Whenever a debate on veganism arises, there is a very high probability that the discussion will turn to lions.

By Charles Horn | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals
When we say, ‘Everything eats and is eaten,’ we are also implying a conclusion which is something like, “Therefore eating animals is justified because it’s natural.” But there are many READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals
Some plant crops are particularly destructive to rainforests, indigenous communities and other native species as well as exploit slave and child labor. In discussions of veganism and animal rights, some READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals
One of the most popular justifications for eating animals that we encounter from the “ethical meat” crowd is that “livestock can be grazed in areas where crops can’t be grown,” READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals
The hunting defense frames hunting, not as sport or leisure, but as essential conservation work, based on an appeal to fear, warning that wildlife populations will spiral out of control READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals
The following is my letter to the editor of The Globe and Mail in response to their publication of the post, This sheep could save our bacon someday: Why farmers are READ ON
By Linda Clark | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals
How often do we hear it said, ‘I hardly eat any meat’, or ‘I only take a drop of milk in tea’? It is as if we consider that the READ ON
By Charles Horn | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals
This is a response to Dennis Prager’s video “Are Humans More Valuable Than Animals?”, which was released on Youtube last year, but which was reposted recently on Facebook. In the READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals
All too often, farmed animals are portrayed as willing participants in whatever it is we want to do with them. By portraying the relationship between farmer and the animals he READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals
We’ve published an excerpt from the book, Meat Logic: Why We Eat Animals by author Charles Horn, with his permission. The book takes an in depth look at the many READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals
This article explores the cultural roots of our belief in our own superiority and how it manifests in popular culture, as well as pointing to how might challenge it. In READ ON
By Carla Golden | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals
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 READ ON
By Linda Clark | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals
Almost everyone says they care about animals; says they’re against cruelty; says they believe it’s right to stand up for those who are oppressed and powerless. Being vegan is simply READ ON
By Saryta Rodriguez | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals
In February of this year, the Sierra Club really outdid itself by attempting to present a Moral Case for Meat Eating, the crux of which is that by consuming the READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Common Justifications for 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
By Micaela Karlsen | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals, Featured Articles
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
By Anupam Katkar | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals
Picture this: You’re a harvest mouse who lives in a wheat field. Being a mouse, you have excellent hearing and can easily pick up sounds that a human cannot hear. READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals
In the Q & A at one of my recent presentations, someone pointed out that they’ve heard a concern for animals criticized as “first world.” Aside from the obvious prejudice READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals
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
By Charles Horn | | Categories Common Justifications for Eating Animals
“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