and that speciesism is learned during adolescence.

Are universities, our hallowed institutes of higher education and progressive thinking, failing students by ignoring scientific consensus on the impact of animal agriculture on the environment? Vaania Kapoor Achuthan, a student at University College London, discusses the aims of a bold new plant-based universities campaign.