Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

The book, which I have not read, that saved Derrick Jensen 's life is called The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Keith, who was a vegan for 20 years, suffered serious medical problems, and started feeling better when she recommenced eating animals. Throughout the book, Keith mocks vegetarians and vegans.

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Vegan Vegetarian Factory Farm Factory Farming 100

Animal Person

OCTOBER 18, 2009

I've been out of every loop I used to be in because my work outside of veganism and animal rights came a-calling in a most critical way. There are new Francione-style abolitionists and new people to veganism who debate about the ethics of consuming eggs from their neighbor's chickens. It's been 92 degrees outside, by the way.

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Vegan Chickens Morals Animal 100

Animal Person

MARCH 24, 2010

Of course none of them come close to the most important reason for my objection: that we have no right to use animals for entertainment or other reasons that are not necessary. And realistically, availability of a vegan burger isn't going to make me want to participate. As for the creation of the picnic, there was no event committee.

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Zoos Ponies Pets Vegan Cooking 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists. Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy.

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Vegan Morals Pit Bulls Animal Rights 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2009

My husband has two friends (a male/female couple) who are transitioning from vegetarian to vegan and I also have two friends (both women) who are transitioning from omnivore and all are dreading Thanksgiving. And of course if you correct someone and say "Dead Turkey Day," you're "buzzkill," or imposing your beliefs or being judgmental.

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Vegan Turkey Slaughter Slaughtered 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

The two objections to a vegan Thanksgiving that I hear most often are: It's our tradition and Because it tastes good. Of course, the world outside of our home tells a different story. Justice for beings who look very different from us but who, like us, experience pleasure and pain, boredom and frustration. It's our tradition.

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Greyhounds Forced Molting Debeaking Vegan 100

Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

I say "if you know someone" because this isn't a book I'd recommend to vegans for their vegan education efforts. The vegans I know would probably find it a bit maddening, and here's why: We aren't sure whether Foer is a vegan. Not great, but good. He never says he is. But why does he say "vegetarian?" This is very silly.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Vegan 100

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Is it true that the least I can do is support the engineering of animals who experience less unpleasantness than they would have had they not been engineered that way? And of course, the reality that all of this involves using sentient nonhumans when that's unnecessary isn't even considered. That action is to opt out and go vegan.

Factory Farm 100

Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Factory 100

Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

Reading thousand-word long posts in black type on a plain white screen with nothing interesting to look at isn't exactly a satisfying sensory experience. The question of course is, are you really significantly decreasing suffering? Lesson #20 We still don't know what will make a critical mass of people go vegan. So I failed.

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Vegan Suffering Free Range Animal 100

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Not the day, the film, where Bill Murray experiences the same day over and over again. Of course, what they are talking about and how they are changing their behavior is very frustrating for someone who doesn't believe we should be using animals at all. There are few animal rights stories in the news. People are talking. And acting.

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Chickens Slaughter Slaughtered Groundhogs 100

Animal Person

MAY 3, 2009

Though I have never had an issue with gluten, I have decided to lower my intake of it as an experiment, just to see if I feel any kind of difference. And of course, Emily is just as opinionated and irritable as ever, and still shows no sign of dying from her FIP. I may never use flour again.

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Swine Flu Greyhounds Wounded Cooking 100

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

If you are already a vegetarian, make this the year that you decide to go vegan. Of course, since that is so easily accomplished, you may have already fully succeeded in carrying out that aspect of resolution 11 long ago. You can download a "Vegan Starter Kit" from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine here.]

Animal Cruelty 40

Animal Cruelty Rights Fur Vegan 40

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2006

Of course, since that is so easily accomplished, you may have already fully succeeded in carrying out that aspect of resolution 11 long ago. If you are serious about losing weight and improving your health, try out a cruelty-free vegan diet for three months. Where should you begin? What to do next? There's more!

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2007 Animal Cruelty Rights Animal 40

Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

Of course, you're supposed to hop onto the following train of thought: These are good people. What you're supposed to be buying into is the idea that if a family owns a farm it is somehow qualitatively different (and of course, better) than a farm that isn't family owned. You see midwestern folk in overalls with tired faces.

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Family Factory Farm Factory Farming Cows 100

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Vegan vegetarians who eat only vegetables, fruit, and nuts do not completely remove all microorganisms from their food, even with repeated cleaning. He requests that after his death his wife prepare a lavish dinner with him as the main course. Such animals would be incapable of feeling pain or having experiences of any kind.

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Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing 40

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Of course, when hamburgers aren't at stake, most of us think that it would be morally wrong to kill an animal for no good reason. Numerous epidemiological studies have demonstrated that vegetarians, and especially vegans, have far lower rates of heart disease, cancer, stroke, hypertension, and diabetes compared to meat-eaters.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Inhumane 40

Animal Person

JULY 6, 2010

Because we planned to adopt I had been researching eco-friendly, vegan nursery items but had yet to purchase a thing. I did go to Babies-R-Us for some odds and ends and here's the Animal Person-related experience. Much of the baby clothing has animals on it, and animals are of course the focus of stuffies and other toys.

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Humane Animal Cows Greyhounds 100