Articles

We want to invite you to join us on our journey towards a more responsible lifestyle. Living a responsible lifestyle starts with making conscious and educated decisions. Therefore, we need to discuss the interconnections with social responsibility, human rights, consumerism, the environment, and animal rights. We hope that we can inspire you to follow in our greener footsteps.

  • Palm oil industry

Why the palm oil problem is still far from solved

With the ongoing deforestation of tropical forests, it’s time to untangle the palm oil problem and discuss why it’s still not solved. We’ll discuss if palm oil can be sustainable, how the RSPO certification system works and if SynBio can help us out.
  • Activism

How to get actively involved with environmental ethics, human rights and animal rights

Our species, especially in modern-day society, urgently needs reconnection – to the environment, each other, and other animal species. But how do we do that? In this post, we will highlight how you can get actively involved and reconnect with all of them.
  • Animal welfare

Systemic abuse of farm animals within the modern animal agriculture industry

All that happens during an animal’s life in the animal agriculture industry happens because consumers are willing to buy its flesh, skin, feathers, milk or eggs. In this post we will discuss the lives of cows, pigs and chickens within modern Western animal agriculture.
  • Sociology

Silence and denial around animal suffering in everyday life

How is it possible that billions of animals suffer all around us in farms, slaughterhouses, transportation and laboratories, while we are not “aware” of it? In this post, we’ll take a look at the sociological aspects of denial.
  • Conscious shopping

Paper, plastic or cotton: which carrier bag is the least harmful?

Pretty much every article you come across recommends swapping plastic bags for cotton tote bags to reduce your environmental impact. This seems like good advice but it turns out that it may not be so simple.
  • Leather industry

The impact of leather on animal welfare

Global leather consumption harms our environment and is diminishing the lives of living beings. We believe that this is not something we should not turn a blind eye to. This post discusses the impact of leather on animal welfare.
  • Leather industry

The environmental impact of leather

The immense lust for leather is the main driver for deforestation and a major contributor to the global greenhouse gas emissions. In this post we will shine a light on the environmental impact of leather.
  • Leather industry

The social impact of leather

Our lust for cheap leather has moved a large part of the leather industry to countries that don’t care much about labour rights. In this post, we will discuss the impact of leather on people.
  • World Bee Day

What’s wrong with World Bee Day?

Today is World Bee Day. A day to celebrate bees and other pollinators for playing a fundamental role in the survival of our ecosystem, thus our human survival. In this post we propose to change the name to Native Pollinators Day.