What will be the legacy of our passing through time and space be on the ocean of sentient experience?

Even our theologies must in some ways reckon with the world as it is, for there are limitations for us to ponder our existence from outside of its walls

I have spent time with cows, pigs, chickens, goats, ducks and other animals at sanctuaries. When I think about how gentle most farmed animals are, how much they appreciate a kind voice and touch, it inspires me to try to embody the way they are in how I communicate on their behalf to others

Vegans face ad hominem attacks because this is easier than engaging with the issue they represent. This has happened with many justice movements in the past. Criticising vegans is a way to sidestep the uncomfortable moral issue: the lives and deaths of billions of animals in our farming systems

I understand why people don't like vegans. People are paying for the abuse of animals. Not because they are bad people, it's just a habit they don't think about much, and just how they were raised. Then, some annoying person comes along and asks, "Is the way we are treating other animals wrong?"

Animal agriculture, and especially factory farming, is a moral atrocity. Future generations will accept this, and they will wonder how people today happily participated in it

When property rights clash with human rights, it is property rights that must be updated

The correct response to the problems and evils of our world is to live in such a way that, by your example, you give hope to others that those evils can be overcome. We need not take on all of the troubles of the world, but at the very least, we must do what we wish from others - we must do our part

Religious people will say "Science doesn't know everything", which seems a strange argument when it is their religions that make the only claims to omniscience. Rational atheism accepts resting in states of unknowing or uncertainty, in a universe which is no less beautiful for its inherent mystery

Noble intent is fine, but as we age and start to reflect on our lives, we judge ourselves more by what we have achieved than by what we wish we had done. In the process of self-realisation the most important path we can tread is that of making our actions consistent with our ethical aspirations

Veganism isn't about a "personal" choice, but rather the opposite. Veganism is about starting to take responsibility for the world beyond ourselves, and our contribution to suffering in it

Most of the ethical duties we owe to other humans, we should already owe to them by their inclusion within the word animal

A phrase one often hears about victims of unjust or violent treatment is "They were treated like animals". It is, however, wrong to treat any sentient being unjustly or violently. Teaching a more consistent ethics is the simplest and straightest path towards a more compassionate world

Self-interest warps our thinking at a subconscious level, and only a sustained effort of introspection and conscious will can overcome it. Some people's upbringing makes this harder than for others. If they can summon the sustained will to ameliorate this, however, they can become the best among us

Human suffering is animal suffering. Veganism is just being consistent in our attitudes and behaviours towards suffering. Veganism extends compassion to its logical and necessary fulfilment

The eating of animals embodies the idea that even trivial human desires, like the preference for some ingredients over others, outweigh almost any rights a non-human being should have, not a right to freedom, life, or to live according to their nature

On many important issues, such as the environment, animal oppression and global inequality, Instead of helping us to be our best ethical selves, we live in a culture that makes it easier to continue living in an unethical way

The moral baseline is simple for the average person. Reduce your material consumption, eat a plant-based diet, donate effectively, reduce your contribution to pollution, and be more involved in political causes and social justice. Unfortunately, simple truths aren't entertaining or fashionable

Google looked deep into my soul, and as the first thing in my news feed told me about Disneyland changing a statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse.i feel seen

There is a meaningful life to live in this world, fighting for beauty, compassion, justice and equality; the only question is why so few people are living it?

Those who are unable to see the deep sentence evident across animal species are missing out on part of the beauty of life

In a world with so much desperate poverty, people should be ashamed to flaunt their wealth

The industrialised animal farming system and the universal meat-heavy diet are modern creations dependent upon each other

In our current culture of distraction and mindless consumerism, it is heroic to stare unblinking into the ethical mirror

The beings we line up for their turn in slaughterhouses are not simply a mass product. They are individuals. They are someone with their own personality, relationships, desires and purposes

The profits of animal agriculture corporations are largely based on the near-total apathy of many animal product consumers towards the lives of those animals

Click bait is based on wasting our time. If we want better media, one that is designed to inform us, we have to resist clicking it.

We are caretakers of a world much older and deeper than humanity

Meaning is in the life we build together

If you take credit for every advance of humankind in the last two hundred years and disavow any responsibility for the problems, you just might be a capitalist