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Help I’m becoming a speciesist

Posted in Animal rights, tagged animals, Animal rights, cruelty, speciesist, species, injustice on 7 December, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Great article. Sometimes the world seems to conspire to make you feel exactly that way.

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Animals Matter

Posted in Animal rights, tagged Animal rights, animals, rights, sign on 6 December, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I just signed this. Would you like to do it too?

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Being Vegan in a Speciesist World

Posted in Animal rights, Veg'anism, tagged alone, Animal rights, animals, exploitation, speciesist, vegan, world on 5 November, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

“I will continue to be a vegetarian even if the whole world started to eat meat. This is my protest against the conduct of the world.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer – Nobel Prize winning author
This article is about what it means for most of us, to live in a world where we’re very much alone to [...]

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Do Animals Have Emotions?

Posted in Animal rights, tagged animals, emotions, empathy on 30 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Animal cruelty for ’science’

Posted in Animal rights, tagged animals, cruelty, experiments, science, scientist on 28 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Interesting article about a neuroscientist who argues against animal experiments – partly from the perspective of cruelty – but mainly because his research has shown him that it’s useless. All those animals are being tortured and killed for nothing.

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Do plants have feelings?

Posted in Animal rights, General, Veg'anism, tagged animals, eating, feelings, plants, sentient on 26 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Meat eaters sometimes claim that plants have feelings, not so they can avoid eating them, but so they can ignore the fact that animals most definitely do have feelings. This article discusses the possibility of plants being sentient.

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Got Soy Milk?

Posted in Animal rights, Environment, Veg'anism, tagged almond, dairy, hemp, milk, oat milk, rice milk, soy on 12 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I found this great article on Care2 and I thought I’d share it. Read it and learn why it’s a good idea to switch from cow’s milk to a vegan alternative. It mainly goes into the crueltyfree aspects of the switch, but there are plenty of other good reasons too. For one it’s a lot [...]

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Sexism and Misogyny in the Movement

Posted in Animal rights, Human Rights, Veg'anism, tagged cause, means, methods, misogyny, sexism on 6 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Do the ends really justify the means? Or are there some methods that are simply unworthy? Read this article and consider where you stand. I know my position. What’s yours?

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