or We keep hearing welfarists say that most people who go vegan went vegetarian first, so we should promote going vegetarian. We keep hearing welfarists say that if we promote “happy” meat and other “happy” animal products, that will lead people to go vegan eventually. This is all nonsense. There is no empirical evidence that […]

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On Wednesday, June 25, 2014, I was a guest on the Brian Oxman Show. You can listen here. ********** If you are not vegan, please go vegan. Veganism is about nonviolence. First and foremost, it’s about nonviolence to other sentient beings. But it’s also about nonviolence to the earth and nonviolence to yourself. The World […]

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The Vegan Society has obviously gotten a significant critical reaction to its explicit rejection of veganism as a baseline moral principle as represented in its “You don’t have to be vegan” campaign. The Vegan Society has been going in the wrong direction for a while now. In 2011, the Society banned me for promoting veganism […]

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Some welfarists say that welfare reform will help animals because reform causes a price increase and that decreases demand. This position shows that welfarists do not understand the economics of animal agriculture or of welfare reform. Since most welfare reform campaigns address inefficiencies in the production process, many welfare reforms increase production efficiency so production […]

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I never cease to be amazed by those people who say that we should not promote veganism as a moral imperative because they took a long time to go vegan. What is the relevance of how long it took someone to see that going vegan was the right thing to do? Answer: it has no […]

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