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Peter Singer says veganism is too much to ask of people. This reflects Singer's strong conservativism, because the whole point of social change is to challenge society. Singer outright opposes...

Those who claim that Peter Singer meant something else are the ones misunderstanding Singer's philosophy. In Singer's own words, published in Behavioral and Brain Scienece (1990):


"I certainly...

Right, I've seen this "accidentally vegan" phase thrown around and it is something I cannot take serriously.

There was a diner in Fairfield, Conn, that offered specifically vegan items (including...

Wow, I wish I ate enough avocado to have to worry about a substitue. They are addictive. I'd actually be interested in what I could substitute avocados in place of. Mmmm... Avocado! :)

I agree with many others here who say don't support Burger King. There is no reason to trust burger joints like Burger King, McDonald's or Johnny Rocket's, even if they carry a so-called "veggie"...

Hi Robert,

Let me know if you notice anything in the guides that needs to be corrected. Often restaurants close, new restaurants open, and established restaurants change the menu, either adding or...

Hello all,

I can use your help writing a couple Vegan Restaurant Guides for the Northwest, especially the help of any vegans living in the Seattle, Wash, and Portland, Ore, areas. These guides...

Thanks for reading the article. Matt Ball is intentionally misusing the term vegan. Ball has for years made it clear that VO wants to change the meaning of the term "vegan" from being a philosophy...

"Revolutionary Veganism," a new article in The Vegan, is on "the greatest peaceful revolution ever known."

Many of you disagree with the article in the "Ingredients v Activism" thread, which...

The Spring issue of The Vegan has an article on Revolutionary Veganism. If you haven't read it yet, please do so.

Counter to the Ingredients article, the Revolutionary article suggest we take...

I first heard the word "vegan" in 1991 when I was walking with a couple vegetarian friends to the supermarket and one of the friends claimed to be vegan. I asked what "vegan" meant and the friend...

Here is an article on a vegan brand of chocolate: Chocolate Decadence: A Company with a Conscience

And here is an article with a "Shopping Guide" for some brands offering vegan, fairly traded...

This time of year a lot of people are getting catalogs from Heifer International, a charity promoting the use of nonhuman animals. If you want to know more about how this organization uses animals I...

spe·cies·ism noun

the belief that the human race is superior to other species, and that exploitation of animals for the advantage of humans is justified
Encarta® World English Dictionary © 1999...

Yes, and it is those who already know something is not vegan who I often see use the term "vegan police." This is why I used the BK VEGGIE as an example early on (and why I used butter just now). Up...

This is an extreme case, because those who "gently (yet firmly) vegans can be guided up another step of awareness," are accused of being "vegan police." The term has no positive use and is little...

Yes, I think people can make judgments for themselves and that's why I am in favor of people being judgmental. If people aren't judgmental, then they'll defer to other's interpretation of what is...

And raise awareness about what? What is right and wrong, maybe? But that's not the same thing as what Kumem was saying. Kumem wrote, "What is considered right and wrong is subjective." If right and...

Sorry, Kumem, but you have this all wrong. okok is right, what you are talking about is called ethical subjectivism, and it is totally immoral. As Judith A. Boss explains in Analyzing Moral Issues:
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I don't understand what is wrong with being judgmental. What people are saying here doesn't fit the definition of the word as I know it: 1. Of, relating to, or dependent on judgment. 2. Inclined to...

Good point, okok. Judgments are how choices--good ones anyway--are made. If you are going to make the right choices in life you have to be able to judge what is right and what is wrong. This means...

They sell the hens' eggs? This does not sound like a reputable operation. I know "rescues" are not required to follow any guidelines and many breed and trade in animals, but accredited sanctuaries...

The Japan Vegetarian Society

Yes, I agree. The term "vegan police" is nothing more than an ad hominem attack. That is, it is an appeal to personal prejudice that has nothing to do with reason.

Such attack are often used to...

Mickey Z. Ready to Speak on Spin for Vegans
at Friends of Animals Conference

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Mickey Z., "Meat the Press" columnist for VegNews, will...

Friends of Animals' Vegan Restaurant Guides

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The Foundations of a Movement 2005:
An Animal Rights Conference

Join Friends of Animals, during the weekend of 9-10 July in New York City, where we'll get together to enjoy a Raw Food...

Kelzie, you understand the definition better than most. :) Pain and suffering are not the only moral qualifiers, so why do people think that's what veganism is all about? Some how people are getting...

What, then, do they call forcing others to be food?

This is the first time I heard about JAC, but Whole Foods thinks exploiting other animals as commodities is animal advocacy. See the so-called...