We want to celebrate the amazing women that keep Viva! I love developing campaigns with an awesome team and being intimately involved with helping the nation become vegan. Ultimately, I want to save animals from a wretched existence and slaughter. I want to help heal and rewild the planet. Four pregnant heifers arrived in the field alongside my garden. One of them unexpectedly gave birth to twins. One little calf died and the other a perfect little bull calf amidst the long grass one sunny evening.
The next day, the farmer arrived and scooped the calf into his arms and walked away with him, his mother following behind without any need of tethers, concerned for the welfare of her baby. I found out that after just one day, he and his mother were separated as they always are — she to be milked, he to be sent for veal.
Already vegetarian, I went vegan. That was 30 years ago. If you could only eat one vegan meal for the rest of your life, what would it be and why?
What is your job at Viva! I am Executive Assistant to the Director and have worked at Viva! What is your favourite thing about working at Viva? Besides getting to try the incredible food made by our talented food and cookery manager, my other favourite thing about working for Viva!
Why did you go vegan and how long have you been vegan? I went vegan aged 14 after learning about the horrors of the dairy and egg industries that I had no idea I was unwittingly funding whilst being vegetarian almost all of my life. Living life without chocolate would be pretty devastating.
