@stillvicarinatutu You sound like an absolutely lovely and special person, and I think you should feel content with how much you already do for the general animal kingdom. Sadly (at least on Mumsnet), many vegans seem to be haters of everyone else who are not strict vegans thrmselves. You sound like a very caring person, and also one that can at least tolerate meat eaters if they are not people who actually torture or enjoy torturing other animals.
I have tried being a vegetarian in the past, and have no intention of going into the myriad of reasons here on why I have failed, so let's just say it is because I am a selfish bastard who is too lazy and uncaring to actually put the effort into being a vegetarian, never mind a vegan - in a way, I suppose I have to admit that is true. I don't think of it as a positive when I tell you that if I had to kill an animal myself to survive, I just couldn't do it - but I appear to think that it is ok to let another human kill the animal for me, as long as I don't have to see it's face, or look into it's eyes. I do hate myself for that, but obviously not enough.
So you can see OP, you are doing much better than me, and for all the right reasons, and you do forego eating animals and nearly all of the products that come from them, that would make your life much simpler if you just didn't bother. You do bother OP, you do care, and you do put yourself out over general creature welfare, so please ignore the trolls on here, whether they claim to be vegans or not. In my opinion you are a much nicer and better person, who cares about all the animals on our planet, including the absolute worse ones - us humans of course - than the very narrow minded and smug 'vegans' that have been having a go at you here. For clarification, I am not saying that all, or even most vegans, are narrow minded or smug, some of my children are vegan, and they are (again in my mind, but lots of others seem to agree with me) wonderful and lovely people.
You have put at least a partial rocket under my backside @stillvicarinatutu so I am going to contact ITV myself now, and demand ask them what happens to all of the animals after the "Trials". If every other Mumsnetter who reads/has read your posts here, do the same, it might eventually lead to enough pressure being put on to ITV that they will have tell us what happens afterwards, and if their answer is not the one that it should be, they may find that if they want to keep on having an audience, they have to immediately change their disgusting and cruel behaviour.
Thank you for making us think about this OP. Like I said at the beginning of this, another of my mega - far too - long reply posts, you are obviously a lovely person, and just keep on doing what you are already doing, for as long as you are able to. Thank you for being you💐💐💐