Things I apparently talk about a lot
- abolitionism
- absolutism
- animal exploitation
- animal rights
- animal suffering
- Anthony Bourdain
- anti-speciesism
- arbitrary line
- argument framing
- asceticism
- blissful ignorance
- cognitive dissonance
- consumer veganism
- defensiveness
- deprivation
- disgust
- divergence
- dumpster
- eating in restaurants
- eating with non-vegans
- ethical vegan
- food waste
- freegan
- freegan exception
- Gary Francione
- genocide
- global applicability
- globally applicable
- grandmothers
- guilt
- happy meat
- hypocrisy
- interviews
- inviolable concepts
- judgment
- labels
- language use
- locavore
- logical fallacies
- martyrdom
- meat is murder
- moral obligation
- moral vs. immoral
- new idea of veganism
- non-vegan freegan food
- nutrition
- NVFF
- offensive vegan language
- personal purity
- preaching
- privilege
- protein
- puritanical
- racism
- reasons for rejecting veganism
- rudeness
- sexism
- slavery
- social functions
- speciesism
- striving for an ideal
- supererogation
- supererogatory
- temptation
- traveling
- vegan bubble
- vegan ethics
- vegan friends
- veganish
- vegan is the moral baseline
- vegans as hippies trope
- vegan soundbites
- vegan street cred
- Western way of thinking
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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
5 Comments
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
5 Comments
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
2 Comments
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
2 Comments
a baby, a puppy, a burning building
You probably already know where I’m going with this just by reading the title, don’t you? If you’re veg*an, you’ve probably been asked a similar question before, probably more than once. If you’re anything like me, there was probably some … Continue reading
Posted in speciesism
Tagged anti-speciesism, inviolable concepts, misanthropy, moral experiment, speciesism
24 Comments
Why I Am a Speciesist (well… sort of…)
Given the title of my blog, I should probably try to explain why I am a vegan that identifies as speciesist, right? Okay, so here I go. It’s not that I actively identify as being a vegan speciesist. I don’t … Continue reading
Posted in speciesism
Tagged animal exploitation, animal libertarianism, animal rights, anthropomorphism, anti-speciesism, argument by analogy, argument framing, belief, ethical dilemmas, Gary Francione, genocide, heterosexism, inviolable concepts, logical fallacies, meat is murder, moral status, obstacles to veganism, offensive vegan analogies, offensive vegan language, personhood, Peter Singer, racism, reasons for rejecting veganism, religion, sentience, sexism, slavery, species equality, speciesism, supererogation, supererogatory, theory vs. praxis, utiliitarianism
27 Comments
This is happening…
Okay, it’s more than a year late, but I’m finally starting this blog. I’ve let this domain (which is no doubt highly sought after, what with all the self-proclaimed speciesist vegans out there) sit dormant for far too long. Tonight … Continue reading
