Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2009

My husband has two friends (a male/female couple) who are transitioning from vegetarian to vegan and I also have two friends (both women) who are transitioning from omnivore and all are dreading Thanksgiving. The conversations with family and friends have already begun about "Turkey Day." I don't know, maybe 20 years of experience.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

There will be no greyhound corpse on our table, no turkey corpse and no pig corpse. The two objections to a vegan Thanksgiving that I hear most often are: It's our tradition and Because it tastes good. Justice for beings who look very different from us but who, like us, experience pleasure and pain, boredom and frustration.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

332-3) Those are all compelling reasons to not feed your children meat (beef, pork, chicken, turkey, etc.) The breast milk of vegan mothers is fully nutritious for infants, and contains the full compliment of energy, protein, and vitamins, needed for the rapid growth of life's first half year. But what about prior to two years?

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Numerous epidemiological studies have demonstrated that vegetarians, and especially vegans, have far lower rates of heart disease, cancer, stroke, hypertension, and diabetes compared to meat-eaters. That's one more reason to forego the Christmas Turkey or Ham this year. They are alive and well. No, quite the opposite in fact.

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