May 2011
1 post
Vegan Discrimination
It’s been almost 2 years since I’ve stopped eating all animal products.
The hardest part however, has not been eating more healthily, but the discrimination I have faced during this time.
In our society discrimination against races, religions, disabilities or sexuality are both taboo and illegal. Sadly, choices of ideologies don’t benefit from the same protection, and people...
January 2011
2 posts
Matrix / Post Darwin Morality
You know in the film The Matrix, Neo learns to understanding the world around him and all its inner workings in a way that others can’t (or don’t know how to)?
Today I was looking at my cat, Amma, simply admiring her as I often do - and I realized that I don’t see her as my inferior or “just an animal”. I see her as a little person, with her individualities, quirks,...
What have I done?
What have I done really? By the way people have treated me one would rightfully assume that I had stolen from the elderly, conned their best friend or was found in possession of child pornography.
But do you want to know my crime? Trying to protect non-humans from being used, tortured and killed by the hands of a species that calls themselves superior. Who on the surface value kindness,...
December 2010
2 posts
All beings that feel pain deserve human rights →
Caring Obligate Carnivores Dilemma
Biologically speaking we are omnivores. But omnivore likely doesn’t mean what you think it does. Omnivore means “eater of everything (or anything)”. So they will eat whatever is necessary keep them alive. It does NOT mean that they MUST eat other animals to survive or stay healthy - it simply means they CAN eat animals to survive at times they can’t find anything else to...
November 2010
1 post
Religion
I was brought up by a secular father and a mother who likes the idea of god/saints etc but never really went to church or anything.
At school religion was never a topic either, I had one religious friend and she was the odd one out.
Soon after I moved to London, an extremely secular place (apart from the asian immigrant population who segregates themselves from the rest). On TV and politics it...
October 2010
4 posts
Understanding my point of view
I think it’s very important to strive to be a better human being. If you tell me that my toothpaste is made with minerals that are destroying an eco-system and you give me an alternative, I will listen, and I will change toothpaste. If you show me pictures of the sweatshops used by Gap to produce their clothes, and explain to me the impact it has on those families, and you give me an alternative...
Respect?
Often I am asked by carnists to respect their decision to eat meat and other animal products.
You see, I have no problems respecting people’s decisions, such as religion, dress style, sexuality, gender identity, etc. But the minute a person’s decision involves disrespecting others, how can they ask me to respect that?
Would people respect me if I caused pain in other humans? Like if...
September 2010
2 posts
Excerpts from Eating Animals
Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn’t motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious thread facing the planet (global warming) isn’t enough, what is? If increased rate of...
Choice
It’s really great that we live in a society where we have freedom of choices. Religious, jobs, marriage, sexuality, etc. And we deem other societies as inferior when they take away the freedom of those choices from their people. What we forget however is that we too have certain restrictions. We don’t have the freedom to murder, rape, enslave, throw garbage in a river, cut down a tree...
August 2010
6 posts
Benefit vs harm
I wanted to create an alphabetical list of actions that cause pleasure or benefit to one party and suffering to the other. Some of these are looked down and illegal in our society, but some are still perfectly legal. But they all cause unnecessary suffering to somebody so I believe those should be reconsidered.
Animal testing
Bullfighting
Child molestation
Circuses with animals (including...
Egg Recall Expands To More Than Half A Billion... →
More than a half-billion eggs have been recalled in the nationwide investigation of a salmonella outbreak that Friday expanded to include a second Iowa farm. The outbreak has already sickened more…
The man who lives without money →
Mark Boyle gave up using cash over a year ago and loves his new lifestyle. Here’s how he does it.
We Must Save the Planet By Eating Bugs →
Gross. Forget it. Van Huis proposes a two-phase plan: first just farming insects to feed to more conventional livestock; and then gradually introducing them directly to the menu for humans. “We’re…
Raw Veganism Has Ex-POW Live Till 90 Without a... →
In Armenia, vegetarians are few and far between in this post-Soviet nation in the South Caucasus, with its traditional, meat-based diet. So what is one to make of a 90-year-old Armenian raw vegan?
July 2010
3 posts
Can you Ask a Pig if his Glass is Half Full? →
Experts in the UK have shown for the first time that a pig’s mood mirrors how content he is, highlighting that pigs are capable of complex emotions which are directly influenced by their living…
A message to all vegans
Most non-vegans think of vegans as a group of people who all share the same views. Many think that we are crazy, although that’s beside my point.
What they don’t realise is that within the vegan community there is a huge amount of disagreement and arguments. Although most everyone agrees that animals deserve equal respect, there is a lot more to it.
Some are abolitionists and think...
10 Reasons Not to Buy a Puppy From a Pet Store →
Buying a puppy from a pet shop is never a good idea - here are 10 reasons why.
June 2010
11 posts
A Horrifying Look at Animal Abuse Inside a Dairy... →
Be warned: this video is not for the faint of heart, especially if you’re an animal lover. The footage comes from Conklin Dairy Farms in Ohio, where hidden cameras caught workers cruelly and…
“You’ll never meet anybody who thinks they’re a bad person”
– Tom Ripley - “The Talented Mr. Ripley”
I learned this some time ago in acting class believe it or not. When playing a villain you mustn’t think of him as a villain because in his mind he is actually doing good.
Be it a carnist, a racist, a terrorist or a nazi - nobody thinks they...
Carnivorous Diet May Trigger Girls' Early Puberty →
High-meat diets among young girls may lower the age at which they reach puberty, potentially putting them at greater risk for life-threatening diseases, according to a new British study.
“Once you truly understand why you respect human life, you shall understand why I...”
Less Than 1% of Oil-Soaked Birds Survive →
“According to serious studies, the middle-term survival rate of oil-soaked birds is under 1 percent,” says Silvia Gaus, a biologist at the Wattenmeer National Park along the North Sea in the German…
This is what happens when you choose to eat meat. →
Not only cows get killed, but wild-life surrounding the cows get culled so they don’t infect the cows. When you consider that it takes 5lbs of grain to produce 1lb of edible meat, and the culling of…
What if You Ate Only What Was Advertised on TV? →
A new study calculates how unhealthy a typical 2,000-calorie-a-day diet would be if it contained only foods advertised on TV
UN urges global move to vegan diet →
How are you better than them?
I would truly like to understand your frame of mind, I want to learn, so let me ask you some questions.
Were the Nazis bad because:
They tortured/killed human beings en mass?
They tortured/killed beings that were able to suffer?
Meaning, if they had tortured/killed brain dead humans (who were not able to feel pain/fear) would it have been just as bad or would it have been forgotten by today?
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Did you know the difference?
Most people are familiar with these dietary terms, but they don’t fully understand the differences between them. So I shall explain.
Biological diets:
Herbivore An animal who can only survive by ingesting plants, nothing else. Example: Horses
Carnivore An animal (human or non-human) who can only survive by ingesting meat, nothing else. Example: Lions, the inuit people.
Omnivore An...
Shocking Video: Animal Cruelty at PETCO supplier →
A PETA investigator went undercover at Sun Pet Ltd., a wholesale animal dealer that supplies animals to PETCO and PetSmart, among other chains. Video footage shows employees bashing hamsters against…
May 2010
22 posts
Meal ideas
If you want to try a cruelty-free life for a week here are some meal suggestions:
Baked potato with margerine and baked beans (or any other non-animal product)
Pasta with tomato sauce and veggie mince / tofu / seitan (go to the meat-free section in your supermarket and you’ll find something)
Veggie burgers with vegan mayonaise (can be found in any supermarket in US and in Holland &...
Dead dolphin covered with oil, sponsored by BP →
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
It’s true, I can’t speak I can’t count I can’t write I can’t reason But I can feel cold and warmth I can feel sad and happy I can feel pain and pleasure And I don’t want money And I don’t want to vote In fact, I don’t ask for much at all. I would just like you to stop focusing on what I *can’t* do, and remember what I *can* feel. I would...
Humans are amazing animals.
Isn’t man an amazing animal? He kills wildlife - birds, kangaroos, deer, all kinds of cats, coyotes, beavers, groundhogs, mice, foxes, and dingoes - by the million in order to protect his domestic animals and their feed. Then he kills domestic animals by the billion and eats them. This in turn kills man by the million, because eating all those animals leads to degenerative - and fatal-health...
I just want you to hold me →
WatchMonkeys
Get your fucking heads sorted out!
Anyone care to explain this to me. If you can choose between an item that has caused suffering and an item that hasn’t, why the fuck would you choose the first? Why consciously choose cruelty over kindness? Unless you’re Dr Evil’s disciples or part of some demonic cult I really don’t get it.
You recycle, you turn off the tap whilst brushing your teeth, you’d help a...
Justifying the unjustifiable
Taking the usual meat eater’s justification for continuing their practice, it’s easy to put things into perspective and see how others have justified their actions.
Animals taste good and since I am more powerful I feel I have the right to eat them. Animals are inferior beings, they don’t have our level of intellect so I don’t see anything wrong with eating them. They were bred for...
“Love is unlimited - everyone can have a share and no one needs to get any less...”
“Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of...”
“May each of us do everything in our power to rid this world of suffering. May we...”
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