The Solution

Overview
This is a blog about veganism, vegetarianism, animals, and the law.  We interpret SoLVe’s mandate quite broadly, aiming to provide information that will be useful both to veteran vegans who know little about the law and seasoned lawyers who have never considered veganism.  This blog is simply our thoughts, reflections, and suggestions, as a group of legally minded Auckland vegans and vegetarians.

Contact Us
If you wish to contact the editors, Vernon Tava and David Tong, about any aspect of the blog, you can email them at editor@thesolution.org.nz.  Both are happy to receive feedback and suggestions.  Be it a thorough critique of the blog as a whole, a suggestion for a SoLVe event, or even just a link you’d like us to mention, we’re happy to consider it.

If you have a question about veganism, vegetarianism, animal law, animal rights, or anything else covered on the blog, which you would like us to answer in one of our regular Frequently Asked Questions posts, please email us at faq@thesolution.org.nz.

Finally, if you are interested in submitting an article as a guest contributor or becoming one of our regular contributors, please email contribute@thesolution.org.nz.

Comment Policy
The Solution encourage readers to respond to and comment on our posts.  Comments allow further exploration and evaluation of the ideas in our posts.  We welcome discussion and the free exchange of ideas, be they supportive, dissenting, or critical.

However, while we encourage constructive comments, we reserve the right to moderate posted comments.  We may delete comments that contain:

• Abusive or offensive content, including ad hominem attacks;
• Off-topic material;
• Uses obscene language;
• Does not use a legitimate email address;
• Advocate illegal activity;
• Potentially illegal material;
• Plagiarised content;
• Links to illegal, offensive, or obscene material; and/or
• Spam, advertising, or marketing of any kind.

In short: Don’t spam us, don’t abuse people, and don’t advocate doing criminal stuff, but do be constructive, do respond to the topic, and do post your ideas.

Where a comment contains some constructive material and some unacceptable material, we may, at our discretion, edit out the material that breaches this policy.  Flagrant and repeated breaches of this policy may result in temporary or permanent banning.

If you wish us to link to your website, promote your event, or assist your organisation, please email us, rather than using the comment feature.  We aim to assist others with similar goals, but don’t want to discourage discussion of our posts with off-topic material.  Likewise, if you think that we aren’t covering a topic that we should address, please email us.  We are happy to discuss new article ideas and new commentators – guest or permanent.

We do not pre-moderate or approve comments.  We do, however, filter all comments through a spam-filtering system; The spam-filtering technology isn’t perfect, so sometimes it can legitimate  comments as spam.  If your comment doesn’t show up at first, it may be have been wrongly flagged as spam.  Don’t worry though, as we regularly check the spam filter, delete the spam, and approve any false positives caught in it.  You must include a real email address to comment.  That is to prevent spam and trolling.  Again, do not worry: We will keep it entirely confidential, will not add it to any kind of database, and will not spam you.