Animal Rights

was a behavior that captured my interest when I first started living vegan because (in part) it was nothing that I had ever considered as an aspect of living vegan. I ran across an essay about riding horses and starting thinking about it. And…”horseback riding” didn’t come off so well…

Veganism isn’t a diet. Being vegan is about so much more than what you eat. It’s a rights-based philosophy. Ever since the term veganism was first coined in 1944, it has been fundamentally a philosophy opposed to the exploitation of all sentient animals. But it goes even further. It is…

Examining the claims of vegan animal rights group, Animal Rising — Animal Rising are a fairly new, high-profile animal rights group taking the UK by storm. They’ve made headlines by shutting down the dairy industry’s supply chain, rescuing dogs from vivisection, disrupting the Grand National steeplechase and liberating several of ‘the King’s lambs’ who were destined for slaughter. Their website states…

Civilization is a ‘defense against nature’. This is Camille Paglia’s central premise, but her focus tends more toward natural disasters than to the actual animal kingdom. ‘Civilized man’, she writes, ‘conceals from himself the extent of his subordination to nature. The grandeur of culture, the consolation of religion absorb his…

Some Kids Vandalize Circus

Animal Rising have launched an entirely misguided attack on an increasingly vilified minority in rural England that will result in harming the very animals they wish to protect. The so called animal rights group aim to bring livestock farming and consequently farmers to an end. Such a direct attack is…

Butchers in Athens Visited 2023, Athens, Greece On the occasion of the celebration of the great slaughter, there was an awakening of our reflexes to a ritual that takes place at regular intervals validating the rules of hierarchy of species where animals are inferior and are species to be exploited. By striking at butchers…

Vets for Hunting changed its name. Hardly surprising, really — it’s like calling your organization Doctors for Child Abuse. Branding is everything! Imaging your beloved dog gets sick, so you take him to a vet who proudly and publicly proclaims they’re a member of ‘Vets for Hunting’. Who could entrust…

by Michelle A. Rivera But then you learned about the commodification of animals and how animals are being exploited for money. Once the outrage subsides, which never actually happened to me, we become a vegan who attends, (maybe even organizes) all the animal-rights demonstrations in your area, good for you…