July 2010
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“Now I avoid having meals at the homes of my meat-eating friends. I’m...”
– The vegan (via ActiVeg)
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"Vegan Mainstream" Names Lierre Keith the #8 Great... →
Alicia Silverstone and mad cowboy Howard Liman are ranked higher than the author of the anti-veganism book The Vegetarian Myth, but Lierre Keith has apparently done more for veganism than T. Colin Campbell:
Lierre Keith is an author and vegan activist. She has written “The Vegetarian Myth” which explains the importance of sustainability, as well as her political beliefs. She has spent twenty...
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Interview With an Ex-Vegan: Tovar Cerulli
Tovar Cerulli is an ex-vegan turned hunter who writes the blog A Mindful Carnivore. But isn’t “mindful carnivore” a contradiction in terms, like… “Ethical Butcher”?
Even some meat eaters see hunting as barbaric, but it doesn’t take much time on Cerulli’s blog to figure out that he didn’t give up compassion and thoughtfulness when he left...
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Vegans React: Arson in the Name of Animals
Last week, agents of the USA (United Speciesists of America) captured the fire-happy animal liberator ALF Lone Wolf, aka Walter Bond. His neck tattoo — “Vegan” — already marked him as a deviant flesh-abstainer in our bloodthirsty world, but it was his alleged arson against a sheepskin factory, leather factory and restaurant that served fois gras that gave us an excuse to...
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“Ultimately we should be aiming to abolish words like ‘vegetarian’...”
– John Davis
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Morality, Immorality and Grey Areas in Vegan...
Suppose your ailing grandfather musters the strength to cook his famous turkey and parsnip stew. As a kid you thought this was the best meal in the whole wide world. But that was before your eyes were opened to factory farming and the inalienable rights of brutes. You’ve explained veganism to your grandfather a hundred times, but he still doesn’t get it, as the bowl of rotting corpse...
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Chinchilla Coats and the Pregan Paradox
These women are wearing matching chinchilla coats which they all bought at the same store two months ago. It’s hard to imagine anything more immoral than wearing the peeled-off skin of sentient beings as a fashion statement, yet for one woman the coat is moral, for another it is in a grey area, and only for the third is it pure evil. Get ready for some intricacies in vegan...
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“I went raw last December to sort of “put things in perspective.” I...”
– DoctorClockwork
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“If you want to know the truth, start with the United Nations report on...”
– Carolyn
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Yummy Vegan Yumminess (abridged)
Vegans like to use the word “yummy.” Though “yummy” hasn’t entered the vegan lexicon as something unique to animal-free living (the way that “compassionate” has), per capita they use it more than anybody else. My guess is that it’s to make vegan food sound more palatable than it actually is, but who knows, it could be any number of reasons, all of...
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Has Vegan Abolitionist Gary L. Francione Started...
(Ex-?)Vegan abolitionist Gary L. Francione on May 31, 2010:
Hey, all: I am taking a leave of absence from Twitter while I do some other projects. Keep visiting www.abolitionistapproach.com. Go vegan.
May 31, 2010 11:05:32 AM CDT via web
Excuse me, a leave of absence from Twitter? Is it really so difficult to copy and paste 140-character references to the “moral...
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“Just as I will spend the rest of my life apologizing through my actions for...”
– Kayla
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Going Vegan at T. Colin Campbell's Behest
Cellulite Investigation: It’s hard to come across a reformed omnivore who doesn’t point to Campbell’s book as a motivating factor in his/her vegan adventure.
Tynan: I used to be a huge fan of meat. … Then one day my friend Hayden loaned me the book The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss...
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"Denise Minger Refutes the China Study Once and... →
Chris Masterjohn, who wrote the previous go-to case against The China Study, “The Truth About The China Study,” gives his approval to Denise Minger’s more rigorous version.
Now we’re just waiting on Anthony Colpo (“The China Study: More Vegan Nonsense!”), Monica Reinagel (“Diet and Breast Cancer: Is Dairy a Culprit?”), Ned Kock (“The China Study again: A multivariate...
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“I also wanted to help vegans feel more understanding for the carnists in their...”
– Melanie Joy (author of An Introduction to Carnism)
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Myth: The American Dietetic Association Knows What...
I was browsing the American Dietetic Association’s site and saw this odd document called “Vegetarian Eating: Fact vs. Fiction” (PDF).
No doubt this is from the Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group, the official pro-vegetarian wing of the ADA (although all of the ADA supposedly agrees). But a couple of these “Myth” and “Fact” comparisons are...
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"Cutting out meat is not always the healthy... →
Or so says The Irish Times:
Meagher was advised to re-introduce meat into her diet after she developed pernicious anaemia in her 30s – a condition which manifested itself in chronic tiredness and constant migraines. Through her own work as a medical herbalist, she says she encounters clients who are not faring as well on a vegetarian diet.
“I’d estimate that about 40 per cent of the vegetarian...
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Should Vegans Hate Meat Eaters?
MartinV: It’s true that some vegans insult meat eaters and even veggies. But people who care about non-humans understandably feel rage at the way humans treat them. Just like most people would feel rage if they heard a rapist or pedophile describing how much they enjoy what they do. Denouncing wrongdoers and insulting them is very unlikely to get them to change their ways but it is very...
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Veg*an Authorities On "The China Study: The Most...
Neal Barnard (Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine): “Everyone in the field of nutrition science stands on the shoulders of T. Colin Campbell, who is one of the giants in the field. This is one of the most important books about nutrition ever written — reading it may save your life.”
Dr. John McDougall: This landmark research shows that even small increases in the...
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So I Married Someone Who Calls Me "Murderer"
İlk Bahar: Recently I’ve found myself in a dilemma. A dilemma that had made me feel so ill. I have met someone who is a Vegan. We are very similar and we seem to get along so fine. But the only difference that we have is that he is a Vegan and I am once or twice a week meat eater. …
What I don’t like about him is the way he is going on about it. He is very clear-cut about this...
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Vegans Vs. The World
AshleyKimball: I wake up in the morning sometimes and “forget” the world isn’t vegan. Then I go ANYWHERE and try to do my vegan stuff and get looked at cock-eyed, then remember how crappy the world can be.
Linda: Once your eyes are opened, the inhumanity humans display in the supermarket is overwhelming.
BCSH: For a long time I’ve wanted to create my own nation....
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“As an Ex-Vegan, I would like to personally apologize on behalf of all vegans and...”
– Zombies
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“Last November, while I was struggling with the question of spending Thanksgiving...”
– “Vegan For Life”
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Interview With an Ex-Vegan: Heather W. Rudúlph
Heather is the co-founder and editor of SirensMag, which is where I saw her article Lessons Learned from a Vegan Diet, about how her month-long experiment with veganism influenced her eating habits for the better. But what most caught my eye was her reference to having been raised vegan.
One of my great fears is to be reincarnated into a vegan family (of course that assumes I won’t come...