We are all familiar with the stereotype of the mean, angry vegan, shouting about animal cruelty and calling meat eaters ‘murderers.’ But even if we can’t condone that kind of behaviour, surely we can understand it?
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Weighing Lives
Examining the justifications of animal testing, and how we weigh our interests against those of non-human animals.
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Who Are Zoos For?
What purpose do zoos serve? This a question that will get you a dozen different answers. A regular visitor might tell you they’re there to entertain the kids, a wildlife enthusiast may say that it’s all about conservation or education, and the zoos themselves will probably tell you that they are about all of this […]
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The Paradox of Factory Farming
In our increasingly fractured and hyper-partisan society, people put a lot of stock statements about what they are and are not against, particularly online. Yet all too often, these statements function as little more than affirmations, meant as a declaration to ourselves and others about how we ‘feel’ about something, without that translating into any […]
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For all their problems, you can’t accuse of the wool industry of being bad at image management. When we think of happy sheep munching away on rolling fields, and the idyllic, pastoral image of a farmer and their sheepdog. We seldom think of deforestation, over-grazing, and certainly not slaughter. Wool production is just a haircut […]
Read more about "Wool: 5 Myths Debunked"No, Plastic is Not The Only Alternative to Leather or Wool…
If you have been sent this post, you have likely made the almost ubiquitous assumption that when you’re choosing between materials, your only viable options are leather (or wool) or plastic. It is also likely that I (or some other vegan you’re interacting with) is tired of typing out the same rebuttal over and over […]
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Leather: 8 Myths Debunked
Unless you (wisely) stay off social media entirely, you have likely run into some of the extremely common discourse surrounding leather and plastic. It seems to be the currently in-vogue criticism of veganism, but it is based on shaky foundations at best… So let’s look at some of the most common arguments made in this […]
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18 Plant-Based Protein Sources
Protein is often raised as a concern for people considering adopting a plant-based diet, and because we’ve all been taught to associate protein primarily with red meat, this is not surprising.
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