Andrew Knight
Professor Andrew Knight has been leading animal advocacy campaigns for nearly three decades. Whilst a Western Australian veterinary student in 2000, he caused controversy by refusing to kill animals during his surgical and preclinical training. He is now a veterinary Professor of animal welfare affiliated with three universities. His first PhD critiqued invasive scientific and educational animal use, and his second studied vegan pet diets. His studies on vegan pet food are regularly reported in news outlets globally and have been covered by leading outlets such as New Scientist. He often works with animal advocacy charities, and is frequently interviewed by the media. He has received over 15 awards for this work.
www.AndrewKnight.info
www.RepresentingAnimals.info
www.SustainablePetFood.info
Vegan pet food: a New Diet Change Frontier
Vegan pet foods use plant, mineral and synthetic sources to supply necessary nutrients. Very recent, large-scale studies into health outcomes, environmental sustainability and other key consumer concerns are supporting the emergence of a new disruptive vegan pet food industry. At least 20% of US livestock environmental impacts are due to pet food – a figure likely similar to that in other developed nations with high pet ownership. Global implementation of vegan dog foods alone would spare from slaughter six billion land animals annually, save more greenhouse gases than emitted by the whole of the UK, and sufficient food energy to feed the entire EU human population. At least 14 studies have demonstrated equivalent or superior health outcomes when (nutritionally-sound) vegan dog or cat foods are used. These recent studies have been paradigm-shifting for the animal advocacy and environmental movements.
Professor Knight will also join our anti-vivisection discussion panel.
