On Wednesday, June 25, 2014, I was a guest on the Brian Oxman Show. You can listen here. ********** 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. The World […]
The Vegan Society has obviously gotten a significant critical reaction to its explicit rejection of veganism as a baseline moral principle as represented in its “You don’t have to be vegan” campaign. The Vegan Society has been going in the wrong direction for a while now. In 2011, the Society banned me for promoting veganism […]
Some welfarists say that welfare reform will help animals because reform causes a price increase and that decreases demand. This position shows that welfarists do not understand the economics of animal agriculture or of welfare reform. Since most welfare reform campaigns address inefficiencies in the production process, many welfare reforms increase production efficiency so production […]
I never cease to be amazed by those people who say that we should not promote veganism as a moral imperative because they took a long time to go vegan. What is the relevance of how long it took someone to see that going vegan was the right thing to do? Answer: it has no […]
Farm Sanctuary has done a Freedom of Information Act request and has discovered that the United States Department of Agriculture is not doing a good job enforcing the Humane Slaughter Act and the problem is apparently particularly bad in Des Moines, Iowa. WHAT? The USDA not enforcing the Humane Slaughter Act? Come on, Farm Sanctuary. […]
Animal welfare charity Mercy for Animals (MFA) has a new “undercover” video. Guess what? They have discovered that animals are kicked and otherwise treated badly at livestock markets. Imagine that. MFA is outraged: Sure it is. But MFA, here’s some news: using animals for food–whether they are kicked or not–is WRONG. MFA urges: “SPEAK OUT […]
EAT LIKE YOU CARE: An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals is now available in Spanish. COME CON CONCIENCIA: Un análisis sobre la moralidad del consumo de animales is now available on all Amazon sites: U.S.; Spain; Mexico; Brazil; Canada‘ U.K.; Germany; Italy; Japan; India; Australia You do NOT need a Kindle device to […]
On June 12, 2014, I spoke on a panel at the New York City Bar Association as part of a panel on Kapparos, which involves ritual use of chickens. An animal advocate, Karen Davis of United Poultry Concerns, gave a presentation in which she showed photos of the various abuses of chickens used in the […]
In this Commentary, Anna Charlton and I discuss educating yourself so that you can educate others and the importance of doing education/advocacy in your community; the idea that vegan advocacy represents an attempt to “force” people to go vegan; and the idea that animal ethics is a matter of “choice” and not moral obligation. It’s […]
Here is a video of our presentation on Eat Like You Care at Temple University on March 10, 2014: ***** 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. The […]