Of Rock Stars and Roosters: Interview with Jewel and Jason of Danzig’s Roost
It is fairly easy for veganism to be seen as a monolithic thing. Non-vegans especially seem to have a hard time recognizing that vegans eat different types of foods, live different types of vegan...
View ArticleFood Is Power: Interview with lauren Ornelas of Food Empowerment Project
Food is a complicated affair. As vegans know, getting other humans to examine their food choices and (more importantly) change them can feel like trying to pick up the Earth and move it a few planets...
View ArticleCreating Revolution: Interview with Aph Ko
The genesis of this interview is a long and winding one, starting a few years back when a friend told me and my wife about this amazing vegan grad student named Syl. Fast forward a few years to where...
View Article#BlackVegansRock: 100 Black Vegans to Check Out
I am treating this piece as a performance art piece, not a blog post. Each time someone from the animal rights/vegan community wants to write an article about how white the animal rights/vegan movement...
View ArticleWhite Vegans Need Intersectionality
By Justin Van Kleeck The vegan and animal rights movements have failed at many, many things. Despite what large corporate organizations are saying, the evidence that “we are winning” is pretty damn...
View ArticleTo Err Is Human(e)
i. While there are some excellent exceptions to the rule of factory farming … (selling ethically raised meats, eggs, and dairy), being a veg*n in Virginia is an important way to avoid benefiting from...
View ArticleGive Praise to Seitan: Interview with Brian Manowitz, Vegan Black Metal Chef
Vegan metalheads may sound like a strange, niche, and in a way almost precious community. And, admittedly, it is. But as someone who has been both for decades, I’ve watched with a mixture of surprise...
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