Notes on food-related activism
In much of the local food writing I’ve read, people emphasize the pleasures of eating while shying away from talking about the suffering of food […]
animal rights
Notes on the animal liberation and the local food movements
(Deleted from draft of email to Vasile Stanescu) I agree; there are plenty of ways for animal liberationists to further build our alliances with people […]
Animal rights as part of the broader ecology movement
Venture a guess as to how many people in this and other wealthy countries consume animal products because of biological necessity, (versus convenience, habit, custom, […]
Wealthy Westerners imposing veganism on poor and 'developing' countries ?
(Quote from Ptolemy Tompkins)Some people have raised the question of how the vegan movement can avoid being something that relatively wealthy Westerners impose on people […]
Human-powered machines, slavery, and animal rights
“Slow and satisfying” might become my business slogan for pedicabbing. That’s probably better than “It’s the wave of the future, IF we’re lucky.” Or I […]
The Secret Life of Plants and the not so secret suffering of food animals
I’ve yet to read the Secret Life of Plants, but the claim that food animals are sentient stands on much firmer scientific ground than the […]
Vegan Probiotics
Anyone learning about fermentation as a source of probiotics from books and other resources including Cultured by Kevin Gianni? As a vegan who misses the […]
Notes on utopian thinking
As a vegan myself, I suspect it actually doesn’t help to assume the historical inevitability of our cause. —- We can work toward the type […]
Notes on vegan activism
***Like many of the other posts on this blog, there is an absence of interacting with people. See Facebook (1) To what extent are we […]
'Revolution' (rough draft/ notes)
Some people use that term to denote how technological changes affect society such as the invention of the printing press with movable type, the Industrial […]