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Animal Welfare Regulation, “Happy Exploitation,” and Speciesism 27 Aug 2013 | 03:59 pm
The Problem: Treating Humans and Nonhumans Differently I maintain that if we cannot morally justify animal exploitation, we ought not to be advocating for (supposedly) more “humane” or “happy” animal...
Social Justice, Human Rights, and Being Vegan 2 Aug 2013 | 03:07 pm
Non-vegans frequently point to the admittedly terrible condition of the world and ask vegans: what about important issues of social justice involving humans?; why aren’t you doing more to address thos...
A Simple Question 1 Aug 2013 | 08:11 pm
An article, Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas, reports: Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population h...
Do Chimpanzees, Dolphins, and Elephants Matter More? 29 Jul 2013 | 06:48 pm
There is a tendency amongst some animal advocates to associate nonhuman personhood with animals, such as chimpanzees, dolphins, and elephants, who have more sophisticated–that is, humanlike–cognitive ...
Abolition: Making Sure the Means and the End Are Consistent 19 Jul 2013 | 09:37 am
If you say that you are an “abolitionist” but support welfare reform as a means to abolition, you are using “abolition” in a fundamentally different way from the way in which I use that term. I use th...
My Plenary Talk (Audio) at the Animal Rights 2013 National Conference 6 Jul 2013 | 05:44 am
On Saturday, June 29, I gave the plenary talk at the Animal Rights 2013 National Conference. You can listen to the audio here. The title of my talk: “The Abolitionist Approach to Animal Rights.” I un...
The Consequences of New Welfarism 5 Jul 2013 | 06:59 pm
I was recently in one of the two Whole Foods in my area. I passed by the meat counter and I saw the signs about how the animals whose corpses are sold by Whole Foods are so very well treated. I saw pe...
A New Book: Eat Like You Care 1 Jul 2013 | 06:16 pm
Our new book is now available. You can get it here. If people adopt a vegan diet for ethical reasons, everything changes. If they don’t adopt a vegan diet, they stay stuck with anti-fur protests and ...
Some Clear Thinking About Animal Welfare 30 Jun 2013 | 06:53 pm
Animal welfare reform focuses on the supply side of exploitation. The idea is to provide a supply of more “humanely” produced animal products. The idea also is to make that supply more expensive so th...
“When It’s Raised Right, It Tastes Right.” And This is Not Right. 21 Jun 2013 | 05:10 am
Yesterday, I visited Whole Foods and my purchases were placed in this bag: Think about the message: When an animal, a commodity, an “it”–is “raised right,” “it tastes right.” And just about every larg...
