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 READ ON
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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 READ ON
I Visited A Small, Organic Dairy Farm to See If Animals Were Treated Better
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, 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
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 READ ON
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 READ ON
Animals Eat Other Animals, So Why Shouldn’t We?
Many people insist that eating animals is “natural” — and therefore morally neutral — because other animals eat animals. But it’s important to realize that, with a few exceptions, when READ ON
Turkey Talk Between Birds and Humans Will Blow Your Mind
When it comes to advocating on behalf of farmed animals, activists are often urged to “be a voice for the voiceless.” But farmed animals do have voices, and they can READ ON
Former Meat and Dairy Farmers Who Became Vegan Activists
Slaughterhouse journalist Upton Sinclair once wrote, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” But while it may be READ ON
Why Organic Meat, Dairy and Eggs Are Not Sustainable
We must treat as highly suspect the claim that organic animal agriculture is sustainable. Organic methods are an environmentally-mixed bag—sometimes slightly better, sometimes a little worse, and often the same READ ON
After Learning These Parts of A Chicken, You May Never Want to Eat One Again
The parts of a chicken most people tend to know are the ones that end up on their plates: “cuts of meat” from a depersonalized carcass that involve creepy descriptors READ ON
Then I Will Hold You In My Arms: A Must See Tribute to Animal Victims
Mourning is a way of making connections, of establishing kinship, and of recognizing the vulnerability and finitude of the other. The protocols that refuse to recognize our mourning refuse all READ ON
What Is the Value Of A Life? A Dairy Calf Story
I used to work in a specialty cheese shop. I was surrounded by cheeses from around the world and I knew the unique history and characteristics of each of them. READ ON
9 Reasons Your Canine Teeth Don’t Make You a Meat-Eater
“the presence of canine teeth = meant to eat meat,” is completely inaccurate. In truth, with the exception of rodents, rabbits, and pikas, nearly all mammals have canine teeth. In READ ON
Groundbreaking, Game Changing Vegan Cheese Is Here
For many people, ditching dairy is only moderately difficult; for others, it isn’t hard at all. But for some it’s a real obstacle; one of the most consistent objections to READ ON
Are Chickens Smarter Than Toddlers? A View of Cross-Species Comparisons
Allied with the attempt to place nonhuman animals in a cerebral hierarchy – who is smarter, a lizard or a lion, a penguin or a parrot, a chicken or a READ ON
Why Fish Can No Longer Escape Our Conscience
Pescetarians—those who eschew eating all animals with the notable exceptional of fish—are commonly viewed as having fashioned diets that are more ethically focused than opportunistic omnivores. But could it be 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
Why Animals Can’t Sacrifice Their Lives for Us
Narratives and descriptions claiming that animals make sacrifices for us date back to our earliest recorded history and would have us believe that animals give their consent to be violently READ ON
Catching Up With Science: Burying the “Humans Need Meat” Argument
In the newly revised Australian Dietary Guidelines released this week, Australia’s top health experts now agree with leading health advisory boards in the U.S. and Canada that well-planned vegan diets READ ON
