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Exclusive interview with Fermare Green Hill campaign
On April 20, a group of activists from Fermare Green Hill campaign entered a pharmacology lab at the University of Milano, Italy. Very quickly, news spread on social media. If you were like me, you spent the day reading updates
Celebrating World Vegan Day 269 style
For World Vegan Day 2012, 269 organized a worldwide campaign to honor all animals who are part of the organized exploitation and murder of animals for food, clothing, entertainment and “research.”. Hundreds of activist across the globe tattooed 269 as
More from 269: The Animal Rights Movement
In part one of this series, I spoke with a representative of the group 269 about their action on World Farm Animals Day, where they were branded with a hot iron with the number of an anonymous calf in
269: The interview
I saw a video come through my feed a few days after World Farm Animals Day. I don’t generally click on videos, but the words “branded by hot steel” in the title intrigued me. I was immediately mesmerized by
Why don’t you care about animals?
The question “why don’t animal activists care about people?” has many worthy responses, including the toll of animal agribusiness on workers and the environment, and the food and water resources that are used to feed animals that could feed hungry
Gary Smith – The Thinking Vegan – Swedish interview
(Original interview by Camilla Johansson – http://annorlundararing.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/gary-smith-the-thinking-vegan/) Gary Smith is co-founder of Evolotus, a PR agency working for a better world. Evolotus specializes in health and wellness, spirituality, animal protection, natural foods, documentary films, non-profits and socially beneficial companies.
The Thinking Vegan interview with Philip Wollen
Like most of us, I discovered Philip Wollen by watching the video of a debate called “Animals Should Be Off the Menu” last May. I was mesmerized by his oratory skills and the passion in which he described the absolute
Welfarism vs Abolitionsim: a healthy debate
As the late Rodney King exclaimed, “Can’t we all just get along?” Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be a blog post about how infighting is the scourge of the animal rights movement and that animals are dying because of
The Thinking Vegan Pop Quiz: How do you deal with despair?
Kierkegaard argued that despair, the moral condition of hopelessness, is the most profound human suffering we experience. He said it is a painless moral and spiritual suffering, that slowly kills us. So, as an animal rights activist and vegan, how
My interest lies in animal liberation, not making more vegans
I purposefully chose a provocative title, so before you spend time formulating the hate mail in your head that you intend to send me, be patient and listen to my argument. animal liberation: (noun) the freeing of animals from exploitation
No, fat shaming is still not okay
I received a lot of feedback on my post about large animal organizations using fat shaming as part of their advocacy. Between the comments I received as well as reading the comments on well written blog posts on the subject