30-04-2010 A day-off!

Hi there

I took a “day off” from actively campaigning in the General Election yesterday (although it was almost a “busman’s holiday”!), and instead visited a secondary school in Kent to give a full day’s set of presentations on behalf of a charity on “health and well-being”. This was a great opportunity to put across the benefits of a healthy, plant-based diet and to ensure that the pupils recognise how everything is connected – and show them that the food choices they make have a direct impact on the lives of other animals in this world, and the state of the environment.

They showed a lot of interest in – and (naturally) were quite appalled by – what I was able to show them in terms of how animals are treated on factory farms, and the huge impact of the meat and dairy industries on climate change.

There were some really positive comments afterwards, and they took away a lot of the leaflets that I had so that they could learn more.

Following on from my interview on the BBC on Wednesday, this has been a really productive couple of days in getting the message across that animal matters do matter – animals do count!