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When Lisa Vanderpump of Real Housewives fame and a nonvegan restaurateur is said by the  New York Times  to be championing "animal rights" for having dogs and running a dog rescue, you know there is a problem. For most nonhuman advocates, the term "anim…

Presidents tend to have a love-hate relationship when it comes to the press. After becoming President, Donald Trump declared that the media is the "enemy of the American people!" In reply, Presidential historian Michael Beschloss noted that Richard Nixon secr…

Work is where we spend a large chunk of our time, unfortunately, and unless we own a business, whom we work with is not up to us. Working with strangers in a constricted environment for many hours every day over the course of a week is challenging in itself, but add ve…

The word compassion gets thrown around a lot these days as a kind of magic elixir for creating an ethical, vegan world. It seems everywhere you look vegans are plugging compassionate consumerism:  The Compassionate Diet  cookbook, the "compassion over cruelty&quo…

The world is engaged in an endless, partisan battle. Unlike the wars du jour — ISIS, Afghanistan, Iraq — the War on Animals doesn't garner headlines nor is it debated by politicians and pundits on cable news networks. In contrast to the War on Terror, the War on An…

Tommy in his cell. Photo courtesy of Nonhuman Rights Project. His name is Tommy, he is 28 years old, and after having been forced to spend most of his life performing in a circus, he now lives in solitary confinement in a small, dark, cement cage 24 hours a day, 7 days…

Forcible insemination (rape) of a dairy cow. When I tell people new to animal activism that veganism is also a feminist issue, I usually get some quizzical looks. Did you say feminism? What do women have to do with farm animals? This typical response is reflective of s…