********** If you are not vegan, please go vegan. Veganism is about nonviolence. First and foremost, it’s about nonviolence to other sentient beings. But it’s also about nonviolence to the earth and nonviolence to yourself. It’s easy to go vegan and if you agree that animals have moral value, it’s the only rational thing to […]
Once again, I start my day, sit at my desk, and, before I even get to take the first sip of my tulsi tea, I read, in response to my claim that we need to encourage people to understand that veganism is the only rational response to the moral status of animals: I would love […]
Media Roots, an alternative media site created by Abby Martin of Breaking the Set, had an essay about the abolitionist approach, entitled The Case for Vegetarianism You’ve Never Heard Before . The article, which includes the video of my December 2012 interview with Ms. Martin, was written in June. I became aware of it only […]
********** If you are not vegan, please go vegan. Veganism is about nonviolence. First and foremost, it’s about nonviolence to other sentient beings. But it’s also about nonviolence to the earth and nonviolence to yourself. It’s easy to go vegan and if you agree that animals have moral value, it’s the only rational thing to […]
********** If you are not vegan, please go vegan. Veganism is about nonviolence. First and foremost, it’s about nonviolence to other sentient beings. But it’s also about nonviolence to the earth and nonviolence to yourself. It’s easy to go vegan and if you agree that animals have moral value, it’s the only rational thing to […]
The reference: ********** If you are not vegan, please go vegan. Veganism is about nonviolence. First and foremost, it’s about nonviolence to other sentient beings. But it’s also about nonviolence to the earth and nonviolence to yourself. It’s easy to go vegan and if you agree that animals have moral value, it’s the only rational […]
********** If you are not vegan, please go vegan. Veganism is about nonviolence. First and foremost, it’s about nonviolence to other sentient beings. But it’s also about nonviolence to the earth and nonviolence to yourself. It’s easy to go vegan and if you agree that animals have moral value, it’s the only rational thing to […]
First, there was Melissa Bachman who became an object of hatred for shooting lions in South Africa. And now: Blond and perky Kendall Jones has caused an uproar with Facebook photos of her smiling alongside dead lions, leopards, zebras and rhinos. (Daily News) Teen’s big-game hunting photos spark outrage AOL News) And everyone is upset […]
Donald Watson, together with some others, founded The Vegan Society in 1944. Here my entry on Watson from the Cultural Encyclopedia of Vegetarianism: WATSON, DONALD (1910–2005) Born September 2, 1910, in Mexborough, South Yorkshire, England, Donald Watson coined the term “vegan” to describe individuals who abstain from the consumption and use of animal products and […]
or We keep hearing welfarists say that most people who go vegan went vegetarian first, so we should promote going vegetarian. We keep hearing welfarists say that if we promote “happy” meat and other “happy” animal products, that will lead people to go vegan eventually. This is all nonsense. There is no empirical evidence that […]