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  1. Blowing the Fog Off of Mark Bittman’s “Why I’m Not a Vegan”

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    Filed under: Activism Media Stupid

    Earlier this week, Mark Bittman wrote an opinion piece called “Why I’m Not a Vegan” in the New York Times. Mixed in with the human-health and environmental arguments for eating less animal products, was the actual explanation promised by the title. It basically comes down to three points: 1) He doesn’t grasp that veganism extends beyond diet, 2)  he thinks humans have a right to exploit other species, and 3) he likes to eat other animals.

    I can kind of excuse the first reason because Bittman is a food writer. Perhaps everything is about food for him. That he’s not a vegan because he buys leather shoes wouldn’t even cross his mind. He wrote a whole book about being vegan for a few hours a day, and he sure as heck just means in terms of diet.

    As to the other two points, I’ll let him speak for himself:

    I can see three scenarios that might lead to universal, full-time veganism: An indisputable series of research results proving that consuming animal products is unquestionably “bad” for us; the emerging dominance of a morality that asserts that we have no right to “exploit” our fellow animals for our own benefit; or an environmental catastrophe that makes agriculture as we know it untenable. All seem unlikely.

    I’ve been thinking about it for three days and I still have no idea what the quote marks around  “exploit” mean. But I’m pretty sure that at the very least they mean Bittman doesn’t think “we” exploit “our fellow animals”. No, we just … Continue Reading…

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  2. For the New York Times, No Friggin’ Clue What it Means to “Go Vegan”

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    Filed under: Media Stupid

    Dear readers, please don’t put this kind of coconut milk in your cereal.

    So the New York Times’s “Well” blogger Tara Parker-Pope and her daughter were inspired by Bill Clinton’s “vegan diet” to “go vegan”, and she wrote an article about it called “How to Go Vegan”. She doesn’t say why they are “going vegan”, which is more than a little strange. Based on the post, my best guess is they did it because they think Bill Clinton is cool and they want to be just like him.

    Of course, Bill Clinton doesn’t actually follow a vegan diet (he admits as much), and I don’t think anyone’s ever claimed he avoids animal exploitation in non-dietary contexts.

    To state that “going vegan” means simply following a vegan diet is to pretty much miss the point of veganism. Is Parker-Pope checking all her personal-care products to make sure they don’t contain animal ingredients? Is she getting bent out of shape by how hard it is to find lip balm without beeswax or lanolin? Is she agonizing over the flu vaccine being incubated in fertilized battery chicken eggs? Is she newly concerned with how to keep dry and warm all winter without leather, wool, or down? Doesn’t sound like it. But that’s what vegans do. And we do it for reasons other than celebrity worship, and for reasons beyond our own personal physical health. We do it for the sake of the animals we’re not exploiting.

    So, OK, with all that out of the way, is this post a decent primer on switching to a vegan diet? Sort of. Continue Reading…

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  3. Another Chance to See Vegucated in NYC on Wed., Feb. 22

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    Filed under: Activism Events Film, TV, & Video Media New York City

    Did you miss the NYC premiere of Vegucated? Did you also miss the screening at Cynthia King‘s dance studio in Brooklyn a couple of weeks ago? How about the one up at Columbia University that was the same night as January’s Vegan Drinks? Well, how fortunate for you that it’s playing again! And so conveniently located, too — Whole Foods Tribeca will host the screening on Wednesday, February 22 at 6:15. Viewers are encouraged to grab food before the movie and, after the film, join in for the Q-and-A with film subjects Ellen and Tesla and writer-director Marisa Miller Wolfson.

    Vegucated Screening
    Wednesday, February 22 at 6:15 p.m.
    Whole Foods Tribeca, 270 Greenwich Street, NYC

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  4. McDonald’s Sucks Eggs, PETA Goes Postal, The Clash Goes Undercover for a Cause, and More

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    Filed under: Activism Animal Products Animal Rights Books Celebrities Chickens Economics Education & Schools Environmentalism Events Farmed Animals Film, TV, & Video Food Government, Law & Politics Holidays McDonald's Media Music New York City Obituaries Recipes & Cooking Shopping Stupid

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  5. Vegan Sellout?

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    Filed under: Activism Animal Rights Apparel Celebrities Events Food Media

    Pamela Anderson recently attended a Vivienne Westwood show in London—in a meat market. And she’s been criticized for modeling for Westwood because the designer uses leather (though thankfully she dropped the fur).

    So does this make Pam a pariah? Or is attending vegan events only preaching to the choir, missing an opportunity to possibly educate and ignoring the fact that, like it or not, we’re all part of the larger world?

    I work at a fashion magazine, and before that I worked for a foodie publication (I barely survived the barbecue issue). I also help take care of my 89-year-old father, which includes ordering his groceries. He’s unabashedly not vegan, and that’s never going to change. Does that make me a sellout too?

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