Bumper stickers, license plate frames, and the importance of courteous driving
On the back of my Volvo, I have a license plate frame that says “Go Vegan.” I’ve never been a big fan of bumper stickers, but I usually have some sort of statement on the frame that surrounds the...
View ArticleUnattainable perfection versus the attainable good: of cruelty, veganism, and...
I’ve debated, over the last forty-eight hours, whether it was worth responding to this risible National Review article (is that a redundancy, I wonder?): Veganism is Murder. Wesley J. Smith, who is...
View ArticleStephanie Tubbs-Jones, 1949-2008
I’m in Europe still, but breaking hiatus to express my great shock and sadness at the death yesterday of Ohio Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs-Jones. Tubbs-Jones died suddenly following a brain...
View ArticleThe Best and the Good Enough: Abolitionists, Welfarists and the agonizing...
The initial polling looks good for Proposition 2 here in California, the Humane Farms Initiative. Backed by a coalition of animal welfare, veterinary, and family farming groups, the proposition is...
View ArticleParental pride, parental anxiety: on ever-earlier adolescence and the...
Comments should be open. As I’ve written before, each semester in my women’s history course we spend some time looking at Joan Brumberg’s wonderful Body Project. Brumberg talks about the four to five...
View ArticleA hiatus from AR blogging: taking a topical time out
No, this is not that kind of hiatus. I’ll be blogging fairly regularly for at least the next month or so. The hiatus of the title is topical: I’m going to give the subjects of veganism and animal...
View Article“Vegan slips”
My friend Bill sends me an interesting email: Have you ever had a ‘vegan slip’? Eaten meat or animal products only because you couldn’t resist them? Do you think it might be interesting to see if...
View ArticleOf food and sex, and how Mary Eberstadt gets both history and ethics quite wrong
Lots of folks in the right-wing blogosphere are excited about this lengthy piece by Mary Eberstadt: Is Food the New Sex? It appears on the Hoover Institution’s website as part of their “Policy Review”...
View ArticleFive thoughts on food
Jill at Feministe had a fascinating post about food, cruelty, and justice yesterday, responding to this welcome Mark Bittman op-ed in the New York Times. Read both, and if you’ve got time, read the...
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