Tuesday, December 22, 2009

What Vegans Eat

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With the holidays just a few days and a nearly two-week long internet hiatus looming for me, I figured that now would be as good a time as a...
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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Why Erik Marcus Really Needs a New Domain Name - Part 2

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Jonathan Safran Foer mentions 'suffering' over and over throughout his interview with Erik Marcus, making it clear, in case any of h...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Why Erik Marcus Really Needs a New Domain Name - Part I

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I've been reading Jonathan Safran Foer's book, Eating Animals , for the past couple of weeks now, squeezing in a paragraph here or t...
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THE WORLD IS VEGAN! If you want it.

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Yesterday, Prof. Gary L. Francione wrote on his Abolitionist Approach website about setting up a virtual billboard to "spread the mes...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Veganism (?) in the Media

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I read several months ago how singer Alanis Morissette ended up getting a good little chunk of media attention after having shed 20 lbs. Th...
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Sunday, December 13, 2009

So Says Twitter About Dear Peter Singer

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Recent news making the rounds on Twitter is that utilitarian ethicist and animal lover Peter Singer, has agreed to participate in a debate ...
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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Why Veganism Needs to be the Moral Baseline

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Here's a short 2008 interview on Animal World with Prof. Gary L. Francione discussing why veganism needs to be the moral baseline of the...
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Friday, December 11, 2009

Not 'How', but 'Why'

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I read an article this morning by columnist Anne Else of New Zealand's Independent News Media ( " A fair adjectival cow: Why cubic...
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Makin' Tempeh!

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My friend Mark makes his own tempeh and recently documented his latest attempt for me so that I could blog about it. I'm including his i...
Monday, December 07, 2009

What Other Abolitionists Have Been Saying

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I've been too busy over the past couple of weeks to keep up with the sort of posting I'd ordinarily like to be doing. That being sa...
Saturday, December 05, 2009

Vegan, you look like HELL!

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Here's a favourite video of mine from YouTube covering some of the things that well-meaning friends and acquaintances may say without th...
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Monday, November 30, 2009

What Vegans Eat

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I'd hoped to kick-start a periodic vegan cookbook review feature on My Face Is on Fire but have been too swamped at the office to follo...
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Shocking People into Short-Term Change (a.k.a. Animal Advocacy Fail)

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Samantha Friedman, writing for Boston's Daily Free Press , took the opportunity today to explain (in a really, really roundabout manner...
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Outlook

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"You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible." --Anton Chekov (1860-1904)
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Monday, November 16, 2009

The Abolitionist Approach to Animal Rights

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There seems to be a hell of a lot of confusion among animal advocates about what it means to promote and support the abolition of the exploi...