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Why and how I chose to be vegan at 76

It was time. Without knowing why, I knew it was time.

Our Brains and How We Think: Ready For a Vegan Revolution

Moral philosopher, James Flynn, argues that previous generations were fixed in their attitudes and moralities due to an inability to entertain hypotheticals. In his Ted Talk, ‘Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents‘, Flynn discusses a phenomena he uncovered in the 1980s, now referred to as the ‘Flynn Effect’. This effect describes an […]

by Andres Velarde

Should prey be protected from natural predators?

If all forms of killing are bad, should we defend animals being killed by natural predators? According to Gary Yourofsky, maybe, but not yet. So here’s the question put simply: if a cat is stalking a squirrel with the intention of killing it, should we act and do something? The squirrel doesn’t want to be […]

by James Okoshken

Should vegans promote vegetarianism? Lessons in effective advocacy.

As vegans, our goal is to reduce the suffering of as many animals as we can and fight for complete animal liberation. To go about this momentous task, we each engage in various forms of activism. Be they small or big, in doing so we make a series of assumptions. We assume we know what […]

by James Okoshken

Should Vegans Eat at McDonalds, KFC & Burger King?

It’s 2019 and you’ve probably heard by now: plant-based is going mainstream. The ultimate question ravaging the vegan social media scene is whether vegans should give their ethically earned dollars to these infamous mammoths of horror. According to LiveKindly, KFC will be trialing vegetarian or vegan chicken buckets later this year and McDonalds has two […]