Critter News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Here's what they say about Trader Joe's eggs (definitely does not sound humane to me.) Trader Joe's, a national specialty grocer, offers a large range of vegan and soy products. Tags: eggs consumption farm animal welfare groceries. I looked online and all I could find was this article on The Vegetarian Site.

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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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Animal Person

JUNE 5, 2009

I think that it's odd, for instance, that someone so ensconced in human rights does not notice the parallel when she grabs her grilled chicken caesar salad for lunch. And here are "Gluten-Be-Gone" Chocolate Chip cookies from Dreena Burton's " Eat, Drink & Be Vegan.". And I think they should be. Have a great day!

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Critter News

MARCH 31, 2009

I've never watched it, but heard it talked about on a vegan podcast. It's supposed to be so intense, it turns people into vegans (Ellen DeGeneres for one.) Earthlings is a feature-length documentary about how dependent human beings are on animals, primarily in five key areas: pets, food, clothing, entertainment and science.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 7, 2009

I have a column on my Tweetdeck (an application for ease of Twitter use on my desktop) called "vegan," where all tweets from all tweeple who mention "vegan" are listed in somewhat real time. Finally, I'm pretty sure I'm not in his demographic, but I've seen a lot of tweeting about people going vegan after watching Onision.

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Animal Person

JULY 15, 2009

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?

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Critter News

AUGUST 27, 2009

Is a vegan's efforts at advocacy worth more than a vegetarian's or even a meat eater's if they happen to agree on the same issue? At the same time, do we have the time to wait for everyone to become vegan to enact laws that will at least allow more humane care in the short term.

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

Are we pinning people down and force-feeding them vegan burritos? The Humane Society of the United States is the big bully on this strange playground. Just think of how much vegan education and animal care could be accomplished with the money in those large organizations " is what I would say to Parker.

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Animal Person

JULY 6, 2009

Spencer R writes: Vegans sound exactly like religious fundamentalists. Trying to convince people to go vegan is like trying to convince people to only reproduce once. The first three sentences, unpacked, are: Vegans are like religious fundamentalists who act superior and demonize of the consumption of animals.

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Animal Person

JUNE 13, 2009

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. It's amazing to observe as someone learns about what we humans have done to this planet in such a short period of time, and how dire the situation really is. But that's me.

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Animal Person

JULY 26, 2009

Now, I don't want to do anything extreme, like go vegan. Veganism is too fringe for me, and I'm pretty sure you have to be a Communist, or at least a Socialist, to be a vegan. And I don't think vegans believe in God, and I don't trust anyone who doesn't believe in God. Also, veganism is expensive, and I'm on a budget.

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Critter News

APRIL 4, 2009

But many researchers - although adamant that animal research remains critical to finding cures and expanding medical knowledge - have come to concede that using creatures as human stand-ins is unnecessary for many procedures. Tags: animal experimentation medical research. We as a movement cannot compartamentalize.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 18, 2009

The tag line is: "Challenging oppression and injustice, against nonhuman animals, humans, and earth — one vegan, environmentalist, feminist, social-justice-loving, all-around-progressive post at a time. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

My inbox this month has informed me that November is Vegan Awareness Month! I am a vegan who has adopted a diabetic greyhound who eats vegan food ( Natural Balance ), and who is adopting a boy from Russia. As a vegan, part of what I believe is that bringing animals onto this planet to use them as food or as pets isn't ethical.

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Animal Person

MARCH 23, 2009

First, check out " The Vegan Solution: An Ideal Whose Time Has Come " over at Care2. And former vegan, Chuck Roomi, who says veganism isn't practical "For people who do not have a desire to eat exotic foods from thousands of miles away, or mechanically-formulated suplements" also warrants a response. So many things to say today.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 18, 2009

While spending hours in the car I've been thinking about various issues related to sentient nonhumans, animal rights and veganism. And vegans are accused of imposing our belief systems and brainwashing kids? Why is the vegan message the harmful one that can get one fired from teaching? What kind of lesson is that?

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Animal Person

JUNE 1, 2009

But " Minding the Animals: Ethology and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism " is a great look back at how we humans have managed to always find a way to consider ourselves unique, despite what the reality of the nonhuman world tells us. Here are some of my favorite passages. [S]ince

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Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

When taking the issue to simplest common denominator, spaying/neutering is essentially exercising human dominance over non-human animals. Meanwhile, I would love to be able to have some kind of law against human beings producing/reproducing more than one person per person. And this is one of them. But who cares about me?

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

There is a general consensus that vegetarianism and veganism are different philosophically. And human psychology says that humans are far more social than rational creatures. One of the most important aspects determining human behaviour is their social environment. Tags: Activism Language. How about this?

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Being vegan because you want to live as nonviolently as possible and you don't want to contribute to violence and you don't want to respond to violence with violence is admirable to some, though refusing to support the defense of sentient nonhumans when you probably would if they were humans bothers me. Or vegan pumpkin pie.

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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. Not humans, not animals." Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Language.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The author is Nick Cooney and he's the Director of The Humane League, an animal advocacy non-profit with offices in Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington DC. For example, why is it so hard for our family members and co-workers – many of whom have companion animals that they love – to cut cruelty from their diets and go vegan?

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 13, 2010

Cherry City Bath and Body is a great new, vegan bath and body company! The program is called Cherry City Cares and 100% of the profits of products scented “Good Karma&# is donated to the Willamette Valley Humane Society, in Salem, Oregon. Tags: people helping animals reviews.

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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

Humane treatment runs counter to the entire industry when the point is to make money by processing these animals as fast as possible. While a nationwide vegan or vegetarian lifestyle change is highly unlikely, the abuse can be maintained through increased government regulation. No wonder there is so much "farm" animal abuse out there.

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Animal Person

JUNE 16, 2010

From the Introduction : "Humans are fascinated by animals. Do human beings have duties toward them regardless of whether they have rights? Coetzee The Lives of Animals veganism. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language Amy Gutman animal rights J.M. Do animals have rights? What kind of souls do animals have? There is story.

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Animal Person

MAY 23, 2009

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. With more than 2 million members across the globe, PETA is the largest animal advocacy group and comparable in size to the human rights organization, Amnesty International. But I don't want to talk about PeTA.

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Critter News

APRIL 26, 2009

One of the benefits that human rights movements have is that they are articulating for themselves. Humans get all wrapped up in stories of those who can communicate their sufferings. This is because the animals cannot use human language to speak for themselves and contradict either side. (I The Humane Society?

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

Also, an update on Emily's 50% vegan (Ami) diet. And the "strict ethical vegan" to come.) And then it proceeds to: "None of these questions, however, make any consideration of whether it is wrong to kill animals for human consumption." Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Greyhound Matters Language.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

The animals on farms are created for the sole purpose of human consumption. I don't know if these people are serious or not, but though we are not unique in the animal world in demonstrating morality, we vegans and animal rights advocates do not concern ourselves with the moral codes of other species. Tags: Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

JULY 14, 2009

People (both human people and fish people) aren’t dying because the world is running out of water. Simple living as a political act consists solely of harm reduction, ignoring the fact that humans can help the Earth as well as harm it. [ Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language. What are your thoughts?

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Animal Person

MAY 13, 2009

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. It is, however, a tool that has demonstrated, positive effects on the human brain. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics. I sometimes experience despair thinking about all of the suffering.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 30, 2010

I'm giving the book a vegan/animal rights message because that's my lens. Objectively, however, though the use message is there, believe it or not, you can talk about enslaving animals and still not present a clear vegan message. Or any vegan message. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

With regard to cruelty and suffering, it's clear from the film that the human animal has been profoundly negatively affected by climate change, but there is no attention given to nonhuman animals. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Film climate change film review The Age of Stupid veganism.

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Animal Person

APRIL 18, 2009

Abby, I too get very upset by stories and images of what occurs every second of every day to nonhumans and humans alike. I don't need to "remind myself" of how bad it is to bolster my commitment to veganism. So I do what I can do, beginning of course with being vegan. Tags: Activism Current Affairs. Thanks so much.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

We are not people who are interested in discussing animal rights, as in, the right of sentient nonhumans to not be used by humans for potential profit, for sport or for lunch. Maybe "humane" is already on its way out for the folks trying to convince themselves and others that humane killing isn't an oxymoron. That's respect.

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Animal Person

MAY 25, 2010

Particularly when vegans and animal rights advocates are a tiny percentage of the population, some find it necessary and desirable to go to a place where they are among friends (for the most part). We humans can't even agree on what happened in the past. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

In the majority of cases, it is humans who are to blame for the plunging numbers of animals, and Corwin is very clear about the extent to which we have destroyed the world around us. Tags: Activism Books Current Affairs Ethics Language 100 Heartbeats animal rights Jeff Corwin veganism.

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