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National Catfish Day Celebrates Food, Not Fish
On this day in 1987, President Reagan proclaimed that we should celebrate “the value of farm-raised catfish.” He called them a “uniquely American food delicacy.”I have to admit, I had no idea that we...
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Challenging Assumptions and Boundaries on Behalf of Chickens
Photo credit: Daria ZeoliMy day-to-day, like many other vegans, is never without a thought, action, or conversation having to do with animals or veganism. I’m betting there are many who can relate to...
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Vegans to the Rescue!
Photo credit: puck90 via FlickrIn an attempt to define veganism when it’s off the plate (in those rare times we aren’t eating, planning to eat, or thinking about food), I have posted about my son...
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How Should You Avoid Danger? By Scalloping Away, Of Course
I have a new Big Sister. As in, Big Brothers/Big Sisters. Her name is Ann. I used to have a different Big Sister, but she broke up with me. She did used to offer me food I didn’t want or couldn’t have,...
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Man vs. Crab: Renewable Limbs as Food
Through no fault of my own, I recently found myself watching an episode of Man Vs. Food. The premise: the show’s host travels across America, eating copious amounts of “food” (usually animals) in the...
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Could This Be the Love of My Life?
At a dinner with co-workers recently, I opened my fortune cookie to find the following: “The love of your life will suddenly appear in front of you.” We joked about a good-looking man dropping by the...
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Breaking News: Water is Wet, SeaWorld Sucks
The television premiere of Blackfish on October 24 was pretty impressive. Almost half a million people tuned into CNN to see the documentary, which tells the story of Tillikum the orca. It aired...
View ArticleDog Receives 210 Water Bottles for Christmas: Hilarity Ensues
I would do this if I had 210 empty plastic (!!) water bottles. Except, I’m concerned about those caps. When I watch this, I hear “but those caps could be so dangerous” in my head.Photo credit: Maymo...
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Why Does My Dog Hate Me?
I adopted Millie almost two months ago. A four-year old beagle, she is usually sweet-tempered, happy to sniff at anything and everything, and willing to eat anything we’ll give her.Since my father died...
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How Liam Neeson Misses the Point When Defending the Horse Drawn Carriage...
I was watching an episode of The Tonight Show (on demand, I don’t stay up late enough to watch it live) and caught Liam Neeson as one of the guests. As a die-hard fan of Love Actually and someone who...
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Bees Are Our Business, Too
When I was first exploring veganism, honey was the one substance raising at least a point of conflict between some vegans, presumably both because honey is a by-product of bees (vis-a-vis eating the...
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Stray and Feral Cats Deserve Better
There are a couple of colonies of stray and feral cats close to where I work. Some of the cats are spayed and neutered; some are not. It seems that people dump off cats here, because they know that...
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Make Mine (Vegan) Chocolate this Easter: Rabbits Are Not Toys!
In most cases, using live rabbits or chicks in photo ops around Easter is speciesist. That’s a condensed way of saying that using animals whimsically for even minor and fleeting enjoyment, with no...
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Hedgehog Popularity: Rise of the Meme-Pet
Open up your Tumblr dashboard on any given day, and you’re sure to find countless photo sets and gifs of hedgehogs doing adorable things. Each post has thousands of notes. All of your friends reblog...
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Vegan Asshole: On Defending Cockroaches
I wrote an article in 2009 titled Four Years and 1 Million Little Slaves and it was about an exhibit at The New York American Museum of Natural History- a silk tapestry made from the silk spun by...
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Do Vegans Kill Bugs?
There’s a popular vegan question sandwiched in between all of the protein inquiries and “fish aren’t animals” misstatements you hear regularly: “Do vegans kill bugs?” I overheard someone recently...
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Fireworks Are No Fun for Animals
It’s the 4th of July and I dread everything . Actually, I dread the week prior to the 4th of July, and the week following as well for the same reason- fireworks. I hate them. They bring me disgust...
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Fish Are Animals. No, Really
I was eating a California veggie roll for lunch at my desk at work recently. A friend asked what it was, knowing I’m vegan. She thought I was eating imitation crab meat, which I think is still made of...
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Taking the food source produced and needed by another species just because we happen to like it isn't justified – even from insects. The post Bees Are Our Business, Too appeared first on Your Daily...
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Cats have been living outdoors for over 10,000 years on their own, but that doesn't justify dumping a domesticated animal once a human companion has had enough. The post Stray and Feral Cats Deserve...
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