Category Archives: Animal Rights
Not Eating Animals Is Totally Spiritual for Me
I stopped eating animals in February 2004, about 6 years ago. At first it started out as a health experiment to see how much better I could physically feel. Years later, I got deeper into seeing how animals suffered needlessly to satisfy man’s appetite for meat. But for the past year, something different began to [...]
Why It Steams Me When People Eat Crabs, Shrimp, and Lobsters
id everyone read about the recent study showing that crabs not only feel pain but that they remember it? Researchers at the School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s University in Belfast gave hermit crabs mild electric shocks in order to determine if they could feel pain. Not surprisingly, the answer was “yes.” While I don’t [...]
A Celebration of Soy: The Top Ten Best Soy-Based Foods
Happy National Soy Foods Month everyone!! Have you begun celebrating yet? Okay, yeah, I’m not surprised. Few people even know that April is soy foods month, much less “celebrate” it, but since soy is such a big part of many vegans’ diets, I think it’s worth a shout out. Soy is cholesterol-free and low in [...]
There’s Murder in Every Glass of Milk
Last post I touched on how dairy comes from raped, abused and exploited mothers. Now image you are her newborn baby.
Having spent your entire life so far inside the warmth of your mother’s womb, the rush of her blood bringing comfort and the movement of her body rocking you to sleep, suddenly, you are thrust [...]
Why I’d rather eat a rib-eye than drink a glass of milk
May sound counter intuitive coming from a strict, “no, not even honey” vegan but I’m completely serious. Granted, I’d rather lick the soles of Britney Spear’s feet after she’s come traipsing out of a gas station bathroom than gnosh a slab of steak but if I had the choice between meat and dairy, I’d take [...]
Abysmal Conditions at India’s Illegal Abattoirs
In the year 2000, Jackie Chan, Hong Kong’s ambassador for tourism was dismayed and saddened by the well documented torture of millions of Indian cattle, who were killed for meat and leather export. In deep anguish he shot off a letter to the Indian Prime-minister urging him to fight the widespread corruption and illegal [...]
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