If you care about animals and feel compelled to defend them, chances are you’ve come across knee-jerk accusations claiming you are “pushing your agenda,” forcing your ideas down their throat,” READ ON
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Shooting the Messenger: Animal Advocates under Attack
A Girl and Her Pig: No Subject for Civil Discourse or Critical Thinking
Civil Eats claims to “promote critical thinking” about our food choices, but does this image and portrayal of Chef Bloomfield appeal to our more critical or civil side? I would READ ON
Why Horsemeat Is Delicious and Disgusting
The recent horsemeat scandal, in which consumers discovered that the meat they had eaten was from horses rather than cows, has caused nothing short of an international outcry. The unwitting READ ON
Seven Reasons Why We Have NOT ‘Evolved’ to Eat Meat
How many times have you heard someone justify their behavior based on the illogical premise that history somehow makes it right and assures its ethical legitimacy into the future? In READ ON
Does Saying Humans Are Omnivores Justify Eating Animals?
A common objection to veganism is the statement, “Humans are omnivores.” Yet, being an omnivore neither requires us to eat animal products nor does it dismiss our moral obligation to READ ON
Catching Up With Science: Burying the “Humans Need Meat” Argument
In the newly revised Australian Dietary Guidelines, Australia’s top health experts now agree with leading health advisory boards in the U.S. and Canada that well-planned vegan diets are a safe, READ ON
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 READ ON
Interview: 27-Year Vegan Veteran Hope Bohanec
The following is an interview with Hope Bohanec, author of The Ultimate Betrayal: Is There Happy Meat? A vegan for 27 years, Hope shares her own insights relating to veganism READ ON
Motherhood Led Me to Quit Dairy Farming Forever
The realities of dairy farming broke Jess Strathdee’s heart. After becoming a mother, she soon found she could no longer support an industry based on exploiting motherhood. “I was taking READ ON
A Response to the Claim That Eating Animals is Natural
The three examples, of naturally occurring rape, infanticide, and xenophobia, should help dispel the notion that acting in ways that come “naturally” automatically fulfills our moral obligations. In human societies, READ ON
Should Vegans Have Vegan Dogs and Cats?
The question of vegan dogs and cats is one that is frequently framed in the form of the objection, But you feed your dogs and cats meat; that’s not vegan! READ ON
Are Farmed Animals ‘Better Off’ Than They Would Be in Nature?
“Farm animals have a much better life than they would in nature” is a claim we commonly encounter. Fans of this line of thinking often present an either/or situation: either READ ON
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 READ ON
The Spiked Nose Ring: A Symbol for All Dairy Cruelty
Voltaire once wrote, “If we believe absurdities, we will commit atrocities,” and nowhere is this principle seen more clearly than in the billion dollar lies and bizarre cruelties of the READ ON
What Can Happen When a New Vegan Talks to Family?
While some might resign to the popular notion that eating animals is a personal choice, Jenny chooses not to internalize her beliefs and instead seeks to make it a highly READ ON
The Matrix as Metaphor for Animal Advocacy
The question I have grappled with for years now is: how can this conditioning work so well on so many of us for so long? This question is central to READ ON
How to Respond to ‘Veganism is Extreme’
How many times have you heard the dismissive phrase veganism is extreme? What is extreme is not veganism but its polar opposite, carnism, which remains largely invisible and unexamined. What READ ON
Seeing Yourself as Good Might Make You a Terrible Person
“So you’re saying if I eat a piece of chicken, I’m a bad person?” Many of us have probably heard this question or a variation of it before in discussions READ ON
