THINK AGAIN: Do you support industrial civilization and demand veganism from others?
THINK AGAIN: Do you support industrial civilization and demand veganism from others?
Factory farming is not a natural phenomenon. It is a specific product of Western industrial capitalism — dependent on mass infrastructure, corporate agriculture, refrigeration technology, global supply chains, and the economic logic that emerged from the Industrial Revolution. The ‘civilizationist vegan’ defends the system that created factory farming. They advocate for its expansion into societies that do not yet have it. They refuse the more radical interventions their own logic demands. And then they direct moral pressure at individuals to perform dietary virtue. That is not a coherent ethical position. It is a power move dressed in the language of […]
The Cost of Silence: What Ridglan Farms reveals about us
The Cost of Silence: What Ridglan Farms reveals about us
Actions like those taken at Ridglan Farms are not born out of disregard for the law, but out of the belief that the law is failing to protect those who cannot protect themselves. They represent a form of moral urgency — an unwillingness to wait for systems to evolve while suffering continues in the present. Whether one sees those actions as justified or unlawful ultimately depends on how one answers a fundamental question: If we recognize animals as sentient, on what grounds do we continue to justify their suffering? And if we cannot answer that question clearly, then perhaps the […]
Zoom w/ Moby: Music legend and animal rights activist Moby joins Ridglan beagles rescue
Zoom w/ Moby: Music legend and animal rights activist Moby joins Ridglan beagles rescue
Music legend and lifelong animal rights activist Moby joins the rescuers who walked into Ridglan Farms — the second-largest beagle experimentation breeder in the U.S. — and walked out with 30 dogs destined for death. Join a Zoom conversation with the electronic music pioneer on Saturday, April 28 at 1 pm ET. Then stick around afterwards to hear how you can be involved with the historic effort to rescue 2000 beagles from cruel labs. THE SIMPLE HEART: Join a Zoom conversation with the electronic music pioneer Moby on Saturday, April 28 at 1 pm ET. Then stick around afterwards to hear […]
