What is the Abolitionist Movement?
The abolitionist animal rights position, as developed by Gary L. Francione in his 1996 book Rain Without Thunder, takes the philosophical stance that animals are not ours to use as resources in any way...
View ArticleWhat the abolitionist movement is not
Abolitionist theory, with its rejection of animal welfare campaigns, is sometimes a shock to animal advocates encountering it for the first time. This is understandable since it asks us to question...
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How PETA is damaging to the animal rights cause
Please note: the general arguments against new welfarist tactics among the following apply to all new welfarist groups of course, however the focus of this post is on PETA, due to several recent...
View ArticleResource mobilization and the compartmentalizing of animal issues
Roger Yates has recently posted an entry on his always-excellent blog “On Human-Nonhuman Relations” that I would like to highlight. This entry, Mobilising Resources, discusses the underlying reasons...
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Memed - 8 true things
I've been tagged by Kenneth of Animal Rights Malta to create a post on eight true things about myself. I'm not going to follow the 'rules' of the game and post the rules or tag other people afterwards,...
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Vegan food is awesome
Unfortunately, since there are relatively few vegans, other people seem to have this impression that it's really difficult to be vegan, that it must take a lot of willpower and that you have to be...
View ArticlePetition for PeTA: if you are serious about animal rights, please sign!
Roger Yates has started a petition asking PeTA to change their misrepresentation of Peter Singer's utilitarian-theoretical book Animal Liberation as a book about animal rights theory. This deliberate...
View ArticleVegan Q&A column
I contribute a "Q&A" column to a local newsletter. Sometimes the questions have to do with animal rights, so I thought I would reproduce a few of those here. Here is the first one.Q: I think that...
View ArticleDownloadable abolitionist pamphlet to promote veganism and animal rights
Looking for an abolitionist pamphlet to use for promoting veganism? Feel free to download our tri-fold pamphlet and have copies made for distribution. (Be sure that the correct double sided printing...
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"Companion" animals
It's about time, okay, way past time, that I revive this blog! I'd like to start out by introducing my feline family members, over the next few months.My partner and I live with eight feline refugees,...
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Meet my feline family: Azrael
Azrael was born semi-feral outside my apartment building in Montreal in the spring of 2003, during the first year my now-ex and I lived there (this was before I was even vegan). She is a sweetie, and a...
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Meet my feline family: Azrael, part 2
This is the second part in Azrael's story: the story of her ill-fated kittens. Difficult to post about but here it is.Azrael had two litters of kittens before I had at least enough sense to realize...
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Meet my feline family: Azrael, part 3
To get back to the less sad parts of the story, as I mentioned previously, I got Azrael spayed when her kittens were weaned. Since she was only an occasional visitor at my window at that time, what I...
View ArticleJoint Statement by a Group of Abolitionist Vegan Feminists for International...
As abolitionist vegans and feminists, we oppose the use of sexist tactics in the animal advocacy movement. Ethical animal rights veganism is part of the logical conclusion of opposition to the...
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Meet my feline family: EssPee, part 1
Today (well, approximately, could be a day or two off) is my little boy EssPee's fifth birthday! He'll always be my little baby boy though. He's been with my ex and I since he was six weeks old. The...
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