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Monthly Archives: September 2011
seitan recipe
I’ve been kinda lazy with posting this week, and I do plan to eventually make recipes a pretty regular part of this site, so here is a great recipe for homemade seitan. If you’re scared of gluten, read this post … Continue reading
wasting cheesy burritos is not vegan
This post was originally intended to be a simple comment on this post at Let Them Eat Meat, but as it grew and grew, it just made more sense to make a full post out of it. If you don’t … Continue reading
Posted in freeganism
Tagged consumer veganism, cravings, deprivation, disgust, dumpster, eating in restaurants, eating with non-vegans, food waste, freegan, freegan exception, humility, hypothetical world, logical fallacies, non-vegan freegan food, NVFF, personal purity, setting an example, vegan bubble, vegan is the moral baseline, vegan street cred, vegan utopia, vegans being assholes
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Michael Pollan Is a Speciesist!
from The Omnivore’s Dilemma: (Pollan is recounting his weird, self-imposed experience of eating a steak while reading Animal Liberation): I put down my fork. If I believe in equality, and equality is based on interests rather than characteristics, then either … Continue reading
Posted in speciesism, things omnivores say
Tagged abolitionism, anti-speciesism, Michael Pollan, racism, sexism, speciesism
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is eating non-vegan freegan food compatible with vegan ethics?
Before I get to the specifics, just let me alleviate your curiosity and answer the question: yes, in my opinion, it is. I know it’s pure sacrilege in most vegan circles to assert that one can eat animal products and … Continue reading
donuts
Lest you, my loyal readers (ha!), get the false impression that I only have bad things to say about veganism, let me share something with you that I often offer up to people as an advantage of being vegan. One … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged advantages of veganism, social functions, temptation, will power
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What’s the mortgage like for a treehouse?
Why is it hard to be a vegan without pissing people off? Just so we understand each other, I’m aware that this gripe can appear to people with real problems as pretty minor, even self-indulgent. Fair enough. In the grand … Continue reading
the scraped table, or: working backward from a conclusion
In my experience, most omnivores, when they even bother to give any real thought to their diet and alternatives to it (eating less meat, vegetarianism, veganism etc.), start with the conclusion “it’s okay for me to eat animals.” Then from … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged blank slate, complicity, defensiveness, ethical limbo, logical fallacies
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