Not until my mid-40s did I finally wake up to the many appalling facts behind dairy farming, most notably, the inherently cruel and forceful separation of a mother cow and READ ON
Breaking the Mother-Calf Bond: The Untold Story of Milk
Am I a Hypocrite for Keeping Adopted Hens and Advocating Animal Rights?
A few days ago some nice lady wrote me to tell me that there were over 700 comments on an article of mine on care2.com about how we have not READ ON
My Quick Disappointment with a Slow Food Experience
Now the menu this chef had developed clearly indicated to me that he lacked the creative skills to make this meat- and cheese-loving Slow Foodie crowd warm up to plant-based READ ON
Six Reasons Why the Natural Order Argument Does Not Justify Meat Eating
I have heard important figures in all religions and many secular areas of study make the claim that eating meat honors the natural order. But whose natural order? Which natural 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
Eating Animals and the Illusion of Personal Choice
The artificial breeding, exploitation, enslavement, killing and profiteering from the slaughtered corpses of some 60 billion land animals and another approximate 60 billion to 1 trillion marine animals every year READ ON
The Rise of Vegan Culture in Israel: Interview with Ikey Greene
“Real change is about making social justice for everyone, any gender, sexual orientation, race or species. Many people I know demonstrated for social justice last summer, but weren’t vegan. This READ ON
Photo Gallery: Precious Animals, A Project of Dutch Photographer and Filmmaker Jan van IJken
Precious Animals is a photo-project about the relationship between animals and humans, focusing on animals as manufactured consumer products on the one hand, with efficiency playing the leading role, and READ ON
Addicted to Cheese and Ice Cream? The Opiate Qualities of Dairy
“Casein, one of the proteins in milk, crosses the blood-brain barrier and becomes something called casomorphins. Yes’m, that sounds a lot like morphine—because casomorphin is also an opiod. Nature designed READ ON
Speciesism the Movie: Questioning Our Power Over the Powerless
Speciesism is a term coined by Richard Ryder in 1970. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines specieism as “prejudice or discrimination based on species; especially discrimination against animals.” Ryder pointed out that READ ON
Are You Addicted to Cheese?
Cheese has a concentration of opiate compounds originating in milk called casomorphins (1) believed to help strengthen the bond between mother cow and calf. The idea that they contributes to READ ON
The Chicken Chronicles Part I: ‘You Reap What You Sow’
While researchers test for evidence of intelligence in animals and scientists testify in front of USDA panels about the capacity of animals to think or feel, I’ve been doing some READ ON
