Intro to Veganic Gardening
by J. Muir Veganic gardening is a system of gardening that is done with respect for the sentient beings who are affected by the growing of plants. It is done without chemicals and without animal products, which are typically used in both conventional and organic growing. The methods used allow us to minimize the harm [...]
Why Love One & Eat the Other?
Moral consideration
In many situations in which we act we try to make sure our actions don’t harm others, or are actually beneficial to them. This means that we are taking others into account. We consider how they would be affected by our actions. This is moral consideration. Moral consideration has to do both with other individuals [...]
Discrimination
Those with discriminatory attitudes think about others not as who they are but as what they are not. Many people have prejudices against other individuals. These prejudices lead them to treat those they have prejudices against worse than they would treat other individuals whom they don’t have prejudices against. We recognize these as cases of [...]
Should We Help Free Animals?
Animal rights theorist Tom Regan famously said that our only obligation to free living animals is “to let them be.” At first thought, this sounds right. We might think that interfering in nature can lead to disastrous results, and if we were to try to help every free living animal who was suffering from disease [...]
A Class Divided
In 1968, 3rd grade teacher Jane Elliott taught her students about discrimination by dividing them into two groups by eye color. On the first day, the blue eyed students were treated as if they were superior and were encouraged to discriminate against the brown eyed students. On the second day, they switched places. The experiment [...]
Readability of Animal Advocacy Materials
From The Humane Research Council: How Readable are Your Animal Advocacy Materials? Simplifying Advocacy Materials–Understanding Decision Fatigue For more research results, see humanespot.org and humanetrends.org
Let’s Not Give Up Before We Even Get Started
James LaVeck challenges the idea that a small group of people can’t make significant change. He argues that the message to the public should be, “Do we have the right to use and kill animals?” instead of “What’s the right way to use and kill animals?” Let’s Not Give Up Before We Get Started, [...]
Earthlings
Earthlings is a movie that shows the institutional use of nonhuman animals by humans. Make the Connection. EARTHLINGS.com
Animals as Resources
An activist on trial in Hawaii for rescuing and releasing dolphins who were in captivity tried to defend himself by claiming that he committed the lesser crime of “stealing” the dolphins in order to prevent the greater crime of animal cruelty. The judge laughed at his defense and pointed out that theft is a felony [...]
