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.
Animal Person
AUGUST 5, 2009
The problem with that statement is it's not as if farmers are searching "the wild" for cows, pigs, chicken and fish, plucking them from their homes, and plopping them on a farm to live out their (shortened) lives prior to slaughter. The choice isn't the wild or the farm. Besides, we have choices.
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Animal Person
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
My experience says otherwise (particularly with my childhood kitty, Brady), but generally speaking Masson's depiction of cats is accurate. There are duck stories and elephant stories and pig stories, but the reason we hear about them is because they are extraordinary. Yes, there's a vegan message. But he then addresses that.
Animal Person
OCTOBER 26, 2009
I say "if you know someone" because this isn't a book I'd recommend to vegans for their vegan education efforts. The vegans I know would probably find it a bit maddening, and here's why: We aren't sure whether Foer is a vegan. Not great, but good. He never says he is. But why does he say "vegetarian?" This is very silly.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 15, 2009
Vegan vegetarians who eat only vegetables, fruit, and nuts do not completely remove all microorganisms from their food, even with repeated cleaning. KBJ: Humans and pigs are not just sentient, which already distinguishes them from microorganisms; they are, in Tom Regan’s terminology, “subjects of a life.” What Meat Should Not Be Eaten?
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