“The best way to deal with the pain in the world is to not support it with your personal daily choices. Act on what you know. If you don’t like what happens to dairy cows, don’t consume dairy. If you don’t like battery cages, don’t eat eggs. Let your own personal life reflect your caring. [...]
Throughout our history, human beings have killed millions of our own kind in the name of power, politics, and religion. Over this same period, people have also killed billions of animals in the name of food, clothing, science, entertainment, and convenience. As we look around the world today, we can’t help but notice that violence [...]
Animal-rights activists are famous for talking about what we don’t want. But what kind of rights do we want? Let’s start by thinking about why we use the term “rights” at all. We’ve constructed a system that treats everything and everyone on the planet as a person or as a piece of property. Water and [...]
Today, people all over the country will go to church and pray for a more compassionate, peaceful world. Later, they will go home and consume the products of slavery, misery and violence. How can we expect to achieve spiritual harmony and live a compassionate, ethical life while contributing to the suffering of others for no [...]