Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

The two objections to a vegan Thanksgiving that I hear most often are: It's our tradition and Because it tastes good. And I want Baby Sky to grow up in a home where there is just as much respect for chickens and calves and fishes as there is for greyhounds and cats and people. They would say they love animals.

Greyhounds 100

Greyhounds Forced Molting Debeaking Vegan 100

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Steiner might feel less lonely as an ethical vegan—he says he has just five vegan friends—if he recognized that he has allies in mere vegetarians (like me), ethical omnivores and even carnivores. Go vegan, go vegetarian, go humane or just eat less meat. 22, 2009 To the Editor: I am an ethical vegan.

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New York Times New York Vegan Vegetarian 40

Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

Lack of knowledge about agriculture" might be irrelevant, but it's also untrue, as most vegans I know know far more than non-vegans about animal agriculture, and it's that knowledge that makes them want to be vegans. The problem, then, is the question Scott is asking and the assumptions he is making.

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Emotional Farm Animal Farmed Animals Agenda 100