Essays By Topic

Theory

Abolitionist Politics

• Abolitionist Animal Rights in Belgium: Interview with Christophe Hendrickx

• Factionalism in the Nonhuman Animal Rights Movement

• For the Animals, By the People . . . Not the Man: A Vegan Feminist Critique of Social Movement Hierarchy

• How Abolitionists Expect Speciesism to End Overnight

• Vegan Outreach Insists We Must Choose Between Veganism and Reductionism

• What Are You Doing to Help Animals Right NOW?

• Why the Abolitionist Approach Can Never Succeed

Domestication

• Domestication & Euthanasia: A No-Kill Nation of Violence

• Un-naming the Enslaved: Names, Identity, & Speciesism

Rationality & Skepticism

• Can Veganism Save Your Life? I'm Skeptical

• Derren Brown: Not-So-Skeptic Skeptic & The "Gay" Vitamix

• Do We Need to Eat Animal Products for Optimum Health?

• How Animal Welfare Willfully Obscures Science

• Science was a Founding Principle of the Vegan Movement, Have We Heeded the Warning?
• Teaching Anthropocentrism in University "Conservation" Programs

• The Science of Authority

• The Rationalization of Misogyny: Why I left the Vegan Skeptic Community

• Yoplait Sells Breast Cancer to End Breast Cancer

Reviews

• "Fifty Shades of Chicken" - Intersections in Violence against Women and Nonhuman Animals
• Meatonomic$

• "On Their Own Terms: Bringing Animal-Rights Philosophy Down to Earth" by Lee Hall

• Social Lives with Other Animals

• The Ecological Hoofprint

• This is Hope: Green Vegans and the New Human Ecology

• See also A Month of Vegan Research, listed below

Vegan Politics

• Art Therapy and Temple Grandin: At the Crossroads
• Can Veganism Save Your Life? I'm Skeptical

• Do We Need to Eat Animal Products for Optimum Health?

• John Harvey Kellogg, Vegetarianism, and the War on "Meat"

• On Having Children and Being a Vegan
• Should Vegans Be Organ Donors?

• Sure, Veganism is Easy & Cheap . . . If You're White

• Vegan Outreach Insists We Must Choose Between Veganism and Reductionism

• Vegans and Black Widow Spiders

Tactics

No Kill & Adoption

• It's Not Enough that PETA Kills, They Want Everyone Else to Kill, Too

• What Adoption Discrimination Tells Us about Human/Nonhuman Intersections

Open-Rescues

• Funding Undercover Investigations Doesn't Buy Liberation

• On the Problems with Open Rescues: A Response to the DXE Position

Science of Social Change

• Animal Suffering Motivates Behavior Change

• Best Vegan & Animal Rights Literature & Outreach Material

• Graphic Animal Suffering, Secondary PTSD, and Abolitionism
• How Do I Positively Engage My Non-Vegan Family?

• New Study Challenges the "Emotionality" of Species Justice Work
• Students Think Vegan Food Tastes Better, Research Finds

• Study Shows Objectified Women Less Likely to be Activists

• The Social Psychology of Speciesism Lecture Series

Single-Issue Campaigns

• EU Bans Animal Testing, Why Am I Not More Excited?

• Reining in the Elephants: Thinking Critically about Single-Issue Campaigns

Violence

• 269 Life: The New Front for Violent Advocacy

• Can Non-Violent Protest Work for Animal Rights?

• Defining Safe Spaces with "Direct Action"

• Framing Violence and Science: A Protest Goes Downhill Fast...or Does It?

• New Animal Rights Comic Book Project That Glorifies Violence and Criminality is Asking for $18,000

• "Non-Violent" Direct Action Protest Doesn't Work, More Importantly IT IS EXPENSIVE

Welfare Reform

• How Animal Welfare Willfully Obscures Science
• If You Care About Animals, In Vitro Meat is Not the Answer

• Meat Industry on Welfare Groups: Improve Your Product to Meet Demand!

• PETA Hopes to Streamline Killing through Genetics

• Post-Speciesism and the Commodification of Animal Rights: Aldi's "Love Ireland" Campaign

• The Fetishization of “Animal-Friendly” Animal Products: The Body Shop Example

• Vegan Outreach Insists We Must Choose Between Veganism and Reductionism

Capitalism

Consumption

• "Ka-ching! That's What We Like to Hear": Why the Vegan Society isn't Vegan
• On Having Children and Being a Vegan
• Organic Girl Food Gendering

• Seeing "Euthanasia" as an Extension of the Capitalist Project

• Sexual Politics of Milk: Dairy Australia and Muscle Recovery

• Sure, Veganism is Easy & Cheap . . . If You're White

• Yoplait Sells Breast Cancer to End Breast Cancer

Non-Profit Industrial Complex

• An Update on Non-Profit Bias and the "Downright Stupid" Vegan Position

• Donations, Organizations, and "Noisy" Abolitionist Veganism

• Donations & the Small Print in Advocacy

• Everyday Speciesism: Dawn Saves Wildlife

• How Non-Profitization Euthanizes Animal Activism

• Join the Vegan Club for the Low, Low Price

• "Ka-ching! That's What We Like to Hear": Why the Vegan Society isn't Vegan

• Peter Singer and the Charity of Western Imperialism

• The Non-Profit Bias: Studies by Non-Profits, for Non-profits

• The Non-Profit Industrial Complex: Effective Animal Advocacy & Your Checkbook
• Vegan Outreach Insists We Must Choose Between Veganism and Reductionism

• Where Do Your Donations Really Go?

Intersectional Politics

• 269 Life: The New Front for Violent Advocacy

• Advice on Creating Safe(r) Spaces at Political Events

• Fat-Shaming, Sexism, and Other Horrors from the Tom Regan Archives

• Intersectionality is a Foundational Principle in Abolitionism

• Make Your Reservations! Vegan Cuisine in Jeffery Dahmer's Murder House

• PeTA Perpetuates the Sexual Politics of Meat and Classism in their Most Recent Pokémon Parody Game

• Should Vegans Be Organ Donors?

• The City Where Genocide Lives

• The Only Vegan in the Department

• The Problem with Badge-Allies

• The Problem with Promoting Veganism at All Costs

• What Adoption Discrimination Tells Us about Human/Nonhuman Intersection
• What's Wrong with the Israeli Animal Rights Movement, 269?

Class

• Blaming Individuals for Structural Oppression: Why I Can't Stand this Vegan Meme
• Colonizing England and the Naming of Animals

• Fat Vegans, Skinny Vegans, It's None of Your Business

• The "Deserted Island" Vegan Scenario is a Reality for Millions of Americans

• To Charge or Not to Charge? Improving Conference Accessibility for Low-Income Persons

Disability

• A Note on Mental Illness and Advocacy Discourse

Race & Ethnicity

• Animal Rights and the Indigenous Fixation

• Can the Privileged be Oppressed? Race, Nationality & Animal Liberation

• Irish Car Bombs Aren't Vegan . . . For Reasons Other Than You Think 

• Everyday Vegan Racism (and Sizism): PETA Calls Meat-Eaters Fat Pigs

• Everyday Vegan Racism: Language of Privilege or Language of Color?

• Everyday Vegan Racism: Live Sushi

• Everyday Vegan Racism - Privileged White Men v.s. the "Radicals"

• Everyday Vegan Racism: The White Privilege of "Moral Superiority"

• Mobilizing Anti-Muslim Sentiment "For the Animals" 

• More Privileged White Vegans Upset about Marginalized Persons Demanding Inclusion

• On Moral Relativism, Post-Racism, and Animal Liberation

• PETA Latino: Globalizing Whiteness, Heterosexism, and Fake Activism

• Racism and Mixed Messages: What's Wrong with Australia's Animal Rights Movement? 

• Sure, Veganism is Easy & Cheap . . . If You're White

• The City Where Genocide Lives

• The "Deserted Island" Vegan Scenario is a Reality for Millions of Americans

• The Problem with "Milk Not Jails"

• The Thug Kitchen Cookbook: Whole Foods Go "Ghetto"

• Vegan Outreach Schools Us on Black History...
• What the Confederate Flag Controversy Can Offer Abolitionist Vegans

• What the IJC Whaling Ruling & Social Media Response Tell Us about Racism and Western Imperialism

Sexism & Gender Politics

• A Radical Feminist Response to Francione's Position on Radical Feminism
• Animal Liberation Front: Boys Start Fires; Girls Get Naked

• Cork Vegans, Misogyny in Ireland

• Does Sex Sell Animal Rights? RESEARCH SAYS NO!

• Everyday Vegan Racism & Sexism: "Spay Yo' Bitch"

• Everyday Vegan Sexism: James McWilliams

• Everyday Vegan Sexism: PETA Says Eat Women, Not Animals

• Everyday Vegan Sexism: PETA's "Youngest Pinup"

• Everyday Vegan Sexism: The Valley Girl Trope

• Gendered Veg Fast Food: Red Robin & Subway

• "Heganism" is Sexist, So Cut It Out

• Male PETA Employees Make Women have Sex with Vegetables "For the Animals"

• Meat Misogyny: The Sexual Politics of Menugate

• Men of the Animal Rights Movement: How to Be a Vegan Feminist Ally

• On Having Children and Being a Vegan
• Organic Girl Food Gendering

• PETA Denigrates International Women's Day

• Rape as an Anti-Speciesism Tactic and the Vegan Male Discourse

• Sexual Politics of Milk: Dairy Australia and Muscle Recovery

• Should We Troll Tom Regan?

• Study Shows Objectified Women Less Likely to be Activists

• The Misogyny of Animal Rights: A Photographic Testimony

• The "No" Means "Yes" Rape Trope in PETA Porn

• The PETA Complex: On Post-Feminist Activism, Gender, and Veganism

• The Rationalization of Misogyny: Why I left the Vegan Skeptic Community

• Vegan Porn is a Barrier to Egalitarianism

• Who Decides Who is a Feminist?

• Everyday Vegan Racism (and Sizism): PETA Calls Meat-Eaters Fat Pigs

• Fat Vegans, Skinny Vegans, It's None of Your Business

World Vegan Month Series

A Month of Vegan Research

• An Empirical Look at Becoming Vegan

• Animals and Women

• Animal Oppression and Human Violence

• Animal Rights Advocacy in the Age of Terror

• A Nonpatriarchal Metaethic of Animal Liberation

• Diet for a New America

• Disturbing Images

• Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation

• Identity and Effectiveness

• Livestock and Climate Change

• Manhood and the Exploitation of Animals

• Muzzling a Movement

• Race as a "Feeble" Matter in Veganism

• Readability of Vegan Outreach Literature

• Recruiting Strangers and Friends

• Sexist Imagery Reinforces Speciesist Sentiment

• The China Study

• The Hidden History of Animal Resistance

• The History and Legacy of Animal Rights

• The Movement is My Life

• The Myth of Pet Overpopulation

• The Political Economy of Animal Rights

• The Significance of Animal Suffering

• Veganism as a Cultural Movement

• Veganphobia

• Why Civil Resistance Works

• Why Vegan-Feminist Now?

• Women and the Animal Rights Movement

Applying Social Psychology to Vegan Outreach

• Age

• Channel

• Bystander Effect

• Decision Paralysis

• Distraction

• Door-in-the-Face

• Fatty Acids and Aggression

• Fear Framed Persuasion

• Forewarning

• Free-riders

• Gendered Helping

• Good Feelings

• Haste

• In-group Bias

• Just World Phenomenon

• Mere Exposure Effect

• Opinion Leaders

• Persuasive Messengers

• Primacy and Recency Effect

• Reason and Emotion

• Reciprocity

• Scripting

• Selective Exposure

• Social Responsibility Norm

• Two-Sided Appeals

Sizeism & Fat-Shaming