That is very disappointing. Such a good book, too - 125 vegan essays for free!
I can't actually win as I'm in the UK, but hopefully it will pick up and get more responses before the deadline.

Exactly. Not a lifestyle. Not a diet. A moral refusal to participate in violence.

Once we see animals as someone instead of something, veganism becomes the only coherent response.

Fascinating and optimistic article - thank you

Forgive me for asking the obvious question here, but why don't you just buy vegan cheese?

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Tom Regan summarised the problem with the utilitarian argument in a way that is clear and unequivocal - see below
www.pathlesspilgrim.com/animal-right...

Everyone’s seen the footage. They’ve already seen behind the “glass walls.”

The horror isn’t that suffering is concealed. It’s that people can watch it, understand it, and still carry on as if nothing happened.
This isn’t an information problem. It’s a moral disengagement problem.

I have a big issue with this popular idea that veganism is about "causing the least harm". That's a very utilitarian ideal. It's the kind of thinking that makes people argue it's better to eat a cow than to eat wheat ("crop deaths tho").

Veganism is a deontological stance, not a utilitarian one.

Well actually, no. If everybody ONLY went vegan and never talked about it, that would be fantasic. If everybody ONLY talked about it and never went vegan, that would be terrible.

I believe my analogy is sound. If I were a slave, I'd have more respect for someone who didn't keep slaves or torture anyone, even if they didn't speak out against slavery, rather than the hypocrite who talks a lot about ending slavery, yet keeps me captive and tortures me.

If I was the victim, I'd prefer someone who kept their mouths shut but left me alone to live my life, rather than someone who professed peace and respect in public, but kicked the sh*t out of me every time they saw me and might actually kill me one day

Richard Dawkins is a strange one - he understands all the ethical arguments for veganism intellectually, yet continues to pay to have them killed.
Go figure

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This is tragic.
Sadly, mass death isn’t seen as a tragedy when it’s profitable - it’s seen as a business model. But when the victims are wild and unprofitable, we call it a crisis.