Glastonbury organisers: keep the spirit of the festival – make it vegetarian

170,000 people could come to an event that proudly proclaims itself meat- and fish-free. Wouldn't it be great for Glastonbury to be able to say 'no animals were harmed during the making of this festival?'

We are trained in consumption from the first glimmers of consciousness. Wherever we look, we are bombarded by exhortations to develop new, unmet needs; to acquire a hunger that can never be sated.

The aim of advertising, marketing and the media is to create social norms: to ensure that certain suites of behaviour are normalised and naturalised to the degree that they become almost instinctive.