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***This is the second half of the review *** Please see the first half for a discussion of CAS as an alternative form of research and ...

Welcome to 2014. We have yet again an exciting year of cutting edge books on animal advocacy and theory. Outlined below is the third an...

I've been thinking about the state of the animal defense movement* quite a lot after attending four conferences on organizing thi...

Juan Karita / AP When you transform a food into a commodity, there's inevitable breakdown in social relations and high environmenta...

Igualdad Animal Demonstration in Spain (www.igualdadanimal.org) No one can deny the suffering, fear or panic, the terror or fright that ...

THE QUESTION While attending the Thinking About Animals conference in the spring 2011, I stumbled upon an odd and heretical questions: Cou...

Owen (right) & Mzee (left) @ Haller Park (Malindi, Kenya) The most fundamental difference between the veganism I advocate and that ad...

Once upon a time in the summer of 2008, I interned at an animal sanctuary in upstate New York. It was by far one of the best experiences of ...

Sue Coe. 2004. "Ox Pull." From "Bully!: master of the Global Merry-go-round" Source: http://www.graphicwitness.org/coe...

Preface As I previously mentioned, most of my blogging over the last year has been on Facebook. I do not have the time to write as masterfu...

So I was recently asked by someone why I was vegan. Oddly, this hadn't been something I had thought about recently, so I decided to go t...

Introduction Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought ...

Introduction In 2007, few people would have expected a "no-nonsense" book of "tough-love" for American females to becom...

Table of Contents Part 1 : Are Animals the New Slaves? What Went Wrong? Racism, Speciesism, and Cross-racial Misunderstanding Are human...

After having argued that there is actually quite a bit of racial diversity in the international and domestic vegetarian and animal rights mo...

Introduction In part 1 of the Privilege series, I examined a particular case of when vegan outreach goes wrong (i.e. the public juxtaposi...

Introduction In the last post , I described some of the reasons how and why the animal and veg*n movement(s) are alienating to people of c...

In the first part in this series on privilege and veganism, I analyzed the poor reception of PeTA’s “Are Animals the New Slaves?” exhibit a...

Introduction My aim in this series on privilege is to examine the (not so) invisible whiteness of the “vegan” movement. In the subsequentia...