About Me: I like to research. I can also be sarcastic sometimes. Some sense of humor required :) Just check out the resources that are listed below. OK?
I'm not a member of the "vegan club." You know, the vegans that live their lives according a list of ingredients and tell you how "vegan" they are and how "vegan" you are not, all the while excluding others. Seems more like a religious doctrine than a movement to reduce animal suffering. We all have to be effective advocates, and self-purity and self-righteousness are not helping the animals. You may levitate over concrete to avoid the animal products in roads and sidewalks, but what is that really doing for the animals? How can we be better advocates and help others choose a more compassionate diet? I agree with most of Peter Singer's philosophy.
A Meaningful Life: Animal Advocacy, Human Nature, and a Better World
Great Veg Resources for beginners and pro's:
Vegan Outreach
Vegan Health and Nutrition
Adopt A College (easy activism)
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"I'd like to see [Huntington Life Sciences (HLS)]shut down, because there has been appalling animal suffering there. But the problem isn't just HLS, it's the attitude we have to animals. Factory farming is a much bigger problem - the number of animals suffering there is vastly greater, and everyone who buys factory farm products is responsible for the continuation of that cruelty. So to change that we need to persuade the general public to change their attitude to animals. On that, the tactics used against HLS don't help. They make the animal movement seem like fanatics, or even worse, terrorists. Our case for animals rests on ethical foundations. When we descend to abuse and harassment, people lose sight of that."
-- Peter Singer, philosopher & author of numerous books including Animal Liberation, excerpted from a Q&A session on Sept. 11, 2006.
