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On Mixing Bowl and Vegan Education

Animal Person

Emphasizing user-generated content, the site invites home cooks to exchange recipes, share photos, participate in contests and post messages. Vegans seek out vegan sites, but a nonvegan looking for a chocolate cake recipe probably won't seek out a vegan site. because they're already vegans.

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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. People believe one thing and do another.

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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. Trying to convince people to go vegan is like trying to convince people to only reproduce once. not to mention read more writing by actual vegans.

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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. I understand the impulse to do " something " that alters the number of animals created to be used and killed and the suffering of the ones created. And I still wrestle with opportunities to decrease suffering.

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