The Best Advertisement for Vegan is Not Being Vegan
The best advertisement for being Vegan is not being Vegan. Please give up being Vegan. OK … let me explain a little. Whilst working for an often awarded and world famous wholefood maker and wholesaler, I met a young worker who was very different from the usual archetypal “vegan”. I’d did not pry. I do [...]
Animal Rights in Japan I
I found it quite astonishing to discovered that the first book about animal rights to be published in Japanese only happened in March, 2005. Incredible when you think the likes of BUAV have been active in the far less civilised British Isles for more than 100 years. Dr. Helmut Kaplan’s animal rights classic “Leichenschmaus” (Funeral [...]
Natural Born Vegan Killers
I heard from a friend, who is currently studying natural farming in Wakayama, that his fields were trashed by the local louts. In his case, not teenagers from the local housing project as one might expect in the West, but a troop of macaque monkeys coming down from the mountains in search of food. As [...]
An International Approach to Promoting Veganism
What is the ‘cost’ of a vegan? How much does it cost ‘make’ a vegan? How much does it cost to make society ‘more’ vegan? Who is the benefit for; the animals, the environment, the individual … society or the Vegan Society itself? If the purpose is to ‘make’ as many vegans as possible, or [...]
Woolly Bully: Vegan Material
A young vegan friend who is a tailor and a fashion designer wrote to me to asked a honest question about cloth … fabrics … materials. It not only made me look again at my beliefs but it inspired me to research the subject more. According to the Memorandum of Association of the Vegan Society [...]
Japan: Meat Up or Back to the Edo Diet?
According to the World Research Institute, the annual consumption of meat in Japan has risen from 17.8 kilos per person to 43.9 kilos over the last 40 year. More than double but still, thankfully, only a third of America’s consumption rate. By comparison, Indians, from a country with a similar population density to Japan, eat [...]
Animal Rights versus Animal Welfare
“There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk than a pound of steak … to say that is it morally acceptable to eat dairy but not meat (or vice versa) is like saying it is OK to eat large pigs but not small pigs“, “Animal welfare theory maintains it is morally acceptable to [...]
Animal Rights & Darwinism: philosopher Peter Singer meets leading geneticist Richard Dawkins
“The question is not, “Can they reason?” nor, “Can they talk?” but, “Can they suffer?” Science, in this case the genius of Darwinism, actually makes we ‘human animals’ ask the question, “what is so different about us than other animals?“. Rather than support animal exploitation, it makes us have to take more seriously other animals’ [...]
Developing an International Approach to Promoting Veganism
Following on from “How many vegans in the world are there?“, I imagine that in 1944, Donald and Dot Watson knew all the vegans in world by name. Today, vegans and Veganism are spreading all over the world. The ‘social virus’, or meme, self-replicating beyond anyone’s control. Given the nature of the movement, the anti-establishmentarianism [...]
Getting in Hot Chocolate, Vegan Style
As any good revolutionary knows, never mind mother or marketing man, them with the best cakes will win. “Make Cakes, not War” … and if you don’t have cake, at least make sure you have chocolate. From time to time the vegan movement tends to have its own, seemingly obscure and obsessive to non-vegans, storms [...]
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