Animal Person

JULY 9, 2009

Well, I think the grenade metaphor also applies to conversion to veganism. There is often lag time between the critical mass event and its accompanying decision to go vegan--and the the actual doing: being a vegan. There's intention, then the becoming, then the vegan. What does this mean? What happened in those years?

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Vegan Cooking Vegetarian Ethics 100

Critter News

MAY 9, 2009

One guy runs Vegan Outreach and the other is a VP at PETA (they have those?). For instance, they caution that if "we're at a restaurant and there's a veggie burger on the menu but we give the server the third degree about the ingredients or about how it was cooked, we're most likely doing more harm than good."

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Recommendations included: know the people who produced your food, get out of the supermarket (go to a farmer's market), and cook at home more (especially junk food, as if you had to make your own french fries you'd eat a lot fewer of them). You wouldn't expect Pollan or Oprah to deliver a vegan or animal rights message and they didn't.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 5, 2011

That's what I do, and it works, as in--people go vegan and stay vegan. Thinking Critically About The Animals We Use can be printed on one 11 x 17 sheet and folded in half and isn't designed to make anyone into an activist. And that disconnect is deadly and reeks of injustice. -.

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Animal Cooking Vegan Emotional 100

Animal Person

MARCH 24, 2010

Of course none of them come close to the most important reason for my objection: that we have no right to use animals for entertainment or other reasons that are not necessary. And realistically, availability of a vegan burger isn't going to make me want to participate. Basically, it's for children who eat animals and their parents.

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Zoos Ponies Pets Vegan 100

Animal Person

JULY 6, 2009

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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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 24, 2007

As much as these individuals would like to do the right thing and stop supporting factory farms with their purchases, they think the sacrifice is just too great. People who have eaten meat and dairy products their entire lives, often simply can't imagine what vegans eat. Still skeptical about how tasty vegan fare can be?

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Vegan Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory 40