Tag Archives: awakening

Nothing less than veganism

Posted on August 16, 2018 by There's an Elephant in the Room

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

Heading in the direction of being vegan / Stuck in a loop

Posted on August 13, 2018 by There's an Elephant in the Room

‘…or if we can’t be vegan we can at least head in that direction.’ I’ve seen so many variations on that theme as a comeback to the call to be vegan that appears in almost every piece I write. Today … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakening to veganism | Tagged advocacy, awakening, cheese, Chickens and eggs, commodification, compassion, consumer demand, Cruelty, dairy, ethics, harm, health, justice, slaughter, vegetarianism, violence, welfare | 3 Comments

We’re so vain – thoughts on intelligence

Posted on April 17, 2018 by There's an Elephant in the Room

Another comment that often appears amongst the arsenal of tired old excuses that humans cling to in their attempts to justify the use of members of other species, centres around presumptions of superior intelligence when compared with every other species … Continue reading →

Posted in Addressing resistance to change, FAQ, Speciesism | Tagged advocacy, awakening, Chickens and eggs, commodification, consumer demand, dairy, death, Earth day, harm, human superiority, intelligence, moral choices, resources, rights, sentience, speciesism, truth, vegan, veganism, victims, violence | 7 Comments

Living in a land of make-believe

Posted on March 30, 2018 by There's an Elephant in the Room

Today I find myself reminiscing, mentally retracing paths of the clouded past, trying to find the point at which I lost the warm feeling of kinship with all other species of animal that so many of us experience in childhood. … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakening to veganism, Nonhuman family members | Tagged awakening, bloodbath, breast milk, brutality, cats, chickens, Chickens and eggs, childhood, children, commodification, companions, consumer demand, Cruelty, dairy, dogs, fantasy, harm, health, humane, imagination, love, make-believe, milk, oppression, resources, respect, sentience, slaughter, speciesism, truth, victims, violence, welfare | 12 Comments

Memories of leather and fur

Posted on March 22, 2018 by There's an Elephant in the Room

A persistent memory has plagued me all my life. I must have been quite young (possibly in the 1960s) because what I saw then would never be seen nowadays. I had spotted a truck in traffic. It drew my attention … Continue reading →

Posted in Harm reduction, Leather and skin | Tagged awakening, Chickens and eggs, Cruelty, dairy, fur, harm, leather, milk, Single Issue Campaigns, slink, speciesism, Torture, veganism, victims | 24 Comments

The price of a life

Posted on January 4, 2018 by There's an Elephant in the Room

There are many people who will tell us, ‘I love animals and I think they should be treated humanely but I eat meat’ and will see no irony in a declaration that they have possibly never even stopped to consider. … Continue reading →

Posted in 'Happy' exploitation, Advocacy | Tagged awakening, chickens, commodification, consumer demand, harm, humane, resources, sentience, slaughter, vegan, veganism, violence | 6 Comments

To kill vast numbers, we must ‘farm’ vast numbers

Posted on January 2, 2018 by There's an Elephant in the Room

When we are not vegan, and if we consider it at all, we sometimes have the idea that the reproduction of ‘farmed’ individuals is somehow a natural process and our use of their bodies for eggs, milk and body parts … Continue reading →

Posted in Addressing resistance to change, FAQ, Statistics | Tagged artificial insemination, awakening, commodification, consumer demand, resources, sentience, slaughter, slaughter numbers, Statistics, veganism, victims, violence | 7 Comments

‘Processing’; monstrous brutality by another name

Posted on October 29, 2017 by There's an Elephant in the Room

Returning home from a nearby town, my journey is punctuated today, as every day, by chicken death trucks heading to a slaughterhouse, a house of slaughter; the ‘processing plant’ as they euphemistically term it in these parts, a foul industrial … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Awakening to veganism | Tagged awakening, brutality, chickens, commodification, consumer demand, harm, health, rights, sentience, slaughter, vegan, victims, violence | 2 Comments

Obscene term of the day: a protein

Posted on October 24, 2017 by There's an Elephant in the Room

Recently it occurred to me that there is a disturbing trend to rename and re-frame the dismembered corpses of our victims as simply ‘protein’. I have previously noted that the word ‘meat’ is a word designed and used to distance … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Terminology | Tagged advocacy, awakening, chickens, Chickens and eggs, commodification, consumer demand, dairy, harm, health, human superiority, protein, resources, vegan, veganism, victims, violence | 6 Comments

EVERY picture tells a story

Posted on September 23, 2017 by There's an Elephant in the Room

A common criticism of the images I show on the majority of my blog and social media posts, is that the individuals portrayed are seldom ‘obviously’ suffering. I’m often told we need to show individuals who are clearly hurt, distressed … Continue reading →

Posted in Imagery, Speciesism | Tagged advocacy, awakening, Chickens and eggs, commodification, consumer demand, dairy, emotion, ethics, extremism, harm, human superiority, humane, Imagery, justice, milk, respect, rights, sentience, slaughter, speciesism, truth, vegan, veganism, victims, violence | 7 Comments