This is a vegan explaining why she is a vegan. I find discrimination on the grounds of species as distasteful as discrimination on the grounds of race or sex. So to show how appalling discrimination between species is as to which you might eat you are going to discriminate between species as to which you

Old age officially begins when people reach the age of 54 and youth ends when people turn 32, a Government survey has found.

The grand question about discrimination is whether the discrimination being practiced is taste discrimination (“don’t like them, never have”) or rational discrimination (“no, sorry, but we really don’t employ vampires in the holy water  bottling plant”). Louise Mensch, an author and MP for Corby, said “did not have any ambition” to be a Cabinet ...

What causes discrimination? Conventionally, there are two views on this. One is taste discrimination; some people would rather not hire blacks or women or gays or whatever simply because they don’t like them. However, a recent experiment suggests that there’s another form of discrimination that is harder to eliminate - a simple lack of Bayesian reasoning.

Doctors and nurses are committing "institutional discrimination" against NHS patients with a learning disability, a report warns today.

New equality laws have no economic benefit and only a questionable effect on discrimination, a report claims.

by Katie Bond, Swindon Advertiser  TRADE union members at Great Western Hospital are set to ballot for action over bullying and harassment of staff by their contractor. About 150 GMB members employed by private contractor Carillion at the GWH are to ballot for strike action over bullying, harassment and discrimination by their management. The workers are employed as

Sonia Pierre, a human rights activist who had fought discrimination against Dominicans of Haitian descent since she was a child, died on 4 December following a heart attack at the age of 48. For decades her activism had made her the target of threats in the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, but it earned her recognition from overseas as a defender of human right...

The Obama administration will start considering how countries treat gay and lesbian citizens when it comes to providing foreign aid, a decision that was immediately cheered by gay rights activist

Bravo to the Liberal Democrat party conference. Two years ago, party members voted overwhelmingly to end the twin legal bans on same-sex civil marriages and opposite-sex civil partnerships. They committed a future Lib Dem government to scrap sexual orientation discrimination in marriage and partnership law. Well done. Thank you Sadly, the Lib Dem Equality Minister,