DOMINION: Humans kill kill kill, while blindly killing themselves
An animal’s death is fast and visible — a kill floor, a truck, a plate, over in a day. A customer’s death is slow and invisible — engineered cravings…
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VEGANISM
THE EYES HAVE IT: Stop looking at the vegan, look your victim in their eyes instead
When a vegan challenges animal exploitation, the conversation often moves away from the individual being exploited. Suddenly, the discussion becomes:…
THE HORROR: Moral distance, self-deception and the ethics of looking away
It is common to think of ignorance as simply not knowing something. A lack of information. But there’s an important difference between not having…
THE NUMBERS GAME: Why telling people how bad factory farming is doesn’t always work
The knowledge gap about factory farming is very, very real. But simply telling people about how big the problem is won’t move them to act. Seeing the…
CORE IDEA: Veganism as the ritualized disruption of the ideology of ‘human supremacy’
We should rethink the assumption that veganism must be tied to the aim of increasing aggregate welfare and/or to a strict condemnation of flesh…
Humans Misclassified: Rediscovering our dietary evolutionary path
Humans are primates misclassified by a false debate. The question remains: if neither omnivore nor herbivore truly defines us, what could our design…
The Parrot Paradigm: Why modern excuses for carnism fail the reason test
To break free from the matrix of inherited habits and manufactured consent requires a deliberate, courageous act of intellectual rebellion. So long…
‘The Beast & The Shepherd’: What happens when a shepherd can no longer bear the fate of his own animals?
In a remote corner of rural France, a shepherd grows deeply attached to his lambs and struggles with the prospect of sending them to slaughter. Torn…
‘Mommy’ Un-Dearest: Are vegan influencers a necessary evil?
Creating social media content shouldn’t be every single vegan’s main form of activism, but vegan influencers do have an important role in helping…
The Right Kind of Activism: How chasing the single best strategy leaves the movement brittle
Instead of a monoculture movement, we should be promoting a variety of theories of change that work under different conditions. Rather than competing…
WHAT ARE WE BECOMING?: The animal protection movement needs a new question
A person who has genuinely reckoned with what industrial civilization does to animals, and chosen to act differently, to whatever extent, is not…
The Hidden Cost of Progress: Confronting the reality of animal exploitation
For centuries, we have defined 'progress' almost exclusively through the lens of human advancement. However, as we have pushed the boundaries of…
‘Nearveganism’: Ethical consumption in a non-ideal world
'Nearveganism' holds that individuals living under ordinary conditions in developed societies should organize their ordinary pattern of consumption…
‘Behind the Mask’: New novel unveils the high-stakes world of animal liberation and undercover betrayal
The book 'Behind the Mask' is more than a thriller; it is a profound exploration of the emotional and psychological toll of living a life of…
How what Americans eat became shorthand for who they are, and how that plays out in politics
Historically, Western norms during the 19th and 20th centuries held that to not eat meat is odd at best, and suspicious at worst. The 'meatless' have…
Ethical Veganism as Protected Belief: What the European Court of Human Rights just affirmed
This ECHR judgment matters for vegan advocacy because it provides a legal foundation for veganism as a protected belief. It recognizes opposing the…
Vegan Parenting: When compassion gets called ‘indoctrination’
There is a difference between guilt and conscience, between shame and moral awareness, between indoctrination and age-appropriate truth-telling. We…
The Extraction Matrix: Why human liberation is impossible without animal justice
Human liberation is entirely bound up in the liberation of the planet. When we poison water for profit, the land cannot heal; when we dominate the…