My Little Halloween Monkey!

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Animal Cruelty Nightmares

I have had nightmares before about animals. A while back, I wrote about my first “meat-mare” as my friend Al calls them. I thought it was pretty unusual considering I had never had such dreams prior to becoming vegan, but Al said he used to have them all the time.
More recently, I had [...]

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A Few Posts I Recommend

Over the past couple months, I’ve read some really great blogs about animal rights, factory farming, and veganism.  I thought I’d share with you a few posts that I thought are especially insightful and/or interesting:
Vegan in the Country writes about her experience caring for “broiler” chickens in her post “Foster Farms SUCKS!”  This post will [...]

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New ‘Yes on Prop 2′ Commercial

For a blog that’s about factory farming and animal rights, I realize I haven’t said much about one of the biggest anti-factory farming campaigns going on right now: Yes on Proposition 2 in California.  If passed, Proposition 2 would end the practice of cramming farm animals into cages so small the animals can’t even turn [...]

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I’ll Show You, You Vegan!

Recently on a discussion board, someone said to me, “For every animal you don’t eat, I’m going to eat 4.”
Um. Okay.  That is helpful information.  I wanted to write “You are going to get pretty fat and probably die of heart disease or colon cancer at a pretty early age, but if it means that [...]

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Mark Twain Said…

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made, [man] is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one… that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to [...]

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“Eating Vegan Must Be So Hard!”

I heard this, or variations on this, a lot when I first went vegan. And you know what? Not long ago, I was saying the exact same thing – so I totally get it. I thought I could never, EVER give up my beloved cheese. I used to eat a LOT of [...]

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My Furry Four-Legged Companions: How They Inspired Me To Go Vegan

My little Otis

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