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Valentine's Day is getting sweeter every year for vegans...at least in the United States. Vegan Essentials, Cosmo's Vegan Shoppe, and Pangea Vegan Products offer boxed chocolates in many varieties for as low as $10...
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14 Feb 2012 at 8:07pm
Of late there have been many interesting articles surfacing that have challenged the white-centric approach to vegan outreach and the advancement of nonhuman animal rights.' Some welfarist organizations have engaged in blatantly racially...
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4 Feb 2012 at 6:23pm
There has been a video circulating on the internet as of late that depicts some of the US armed forces engaged in unspeakable violence towards a sheep. The sheep was beaten to death with a baseball bat while...
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27 Jan 2012 at 3:37pm
It's a shame that David Nibert's 2002 Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation is not more widely read among activists and sociologists. It makes a very clear and convincing argument for...
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25 Jan 2012 at 8:47pm
Arguably one of the more offensive books on welfarism to be published in recent years, Norwood & Lusk’s 2011 Compassion, by the Pound: The Economics of Farm Animal Welfare, denounces the importance of veganism, makes outlandish...
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24 Jan 2012 at 9:38pm
Brian Luke’s 2007 book, Brutal: Manhood and the Exploitation of Animals, explores the gendered dynamic of our relationship to nonhuman animals and the associated liberation movement. Human animals, he argues, are not naturally inclined to be...
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23 Jan 2012 at 6:35pm
Identity is established symbolically by creating an alternative culture apart from dominant society. In a social movement, it is a powerful motivational tool. It can increase group cohesiveness and add authenticity. It helps in recruitment....
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2 Jan 2012 at 9:37pm
Social institutions serve not only to meet society's needs, but also to maintain society. This is certainly true for the institution of education. Here, certain values and norms are cultivated and passed on to students. ...
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31 Dec 2011 at 12:42am
Stevie volunteers at a soup kitchen. Every Wednesday night, Stevie takes 3 hours out of her evening to drive down to the homeless shelter on the other side of town. She helps in preparations, serves the patrons, and...
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29 Dec 2011 at 6:40pm
Yesterday I was very shocked to have received a barrage of “newsletters” from several major nonhuman animal organizations. One common factor in all of these was the incessant plea for donations. I find these requests...
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28 Dec 2011 at 9:08pm
While it is impossible for me to acknowledge all abolitionist activity in the past year, I have attempted to cover some of the major contributions as well some of the more interesting and unique developments.LiveVegan
LiveVegan is a Facebook...
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24 Dec 2011 at 2:15pm
PETA's euthanasia' policy is no secret. While the organization does heavily campaign to reduce overpopulation, PETA is not hesitant to kill nonhumans who likely have an interest in continuing to live. PETA prefers to show images...
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19 Dec 2011 at 11:11pm
For several years now, Compassion Over Killing has been working with large processed food corporations campaigning to have them include more vegan options or to reduce their egg usage. In their December 8, 2011 enewsletter, COK announces a victory...
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18 Dec 2011 at 3:17pm
In their December 17 enewsletter, titled, "VO Feedback: Remembering the Ultimate Goal," Vegan Outreach makes it crystal clear that their "ultimate goal," paradoxically, is not to promote veganism. This is clarified in a...
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17 Dec 2011 at 3:11pm
For some time now Mercy For Animals has been campaigning against McDonald’s, targeting their supplier, Sparboe Egg Farms for “shocking cruelty to animals.”MFA’s attack on Sparboe Egg Farms is puzzling as I am...
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15 Dec 2011 at 7:52pm
Melanie Joy’s 2010 book, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism, explores the social psychological processes behind our confused and often contradictory treatment of nonhuman animals based on arbitrary...
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14 Dec 2011 at 10:38pm
Heifer International, a charity that donates livestock to impoverished non-Western peoples, claims that you can "change the world one animal at a time." The gift of a nonhuman animal, they argue, will help end hunger and...
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12 Dec 2011 at 1:33pm
Promoting veganism in the office can be tricky because it generally is not a place where political affiliations are welcomed (depending on the occupation and workplace culture). Yet the office also makes for an excellent venue for advocacy because...
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5 Dec 2011 at 10:24am
To infantilize is to treat someone as though they were a baby. This is a phenomenon that tends to occur in uneven power dynamics. For example, women are often considered to be overly emotional, irrational, weak, and in...
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3 Dec 2011 at 10:21pm
Increasingly, activists are finding the terms “welfarist” and “new welfarist” problematic and even insulting. These words, they argue, are used in a derogatory sense meant to otherize and offend.Certainly, how language is...
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