Critter News
APRIL 11, 2009
It's a 5-minute film about conditions for pigs in the UK. Unfortunately, there are way more of them than there are vegetarians and vegans. Tags: UK meat pigs. Produced by Compassion in World Farming. As an aside, people who love to eat meat should also watch educational videos like these. Don't live in a cloud.wake up!
Animal Person
JUNE 6, 2009
We are currently doing an investigation on pig farms in Spain, including intensive and extensive/free-range farms (tho extensive ones are scarce since intensive ones are the majority in the industry). We don't advocate "happy meat" but veganism. We have asked openly for donations already but few people are willing to help.
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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. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Greyhound Matters Language Thanksgiving veganism.
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 14, 2009
My inbox this month has informed me that November is Vegan Awareness Month! I am a vegan who has adopted a diabetic greyhound who eats vegan food ( Natural Balance ), and who is adopting a boy from Russia. As a vegan, part of what I believe is that bringing animals onto this planet to use them as food or as pets isn't ethical.
Animal Person
DECEMBER 27, 2009
" That's Why We Don't Eat Animals: A Book About Vegans, Vegetarians, and All Living Things ," written and illustrated by Ruby Roth, has gorgeous and haunting illustrations. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Gray Matters Language. And it gently tells the story of why we shouldn't eat factory farmed animals. And I'd prefer a different message.
Animal Person
MARCH 20, 2010
When I started thinking about trying to get the association to cancel the pony rides and petting zoo (which are often part of one business as a quick Google search of " traveling petting zoo " will demonstrate), my several-year vegan husband said, "What's the use? require hundreds of pig, cow and chicken corpses? What would you do?
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. Tags: Ethics Language. The choice isn't the wild or the farm. Besides, we have choices.
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