Matthew Calarco, PhD, Associate Prof of Philosophy, who lives in California with his dog, Nietzsche, became vegan at the age of 18, and has been concerned about both the environment and the oppression of both humans and other animals since then.

Matthew has written seven books, including Zoographies, in which he writes "While there is no widely agreed upon definition of what precisely constitutes animal studies, it…

Built-in Fairness Meters

The more biologists and psychologists delve into understanding innate behavioral drives, the more they find that we humans seem to be hard-wired to be highly sensitive to fairness in social interactions. Interestingly, this universal taboo against unfairness in human relationships is also…

Transcript of ARZone Workshop 8

Are You Too Vegan or Are You Vegan Enough?

29 October 2011

6pm US Eastern Time…

A list of Frequently Asked Questions commonly heard by many vegans.

What is a vegan?

A vegan is one who fully respects the lives and well-being of others. A vegan strives to avoid harming others and does everything possible to avoid using any living being as a resource or a thing. A vegan doesn’t eat other animals and she does…

What is a counterfactual and why should you care? Suppose that I say, “If only Thomas Jefferson had championed the cause of the abolition of slavery then slavery in America would have been abolished when the United States was founded.” That’s a counterfactual. It poses a solution to a problem (or a cause for some effect) that runs counter to the facts as we know them. Why should you care? Because, staying with the example, it the counterfactual was true, then supposedly we would know…

Transcript of Louise Wallis’ Live ARZone Guest Chat

17 September 2011

6pm US Eastern Time

11pm UK Time…

ARZone's special guest for PC7 is Ronnie "The General" Lee, longtime British animal protectionist, co-founder of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), and ethical vegan since 1971.



Ronnie provides ARZone Podcast listeners with an action-packed trip down memory lane as well as a powerful…

After a productive ARZone guest interview, or "chat," with Colleen Patrick-Goudreau of …

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.” ~ Sir Paul McCartney

There are horrors being committed in our names and for our benefit thousands of times each minute in feed lots, on dairy farms, in processing plants and in slaughterhouses across the globe. If Sir Paul is to be believed, if only we could see these horrors as they…

Animal Rights Philosopher Tom Regan Addresses a New Generation

 Animal Rights Zone (ARZone) is pleased to present the following wide-ranging interview with preeminent animal rights philosopher Tom Regan. In response to eleven questions from the members of ARZone, Professor Regan explains his ground-breaking rights-based theory of animal…

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…

Fundamental Facts

Vegan Means would like to express appreciation to George D Rodger, both for conducting this interview in the first place, and for subsequently making it available for others to read and enjoy. If you find and wish to copy this page, please know that while George has offered it to the public sphere, it would be appreciated if you would note its source as George D Rodger, chair of the Vegan Society, and that it was…

To all those who still use other animals as sources of food, clothing, entertainment, or anything else, I’d like to offer a simple observation and ask a simple question.

As the word “vegan” has fully entered mainstream media during the past five years, it has come to have many different meanings for many different people. For some of us, “vegan” means a strong, lifelong,…

In discussions with non-vegans – particularly non-vegans on the Internet who are familiar with the assertions of both the vegan animal rights movement and the assertions of the countermovement – the issue of

“drawing the line” is often raised as a sort of objection to veganism. While it’s true that vegans avoid a lot of harm, so the argument goes, vegans also indirectly cause a lot of harm: animals are killed by crop

harvesters and…