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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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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
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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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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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
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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
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Speciesist Vegan 