Green Events Weekend at Fota Wildlfe Park 11am – 4pm Marquee beside Oasis Cafe The Fota Education team, led by Lynda McSweeney, Head of Education at Fota, will be on hand to highlight their Going Green message. There will be … Read more
We’re borrowing the words of the late, great Douglas Adams in our farewell from the Meaty Matters blog.
When we began the Meat Pledge experiment, we decided to include our own meat pledge period and our blog entries as part of the group. All the names have been changed to ensure privacy both for the participants and for … Read more
Two more days left for our plege project, but the work will indeed continue and we are still very happy to start a pledge period with new volunteers! For those who have just discovered this blog, Meaty Matters is part … Read more
For many days, we’ve been talking on Meaty Matters about our 9 pledge participants, volunteers who are willing to eat less or no meat for 4 whole weeks, and to tell us all about it. Actually they’ve done quite well, … Read more
”Killing a large animal is lot of work, the nervous system does not stop immediately and it can even be dangerous. Cutting it apart is grueling. You’re taking the legs and the shoulders, etc. but there’s still a frame that … Read more
About three weeks ago, our plucky participants began a pledge period of less or no meat for 4 weeks. Why did they do it? In this blog entry we’re looking at the reasons some of these volunteers decided to change … Read more
Corkonians have changed over the past generation; for one thing, people eat out much more. There have been chippers and McDonalds for decades but now there’s a larger variety of convenience eateries. Supermarkets in Cork have gotten a greater variety … Read more
We’ve written several times about problems that arise during the Meat Pledge experiment (keeping a period of less or no meat for 4 weeks) both in reactions from others around them and within the participants themselves. But we have also … Read more
As part of our yearly programme of field meetings (see following) we have two weekend days where we will be recording wild plants around the Courtmacsherry area (see info pasted in at end of email). As an add-on, I will … Read more