“The human appetite for animal flesh is a driving force behind virtually every major category of environmental damage – deforestation, erosion, fresh water scarcity, air and water pollution and climate change” (WorldWatch Institute, Washington). At sea, fishing has brought all the world’s oceans to the point of collapse. Yet still politicians fail to act.

In November 2005 I recorded Have You Heard the Milk Herd? The veggie campaign organisation Viva! were and still are running an excellent expose of the dairy industry, it's inherent cruelty and many of the nutritional myths surrounding dairy, so I sent them the song to see if they could do anything with it. I was delighted to get a letter back from the director of Viva! Juliet Gellatley, who liked the song and mused that it would be really good if lots of veggie musicians could come up with an album devoted to the cause. I have to admit that I didn't get very far with this idea, in spite of my enthusiasm for it and also in spite of the interest and help of Brighton based musician and composer, Julian Franks. So, I decided to do it all myself and broadened it's scope by including songs highlighting many other barbaric practices of humanity towards our fellow creatures. The album is really an ongoing project, further songs occurring as and when they do.

For the latest addition - Through the Eyes of a Wolf -  I owe a huge thanks to Wolf's Angel for letting me use her tender and inspirational poem highlighting the brutal, airborne hunting of these magnificent animals.

1. Have You Heard the Milk Herd?

2. Ring of Wire 

3. Changing the Countryside

4. In Medicine's Name

5. Toro de la Vega

6. Through the Eyes of a Wolf *

7. Weeping at the Cost



*Lyrics Copyright Wolf's Angel 2007