27. Relating to Other Movements
August 3, 2020
Joining forces with other movements increases our ability to effect change. Animal rights is fundamental to opposing all oppression, and veganism is the ultimate health
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26. My Animal Rights Hall of Fame
July 21, 2020
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
09. Who’s a Vegan?
November 26, 2019
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
08. Don’t Eat the Turkey!
November 12, 2019
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
07. Three Holocaust Survivors Launched a Movement
October 29, 2019
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
06. Don’t Cut the Animals
October 15, 2019
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
05. Memorializing Farmed Animals
September 26, 2019
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
04. Don’t Eat the Animals
September 23, 2019
The role of animals in prehistoric diets is still the subject of lively debate. Even the Bible has it both ways. Animal sacrifices, associated with
03. But, Can They Suffer?
September 16, 2019
For more than two millennia, human relationship with animals was governed by Aristotle’s view, that animals are mindless creatures in the service of men. That
02. In the Beginning…
September 9, 2019
Two key factors combined to doom animals since the beginning of human civilization. First, a perennially angry and vengeful god, manifested through natural disasters and
01. To the Animals, All People Are Nazis
September 1, 2019
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,