Recently from the Vegan Theory section:
99% Vegan
Maybe you are a vegan, wish you were one, or know someone who is. If so, then you most likely know one who is labeled by James McWilliams as a “gotcha vegan.” Gotchas may also be known as the “vegan police,” those who scour the sphere for vegan slip-ups, trying to find aspiring vegans eating something that contains hidden meat or dairy products.
Previously from the Vegan Theory section:
- Shouldn’t We Also Prevent Wild Animals From Suffering?
- Why Vegan: Three Reasons
- Vegan Enough For Enough Vegans
- Plant-Based Diets, Health, And Moderation
- Veganism And Vaccines
- Doing Less Harm Or Doing More Good?
- Are Your Friends Carnists? Neo-Carnists?
- It’s Not Food
- Going Vegan Without Going Nutty
- Common Sense In Common Ground
- Vegan Options Everywhere
- A Call For Compromise
- The Egg Dilemma – When Friends Raise Hens
- Resisting Temptation (in Modern Fiction)
- Your Food Choices Matter
- Keeping Your Heart On Your Sleeve
- There Are Always Rebels
- An Interview With “Papa” Brian, Vegan Advocate
- Can Versus Must
- Common Questions About Veganism
- Animal Rights Zone
- Olympics Of Saving Lives
- Appropriating Veg*n Terminology
- Meat: Why Bother?
- The Ultimate Act Of Solipsism
- Interactive Food Choices Graphic
- Let People Care
- A Twisted Ethical Logic
- Killing Your Conscience?
- Common Farming Exemptions
- What Is Effective Animal Advocacy?
- Veganish
- When Visitors Come
- Bacon Is A Gateway Meat?
- Would Martin Luther King, Jr. Have Gone Vegan?
- The Villains Of Future History Books
- Book Review: Change Of Heart
- “Who’s For Dinner?” Not “What’s For Dinner?”
- Do Fish Feel Pain?
- Would You Feed Fugu To A Kid?
- Blitz’s Story
- How The Health Argument Helps Veganism
- “Happy Turkey Day”
- Veganism Is The Moral Baseline
- Vegan Cheaters
- Abolitionism Versus Welfarism
- Do You Judge Meat Eaters?
- Vegans Tend To Be More Empathetic
- Popular Posts
- Why Do Vegans Avoid Honey?
- Everything They Possibly Can
- Blog Action Day 2010: Water
- Why No Fish?
- “I Wish Bacon Didn’t Taste So Good.”
- The Ethics Of Eating Meat
- Nobody Is On The Scene
- It’s Not Necessary
- Factory Farming Externalities
- “An Environment Of Greater Equity”
- At Least Give It A Little Thought
- If You Care About Hungry People… Reject Factory-farmed Animal Products.
- Society Develops From Animal Welfare To Animal Rights
- Why Veg?
- We Mostly Agree
- A Crowded Elevator
- A Multi-pronged Approach
- A Coin Toss
- Why No Dairy?
- Hedonism And Sacrifice
- This Diet Is Nothing Radical
- Most Meat Eaters Are Good People
- Part-time Veganism
- Significant Changes Afoot
- The Comfort Of Your Food
- No Defense For Eating Animals
- Walk A Mile In Her Shoes
- Finding Your Heart
- Rosie And Her Babies
- Workers Suffer Alongside Animals
- My Name Is Rhea And I’m A Vegan.
- The Perils Of Pet Stores
- Chicken-Fried Steak/Buffalo Wings
- Vegan Inreach Or Vegan Outreach?
- Lessons Learned From Two Years Of Veganism
- Soysters, Not Oysters
- 6 Examples Of Rampant Farmed Animal Abuse
- Emily Deschanel’s Veganism
- The “Food Movement” That Isn’t
- “the Only Species That”
- Animals Kill Other Animals For Food, So Why Shouldn’t We?
- Mad Cowboy
- “The Cow Doesn’t Grow Fast Enough For Man”
- Open Letter To Christopher Cox
- Addictions
- Veganism And Violence
- Making An Effort
- Pushing Animals To The Margins
- What If Nobody Cares?
- We Have To Choose. We Have To Focus.
- If You’re Not An Iniut, Don’t Eat Like One!
- Between Vegan And Vegetarian
- We Are Not Lions
- Let’s Say What We Mean
- The Sanctity Of Life
- Good Stuff
- Evolving Into Veganism
- “I Never Thought…”
- Renee, Let’s Talk
- They’re All Good Animals
- Live Vegan For The Animals, Earth And People.
- Part Animal, Part Plant
- Almost 100% Cruel
- Eat Them To Save Them?
- Bullfighting Is On Its Way Out.
- Veganism Overly Defined
- 2010: The Year To Go Vegan.
- If You Care About Horses, You Won’t Eat Cows.
- Grace Changes Everything
- Are You One?
- The ‘Plants Feel Pain’ Argument Is Faulty
- “We Adore Each Filthy Chore”
- Veganism And Unselfish Love
- Eating Animals Alive
- Veganism Is More Than A Personal Choice
- It’s OK To Care About Animals
- Fifty Million Slaughtered Turkeys. And Football.
- Glass Walls
- More Compassionate, Nonviolent, And Just Than Alternatives
- Homo Sapiens Or Homo Psychopathiens?
- A Matter Of Taste
- Half-way Through Eating Animals
- There Is No Market Solution
- Where Jonathan Safran Foer Gets It Wrong
- What Would Happen To The Animals?
- Thinking About Meat
- There’s Always Enough Time To Help The Animals
- Factors Animal Rights Activists Should Consider
- Vegan Book Club
- What About Plants?
- Why Cultured Meat?
- Relating Veganism To Feminism
- We Can All Do Better
- Are Helper Animals Exploited Animals?
- Why No Meat?
- Why?
- An Open Letter To PeTA
- Just Do It! Go Vegan Today!
- Vegan No More: Actions Over Words
- Two Kinds Of Vegans
- Pain-Free Instead Of Cage-Free?
- Equality Between Humans And Animals
- Everyone Deserves Mercy
- Vegan Basics: 4 Common Questions
- The “Joy” Of Killing The Family Pet
- “Veganism Is Immoral”
- Equal… Or Not
- Regarding Bees & Honey
- Practical Veganism
- Is God A Monster?
- Why Organic Dairy Isn’t Good Enough
- AR 2009: Perceptions Of Animals
- Why Vegan? The Animals.
- Nonthreatening And Indirect = Useful? Sometimes.
- Time For A Change
- Less Quibbling, More Evidence
- Snippets From The Animal Activist’s Handbook
- Vegetarianism Is A Step Towards Veganism
- Why Women Should Care About Animals
- “H” Is For Herbivore
- The Importance Of Intersectionality
- Nonhuman Animals Possess A Sense Of Morality
- We’re Not So Different
- Dogs And Pigs
- Who Do You Eat?
- I’m Not Perfect, Just Vegan
- What’s Wrong With Milk And Eggs?
- Consistent “compassion”
- Why We Must Do More
- Share Their Stories
- Stupid Things Omnivores Say, “Veganism Is An Experiment”
- Criticism Is Not Enough
- Red Meat: Increased Mortality, Decreased Morality
- The Vegan Solution
- Impacting Their Bottom Line
- Even Welfarists Get It Right Sometimes
- “We Can’t All Eat Lettuce.”
- The Emotive In Ethics
- Helping Mitch, The Unapolgetic Omnivore
- Is Abolishing Animals’ “Property Status” The First Step To Liberation?
- Interview With An Undercover Investigator
- On Medicine And EVIL
- Patrolling The Borders
- On Accusations & Terrorism
- A Choice/Need Problem And Hunting
- Milk Machines: A Photo Essay
- Questioning The Use Of The Word ‘Challenge’ In ‘Animal Enthusiasts Challenge H.S.U.S….’
- Scope And “Might Makes Right”
- Hunting: Not Cool
- Veganism: The Only Ethical Lifestyle?
- Stupid Things Omnivores Say: “You Should Be Nicer If You Want To Convince Me”
- Finding ‘Reason’ In A ‘Feeling’
- Getting It Wrong, So Very Wrong
- 75% Vegan Vs. 100% Vegetarian
- Temple Grandin’s Dilemma
- Why Vegan? Josh Balk Answers
- Stupid Things Omnivores Say: “Plastic Is An Animal Product”
- A Vegan And Her Documentary Take To The Road
- Stupid Things Omnivores Say: But We Have Incisors…
- Book Review: Redemption
- Getting Our Priorities Straight
- In Groups And Out Groups
- Inauguration Day Dinner: Make It Vegan
- On Insincerity And Psychopath-sadism
- Slaughterhouse Workers
- Animal Rights: Not A Game Of Risk
- Responding To A Critique: On Being “holier Than Thou”
- Meat Reduction Is Good, But Not Good Enough
- The Breeders’ Paradox
- Ideas For Change: Animal Bill Of Rights
- Animals Are Not Ours To Buy And Sell
- Pluses And Minuse Of Veganism
- The Line Between What We Believe And How We Behave
- A Problem With “…potential”
- Why No Dairy?
- What Are Animal Rights?
- Choices
- We Have A Choice
- In The Animal’s Interests: Euthanasia
- Your Rights End Where Another’s Begin
- We Have The Upper Hand
- “Nobody Should Tell You To Go Vegan”
- Vega*ns Tell Their Tales
- “Cattle Graze On Land That’s Unfit For Crops”
- “Cows Need To Be Milked”
- How I Went Vegan
- Realizing Our Uniqueness: Veganism
- Re-Writing; Re-Righting.
- “I’d Get So Bored On A Vegan Diet.”
- Should Animals Have The Same Rights As People?
- The Power Of A Pen
- A Stepping Stone
- Anti-Vegans Use Poor Logic
- Proposition 2: Some Thoughts
- Compassion For All Beings
- Stop Eating Animals
- On Ensoulment
- Veganism And Purity
- Myth: Vegans Are Extremists On The Fringe
- Can Vegans Have Pets?
- A ‘Hunters Bill Of Rights’
- Taking Sentience Seriously
- Towards A Response: “Line Drawing”
- What Would The Veg*n Utopia Look Like?
- Spam Is Not Vegan
- A Philosopher’s Complaint
- If It Looks Like A Duck And Walks Like A Duck
- A Random Response
- “Logic Of Domination”
- But Eating Meat Is “Natural”
- Challenging Selective Reasoning.
- But We Evolved To Eat Meat…
- On Comparisons.
- Does Sustainable Eating Include Meat?
- A Message To Democrats
- Ethics Is Disturbing
- Shouldn’t We Create A Consumer Demand For Humane Products?
- On Animal Experimentation
- The Lazy Veg*n Is Welcome
- “These Animals Are Our Dear Friends”
- Vegan Bites: From Tofu To Death Cab
- Number Sixty-Seven Thousand Five Hundred Ninty-Five
- Number Thirty-Five
- Number Six
- What If I Had My Own Hens And Ate Her Eggs?
- On Dolphin Slaughter And Culture
- Should We Eat Meat?
- Apparently, Tobacco Hurts People (and Mice And Rats)
- Stupid Things Omnivores Say: “Vegans Are _!”
- Why Billy Went Vegan
- Should Vegans Soften Our Tone?
- On The Issue Of “Unnecessary Suffering”
- Should We Eat Meat?
- Community Organizing Against Vivisection
- Is Roadkill Vegan?
- Animal Welfare Laws: Are They Good For Animals?
- “Attacking Meat Eaters”, Really?
- Veganism = Refusing To Kill
- We Can Change The World, One Meal At A Time
- Veal And Dairy: Let’s Talk About It.
- Do Something!
- Have It Your Way
- It’s All Connected
- Basic Rights For All
- “My Taste Buds Overpower My Moral Intuition”
- ‘Might Makes Right’! But Not In THAT Situation Of Course.
- Vegan Bites: Seitan, Same-Sex Weddings, And Speciesism
- Difference And The Pet-Animal/ Food-Animal Dichotomy Myth
- Misozoony And Misogyny: Myths
- 4 Questions To Vegans
- Examples Of Misozoony, Hatred Of Animals
- There Is No Such Thing As Moral Meat Consumption
- Well Spoken Animal Advocacy
- 6 Ways To Handle Antagonistic Animal-Eaters
- The ‘Scorned Bull’ Of Our Delusions
- Yes, I Know, Protein Blah Blah Blah…but Perhaps
- When Animals Attack
- Meat Eaters Live A Lie
- Good Ol’ “Canine Racism”
- It’s Not Euthanasia!
- Stupid Things Omnivores Say: They Would Eat Us
- Shouldn’t We Simply Avoid Cruelty?
- Letting Apes Be Apes
- Nozick’s Hypothetical
- Stupid Things Ominvores Say: Worry About Human Rights, Not Animal Rights
- Vegan LGBT Writers: Call For Papers
- Vegan Bites: Juice And Prejudice
- A Response: “What About Bacteria?”
- We’re Vegans, Not Superheroes
- A Contradiction In Environmentalism:
- Stupid Things Omnivores Say: My Ancestors Ate Meat So I Should Too
- Plus Ca Change?
- A Comment On The “Plant Problem”
- We Will Change The World
- “An Interest Prior To Conception?” – Redux
- “They Exist For Our Use” And So Forth…
- Vegan Bites: Theory, Activism, & Recipes
- Activism Strategies: Laws And Money
- The Herd Mentality
- Let’s Keep The Peace: Don’t Talk About Animal Rights.
- “A Slave Of The Passions”…
- An Environmentalist Who Eats Meat?
- The Recent Dog Shooting
- What Is A Vegan?
- Is Veganism Just An Opinion?
- Self-evident Animal Rights?
- We Are, After All, Helping Them.
- A Vision Of A Vegan World
- Against Our Biological Drives?
- “Real” Or Faux – What Does Our Choice Suggest?
- Vegan Podcasts This Week
- The Church Of Vegan
- Reflecting Our Irrationality
- Isn’t Vegetarianism Enough?
- Of Course Fur!
- Thoughts On The Recent Shark Attack
- We Are All Guillermo Vargas
- Just Another Vegan Stereotype?
- 7 Current Power Structures That Enable Animal Exploitation
- Do Animals Need A Bill Of Rights?
- 9 Tools For An Animal Friendly Life
- It Matters How We Say It
- Earthlings: Making The Connections
- Where Do You Draw The Line? Insects? Plants? Bacteria?
- Animal Testing Is Wrong, Plain And Simple
- Veganism: A Human Project
- Vegan: A Higher Standard?
- A Kinship With Animals
- More Than One Way To Save A Life
- Veganism Is A Choice
- VeganFreak Radio: Why Vegan
- 26 Animal Rights Essays
- Friendly Humanist’s Vegetarianism
- Keeping Vegan
- The First Vegan: Donald Watson
- Veganism And Privilege
- Strangeholm Responds
- Vegan And Vegetarian Frequently Asked Questions
- Can You Date Omnivores?
- Why Vegan?
- Omnivores Aren’t All That Smart
- Go Vegan For The Ones Who Love You
- Nudity, Animal Rights, And Feminism
- 2008 New Year’s Resolution: Go Vegan!
- Why Do Omnivores Hate Us?
- Veganism Is Not Just A Diet
- Red Meat Is The Donald Trump Of Cancer
- Veganism And Morality
- Solution To Climate Change: Go Vegan
- Meat Propaganda
- Non Industry Partnership: Abolitionist Manifesto Part VI
- Vegan Thanksgiving Meal
- Frequently Asked Questions Of Vegans
- Why A Vegan Blog?
- On Property
- Animals Are Not Property: Abolitionist Manifesto Part IV
- Moral Imperative: Abolitionist Manifesto Part III
- The Right To Be Treated With Respect
- 10 Reasons Not To Be Vegan
- Labels And Labeling
- The Fundamentals: Part II Of The Abolitionist Manifesto
- In Our Heads: Abolitionist Manifesto Part I
- Vegan Muscle Power
- I Am Vegan Because…
- Moral Duty Analogies
- More Alike Than Different
- Vegans Don’t Bury Their Heads In The Sand
- Abolitionist Manifesto Examination Introduction
- Simple And Succinct Moral Justifications For Veganism
- The Case For Animal Rights
- Tom Regan On Justice
- Eating Meat Is Like Eating Babies
- Animal Rights Are Self-Evident
- Sufficient Condition For Ethical Veganism
