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Towards a Vegan Ideology: Anarchist Rob Murdoch argues that veganism is not enough
The following is an article that featured in The Vegan magazine in Autumn 1989. “The intellectually lazy among us see veganism as the ‘be all and end all’ – a panacea for the world’s ills. Others recognize that although wide-ranging … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anarcho-veganism, vegan, veganarchy, veganism
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Effective Altruism for Animals: Utilitarian equivocation and moral consistency
I recently came across a comment from William MacAskill that helped me to think a bit more about Effective Altruism (EA) and utilitarianism. Previously I hadn’t really thought it possible to move beyond the association between them, especially with Peter … Continue reading
The Unilateralist’s Curse and Effective Altruism for Animals
This is a short article that seeks to examine how it could be possible to apply some of the ideas associated with the Unilateralist’s Curse to EAA and veganism. I was initially drawn to this idea by the way that … Continue reading
Advocacy tips from Tom Regan
The following ideas represent some really helpful advocacy tips that featured in Tom Regan’s War Analogy article. ‘From my reading of Gandhi, I have come away with five principles: 1. Practice humility The last thing other animals need is another … Continue reading
Addressing movement politics to improve animal advocacy
I think it could be fair to say that people are generally reluctant to deal with the fairly opaque politics of the animal movement. This could be for several reasons, including the idea of taking time away from grassroots animal … Continue reading
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Tagged Animal Industrial Complex, animal rights, animal rights movement, anti-speciesism, carnism, effective, Effective Altruism, flexitarian, pragmatic, reducetarian, speciesism, strategic, vegan, veganism
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The paradox of neocarnism in mainstream ‘vegan’ advocacy
(This blog first appeared as an article for ARZone) In recent years there has been increasing popularity within the mainstream animal ‘rights’ movement to try and bridge gaps between different ideas in the animal movement. This has frequently led to … Continue reading
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A few thoughts on the animal rights movement
It seems fair to say that Tom Regan has made a profound contribution to the modern animal rights movement, and in this television interview with William Friday, Regan offers a broad introduction to animal rights theory. In more recent times … Continue reading
A few thoughts on elitism in the animal movement
One of the central tenets of veganism is how the vegan lifestyle should be generally accessible to all. This is to say that emphasising animal rights ought to lead to a way of social organisation that includes foundational ideas of … Continue reading
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In relation to veganism
Vegans tend to have one thing in common, and that is the definition of veganism: “A philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for … Continue reading
‘Veganism is easy!’ But where does privilege fit in?
From time to time a discussion arises involving the idea that veganism is ‘easy’, and whilst it is fair to say that we are not going to advocate veganism as ‘difficult’, we cannot neglect that for many people veganism is … Continue reading
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