Baking Without Animals
Every time there is a birthday party at school or daycare, one of three situations unfold:
- Parents who have the luxury of not thinking about food issues...
Bah Humbug
Ah, the Christmas season. How I loath it. It should come as no surprise to the people close to me. The incessant consumerist drive to consume, consume, consume....
Cecil the Lion
“If I look at the mass, I will never act.” — Mother Teresa
Veganism and Intersectionality
Recently it was posited to me that veganism can not be an intersectional movement because it would require us to view oppressed humans as sub-human. The person further...
Public School Perils - Part 1
Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal confines of their parent’s faith,...
To Be Strong
“To be strong, the movement must consist of people who are self-critical, truth loving, scientific, careful in judgment and eager to yield to evidence even if it...
What Is Normal?
I don’t hold “normal” in very high esteem. Normal in our society is violence. It is racism, specisism, sexism, heterosexism. It is buying things you don’t need and...
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
As a vegan, I am often told that I should “respect [someone’s] decision to eat animals”. This can get problematic, because that is the antithesis of veganism as...
What is Veganism Anyway?
Thanks to many large animal organizations, coupled particularly with poorly informed celebrity spokes-people, and widely perpetuated misinformation by non vegans like Oprah, there is a very wide misunderstanding...