Sunday, August 26, 2007

Are these orgs vegan and ethical?

I have noticed over the past 5 years a proliferation of 'vegan' products, 'vegan' companies who talk the same mantra about being 'ethical,' 'vegan,' 'compassionate', etc and get this, their products are free of animal-derived ingredients and support the principles (not the vegan principles) of cruelty-free products.
This is absolute rubbish. It is either what is laid down by the tenets of veganism or it ain't. People should stop this veganwash of trying to show they are ethical. Get out of the vegan loop and get honest with yourself. Have a good look at the mirror and see what is reflected back. Does the product you slapped on your body have dead bees legs sticking out of that lippo or that body cream? Let's get one thing straight non-humans encompass all non-human beings. Bees are living beings. Just because it does not moo, bark or make the many other vocal audible sounds of communication they still have feelings. Bees, silk worms and other insects are still not used in vegan food or clothing. I will name and shame UNETHICAL companies and groups. Vegan Action are NOT vegan ethical, Justvegan.com.au promote Paul Benhaim Living Food recipes book (many ingredients have bee(vomit) pollen or raw honey). There is nothing I know that states bee (vomit) products is either vegan or has anything to do with raw food. This is a myth that 'psuedo' raw fooders think they are living a 'compassionate' life. I have stood in front of many raw fooders and they go and on about how some vegans eat cooked food and how they eat raw food (and bee vomit), thinking they are more ethical, but forget they are wearing cow's (leather) skin shoes or wearing sheep skin. Whereas vegans do not wear dead animals.

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Dining out in vegetarian places. Ethical?

Is it vegan-ethical dining in restaurants that also serve the by products of dead corpse? Such as eggs and cows milk? Should vegans dine in restaurants to appease their vegetarian friends? The Vegan Society (NSW) Inc that dine (are supporting) the cruelty involved in the cows milk and the by-products of the dairy industry restaurants. If the flexitarians, ova/lacto/pescatarians want to support these cafes of miseries so be it. Why are vegans contributing to these 'vegetarian' cafes? Why not support vegan only places? Why not dine in a pizza hut and have a vegan pizza or dine in McD and have a happy veggie burger? Is this ethical? Have you forgotten What is a vegan? Why a Vegan? I suspect some members have another agenda. Veganism is not one of them. Maybe the cheese and milk come from happy cows? The Vegan Society (NSW) Inc have sat on that slippery slide with Voiceless and Macro and appear to be endorsing free-range dead corpse. This is not what Donald Watson did 60 odd years ago when he disengaged himself from the vegetarian societyUK, fed up with the white lies and the vegan movement came into existence. Now the Vegan Society(NSW) Inc Australia appear to have gotten into the welfare bed with the 'pseudo' vegetarian/vegans. Is this ethical? Many of the vegan members should speak up about the way their committee members taking their society down that slide that you can not get off.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Principles of the Animal Rights Position

The Six Principles of the Animal Rights Position
The animal rights position maintains that all sentient beings, humans or nonhuman, have one right: the basic right not to be treated as the property of others.
Our recognition of the one basic right means that we must abolish, and not merely regulate, institutionalized animal exploitation–because it assumes that animals are the property of humans.
Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and homophobia, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.
We recognize that we will not abolish overnight the property status of nonhumans, but we will support only those campaigns and positions that explicitly promote the abolitionist agenda. We will not support positions that call for supposedly “improved” regulation of animal exploitation. We reject any campaign that promotes sexism, racism, homophobia or other forms of discrimination against humans.
We recognize that the most important step that any of us can take toward abolition is to adopt the vegan lifestyle and to educate others about veganism. Veganism is the principle of abolition applied to one’s personal life and the consumption of any meat, fowl, fish, or diary product, or the wearing or use of animal products, is inconsistent with the abolitionist perspective.
We recognize the principle of nonviolence as the guiding principle of the animal rights movement.
Gary L. Francione© 2007 Gary L. Francione