Which it is

I am a vegan. I don’t eat meat, fish, eggs, dairy or anything made from those things. I was raised as a vegetarian (no meat ever)! My main reasons for being a vegan are the environmental cost and unsustainability of animal based diets, and I’m quite happy for everyone else to go on and eat their thing, whether it’s twice daily barbecue or ritual starvation. I am not interested in visits from the vegan police.

Actually I’ve rather shot myself in the foot with the whole vegan thing – I don’t get on with most vegans that I meet, because I think they’re extremist nutcases, and non vegans think I’m an extremist nutcase.  Ah well.

I don’t wear leather unless it is secondhand or recycled. However, I knit with wool, silk, yak and anything else there is going. I make every effort to find out if it has come from a good place where the livestock are well cared for. When I use plant or other fibres , I try to buy organic.