When I was about 6, I asked my parents where meat came from. When they told me it was from animals that had been killed, I immediately decided to stop eating meat. I mainly stuck with that resolution through my childhood and teen years, with occasional transgressions, usually involving hot dogs at ball games or [...]
What could be better than a free lunch? In the words of In Defense of Animals: “a cruelty-free lunch.” The local chapter will be serving up vegan hotdogs and vegan cupcakes from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at Pioneer Courthouse Square.
If you eat meat from factories you have not absorbed the reality of factory farms. If you truly understood the nightmarish brutality of what happens inside these windowless animal jails and abattoirs, you simply would not eat this meat.
When I was in high school, I took a peanut butter sandwich with me for lunch every day. Every. Single. Day. For four long years. My mother probably thought I was being stubborn just to annoy her, but the truth is that even before I stopped eating animals , I couldn’t stomach the cafeteria’s nauseating (and cholesterol-laden) options, such as greasy chicken nuggets and grayish-greenish Salisbury steak. For lucky students at one Florida charter school, “mystery meat” is something they’ll ne
As usual, here is your round-up of this last week’s articles from The Soapbox. Plus, two bits of news about today, October 23, 2009. There’s also a cookbook drawing… News Today : Tonight is Vegas Vegan Drinks. Details here >> Today is No More Homeless Pets Conference. Details here >> Recent News : Fowl Play Documentary Now On DVD – get your copy! Kids Need More Fruits, Veggies, Grains – school lunches should offer more plants, fewer animals to eat Batt