Author Archives: There's an Elephant in the Room

Compassion and kindness; not what we need to ask for

Posted on November 25, 2018

The words ‘kindness’ and ‘compassion’ are not what we should be asking for when advocating for the rights of our victims. I can almost hear the gasps of indignation and keyboards warming up already, but please bear with me. Let … Continue reading →

Posted in Terminology | Tagged advocacy, animal rights, breast milk, bred for eggs, cheese, commodification, compassion, compassionate, consumer demand, dairy, eggs, honest, kind, kindness, milk, other people, property, property status, resources, responsibility, rights, sentience, sincere, slaughter, stop, subjective, truth, vegan, veganism, victims, violence | 4 Comments

On trusting experts

Posted on November 16, 2018

When we are new to the world, parents and carers feed and clothe us. Most of us have little idea what we are eating, drinking, wearing or using. As children we lack even the ability to grasp the brutality of … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakening to veganism, consumer demand | Tagged breast milk, consumer demand, dairy, egg-laying hens, eggs, expert, gore, harm, health, hens, humane, justice, milk, money, slaughter, slaughterhouse, trust, truth, vegan, veganism, violence, welfare | 1 Comment

Halloween – a spooky tale

Posted on October 28, 2018

Here comes Halloween again, with putrefying corpses, clanking chains and the tormented screams of the damned. Adults and children alike, scream and giggle with spooky delight, their nervous shivers of horror heightened by icy frissons of fear and chilly unease … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Festivals | Tagged blood, bloodbath, body parts, breast milk, chains, chill, damned, death, despair, eggs, every day, excitement, fear, flesh, gore, Halloween, Hell, Horror, injustice, meat, mortuary aisle, non-vegan, putrefaction, screams, slaughter, slaughterhouse, spooky, supermarket, terror, thrill, torment, vegan | 1 Comment

Twelve years. Twelve.

Posted on October 23, 2018

With the latest reputable science predicting a maximum of 12 years before climate change becomes completely unstoppable no matter what we do, there is literally no time left to mince words. The use of sentient individuals for ‘meat’ (their dead … Continue reading →

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On living our values

Posted on October 2, 2018

It is not necessary for human animals to use other animals for any reason, and only those unaware of the science, or those who have a vested financial interest in keeping us from realising the truth, will tell us different. … Continue reading →

Posted in consumer demand, Sentience | Tagged abdicating responsibility, bred for eating, bred for eggs, bred for milk, conscience, harm, mutilating, protection, responsibility, sentience, slaughtering, Using, values, well-being | 1 Comment

The property status of animals

Posted on September 19, 2018

Today I’ve been sharing posts and images about the aftermath of the latest hurricane in Carolina; sharing the stark aerial photographs of what have become flooded tombs for millions of defenceless individuals whose lives and bodies were being ‘farmed’ to … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Global disasters | Tagged animal rights, climate change, commercial assets, commodities, compassionate, consumer demand, drown, drowned, drowning, extreme weather, Flooding, Horror, humane, hurricane, legislation, love, planetary destruction, profit, property, property status, resources, rights, slaughter, slaughterhouse, victims | 1 Comment

Feet of Clay – no need for heroes

Posted on September 17, 2018

Feet of clay: a weakness or hidden flaw in the character of a greatly admired or respected person Without any effort at all, I can think of a number of high-profile persons who are hero worshipped for their claims to … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Speciesism | Tagged animal rights, apologist, breast milk, campaigner, can't all be perfect, celebrities, celebrity, harm, heroes, high-profile, Human rights, individual, non-vegan, pedestal, speciesism, vegan, veganism, zealot | 2 Comments

Staying true – more thoughts on ‘reducing suffering’

Posted on August 31, 2018

More and more often I see comments from those who for some reason identify themselves as vegans, comments in which they are approving the most astonishing levels of violence and brutality to the defenceless individuals that veganism is sworn to … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Harm reduction | Tagged death, extremism, extremist, foetal bovine serum, harm, honest, less use, pragmatism, realistic, reducing, reduction, slaughter, slaughterhouse, speciesism, suffering, true, truth, unequivocal, unpopular | Leave a comment

Inspiring veganism

Posted on August 26, 2018

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to yearn for the endless immensity of the sea. ~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery Today I read … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy | Tagged commitment, compromise, consumer demand, environment, farming, health, passion, plant-based, sentience, sentient, tick list, trade off, vegan, veganism | 1 Comment

Nothing less than veganism

Posted on August 16, 2018

Last night was a landmark for There’s an Elephant in the Room on Facebook. Becoming vegan August 2012, when I first became vegan, began a time of discovery; a new age in an unfamiliar landscape. Most new vegans will have … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Awakening to veganism, Festivals | Tagged advocacy, awakening, ethics, harm, justice, nonviolence, petitions, rights, speciesism, truth, vegan, veganism, victims, violence | 9 Comments

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