Easygoing Speciesism.

Sociologist David…

You Put Your Left Wing In, You Put Your Left Wing Out……

In August 2010, I wrote a blog entry about whether specific animal welfare campaigning is necessary. The argument is predicated on the idea that there is a three-way relationship among social movements, their countermovements, and (broadly) the state - or specific state agencies.



There may be a complex web on interactions among these groups or…

In a recent very interesting Facebook discussion, Tim Gier wrote (in part, and perhaps it is unfair to extract this out - but I'm gonna anyway!), “I don’t accept that the property status of other animals necessarily entails harm towards them.” 

[I began to write a response to Tim’s observation for the FB discussion - but then realised that I was writing a blog entry, so that is why I have decided to post it here instead. In addition, I have not written a blog entry for a while,…

It is that time of year again... 

North Americans are not going to let us forget "9/11", that's for sure. I have just experienced another day in Europe where "9/11" was a major news item and the subject of TV documentaries. We hear, again, that all the names have been read out in New York and this is supposed to be big news for us. After all, these were white, middle-class, deaths, and these are the ones that count, it is implied.



I…

Some people, such as David Sztybel and representatives of the National Animal Interest Alliance, argue that there are several versions on animal welfarism. In this blog, I tend to talk about two types, which I have called traditional (or conventional or orthodox)…

Many if not most animal advocates will be familiar with this graphic

This graphic is (graphically) ticking off the deaths of other animal by the second. Chickens die at the rate of 287 per second; pigs at almost 4 per second; and cows at more than 1 per second.

As shocking as these numbers seem, they are only the tip of the…

A scene from Shakespeare’s 1602 play wot I just wrote.[1]

An inn in Scotland.

Donald: Angus!

Angus: Donald! Have ye had y’tea?

Donald: I have!

Angus: Good news my man, good news. Now did ye hear the latest scandal?

Donald: Tell me more, I don’t think I have.

Angus: Well you know…

I was close to being killed last Saturday.…

ARZone Podcasts

Imagine trying to get people from all over the world together at any given time, with each living in a different time zone. Imagine trying to get people, especially animal rights activists, to agree to music, format, or even the proposed topic. Then imagine different technical problems, different audio levels, and different visions, and you may have some idea…

Podcast 13 ARZone’s Tom Regan Week.

Carolyn Bailey, Tim Gier, Jason Ward and I discuss Animal Rights Zone’s “Tom…

The interview conducted with Dr. Roger Yates by the New South Wales Vegan Society for the Sydney Vegan Expo is available to be viewed here:

PART ONE…

Podcast No. 12. A Dictator Speaks.

Moy Park Ireland, chicken exploiters from Northern Ireland, are running a new publicity drive in the Republic, featuring TV advertisements and the usual billboards and posters.

This blog entry is about vegan pioneers and I was originally going to call it “We are all Donald Watson.” Of course that is not true – Watson and his little band of early vegans“not easily scared by criticism, and filled with the spirit of pioneers,” became vegan when most people thought they would be dead within weeks.…

Transcript of Dr. Roger Yates' Guest Chat

5 June 2010 at: 

3pm US Pacific Time

6pm US Eastern Time 

11pm UK Time

and 6 June 2010 at:…