Reading Time: 3 minutes Is Chick-fil-A going woke? Conservatives this week are attacking Chick-fil-A as it is testing a new non-meat entree, the Cauliflower Christ Sandwich. The company realizes that diners are looking for healthier options and experimented with other plant-based sandwiches in the past. However, their earlier attempts did not succeed. “Customers did not like eating turnip patties,” […]
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Researchers to parents of vegetarian kids: Relax
Reading Time: 2 minutes I was a teenage vegan, and as unbearable as you might imagine. There were household bans on meat, impassioned arguments with childhood friends, and very, very extensive background checks on potential restaurant choices. That is not to say I was the sole combatant. Many omnivorous adults tried to pick fights with me, claiming they had […]
Posted inEnvironment, Ethics and Morality, Health
Why So Anti-Vegan? A Tale of Cognitive Dissonance
Reading Time: 4 minutes I have been a piscitarian (I’ve seen this spelled in every conceivable way!) vegan (I still eat fish for a decent source of omega-3 etc.) for health reasons, due to my progressive multiple sclerosis. I have long wanted to be a vegetarian for ethical reasons, and the natural extension of this is veganism. My approach, for […]
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Eating Meat the Ethical Way! (with insufferable sanctimoniousness)
Reading Time: < 1 minute Blinky gets sanctimonious about his ethical meat consumption to a nonplussed Sal. But what do the cows think of all this?
Posted inClimate Crisis, Environment, Ethics and Morality, Science
This should really challenge your eating habits
Reading Time: 3 minutes I have been having an ongoing conversation on the blog with “Philosophical Vegan” about an old piece I wrote and the philosophical underpinnings of eating meat or being a vegetarian or vegan. The conversation is still unfinished, but it is pretty apparent that it is hard to ethically argue for eating meat in any convincing way, […]
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Replying to Philosophical Vegan Concerning Veganism and Vegetarianism (part 2)
Reading Time: 4 minutes I have been exceptionally busy and am somewhat behind on this project. Let me pull on what I said in the previous piece: This is the second part of my long promised reply to Philosophical Vegan (PV). It is not really a rebuttal because, essentially, I agree with much of what he says. This may come […]
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Replying to Philosophical Vegan Concerning Veganism and Vegetarianism (part 1)
Reading Time: 6 minutes This is the first part of my long promised reply to Philosophical Vegan (PV). It is not really a rebuttal because, essentially, I agree with much of what he says. This may come as a surprise and shame to my meat-eating readers. I have not shied away from admitting, as a thread through my writing […]
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Philosophical Vegan Rebuts my Vegetarian / Vegan Essay in Full
Reading Time: 17 minutes I posted an old essay of mine the other day with this preface: I wrote this years back and have not looked at it since. A few week ago, I was approached by “Philosophical Vegan” (PV) who told me that when you search for veganism an philosophy on Google, my essay is one of the first […]
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Philosophical Vegan Rebuts my Vegetarian / Vegan Essay (Part 3)
Reading Time: 8 minutes I posted an old essay of mine the other day with this preface: I wrote this years back and have not looked at it since. A few week ago, I was approached by “Philosophical Vegan” (PV) who told me that when you search for veganism an philosophy on Google, my essay is one of the first […]
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Philosophical Vegan Rebuts my Vegetarian / Vegan Essay (Part 2)
Reading Time: 5 minutes I posted an old essay of mine the other day with this preface: I wrote this years back and have not looked at it since. A few week ago, I was approached by “Philosophical Vegan” (PV) who told me that when you search for veganism an philosophy on Google, my essay is one of the first […]