Yesterday, July 11, 2012, Lennox, allegedly a pit bull, was killed by the Belfast, Northern Ireland, City Council. Pit bulls are illegal in Northern Ireland. There had been an international campaign to save Lennox and now there is international outrage over his death. And there ought to be. It is nothing but ignorance to regard […]
I will be a guest on Animals Today, airing Sunday, July 8, at 2 p.m.-3 p.m. Pacific; 5 p.m.-6 p.m. EST. ********** If you are not vegan, please go vegan. It is easy and better for your health and for the environment and, most important, it’s the morally right thing to do. The World is […]
Adam Kochanowicz and Sandra Cummings have produced a terrific resource, the Vegan Starter Kit. This sort of project is of great practical value and I am glad that Adam and Sandra did this. I am sure that you will find it of great use. ********** If you are not vegan, please go vegan. It is […]
This is from an an exchange that occurred in a thread on the Abolitionist Approach Facebook page: Someone asked: Doesn’t the bible inform us that animals are provided by its god for the use of man, and the koran & jewish scriptures ordain how (and which) animals must be slaughtered for human consumption? Skirting past […]
Professor Michael Marder, author of the forthcoming book, Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life, and I had a brief debate on the issue of plant ethics at the Columbia University Press website. You can find the debate here. ********** If you are not vegan, please go vegan. It is easy and better for your health […]
This past week, I posted two essays: Moral Concern, Moral Impulse, and Logical Argument in Animal Rights Advocacy and Violent Imagery in Animal Advocacy. The response I got was overwhelming and it’s only been a few days. I have received 52 emails (as of right now) asking questions about applying these ideas in concrete circumstances. […]
I am asked with some frequency about whether it is advisable to use violent imagery, such as films depicting slaughterhouses or factory farms, as part of abolitionist vegan education. When I express hesitation and concern, people who know of my background will often say, “But didn’t your visiting a slaughterhouse have a profound effect on […]
Anyone who has ever done animal advocacy has had the experience of explaining rationally why animal exploitation can’t be morally justified, only to have the person with whom they are talking say something like, “Yes, that’s interesting but I just don’t think that it’s wrong to eat animal products,” or “I think you’re being perfectly […]
A sign on the side of a dump truck in Los Angeles: It is not enough to be unashamed that we have the level of poverty that we do; we criminalize the efforts of the poor to survive by asserting property rights over garbage. ********** If you are not vegan, please go vegan. It is […]
There is no better way to celebrate Mother’s Day than by putting an end to your support of the exploitation of nonhuman mothers represented by milk, cheese, and other dairy products. A cow raised for her milk is forcefully impregnated yearly, and her babies are taken away within a few days. She is either pregnant […]