Dede Sophie

One of the easiest ways to learn more about veganism (or show your friends and loved ones more about veganism) is to watch it in a documentary or film. But with so many new vegan documentaries out there, all varying in degrees of graphicness, how do you choose the best one for you? I read (okay skimmed) a lot of blog posts about vegan documentaries and, put frankly, they’re overwhelming – who in their right minds is going to sit through 50 vegan documentaries? Why do all the blog posts mention the same vegan documentaries? And why are all these blog posts written by people who’ve clearly never watched said documentaries? In this blog post I’ve tried to be super personal, and I’ve written it with the idea that you are my friend* and you’re asking me for a recommendation: maybe you want something non-graphic, maybe you want something super-graphic, maybe you want something about a specific part of veganism (no-honey, no-leather etc). I’ve tried to...

The Papua New Guinea Government will impose a blanket ban on the importation of frozen chickens into the country to protect the Billion-Kina local poultry industry.  PNG’s Agriculture Minister Aiye Tambua announced, that the ban will take effect at the end of this month.  He says protecting the poultry industry from imported diseases is the main reason for the decision. Agriculture Minister Aiye Tambua has announced the implementation of advice from the National Agriculture Quarantine Authority to ban the importation of all frozen chickens into the country.  It will take effect at the end of this month, but will not affect orders placed before the ban date.  The Agriculture Minister making the official announcement before the media says protecting the Billion Kina Local Poultry Industry is important.    The Member for Goroka further says the decision is not a bottleneck approach but to safeguard the poultry in the long run.  Meantime, PNG  imports nearly, K200 million worth of fro...