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First I have to say that my husband and I were in our courtyard last night, with wine, vegan pizza with shiitakes, portobellos and chanterelles (still working through that five-pound bag of Daiya cheese), and Diana Krall playing. But today's post is about World Vegan Day, so onward. Some go vegetarian first, then vegan.
My dogs eat vegan dog food. To say they are vegans is odd to me, though I have done that as the distinction is lost on most people and for the sake of a swift message it does the job. When I first saw PCRM's " Kickstart Your Health With a Vegan Diet " campaign, I let out a bit of a sigh. At least they didn't say "vegan cleanse."
Well, I think the grenade metaphor also applies to conversion to veganism. There is often lag time between the critical mass event and its accompanying decision to go vegan--and the the actual doing: being a vegan. There's intention, then the becoming, then the vegan. What does this mean? And I don't judge him.
From VegCooking , courtesy of PeTA: The vegan-friendly attitude of P.F. Vegan dishes are among the bestsellers. There I was, going to lunch with newbie vegan, Cristy, who is terrified of restaurants since going vegan. S: There's only one thing on our menu that's vegan. Balderdash, I tell you! Oh, the humanity!
The PF Chang update, in case you haven't seen the response from the restaurant , is thus, once you incorporate the actual experiences of vegans who have gone through something similar with the restaurant: If you don't eat non-vegan sugar, there aren't many options. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink.
I could be reading into this, but it does appear that there's some discomfort on the part of non-vegans when they look through the calendar and I tell them the story. And when you're checking out at the health food store with your cans and bag of vegan dog food, how could that not be a seedy opportunity?
Books are obvious opportunities for advocacy and vegan education. How successful they are at creating new vegans or animal rights advocates depends on many factors. . Is your market vegans? Tags: Activism Books Current Affairs Language. The publishing business in the US is unfortunately celebrity-based. Think about that.
Image via Wikipedia I found The Goode Family disappointing on the vegan side. One complaint many of us have with "liberals" and "progressives" is that they tend to leave veganism and animal rights out of their sphere of concern. Yeah, lots of mockery, but I didn't laugh. Maybe it's me. Are Baby Boomers killing Facebook and Twitter?
I'm a vegan who thinks we shouldn't be using animals even if we change the conditions of their use. Of course there are oodles of vegetarians who mention veganism and how difficult and restricting it is, and overall I'm having a fairly disheartening experience. After all, who I am doesn't stop at vegan.
The post itself doesn't actually intentionally differentiate between the terms, but does align TAFA with reform and AR with rights (and then mentions Vegan Outreach). I haven't been to either conference, so I can say nothing from personal experience. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Language.
The idea that each person has their own timeline for converting to veganism met with the following comment from All Means Justifiable : "I have to say that writing "everyone has their own timeline" is a sentence I personally don't like to hear. Tags: Activism Ethics Language. when they're ready. What are your thoughts?
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. Tags: Activism Current Affairs.
You get the idea at YouTube but the experience is vastly different on a great television. As I've written previously, I never pushed him to go vegan, and now that he is I don't push him to do any vegan education. Home reminded me of Winged Migration in a couple of ways: the sweeping cinematography and the score. But that's me.
And it wasn't "vegetarianism" rather than "veganism," as though my husband went from omnivore to vegan overnight, I do understand that most people stop eating flesh first. My adult-adult experience was that it was actually painful at times to live with someone who ate animals and I wondered how long I could deal with it.
I've officially been blogging for four years (1,329 posts and 5,441 comments) today, and as I (re)ponder whether I will continue, I'd like to present some lessons I've learned about blogging, veganism, people, "the movement," language and. Lesson #6 Vegans have a bad reputation. We just happen to be vegans. Know your audience.
Every person who claims that there is some kind of divine mandate that makes us inherently not only superior to nonhuman animals but permitted to do with them as they please, should experience Creature Quotes. Coetzee The Lives of Animals veganism. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language Amy Gutman animal rights J.M. There is pain.
We vegans have a lot of feelings associated with why we do what we do and I, for one, find it necessary to do a lot of work around my emotions. I sometimes experience despair thinking about all of the suffering. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics. I sometimes get very angry that so few people seem to care.
In my experience there are at least a handful of issues that involve compromise when the idea of veganism collides with real life. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. Yes, sterilizing someone--anyone--without their consent is an act of dominance. Hence, it's a Gray Matter.) And this is one of them.
I've used the term "animal activism" lately as an experiment. I want to talk about why we shouldn't be using animals and that it's infinitely easier to be a vegan than it was 20 years ago. So there are more vegans and fewer animals used by humans, right? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language.
There is a general consensus that vegetarianism and veganism are different philosophically. I'm still not sure why vegan education can't be part of any of these efforts. ). I don't see why that argument can't be used in vegan and single-issue campaigns. Tags: Activism Language. How about this? What do you think?
That's why people say that they have no problem eating them, harvesting them, experimenting on them, etc. Some fight for veganism, some against factory farms, some against experimentation, poaching, habitat encroachment, etc. Tags: activism animal rights political movement. Animals can't do that.
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. Lesson #20 We still don't know what will make a critical mass of people go vegan. Yes, I see on Twitter that someone read Eating Animals and went vegan that day. So I failed.
Here's my recommendation as someone with six years of experience, not as a veterinarian : Insulin for humans (Humulin N/NPH) is just fine for most dogs, plus it's synthethic and more in line with veganism--animal cells are used in the production of Vetsulin. Tags: Current Affairs Greyhound Matters. Supply is limited.
Many vegans and animal rights activists "have a book in them" but soon discover, despite their well-crafted book proposal and sample chapters, that most mainstream publishers aren't interested. In my experience, what holds back most authors from self-publishing is one word: ego. Tags: Books Current Affairs Economics.
I feel the unique pain they experience when they hear or read ( gasp! ) Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language. And the purist, ever in denial of that fact of history, will forever endeavor to maintain whatever definition he or she believes is correct, and malign all others. And I feel for the purists, trust me. the word irregardless.
There's no remotely vegan or even vegetarian (though I'm not even sure what the latter would look like) message. They grill the chickens, and trust me when I say it's all presented as a peak spiritual experience. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Film Language. If there's a lesson in Food Inc.,
As you know, Cheri and Jim are in the early stages of setting up their sanctuary, after a long journey of conscience that began with them closing their dairy goat operation, then transitioning to a vegan way of life, and eventually, creating a loving, lifelong home for farmed animals in need. Mary (Animal Person).
For me, atheism and veganism go hand-in-hand. We, atheists and vegans, ask: What do we know to be true, and what are we going to do about it? Though we don't know the extent to which plants experience any kind of suffering, we do know that sentient nonhumans experience pain, pleasure, boredom and frustration.
I've been posting a lot about vegan cooking lately. I'm not ready to take the plunge, but am ready to start experimenting. Tags: vegan recipes. Here are some tasty ideas for the holidays.
And realistically, availability of a vegan burger isn't going to make me want to participate. Here's what I learned and will do: Though I recently ended a complete nightmare of an experience on a couple of boards of directors and have sworn off them, I might have to get involved, perhaps at the committee level. That depends.
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.
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. I don't know, maybe 20 years of experience. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Language.
The two objections to a vegan Thanksgiving that I hear most often are: It's our tradition and Because it tastes good. Justice for beings who look very different from us but who, like us, experience pleasure and pain, boredom and frustration. They would say they love animals. It's our tradition. Traditions are decided upon.
All animals except the dog are called "it" (I did a little experiment to see what would happen). Therefore, one of the many things we need, aside from the obvious of more vegan parents, is a line of nonspeciesist books for each age/stage. Tags: Books Ethics Language parenting publishing speciesism veganism.
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? That action is to opt out and go vegan. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language.
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. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. Not great, but good. He never says he is.
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. Tags: Ethics Food and Drink Greyhound Matters. I may never use flour again. It's all good, and we'll get through this just fine. A lot lighter in the bank account, but it's worth it!
Not the day, the film, where Bill Murray experiences the same day over and over again. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Language animal rights chicken slaughter language Sara Lipka The Atlantic veganism. There are few animal rights stories in the news. That's respect. Photo from Flickr user gunp0wder.
And animal rights isn't focused on what happens in the world outside of us that we aren't directly profiting from and that isn't happening because of us (that last one is nearly impossible, as you can trace many problems other animals experience back to something human animals have done to them or their habitat or their food).
The idea of family is currently being used by the dairy industry in a series of commercials with the tag line: "99% of dairy farms are family owned." Just ask former cattle rancher Howard Lyman , who is now a vegan and animal rights activist. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language. There are children.
My experience says otherwise (particularly with my childhood kitty, Brady), but generally speaking Masson's depiction of cats is accurate. Yes, there's a vegan message. Tags: Books Current Affairs Greyhound Matters Language " Jeffrey Masson "The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving animal rights dogs service dogs.
Vegan vegetarians who eat only vegetables, fruit, and nuts do not completely remove all microorganisms from their food, even with repeated cleaning. But recent experiments with chimpanzees suggest that the day may be near when we can ask trained chimpanzees if they want to be eaten for food. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism.
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. Tags: Current Affairs. Animals are all over the place at Babies-R-Us. Only time will tell.
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