Being vegan can be lonely. Caring about animals while seeing them slaughtered and consumed around you every day can make a person feel like they are going mad.
Stanescu, J. (2012), “Species Trouble: Judith Butler, Mourning, and the Precarious Lives of Animals,” Hypatia 27 (3): 567–582.
“Just as activists working on non-animal causes must reflect on animal oppression, so vegans must reflect on these other oppressions.” Alasdair Cochrane and Mara-Daria Cojocaru Veganism as Political Solidarity: Beyond ‘Ethical Veganism’
In "Veganism as Political Solidarity: Beyond 'Ethical Veganism'" Cochrane and Cojacaru give an important reminder about the origins and intersecting nature of oppression against both humans and animals and challenge activists to work together in solidarity.
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We won't be neutral about advocating for animal liberation, democracy, or human dignity.
If those things offend you, this is not the right page for you.
With resilience and hope, veganism can be a catalyst for not only animal liberation but also the restoration of democracy and human dignity. - Michael Corthell, Veganism in Fascist States: A Beacon of Hope for Change and Democracy
A reminder in uncertain political times about the power of veganism beyond animal liberation.
From Michael Corthell - michaelcorthelll.substack.com/p/veganism-i...
“Veganism is the ultimate peace movement, but true pacifism is the ultimate vegan movement too, because we vegans can finally rest if pacifists succeed in making non-violence universal and permanent for all.”
A relevant quote from Jordi Casamitjana.
"Veganism is the ultimate peace movement, but true pacifism is the ultimate vegan movement too, because we vegans can finally rest if pacifists succeed in making non-violence universal and permanent for all.”
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Granovetter, S. (2021). Activist as Symptom: Healing Trauma within a Ruptured Collective. Society & Animals, 29(7), 659-678. doi.org/10.1163/1568...
"Activists who choose to bear witness, and suffer trauma as a consequence, illuminate a darkened corner of collective awareness. When the deep multi-species pain of activist encounters is culturally validated, activist trauma can relax into grief. As forerunners of a paradigm shift that acknowledges human continuity and kinship with nonhuman animals, they model what is necessary for collective healing: the willingness to suffer" - Sara Granovetter, Activist as Symptom: Healing Trauma within a Ruptured Collective
From @kristofdhontphd.bsky.social and @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social's article for The Vegan Society.
Dhont, K., & Hodson, G. (2020). Dreaming of a Vegan Christmas?. The Vegan Society-The Expert Series 2020 (Jan). kar.kent.ac.uk/80314/1/dhon...
“Ironically, we spend fortunes on our dogs and cats, spoiling them with treats and toys, preparing them an extra portion of the Christmas dinner, and dressing them up with reindeer hats and costumes. We deeply care about our furry friends at home and consider them as full family members. We refer to our companion animals as case examples to prove how much we love animals. And while simultaneously professing to love animals, we continue exploiting animals to feed, to clothe, and to entertain ourselves.” Kristof Dhont and Gordon Hodson Dreaming of a Vegan Christmas?
“Change will take time. . . Yet there is something heroic about saving even one life, and on that measure vegans are making a difference.” - Christopher Hirschler, “What Pushed Me over the Edge Was a Deer Hunter”: Being Vegan in North America
From Hirschler's article in the journal Society & Animals doi.org/10.1163/1568...
There's no way to provide a billion human beings with animal products without destroying the means of life on this planet. -John Sanbonmatsu
From @jsanbonmatsu.bsky.social discussing his new book, The Omnivore's Deception, in @currentaffairs.bsky.social
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Their arguments are rooted in science, reason, and ethics.
They could announce tomorrow they have abandoned veganism and their arguments would still stand on their own.
Celebrities speaking up for animals is great, but at the end of the day what really matters is not who, but WHAT is said.
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A popular creator who built their audience around veganism has announced today they are no longer "plant-based".
Don't want to attack them, but this shows why Vegan Each Day only posts quotes from scholars and thinkers in veganism, rather than celebrities/influencers.
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Kong goes on to say "Bringing it to an end will be proof of a revolutionary kindness and one of humanity's greatest acts of compassion."
"One day, we will look back upon the mass exploitation of animals as a moral atrocity." Dr. Joanna Kong Vegan Voices
You have a choice. You decide whether you want to continue to have others kill for you. you decide whether you want to continue consuming death, terror, and heartbreak - whitewashed as humane. You decide. My hope is you’ll decide to go vegan. - Emily Moran Barwick, Vegan Voices.
You have a choice.
I assume that by "we" you are referring to trolls?
There is simply no room for war in ethical veganism. Commit fully to nonviolence--toward your fellow humans as well as animals. -Mary Miller, There's Nothing Vegan About War
Veganism is about nonviolence to all animals - humans included.
vegans consider this way of life to be no less than a duty to future generations. Eva Batt, Why Veganism?
The promise of becoming vegan is to challenge, or queer, always and everywhere, the normative demands that are placed on our genders, sexualities, and diets. Rasmus Rahbek Simonsen, "A Queer Vegan Manifesto".
Veganism has a long history with gender and sexuality, with meat-eating often associated with straight masculinity. In their article "A Queer Vegan Manifesto", Rasmus Rahbek Simonsen explores some of these connections and argues for a veganism that challenges norms.
#pride
Eating is a political act. Peter Singer and Jim Mason. The way we eat: why our food choices matter.
"without the ability to be truthful with others, we cannot truly enjoy social situations, nor can we develop genuine relationships".
-Living in a Minority Food Culture: A Phenomenological Investigation of Being Vegetarian/Vegan
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Researching the experience of vegan women, Edwards (2013) found that they felt "fearful that meat-eaters would perceive them as being critical of their food choices simply because they are vegetarian/vegan" and that
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"Most vegans think of veganism as a general moral imperative—that humans ought to be vegan as a matter of social justice for animals—yet they frequently individualized their positions when interacting with nonvegans to avoid interpersonal conflict and thereby engage nonvegans." Ryan Turner - Veganism: Ethics in Everyday Life
Do you find that this is true for you?
#veganism #socialjustice #culturalsociology
From "Hybrid Geographies: Rethinking the 'Human' in Human Geography"
"This is perhaps the greatest challenge for those of us trained as social scientists: to overhaul our repertoire of methods and poetics in ways that admit and register the creative presence of creatures and devices amongst us, and the animal sensibilities of our diverse human being."
Sarah Whatmore
Until legislation catches up with consumers, we each have the power to end our complicity in the suffering, mutilations, and deaths of increasing numbers of animals each year. With every bite we take, we can choose compassion over killing by choosing the vegetarian option. Miyun Park Opening cages opening eyes
Being vegan is a powerful response to the tragedy of industrial animal agriculture, but it is only the first step. At its core, the compelling concept behind being a vegan is working to end suffering. We must always remem- ber that the bottom line is suffering, not veganism. Matt Ball, living and working in defense of animals
Powerful reminder about what veganism is really about - reducing harm and suffering.
If we feel ourselves emotionally affected by the behavior of an animal, it is a clear indication that we have intuitively discovered a similarity between its behavior and human behavior. We should not conceal this in our description. Konrad Lorenz
the strength of a mind might be measured by the amount of "truth" it could endure—or to speak more plainly, by the extent to which it REQUIRED truth attenuated, veiled, sweetened, damped, and falsified. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil.
While not directly about veganism, this quote is powerful in a world where animal suffering is hidden behind neat packaging of happy animals on green farms, and words like "certified humane".
