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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
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Tag Archives: cognitive dissonance
Kids and Meat
I think some of my family members are really freaked out that I would tell their kids the truth about what they’re eating. Probably some of my friends, too. I understand why parents who eat meat feel this way. They … Continue reading
How Disgust Kills the Vegan Martyr
A lot of new vegans tend to think of themselves as a martyr to a cause. They want to eat cheese and eggs and maybe even meat, but they have been convinced by the logic of adopting a “cruelty free” … Continue reading
The Earth Is Big, and That’s Okay
I know that not everyone on Earth has the option of being vegan, or even vegetarian, which is why one of my maxims (which I’m still working on) is as follows: “veganism is not, and needn’t be, globally applicable to … Continue reading
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Tagged abolitionism, Anthony Bourdain, cognitive dissonance, disgust, ethical vegan, ethnocentrism, global applicability, globally applicable, grandmothers, guilt, meat is murder, moral superiority, moral vs. immoral, privilege, rudeness, traveling, vegan is the moral baseline, Western way of thinking
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