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ARZone exists to help educate vegans and non-vegans alike about the obligations human beings have toward all other animals.  By providing a space for a variety of blog posts, forum discussions, notes, videos and more, ARZone fosters a sense of community among its…

Conversation With A Stranger

Written by Mel Baker

I had a really lovely interaction with a stranger today at the supermarket. I was waiting at the checkout and a really…

Transcript ol Leigh-Chantelle’s Live ARZone Guest Chat

9 June 2012

6pm US Eastern Time…

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…

From Dan Pearce's Blog "Single Dad Laughing"

 http://www.danoah.com/2011/11/im-christian-unless-youre-gay.html…

Transcript of Sarahjane Blum’s Live ARZone Guest Chat

5 May 2012

6pm US Eastern Time…

Vegan, peace, justice, wisdom, and freedom.…

Kim Hollingsworth ARZone Interview

Kim Hollingsworth is an advocate for other animals who lives in New South Wales, Australia. Kim has experienced the best and worst of humanity, and works tirelessly to improve the lives of every individual she comes into contact with. Kim is well known for…

http://drstevebest.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/2799/…

On Human-Nonhuman Relations Podcast 17: Talking About Hunting with Bernie Wright and Jordan Wyatt.

In this podcast, I address the issue of whether animal rights advocates should involve themselves in animal welfare reform, anti-speciesists sentiments about a footballer and horses forced to race, and…

We'll do the Animal Rights, They'll do the Welfare.

As a follow-up to a previous blog entry about this subject, the "business journal for meat and poultry processors," MeatPoultry.com reports that the US junk food producer Wendy's have improved its "animal welfare standards" and, thus, gained the praise of PeTA prize-winner and slaughterhouse designer Temple Grandin.

The…

In a few days I’m going to pack a tent and sleeping bag into our inflatable kayak and paddle to an uninhabited mangrove island here in the…

How does one get through everyday life when it includes a continuing awareness of the abject misery to which we subject endless animals, children and humans? How do you live within your own skin when others of your species are so abjectly cruel? Over the holidays, when I was placed at a table next to a “ham,” I could not help but consider the pig that was the living being,…

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…

Transcript of Mark Jordan's LIve ARZone Guest Chat

7 January 2012

5pm US Eastern Time

10pm UK…

Transcript of Prof. Priscilla Cohn’s Live ARZone Guest Chat

17 December 2011

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10pm UK Time…

Transcript of Josh Harper’s ARZone Live Guest Chat

10 December 2011

5pm US Eastern Time

10pm UK Time…

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,…

Being vegan is difficult, and if it is going to mean anything, and result in anything, then it must be difficult.…