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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
- will power
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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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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