Ethical Globe is a blog and an online directory and community of vegan people, businesses, organisations and projects that launched in 2020. We founded Ethical Globe after realising that there was little support for the vegan community. In particular, vegans who also wish to make other ethically conscious decisions.
Ethical Globe aims to provide information and support to the growing vegan population. It will empower people to live in alignment with their values by helping them with their everyday choices. This will contribute to creating a fairer world for all.
Ethical Globe will provide a platform for communities to build and to unite. In time, it will help create a worldwide network of like-minded people, projects and businesses who care about justice for all. Justice for humans, justice for other animals and justice for the planet.
Mission
To support, inspire and empower vegans of today and tomorrow to make ethically conscious decisions by providing them with the information, relationships and communities they need to do so.
Vision
A world where everyone understands the importance and value of fairness and compassion for all – our animal kin, Mother Earth and other humans.
Objectives
- Make it easier for vegans to find vegan online and physical entities
- Make it easier for vegan businesses and professionals to find vegan suppliers, partners and others to work with
- Make it easier for vegans to support independent vegan businesses, projects and other organisations
- Support independent vegan businesses to gain exposure and to build relationships with others. To resist and provide alternatives to the corporate takeover/co-option of the vegan/plant-based market.
Veganism is necessary but not enough to create a world which is just for all. All systems of oppression are connected and reinforce each other. This means we must also consider human oppression and environmental destruction.
As such Ethical Globe also seeks to:
- Increase awareness amongst vegans of wider social justice considerations. So they can incorporate these into their consumption choices and everyday lives.
- Encourage vegan businesses and other organisations to work against the oppression of humans and other animals, and the destruction of the planet.
Founders
Laila Kassam, Founder and Ethical Lead
Laila is a Co-Founder and Executive Director of Project Phoenix, a movement-building organisation working to turn the UK animal freedom movement into an unstoppable force for change.
Project Phoenix is: rebuilding grassroots power by developing the Animal Freedom Network - a UK-wide network of community-led campaigning groups that can win both local and national campaigns; and strengthening movement-wide capacity, unity and narrative power to drive strategic change across animal issues.
She is also a Co-Founder and former Director of Animal Think Tank, where she spent six years researching and developing the foundations of a mass social movement for animal freedom in the UK. She sits on the Board of We The Free, serves on the Advisory Boards of Animal Advocacy Careers and The Empathy Project, and is a mentor for Kickstarting for Good. She is co-editor of the book ‘Rethinking Food and Agriculture: New Ways Forward’ which envisions a truly just and sustainable food system.
Laila has been involved in social change for most of her career having previously worked in the international development sector for 15 years. She holds a PhD in Development Economics and an MSc in Development Management.
Shailen Jasani, Founder and Business/Community Lead
Shailen is a co-founder of Veterinary Vegan Network. He qualified as a veterinary surgeon in 1999 and has spent his career working with companion dogs and cats. Shailen has focused on Emergency and Critical Care. In 2010 he became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. Shailen has written a book and developed an app on small animal emergency medicine. He has also contributed to various publications and delivered extensive teaching to vets, nurses and students.
Shailen is the Founder, CEO and Clinical Director of The Ralph. This is an independent veterinary referral centre for dogs and cats. It opened in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, UK in February 2019.