We have convinced ourselves that killing animals is ethical, especially if we wait 46 days.
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Don’t Lower Your Standards
It has been a while since I was active in my wee cottage industry of responding to self-absorbed speciesist articles in the press. I was getting my hopes up that perhaps they were done for. I needn’t have. The Guardian returns to form and showcases the new fad of reducetarianism, telling us that vegans are…
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Just Whatever
First published on Ecorazzi on 30 April 2017. I do not know what cows have done to Josh Tetrick, CEO of Hampton Creek, but it must be something egregious for him to exact revenge by using them in his company’s products. Yes, the darling of all vegans, the plant-based company originally established to replace eggs…
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My Vegan Experiment aka My Experiment In Missing The Point Entirely
First published in Ecorazzi on 21 March 2017 Lately, The Guardian is becoming a platform for self-absorbed and outlandish perspectives on veganism. The paper has yet to feature the only coherent and unambiguous case for veganism: that it is a matter of simple fairness and justice we owe to the animals. In its most recent…
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A Letter to… My non-vegan mother, who I still love
First published in Ecorazzi on 6 March 2017. The following is a response piece to the anonymous letter by a non vegan mother to her vegan daughter that was recently published in The Guardian. As always, the issue is not about us, but about them – the victims in all this – the animals. If…
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Esther The Wonder Pig Wants You To Read Carefully and Be Vegan
First published in Ecorazzi on 14 February 2017. This is a follow up piece to this one and in it I reiterate my point that we should be clear about veganism. A few days ago, I wrote an essay commenting on a piece that appeared in The Guardian by Steve Jenkins. My essay focused very…
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Esther The Wonder Pig Wants You To Be Vegan
Esther has a life because of her two dads. She might not have been the pig they were expecting, but her very existence demands that they – and we – become the advocates that she and all the animals like her want us to be.
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