
38. Our Challenges for the ’20s
Social movements, like all living and prospering entities, must evolve and grow, else they wither and die. In the next decade, our movement will face
Social movements, like all living and prospering entities, must evolve and grow, else they wither and die. In the next decade, our movement will face
If we believe that all animals are equal, then saving animals raised for food abroad should be just as worthy and perhaps even more cost-effective
The recent Netflix blockbuster My Octopus Teacher chronicles a mutual relationship between a man and one of the world’s most bizarre looking animals – an
World Day for Farmed Animals, just around the corner, on October 2nd, offers an appropriate setting for revisiting what’s at the core of our animal
World Day for Farmed Animals is coming up in two weeks, on October 2nd. The observance was conceived in 1983 and celebrated throughout the world
Today’s essay marks the beginning of the second year of The Vegan Blog. It reprises our very first essay recounting my journey from the Holocaust
Who launched, nurtured, and shaped the U.S. animal rights movement? What happened to them? Why hardly anyone knows their names? Here, at last, are some
Conferences are an effective vehicle for forming, shaping, and nurturing our movement. They offer documentation of animal abuses, activist training, and lots of inspiration and
At what point does a vision induce people to act on it? At what point do individual actions become a movement? And, what is the
We seek a vegan world. That’s the one concept we all seem to agree on. But what does a vegan world look like? Will we
It was a beautiful day in Washington in early September of 1975. I was still flush with excitement from having attended my first World Vegetarian
The concept that animals should be endowed with certain basic rights, as an extension of human rights, was first proposed by British social reformer Henry
Exploitation of animals in the name of science came much later in the history of human civilization than their exploitation for labor, religious sacrifices, and
Back in the early 1980s, shortly after I committed my life to stopping the use of animals for food, I heard an apocryphal tale of
On this very day, 80 years ago, the Nazi armies invaded Poland, and launched World War II. I was five years old. Within a year,