Today I am delighted to introduce to you Professor Andrew Knight, Originally, from Australia and at an early age an advocate and campaigner for animal rights specifically to ban the sheep trade to the middle east. He practised as a vet in London and then went to head the largest vet school in the Caribbean. Professor Knight is the founding director of the University of Winchester's Centre for Animal Welfare; Adjunct Professor in Queensland. He’s been honoured with a number of awards for his work and you can find Professor Knight on the internet – whether its blogs youtube videos and of course now he is teaching courses on animal welfare and ethics at the University of Winchester, a beautiful town not far from London.

Professor Andrew Knight has been a leading light in bringing to the fore a compassionate approach to animals, animal welfare, plant-based diets for animals as well as practice as a vet, extensive research, academic publications, teaching and at postgraduate level on animal welfare and ethics.

In this podcast we learn about Professor Knight’s career and journey to date and his work and the current and leading research that he is involved in and will be publishing soon on plant-based diets for animals.

https://www.winchester.ac.uk/about-us/leadership-and-governance/staff-directory/staff-profiles/knight.php

https://www.youtube.com/c/andrewknight