The Vegan Ideal

Keeping in mind the centrality of exploitation to oppression, I think it is important to place the vegan ideal of non-exploitation firmly in the context of anti-oppression organizing. (Read more...)

I'm going to come back to these two quotes in future posts, but I just wanted to start by posting them together. (Read more...)

Labeling consumer products "vegan" is problematic in terms of the vegan ideal. I'm not opposed to labeling products, but I do think it is preferable if such products where simply labeled "animal-free." This would be more accurate since the commercial and marketing use of the term "vegan" is only denoting that the product was produced or manufactured without using animal-derived ingredients or animal testing. (Read more...)

I originally started The Vegan Ideal on here when the administer of this site invited me to write a blog. But, I then started posting over on Blogger when the ARCO site was down last December. Since then, with the exception of one lonely post in late January, I haven't done anything with the blog. (Read more...)