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- global applicability
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- interviews
- inviolable concepts
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- locavore
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Tag Archives: disgust
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
Posted in Uncategorized
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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How to Increase Your Vegan Street Cred
Wear gaudy shoes that look very obviously NOT leather. When you go out to eat with non-vegans, be sure to harass waiters about whether there is butter or milk in the free bread that they’ve placed on your table. Personal … 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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There Are 365 Days in a Year
One day I was watching television with three friends (all omnivores) when Anthony Bourdain appeared on the television. I made it clear that I dislike the guy and my friends wanted to know why. One friend asked if it was … 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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