The following essay written by Angel Flinn and Dan Cudahy appears on the Gentle World website. “If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.” – Leo Tolstoy Intellectually, most of us agree that inflicting unnecessary harm is unjustified – whether the victims are human or not. Yet [...]
The following essay by Dr. Steve Best, Ph.D can be found on his website. Five million years ago, our ancestors branched off from ancient apes; within the next two million years, hominid lines of evolution underwent tremendous changes in the transition to evolve into a species that was not only bipedal, but also big-brained and [...]
The following is an excerpt from “The Ringling Slave Train Rolls In” by Patrick Battuello. “During the course of my career, I’ve seen elephants being beaten who have no idea why they are being beaten or what is expected of them. They will start randomly lifting one leg, then another and another, lifting their trunk, [...]
[The abolition of the slave trade] would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life. – James Boswell, (1740-1795) In the eighteenth century it was widely urged that domestication was good for [...]
As long as humanity continues to be the ruthless destroyer of other beings, we will never know health or peace. For as long as people massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. –Pythagoras Compassion, in which all ethics must take [...]
Article from the Examiner In 1843, Bronson Alcott, father of Little Women author Louisa May Alcott, moved his family to a country farm and set out to build a utopian community. Alcott was an avid anti-slavery abolitionist and a vegan. The family wore only linen because cotton was the product of human slavery and wool [...]
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” – ABRAHAM LINCOLN, speech, Mar. 17, 1865 Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
As black Americans and anti-racists continue to struggle for justice and equality, the moral and political spotlight is shifting to a far more ancient, pervasive, intensive, and violent form of slavery that confines, tortures, and kills animals by the billions in an ongoing global holocaust. We speak of animal liberation no differently than human liberation. [...]
Vegans can no longer be silent in this most important social justice change…anymore than we could have [remained silent]…by just not owning slaves during Antebellum slavery and saying slavery was a choice. Some things are so wrong they can not be tolerated. Time is short and creating a vegan world has become crucial to saving [...]
The following is an excerpt from the First Edition of “The Vegan News” by Donald Watson. The recent articles and letters in “The Vegetarian Messenger” on the question of the use of dairy produce have revealed very strong evidence to show that the production of these foods involves much cruel exploitation and slaughter of highly [...]