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On Talking With Veterinarians About Vegan Food

We have a request, and it’s an issue I’ve written about a handful of times but never had this particular question answered by readers: How do you talk with your vet–who is against feeding your dog vegan food–about your choice…

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Join Us at Animal Rights and AntiOppression!

Just a note to those of you who might now know that I’ve been posting over at Animal Rights & AntiOppression (http://www.challengeoppression.com) for a couple of weeks, so daily posting here doesn’t mean I haven’t posted. Today I wrote about…

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On “That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals”

“That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals: A Book About Vegans, Vegetarians, and All Living Things,” written and illustrated by Ruby Roth, has gorgeous and haunting illustrations. And it gently tells the story of why we shouldn’t eat factory farmed animals….

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Which One Cookbook Do You Recommend?

A gaggle of people have asked me this question recently. They all have some sort of holiday list, money is tight, and if they could buy just one cookbook to help them in their conversion to veganism from their current…

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Ways to Promote Alliance Politics

You’ll get the irony of this fuzzy bit of culinary activism (vegan vanilla cake with strawberry filling and vegan cream cheese frosting) taken in my suburban home with the reminder of ahimsa in the background if you choose to read…

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On Changing Tastes

Our guest this weekend, Jackie, is transitioning to veganism. Her hurdle, you might not be surprised to learn, is cheese made from the milk of cows. She eats cow cheese daily. Wrongheadedly, I was excited to make her nachos-her favorite…

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On Not Eating Animals

Chris from Beijing wasn’t able to comment (Animal Person is blocked in China) but he did write me to say he looks forward to Jonathan Safran Foer’s sequel to Eating Animals . . . Not Eating Animals. Though I haven’t…

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On “EATING ANIMALS” by Jonathan Safran Foer

I immensely enjoyed “EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED” (even on the big screen) and eagerly anticipated “EATING ANIMALS” (Little, Brown 2009) by Jonathan Safran Foer. His writing is beautiful, though I do have to admit that I haven’t seen “shit” and its…

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For the Budding Vegan Author

I have an unusual number of e-mails from individuals who have written, are writing, or would like to write a book about animals and asked about various steps in the publishing process. Because I’ve been writing other people’s books and…

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On “The Botany of Desire”

This is coming very, very late, but part of why “Food Inc.” wasn’t impressive for me is because I’m not the target audience. I’d already read Pollan and Schlosser and seen “The Future of Food” and “King Corn.” And though…

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On “Wild Justice”

“Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals,” By Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce, is the most recent (for me) book that debunks myths about the differences between human and nonhuman animals. And those mythical differences, of course, have historically been…

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Note to Those Wanting Promotion: Pay Attention

We bloggers often get e-mails from individuals and organizations in search of promotion. And that’s fine, as we all want to spread the news of fantastic work that needs support. Case in point: AnimalEquality. But there are two types of…

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The Book That Saved Derrick Jensen’s Life

The book, which I have not read, that saved Derrick Jensen’s life is called The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Keith, who was a vegan for 20 years, suffered serious medical problems, and started feeling better when…

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On Thanking Slaughtered Sheep for Book Awards

Jenny sent me a link to a remarkably-ironic story that was very tough to get through. Remember Catherine Friend, who wrote Compassionate Carnivore? (Here’s my commentary on it, and here’s my commentary about what compassionate carnivore means–and doesn’t mean.) Well,…

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What Would Jesus NOT Do?

Made me cringe a bit at the very end, but still fantastic.

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