The True Carnage of the Film “Carnage”– Part 1
“This is the story of how people became compassionate, and how meat became people.” From this point, five minutes into the BBC mockumentary, Carnage: Swallowing the Past, I’m bracing myself for the...
View ArticleThe True Carnage of the Film “Carnage”– Part 2
Find Part 1 of this review here. In its futuristic scenario, the mockumentary, Carnage, makes the absurd claim that “no one knew what to eat” when intensive animal farming collapsed after the super...
View ArticleMercy For Animals and Cage-Free Duplicity (Part I)
Mercy For Animals (MFA) is a classic example of a welfarist organization that makes a habit of talking out of both sides of their mouths, and of saying one thing while doing another. There is much that...
View ArticleMercy For Animals and Cage-Free Duplicity (Part II)
Find Part I of this essay here. MFA’s regular self-congratulations on the “success” of their cage-free egg campaign typically conclude with some version of, “Of course, the best way to help animals is...
View Article“Ahimsa Milk”: There Is No Such Thing and Never Could Be
On September 2, 2017, Sivarama Swami, one of seventy-seven all-male gurus in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON, popularly known as the Hare Krishna movement), posted a video...
View Article“Veggie-Vegan”: Moving Backwards
In a widely viewed video posted on Facebook on September 2, 2017 that promoted what is falsely called “ahimsa milk” as suitable for vegans, Sivarama Swami, one of an all-male group of all-male gurus in...
View ArticleMercy For Animals Opposes And Promotes Animal Exploitation, Somehow.
Joe Loria, communications and content manager for Mercy For Animals (MFA), discussed in an October 11 essay published by Alternet Why It’s Basically Impossible to Be an ‘Ethical” Meat Eater. The byline...
View ArticleThe “violence” of non-violence: Getting it horribly wrong on “ahimsa milk”
Sivarama Swami, a guru in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON, popularly known as the Hare Krishna movement) made a video entitled, Can Vegans Consume Milk?, promoting so-called...
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