veganism

There are far more reasonable, dignified, and downright compelling ways to promote what I think is a solid advocacy, so why can't PETA just go down that direction and avoid pissing people off?

A vegan once asked me why, in spite of my keen awareness of animal suffering, I continue to eat them. While I can justify eating fish and seafood, at least to myself, I regret to say that such awareness never caused me to totally give up meat, including farmed meat. What it did, however, was to make me grow cynical of man's morality and compassion.

Because vivisection is used as the standard for medical testing today, we have wasted a lot of money, time, animal lives and human lives.

Vegans are often confronted with the circle-of-life argument. Animals in the wild eat other animals, so why must one abstain from participating in this cycle? I explore two angles in addressing this question: first of survival and then of morality.

The use of animals in our society is so normal that my choice to be vegan is often questioned and misunderstood....