Our partners

The project is funded through a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, awarded to Dr Mike Foden. The Leverhulme Trust is a UK-based charitable body which funds independent, original research cutting across traditional disciplinary boundaries.

Our research is supported by the following partner organisations:

Launched by Paul, Mary and Stella McCartney in 2009, Meat Free Monday is a not-for-profit campaign which aims to raise awareness of the detrimental environmental impact of animal agriculture and industrial fishing. The campaign encourages people to help slow climate change, conserve precious natural resources and improve their health by having at least one plant-based day each week.

The Vegan Society is a registered educational charity, founded in 1944. It seeks to make veganism more accessible, providing information and guidance to support individuals, policy and decision makers, caterers, manufacturers, health care professionals and the media.

With origins in the nineteenth century, the Vegetarian Society exists to educate the public about vegetarianism and to promote the vegetarian diet. Its mission is to inspire, educate and enable people to be vegetarian