INEXCUSABLE: Not vegan? It’s not your fault… is it?
INEXCUSABLE: Not vegan? It’s not your fault… is it?
A lot of new vegans struggle with adopting their newly adopted moral position that feels both obvious and unspeakable: how can others not see this? That dissonance breeds despair. You’re not just grieving animals or ecosystems; you’re grieving the moral failure of your own kind. The tribe survives on selective blindness, and you’ve lost the ability, (or willingness), to look away. You’re awake in a world that values sleep. It’s a costly form of awareness, but it’s not meaningless. The grief you carry is the proof of conscience: evidence that not everyone has gone numb. WILL RANKIN: Becoming vegan, or […]
‘Too far? I don’t think we’ve gone far enough!’: Ingrid Newkirk on her bloody fight for animal rights
‘Too far? I don’t think we’ve gone far enough!’: Ingrid Newkirk on her bloody fight for animal rights
Forty-five years into PETA’s existence, Ingrid Newkirk can claim to have won many battles. Animal testing is marginally down, with multinational companies having to at least pay lip service to ideas around animal cruelty and environmentalism. And more than 25 million people worldwide have at least dipped a toe into veganism. PETA has certainly played some part in this with its activism. If they didn’t invent direct action, they normalized it. Ingrid Newkirk was 54 when she thought she was going to die in a plane crash. It was late summer and the founder of People for the Ethical Treatment […]
Undercover police officer fabricated gun plot by animal rights activists
Undercover police officer fabricated gun plot by animal rights activists
The undercover officer claimed he had infiltrated animal rights groups and concocted a plot in which animal rights activists purportedly sought to obtain a gun to inflict a revenge attack on a political opponent, but his managers later came to doubt whether it was genuine. The animal rights activist who was accused of a central role in the alleged conspiracy said it was a fabrication that could have resulted in him being unjustly jailed for years… Managers of an undercover police officer believed he had concocted a plot in which animal rights activists purportedly sought to obtain a gun to […]
