This essay continues a follow up on the matter of The Vegan Society's policy of accepting paid advertisements for non-vegan businesses and organisations in its quarterly magazine, The Vegan. Please see my first essay on this subject -- Banned By The Vegan Society For Saying That Vegan Society Should Be Vegan for the necessary background. As already stated, the…
Vegan Society Follow-Up, Part 2: Strange Bedfellows
My survey of The Vegan, a quarterly magazine published by The Vegan Society (past issues online and current issue in print), reveals that The Vegan Society has not changed its advertising policy with respect to accepting paid ads from businesses that sell products obtained through animal exploitation. I doubt that there are any surprises in this for…
Vegan Society Follow-Up, Part 1: A Resounding Silence
My intention in writing this 4-part essay is to follow up on the issue raised in my first blog essay last month, Banned by the Vegan Society for Saying That the Vegan Society Should Be Vegan. I suggest reading that essay to gain the necessary background in order to understand the important matters being addressed in…
Eating Animal Products: Children Having Children
Today, Gary Francione, abolitionist animal rights philosopher, posted this article, Eating meat/dairy products linked to early puberty on his Facebook page concerning animal products and early puberty/health problems:My comment:The China Study (2006), by Dr. T. Colin Campbell (the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University) and his son, Thomas M. Campbell, a physician, examines the relationship between…
Carnism: 101
Here's a short version of the "carnism" theory:We're all conditioned to exploit animals by an "invisible" ideology called "carnism." We need to expose this "invisible" ideology.But the ideology that accounts for our exploitation of animals is not "invisible." That ideology is the animal welfare position that has been around for 200+ years. The animal welfare…
Comment on ‘Vegan Feud’ Part 2
The following is a re-post of a comment by me on September 19, with some additions and modifications, on the Columbia University Press blog, in the comments section following Professor Francione's response to Professor James McWilliams's essay, Vegan Feud. I recommend taking the time to read Francione's excellent response, Irreconcilable Differences.Francione’s response to McWilliams’s surprisingly naive and…
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