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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Tensions between the conservationist and vegan communities ?
See Facebook The other person’s (Donna Brooks) comments are in quotations. “You challenge people to become vegan, don’t you? >You give them compelling reasons that […]
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 […]
'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 […]
Values, Process, and Results
3-6-2015 Involvement in alternative systems creation seems to pertain to your mentioning of someone having a process-oriented personality. Process matters, in terms of seeing to […]
Veganism and consequentialism (rough sketch)
What’s the difference between the co op selling ‘happy’ cheese, yogurt, milk, and meat, on the one hand; and, on the other hand, cooking and […]