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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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Tag Archives: blissful ignorance
Interview with a Meat-Eating Vegetarian
As I mentioned earlier, I will at least occasionally be doing interviews here on Speciesist Vegan. This is all part of my effort to start conversations about the gray areas between the extremes in the paleo/SAD vs. vegan divide. I … Continue reading
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Tagged blissful ignorance, defensiveness, disgust, dumpster, falling off the wagon, food waste, freegan, freegan exception, gray areas, guilt, health considerations, hypocrisy, interviews, judgment, labels, lapsing, meat nostalgia, new vegetarians, pescetarianism, preaching, sacrifice, slaughter, small farms, trash meat
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Politics and the Vegan Language
One of my favorite essays of all time is George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” (full version here). It’s one of just a handful of essays that I’ve ever voluntarily read more than once. It’s been very influential to … Continue reading
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Tagged accommodation, aggressive words, argument framing, blissful ignorance, condescension, convergence, defensiveness, divergence, dysphemism, euphemism, forcible impregnation, language use, meat is murder, obscuring truth, offensive vegan language, vegan bubble, vegan soundbites, vegan street cred, veganism as a religion, word choice
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