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Category: Veganism
Bearing Witness: The First Stage in Changing the Paradigm for Animals
If you are an animal advocate or just someone who is concerned with animal issues, the first most important task we have is to find creative ways to get people to bear witness to the suffering of animals for food and other uses. You can’t have a meaningful conversation with someone who has not yet been exposed to the reality you too have witnessed. The act of witnessing forms the basis of a constructive dialogue about our impact on animals and what we can do about it.
Natalie Portman Working on a Vegan Documentary Based on the Book ‘Eating Animals’
Natalie Portman took a break from her career after the release of Black Swan to have a child with fiancé Benjamin Millepied, whom she met on the set of her movie, but she’s now back to work, this time on a documentary project based on the book Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran-Foer which she claims led her to a veganism a few years back.
The Meat of the Issue: Normal, Natural and Necessary?
In the last 24 hours, I’ve had an earful of reasons why people eat meat. Most of the reasoning centers around health. Many say when they tried to be vegetarian their health declined. Others say eating animals is part of the “circle of life.” Still others believe that some animals were somehow born into this world to serve us as food. Having come out of a Melanie Joy’s vegan empowerment workshop last night, I am inspired by her insights about why people believe they need to eat animals and how to best communicate with them about the issue.
Faith Terwilliger: A Cancer Survivor Turned Plant Based Nutrition Coach
The New Cheese Addiction Guide Book to Recovery
On Free from Harm we’ve published a few wildly popular posts about cheese and its scientifically-documented addictive properties. Now there’s a new book out called Cut the Cheese: Quit Your Cheese Addiction to Transform Your Life by author Cathleen Woods. Woods make a solid case for what makes cheese addictive, what chronic diseases are associated with cheese consumption and why dairy production is so inherently cruel to the cows and their offspring.
Venus and Serena Williams Go Raw Vegan to Combat Immune Disorder
The Daily Mail published a story the other day about tennis star Serena William’s admission of her diagnosis of the immune system disease known as Sjogren’s syndrome. She explains that symptoms of fatigue drove her to doctors for years who could not diagnose her condition, so she is relieved and yet frightened about her diagnosis.
Proactively Supporting Wavering Vegetarians and Vegans
Researcher and scholar Jamie Hecht has been involved in an ongoing research study of former vegans and vegetarians with the goal of better understanding their motivations for “defecting,” that is, going back to eating meat. We reported on her latest discoveries from a study group that identified the top 6 reasons why people give up being vegetarian and vegan. Interestingly enough, non of the top 6 reasons had anything to do with health concerns or health conditions. ALL of them were connected to social pressures—from family, friends, popular culture and even ethnic cultural traditions.
Does Higher Animal Welfare Lead to Higher Consumption? Considering the Case of Whole Foods Market
In several of his essays and talks, animal rights leaders like Gary Francione argue that welfarism does not lead to abolitionism but instead greater consumption since consumers that perceive animal products as higher welfare or more humane will feel better about eating them and therefore consume more than they would had these products not been available. Touring any Whole Foods Market store would certainly suggest that the dominant presence of the meat and dairy departments would indicate that animal product sales are booming.
