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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Serves Them Right!
Why do some of us need to rejoice in others’ suffering when we are advocating for the cessation of suffering in the first place?
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Who Could Be Blind to Racism?
I have been listening to the new Tribe Called Quest album a lot. It is basically on repeat. I heard that line and it is a question I ask myself all the time. First published in Ecorazzi on 22 November 2016. “Who could be blind to racism?”[1] To ableism? Sexism? Heterosexism? Ageism? Unfortunately, each and…
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