On Nonhuman Slavery

Editor’s note: this logo belongs to HumaneWatch – a group run by political lobbyist Richard Berman, and funded by animal exploiters in the fur, entertainment and food industries. The logo – which features a variety of animals being used and turned into products for human profit and enjoyment – is an indication of the group’s [...]

An understandable resentment can come from the sense that the uniqueness of one’s own group’s experience with suffering is appropriated to fit the experience of another group. One group’s experience with suffering is unique, but not in such a way that it precludes comparisons or analogies with the suffering of other groups. For this reason, [...]

Isaac Bashevis Singer fled Nazi Europe in 1935 and came to this country. He married my grandmother, who had escaped from Hitler’s Germany in 1940. He went on to become a lauded author and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1978. His family — those who stayed behind — were killed in the concentration [...]

The following essay first appeared in The Huffington Post. I’m a proud feminist, as anyone who cares about the plight of women on our planet should be. In many parts of the world, women are still treated as property. They have few, if any, rights and are subject to exploitation, indignities, and violence on a [...]

Note from the editor: the purpose of including this article is not to defend PETA’s campaigns which exploit female bodies, but rather to call attention to the incongruity of the feminist who is not vegan since animal agriculture is built upon the exploitation of the female animal and her reproductive system. The following essay is [...]