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Sexy Meat?

April 12th, 2008

And right on the heels of all the articles talking about the sexism involved in vegan activism, we have some gross sexism coming from the meat industry. I’m not sure Carol Adam’s book title “The Pornography of Meat” has ever had this literal a representation before. These are some of the sickest images [...]

Body Image and Veganism

March 29th, 2008

As many of you know, I don’t believe we should exclude one cause to promote another. That’s why I’ve been getting increasingly frustrated with the vegan/animal rights/animal welfare communities (I had to throw animal welfare in there because I’m going to be talking about PETA who is definitely not either a vegan or animal [...]

I don’t know how many people reading this have played any of the Harvest Moon games but basically they are sim games where you run a farm.  You grow crops, raise cows for milk, sheep for wool, and chickens for eggs.  Now, here’s the thing about the game.  You never kill your animals and the [...]

I’m vegan for a number of reasons, the main one being that I don’t believe animals deserve to be held captive, tortured and/or killed anymore than I believe humans do. Animals are sentient beings who experience fear and feel pain just as real as any human. After all, humans are merely animals.
As a [...]

What is Animal Rights?

March 5th, 2008

Ask people to name an animal rights organization and a great majority of them will probably name PETA. However, those of us who are abolitionists know that PETA is pretty damn far from being an animal right organization. What most people don’t know is that there are actually two kinds of people in [...]

So, I overheard a conversation the other day about dog and cock fighting. My father-in-law says that they’re both so horrible and doesn’t understand how anyone could condone either. I immediately thought to myself that this is such a hypocritical thing for him to say since he eats chicken. Anyone who has [...]