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10 Tips for Eating Plant-Based in Social Situations
Some people are afraid that their social lives will suffer when they eliminate meat and dairy from their diet, since social occasions and food tend t…
19 years, 5 months ago
The Language of Meat
The words we use to refer to the animals we eat reveals a lot about how we feel about eating once-living creatures. If we can't comfortably call it w…
19 years, 6 months ago
Favorite Foods: Non-Dairy Milks
Despite the popular depiction of non-dairy milks being "alternatives" to cow's milk, it's really the other way around when you consider the fact that…
19 years, 6 months ago
Eating Animals: Dogs, Cats, Pigs, or Cows
The practice of eating animals is a culturally ingrained habit. If you're in the U.S., you might dine on pigs, cattle, and chickens; if you're in Mex…
19 years, 6 months ago
The Myth of the "Perfect Vegan"
Some people mistakenly think being vegan is about trying to attain perfection, so they resist any considerations of this lifestyle lest they have to …
19 years, 7 months ago
Response to: "Eating meat is my personal preference, and since I respect your choice not to eat meat, I would appreciate your respecting my choice to eat it."
This is a common comment that seems fair enough on the surface, but what if we dug a little deeper?
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19 years, 8 months ago
Being a "Joyful Vegan"
Despite the stereotype that characterizes vegans as "angry," I call myself a "joyful vegan" and find that most everyone I know who lives this way als…
19 years, 8 months ago
What about the insects killed for plant production - don't you care about them (and other tenuous arguments)?
Join me as I address some of the tenuous arguments against vegetarianism. The arguments that try to catch vegans in some kind of state of hypocrisy a…
19 years, 8 months ago
Response to: "If you were on a desert island and were starving, I bet you'd eat meat then; I eat only meat from humanely raised animals"; and other statements based on hypothetical scenarios and myths.
It seems that most of our excuses for eating animals have more to do with how we want to perceive ourselves and less to do with what is actually true…
19 years, 9 months ago
Milk is a natural food, and cows naturally give milk, so what's wrong with drinking it?
Cow's milk is indeed a natural food — for calves, just as human milk is made for humans, rat's milk is made for rats, and dog's milk is made for dogs…
19 years, 10 months ago