Tag Archives: meat

Life is cheap when it’s not respected

Posted on June 10, 2019 by There's an Elephant in the Room

Every day we see media reports of human actions that seriously beggar belief. Last week I read about extreme violence being inflicted on motherless calves in a victim ‘farming’ establishment of the breast milk trade (aka ‘dairy‘); I read about … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy, Cruelty | Tagged breast milk, calves, Chickens and eggs, Cruelty, dairy, defenceless, entertainment, escape, feathers, helpless, helplessness, innocent, justice, meat, non-vegan, raccoon, right, shark, sports, three chickens, two piglets, unthreatening, vegan, veganism, wrong, zoos | 4 Comments

Halloween – a spooky tale

Posted on October 28, 2018 by There's an Elephant in the Room

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, Chickens and eggs, chill, damned, death, despair, 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

‘Hardly ever’ and ‘only a drop’: why animal suffering is not scalable

Posted on September 5, 2016 by There's an Elephant in the Room

How often do we hear it said, ‘I hardly eat any meat’, or ‘I only take a drop of milk in tea’? How about ‘ I only eat cheese occasionally’? It is as if we consider that the level of … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocacy | Tagged commodification, consumer demand, dairy, flesh, harm, meat, milk, resources, sentience, slaughter, Torture, vegan, veganism, victims, violence | 14 Comments

Buying absolution by the kilo

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

There was a time when I used to buy the most expensive, ‘high welfare’, ‘free range’, ‘organic’ ‘meat’, chicken eggs and non-plant milk that I could afford. By doing this, I used to console myself that I was doing the … Continue reading →

Posted in Awakening to veganism | Tagged absolution, awakening, Chickens and eggs, dairy, flesh, meat, milk, vegan, veganism, victims | 4 Comments