Vegan Soapbox

This is the topic archive for Theory.

• For Vegans Who Want Children
• Are Your Friends Carnists? Neo-Carnists?
• It’s Not Food
• Vegan Options Everywhere
• A Call For Compromise
• Animal Rights Zone
• Olympics Of Saving Lives
• Appropriating Veg*n Terminology
• Let People Care
• Yale Students For Meatless Mondays
• “Plants Like Life Too”
• Veganism Is The Moral Baseline
• Abolitionism Versus Welfarism
• Do You Judge Meat Eaters?
• Vegans Tend To Be More Empathetic
• Popular Posts
• The Ethics Of Eating Meat
• “An Environment Of Greater Equity”
• At Least Give It A Little Thought
• Society Develops From Animal Welfare To Animal Rights
• We Mostly Agree
• A Coin Toss
• Hedonism And Sacrifice
• Most Meat Eaters Are Good People
• No Defense For Eating Animals
• Walk A Mile In Her Shoes
• Rosie And Her Babies
• My Name Is Rhea And I’m A Vegan.
• The Perils Of Pet Stores
• Vegan Inreach Or Vegan Outreach?
• Soysters, Not Oysters
• Why Not Change The Laws And Protect Farmed Animals?
• Open Letter To Christopher Cox
• Addictions
• Pushing Animals To The Margins
• What If Nobody Cares?
• Failed To Outpace
• Let’s Say What We Mean
• Good Stuff
• Flashback Friday: Feb. 5, 2010
• Evolving Into Veganism
• Live Vegan For The Animals, Earth And People.
• Part Animal, Part Plant
• Bullfighting Is On Its Way Out.
• Veganism Overly Defined
• Are You One?
• Vegan Bites: Food, Fur, Celebrity & Politics
• “We Adore Each Filthy Chore”
• Eating Animals Alive
• Veganism Is More Than A Personal Choice
• It’s OK To Care About Animals
• Homo Sapiens Or Homo Psychopathiens?
• Flashback Friday: Nov. 13, 2009
• Half-way Through Eating Animals
• There Is No Market Solution
• Where Jonathan Safran Foer Gets It Wrong
• What Would Happen To The Animals?
• Make The Killing Stop
• Factors Animal Rights Activists Should Consider
• Vegan Book Club
• The Absurdity Of Criticizing “Triage”
• Why Cultured Meat?
• Relating Veganism To Feminism
• What Will It Take?
• Are Helper Animals Exploited Animals?
• Why No Meat?
• Why?
• Vegan No More: Actions Over Words
• Two Kinds Of Vegans
• A Case For Animal Rights
• Pain-Free Instead Of Cage-Free?
• Equality Between Humans And Animals
• “Veganism Is Immoral”
• Equal… Or Not
• Is God A Monster?
• Nonthreatening And Indirect = Useful? Sometimes.
• Keep Stepping
• Less Quibbling, More Evidence
• Snippets From The Animal Activist’s Handbook
• Why Women Should Care About Animals
• The Importance Of Intersectionality
• What’s Wrong With Milk And Eggs?
• Big Tobacco Played Dirty And Millions Died. How Similar Is Big Food?
• Consistent “compassion”
• The Rights Of Brutes Are Now Mainstream
• Why We Must Do More
• Criticism Is Not Enough
• Red Meat: Increased Mortality, Decreased Morality
• “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?
• On Medicine And EVIL
• A Choice/Need Problem And Hunting
• Questioning The Use Of The Word ‘Challenge’ In ‘Animal Enthusiasts Challenge H.S.U.S….’
• Scope And “Might Makes Right”
• Stupid Things Omnivores Say: “You Should Be Nicer If You Want To Convince Me”
• ANIMAL RIGHTS – A Universal Declaration
• Finding ‘Reason’ In A ‘Feeling’
• Stupid Things Omnivores Say: “Plastic Is An Animal Product”
• Getting Our Priorities Straight
• In Groups And Out Groups
• Vegan Zen & Compassion
• On Insincerity And Psychopath-sadism
• In Defense Of Farm Sanctuary
• Animal Rights: Not A Game Of Risk
• Animals Are Not Ours To Buy And Sell
• The Line Between What We Believe And How We Behave
• Why No Dairy?
• What Are Animal Rights?
• The Need For Change Is Obvious
• 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”
• “Cows Need To Be Milked”
• 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
• Stop Eating Animals
• On Ensoulment
• Veganism And Purity
• Myth: Vegans Are Extremists On The Fringe
• Taking Sentience Seriously
• Towards A Response: “Line Drawing”
• What Would The Veg*n Utopia Look Like?
• Spam Is Not Vegan
• A Philosopher’s Complaint
• Pearls Of Wisdom
• A Random Response
• “Logic Of Domination”
• But Eating Meat Is “Natural”
• Challenging Selective Reasoning.
• But We Evolved To Eat Meat…
• “Vegetarian”
• On Comparisons.
• A Message To Democrats
• Ethics Is Disturbing
• On Animal Experimentation
• The Lazy Veg*n Is Welcome
• Vegan Bites: From Tofu To Death Cab
• Should We Eat Meat?
• On The Issue Of “Unnecessary Suffering”
• Is Roadkill Vegan?
• Animal Welfare Laws: Are They Good For Animals?
• “Attacking Meat Eaters”, Really?
• Veganism = Refusing To Kill
• Do Something!
• 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
• There Is No Such Thing As Moral Meat Consumption
• Well Spoken Animal Advocacy
• Yes, I Know, Protein Blah Blah Blah…but Perhaps
• Shouldn’t We Simply Avoid Cruelty?
• Letting Apes Be Apes
• Nozick’s Hypothetical
• Getting To Your Friends And Family
• A Response: “What About Bacteria?”
• We’re Vegans, Not Superheroes
• Stupid Things Omnivores Say: My Ancestors Ate Meat So I Should Too
• A Comment On The “Plant Problem”
• “An Interest Prior To Conception?” – Redux
• “They Exist For Our Use” And So Forth…
• Marketing Trivial Human Desires
• The Herd Mentality
• Let’s Keep The Peace: Don’t Talk About Animal Rights.
• “A Slave Of The Passions”…
• 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
• Reflecting Our Irrationality
• Thoughts On The Recent Shark Attack
• 7 Current Power Structures That Enable Animal Exploitation
• Do Animals Need A Bill Of Rights?
• A Basic Vegan Glossary – 20 Terms
• 9 Tools For An Animal Friendly Life
• It Matters How We Say It
• Veganism: A Human Project
• Veganism Is A Choice
• VeganFreak Radio: Why Vegan
• 26 Animal Rights Essays
• Friendly Humanist’s Vegetarianism
• Keeping Vegan
• Veganism And Privilege
• Strangeholm Responds
• Vegan And Vegetarian Frequently Asked Questions
• FDA Cloned Meat And Milk Approval
• Can You Date Omnivores?
• Why Vegan?
• Omnivores Aren’t All That Smart
• Go Vegan For The Ones Who Love You
• Why Do Omnivores Hate Us?
• Veganism And Morality
• Meat Propaganda
• Non Industry Partnership: Abolitionist Manifesto Part VI
• 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
• 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