Animal Person

MAY 23, 2009

I want to talk about why we shouldn't be using animals and that it's infinitely easier to be a vegan than it was 20 years ago. So there are more vegans and fewer animals used by humans, right? And I don't see how they further our goal of getting humans to realize that nonhumans are not resources for them to exploit.

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Critter News

APRIL 26, 2009

Some fight for veganism, some against factory farms, some against experimentation, poaching, habitat encroachment, etc. But how much can we accomplish when our resources are so divided? (I believe they can speak, but in their own language that we can understand if we only listen.) I also believe that we are a fragmented movement.

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Animal Person

APRIL 18, 2009

I don't need to "remind myself" of how bad it is to bolster my commitment to veganism. So I do what I can do, beginning of course with being vegan. I rescue, I adopt, I do TNR, and I connect others to resources to do the same. I choose not to watch videos or bombard myself with images of suffering. I know it's out there.

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Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2010

So he is being re-veganized (Violet's already vegan), as long as his back and leg aren't adversely affected. So many, so little time, so little support and so few resources. As for Project Treadstone, after several false starts, trapping, spaying and neutering will resume next week. But we owe it to them to do our best.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

And there are religious reasons: According to the Bible , the original divinely-prescribed diet was an entirely plant-based, vegan diet: "And God said, 'Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. I replaced cow's milk with soy milk.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2007

11), about vegan-friendly fashion: Not only is it chic to wear fashion that has some conscience and imagination to it, but there also is a marvelous inner feeling of knowing that one is not using one’s clothing to wage a war on nature. To the Editor: Re “ Uncruel Beauty ” (Thursday Styles, Jan. Kat McAfee Princeton, N.J.,

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

But if you're on the outside, and you're hostile to the idea of respecting the natural lives of sentient nonhumans and you see them only as resources to be managed, might you have a similar idea? Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is. And one of that handful is the environment.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

It is certainly likely that a similar phenomenon would occur if vegan vegetarianism became a widespread movement in the U.S. It’s a matter of expending one’s resources in accordance with one’s values. It has been recently reported in the Boston Globe (Jane O’Reilly, “The Bottle and the 3rd World,” July 8, 1976, p. milk production.

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