My Face Is On Fire

My Face Is on Fire is a blog (with an associated podcast) which focuses on abolitionist vegan education, animal rights issues and the misrepresentation of veganism in pop culture or mainstream media.

Monday, August 31, 2009

What Did You Say About Vegans?

I read an article in the University of Missouri-St. Louis' The Current this morning that left me shaking my head. It's no medical ...

Because Vegans Love to Eat, Too

Once again, just because I can, I've taken a peek at what some of my favourite vegan food bloggers have been up to lately. Yesterday, ...

Friday, August 28, 2009

Clarity and Consistency as Tools Against Speciesism

I read an excellent essay this afternoon by Angel Flinn, posted over on the (unfortunately mostly welfarist) Care2 forums. It's called ...

More Vegan Bits in the Media

Here are a few snippets from some online sources I read this morning: This morning, yet another foodie article (this one on the Time websit...

Beans 'n' Rice

From DJ Weekly and the folks who brought us the giggle-worthy hip-hop parody "So So Vegan" comes this new offering:

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Using Violence to Stop the Violence?

"The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a non...

What's Being Said About Vegans in Mainstream Media

Reproduced here for your reading pain/pleasure are a few snippets of what people have had to say about vegans or veganism in mainstream medi...

Monday, August 24, 2009

Martin Luther King, Jr. on Non-Violence

"As I have walked among the desperate, rejected and angry young men I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve ...

Saturday, August 22, 2009

On Our Apparently Complicated Inability to Avoid Stereotypes

A ctually, the inability doesn't really seem to be that complicated a thing. As humans, we lump everything into categories for the sake ...

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

On Why You Cannot Abolish the Use of Animals While Encouraging the Use of Animals

I have been involved in more than a handful of discussions or exchanges over recent months where I have been informed of the "need...

On the Practice of not Being Jaded (with Some Thich Nhat Hanh Thrown in for Good Measure)

(I'd written this a little over a year ago, but went back to it tonight, thinking of politics, posturing and engaging people with flawed...

Sunday, August 16, 2009

On Vick and Vegans

Most vegans who have spent enough time mulling over human behaviour acknowledge it as a given that speciesism is so deeply and firmly entre...

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Because Vegans Like to Eat

Here are just a very few things vegan friends have been cooking up this past week or so: Over at Yummy Vegan Dinners , ms. veganorama has be...

Thursday, August 13, 2009

After Turning My Head Away from the Internet for a Week

There's so much abolitionist animal rights activity online right now that I'm not even sure of where to start in terms of raving abo...

Friday, August 07, 2009

Divisiveness à la Post Punk Kitchen

A fellow vegan abolitionist who (along with his lovely partner) runs a small animal rescue operation in Chicago mentioned today that Isa Cha...

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