Tag Archives: ethics

False hopes and misunderstanding ‘welfare’

Posted on August 14, 2017 by There's an Elephant in the Room

All the regulations that lay down ‘welfare’ requirements for animals being unnecessarily used by humans (and all uses fall into this category) are designed with a single purpose. So what is that purpose? All we need to do is use … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, welfare | Tagged advocacy, autonomy, awareness, CCTV, commercial assets, commodification, commodities, consumer demand, eggs, ethics, financial interests, harm, humane, killing, milk, regulations, resources, revenue, rights, sentience, slaughter, torment, Torture, vegan, veganism, victims, violence, welfare, wellbeing | 5 Comments

Dairy: thoughts on motherhood, cultural conditioning and hope

Posted on June 16, 2017 by There's an Elephant in the Room

When we are not vegan and we hear the word ‘dairy’, what do we think of? We think of milk and cream, of yogurt and crème frais, of butter and cheeses, and of ice cream and chocolate. We think of … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, dairy | Tagged abolition, advocacy, campaigns, cheese, commodification, Compassion, consumer demand, dairy, ethics, harm, health, humane, justice, love, milk, resources, sentience, slaughter, speciesism, truth, vegan, veganism, victims, violence, websites, welfare | 7 Comments

For Earth Day: thoughts about speciesism, biophilia and veganism

Posted on April 22, 2017 by There's an Elephant in the Room

Today, I learned a new word. As someone fascinated by words, finding this one gave a name to a notion that has become more acute in my recent years as an advocate and blogger, and it prompted thoughts that I’d … Continue reading →

Posted in Festivals, Speciesism | Tagged advocacy, awakening, biophilia, commodification, destruction, environment, ethics, harm, health, human superiority, justice, love, moral choices, resources, Respect, sentience, slaughter, speciesism, truth, tyranny, vegan, veganism, victims | 2 Comments

Thoughts on the gift that is life

Posted on October 15, 2016 by There's an Elephant in the Room

Life itself is considered by many – if not most – humans to be the greatest gift there is, referred to as such by poets and writers throughout history. Even those of us who have no religious beliefs, consider that being alive … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy | Tagged advocacy, commodification, consumer demand, cruelty, dairy, death, decency, eggs, ethics, feathers, harm, health, human superiority, life, milk, pets, resources, rights, sentience, Torture, truth, vegan, veganism, violence | 3 Comments

‘Suffering’; a word we use without thought

Posted on September 14, 2016 by There's an Elephant in the Room

How can it be that we use words to protect ourselves from feeling, from connecting with the reality of the world? My thoughts strayed in this direction when I was reading a piece earlier that mentioned the word ‘suffering’. Later, … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakening to veganism, Terminology | Tagged consumer demand, decency, ethics, harm, human superiority, slaughter, suffering, Torture, truth, vegan, veganism, violence | 3 Comments

Single issues and me

Posted on August 3, 2016 by There's an Elephant in the Room

There is much written about single issues and petitions. The two go hand in hand. It’s a hot topic and I’m not going to wade into the debate. If you read this and feel moved to seek to justify your … Continue reading →

Posted in Abolition vs Welfare, Single Issue Campaigns, Uncategorized | Tagged commodification, consumer demand, dairy, decency, eggs, ethics, harm, human superiority, milk, moral choices, nonviolence, petitions, resources, Respect, sentience, Single Issue Campaigns, speciesism, truth, vegan, veganism, violence, welfarism | 9 Comments

‘Personal choice’ – remembering a lesson

Posted on June 27, 2016 by There's an Elephant in the Room

Today, for some inexplicable reason, I remembered the first time another person told me that eating ‘meat’ was their ‘personal choice’. The memory has replayed itself all day in my mind’s eye. The other person was a work colleague and … Continue reading →

Image | Posted on June 27, 2016 by There's an Elephant in the Room | Tagged advocacy, dairy, eggs, ethics, harm, personal choice, vegan, veganism | 15 Comments

Breaking down the walls

Posted on May 28, 2016 by There's an Elephant in the Room

Once we cross that border into veganism and look back, we all become aware of things we never realised before. Things that we took for granted and that were therefore unexamined; vast areas of our behaviour and of our thoughts, … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakening to veganism | Tagged advocacy, awakening, commodification, consumer demand, cruelty, dairy, dogma, eggs, ethics, health, human superiority, justice, milk, moral choices, nonviolence, petitions, resources, Respect, sentience, slaughter, truth, vegan, veganism, violence, wall | 1 Comment

Policing ourselves

Posted on April 24, 2016 by There's an Elephant in the Room

The term ‘vegan police’ floats around in cyberspace, bubbling and simmering in the broth of thoughts, opinions, facts and seething emotion that always surround the topic of other species and our individual and collective view of them. Every so often … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Terminology | Tagged compromise, emotion, ethics, extremism, justice, perfect, personal purity, pragmatism, Respect, vegan, vegan police, veganism | 1 Comment

The way we were, or maybe just the way I was?

Posted on April 22, 2016 by There's an Elephant in the Room

Today as I read the usual Facebook posts and comments, I find myself wondering, as I frequently do, about the way we were before we were vegan. In my own case, this line of thought often leads me to frustration and … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakening to veganism, Uncategorized | Tagged advocacy, decency, ethics, extremism, harm, human superiority, humane, justice, nonviolence, petitions, sentience, Single Issue Campaigns, vegan, veganism, violence | 7 Comments