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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists. Well, as it turns out neither a trip to a slaughterhouse nor killing an animal yourself is powerful enough to make people go vegan.

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Deconstructing Spencer's Comment

Animal Person

Spencer R writes: Vegans sound exactly like religious fundamentalists. Trying to convince people to go vegan is like trying to convince people to only reproduce once. The first three sentences, unpacked, are: Vegans are like religious fundamentalists who act superior and demonize of the consumption of animals.

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Lessons Learned, The Finale

Animal Person

Also, four years ago you couldn't put a Google search button on your blog to search only the contents of your blog. Lesson #20 We still don't know what will make a critical mass of people go vegan. But other than multi-pronged, multi-media, persistence, I have no idea what will be necessary to make most people go vegan.

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Ways to Promote Alliance Politics

Animal Person

They would be interested in the content of the books, for sure, but they have learned how to talk around the notion of books and don't easily ask for help. They don't see veganism as related to their fight against dog racing, at first (or second. ).

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

Animal Ethics

According to Dr. Spock: Most families have become more conscious about the fat content of meats, and many are choosing the lower-fat cuts. That animal product is human breast milk. Human breast milk is a near perfect food for human newborns and infants. Michael Klaper, Pregnancy, Children, and the Vegan Diet , p.

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