Alison Knight

Founding Member

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Alison Knight, originally from rural Warwickshire, is a former Deputy Leader of Windsor and Maidenhead Council where she also held the sustainability portfolio. She first stood for election for the Conservatives in 1991 and has held various roles within the Party since. Alison is passionate about animal welfare and reducing her and others’ impact on the environment. A huge animal lover, Alison went vegan in 2017. To further reduce her impact on the planet she drives an electric car, and has not bought any new clothes since May 2019.

News

Ukraine, the people and the animals

Tuesday, 15 March, 2022

Any human being with an ounce of decency cannot fail to be moved by appalling scenes being witnessed in Ukraine following the invasion by Russian forces. In the United Kingdom millions of individuals are doing what they can by gathering supplies to send to Ukraine and by donating money to the numer

Want to go vegan but can’t give up cheese? Help is at hand!

Friday, 10 December, 2021

Cheese is an important ingredient for many families at Christmas. Luckily, there is now a superb range of vegan-friendly cheeses so that you can choose the right cheese for the recipe or occasion.

Vegan Conservatives welcome Business Secretary’s comments on growth of veganism

Monday, 26 April, 2021

The Vegan Conservatives group has welcomed Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng’s call for more people to give up animal products in order to meet the UK’s target of cutting carbon emissions by 78% by 2035.

Alison Knight: The Orangutan and palm oil

Saturday, 2 January, 2021

The Bornean Orangutan joined the Sumatran Orangutan in 2019 being officially listed as critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and faces extinction in the wild within ten years.(1) Highly intelligent, orangutans share 96.4% DNA with humans, yet humans

Coronavirus ‘Covid- 19 Mink Variant’ infects humans causing mass cull of factory farmed minks in Northern Denmark

Monday, 9 November, 2020

Neanderthal men and women wore the skins of wild animals for warmth after using the meat, but they had few choices in freezing northern climates. Millennia later in our ‘civilised’ society, although we have myriad choices of fabrics and trims which do no harm to wild and intensely farmed animals, s