As someone who researches the dairy industry regularly, I have observed over the last few years a distressing surge in pro-dairy messaging from an increasingly visible and vocal sector of …
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Is An Excuse-itarian Diet Keeping You From Living Your Own Values?
Colleen Patrick Goudreau’s rousing talk, “From Excuse-itarian to Vegan,” has reached nearly 100,000 viewers on youtube, and is a great tool for empowering others to live their own values of …
I Visited A Small, Organic Dairy Farm to See If Animals Were Treated...
While passing a small dairy farm on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in the Point Reyes National Seashore in early October, I made an impromptu visit to a small, family-owned, pasture-based, …
Do Different People Really Need Radically Different Diets?
The concepts of personalized medicine and personalized nutrition have really taken off. People are eating according to their blood type, their metabolic type, their Ayurvedic constitution, and their genotype. Micaela …
When I Look Inside the Trucks, I Look With My Heart
Each day that I wake up with the thought of bearing witness in mind, I feel that same knot in my chest anticipating how much suffering I will see during …
What’s the Point of Keeping a Hen Who Cannot Lay Eggs?
A few years ago, I adopted a hen about whom I knew very little except that a farmer did not want her anymore because she had stopped laying eggs. The …
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A Hurricane of Distortions Surrounding Animals and Veganism
Somehow, during the recent hurricanes, a perfect storm was created for glorifying animal exploitation and ridiculing veganism (of all things). Letting these distortions go unchallenged would be a great injustice, …
I Became a ‘Humane Farmer’ to Help Animals; I Should Have...
I started out as a small scale “humane farmer” farmer back in 2006. But I soon realized that, because producing meat is as unnecessary as it is violent, ethical meat …
The Normalization of Nonhuman Oppression in Education
In this article, Saryta describes her experience as a literacy tutor specializing in elementary school students and explores some of the challenges she has faced in her work with children …
Planet of the Apes: Speciesism Exposed
In War for the Planet of the Apes, the Colonel is a mirror into the mindset of the modern human. We want to keep our control of the comforts of …
Bio-Individuality & The Myth That Some People ‘Just Need...
While the idea that some people “just need meat or animal protein” sells plenty of books (Blood Type Diet, anyone?) nutritional requirements— in terms of the actual nutrients needed— are …
State Rep Uses Ritual Killing of Chicken to Protest Abortion
Why did he do it? He didn’t need to videotape killing a chicken to convince antiabortionists, so was he targeting ambivalent voters who still support a woman’s right to make …
