The following essay by Angel Flinn comes from the Gentle World website. A great many people become vegetarian in response to a strong sense that animals shouldn’t be mistreated on factory farms, or that they simply should not be killed for food. However, many individuals who eschew meat out of concern for animal interests continue [...]
Editor’s Note: Mr. Friedrich has intentionally chosen to use the term “vegetarian” when discussing veganism. It is his belief that the word “vegan” is alienating to the mainstream. He is unequivocal, however, in his condemnation of the dairy and egg industries. While it is technically correct, many vegans do not share Mr. Friedrich’s views on [...]
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 [...]
“Among the factors that make it difficult to arouse public concern about animals, perhaps the hardest to overcome is the assumption that ‘human beings come first’ and that any problem about animals cannot be comparable, as a serious moral or political issue, to the problems about humans. A number of things can be said about [...]
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 production of milk and eggs involves as much cruelty and killing as meat production does: surplus cockerels and calves, as well as spent hens and cows, have been slaughtered and otherwise brutally destroyed through the ages. Historically, there have been two main solutions to the problem of unwanted bull calves: club them to death [...]