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On a Replacement for "Bullshit"

Animal Person

Is using the word "bullshit" un-vegan? Does it perpetuate linguistic-based speciesism? The lesson: If you pick the right phonemes (memorable, fit with existing ways of making words, etc.), Any thoughts on the speciesism or un-veganness of "bullshit"? I never associate the word with actually shit from a bull.

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Steve Best on The Left's Ignorance of Cognitive Ethology

Animal Person

Tags: Activism Current Affairs Language animal rights Culture Ecology Ethology speciesism The Left veganism. Check out the rest and let me know what you think. Related articles by Zemanta Rooks can use tools 'just like chimps' (guardian.co.uk). Chimp 'showed malice aforethought' (guardian.co.uk).

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 1 of 13

Animal Ethics

Two varieties of moral vegetarianism can be distinguished: lactovo moral vegetarianism and vegan moral vegetarianism. Lactovo and vegan moral vegetarianism can be subdivided into what might be called new and old or traditional moral vegetarianism. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. Each argument has an audience.

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On "Pets" and "Its"

Animal Person

Therefore, one of the many things we need, aside from the obvious of more vegan parents, is a line of nonspeciesist books for each age/stage. We do that with cats and dogs already, right? Tags: Books Ethics Language parenting publishing speciesism veganism. I'm a terrible fiction writer.

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