MotherFuck-Foreigners
I have spent 25 years religiously chewing brown sushi rice, eating seaweed and drinking twig tea and miso soup. I have spent years of my life saying how wonderful Japan and Japanese people are. I have even spent months of my life attempting to assuage furious Korean nationalists covering the internet with their propaganda, and [...]
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 [...]
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’ [...]
Vegan Metaphysics: is Veganism a Religion?
Donald Watson, the founder with his wife Dorothy of the Vegan Movement, called himself an atheist. An atheist but also a pacifist and an anti-war, conscientious objector. Is the movement he left behind him, Veganism, a religion? The simple answer is … no. There is no “God of the Vegae“. There are no vegan priests. [...]
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